What a long title, isn’t it? That’s because, in some cases, there are a bunch of things related to make your .Net applications ready to work in both x86 and x64 environments. Specially if you need to use some unmanaged code or access the registry.

.NET DataGridView: Change Formatting of the Active Column Header to Track User Location

by John Atten

How to change the formatting of the Active Column Header to track user location.

.NET TDD (Test Driven Development) by example - Part 1

by AssemblySoft

A trivial business logic layer from scratch with a TDD approach.

[C#] WCF: Pass Meta Data from Host to Implementation

by James Poulose

Pass meta data from host to implementation

[JavaScript] 'window.onbeforeunload' Fires Twice

by James Poulose

An easy fix

[Performance tips] Use the system shadows instead of your own

by jmix90

A fast and easy tip about shadows and performance

“Invalid Postback or Callback Argument”

by Sandeep Mewara

A possible solution

“Keyset does not exist” error while installing SharePoint 2010

by David Truxall

How to fic this error, in Windows Phone 7.

10 easy steps to create an elegant jQuery slide show in SharePoint 2007 using Content Query Web Part

by Khurram Punjwani

Create a slideshow in SharePoint 2007.

10 Realizations of Developing in a Business

by Zac Gery

A series of realizations (in no particular order) about working for a business and developing.

10 Things to Make Your Desktop Database Apps Better

by JasonShort

Here are 10 things to make your desktop database apps better

100% Coverage Is Not Enough

by Nathan Gloyn

You need to back it up with something that actually exercises the entire system the code belongs in, including the data it will work with.

13 Steps To Make TDD Actually Work

by Bobby Lough

Listed here are 13 steps to make TDD actually work

19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 1

by Anton Angelov

A short list of keyboard shortcuts for things you probably do often in Visual Studio

19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 2

by Anton Angelov

A short list of keyboard shortcuts for things you probably do often in Visual Studio

24 Resharper Tips

by Lee P Richardson

A list of 24 Resharper tips

30 Minutes To Grasp ASP. NET jQuery Repeater

by zoyobar

In many cases, we need to show user data, here is how to use JQueryElement Repeater to display and editing data through calling Ajax in ASP. NET.

5 More Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers

by Ben M Watson

Five more attributes of highly effective programmers

5 Tips for Getting Started With Angular

by Ronnie Mukherjee

5 tips for getting started with Angular

58 things you always wanted to test in ASP.NET MVC, but were afraid to

by Artem Smirnov

Share your wildest ideas about testing the MVC stuff you code.

9 Bulletproof Ways to Become a Better Developer

by Aram Tchekrekjian

In this article, I will be explaining 9 bulletproof ways to become a better developer. Make sure to follow these methods and stay dedicated.

A (somewhat) new jQuery plug-in: Wizard

by James Curran

A new jQuery plug-in called Wizard.

A ‘Simple’ ASP.NET Custom Server Control

by Steve Wellens

An ASP.NET server control that displays a list of files from a directory as hyperlinks.

A Battle of Intellisense

by Rion Williams

A Battle of Intellisense

A 'Between' Extension Method for LINQ in C#

by qenn

Here's an example of a simple LINQ extension method for getting values that fall within a certain range from an IEnumerable collection.

A Bug in Custom ISAPI Filter Related to Keep-Alive

by Zhuyun Dai

I once implemented my own Basic authentication logic in a custom ISAPI filter on IIS 6 and IIS 7.5 (classic mode).

A C# Property Class

by Don Kackman

A generic class to encapsulate properties with notification events

A C# Temperature Struct

by qenn

A temperature struct in C#

A C++ Object Factory

by jsolutions_uk

A C++ object factory.

A CQRS and an AOP Expert Walk into an Oredev Bar…

by Philip Laureano

A mind-bending experience

A Developer's Guide to Getting Hired

by Zac Gery

Jobs within the software industry come with even higher expectations than most. This increased scrutiny can be overcome but it requires additional attention.

A DRY Approach to Using Fancybox in an MVC Project

by Simon Pickersgill

A DRY approach to using Fancybox in an MVC project

A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post describes a Windows Phone 7 NavigationList control, a list control designed for navigation pages. The NavigationList renders twice as fast as a ListBox and has a slightly simpler API.

A General Purpose Visual Studio 2008 Development Server (WebDev.WebServer.exe) Test Fixture

by Sky Sanders

Use Visual Studio 2008 Development Server (WebDev.WebServer.exe) in automated testing frameworks

A Generic Repository

by Nathan Gloyn

My own generic repository

A Generic Text Escape Tool Done in JavaScript

by Alex Fotios

A generic text escape tool done in JavaScript

A Great WPF Localization Package

by Nick Polyak

The package is open source, allows switching the locales at run time and also allows localizing any Dependency or Attached properties – not only strings.

A Less Evil Singleton

by jgauffin

Wrap a singleton in a facade to make it less evil.

A Look at Dapper.NET

by MBigglesworth79

Dapper.NET is an Open-Source, lightweight ORM that is simple to use, and is compatible with any database which implements a provider for .NET.

A Look At The Growing Need For Anti-virus Software

by snorkie

This paper explores what a virus is, their evolution, and where they may be encountered today.

A Look Into AngularJS – The "Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework"

by Keyhole Software

The goal of this post is to pipe your interest and run through a few key features of AngularJS.

A Lot About Nothing (or null)

by Matthew Dennis

A lot about nothing (or null)

A Macro to Create a C++ Implementation from a Header Declaration

by WebBiscuit

From the header declaration, this macro opens up the .cpp file and creates the skeleton so you can begin to add the implementation. This makes adding functions a breeze, so now there really is no excuse for having horribly unfactored code.

A Method for Creating a Human-Readable File Size

by Keyhole Software

A library that would give a human-readable file size if I were to give it a file length.

A More Structured MembershipProvider

by jgauffin

A MembershipProvider that uses DependencyResolver to lookup the dependencies that it needs.

A non-generic IList implementation without any Boxing and Unboxing

by gUrM33T

A simple workaround to avoid boxing and unboxing while still using a non-generic IList implementation

A Perspective on Programming Problems and Challenges

by Mukit, Ataul

This blog is actually a reply to a tweet which asked "What's an example of a programming problem, in your perspective".

A Polling Service

by Sameer Mitra

An alternative to using database triggers, which involves using a Windows service.

A practical guide to C++ serialization

by ocoudert

The best way to understand how to serialize with boost is to walk through increasingly complex serialization scenarios.

A Quick Look at the Reactive Extensions (Rx) for .NET

by emiaj

Here is a quick look at the Reactive extensions (Rx) for .NET

A Recipe For Password Security

by Bob McGowan

Using strong cryptography with entropy to secure user passwords.

A S.O.L.I.D Data Access Layer

by Nathan Gloyn

Refactor code using S.O.L.I.D principles to make the code easier to understand, test, maintain and extend

A simple guide to setting up home server using IIS and ASP.NET

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I am writing about the procedure to set up a home server using IIS and ASP.NET; IIS as the web server, ASP.NET as web scripting framework.

A Simple in-page Pop Up Panel

by Cruz Boon

How to design a simple in-page pop up panel

A simple JavaScript generic type pattern implementation

by Sky Sanders

A simple JavaScript generic type pattern implementation

A Simple Wrapper for log4net

by MBigglesworth79

A wrapper for log4net which allows logging operations to be accomplished with a single line of code.

A Single File Login Page for ASP.NET

by wullinkm

A single file login page for ASP.NET

A Sneak Preview of WebSocket-enabled WCF Services

by Nikos Baxevanis

A WebSocket-enabled service in .NET will be written like any other WCF service with two differences.

A Synchronization Context Based on the TPL Dataflow Library

by Paulo Morgado

Sometimes, for demo or testing purposes, I need a synchronization context that behaves like the user interface ones but doesn’t force me to build applications with a user interface and the TPL Dataflow Library seemed like a good option to implement such synchronization context.

A Synchronous Observer of Asynchronous Events

by Orjan Westin

In this article, we will write a simple multi-threaded example implementation of the Observer pattern, and show how to re-synchronise a past event to look current. Then we’ll demonstrate a technique to treat future events like they’re current, too.

A Tip for Ajax Developers in ASP.NET MVC Framework

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This blog post shares a tip for Ajax developers in ASP.NET MVC framework.

A Tough Nugget – NuGet Package Manager

by Gil Fink

The NuGet Package Manager helps to manage the Open Source component packages and their dependencies and by that decrease the amount of cumbersome work that the developer will need to do.

A TraceListener For Tests

by Paulo Morgado

A TraceListener For Tests

A Useless Custom ASP.NET Value Provider (or Maybe Not That Useless After All)

by Artem Smirnov

Implementing a custom ASP.NET value provider

A Win Form SVN Browser In COBOL

by alex turner

Introduction - Why? this project sprang from a real need. Whilst it is possible to browse subversion from a web browser, the handling of non html files is a pain. We wanted a program which would show html files as web pages and all other files as text.

A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips

by Colin Eberhardt

A slide view with page pips on Windows Phone 7

A word of advice…

by kdmote

The point is: if you’re slow, there’s a reason.

Abstracting WCF Service Calls in Silverlight 3

by Jeremy Likness

A method for abstracting WCF service calls in Silverlight to facilitate reuse and easy re-targeting of services.

Accessing ASP.NET Session Data Using Dynamics

by MBigglesworth79

Access session information via a dynamic object where we use a dynamic property to specify the name of the session item

Accessing MVC Routing URLs in JavaScript

by MBigglesworth79

Using the UrlHelper class to query the routing engine and generate the correct URLs for us

Accessing private members

by User 6619207

Accessing private members

Accessing TFS 2010 from Visual Studio 2008

by ambilykk

How to access TFS 2010 from Visual Studio 2008

Accessing the Internet from a Blackberry Simulator

by Dave C Andrews

How to access the Internet from a Blackberry simulator

Account Unknown

by ledtech3

Account unknown

ACCU Conference 2013 retrospective

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

ACCU Conference 2013 retrospective.

Adam's Rules of Coding

by Adam Zuckerman

These may be obvious to some, but I wanted to get them written down.

Adapt to Changes With Dynamic Behaviors

by Gary H Guo

Discuss adding functionality at runtime using Component-Based Object Extender with static typing

Add and Set Datepicker, Drop Down Check Box And So On Into jQuery Repeater

by zoyobar

This article will explain in detail how to handle the controls in the templates of the Repeater control

Adding a Horizontal Scrollbar to a ComboBox using C#

by Richard James Moss

How to add a horizontal scrollbar to a ComboBox using C#

Adding custom HTTP 301 redirects to a webforms application using an HttpModule

by levelnis

Article outlining one approach for adding custom HTTP 301 redirects to a webforms application using an HttpModule

Adding Dynamic Data to an ASP.NET MVC5 website

by Duy H. Thai

ASP.NET Dynamic Data lets us manage data right on the website instead of having to access the database. You can add it as an admin interface to your MVC website, but it seems there has never been an easy way to do so. I'll try to make the task easier for you if you have never done it.

Adding Error Bars to Visiblox Silverlight Charts

by Colin Eberhardt

In this blog post, I will show how to implement a custom Visiblox chart series to render error bars.

Adding Items in Comma-separated String into Separate Rows in SQL Server

by Amogh Natu

This post shows how to insert a comma-separated string into multiple rows in a table in SQL Server.

Adding SignalR to an ASP.NET WebForms Project

by Jeffrey T. Fritz

How to add real-time interactivity to a website that is written with ASP.NET WebForms

Adding Social Buttons, Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, to ASP.NET MVC

by Buaziz

An easy way to add social buttons to your MVC site

Adding Splash screen (Part 2)

by Abu_yanal

Adding Splash screen

Adding to MoXAML

by Pete O'Hanlon

How I coded the Scrubber command that’s available in the new version.

Addressing a Simple Yet Common C# Async/Await Misconception

by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

I regularly come across developers who hold the misconception that code in a method will continue to be executed, in parallel to code in an awaited method call. So I'm going to demonstrate the behaviour we should expect in this article.

Adjusting Microsoft Translator WAVE Volume

by Joel Ivory Johnson

How to adjust Microsoft Translator WAVE volume

ADO.NET Fakes Version 2.0

by jgauffin

The library is a complete ADO.NET driver which is designed to aid you in unit testing.

ADO.NET, The Right Way

by jgauffin

This post will teach you everything from making your ADO.NET code driver independent to how to implement the repository pattern and unit of work.

Adplus: Handling Managed Exceptions

by Sebastian Solnica

Managed exceptions and the ways we can handle them using Adplus

AdRotator for Windows Phone XNA

by Simon Jackson

AdRotator for Windows Phone XNA

AdRotator V2 Progress Report

by Simon Jackson

We are working as hard and as fast as we can with V2, support or V1 is limited at the moment but we still help out where we can.

Advanced Fixing SharePoint 2010 Large Lookup dropdowns

by Christoph Keller

A simple element with big lists

Advanced Observer Design Pattern via IObservable and IObserver in Automation Testing

by Anton Angelov

Create an extendable test execution in automation tests via Observer Design Pattern. Explains an implementation in C# via .NET IObserver interfaces.

Advanced Tracing

by Girish J Jain

This article shows how easy it is to get information from a .NET application at runtime and how you can store it in a destination of your choice, database in this case.

Advantages of the Domain Model

by Adrian Alexander

Confining object/relational mapping logic to a clearly demarcated Data Access Layer (DAL) within your application facilitates the creation of a single, coherent, object-oriented Domain Model to represent your application’s business objects.

Advertising Network Options for Windows Phone XNA Games

by Dan Colasanti

What I learned while evaluating and integrating XNA ad-network SDKs.

Advice for those just starting out in Software Development

by musicm122

CodeProject So this is a question that a friend asked me in an email. I though it was worth sharing.Hey, how are you? I hope everything is going well for you. Im writing for advice or suggestions. I started taking classes for programming.

AfxGetMainWnd in C#

by Chris_Green

AfxGetMainWnd in C#

Aggregator Provider Pattern: An Extension of Provider Pattern

by Mohammad Ashraful Alam

Aggregator Provider Pattern enables us to create and utilize multiple instance of a class having the same provider interface.

Ajax and Server Data Type Conversions

by zoyobar

This post explains how do client-side and server-side convert data type when calling a WebService using Ajax

AJAX... Why the Rush?

by David W. Young

Don't use it just because it's "trendy" or because it can help you crank out quick interfaces for your sites and web based apps.

All Your base64 are Different To Us

by Orjan Westin

Using template specialization to create code handling common base64 encoding varieties

Always Encrypted Feature in SQL Server 2016

by Manjuke Fernando

Always encrypted feature in SQL Server 2016

AMQP Provider RabbitMQ

by Ruben Rotteveel

AMQP provider RabbitMQ

An alternative (.NET 2.0) to the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern

by Nikos Baxevanis

In this post we will see how to write asynchronous code easily using the AsyncEnumerator class.

An Argument Against Defaulting to Auto-increment Primary Keys

by Keyhole Software

An argument against defaulting to auto-increment primary keys

An Easier Way to Debug Windows Services

by jgauffin

Here is an easier way to debug windows services

An HTTP POST Client for Windows Phone 7

by Vangos Pterneas

An easy-to-use, thread-safe library which works similarly to WebClient!

An Idea of a Three Tier Application using IoC (Inversion of Control), DI (Dependency Injection), and Perfectly Decoupled Layers

by RizviHasan

A very basic concept in developing a three tier application

An Implementation of ICivicAddressResolver for WP7

by Felice Pollano

An implementation of ICivicAddressResolver for Windows Phone 7

An Introduction and Thoughts on Developing iOS Applications with MonoTouch

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post describes the creation of a simple Twitter search application for iOS, based on a similar application I wrote for Windows Phone a few months back.

An IOC Container using Variadic Template

by jsolutions_uk

An IOC Container using variadic template.

An iPhone theme for the Windows Phone 7 Emulator!

by Vangos Pterneas

Creating an iPhone-styled Windows Phone emulator

Android is Not Fragmented – iOS is Defragmented

by Michael Banzon

It is not Android that is fragmented – it is iOS that is not-fragmented.

Android Lists: ListActivity and ListView I – Basic Usage

by Austin Rasmussen

The Android ListActivity makes it simple to display a list of items in your application.

Android Lists: ListActivity and ListView II – Custom Adapter and List Item View

by Austin Rasmussen

Continued from: Android Lists: ListActivity and ListView I.

Angular 2 with ASP.NET Core Web API – Build a Simple Notebook App – Part 1

by Petru Faurescu

Build step by step an Angular 2 application running on IIS and ASP.NET Core. The project also has live samples. This is the first part of building an Angular 2 Notebook WebApp.

Announcing MVC3 Validation Groups

by Martin Jarvis

The new MVC3 Validation Groups

Anonymous Classes vs. Delegates

by kb-boxer

Sometimes, less syntactic noise is a good feeling for a programmer. I am not doing a language war here. I am just trying to vote for delegates in Java.

Another Way to Get Windows XP OS Bit Version in VB.NET

by ledtech3

How to get Windows XP OS bit version in VB.NET.

AOP – Aspect Orient Programming in .NET

by Diego Resnik

Use AOP principals to centralize application policy

API: Don’t Forget about the Non-Public API!

by Dev Leader

Don't forget about the non-public API

AppDomain.AssemblyResolve Event Tips

by Giorgi Dalakishvili

AppDomain.AssemblyResolve event can be used to load referenced assemblies at runtime

Appending Items to a Unity Container at Runtime via Configuration

by Sean Hart

Appending Items to a Unity Container at Runtime via Configuration edit

Apple iOS6 Feature Wrap Up

by Zac Gery

Feature wrap up of Apple iOS6 releasing this fall.

Application.DoEvents in WPF

by Derek Lakin

Implementing Application.DoEvents in WPF.

Applying Conditional Attributes in ASP.NET MVC Views

by Rion Williams

Applying conditional attributes in ASP.NET MVC Views.

Applying MVC Architecture to Titanium Mobile Apps

by Phil Sweeney

Applying MVC architecture to Titanium mobile apps

Architectures for the Web of Things

by Gerd Wagner

Architectures for the Web of Things

ASO – App Store Optimization for Beginners

by Isaac RF

ASO – App Store Optimization for Beginners

ASP.NET - Dynamic Control Mapping

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET - Dynamic Control Mapping

ASP.NET - Health Monitoring and EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 1

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

The ASP.NET health monitoring enables you to add instrumentation to Web applications by using the so called Web Events. These Web events give us information about health status.

ASP.NET 4.0 New Features

by Dinesh K Mandal

ASP.NET 4.0 new features

ASP.NET AJAX Controls for MVC Developers

by Jeffrey T. Fritz

I've been spending a bit of time over the past month looking into ALL of ASP.NET, not just MVC or SignalR or WebAPI.

ASP.NET Callback – and HOW?

by Cruz Boon

Implementing ASP.NET callback.

ASP.NET Callback – and WHY?

by Cruz Boon

ASP.NET callback issues.

ASP.NET Controls – CommunityServer Captcha ControlAdapter, a practical case

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

The ControlAdapter is available since .NET framework version 2.0 and his main goal is to adapt and customize a control render in order to achieve a specific behavior or layout.

ASP.NET Controls – Validators Problem (NetFx 1.1 versus NetFx 2.0 or Higher)

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET controls - validators problem

ASP.NET date picker control - Part 2

by Salmanzz

In this post, I will explain you how I have embedded JavaScript, images and stylesheet to my previous article.

ASP.NET GridView – OnRowDataBound vs OnRowCreated

by cpsglauco

How to manage JavaScript and events for GridView

ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 2

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

In the first post of this series I've manage to find the correct eventId for each Web Event type, and by this time the major problem has been solved, but I cannot yet write a correct entry into the EventLog.I still have to decided the best severity type and category to apply.SeverityIf you

ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 3

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider

ASP.NET ListView Control

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET ListView Control

ASP.NET MVC – Conditional Rendering

by Rajeesh.C.V

How we could write a conditional rendering HTML helper in ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update Setup Fails with Fatal Error (0x80070643)

by Markus Greuel

A workaround for error 0x80070643 occurring during the installation of the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools update

ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 1 – Getting Started

by TheyCallMeMrJames

Getting started with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery - Part 1

ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 4 – Advanced Model Binding

by TheyCallMeMrJames

The 4th post in a series on jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. In this article, I'm going to look at three more complex examples of real-world model binding and where jQuery might fit in the mix.

ASP.NET MVC ImageHandler for Thumbnails

by Tom Janssens

Handling all your images through a custom ActionResult/Controller.

ASP.NET MVC Model Binders

by Gil Fink

What Model Binders are in ASP.NET MVC and how you can use them in your MVC applications.

ASP.NET MVC: Add HTML5 Microdata to Your Applications using Metadata Providers

by Rui Jarimba

You can use Metadata Providers to add microdata to your ASP.NET MVC applications.

ASP.NET MVC: Show Busy Indicator on Form Submit using JQuery and Ajax

by John Atten

As we all know, users are impatient. We also know that if we don't tell them our application is "doing something" they tend to do silly things like click the mouse repeatedly, seeking some sign that the requested action is indeed being performed.

ASP.NET MVC–Azure Websites and EF Model First Connection Strings when Deploying from Github

by John Atten

In this post, we are going to look specifically at the vexing situation I ran into deploying from source control with an application using Entity Framework's "Model-First" strategy.

ASP.NET ResolveUrl Without Page

by AlexCode

Using ResolveUrl without Page

ASP.NET ScriptManager Error: this._forum is not a object

by cpsglauco

Little-Big bug from ScriptManager

ASP.NET Web Services Dependency Injection using Unity

by Rui Jarimba

Web Services Dependency Injection using Unity

ASP.NET Website Project – External Assembly References

by Mohit1110

In this blog, we would learn how an ASP.NET Website project keeps the references maintained as Website project does not have any Project file to maintain the same.

ASP.NET Windows Authentication: Authorization by Group

by Chris_Green

Windows authentication in ASP.NET by group.

Aspects to Object vs. Aspects to Class

by Gary H Guo

Discusses aspects to object and aspects to class

Asynchronous Image Download with Abort-on-Timeout for WP7

by Dan Colasanti

AutoResetEvent can be used in place of AsyncWaitHandle and provides a thread-blocking WaitOne signaled timeout function, which can be put on a background thread in order to not block the main UI thread.

Authentication using Facebook, Google and Microsoft account in WP8.0 App (MVVM)

by saramgsilva

This sample show to connect one Windows Phone 8.0 app to Facebook, Google and Microsoft account. Main Features: Login/Logout and has an about page with feedback, share in social networks, review and share by email. Download C# (19.4 MB) Introduction … Continue reading →

Authentication vs. Session Timeout – Session Expired Message on Clicking the Login Button

by Brij

Authentication vs. Session timeout

Auto

by David Corne

The new auto keyword

Auto Login in TI-SDK, Am335x

by johnniealan

Auto Login in TI-SDK, Am335x

Auto-incremented ID with NVARCHAR/VARCHAR datatype

by Tejas Vaishnav

Auto incremented ID using VARCHAR data type

Automating Retry on Exception

by James Curran

How to automate Retry on Exception.

AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor

by Felice Pollano

Using AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor together

Avoid calling Virtual Methods in Ctor: Tip

by zenwalker1985

Why we should avoid calling virtual methods in Ctor.

Avoiding OR Conditions with Joins

by Andrew Zwicker

Why OR conditions in join statements should be avoided and an example fix

Azure AD Secured Serverless Cosmos DB from Blazor WebAssembly

by Jeremy Likness

How can you connect securely without storing credentials in the client and hosting your own identity service? The solution is to use Azure Active Directory for authentication and communicate securely with a serverless Azure Function.

Azure Diagnostics in the Cloud

by AssemblySoft

Azure Diagnostics in the Cloud

Azure Functions Tutorial – SQL Database

by Sarmaad Amin

Often a service is required to connect to a database to perform some operations. In this post, we are going to look at having an Azure Function connect and insert a record in database table. We will showcase the usage on nuget packages and usage in Azure Function to automate package management.

Azure Table Storage, Domain Persistence and Concerns

by M Sheik Uduman Ali

This post is about the anti-corruption layer between domain objects and data persistence in the Azure world.

Back to Basics – JavaScript onerror Event

by Gil Fink

The window.onerror is an event handler for error events that are sent to the window.

Backing Field for Automatically Implemented Property [Field] must be Fully Assigned Before Control is Returned to the Caller

by pollirrata

Backing Field for Automatically Implemented Property [Field] must be fully assigned before Control is returned to the caller

Barcodes, Document Flow and 100 Points Identification on MS Dynamics CRM 2011

by Pavel Korsukov

Barcodes, Document Flow and 100 Points Identification on MS Dynamics CRM 2011

Base64 Encoder and Boost

by WebBiscuit

Base64 Encoder and Boost

Basic Authentication with the ASP.NET Membership API

by wullinkm

In this post, we’ll discuss how you can get IIS to use basic authentication against an ASP.NET Membership store.

Basic Git Command Line Reference for Windows Users

by John Atten

CodeProjectWhile there are GUI interfaces available for GIT (some good, some bad), familiarity with at least the basics of git’s command line interface can only enhance your ability to use the tool to maximum effectiveness.

BDD with DSL: "Aubergine", a ruby/cucumber like alternative for .NET - Download Available

by Tom Janssens

In this article, you can download the very first alpha version of Aubergine; a BDD /DSL framework for .NET, initially based on Machine.Specifications, but later on heavily inspired by Cucumber.

Be Careful of Those SPECIAL Names in Unity

by Simon Jackson

Be careful of those SPECIAL names in Unity

Begin/End Asynchronous Methods vs the New Async Methods

by jgauffin

An article helping you choose which asynchronous model you should use in your .NET project.

Beginning HTML5 Game Development

by Stephen Dycus

Introduction to HTML5 game development.

Behavior-Driven Development to the Rescue?

by Philip Laureano

Which option should I take, and why?

Best Practice Architecture for Professional Microsoft .NET Websites

by Ben Liebert

Best practice architecture for professional Microsoft .NET websites

Best Practice in Writing a COM-Visible Assembly (C#)

by Zhuyun Dai

I summarized some best practice rules in writing a COM-visible assembly according to my recent work.

Best Way to Put Your ASP.NET Site Offline

by AlexCode

A clean, fast and stand-alone solution

Better Reference Counting (Safe Release)

by NSProgrammer

Better reference counting.

Better support for localization in ASP.NET

by jgauffin

Support for localization in ASP.NET.

Beware of switch

by Andrei Ion Rînea

Beware of switch

Bind DropDownList from DataTable using AJAX WebMethod

by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

We will see one example of how to bind one DropDownList using jQuery Ajax and C# WebMethod.

Bind jQuery Grid to MySQL Database using PHP

by jqwidgets

How to connect a jQuery Grid to a MySQL database using PHP.

Binding and Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater

by zoyobar

Binding and Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater

Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML

by Daniel Vaughan

The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.

Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML

by Daniel Vaughan

The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.

Binding to a single object

by Pete O'Hanlon

A sample of the WPF databinding infrastructure.

Binding without WPF

by Nick Polyak

Here we are going to talk about the binding concept and how it can be re-implemented outside of WPF without being tied to the visual libraries or the UI threads.

Bitwise – Something You Learned During College Time

by Cruz Boon

Let’s say, we have a survey requirement. See how we can store multiple selections in a field by using bitwise.

BizTalk does not recognize change in Web Services

by Abdul_Rafay

As a good practice, always publish Web Services when the orchestrations which are being published as a Web Service are stopped or are in an unlisted state so this error will not occur.

BizTalk Event Log error: The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched.

by Kelum W. Ganegoda

How to fix this error

Book Review : Soft Skills by John Sonmez

by Cindy Potvin

Book review: Soft Skills by John Sonmez

Book Review: AngularJS Services

by Sampath Lokuge

AngularJS Services - book review

Boost UI Rendering with Client Side Templating

by Taiseer Joudeh

Boost UI rendering with client side templating.

Breaking changes in Ivonna v.3

by Artem Smirnov

Here are the breaking changes in Ivonna v.3.

Buffer.BlockCopy Not As Fast As You Think

by JasonShort

Buffer.BlockCopy is not as fast as you think

Buffer.BlockCopy Not As Fast As You Think

by JasonShort

I recently wrote a quick test to prove something, that ended up being wrong…

Build a Truly RESTful API and Website Using the Same ASP.NET MVC Code

by Omar Al Zabir

How to build a truly RESTful API and website using the same ASP.NET MVC code

Buildbot Part II – Running automated build and tests

by mariangemarcano

Configuring buildbot to run automated builds and tests.

Building a Custom Documentation Tool

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I am talking about methods used to build custom documentation builders for .NET projects using Reflection APIs.

Building a Metro UI with WPF

by Nikos Baxevanis

How to build a Metro UI with WPF?

Building a Sudoku Solver in F#

by Cyborgx37

A simple F# application that solves Sudoku puzzles. Links to helpful resources are also provided.

Building an ASP.NET Web API RESTful Service – Part 9

by Taiseer Joudeh

This is the ninth part of Building ASP.NET Web API RESTful Service Series.

Building Client (JavaScript) Custom Validation in ASP.NET MVC 4 using jQuery

by Andrei Ion Rînea

Building Client (JavaScript) Custom Validation in ASP.NET MVC 4 using jQuery.

Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Part 1

by Giorgi Dalakishvili

This is the first part of a series about writing an expression evaluator in C#.

Building Installation Packages with Windows Installer XML

by Ayobami Adewole

How to install packages with Windows Installer XML

Building jQuery Grid with jQWidgets

by jqwidgets

In this post, we will explore how to set up a Grid and add powerful features such as sorting and paging.

Busy, Busy, Busy

by Jim Crafton

What's the latest scoop in VCF land?

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

by Paulo Morgado

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics

by Paulo Morgado

C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics

C# 4.0: DXLinq, a DynamicObject example

by StormySpike

System.Xml.Linq is a great library, it lets us very easily manipulate XML, in very close fashion to how we would interact with other data sources. My only issue is that it tends to seem a little redundant...

C# 4.0: Dynamic Programming

by Paulo Morgado

The major feature of C# 4.0 is dynamic programming - not just dynamic typing, but dynamic in a broader sense, which means talking to anything that is not statically typed to be a .NET object.

C# 4.0: Dynamic’s compiler tricks

by StormySpike

So, I was curious today, I had some code that used dynamic and was wondering what the heck the compiler was doing on the back end. So, I wrote up a very small test program, and tore into it using Reflector. The version of Reflector I used still only decompiles to C# 3, so it [...]

C# 4.0: Named And Optional Arguments

by Paulo Morgado

As part of the co-evolution effort of C# and Visual Basic, C# 4.0 introduces Named and Optional Arguments.

C# 5.0 Async/Await Demo Code

by Paulo Morgado

Sample code I use to demonstrate the use of async/await in C# 5.0

C# 6.0 New Features

by Madhur Kapoor

New features of C# 6.0

C# File Upload with Form Fields, Cookies and Headers

by Sky Sanders

Full featured HTTP upload utility

C# Property Class - Part 2

by Don Kackman

C# property class - Part 2

C# Proposal: Compile Time Static Checking Of Dynamic Objects

by Paulo Morgado

C# Proposal: Compile Time Static Checking Of Dynamic Objects

C# SMTP Configuration for Outlook.Com SMTP Host

by John Atten

C# SMTP configuration for Outlook.com SMTP host

C# Windows Form is Busy

by Ali BaderEddin

There are two very common ways of telling the user that your application is busy. One is to show a progress bar that gets updated based on the progress getting done, and another is to show the "Waiting" cursor while the application is doing work.

C#/C Interop with DllImport

by Pragmateek

Keep reading and in 10 minutes you’ll know DllImport (almost) like a pro.

C#: Create and Manipulate Word Documents Programmatically Using DocX

by John Atten

Create and manipulate Word documents programmatically using DocX.

C#: More On Array Variance

by Paulo Morgado

More On Array Variance

C#: Optional Arguments and Named Arguments and a Caution while Using Interfaces with Optional Arguments

by Pankaj.Sinha.Techno

About optional arguments and named arguments and caution while using interfaces with optional arguments

C#: Query Excel and .CSV Files Using LinqToExcel

by John Atten

C#: Query Excel and .CSV files using LinqToExcel.

C#: Scope Your Global State Changes with IDisposable and the Using Statement

by Pragmateek

How to scope your global state changes with IDisposable and the using statement

C/C++ – Python interop

by Barry Lapthorn

Python interop in C/C++.

C++: Template Meta-Programming 2.0

by Paul M Watt

C++: Template Meta-Programming 2.0

CacheItemRemovedCallback Example in ASP.NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Exploring the CacheItemRemovedCallback delegate provided by ASP.NET

Calculated Columns in .NET DataTables (C#)

by Melick

Adding Calculated Columns in .NET DataTables.

Call HTTPhandler from jQuery, Pass Data and Retrieve in JSON Format

by Brij

Call HTTPhandler from jQuery, Pass data and retrieve in JSON format

Calling ASP.NET WebAPI using HttpClient

by Madhur Kapoor

In this post, we are going to learn how to call an ASP.NET WebAPI using HttpClient libraries.

Calling Method in Parent Page from User Control

by Dinesh K Mandal

Calling method in parent page from user control

Calling WCF Services with jQuery…Stripped Down

by Steve Wellens

Years ago, when I created my first ASMX Web Service and called it from an application, it was easy and it was fun. I was able to call functions on a server, from a client, with little effort.

Calling Web Service from Windows Phone 8 App

by Madhur Kapoor

How to call web service from Windows Phone 8 app

Calling Web Service Functions Asynchronously from a Web Page

by Steve Wellens

A user had a problem calling a Web Service from a web page asynchronously. I tried his code on my machine and was able to reproduce the problem. I was able to solve his problem, but only after taking the long scenic route through some of the more perplexing nuances of Web Services and Proxies.

Calling Web Services from JavaScript

by Morris Bahrami

How to call Web Services from JavaScript

CallMemberName – An Easier Way To Do INotifyPropertyChanged and More

by Andrei Ion Rînea

An easier way to do INotifyPropertyChanged

Camel Case Table Names in MySQL

by stephen.vaubell

A solution to casing problems in MySQL

Camera Face Detection in C# using Emgu CV and WPF

by Junian Triajianto

How to perform Face Detection using your camera / Webcam

Cartesian join for numbers

by Andrew Zwicker

An example of using a Cartesian [cross] join.

Cascading Combo Box Data Using RIA in Silverlight 4

by Manas_Patnaik

In this post, we will replicate the cascade combo box loading scenario, where data of other combos depend on the selection in the first.

Cassandra Chapter Three – Data Model

by mumera

An Associative Array is one of the most basic and useful data structures where each value is identified by a key, usually a string.

Change .config File at Runtime C# Code

by Anton Angelov

How to change .config file at runtime (C# VB.NET code)

Change Background Color of Ajax HtmlEditorExtender using ColorPickerExtender

by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

In this blog, we will learn to change the Background Color of Ajax HtmlEditorExtender using ColorPickerExtender.

Change Background Color of Invalid Controls (ASP.NET Validator)

by Chris_Green

How to change background color of invalid controls using ASP.NET Validator.

Change Shared folder location in an MVC 3 site

by Buaziz

a detailed article on how to change the location of the Shared folder, also applies to the Views folder.

Change the Data Source of a Crystal Reports Report at Run-time using C#

by Manjuke Fernando

This is a common issue that development teams face when reports are being deployed to the production environment.

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

by Derek Lakin

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

CharmFlyout - Another Charming Custom Control

by John Michael Hauck

Settings charm flyouts to a C# Metro application.

CharmFlyout – The Design

by John Michael Hauck

This post describes the design of the CharmFlyout custom control, discussing both the C# and XAML that achieves the desired functionality.

Claim based Authentication: Part 4

by Brij

Claim based authentication.

Clang Rocks!

by Issam Lahlali

In this article, we will discover the power of Clang's design that can help you to develop many kinds of tools.

Class Programming Where Possible, Object Programming When Needed

by Gary H Guo

Discuss unifying static programming and dynamic programming in application development

Cleaning HTML With Regular Expressions

by Paulo Morgado

Cleaning HTML With Regular Expressions

Closable TabItem in WPF

by Adrian Alexander

The included ClosableTabItem derives from TabItem and provides the functionality you need to easily add close buttons to your program's tabs.

CLR Versions

by Girish J Jain

Lets learn different CLR versions which exist and did we miss one between v2.0 and v4.0?

CLR Versions Compatibility

by Girish J Jain

Let's learn the compatibility between multiple CLR versions which exist and how we can use the supportedRuntime element in an application's configuration file.

Code Analyzing and NDepend

by Morshed Anwar

Code analyzing and NDepend

Code Management on a budget

by Ritesh Ramesh

Code Management on a budget

Code Quality: Myth or Reality

by Himanshu DS

Guidelines required to be followed to ensure good quality of your code.

Code Rot

by Paul M Watt

A passive use of the term code rot describes the source code for an aging system that require dependencies or tools that are no longer available.

Code Snippets – List of C# snippets in VS2008

by Chris_Green

A list of C# snippets in VS2008.

Code Tune-Up: Shuffling a List

by James Curran

How to shuffle a List.

CodeIt.Right Code File Header Template For StyleCop Rules

by Paulo Morgado

CodeIt.Right Code File Header Template For StyleCop Rules

CodeMash 2013

by John Michael Hauck

CodeMash at the Kalahari Convention Center in Sandusky, OH, from January 8th through January 11th, 2013.

Coder Interviews at The Code Project

by Terrence Dorsey

I heartily recommend reading through these interviews to get a good idea of what tools and techniques working developers are actively using today and the new technologies they're embracing for tomorrow.

Coding in Public

by Terrence Dorsey

I'm going to share my experience of doing one of my first real coding projects, however small it may be, right out in public for everyone to see.

Cohesion and Coupling: Principles of Orthogonal, Scalable Design

by Arthur Minduca

Cohesion and coupling: Principles of orthogonal, scalable design

Collection Accessors Language Feature

by Adrian Alexander

Collection accessors language feature

Colorful Microsoft Windows Forms Controls

by Ahmed_Said

Colorful Microsoft Windows Forms Controls

Combining jQuery with ASP.NET AJAX

by Nitin Singh India

Combining jQuery with ASP.NET AJAX.

Combining WCF Data Services, JSONP, and jQuery

by Gil Fink

A simple example of making a JSONP call to a WCF Data Service using jQuery.

Combining Web Services with MVC

by webdev_hb

WebServices make for a convenient way to share functionality across many different applications. MVC makes it easy to call methods by using standard HTTP calls. With a little bit of Reflection, you can map an MVC Controller to a Web Service.

Common Mistakes When Working with Exceptions

by jgauffin

There are a few mistakes that's really common when it comes to exception handling and I thought that I should write a small entry about them. Continue reading →

Common Problems in Xamarin.Android and their Solutions

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article, I cover the most widely faced problems in Xamarin installation and setup for Android application development.

Common Sense Software Engineering – Part II; Requirements Analysis

by Steve Naidamast

Due to the nature of this critical component to software development, this essay intends to present this subject in broad strokes to incite interest among developers in pursuing their own development agendas properly.

Common.Logging and Compatibility with Other Libraries

by hoonzis

This post shows you how to configure correctly Common.Logging together with Log4Net or NLog and explains the typical problems that you might expect while using this logging library.

CompareValidator’s hidden gem (It does data type validation)

by Steve Wellens

After years of working in the .NET environment, you can still find new and amazing features.

Comparing the Properties of Two Objects via Reflection and C#

by Richard James Moss

How to compare the properties of two objects via Reflection and C#

Comparisons in C++

by David Corne

This is about the comparison operators in C++ and making them easy to implement.

Compile-Time Validation of Composite Object Data Binding Expressions

by Daniel Vaughan

Prompted by a recent comment on the T4 Metadata Generation template article, which I released some weeks ago, I have implemented a new mechanism for concatenating property paths. This allows compile time validation of properties that exist on composite or nested members.

Compiling .NET 1.1 Projects In Visual Studio 2008

by Paulo Morgado

How to compile .NET 1.1 projects in Visual Studio 2008

Complex Queries With Repository Pattern and the Entity Framework

by Ben Kotvis

Complex queries with Repository Pattern and the Entity Framework.

Component-Based Java Frameworks

by Keyhole Software

Component based Java frameworks.

Component-Based Object Extender

by Gary H Guo

A component-based object extensibility framework for .NET

Composite Controls: Dude, Where’s My Data?

by Chris_Green

Composite controls can be tricky. If they aren’t set up just right, even the most basic example won’t work properly.

Compress Response and HTML WhiteSpace Remover

by Abhishek Sur

Use of GZipStream or DeflateStream to compress your HTML output in your response when available. Added new class as WhiteSpaceFilter to remove whitespaces from HTML.

Conditional Sums in SQL Aggregate Methods

by Dave C Andrews

Count the records in a table which are of a certain type.

Confessions of a Programming Language Bigot

by mwootendev

The following expresses my feelings about other languages over the years and why I've come to feel I was wrong. In the end, I'll summarize the root of my language bigotry and how I plan to overcome it.

Configure Git with Visual Studio Code

by Mohit1110

How to configure Git with Visual Studio code

Configure Many-To-Many Relationship and ListBox Control in MVC and Entity Framework

by Dileep Ashok

Configure Many-To-Many Relationship and ListBox control in MVC and Entity Framework

Configuring ASP session state on SQL server

by Ritesh Ramesh

This is a brief to the point note on how to setup ASP session state to use SQL server to store session information.

Configuring PyCharm to Work With Enthought Canopy and GitHub

by Gowrishankarnath

This article raised from my own need to find an easy to use guide with all the information related to setting up a Python working environment using PyCharm, Enthought Canopy and GitHub at a single source.

Confirm Before Deleting a Grid Item

by Jonathan Wood

When deleting an item from an ASP.NET grid, it would be nice to ask the user to confirm this is what they really meant to do.

Connect to TFS Team Project C# Code

by Anton Angelov

Code examples how to connect to TFS Team Project using C# and VB .NET. The post - Connect to TFS Team Project C# Code appeared first on Automate The Planet.

Connecting to TFS2010 with Visual Studio 2008

by Stacy Vicknair

Connecting to TFS2010 with Visual Studio 2008.

Constrained C#

by Paulo Zemek

What if C# evolved differently?

Constructor Chaining in C#

by Manjuke Fernando

Constructor Chaining is an approach where a constructor calls another constructor in the same or base class.

Consuming ASP.net WebServices, WCF Services and static Page methods from JavaScript (sans MS AJAX)

by Sky Sanders

Leveraging the full power of the ASP.NET platform from client-side JavaScript can be as simple adding a few lines of code to an existing script obviating the requirements of an ASPX client page with a ScriptManager/MS AJAX js library.

Content Controls and Open XML 2.0 SDK

by atverma

In this blog, I’ll focus on Content Controls and Open XML 2.0 SDK from the experience I gained in the last 2 months.

Continuous Delivery to Azure App Services with VSTS

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article, I provide an overview of using Visual Studio Team Services to automatically deploy the ASP.NET Core web application to Azure App Services.

Continuous Delivery with Containers – Use Visual Studio Team Services and Docker to Build and Deploy ASP.NET Core to Linux

by Graham D Smith

In this blog series on Continuous Delivery with Containers I'm documenting what I've learned about Docker and containers (both the Linux and Windows variety) in the context of continuous delivery with Visual Studio Team Services. The Docker and containers world is mostly new to me and I

Continuous Thinking: CQRS Explained to a 10-year Old

by Tom Janssens

The concept behind CQRS is to detach your domain implementation completely from your representation requirements.

Continuous Thinking: Nerdbeers Continued - We All Win !!

by Tom Janssens

A short overview of the key things that happened in the past two weeks in the Nerdbeers project.

Controlling Collation Order On DB2/400

by Joe Rattz

How to control collation order on DB2/400

Controlling User Access in PHP

by jotorres

How to control user access in PHP

Convert a Double to String: M3

by Kelum W. Ganegoda

Code to convert/format numeric value to alpha value in M3.

Convert Accented Characters to Simple Characters

by Martin Jarvis

How to convert accented characters to simple characters

Converting between jQuery Deferred and Rx Observable

by Jonathan Cardy

A guide to conversion between Rx and Deferred

Converting Multiple SharePoint 2010 Projects to SharePoint 2013

by Adel Refaat

How to convert multiple SharePoint 2010 projects to SharePoint 2013

Converting XML Data to CLR Object using XmlSerializer

by Manas_Patnaik

How to convert the XML to a CLR object and use it as a datasource in a Silverlight app

Copy a table using SQL Server Management Objects

by User 6619207

How to copy a table using SQL Server Management Objects

CQRS for the lazy *ss

by Tom Janssens

Yet another attempt to remove all the protocol that CQRS requires.

Crazy Ctor Concept in Ruby: Part 2

by zenwalker1985

This is an extension to my old post about ctor concept in Ruby where I talked about how the Ctor concept has been implemented in Ruby and it’s quite different from other languages.

Create a SharePoint 2013 List Using JSOM (ECMAScript Client Object Model)

by Melick

A series of basic operations that can archive using JSOM

Create and Deploy Windows Azure Application

by Brij M

How to create and deploy a Windows Azure application.

Create and Execute Dynamic SQL on T-SQL

by gmtzgtz

How to create and execute dynamic SQL on T-SQL.

Create and Publish a NuGet Package Easily - Overview

by Arun Endapally

How to create and publish a NuGet package easily

Create Animated Character

by Member 8292021

Creation of an example of an animated character using web language

Create Jenkins Job for Creating NuGet Packages

by Anton Angelov

If you are creating .NET libraries, most probably you need to create NuGet packages to distribute your code. You can make your life easier if you create an automatic Jenkins Job for the purpose.

Create Parallel Task in State Machine Workflow in SharePoint 2010

by Rohit Shrivastava

Create Parallel Task in State Machine Workflow in SharePoint 2010

Create zip files using PowerShell

by Bryan O'Connell

A simple PowerShell script to automate zipping up files and folders.

Creating a “customizable” personal blog using ASP.NET

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is part 1 of the articles that I want to write for ASP.NET beginners, who want to build their own personal web sites, that mimic characteristics of blog. It covers the ASP.NET web application part.

Creating a Code First Database Initializer Strategy

by Gil Fink

In this post, I’ll show an example of how to create your own database initializer.

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

by Derek Lakin

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

Creating a Custom Visual Studio Project Template for Ivonna

by Artem Smirnov

Creating a custom Visual Studio project template

Creating a Custom Window Style

by Derek Lakin

I'll show you how to implement a custom Style by implementing a custom message box.

Creating a Data Access layer using Unity

by Martin Hinshelwood

I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework!

Creating a Location Aware Website using Ruby on Rails and PostGIS

by lassebunk

How to create a location aware website using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS

Creating a Multi-paged Container Control with Design Time Support

by Richard James Moss

This article describes adding design time support for a TabControl-like component which renders the same way the Project Properties in Visual Studio 2012.

Creating a Scrollable and Zoomable Image Viewer in C#: Part 1

by Richard James Moss

First part in a series of articles that will result in a component for viewing an image

Creating a Visio Add-In in VS2017

by Gaston Verelst

How to create a Visio Add-in in VS2017

Creating Advanced Audit Trails using ActionFilters in ASP.NET MVC

by Rion Williams

How to create advanced audit trails using ActionFilters in ASP.NET

Creating an Image Viewer in C# Part 5: Selecting Part of an Image

by Richard James Moss

Selecting part of an image

Creating CodeCollaborator Reviews using Command Line

by pollirrata

How to create CodeCollaborator reviews using command line

Creating N-grams Using C#

by Jake Drew

Creating N-grams using C#.

Creating Visual Web Part Properties

by Raymund Macaalay

How to create WebPart properties.

Creationism: Custom Data-Bound Controls for ASP.NET

by Caleb McElrath

This post is a basic tutorial on how to create custom data-bound controls for ASP.NET.

Cross Domain Request Pattern

by egladysh

Exchange data between two domains using AJAX

Cross Join Introduction – Create Row Combinations

by essentialSQL

Introduction to cross join - create row combinations

Cross Site Scripting...

by Rick Bassham

An easy way to do an AJAX call to another domain

Cross-Tabulation (Pivot Tables) with MySQL

by Cale Dunlap

Example of using code-based query generation, transposition, cross-tabulation, and normalized data to produce a query result that can feed a simple chart from data which was not originally designed with reporting or charting in mind.

Cudafy Me: Part 2 of 4

by John Michael Hauck

These posts are meant to inspire you to enter into the world of graphics processor programming.

Cudafy Me: Part 3 of 4

by John Michael Hauck

These posts are meant to inspire you to enter into the world of graphics processor programming.

Cudafy Me: Part 4 of 4

by John Michael Hauck

These posts are meant to inspire you to enter into the world of graphics processor programming.

Custom ASP.NET Model Binders Series. Part 1: Now How

by Artem Smirnov

Writing testable Action Methods

Custom Attributes with Extension Methods: Resource Key

by Chris_Green

Using a custom attribute to contain a resource key

Custom Configuration Sections in app.config or web.config

by Brij M

How to define our own custom configuration section

Custom Gestures for 3D Manipulation Using Windows Touch in C++

by gclass

At PDC 2009, Reed Townsend presented some very exciting multitouch samples in a presentation: Windows Touch Deep Dive. This blog covers the code behind of the custom 3D manipulations that were presented.

Custom Serilog Sink Development

by Bob Crowley

Custom Serilog Sink Development

Customize the Build Number in Team Build

by ozkary

Customize the Build Number in Team Build

Customizing MessageBox on Windows Phone 7

by Derek Lakin

Additional MessageBox features on Windows Phone 7.

Cygwin vs. MinGW – What to Prefer When

by RizviHasan

A comparison

Dangers of XSS

by CdnSecurityEngineer

I prove everyone who’s ever said XSS isn’t a serious vulnerability wrong.

Data Access Using Dynamics - Part I: The DynamicDataReader

by MBigglesworth79

The DynamicDataReader provides a means of retrieving data from a database in a way that involves less code and increases code readability.

Data Aggregation Using Presentation Model in RIA and Silverlight 4

by Manas_Patnaik

An in-depth look into the Presentation Model and its mode of handling related multiple entities

Data Binding in .NET

by Ankush Bansal

How the new WPF binding engine is an improvement over the WinForm binding engine

Data Serializer updated for Windows Metro

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Data serializer update for Windows Metro.

Database Documentation with a Data Dictionary - Part 2

by Andrew Zwicker

A continuation of the data dictionary discussion with information about how the documentation is done

Database Driven Unit Testing Using VSTS

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Database driven unit testing using VSTS

Database First Development with ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding and Entity Framework

by ozkary

Database First development with ASP.NET MVC scaffolding and Entity Framework

Database naming conventions

by Andrew Zwicker

Having clear, concise names for tables, procedures, etc., is important for many reasons.

Database Table Documentation with a Data Dictionary

by Andrew Zwicker

Why table and column documentation is useful and some SQL for setting up the data dictionary tables

Data-binding Among Complex Expressions in C#

by Adrian Alexander

Data-binding among complex expressions in C#

DataGridView – Stacked Header – Export to HTML/Excel

by Deepak-VS

How to export data to Excel with formatted headers.

DataLoadOptions and How to Use It in a Compiled LINQ Query

by Pranay Rana

DataLoadOption in LINQ allows immediate loading and filtering of related data

Dealing With Management Disdain for Refactoring and Unit Testing

by mwootendev

I would like to touch on some of my personal experiences with refactoring and unit testing that have proven that there is a value to those tasks.

Decorator Design Pattern in .NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Decorator Design Pattern in .NET

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

by Jeremy Likness

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

Deductive Reasoning: It's Worth a Second Look

by Zac Gery

Deductive reasoning.

Deep Copying (Cloning) Objects in Delphi

by User 8984948

Deep copying (cloning) objects in Delphi.

Default Browser Switcher Extension for Visual Studio 2010 - Improve Productivity

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to install and use the Default Browser Switcher Extension for Visual Studio 2010

Default Browser Switcher in Visual Studio 2012

by Khanna_Varun

Testing application on different browsers manually would decrease our productivity and also would waste our time.

Define Your Own Dialog Box in Winform

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to define your own dialog box

Define Your Own IoC Container

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to define a simple IoC Container

Defining Document Compatibility In Internet Explorer 8

by Paulo Morgado

The procedures to define document compatibility in Internet Explorer 8 are well documented here, but I’ve seen many developers and system administrators that are not aware of this...

Delegates 101 - Part II: Anonymous Methods and Lambdas

by MBigglesworth79

How to use anonymous methods and lambdas to make our code more terse by reducing the amount of code we need to write.

Delegates 101 - Part III: Generic Delegates

by MBigglesworth79

How to leverage the power of Generics in order to make our delegates more ...well ...generic!

Delegates internals

by zenwalker1985

I have found a few interesting things which I would like to share with you all.

Dependency Injected Singletons… What?

by Dev Leader

About dependency injected singletons

Dependency Injection Frameworks

by Ashish Kaila

An introduction to Dependency Injection.

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC4 and webapi using Ninject

by Bhupindra Singh

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC4 and webapi using Ninject

Dependency Inversion in Java

by Grzegorz @ tidyjava.com

Beginner guide to using the power of Dependency Inversion with examples in Java. Covers dependency injection, using abstractions and adapter pattern.

Dependency Inversion principle (DIP)

by loki2302

Depend explicitly, require explicitly, but only require what you really need.

Deploying an Azure Website from Source Control

by John Atten

Deploying an Azure website from source control.

Deploying Silverlight with WCF Services

by Tony Champion (Champion DS)

Deploying Silverlight with WCF Services

Deploying Windows Azure Application – VS2010 IDE

by Brij M

How to deploy a Windows Azure application using the Visual Studio 2010 IDE.

Design and Document Your RESTful API Using RAML

by Bryan O'Connell

Design and document your RESTful API using RAML

Design and Implementation Mistakes - Mostly .NET

by Paulo Zemek

Design and implementation mistakes - mostly .NET

Design and Implementation Mistakes - Part 2

by Paulo Zemek

Design and implementation mistakes - Part 2

Design and the Gestalt Principle of Similarity

by Zac Gery

The Gestalt Principles are based on the observation that people actively and subconsciously organize things into patterns and objects.

Designing a Windows Form Where Size Exceeds Your Screen’s Resolution

by Manjuke Fernando

Design forms beyond the size of our development machine's screen resolution

Designing Business Logic Layer: Some Guidelines

by Dinesh K Mandal

Some guidelines for designing business logic layer

Detect Changes to Spectrum Colorpicker

by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

In this blog, we will see how to manage the default value of color picker so that we can detect if color is changed.

Detecting User Regional Settings In The Web Browser

by Paulo Morgado

Detecting User Regional Settings In The Web Browser

Detection of Half-Open (Dropped) TCP/IP Socket Connections

by Stephen Cleary

How to detect a dropped TCP/IP connection

Detection of Loading an iframe Created in Ext JS

by morzel

How to detect loading an iframe created in Ext JS

Developer Tools: Paint.NET

by Zac Gery

Paint.NET is a free open source project that helps bridge the gap between the low fidelity and high cost options currently available.

Developing for .NET 2.0 in 2012

by Michael Banzon

Developing for .NET 2.0 in 2012

DI and Pervasive services

by Qwertie

Dependency Injection aids loose coupling. But there are some services that are pervasive, services that you would have to pass to a hundred different constructors if you want to use DI "properly". Is there an alternative?

Diagnosing ASP.NET Views Compilation with FrontMan

by Sebastian Solnica

In today’s post, I will show you how we fought a pesky compilation problem with Razor views in our ASP.NET MVC application.

Dictionary Extensions: Define Useful Extensions to Play Safe

by Chris_Green

Useful extensions to play safe

Differences Among Bind(), Live(), Delegate(), Trigger() in jQuery

by Arpit Jain

In this article we will learn about the live(), bind(), click(), delegate(), trigger(), and triggerHandler() methods for adding event handlers to elements.

DirectoryInfo.GetFiles Returns More Files Than Expected

by Inaki Ayucar

How to get exactly what you need using DirectoryInfo.GetFiles, with an exact extension match lookup

Disable a timer at every level of your ASP.NET control hierarchy

by Martin Hinshelwood

Even though this sounds like a really simple thing, what if you do not know the name of the controls, and you do not want to have to add a bit of code that you, or another may developer may forget to every piece of code with a timer in it.

Displaying the Contents of a PDF File in an ASP.NET Application using GhostScript

by Richard James Moss

A sample on displaying the contents of a PDF file in an ASP.NET application using GhostScript

Distance Sensor in Robotics

by Nitin Singh India

Distance sensor in robotics.

Distributed Cache - Simplified

by Diego Resnik

Cache mechanism is one of the basic infrastructures in every medium & above project, either web application or winForm application.

Distributed Cache using Redis and ASP.NET Core

by Petru Faurescu

Quick introduction on how to use Redis with ASP.NET Core. It includes a full example loading sample Twitter messages.

DIY ADO.NET Profiler

by Pieter Van Parys

Implementing an ADO.NET Profiler.

Do We Really Need Angular Route Resolvers?

by Chinmoy Mohanty

Best practices for using Angular Route resolvers

Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure?

by Martin Hinshelwood

From time to time your website structure may change. When this happens you do not want to have to start from scratch with your Google rankings, so you need to map all of your Old URLs to new ones.

Do You Really Need An ORM?

by garymcleanhall

You would save a lot of effort by starting with the simplest thing that works.

DOCTYPE (Document Type) Explored

by Mohit1110

In this blog, we will explore how does a browser comes to know which version of HTML has been used in a Web Page. How Quirks mode & Standard mode affect the page rendering.

Don’t Forget Your Place

by David Truxall

As a consultant, learning lots of different tools is a necessity.

Don’t Use ConfigurationManager!

by Nathan Gloyn

If you’re one of those devs that slaps a ConfigurationManager.AppSettings in the middle of a class, then stop, please just stop.

DotNetZip

by Morris Bahrami

How to include zip/unzip functionality in your .NET applications.

Download Files in ASP.NET

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to download different types of files in asp.net

Drag and Drop between Multiple Trees in Jquery using jstree

by Chris A. Johnson

Drag and Drop between Multiple Trees in Jquery using jstree

Dragging and Dropping onto HTML Image Maps

by James Treworgy

Dragging and dropping onto HTML Image Maps

DROP IF EXISTS in SQL Server 2016 (DIE)

by Manjuke Fernando

DROP IF EXISTS in SQL Server 2016 (DIE)

Drupal with Android Integration: Make Posts and Upload Photos - Part I - Drupal

by Andrey Moskvichev

Make posts and upload photos

Duck Typing with LinFu & C# 4.0's Dynamic Keyword

by Philip Laureano

LinFu.DynamicObject is flexible enough that it can let you build object instances at runtime and then 'strongly' duck type those object instances to any interface that matches the intended duck type.

Duplex Service in WCF

by Md. Rashim Uddin

Duplex service in WCF

Dynamic Behaviors Or Dynamic Typing

by Gary H Guo

Dynamic behaviors with dynamic typing or dynamic decorating

Dynamic Behaviors With Static Typing

by Gary H Guo

Add dynamic behaviors using static typing

Dynamic Linq Queries

by StormySpike

Alright, let’s assume that we are lazy coders, we have building a lot of Linq queries lately, and it’s getting repetitive. We keep having to remember to add a certain where clause to every query, couldn’t we just abstract this somehow?

Dynamic Programming with Python and C#

by Dev Leader

With this post, we’re still just scratching the surface of what’s doable when integrating Python and C#.

Dynamic ViewState in ASP.NET WebForms

by Giorgi Dalakishvili

Implementing dynamic ViewState in ASP.NET WebForms.

Dynamically Create Item Templates Server-side

by Leland Richardson

How to dynamically create item templates on the server-side in ASP.NET.

Dynamically Creating Input Fields on Tab via CoffeeScript and jQuery

by Nizar Noorani

How to dynamically create input fields on tab via CoffeeScript and jQuery

Easily determining the exact error by using Correlation ID in SharePoint 2010

by Raymund Macaalay

Making sense of the Correlation ID in SharePoint 2010.

Easily Expose Metadata Information From Web API

by Bryan O'Connell

How to easily expose metadata information from Web API

Easy 8 Step HTML To SQL Data Transfer in a ASP.NET Web Form using jQuery, JSON, XML, Web Methods, node() Methods and Extension Methods.

by Patrick Cunningham

This article uses 8 steps to create example of how to read and write from HTML to a SQL database in a .NET web application using jQuery, JSON, and XML.

Easy and Perfomant Client/Server Communication with Protobuf-net & Griffin.Framework

by jgauffin

Easy and perfomant client/server communication with protobuf-net & Griffin.Framework

Easy Form Validation using HTML5

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Easy form validation using HTML5

Easy Model and Validation Localization in ASP.NET MVC3

by jgauffin

How to get clean and flexible model + validation localization in ASP.NET MVC3

Easy Perforce Setup

by Ashish Kaila

I hope this makes your Perforce setup experience smoother!

Easy Way to Change Collation of All Database Objects in SQL Server

by Raymund Macaalay

How to change collation of all database objects in SQL Server

Easy way to track Stored Procedure errors in MS SQL Server 2008

by Sadeque Sharif

Easily trace all errors of Stored Procedures in MS SQL Server.

Eclipse on a USB Flashdrive

by kribo

Eclipse on a USB flashdrive

Editing a Google Spreadsheet using PHP and CURL

by Jonathan Cardy

How to edit a Google spreadsheet using PHP and CURL

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1c – the unit tests

by Leom Burke

A look at unit testing data access when using Entity Framework code first

EF Core and Cosmos DB with Blazor WebAssembly

by Jeremy Likness

How to use EF Core and Cosmos DB with Blazor WebAssembly

Ektron: Finding “Missing” Content in the Index on 64bit Windows

by Martin Jarvis

Finding “Missing” content in the index on 64 bit Windows

Element Binding in Silverlight

by Manas_Patnaik

Achieving a Twitter page like functionality using Element Binding in Silverlight.

ELWEA - EventLog WebEvent Aggregator for ASP.NET

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

Keep an ASP.NET web application error tracking isolated and easily accessible

E-mail queues in MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online using Exchange Online and Windows Azure

by Pavel Korsukov

E-mail queues in MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online using Exchange Online and Windows Azure.

Embed Resources in .NET Assemblies

by Ashish Kaila

How to embed binary resources within .NET assembly and avoid file dependencies

Embedding and Using Resources from .NET Assembly

by Dinesh K Mandal

How to embed and use resources from .NET assembly

Embedding Font To Resources

by Ernest Poletaev

How to load and use custom font, embedded in assembly resources

Embrace Reflection and Export Any List Collection to Excel

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

The purpose of this blog post is to provide a generic solution using .NET Reflation and Generics so the same export function can be reused through the entire application regardless of the object type and save us a lot of effort.

Enabling/disabling properties at runtime in the PropertyGrid

by Inaki Ayucar

How to enable/disable properties at runtime in the PropertyGrid.

Encrypt – Decrypt Class

by jotorres

An encrypt-decrypyt class.

Enhanced Selenium WebDriver Page Objects through Partial Classes

by Anton Angelov

Find how to create more refined and more maintainable page objects in WebDriver. These page objects will follow more closely the Single Responsibility Principle.

Enterprise Solution for Logging

by Ruben Rotteveel

In conclusion, logging needs to be a managed process, that is standardized, secured, and monitored and decoupled from the primary application, leaving it do what it needs to do without having to worry about something that is not central to its task.

Entity Framework 4 New Operations

by JasonShort

New operations in the .NET 4 Entity Framework - a quick example of each working with VistaDB 4 and Visual Studio 2010

Entity Framework and T4: Generate Query Objects on the Fl - Part 1

by Rui Jarimba

Generate Query Objects on the fly for your Entity Framework entities using T4 templates

Entity Framework and T4: Generate Specification Objects for Your Entities

by Rui Jarimba

Learn how to use the Specification Pattern and how to generate Specification Objects for your Entity Framework entities using T4 templates.

Entity Framework Code First and WCF Data Services

by User 6619207

Entity Framework Code First and WCF Data Services

Entity Framework Context Per Request

by Radu Pascal

The way to use Entity Framework with Unit Of Work pattern in order to use only one context per HTTP request

Entity Framework with ASP.NET MVC

by Farooq Kaiser

In this article, I will explore the entity framework with ASP.NET MVC. We will modify the form validation sample that will access the data layer using the Entity Framework.

Enum.TryParse (.NET 4.0)

by User 6619207

Since .NET 4.0, the Enum class contains also a TryParse method. The TryParse method, which is supported in other basic data types already since version 2.0, allows to pass in a value which will be checked if it can be converted into the defined type.

Enumerations and Enumeration Attributes in JavaScript

by Gerd Wagner

Enumerations and Enumeration Attributes in JavaScript

Erlang Camp Amsterdam: Why you should follow it and getting started with Erlang and Axiom

by Tom Janssens

Why you should follow it and getting started with Erlang and Axiom.

Error handling with Silverlight and WCF

by Paul_Wade

A better way to handle errors and provide a useful message back to the user in Silverlight.

Essential tools for debugging and troubleshooting: Dependency Walker aka Depends

by Pragmateek

Essential tools for debugging and troubleshooting.

ESWC 2008 Day 1

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Last night's reception at Maximilian's restaurant on Friedrichstraße was great fun. Good food, great beer (I particularly liked the Berliner Weiß) and fantastic company. After breakfast we set up our stand in the sponsor's area (complete with the usual last minute presentation edits).

ESWC 2008 Day 2

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Last night we descended en-masse on Berliner Republik, a quirky bar where the beer prices go up and down according to demand (they even have a mini stock exchange - watch for the crashes and run for the bar!). Really good food, too.

Event Streams on Azure - Wrapping Events in Identity and Context

by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to wrap the business meaningful events in an event store with identity and context information, stored according to the backing technology

EventFeed Data Model

by gramoore

A data model that captures events, subscribers and topics to provide a core data model for any event registration and timeline system.

Events: Demystifying Common Memory Leaks

by Dev Leader

Let’s see how events might be causing some leakage in your application.

Everything You Wanted to Know About databinding in WPF, Silverlight, and WP7 (Part One)

by Colin Eberhardt

Databinding is a fundamental part of the WPF, Silverlight, and the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 frameworks. It is a powerful concept that once mastered allows you to write concise and elegant code.

Examples of The Observer Pattern in C# – How to Simplify Event Management

by Dev Leader

Check out these examples of the observer pattern in C#! Learn how the observer pattern in C# can simplify the usage of events in your next project!

Excel addins troubleshooting guide

by Pragmateek

Excel addins troubleshooting guide

Exception Handling in WCF

by Dinesh K Mandal

Exception Handling in WCF

Exception Unsafe

by sashan govender

What it means for code to satisfy the basic exception safety guarantee.

Exclusive Access Could Not Be Obtained Because the Database is in Use ~ Resolved

by Manjuke Fernando

How to resolve this issue

Execute a Command on a Specified Control When Clicking on a Button

by jmix90

Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

Execute Process Task - Compress File Using 7-Zip

by Sifiso W Ndlovu

Using SQL Server Integration Services' Execute Process Task to compress a CSV file into a zip format using 7-Zip.

Execute SQL Query on Mutiple SQL Servers or Databases Simultaneously

by Mohit1110

In this blog we would learn how to execute a SQL Query on multiple databases of single DB Server or on a single Database on multiple DB Servers.

Experimenting with C# 6’s New Features

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

C# 6 has been available for a long time, by now! Many developers have written many guides to "list" the features. I have written this post to explain those features, and to explain whether they are actually new or are they just sugar coating to the compiler.

Experimenting with C# 7’s New Features

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This post talks about the most important improvements to the C# language in its 7th version, provides some IL overview, as well as my own personal opinions on the features and improvements.

Explaining PropertyPaneAsyncChecklist

by Muhammad_Faraz

Explanation about PropertyPaneAsyncChecklist

Explaining PropertyPaneAsyncDropdown

by Muhammad_Faraz

About PropertyPaneAsyncDropdown

Exploiting Managed Memory

by CdnSecurityEngineer

Exploiting managed memory

Exploring Data Cubes on NSimpleOlap (Alpha)

by Carlos Conceição

Current features of NSimpleOlap library

Exploring TypeScript and What Makes It Sweet

by Bryan O'Connell

Exploring TypeScript and what makes it sweet

Export Multiple DataSets to Multiple Excel Sheets Dynamically Formatted According to the Record's Data Type

by Raymund Macaalay

Export multiple DataSets to multiple Excel sheets dynamically formatted according to the record's data type

Export to Excel – Multiple GridView into Multiple Worksheet

by Sandeepkumar Ramani

Multiple GridView into multiple worksheets.

Expressing Date/Time Information with the Element

by Gerd Wagner

Using the HTML5 element allows to express a human-readable date or a timestamp in a web page, and annotate it with a machine-readable date/time value that can be extracted and processed by applications.

Extend ORM Generated Class

by Pranay Rana

By using a partial class, we can add custom logic to a class created by the ORM tool(s).

Extending C# ListView with Collapsible Groups (Part I)

by John Atten

Examination of a quick way to create more useful expandable groups in the .NET ListView control.

Extending C# ListView with Collapsible Groups (Part II)

by John Atten

Continued examination of C# ListView subclass with collapsible groups.

Extending ICSharpCode.TextEditor Syntax Highlighting Schemas

by Ernest Poletaev

How to use ICSharpCode.TextEditor, free, easy to use, extendable and good quality syntax highlighting control for .NET program.

Extending the ASP.NET MVC ViewEngine to Support Localization

by Pete Mourfield

Adding localization support to the ASP.NET MVC ViewEngine

Extending the Behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for Activity-based Authorization

by Stacy Vicknair

Extending the behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for activity-based authorization

Extensible jQueryUI Widget Development

by Halil ibrahim Kalkan

Extensible jQueryUI widget development

Extensions: Action.Delay

by Code0987

My series of posts on extension methods in .NET: Action.Delay

Extract worksheets from Excel into separate files with PowerShell

by Bryan O'Connell

The title says it all.

Facebook Hacker Cup: "Studious Student" Solution in Java

by ladv02

"Studious Student" solution in Java.

Fake ISAPI Handler to Serve Static Files with Extensions that are Rewritten by URL Rewriter

by Nicolas Brassard

Fake ISAPI Handler to Serve Static Files with Extensions that are Rewritten by URL Rewriter

Fallacies of the Tech Recruitment Process

by Tom Janssens

Fallacies of the Tech Recruitment Process

Fast Pixel Operations in .NET (With and Without unsafe)

by morzel

Using GetPixel or SetPixel for all but tiniest images is a terrible idea. Stop using these methods and make your code over 300 times faster!

Faster faster loops

by Pete O'Hanlon

Using the Task Parallel Library in .NET 4.0

Fiddler in Action - Part 1

by Mehdi Khalili

In this article, I will cover some of the basic features of Fiddler.

Fiddler In Action - Part 2

by Mehdi Khalili

In this article we will cover some of the more advanced features of Fiddler.

Finalize in .NET

by Shweta Lodha

Implementing the Finalize method to release unmanaged resources.

Find Middle of a Linked List with One Pass/Loop (Pseudo Code/Java/JavaScript)

by Bobby Lough

Find middle of a Linked List in one pass/loop (Pseudo code/Java/JavaScript)

Find Unused Files: v1.4.0

by Robert Hoffmann

Finds unused files and images in your website projects.

FindControl for Windows Forms

by Joel Ivory Johnson

A quick implementation of FindControl for Windows Forms.

FindControl: Recursive DFS, BFS, and Leaf to Root Search with Pruning

by Chris_Green

Recursive DFS, BFS, and Leaf to Root search with pruning

Finding Primes: Part II – A Python Implementation

by David Corne

A Python implementation of finding primes

Finding the External IP Address of Your Machine, With a Timeout, in C#

by Inaki Ayucar

How to find the external IP address of your machine, with a timeout, in C#.

Firebase Android Tutorial Part 1 – Getting Started

by Andy Point

Firebase Android Tutorial : Adding Registration and Login Hello Developers, this is our android firebase tutorial. In this tutorial we will create an android firebase app that will use firebase android login functionality. This post will help you get you up and running with integrating Firebase to a

First Steps in F#

by DevAffair

A little about F#.

First Windows 8 App with JavaScript and HTML

by Gergo Bogdan

Some thoughts about Visual Studio 2012 and First Windows 8 App Development with JavaScript and HTML

Five Steps to SVN Merging

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Here are 5 steps to SVN merging

Fixing “Unrecognized configuration section userSetting” Errors

by TheyCallMeMrJames

How to handle the “Unrecognized configuration section userSetting” exception

FizzBuzz

by David Corne

FizzBuzz is variously a drinking game, a math game, a way of learning numbers in a foreign language and more importantly (for this blog) a programming kata.

Flattening a TransformGroup

by John Michael Hauck

How to flatten a TransformGroup

Fluent API vs. Data Annotations Working with Configuration – Part 2

by Monjurul Habib

Fluent API vs. Data Annotations working with configuration.

Fluent Functors

by PeteBarber

I've been learning about BOOST Spirit; a C++ expression based compiler generator. One of the examples is for a Roman Numeral parser. This contained the following interesting code for pre-loading a symbol table...

Fluent Page Object Pattern in Automation Testing

by Anton Angelov

Overview how to achieve better readability of page objects via fluent page object pattern. Use chaining methods to access the business test logic.

Forget PowerPoint – Make a Slideshow in… a Debugger :)

by Sebastian Solnica

The article describes how to make a slideshow in a debugger. It may help you understand the PDB API in System.Reflection.Emit as well as impress listeners on any debugging-related presentations. :)

Forgiveness is a Virtue (of JavaScript)

by mumera

Forgiveness and tolerance are JavaScript’s greatest virtues since the language does everything it can to prevent errors and makes erroneous code work as much as it can.

Form validation with ASP.NET MVC

by Farooq Kaiser

This topic shows you the MVC features that support form validation.

Formatting Dates with Java in Android Applications

by Cindy Potvin

How to format dates with Java in Android applications

Forum Fun: Running Calculation SQL

by Andrew Zwicker

A discussion about a forum post for handling a running subtraction in a SQL query.

Fragments: Creating a Tabbed Android User Interface

by Dev Leader

Creating a tabbed Android User Interface.

Framework Coupling

by Grzegorz @ tidyjava.com

Are you using frameworks the right way? Are you using frameworks for business purposes or the other way around? Are your business classes dependent on frameworks?

FriendlyURL: A New and Exciting Feature of ASP.NET

by Brij

FriendlyURL as the name suggests gives a clean and SEO friendly URL.

From C to Hardware

by ericevenchick

Let's look at the components involved in microcontrollers and see how they work.

From Zero to Hero in JSON with C#

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

JSON format of data interchange and its use with C#

FubuMVC for Dummies, Noobs, and Other Noble Gentlemen

by Artem Smirnov

For those of you scared by the numerous steps required to setup a typical Open Source project, this would be a pleasant surprise.

Full on rainbow spirograph using HTML5 and CoffeeScript

by James Kolpack

Rainbow spirograph using HTML5 and CoffeeScript.

Fun with Enums and a Generic File Date/Time Stamper

by bobleith

A generic file date/time stamper.

Functional C#: Immutability

by Vladimir Khorikov

Functional C#: Immutability

Functions in JavaScript

by musicm122

Functions in JavaScript

GEDCOM Data Model in C# using BrightstarDB for Persistence

by gramoore

GEDCOM Data Model in C# using BrightstarDB for persistence

Generate ASCII Art – A Simple How To in C#

by Dev Leader

Change a picture into ASCII art using your own C# program

Generate insert Statements from a Specific Table Data using SQL Server

by Tharaka MTR

Generate insert statements from a specific table data using SQL Server

Generating Captcha images – ASP.NET MVC

by Buaziz

In this article, we will define our implementation to handle Captcha images.

Generating Web Services Server Using Axis2

by Marek Piechut

You can not only generate WS clients with Axis2 but also server skeletons.

Generators with Java 8

by TheCannyCoder

Today we'll look at creating generators. In simple terms, a generator is a function which returns the next value in a sequence. Unlike an iterator, it generates the next value when needed, rather than returning the next item of a pre-generated collection. Some languages such as Python support

Generic Repositories – A Silly Abstraction Layer

by jgauffin

Let’s look at what generic repositories give you

Generic Type Restriction for Enums

by jgauffin

How to restrict a generic type identifier to only allow enums

Get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name (Redux)

by James Curran

How to get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name.

Get Browser and Operating System Information with PHP

by Noor Ahmad Feroozi

This class will return information from browser in an array format including the browser name, browser version, and also the operating system name.

Get IP Address using PHP

by jotorres

This post shows you how to get user's IP address using PHP.

Get Ready to Learn SQL Server 19: Introduction to Sub Queries

by essentialSQL

The purpose of this article is to introduce you to subqueries and some of their high-level concepts. There are a lot of details to cover in order to learn sub queries, but you’ll see we cover those in depth in later articles.

Getting Bit by Caching

by Jonathan Wood

Why it is important to be careful when using the Caching feature.

Getting control of your numbers

by Pete O'Hanlon

A simple mechanism to limit the input of data to a TextBox so that it only accepted the relevant numeric amount.

Getting Hands On With ASP.NET Core Health Checks

by SleepyCrat

A discussion of how the HealthCheck middleware is used to expose endpoints on your site that run a sequence of pre-written tests and provide you with quick diagnostic information about the health of your application.

Getting Hardware and Software Details of the Computers in your Domain

by Morris Bahrami

How to get hardware and software details of the computers in your domain

Getting in the RAII

by WebBiscuit

Looking at a simple MIDI handle wrapping class

Getting Information into the Layout Without Using ViewBag

by jgauffin

How to get information into the Layout without using ViewBag

Getting SignalR-Ready in Visual Studio 2010

by Rion Williams

This post will cover how to get yourself up and running using SignalR within Visual Studio 2010 in a jiffy.

Getting Started with AngularJS

by Madhur Kapoor

How to get started with AngularJS

Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 5

by Camilo Reyes

How to get started with ASP.NET MVC 5

Getting Started with Git for the Windows Developer (Part I)

by John Atten

Introductory examination of Git in a Windows Environment for those who are just getting started

Getting Started with Git for the Windows Developer (Part II) - Get Acquainted with Bash

by John Atten

This is the second installment of a multi-part series about getting your feet wet with Git for Windows developers.

Getting started with LINQ

by Cyborgx37

LINQ is syntactical sugar for extension methods and lamda expressions. To understand LINQ, it is important to first grapple with these concepts.To begin, let's look at a simple and somewhat common scenario.

Getting started with nodejs - Building an MVC site

by Gilly Barr

Getting started with nodejs.

Getting Started With Windows Phone Development

by Madhur Kapoor

I started developing application for the Windows Phone platform a few months ago. There are a lot of things i learned along the way and i want to share all that with you through a series of blog posts. In the current post, we will focus on the basic and will develop a very simple […]

Getting to Grips with a Windows Phone 7

by Nathan Gloyn

My thoughts on my new Windows Phone 7

Getting WPF SizeChanged Events at Start-up when Using MVVM and DataContext

by PeteBarber

It is critically important to make sure that a View's DataContext is properly created and attached before the underlying Window is displayed, otherwise initial events will be missed.

Git Quick Reference: Interactive Patch Staging with git add -p

by John Atten

Interactive patch staging with Git add -p.

Git Subtree Merge –The Quick Version

by John Atten

Here is the quick version of Git Subtree Merge

Git: Interactively Stage Portions of a Single Changed File for Commit Using git add -p

by John Atten

Interactively stage portions of a single changed file for Commit using git add -p.

Give your tests mutant powers with PIT [Part 1]

by Bobby Lough

Mutation Testing is amazing. Start doing it with PIT to test your tests. The cost of poor quality is too great to ignore.

Give Your Tests Mutant Powers with PIT [Part 2]

by Bobby Lough

Give your tests mutant powers with PIT [Part 2]

Giving Back: An Open Source Initiative

by Zac Gery

An Open Source initiative.

Global Exceptions Handling in WPF

by EngineerSpock

Global exceptions handling in WPF

Global.asax in ASP.NET

by Sebastian Solnica

The Global.asax file and its role in ASP.NET applications

Goodbye jQuery Templates, Hello JsRender

by Steve Wellens

jQuery Templates have been discontinued. The new pretender to the throne is JsRender.

Google and Bing Map APIs Compared

by Steve Wellens

At one of the local golf courses I frequent, there is an open grass field next to the course. It is about eight acres in size and mowed regularly. It is permissible to hit golf balls there—you bring and shag our own balls.

Google Code Upload Utility

by Rick Bassham

A utility written in C# that you can use to upload files to a code.google.com project

Google Static Maps HTML Helper

by Buaziz

creating an MVC HTML Helper for Google Maps

Gotcha #1167: Quoted Identifiers in Oracle

by MBigglesworth79

Quoted identifiers appear to be causing more problems and confusion than they are worth; not least the potential creation of "duplicate" column names.

GPGPU Performance Tests

by John Michael Hauck

Some ad hoc performance test results for a simple program written in C# as obtained from my current desktop computer: Dell Precision T3600, 16GB RAM, Intel Xeon E5-2665 0 @ 2.40GHz, NVidia GTX Titan.

Grails Design Best Practices

by TechMyTalk

This article explains the usage and best practices around Grails.

Grammars: theory vs. practice

by Qwertie

I decided to write this post to help people understand the theoretical representation of grammars.

Grant Access to your Assembly from COM Objects

by Abhishek Sur

Make your class library COM visible using few simple steps

Griffin.Container: Introducing the Command Support

by jgauffin

Griffin.Container: Introducing the Command Support

Griffin.Framework – Performant Networking in .NET

by jgauffin

Griffin.Framework – Performant networking in .NET

Griffin.Yo – Easy SPA Library Written in TypeScript

by jgauffin

A minimal SPA library written in TypeScript that has no dependencies at all.

Grooveshark API Tutorial .NET Code

by Anton Angelov

Grooveshark makes available methods for accessing and interacting with Grooveshark data. All methods require a web services key and you must sign your requests with a secret key.

Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: Cryptographic Helpers

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This post is intended to demonstrate the cryptographic functions in Mono environment. Hashing the passwords and encryption decryption has been talked here.

Guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu: Graphical applications using Windows Forms

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this episode I am going to talk about using graphical applications in Mono. The graphical framework to use would be Windows Forms.

Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: Language Quickies

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is the second part of the series of articles for Ubuntu programming using C#. In this, I am talking about the quick tools and helpful features provided by MonoDevelop for C# programmers.

Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: MonoProject Introduction

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is the first part in the series of posts about Ubuntu programming using C# language. In this post, I have discussed a few features of MonoProject IDE, which is used for C# programming on Ubuntu environment.

Guide For Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: NuGet Packages

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post version, I have talked about NuGet packages and their management in Mono environment.

Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: Project Files and Output

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This short post is about the project files that are created when a new project is created using a template provided in MonoDevelop.

Guide to Creating Dynamic LINQ Queries

by Raymund Macaalay

How to create dynamic LINQ queries.

Guided Access - The Little Feature With Big Possibilities

by Zac Gery

This built-in feature provides lock down controls for an app.

Hack that GUID

by Mehdi Khalili

How to hack GUIDs

Hands on Lab for Key Features Used in Silverlight/WPF Projects

by ManojKumar19

Hands on Lab for MVVM, Value Converter, XAML Binding, Delegate Command pattern, INotifyPropertyChange, Lambda Expression, LINQ etc. in Silverlight/WPF project

Hashing Passwords in .NET Core with Tips

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I talk about hashing the passwords in .NET Core.

Hello World, WinRT !

by Jeremy Alles

In this post, I’m sharing the aspects I discovered while trying to port a project from Windows Phone to WinRT.

Helpful Extension Methods for Show / Hide Animations in Silverlight

by Colin Eberhardt

Today's blog post is a couple of very simple utility methods that I have found myself using again and again ...

Hex strings to raw data and back

by Orjan Westin

Converting any contents of a memory buffer into a hexadecimal string and back

Highlight Data in jqplot Chart

by zoyobar

How to highlight data in a jqplot chart.

Hints For Arranging Usings in Visual Studio Efficiently

by Anton Angelov

This post gives some hints for arranging usings in Visual Studio efficiently.

Hiring Developers: How to Avoid Buyer's Remorse

by Zac Gery

About hiring developers.

HoloLens Development using Visual Studio 2015 and Unity HoloLens Technical Preview

by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

This post is a tutorial that is complimentary to the session I did, demonstrating the steps of how a simple holographic application can be built and deployed in the HoloLens emulator.

Host WCF as Windows Service without Installing

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to host WCF as a Windows service (without using a web project) and how to code it so that you can test interactively without installing the service.

How and Why to Avoid Excessive Nesting

by Dev Leader

How and why to avoid excessive nesting.

How do I post a populated model back to a controller in MVC?

by levelnis

Article discussing how to handle posted data in an MVC controller action by using commands and handlers

How Do You Display WebAPI Model Errors in MVC?

by levelnis

How do you display WebAPI model errors in MVC?

How Do You Post to a Web API Controller from an MVC Controller?

by levelnis

How do you post to a Web API controller from an MVC controller?

How Do You Structure Your Singletons?

by Dev Leader

How to structure your Singletons.

How Good Programmers Get It Done

by Zac Gery

The difference between an average and good developer is time management.

How Intelligent is Your Business Intelligence?

by JasonDove

This is the number one recurring mistake I have seen consulting and pops its ugly head up time and again across all business sectors, reporting software, and methodologies.

How Many Defects Are There?

by rtybase

The number of defects (on average) produced during a software elaboration project.

How security is very much like MMA

by GarethI

It occurred to me after following the most recent UFC MMA (via the web blogs rather than PPV as I’m still too cheap!) that security and MMA have a lot in common. More precisely the fighters in a stable as very similar to security algorithms or process.

How speedy.js is Your Web Site?

by Cybermaxs

How speedy.js is your web site?

How to Access Manifest (Embedded) Resources from an Assembly in a WinRT Application

by rajendran_sp

How to access a simple XML file embedded in the WinRT assembly

How to Add Lazy Loading to Dapper

by wullinkm

How to implement lazy loading when you are using Dapper

How to Add PostSharp to Your C# Project in 60 Seconds (a Simple AOP Introduction)

by StevenHollidge

Simple and brief introduction to PostSharp and AOP style logging and monitoring

How to Avoid 26 API Requests On Your Page?

by Cybermaxs

How to avoid 26 API requests on your page

How to Balance Project Agility and Predicitability

by Dynms

Balancing project agility and predicitability.

How to build a .NET binding in C# for a web API

by Pragmateek

This article will give you more concrete information, mainly source code, if you need to implement a web API binding in .NET using the C# language.

How to build a Java binding for a web API

by Pragmateek

This article will give you more concrete information, mainly source code, if you need to implement a web API binding in Java.

How to build a language binding for a web API

by Pragmateek

This article describes the general principles, without diving too deeply into technical details that would be specific to a given platform.

How to Build a Simple Toast Notification in #UWP Apps? (Part 1)

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 1)

How to Build a Simple Toast Notification in #UWP Apps? (Part 2, integrating buttons)

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 2)

How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View Inside Blend and Visual Studio?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend

How to Check How Many Writes Are Done While You Build

by Arik Poznanski

How you can measure how many read and writes (in bytes) your build takes.

How to Choose between IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and Control while Implementing a Class

by atverma

Criteria behind choosing IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and base Control classes(System.Windows.Form.Control and System.Web.UI.Control) while implementing a Class

How to Close pop-ups Upon Main Window Closure or Logout

by morzel

If you think you can just keep references to popups in an array… think again.

How to Close the Browser Window from a Silverlight Application

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

If you are developing a secured site and want to close the browser window just after the user logs out from the application, this small tip will help you.

How to Combat Web Browsing Zombies

by Zac Gery

Curing web zombies can be a challenge but it is a worthy cause.

How to Compose SMS in WP7 using the SmsComposeTask?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

SmsComposeTask of the WP7 SDK can be used to create SMS from code.

How to Compress Files in Metro Style Applications

by rajendran_sp

How to use the ZipArchive class in a Metro style app to compress a set of files and save the compressed file to a particular location.

How to configure and use Entity Framework

by Libish Varghese Jacob

Configuring and using Entity Framework 4.1 for my Open Source project.

How to Connect ASP.NET Website to Remote Database for CRUD Operations

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

An overview for connecting an ASP.NET website or a web application to a remote SQL Server database

How to Convert a Fraction to a Decimal

by ledtech3

Converting a fraction to a decimal

How To Convert Date Time to “X minutes ago” in jQuery

by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to convert date time to "X minutes ago" in jQuery

How to Convert Your Old Sequential Code in to async

by Bahrudin Hrnjica

How to convert your old sequential code in to async

How to create a JSON WCF RESTful Service in 60 seconds

by StevenHollidge

How to expose JSON data over a RESTful interface.

How to Create a Logfile Viewer in 15 Minutes

by Alexander Golde

This post will show you how to create a Logfile viewer in 15 minutes.

How to create an animated expander

by jmix90

The expander control can be used in a lot of situations but the one proposed by default is quite "rigid".

How to Create an Area in ASP.NET MVC Application

by Arun Endapally

This post shows how to create an area in ASP.NET MVC application

How to Create Multilingual User Experience in SharePoint 2010

by Khurram Punjwani

How to create multilingual user experience in SharePoint 2010

How to Customize the New Item Form to Take Parameters from Query String in SharePoint 2010

by Melick

Explains how to customize the New Item form to get parameters from the query string in SharePoint 2010

How to Debug in IE on a Mac

by AlexTatiyants

Here's how to configure a Mac to debug web sites in IE

How to Design a Custom Control by Editing the Part Template?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This is a continuation to my previous post "How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight".

How To Do Your Project Estimations!

by Mukit, Ataul

How to do your project estimations!

How to enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

How to Ensure Images are Loaded Before Rendering Them

by Aniruddha Loya

Receiving INDEX_SIZE_ERR: DOM Exception 1 in HTML5 drawImage() function - Here is a small trick that helps to make sure that images are loaded before being rendered.

How to execute a Local File using HTML Application?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to execute a Local File using HTML Application?

How To Find All Child Controls From a Starting Control or Form

by Adam Zuckerman

Here's a post on how to find all child controls from a starting control or form

How to Fix Orphaned SQL Users

by Tharaka MTR

This post will show you how to fix orphaned SQL users.

How to Get Internet Explorer 8 to Support HTML5 Tags and Web Fonts

by AlexTatiyants

Though support for modern standards is limited in IE8, it's not impossible. Here's how to add support for HTML5 elements and web fonts.

How to Get Started in Computer Programming?

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

I was compiling a few things I would recommend to every beginner in computer programming. Here it is.

How to get the length (duration) of a media File in C# on Windows 7

by Williarob

If you have ever looked at a media file (audio or video) in explorer on a Windows 7 PC, you may have noticed that it displays additional information about that media file that previous versions of Windows didn't seem to have access to, for example the length/duration of a Quicktime Movie Clip.

How To Get Your Identity Tokens

by Gordon Beeming

How to get your identity tokens

How to Handle Errors in ASP.NET MVC

by jgauffin

With this post, I’ll show how you can use the built-in features in MVC to handle errors.

How to Handle Multiple Submit Buttons on a Form With Data Attributes

by levelnis

How to handle multiple Submit buttons on a form with data attributes

How to Handle Transactions in ASP.NET MVC3

by jgauffin

How to handle transactions in ASP.NET MVC3

How to host multiple isolated WCF services within a single Windows service with zero App.config

by StevenHollidge

How to host multiple isolated WCF services within a single Windows service with zero App.config

How to Implement a DependencyProperty?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

A DependencyProperty is set to enable declarative code to alter the properties of an object which reduces the data requirements by providing a more powerful notification system regarding the change of data in a very specific way.

How to Install the Latest Mac OS X Lion Virtual Machine on Windows Server 2008/Windows 7

by Eric Xue (brokensnow)

20 mins installation guide in order to get you with a Mac OS X Lion VM in no time

How to Link Two Lists and Create a Combined Ciew in SharePoint 2010

by Melick

How to join multiple lists together and create a combined View.

How to Make a Perfect Web 2.0 Close Button using Photoshop CS4

by Ashish Kaila

A perfect Web 2.0 close button using Photoshop CS4

How To Make Exception Reporting in log4net Awesome

by jgauffin

How to make exception reporting in log4net awesome

How to Multicast messages with SQL Server Service Broker

by rusanu

How to Multicast messages with SQL Server Service Broker

How To Obtain a Random Sub-datatable from Another Datatable

by Nicolas Brassard

How to get a random subset of data from a DataTable

How To Play Audio Files in Xamarin.Forms

by Junian Triajianto

Play any audio files by using DependencyService with MediaPlayer for Android and AVAudioPlayer for iOS

How to Preserve State Across Pages in a Windows 8 App

by BillOsuch

How to preserve state across pages in a Windows 8 app

How to Programmatically Set a Value of a Watermarked TextBox via JavaScript - Update

by Alexander Turlov

How to programmatically set a value of a watermarked TextBox via JavaScript

How to Read Twitter Feeds With LINQ to XML

by merlin981

Twitter feeds are provided in RSS XML format. This makes it very easy for us to parse out the information we want from a feed using LINQ to XML.

How to release an unmanaged library loaded into managed .NET code

by voloda2

Explains how to release an unmanaged library loaded into managed .NET code

How to Render MVC View on a Modal Popup Window

by Raymund Macaalay

How to render MVC view on a Modal popup window

How to Retrieve a Phone Number from Contacts in WP7 using the PhoneNumberChooserTask?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How can you programmatically retrieve a phone number from an existing contact list?

How to Retrieve Contact Information in WP7 using the AddressChooserTask?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this small post, we will learn how to retrieve saved contacts in WP7 using the Windows Phone 7 SDK APIs.

How to Retrieve Email Address in WP7 using the EmailAddressChooserTask?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to retrieve an email address from a contact list with a simple example (including the internal implementation of the API).

How to Retrieve the File Size Used by a SQL Server Database on Hard Disk

by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to retrieve the size of data files of all databases present in SQL Server and the actual amount used in these files.

How to Return Random Rows Efficiently in SQL Server

by Nadeem Afana

Illustrates an efficient method of returning random rows from a SQL Server database

How to Reuse Template Parts

by Athar Raza Faridi

How to reuse Template Parts in InfoPath.

How to run NUnit tests in Visual Studio 2010/MSTest

by James Treworgy

Debug tests from directly within your project.

How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This post will allow you to understand the API of Windows Phone 7 SDK. In this post, we will learn about SaveEmailAddressTask class and its API with a simple demo.

How to Save Phone Number in WP7 using the SavePhoneNumberTask?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This small post will help you to understand the basics about the SavePhoneNumberTask API and details about the implementation stuff with step-by-step details.

How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts Class?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to programmatically search for a specific contact in WP7?

How to Select All Text in a TextBox on focus?

by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

How to select all text in a textbox on focus

How to Serialize/Deserialize Objects Programatically?

by Gaurav Aroraa

How to Serialize/Deserialize objects programatically?

How To Set Elements Of An Array Of A Private Type Using Visual Studio Shadows

by Paulo Morgado

How To Set Elements Of An Array Of A Private Type Using Visual Studio Shadows

How to set up Sublime Text command line on OSX ? – Quick Tip

by 10xlearner

Last week, I had to reinstall all the tools I use on a new computer, since the previous one passed away .

How to Set View Level Permissions Out of the Box in SharePoint 2010

by Khurram Punjwani

How to set view level permissions out of the box in SharePoint 2010

How To Share Data Among Different Web Pages Using ASP.NET

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

How to share data among different web pages using ASP.NET

How to Share Links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to share links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask?

How to Show Hide Navigation Bar When Tap in iOS Occurs

by Perjan

A quick tip that will show you how to show hide Navigation Bar when tap in iOS occurs

How to sign C++/CLI assemblies with a strong name

by Inaki Ayucar

Learn how to sign C++/CLI assemblies with a strong name.

How to Solve SSIS Error Code 0xC020801C/0xC004700C/0xC0047017

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

This post shows you how to solve SSIS Error Code 0xC020801C/0xC004700C/0xC0047017

How to Sort Date and/or Time in JavaScript

by RobNO

How to sort Date and/or Time in JavaScript

How to sort View List DropDown in SharePoint 2010

by Raymund Macaalay

How to sort the listviews you have created in SharePoint.

How to Store Custom Objects in web.config

by Brij

How to store custom objects in web.config

How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010

by atverma

How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010

How to Troubleshoot TFS Build Server Failure

by Tarun_Arora

Troubleshooting TFS Build Server failures.

How to unit test SQL Server 2008 database using Visual Studio 2010

by atverma

In this article I’ll discuss about unit testing SQL Server 2008 Database project using Visual Studio 2010.

How to Unit Test SQL Server 2008 Database Using Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2

by atverma

In this article I will explore the important features that can be configured to build comprehensive database unit tests.

How to unit test SQL Server 2008 database using Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3

by atverma

This is the last article of the series “How to unit test SQL Server 2008 database using Visual Studio 2010”.

How to Update a Table with a columnstore Index

by rusanu

A technique to make tables with columnstore indexes updateable

How to use a MVC area in multiple applications

by Arun Endapally

ASP.NET MVC Areas can be very useful not only for organizing code or separating an application into smaller modules but also we can reuse the same area in multiple applications.

How to Use columnstore Indexes in SQL Server

by rusanu

A very simplified explanation of how column store indexes can be used

How to Use Computed or Calculated Columns

by Dave C Andrews

You can have your tables make computations themselves, without running through a view.

How to Use CORS Requests in Internet Explorer 9 and Below

by jgauffin

This article explains how you can automatically proxy CORS requests in jQuery without changing your existing code.

How to use CPU instructions in C# to gain performace

by Adnan Boz

How to use CPU instructions in C# to gain performace

How to Use LINQ GroupBy

by merlin981

How to use the LINQ GroupBy feature.

How to Use MVC.Net on the Dynamics NAV Database Structure

by Dynms

How you can use the Entity Framework in an MVC.Net web application with Dynamics NAV.

How to Use Pex and Moles to Generate Unit Tests for a Project Having External Dependency (WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1

by atverma

Writing unit tests using Pex and Moles

How to Use ROW_NUMBER() to Enumerate and Partition Records in SQL Server

by Dave C Andrews

Use ROW_NUMBER() to enumerate and partition records in SQL Server

How to Use Tessnet2 Library

by saramgsilva

This article aims to show how to use the Tessnet2 library.

How To Use UIScrollView in Your iPhone App

by MobileAppMastery

This video will show you how to implement this in your own iPhone app.

How to Wrap a C# Library for Use in Java

by Duc Huy Nguyen

Wrap a C# library for use in Java, a folktale about an idiot coding at midnight.

How to: Create a Date Picker Composite Control in ASP.NET (C#)

by Salmanzz

How to create a Date Picker Composite Control in ASP.NET (C#)

How To: Get Started with XPG

by XPG Live

A walk through of using all of the features XPG Live has to offer

How To: Initialize a Game on Android with XPG

by XPG Live

How to initialize a game on Android with XPG

How To: Initialize a game on BlackBerry with XPG

by XPG Live

This is a continuation of the How To series. The first post is here.

How To: Initialize a Game on iOS (iPhone/iPad) with XPG

by XPG Live

How to initialize a game on iOS (iPhone/iPad) with XPG

How To: Initialize a Game on Windows Phone with XPG

by XPG Live

Initialize a game on Windows Phone with XPG

How To: Make XAML Content Globalizable When Using Value Converters

by Paulo Morgado

How to make XAML Content Globalizable when using value converters

How To: Use Leaderboards on Android with XPG

by XPG Live

This post discusses how to use Leaderboards on Android with XPG.

How To: Use Leaderboards on BlackBerry with XPG

by XPG Live

This post will cover leaderboard types and setup, accessing leaderboards in game, posting a score to a leaderboard, retrieving scores from a leaderboard.

How To: Use Leaderboards on iOS (iPhone/iPad) with XPG

by XPG Live

Use leaderboards on iOS (iPhone/iPad) with XPG

How To: Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

by XPG Live

Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

How Your Personality Type Affects Your Development

by Tom Janssens

How personality types are related to development....

HTML5 Games 101 - An Introductory Tutorial to HTML5 Games

by Aniruddha Loya

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the basic features of HTML5 and get the simple game of Snake up and ready within a couple of hours, even if you are a beginner.

HTML5: The New Frontier

by stephen.vaubell

The intention of this post is to look at the changes in HTML5

HTTP 500 – Internal server error

by Sandeep Mewara

Possible resolutions.

HTTP Live Streaming - Videos On Demand (HLS - VOD)

by NSProgrammer

Videos on demand.

HTTPS Communication in WCF using Self-sign Certificate

by Md. Rashim Uddin

HTTPS Communication in WCF

Human Brain vs. Robotic Brain

by Nitin Singh India

As IT's capabilities grow, so our own brain's capability and singularity would never arrive.

HW'in it with FubuMVC

by Artem Smirnov

A few tricks in using FubuMVC

I Hate My Code

by Ronnie Mukherjee

I hate my code

IIFE – Immediately Invoked Function Expressions

by Dheeraj Kumar Kesri

An in-depth guide on Immediately invoked function expressions in JavaScript.

IIS 7 deployment: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET

by Monjurul Habib

How to: ASP.NET 4.0 Routing and Ext.NET.

IIS Deployment Error: There is a Duplicate scriptResourceHandler Section Defined

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

How to fix this IIS deployment error

Image ActionLink HTML Helper in ASP.NET MVC

by Ehsan Sajjad

Image ActionLink HTML helper in ASP.NET MVC

Image in C#: Save, Resize, and Convert to Binary

by Duy H. Thai

Some frequently-used methods for image handling in .NET

Image Thinning Using R

by Jake Drew

Image thinning using R.

Implement Accelerators in a Dialog-Based Application

by Jonathan Wood

Getting accelerators to work in a dialog box.

Implement Facebook login with OpenID Selector

by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Implement Facebook login with OpenID selector.

Implement Facebook Login with OpenID Selector in MVC3

by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

How to use the OpenId selector tool in an ASP.NET MVC3 application

Implement Jquery.tmpl (template) with KnockoutJS, ASP.NET MVC 3

by Neeraj Kaushik1980

Implementing Jquery.tmpl (template) with KnockoutJS, ASP.NET MVC 3.

Implement Search Screen using knockoutjs, jQuery, and ASP.NET MVC3

by Neeraj Kaushik1980

This article demonstrates implementation of knockoutjs observable viewmodel with jquery and ASP.NET MVC 3 and how to bind viewmodel with HTML controls.

Implementation of FIX messages for Fix 5.0 sp2 and FIXT1.1 specification

by Neeraj Kaushik1980

This post will demonstrate how to connect with FIX5.0 server and FIXT1.1 specification and uses of QuickFix/n (native .NET FIX engine).

Implementing a Dead Simple Licensing Library with PostSharp

by emiaj

Hello everyone, had been a long time from my last post (as usual, been busy busy busy). Today I want to talk about something that for most .Net developers is unknown but has been in the development industry a long time ago. I’m talking about Aspect Oriented Programming - AOP.

Implementing a Document Database Engine using #liveDB in Less than 30 Minutes?

by Robert Friberg

Implementing a Document Database Engine using #liveDB in less than 30 minutes

Implementing a Sandbox Proxy in SharePoint 2010

by PratapReddyP

How to implement a Sandbox proxy in SharePoint 2010.

Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged

by Arun Jacob

This article shows how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged.

Implementing J-Query Model Popup Plug-In and Playing FLV File in a Model Popup

by kiran dangar

How to implement jQuery Model Popup plug-in and playing FLV file in a model popup

Implementing Repository Pattern with EF4 POCO support

by Morshed Anwar

Implementing Repository Pattern with EF4 POCO support.

Implementing the GeoCoordinateWatcher as a Reactive Service

by Paulo Morgado

With Rx, events are first class citizens that can be passed around and composed as needed in a very simple way.

Implementing Word Wrap in C#

by Jonathan Wood

Implementing word wrap in C#.

Improve Code Clarity with Typedef

by Paul M Watt

How to improve code clarity with Typedef

Improve Productivity using Visual Studio 2012 Default Browser Switcher

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to improve productivity using Visual Studio 2012 default browser switcher

Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to Improve Productivity

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to improve productivity

Improved WordPress performance with Phalanger

by Jakub Míšek

Update: Latest benchmarks are depicted on Benchmarks page. One of the reasons why you may be interested in using Phalanger is that you need to run your PHP applications faster. Phalanger is a PHP language compiler for .NET. It is … Continue reading →

Improving LINQ Code Reusability: Select Method

by Rui Jarimba

A simple approach that will allow you to reuse the code used in the Select method

In Memory Data Access, A Methodology to Simplify Agile Development

by Giorgio Bozio

A methodology to simplify Agile development

Include JavaScript files safely

by Cruz Boon

How to include JavaScript files safely.

Include Stylesheets and Scripts From A WebControl In MVC

by webdev_hb

Have you ever created a WebControl in MVC and though “Gee, it sure would be nice if I could add a stylesheet/script to the header of my page.” It’s not as easy as it used to be. This post goes over some code that can help you bridge that gap.

Inline Functions Are Great!

by Martin Thwaites

A simple use for a new(ish) feature in .NET

Inside a 'LINQ to SQL classes' file

by Duy H. Thai

Explore the essence of an 'LTS classes' file, the classes it generates, and how it connects the object model to the database model...

Inside Groovy

by Issam Lahlali

Let’s go inside Groovy to discover how it works internally.

Install Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu

by John Atten

Install Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu.

Install Windows 8 from a Rusty 256 MB USB Stick

by marcofranssen

Install Windows 8 from a rusty 256 MB USB stick

Installing .NET 3.5 service pack 1 along with application setup

by Harsh Baid

Installing .NET 3.5 service pack 1 along with application setup.

Installing and setting up R environment on Windows

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post I am going to walk you through installing and setting up the R environment on your Windows operating system; because Visual Studio is only available on Windows.

Installing MINIX 3 on QEMU/KVM with Networking

by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

Installing MINIX 3 on QEMU/KVM with networking

Integrate Jenkins with MSBuild and NuGet

by Anton Angelov

The next logical step in your build will be to build your solution or projects. I will guide you how to do it via MSBuild as build engine and NuGet for downloading the necessary packages.

Integrating SAP Web Services into Microsoft .NET Environments

by WolfiG

An implementation which enables the end user to choose a Services Registry backend at runtime

Intercept a raw SOAP message

by Girish J Jain

How to intercept a raw SOAP message.

Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)

by loki2302

The smaller an interface is, the better it is.

Interfaces

by deostroll

A trivial demonstration of Interface Usage

Interfaces Walkthrough

by DotNetForAll

Interfaces walkthrough

Internet Explorer 10 User Agent Strings On Windows 8 64bit

by Paulo Morgado

Internet Explorer 10 User Agent Strings On Windows 8 64bit

Into and Let in LINQ (Let vs. Into)

by Pranay Rana

In this post, I am going to show two keywords in C# 3.0 which are very helpful when playing with a set of object collections using LINQ.

Introducing .NET C# Inversion Of Control and Microsoft Unity Hands-On Lab

by voloda2

Introducing .NET C# inversion of control and Microsoft Unity hands on lab

Introducing Advanced Messaging

by Ruben Rotteveel

Advanced messaging is taking off, judging by the list of large companies embracing this technology, I'd say that AMQP is here to stay and it's time to get familiar with it.

Introducing griffin.editor – A jQuery textarea Plugin

by jgauffin

Introducing griffin.editor – A jQuery textarea Plugin

Introducing Hiro, the World's Fastest IOC Container, Part I: Design Diary

by Philip Laureano

A look into the design of a statically precompiled IOC container that performs as fast as an application without an IOC container.

Introducing Relax Accordion: Accordion with drag-and-drop and callback functionality

by danielthesolver

Relax accordion was made using jQuery and some jQuery UI components, the sortable library and the droppable library.

Introduction to ASP.NET Validation

by Dhanushka Madushan lk

Client side validation using JavaScript and server side validation using C# and validation server controls with simple examples

Introduction To Axis And Grid Of jqplot Chart

by zoyobar

jqplot, the axis and grid of the chart can be easily set

Introduction to Basic Properties of jqplot Chart

by zoyobar

Introduction to Basic Properties of jqplot Chart

Introduction to Branching by Quality [Branching-Merging Techniques]

by Tarun_Arora

Branch by Quality is one of the most popular branching patterns used, and can serve as a base pattern for more complex branch strategies.

Introduction to Munq IOC Container for ASP.NET

by Matthew Dennis

This is the first in a series of articles about using the Munq DI IOC Container and IOC containers in general.

Introduction to Swift

by Madhur Kapoor

Introduction to Swift

Introduction to the Basic Properties Of JQueryElement

by zoyobar

Introduction to the basic properties Of JQueryElement

Introduction To Title Legend And Series Of jqplot Chart

by zoyobar

Introduction To Title Legend And Series Of jqplot Chart

Introduction to TypeScript Language and Tooling

by Keyhole Software

An introduction to TypeScript Language and Tooling.

Introduction to Windows Phone Programming: Part 1

by Joel Ivory Johnson

This is the first part of a multi-part blog post on developing for Windows Phone 7. In this post, I introduce the new operating system and start with XNA programming.

Introduction to Windows Phone Programming: Part 2

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Continuation of a blog post on Windows Phone 7 programming. This part covers playing sounds using XNA

Inversion of Control Containers – Best Practices

by jgauffin

A set of best practices helping you to get the most out of your container

Invoke a Custom Method when Crystal Report Viewers’ Print Button is Clicked / Add Custom Button to Crystal Report Viewer Toolbar

by Manjuke Fernando

How to invoke a method in our client application when the print button of the report viewer is clicked

Invoke Command/Queries in the Browser, Execute Them in your App

by jgauffin

I've created a small sample project which demonstrates how you can invoke a query using JavaScript (and execute them in your server).

Invoke Google from within VS 2008

by Ashish Sheth

Invoking Google from within VS 2008

iPad Installed iOS5 beta 7 OTA Stuck in Recovery Mode [FIX]

by John Y.

Here is the fix if you attempted to update your iPad OTA to iOS 5 beta 7.

iPhone Tutorial – In-App Email

by User 1556233

Sending an email from your iPhone application is something which you normally want to do it asynchronously. But unfortunately, prior to iPhone 3.0, the only way to send email was using mailto:// url format. i.e, [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: @"mailto:john.appleseed@appl

IQueryable vs. IEnumerable in terms of LINQ to SQL queries

by Pranay Rana

Difference between IQueryable and IEnumerable in terms of LINQ to SQL queries.

IronPython: A Quick WinForms Introduction

by Dev Leader

IronPython: A quick WinForms introduction

Is Duck Typing a Type System, or a Way of Thinking?

by John Atten

Ok, so there is what might be my first-ever "link bait" title. Especially dangerous because I am about to jump into a discussion propagated by some well-known, highly-respected developers against whom my own self-taught, inexperienced knowledge pales.

Is software development too complex today ?

by Chris Boss

Today's development tools are becoming so complex that it makes one wonder, what has happened to software development.

Is there a better way?

by Andrew Zwicker

Do you find yourself or others doing repetitive tasks? The solution – automate if possible.

Is there value in attending Build?

by Zac Gery

Is there value in attending Build?

Is there value in attending TechEd?

by Zac Gery

The short answer is, "Yes."

IsCrossPagePostBack: Cross page PostBack

by Brij

How to make use of the IsCrossPagePostBack property.

It’s Our Code

by Dev Leader

A discussion about who owns the code

iTextSharp running on Compact Framework – Windows Mobile

by hjgode

iTextSharp ported to Compact Framework

J2EE - NetBeans, JSF, Persistence API - Part 3

by hoonzis

How to extend the detail page of a company by adding a list of products of the company and a drop down list box, which will allow a user to add a new product to the list of the products of the company.

J2EE JDBC Based Authentication With JPA Entities in Glassfish

by Marek Piechut

How to do J2EE JDBC based authentication with JPA Entities in Glassfish

Java 7 listen for file/directory change

by Marek Piechut

WatchService allows us to listen to changes in a directory without any pooling.

Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited (or, a closer examination of a flawed mechanism)

by John Atten

This post is a re-examination of some topics I discuss in an older post.

Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited Part II

by John Atten

Checked exceptions in Java.

JavaScript and Server Controls 101

by Jeremy Likness

A brief discussion of how to bind JavaScript to custom server/ASP.NET Controls using the AJAX client control model.

JavaScript and User Controls 101

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to best embed/associate JavaScript with ASP.NET user controls

Javascript Dictionary

by Brij

Javascript Dictionary

JavaScript Frameworks and Resources

by Tharaka MTR

JavaScript frameworks and resources

JavaScript Looping Through Object Properties

by DevAffair

Looping through JSON object properties in JavaScript.

JavaScript Primitive & Reference Types

by Jin Vincent Necesario

Builtin types of JavaScript and difference between primitive and reference types

JavaScript Supports Four Types of Basic Data Structures

by Gerd Wagner

The four types of basic data structures supported by JavaScript are: array lists, maps, records and JSON tables.

JavaScript var Hoisting

by joseph donley

var hoisting in JavaScript

JavaScript: The Good and The Bad

by Dheeraj Kumar Kesri

A comprehensive post on why JavaScript is an awesome language and why JavaScript is horrible at times

JavascriptHelper–Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC

by James Curran

Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC.

Jenkins Get Source Code By Specific TFS Changeset

by Anton Angelov

Shows how to create a Jenkins Job that gets the source code by specific changeset number. Uses a parameter to run the job in two modes.

jqGrid Quick Tips

by AlexCode

jqGrid quick tips

jQuery AJAX and HttpHandlers in ASP.NET

by Ravi_Baghel

In this article, we will see how we can make use of the jQuery library to make AJAX calls in ASP.NET with the help of HttpHandlers.

jQuery Alert Popup

by jqwidgets

How to implement a simple Alert popup window which you can use instead of the standard JavaScript alert

jQuery IntelliSense with ASP.NET MVC and the Razor View Engine

by TheyCallMeMrJames

Implementing jQuery IntelliSense with ASP.NET MVC and the Razor View Engine.

jQuery Localized Confirmation Box

by Christopher John Paul

A localized confirmation box in jQuery

jQuery Menu with Separator Items

by jqwidgets

In this post, we will see how to add separator menu items to a Menu widget for jQuery.

jQuery Selector Tester and Cheat Sheet

by Steve Wellens

I've always appreciated these tools: Expresso and XPath Builder. They make designing regular expressions and XPath selectors almost fun! Did I say fun? I meant less painful.

jQuery Snippet to Detect Keystrokes on the Numeric key-pad

by Nizar Noorani

The below jQuery snippet returns the character corresponding to the key that was pressed on the QWERTY keyboard or the numeric key-pad.

jQuery Tree with Checkboxes

by jqwidgets

How to add a jQuery Tree with Checkboxes to your web page

jQuery UI Autocomplete with ID

by AlexCode

The jQuery UI auto-complete widget is great; it just works, and is very easy to customize.

jQuery UI: Samples have redundant code

by Kristofer Kallsbo

Watch out for redundant code in jQuery code samples.

jQuery Validate and Jeditable, Part 1

by James Kolpack

jQuery Validate and Jeditable

jQuery Validate and Jeditable, Part 2

by James Kolpack

jQuery Validate and Jeditable

jQuery: Effects/Methods

by Himanshu DS

Methods or effects available in jQuery

JSON Object Code Example

by DevAffair

An example to demonstrate the power and accessibility JSON offers to developers.

JsonR(aw): Lightweight JSON Protocol

by Robert Hoffmann

Lightweight JSON protocol proposal

jsoup HTML parser and parsing DZone links using CSS selectors in Java

by AshwinRayaprolu

Retrieving descriptions of all links in DZone using jsoup.

Just Attach

by S. Senthil Kumar

JustAttach – a macro that finds out the output file path of the startup project of your solution and automatically attaches to it.

Keep Your Fields Private

by Dev Leader

Ever since I can remember, I've always been told to keep fields private.

Keep Your Views Clean with Display Templates

by levelnis

In this post, we'll discuss how display templates can simplify our view logic.

Keep Your Website Alive (Don’t Let IIS Recycle Your Website)!

by webdev_hb

IIS can be a bully to your poor web application and when you're in a hosted environment you have even less control. In this post we discuss how we can keep your website from being recycled and do it without needing external code!

Keeping It Focused

by Pete O'Hanlon

The solution to a problem that was posted on CodeProject

Keyboard Input and TAB Navigation Between WPF Controls in a Win32 Application

by Marius Bancila

I will show how to provide keyboard input for WPF controls hosted in a Win32 applications.

KeyToggleStart: Yet Another Usage for Keyboard Hook

by hjgode

How to start an application by just hitting some keys in sequence? The answer: Just use a keyboard hook.

Kinect and WPF: Complete body tracking

by Vangos Pterneas

Complete body tracking in Kinect.

Knockout Style Observables in XAML

by Daniel Vaughan

Implementing field level change notification in WPF, and how a Lambda Expression can be used to specify a composite property that raises change notifications automatically whenever an associated property changes.

KnockoutJS and Google Maps Binding

by hoonzis

Integrating Google Maps and KnockoutJS

Lambda Expression in C# 3.0

by Shakeel Iqbal

Lambda Expression is one of the best features of C# 3.0

Lambdas: An Example in Refactoring Code

by Dev Leader

An example in refactoring code.

Lan Sleep/Wake Up Tool

by SQLServerIO

A little GUI tool to manage your Windows boxes, waking them up or putting them to sleep.

LeakMon :- Part 2 Under the hood

by Naveen

Explains how Leakmon is able to track down all the resource leaks

Learn design patterns from real projects: JBoss case study (Part 1).

by Issam Lahlali

In this first part the goal is to discover the creational patterns used by JBoss.

Learn How to Make ES6 Promises with Executable Examples

by Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

While many new JavaScript features of ES6 (=ES2015) are still (in 2016!) not available in all important web browsers, the promising new feature of a JavaScript "promise" has arrived. This tutorial shows how to use it.

Learning continuously and getting better

by Betclic Tech

Only by setting in place a culture of learning can we hope to really get better. Teams that learn continuously are more adaptive, ready to tackle new projects and unknown stuff. They are in a moving spirit, pushing forward innovation.

Learning Poco: Load XML Configuration

by stfairy

In this tutorial, we will load XML configuration from files ystem by using XMLConfiguration, and access specific configuration items by using methods provided by AbstractConfiguration.

Learning SQLite databases in Xamarin for Android

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article I will give you a complete overview of SQLite databases in Android and how to consume them using Xamarin APIs.

Learning to Learn!

by Rajesh Pillai

My experience of how I go about learning a technology, a skill or anything I want.

Learning to Like LINQ or, Loving the LINQ Loquacious

by Steve Wellens

You can use the LINQ library functions, which are extension methods, without having to delve into Reverse Polish SQL.

Leaving Solution Land

by AlexTatiyants

There is a big difference between figuring out what to do and why to do something.

Let Android support multiple programming languages

by li9705

Can we write programs in Android with other languages? The answer is yes.

Let's Start By Goofing Off

by Zac Gery

Having fun at work can re-ignite that spark and change a person's focus and perspective.

Leverage the .NET framework classes from VBA

by Pragmateek

Introduction Following my previous article on a similar subject, Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.Net or C++/CLI, I’ve received an interesting feedback from a VBA developer who wanted to leverage the advanced support of the .Net framework for regular … Continue reading →

Lightweight Task Scheduling for .NET / Silverlight

by Philipp Sumi

A lightweight task scheduling library that allows you to easily schedule the invocation of callback methods at specified times or intervals. Supports .NET 3.5 and Silverlight.

LinFu IoC 2.0 Reaches an Important Milestone

by Philip Laureano

Announcing the impending release of LinFu.IoC v2.0!

Link Tracking using jQuery and the Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code

by Stephen Akins

Here is some jQuery you can add to your pages that will allow you to track when people click on external links.

LINQ – Language Integrated Query

by ambilykk

LINQ – Language Integrated Query

LINQ Group By with NULL database values

by JasonShort

Group By with NULL database values in LINQ.

LINQ Group By with NULL Database Values

by JasonShort

LINQ Group By with NULL database values

LINQ Joins with SelectMany

by Pranay Rana

SelectMany is a way to flatten several results into a single sequence.

LINQ to Objective-C

by Colin Eberhardt

Creating a LINQ-style API for Objective-C has proven to be relatively simple (and fun!). I have provided implementations for some of the most common and useful LINQ methods, however the .NET LINQ APIs for querying collections have a great many more methods than the ones I have covered.

LINQ to SQL with NOLOCK

by ozkary

LINQ does not understand query hints: a workaround

LINQ with Multiple Child Objects

by Adam Zuckerman

Pulling XML data into your objects

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

LINQ: Introducing The Skip Last Operators

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Introducing The Skip Last Operators

LINQ: Single vs. First

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Single vs. First

LINQ: Single vs. SingleOrDefault

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Single vs SingleOrDefault

LINQPad helps you learn LINQ

by JasonShort

LINQPad is sort of like a Notepad, you can write and edit .linq files using it.

Liskovs Substitution Principle

by jgauffin

This post is all about LSP.

Listening to HTML Events from BHO

by Adrian Alexander

How to listen to HTML Events from BHO.

Load And Use Custom Font Without Installing It

by Ernest Poletaev

How to load and use font, not installed in the system?

Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 - Part 2

by Tarun_Arora

The details of web performance and load tests as well as why it’s important to follow a goal based pattern while performance testing your application.

Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 - Part 3

by Tarun_Arora

In part 3 I’ll be discussing Test Result Analysis, Test Result Drill through, Test Report Generation, Test Run Comparison, ASP.NET Profiler and some closing thoughts.

Load ASP.Net User Control Dynamically Using jQuery

by Dinesh K Mandal

Today we will explore the way of loading ASP.Net user control at run time using jQuery. jQuery has one method load(fn) that will help here. This load(fn) method has following definition.

Load Data From Database Using Web API

by Sibeesh Passion

How to load data from database using Web API

Load Test Using Visual Studio 2010

by PratapReddyP

How to perform a Load Test using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.

Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7

by Daniel Vaughan

Some really nice techniques for handling asynchronous network calls.

Local Image Caching with Custom Image Control in WPF

by Ivan Leonenko

Local image caching with custom control in WPF

Localize a user with the JavaScript Geolocation API

by User 6619207

The web in the future will contain more localized information than it already contains today. The Javascript Geolocation API contains the tools you need to localize a user of your web site.

Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit

by Ernest Poletaev

Localize ToggleSwitch in the Silverlight Toolkit.

Localize Your MVC App Based on a Subdomain

by pollirrata

How to localize your MVC app based on a subdomain

Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server

by Martin Hinshelwood

I am not sure if this is a good idea, but I was bored one day and decided to add a TFS Error Log provider for Elmah. There are 2 ways you can do this.

log4net: Log to a JavaScript Console

by Steve Wellens

A new appender for the log4net logging tool that sends server logging strings to a JavaScript console.

Logging and Tracing WCF Soap Messages

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to log and trace WCF Soap messages?

Logging Setup in 5 Minutes with NLog

by Werner van Deventer

Logging is so important in any live application.

Look Behind the IQueryable Curtain

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to parse complex expression trees, and even modify them to alter IQueryable results.

Lubuntu or Ubuntu Fails to Update on VirtualBox Virtual Machine

by RizviHasan

When a Lubuntu or Ubuntu is installed in a VirtualBox, by default the networking mode is selected NAT.

Magic of JQuery in ASP.NET, Simplifying AJAX

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Magic of JQuery in ASP.NET, simplifying AJAX

Make Some Cash Developing for Windows Phone

by Inaki Ayucar

In this post, I’ll try to share my thoughts and experience developing applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Making a jQuery UI DatePicker Read Only

by AlexCode

Block any way for the user to change the textbox value in the DatePicker, either from the calendar popup or by direct input on the textbox.

Making a JSONP Call to a WCF Data Service using datajs

by Gil Fink

How to use the datajs library in order to make a JSONP call to a JSONP enabled WCF Data Service.

Making DIVs, Using the CSS "Float Left" Property, All Have Uniform Heights; Automatically Adjusting to Match the Tallest DIV in the Row

by Stephen Akins

When making DIVs using the CSS "Float Left" property, all have uniform heights.

Making elmah.axd, a Log Viewer for Multiple Applications

by Sebastian Solnica

How to make elmah.axd

Making Simple.IoC Even More Simple

by Philip Laureano

The following code represents most of LinFu.IoC's functionality when managing service instances.

Making the ApplicationBar bindable

by rudigrobler

How to make the ApplicationBar bindable in a WP7 application.

Making the ApplicationBar bindable

by rudigrobler

How to make the ApplicationBar bindable.

Making your game stand out with Cortana on Windows 10

by Simon Jackson

True speech interaction is something we do not see very often in gaming. Sure, you have recorded audio for NPCs and a few non-silent protagonists, but it is very rare for the player to interact with speech themselves. Check out this awesome opportunity for games

Manage TFS Test Cases C# Code

by Anton Angelov

Manage TFS Test Cases in Microsoft Test Manager C# VB.NET Code

Manage TFS Test Suites in Microsoft Test Manager C# VB.NET Code

by Anton Angelov

Manage TFS Test Suites in Microsoft Test Manager C# VB.NET code

Map Data from Database Context to Excel Sheet using LINQ & Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

by Debopam Pal

Using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel library, you can bring your data from your database against LINQ query and store them into an Excel Sheet.

Massively Parallel RNG using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

by Adnan Boz

Massively Parallel Random Nunber Generation using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

MDrive – Part 2 of 4

by John Michael Hauck

Controlling intelligent precision electric motors from Windows applications written in C#

Memory Leak Analysis for .NET Applications

by Shweta Lodha

Detecting memory leaks in .NET applications.

Merge Smarter with Semantic Merge

by Rion Williams

How to merge smarter with Semantic Merge.

Merge Statement in SQL Server 2008

by Basavaraj P Biradar

The new Merge statement in SQL Server 2008.

Messaging with RabbitMQ

by Keyhole Software

This article introduces the relevant concepts, hopefully helps you to navigate around one or two common “gotchas,” and provides links to more in-depth resources.

Metro in Motion Part #1 – Fluid List Animation

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post presents an attached behaviour that gracefully slides the contents of a list into view when used in conjunction with a Pivot control, emulating the Windows Phone 7 email application.

Metro in Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations

by Colin Eberhardt

How to implement the animated 'peel' effect seen when native Windows Phone 7 applications exit

Metro in Motion Part #3 – Flying Titles!

by Colin Eberhardt

In this blog post, I look at how to implement the fly-out fly-in effect seen in native Windows Phone 7 applications. This effect is seen in the native mail application; when you click on a message, the title flies out of the list then flies back in as the title of the message page.

Metro in Motion Part #4 – Tilt Effect

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post describes the implementation of a metro ’tilt’ effect for Windows Phone 7 which causes element to respond to user interactions by tilting in 3D.

Metro In Motion Part #7 – Panorama Prettiness and Opacity

by Colin Eberhardt

A simple metro-in-motion behaviour which reduces the Panorama control’s contents while the user slides from item-to-item so that they can really appreciate your fancy background graphic!

Microsoft Silverlight

by Nandun

Microsoft Silverlight is the new product they introduced for rich interactive web application developments.

Microsoft Sync Framework

by Ashish Kaila

One of the most interesting problems in the distributed world is managing and synchronizing changes in data elements on various endpoints.

Migrating from TFS 2008 to SVN 1.6 with tfs2svn

by Martin Jarvis

This is tricky because tfs2svn stopped being updated when Subversion 1.4 ruled the roost.

Mobile Development – A Simple Unicode Character Map

by hjgode

A charmap tool like we have on Windows Desktop PCs

Mobile Development – Simple Serial Communication Application

by hjgode

A simple application to connect to a serial port

Mobile Development: A native remote desktop client (rdesktop port Win32)

by hjgode

A native rdesktop prt for Wndows CE and Windows Mobile to replace Remote Desktop Mobile.

Mobile Development: AutoHide Windows Mobile Device Center 2

by hjgode

Mobile Development: AutoHide Windows Mobile Device Center 2

Mock a Database Repository using Moq

by Williarob

How to mock a database repository using Moq

Modal dialogs in cross-platform WPF/Silverlight applications

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post looks at the problem of showing modal dialog windows in applications that target both the Silverlight and WPF platforms. A solution is provided which allows modal dialogs to be written that work well for both technologies.

Modeling a Directory Structure on Azure Blob Storage

by John Atten

This post discusses modeling a directory structure on Azure Blob Storage.

Models, Views, and Items - A Saga for the Ages

by Jim Crafton

Models, Views, and Items - A different approach.

Model-to-Entity Mapper in ASP.NET

by qenn

Model-to-Entity mapper in ASP.NET

MonoGame: Content Projects and Custom Model Types

by Simon Jackson

I’ll go over one of those fringe / advanced options available to old XNA projects where you can effectively build your own content.

MonoTouch – MonoDevelop Linker Hell

by Kiefer Hagin

One of the first learning experiences I had when I dove into development was the linking functionality built into MonoTouch.

Most Underrated WebDriver Locator – XPath

by Anton Angelov

Most Underrated WebDriver Locator – XPath

Moving a Sharepoint Sub Site to its own Site Collection in 3 easy steps

by Raymund Macaalay

Three easy steps in moving your Sub Site in its own Site Collection.

Moving to xUnit.net

by Cybermaxs

Moving to xUnit.net

MSMQ Backed FIFO Queue (C# .NET)

by Aron Weiler

A standard in-memory generic .NET queue that, when the configurable overflow limit is reached, will start using MSMQ as a backend to mitigate the issues with memory usage

MSTest Rerun Failed Tests Through MSTest.exe Wrapper Application

by Anton Angelov

If you need to rerun Failed Tests (MSTest), you can download the application that I wrote. Examples how to use it and code snippets.

Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Learn about Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 with a simple example

Multi Language Programming: How to Manage Objects

by li9705

How to manage objects in multi language programming

Multi-key Generic Dictionary Class for C#

by Aron Weiler

MultiKeyDictionary is a C# class that wraps and extends the Generic Dictionary object provided by Microsoft in .NET 2.0 and above.

Multi-Language Programming: Accessing Interface Objects Defined In Other Language_4

by li9705

Accessing interface objects defined in another language

Multi-Language Programming: More Complicated Function Calls Between Languages: 5

by li9705

Doing more complicated function calls between languages.

Multithreading: Which lock object should I use?

by User 6619207

Which lock object should I use?

Munq IOC Container – Creating a Thread Local Storage Lifetime Manager

by Matthew Dennis

Munq IOC Container – Creating a Thread Local Storage Lifetime Manager

Munq IocContainer V2 - Overview

by Matthew Dennis

Table of Contents Downloading the code Overview What is Munq IocContainer Using Munq IocContainer Registering Factory Methods Obtaining an Instance from the IocContainer Initializing the IocContainer Lifetime Management Downloading the Code The code is maintained at CodePlex.

Mutable and Data Caching

by David Corne

This blog post is going to be about the C++ keyword mutable, it is also going to go into using mutable for data caching.

Mutliline String Literals in VB.NET

by Cyborgx37

How to have mutliline string literals in VB.NET.

MVC Output Caching using custom FilterAttribute

by Ben Liebert

MVC output caching using custom FilterAttribute.

MVVM - Creating ViewModel: Wrap your business object (Solution 1 of n)

by jmix90

When you create WPF applications, you may (or you should !) use the M-V-VM pattern and so have to use/create ViewModel.The viewModel job is mainly to expose properties of your businessObjects to your views, ready for binding. Here is a first solution to create ViewModel from your model.

MVVM for Windows Phone Developers–Use it Guys! (Part 3)

by IInjac

MVVM for Windows Phone developers.

MVVM ListBox Grouping

by SteveAdey

This is an example to show the use of MVVM in creating a grouping listbox.

MVVM Series: Part I

by SteveAdey

Setting up an MVVM application and some simple binding to text and commands.

MVVM using POCOs with .NET 4.0 and the DynamicViewModel Class

by Nikos Baxevanis

This post aims to provide a way to implement the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) architectural pattern using Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) while taking full advantage of .NET 4.0 DynamicObject Class.

MVVMLight Using Two Views

by Barry Lapthorn

How to create an MVVM application using MVVM Light with multiple views in one window

My Favorite WPF Book of All Times–WPF Control Development Unleashed

by Ashish Kaila

WPF Control Development Unleashed - my favorite WPF book of all times

My Top 9 Reasons Why I Use PHP

by jotorres

My top 9 reasons why I use PHP

My Understanding of ArcNet Protocol

by johnniealan

ArcNet Protocol basics

Myths about TDD

by Bogdan Bujdea

Myths about TDD

N2CMS Templates RSS Feed Fix

by Martin Jarvis

N2CMS Templates RSS Feed Fix

Named and optional parameters in C# 4.0

by Farooq Kaiser

In this article, I will explore named and optional parameters in C# 4.0.

Namespace Design Technique, Structuring Your Libraries Using Test Driven Development

by Esteban Alvarez

Structuring your libraries using Test Driven Development

NavBars - If only it was that simple!

by Charlie_Holland

Programmatically create NavBarLink objects so that they can be explicitly set to internal, therefore benefiting from security trimming and other URL management functions provided by SharePoint.

Navigation Bar With Context Menu

by jqwidgets

How to add a Context Menu to a Navigation Bar

NDC Talk Preview: “Ten Simple Rules for Rewriting IL on the Common Language Runtime”

by Philip Laureano

Ten basic principles that you can follow that will make it easier for you to understand and work with IL writing/rewriting

NDepend – Analysis Report

by Nathan Gloyn

NDepend – Analysis Report

NDepend – Final Thoughts

by Nathan Gloyn

Wrapping up this series summarizing the information and adding some of my own thoughts

New Developers and the Importance of C

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

New developers and the importance of C; this blog post is about my opinion and views about C programming language's importance for beginners in programming. Yours might be different!

New Features in Visual Studio 2015 | 2013 | 2012 | 2010

by Imran Abdul Ghani

Microsoft’s Visual Studio went through an enormous development in recent years. How it evolves since 2010 till the latest version i.e. Visual Studio 2015 is the purpose of this Web Development Tutorial.

New HTTP Support for Command/Queries in Griffin Framework

by jgauffin

New HTTP support for Command/Queries in Griffin Framework

New Version of Griffin.Networking – A Networking Library for .NET

by jgauffin

New version of Griffin.Networking

Newbs: Discovering the Business Side of Development

by Zac Gery

Discovering the business side of development.