Articles by Scott McMaster (Articles: 7)

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C#	Advanced MessageBoxing with the C# MessageBoxIndirect Wrapper 4 Oct 2004 Updated: 6 Mar 2007 Rating: 4.61/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.97 Licence: Not specified Views: 110,064 Bookmarked: 62 Downloaded: 1,188 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents a friendly C# wrapper class for the MessageBoxIndirect API. The MessageBoxIndirect class allows you to add a help button, custom icon, locale-aware buttons, and different modalities to a message box.
	RangeSet: A Low-Memory Set Data Structure for Integers 6 May 2005 Updated: 6 May 2005 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.37 Licence: Not specified Views: 62,063 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 495 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents a set data structure, the RangeSet. By storing ranges of included integers rather than the integers themselves, the RangeSet can dramatically reduce the memory overhead required by large sets.
Visual Basic	Best Practice for Binding WinForms ListControls 26 Sep 2004 Updated: 26 Sep 2004 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.63 Licence: Not specified Views: 259,548 Bookmarked: 83 Downloaded: 2,414 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article demonstrates the best technique for databinding the ListBox and ComboBox controls in .NET Windows Forms
	Simplified Resource Management with the DisposableCollection Class 26 Sep 2004 Updated: 26 Sep 2004 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.99 Licence: Not specified Views: 55,352 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 367 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article demonstrates how a strongly typed collection of IDisposable objects can be used to simplify the management of multiple resources in .NET.
	Automatic Runtime Tab Order Management for Windows Forms 28 Sep 2004 Updated: 28 Oct 2004 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 78 Popularity: 9.25 Licence: Not specified Views: 227,348 Bookmarked: 164 Downloaded: 5,423 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents the TabOrderManager, which is a class that automatically adjusts the tab order on a Windows form based on different high-level schemes.
	Generating String Resource Accessors for .NET 3 Jan 2005 Updated: 2 Feb 2005 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: Not specified Views: 125,385 Bookmarked: 42 Downloaded: 1,191 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents a utility written in Visual Basic .NET that generates a C# or VB.NET source file from a .resx or .resources file. The resulting class enables compile-time checking of resource string identifier names and the numbers of format items.
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HTML	WebCacheTool: Manipulate the IE Browser Cache From the Command-Line 23 Feb 2006 Updated: 23 Feb 2006 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.98 Licence: Not specified Views: 63,462 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 1,106 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article presents the WebCacheTool, a command-line utility to make it easier and faster to list, view, and delete files residing in the Internet Explorer browser cache.

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Scott McMaster

Web Developer

United States

I have over 10 years of full-lifecycle software development experience on a variety of large projects. I have a B.S. in Math from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a Masters in Software Engineering from Seattle University, and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. I specialize in building and installing tools, frameworks, and processes that improve developer productivity and product quality. I am currently based in the Seattle area.