An easy-to-use, zero configuration solution to .NET communication across application boundaries. A simple library to use as an alternative to .NET Remoting based on low-level Windows Messaging.
With this tool you can download whole .NET Framework source code at once, and enjoy offline browsing. With it, you can have whole the source code without any Visual Studio product installed
The source code / article published here is to provide features of MS Script control (Functions like AddObject) and some features of VSA/Visual Studio editor like intellisence, code completion etc
The article introduces how to easily develop business solutions in RapidWebDev through developing a product management system with the special requirement step by step.
A Complete Guide to develop aplication using MyGeneration code genration framework. We will develop a Meeting Room Booking web application in this Article.
MultiMap is similar to a .NET Dictionary collection type, but accepts duplicate Key,Value pairs during addition. The MultiMap collection is also a concurrent collection.
Logging is an important aspect of every application, but you probably don't like to have dependencies on a specific logging framework all over the place. This logging façade provides you with a common interface that decouples the logging framework of your choice from your code.
A Margin structure that can be used in a variety of situations, like layout, drawing and printing. Now comes with a custom TypeConverter and a usage sample.
This article presents a reusable class and technique for easily doing Asynchronous Programming using the Begin/End Pattern and the new Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) library.
Keeps the GPS active in Windows Mobile, allowing for instant, accurate location determination. Also a tutorial on how to access GPS data with almost no code.
Purely object oriented ADO code component to get your project running, no matter what database you are using at the backend. Specialised for SQL Server.
A tutorial that walks through adding/updating/deleting data in your database with LINQ to SQL while keeping your class relationships (M:M, 1:M, and M:1) synchronized.
A beginner's LINQ tutorial that walks you through mapping your SQL Server database tables and relationships to objects, and how to retrieve that data via simple LINQ queries.
A convenient, high-performance money structure for the CLR which handles arithmetic operations, currency types, formatting, and careful distribution and rounding without loss.
A performance counters helper class that makes it easier to use performance counters in your system, especially for measuring duration and total duration
This article gives information to the reader on how flexible ASP.NET MVC validation framework is for complex validations on the form, also explains little bit on how ModelMetadata is created internally using provider model.
Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this second part, we will go through various topics on how MVVM Light Toolkit is used in our sample application.
Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this part, we will discuss how custom authentication, reset password, and user maintenance are implemented in the sample application.
This article describes how to implement Role-based Windows Form security. The solution includes a "SecureBaseForm" which allows/denies access to an inheriting Form and may fire the UserIsAllowed or UserIsDenied events.
A Silverlight application using the WCF RIA Services Class Library. Demonstrates how to implement a custom Authorization Service, utilize localized resources, and add unit tests for DAL.
Widget developing is more and more in fashion today, drag and drop support is a basic function in a widget platform. If you want to develop a Silverlight widget platform, you may need a Panel which supports drag and drop UIElement on it. The WidgetZone is a Panel that can be used in such cases.
An ArrayList container wrapper class that permits the table to be filled with data in an early phase of a program, but then made read-only (Immutable) for subsequent usage.
A Hashtable wrapper class that permits the table to be filled with data in an early phase of a program, but then made read-only (Immutable) for subsequent usage.
A simple set of classes to make creating Peer to Peer messaging easy using UDP. Features built-in message concatenation and delivery receipts for reliable transmission.
Implement caching in your project using AspectF library that saves you from writing plumbing code for dealing with cached objects and collections and learn how to handle stale objects and collections
This is a simple ASP.NET web application that can determine how users can view a single page with single content in the many browsers with custom presentation and styling
Ever think "wouldn't it be nice if there was a control - like a panel control - that you could simply use to wrap some input controls, set a single property (to the ID of the control that should be 'clicked' when the Enter key is pushed), and that was all you needed to do?". Well, now there is such
A wizard that allows you to FTP an application to a remote server and then launch the configuration wizard from the web browser to update the database connection.
The present document tries to describe the architecture of a specific layer of access to data for relational databases. This document tries to present/display a form to automate tasks of access to data.
In this article, I will demonstrate a performance problem caused by boxing in Dictionaries that use Enums as keys, and will provide a solution using lightweight code generation (DynamicMethod).
Using a combination of Reflector, Reflection, and C# 3.0 extension methods to add Save(string FileName) functionality to MailMessage in System.Net.Mail.
This article will create a very simple C# application that demonstrates how an application can add items to a Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 list using web services.
Allows to maintain and backup your contacts and also maintains a reminder. You can store data in any of the three different databases like Microsoft SQL Server, MySql, Microsoft Access
A replacement of .NET MessageBox class that provides additional features and improvements like possibility to show any number of buttons, ‘apply-my-answer-by-default’ checkbox, intelligence layout and more.
The article shows how to extend ReportViewer control that comes with Visual Studio 2008. The most important extension is adding export to Microsoft Word
This article covers a selection of best practices related to the internals of the project “sandbox”. The sandbox is understood as a folder with a complete structure containing the source files of a specific product.
This article covers a selection of best practices related to the internals of the project “sandbox”. The sandbox is understood as a folder with a complete structure containing the source files of a specific product.
This article covers a selection of best practices related to the internals of the project “sandbox”. The sandbox is understood as a folder with a complete structure containing the source files of a specific product.
.NET Remoting is available since beginning of .NET intoduction. It’s time to get to know it well eventually. I hope this topic will help you with this.
Published WPF resources discussing control customization focus almost exclusively on editing local copies of ControlTemplates, while implementing and interacting with an actual Custom Control library requires a DIFFERENT set of techniques and reference syntax to be used
Anonymous Types are a powerful feature in the .NET language, but are limited when you need to pass that information around. In this post, I discuss a class that I wrote to allow you to work with Anonymous Types easily, even after they leave their initial scope.
A collection of ExtractionRules, ValidationRules, and Request Plugin that makes ASP.NET and AJAX website testing painless. No need to record tests, write parameterized tests using server-side control names, handle UpdatePanels, simulate clicks on buttons - all from Web Test.
An extender that "hacks' into .NET 3.5 client validation without tempering its base structure, to provide a rich and interactive client validation enhancement, with visual effects from the jQuery library.
Presents a custom control replacement for the script tag that optimizes JavaScript for web pages. Automatically merges, prevents duplicates, externalizes, orders, adds expires headers, caches, minifies, and places your scripts.
This article helps you to build and enable robust web applications with respect to various aspects of security that needs to be taken care of while designing a system.
This is an excellent example of how to integrate Navision with any third party application with data flowing in and out from Navision to that application.
In this article, we will describe how information generated on data acquisition devices connected to servers running Windows Server 2003 can be efficiently integrated into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using Windows PowerShell.
Unmanaged Windows GUI application with no exported program interface gets automated with injected code. A WCF aware injected component allows world-wide located clients to communicate with automated application via Azure AppFabric Service Bus despite firewalls and dynamic IP addresses
This article describes the concepts for doing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on Windows Azure Tables and how table data can interact with blobs.
Basic Examples to work with Language Integrated Query(LINQ) concept that was introduces with C# 3.0 and/or .NET 3.5 (Corresponding VB.NET code included)
This article discusses the state management techniques used in ASP.NET. We discuss: QueryString, Cookie, Session, Profile, Static Variables and Application state.
Learn Silverlight with a simple tac-tac-toe game application. This article will explain how to build your first application and user control in Silverlight by creating a simple tic-tac-toe game complete with artificial intelligence.
Learn how to build a small mobile application to visualize data from the city bike sharing system. Get the nearest stations, find the number of free bikes, and compute directions to other stations.
How to serialize binary data to IsolatedStorage in a Silverlight client when there is no BinaryFormatter in Silverlight? Why not with sharpSerializer? - An open source XML and binary serializer for .NET and Silverlight
BizTalk Server 2006 / R2 Throttling Mechanisms, BizTalk 2006 / R2 comes with good relief in terms of performance and throttling mechanism, if you work close to administrating and performance tuning job for BizTalk environment or any messaging system then you can visualize the complexity of pick proc
A potentially significant amount of performance gain and code size reduction can be achieved by making use of internal fields rather than designing applications with a blanket use of public properties.
Iron Speed Designer builds database, forms, and reporting applications for .NET – without hand-coding. Quickly create feature-complete custom applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security. Accelerate development and eliminate infrastructure programming.
Learn how to build the body part of your DataGrid using Silverlight and the GOA Toolkit. Implement Virtual Mode, work with hierarchical data, and build cells and cells navigation.
This article presents the techniques and caveats of building a 3-tire Azure hosted application using Silverlight 3 (presentation tier), .NET RIA services (business logic and data access), and Windows Azure Table (data storage).
This article discusses the creation of a generic Range class, and goes into the decisions and thoughts about many of the design aspects. Touches on lambdas, iterators, and generics.
This article builds a web based message board and uses several new technologies introduced with Visual Studio 2008 such as LINQ, WCF Web Programming, WCF Syndication, ASP.NET ListView, ASP.NET DataPager etc.
Adds another layer of security to your Word or Excel documents. Can search for and bulk process documents to add a protection password or change your protection password.
The article describing C# coding style and practices to be followed to develop robust and reliable code easily comprehended and maintained by other developers
In this article, I discuss the PageStatePersister, and detail ViewState storage in one of four locations: Session, Application, AppGlobals, and server Cache.
Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
Introducing the Calcium SDK. Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.
An ASP.NET User Control which can check if Javascript is enabled in the user's browser, and either does postback to perform an alternate action from the server side, or redirects to a non-JavaScript page.
How to check for an existing instance of a Windows application, and how to set the MDI parent form of an MDI child, how to list all MDI children, etc., in a C# Windows application.
A customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server. Includes a Silverlight interface and Log Viewer.
A customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server using WCF. Includes WPF sample applications.
ReviewPal is a Visual Studio 2008 IDE plug-in to help out doing code reviews. Helps the user with collecting review comments and reporting them within the IDE with easy navigation.
This article focuses on improving the maintainability of your code thus decreasing the cyclomatic complexity and lines of code, using existing features of .NET.
This article explains to combine animations and easing functions to generate effects like the Les Paul (guitar) Google Doodle by Google and National Geographic channel’s Test your brain episode, etc.
A .NET library which enables minification, compression, combination, and caching of JavaScript and CSS resources for ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC web applications. Simply put, it helps your applications rank better with YSlow and PageSpeed.
A COMET/Reverse Ajax based Web Grid Control, which can be used in ASP.NET web application. This control posts the updates to the client based on Server side event(s) thereby reducing network round trips.
Scalable, high performance, and low latency reverse AJAX grid. This is a COMET based multi-client capable grid control. This grid control can COMET-update to multiple clients with varying data needs. Complete performance report included.
Discusses a simple and testable way to bind Commands inside DataTemplates (Parent-Child scenario) in any WPF or Silverlight application built with the MVVM design pattern
Command line parsing is an irritatingly repetitive problem to solve when creating command line tools. What's worse, it has been solved many times over throughout the course of computing history. This library is an attempt to solve many of the problems common to handling command line arguments when
Most powerful data binding control which has the power of easier data-binding, flexible pagination, sorting, inserting, deleting, and updating and CSS implement features.
Understanding of complex jQuery Datatable tricks and Save it's state in SQL Server with a basic concepts of jQyuery template. Sample Application used .NET 4.5, Entityt Framework.
WPF application built on the Composite Application Library. How to start, organize solution projects, distribute resources and build complex UI using the Presentation Model pattern.
In this article, I'll describe the concepts that influenced the design of C# 3.0. Most of these concepts are from other programming languages like Haskell, LISP, or languages developed at Microsoft Research.
This article describes a new approach by which an element can remove its visual and logical relationships to its children while maintaining a conceptual parental relationship with those children.
In this lab, you use drag and drop functionality to add controls to a Word 2007 template, build logic into those controls, protect the content of the controls from editing and deleting, and add simple data binding to a local database. Then, you’ll add a Fluent Ribbon to Word to browse the data.
A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat. Allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.
A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat; allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.
The article explains how to create a secure stream that uses asymmetric cryptography to connect and symmetric cryptography to continue without the need for SSL or Certificates
In this article, I will examine how to create and consume a WCF service. WCF is next-generation programming platform and runtime system for building, configuring and deploying service-oriented applications.
In this Article we will create an Auto Completion/Code Completion Window using C# that automatically shows popup of the list of words or keywords and inserting those into a RichTextBox
The standard Panel control doesn't have good layout in most browsers. A new Panel Web Control is introduced with consistent look-and-feel for every browser.
This article is about implementing a simple Currency Converter Application using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology.
This article demonstrates a working model of a custom Exception block using Enterprise Library Exception Handling Block which is built around MVP architecture.
This article is about when to throw an exception, why take some effort and define a custom exception class, how to provide more information to the developers that consume your component, and, finally, how to unit test your exceptions.
This article is the third in the series that describes a set of gauge controls for WP7. This article focuses on the implementation of the indicators used with the gauges.
Custom Rule Engine approach which can evaluate complex combinations of business rules. A sample application is provided in WPF following the MVVM pattern.
In this article, I will examine how to build custom sorting Using Jquery UI. The jQuery UI Sortable plugin makes selected elements sortable by dragging with the mouse.
This article will show how to use data binding and styles to show data coming from a Microsoft SQL database using the new object-relational model introduced in Visual Studio 2008, LINQ to SQL, allowing grouping, sorting and filtering of data with almost no code.
A database-driven banner rotator control rotating based on a specific time (and not on page refresh). Each banner will have a display time (in seconds) to move to the next one.
In this article, I have discussed how to develop a control that inherits standard features of DataGridView and adds additional features to that control. By locking this NewDataGridView control, you will be able to develop a DataGridView control adding many more features as you wish.
This article is the first of two articles in which I want to show a solution for the Print Preview of the DataGridView object. One of the goals of my solution is to to print the DataGridView keeping its styles automatically.
This article is the second one of two articles in which I want to show a solution for the Print Preview of the DataGridView object. One of the goals of my solution is to print the DataGridView keeping its styles automatically.
Component to load data from files or DB connection, gets the data asynchronously and fires an event when it finishes. All the read data is loaded to a DataTable
Through a clean OOP solution to deal with progressive operations, I will implicitly show you how OOP principles can work together to make a full, clean solution.
Presents a simple way to serialize business objects that are derived from WPF's DependencyObject and use DependencyProperty with the help of some reflection
Making a custom tool work on the developers machine requires several actions like placing keys in the registry and registering your DLL Library using the regasm command. This post will discuss the automation of these procedures using a setup project.
An easy-to-use, attribute-driven data abstraction layer with multi-database support, intelligent caching, transparent encryption, multi-property sorting, property change tracking, etc.
The second part in WebBiscuit's design pattern series, this one examining the factory pattern. We look at an example of coping with ever-changing requirements by programming to interfaces and allowing the factory pattern to decide on the implementation.
The MasterPage is derived from UserControl and thus, does not support the method 'InitializeCulture()'; a bit more coding is required in order to make the ASP.NET MasterPage localizable.
This article shows you how to bring revolutionary UI provided by MS Silverlight to the world of ASP.NET control development with the help of the recently released ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP.
A simple viewer of images stored in the DICOM 3.0 File Format (C#). The file should have raw pixel data, uncompressed. Window Level functionality is also provided.
This article provides and describes the EnumerableExt class, which simplifies the display and formatting of lists, collections, and arrays. It accomplishes this by implementing extension methods (Append, BuildString, and Write) that are available via the IEnumerable interface.
The goal of this tutorial is to walk you through creating a simple Silverlight module in DotNetNuke that authenticates the currently logged in user through a web service.
