This article describes how to containerize an ASP.NET WebApi solution with Visual Studio, how to pass data via environment variables and also how to run the images in docker without Visual Studio.
The objective of this is to study and develop a set of best practices and guidelines to prevent Cross-site scripting(XSS) and Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks in ASP.NET web applications.
Digital displays and signs are all around you. You may have seen them cropping up at shopping centers and doctors’ offices. From video walls, to AR fitting mirrors, to ordering menus, digital signs are pervasive and are becoming a part of everyday shopping experience.
This article provides general guidelines for connecting any Intel Internet of Things (IoT) devices (that is, devices that support Intel microcontrollers like the Intel® Edison board and the Intel® Curie™ Compute Module) and Intel® IoT Gateways to the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite.
Atalasoft leverages their DotImage toolkit to manipulate color channels for the purpose of image enhancement, in this case satellite images. The article is a tutorial on image enhancement and it includes all source code and test images.
IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty profile is a flexible and dynamic server profile of WAS which enables the WAS server to deploy only required custom features instead of deploying a big set of available JEE components.
This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.
After experiencing scaling issues with their previous hosting provider, the founders of the #1 iPhone tutorial site turned to Mosso, Rackspace’s cloud hosting division, because of the company’s tech support, scalability and affordability.
An extension of the code submitted in the article: "Modal Window in Silverlight". This extension wraps the hosted control in a window frame that provides various modal features.
A quick demo tutorial on how to setup .NET Core on Mac and creating a simple ASP.NET Core app that talks to PostgreSQL database, and running it on Docker.
In this article, we will learn about .NET Core Features & short overview on .NET Framework (existing). We will discuss about what changes were made/added in new environment of .NET Core.
Utility for .NET Framework Cultures with Culture Specific Formats and Mapping with SQL Server Language. CultureInfo, DateFormat, Number Format, Currency Format, Percent Format, Infinity Format, etc.
An easy-to-use, zero configuration solution to .NET communication across application boundaries. A simple library to use as an alternative to .NET Remoting based on low-level Windows Messaging.
With this tool you can download whole .NET Framework source code at once, and enjoy offline browsing. With it, you can have whole the source code without any Visual Studio product installed
In Practical Performance Profiling MVP Jean-Philippe explains how the .NET platform manages memory and uses a sample application based on a real software package to demonstrate a wide range of performance slowdowns
You have the server and several clients. You want the server to fire an event and all of the clients or only some specific must receive it. This article describes several approaches to the problem.
Sometimes server needs to perform lengthy calculations in reply to the client’s request. If such calls are rare or do not take too much time, it’s not a problem. If your solution shows a tendency to have about 20-30 such invocations being performed concurrently at the same time, you should read this
Edit web.config to Update the Data Provider for Shared Hosting with Role-Based Security: SQL Server, ODBC, Active Directory, ADAM, SQLite, MySQL, Access, XML
This article shows you how to build a simple cross-platform interoperation solution between .NET and Java using the Service Interface and Data Transfer Object (DTO) architecture patterns
“Yukon” is a proposed new 32 - bit version of Microsoft SQL Server aka, MS SQL 2000, which is not yet released from Microsoft, which may expect to be release in the year 2004. It contains a lot of additional tools which improves a rich scale of performance, reliability and ease of use for the infor
Web developers often make the same errors as each other when implementing accessibility - find out what these are and how to avoid making these mistakes.
When designing a website, there are key user behaviours that should be taken into account. But in order to take them into account, it helps to know them. Below are 10 of the more interesting and less well-known user behaviours that regularly occur in user testing.
Damon Armstrong assumed that his cryptographic library was perfect until he tried it out with ANTS Performance Profiler. Within 20 minutes, he was able to make a 10% performance improvement on his code. How did he do it? Read the full story.
This question bank has been created as an electronic resource for all kinds of .NET enthusiasts: novices who need to know the nitty-gritty details for their upcoming interviews, or experts who desire to refresh their knowledge of the framework.
This question bank has been created as an electronic resource for all kinds of .NET enthusiasts: novices who need to know the nitty-gritty details for their upcoming interviews, or experts who desire to refresh their knowledge of the framework.
Describes how to use the PDFRasterizer.NET control to convert PDF to raster images, to display PDF in your Windows application and to silently print PDF documents.
If you have a PHP, ASP, Ruby, or whatever based website, it is usually a pain to get simple but good looking Excel spreadsheets out of the site. This solution is too simple to be true (but it is).
Impersonating Windows user (and "fun" bugs you can have with it), correctly disposing a WCF CommunicationObject, getting a property name from an expression, getting a relative path, weak collection listener, thread safe dictionary, enum flag help, test helper
Here are 12 simple scenarios that illustrate how a Web site can accommodate users and customize their experience by taking their location into account.
This article has 12 important FAQ’s which covers unit testing, automated testing, data driven test, load/ performance test, code coverage , database testing and ordered testing.
The article introduces how to easily develop business solutions in RapidWebDev through developing a product management system with the special requirement step by step.
I’m going to focus on one interesting scenario that isn’t directly covered by the HTML5 standard, but is in high demand and visually impressive. It’s audio visualization using HTML5 <audio>
A tool to generate face images and animated gif files for different angles and lighting using only a single face image. Also includes Face Matcher using Microsoft Face API.
Websites are now expected to be available and accessible on mobile devices. In this article, learn how to optimize your ASP.NET applications for mobile web browsers and how the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX controls can make that task easier for you.
This article presents a class to manage enumerator based animations in WPF that can deal with different framerated animations independent of the hardware framerate
Memory reallocation generated by string concatenations can create performance bottlenecks. .NET has System.Text.StringBuilder, JavaScript has Array.join, and we have string::reserve.
Did you know there’s an easier way how to create dynamic web sites? Learn how Kentico CMS for ASP.NET will increase your productivity and help you win more clients.
Find out how to increase cross-selling and up-selling on your website. Doing so will help you sell more items and keep customers coming back to your site again and again.
This article takes a look at a variety of tools available from Intel: Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick, Intel® Python Distribution for Python™, Intel® Math Kernel DNN Library, Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library, Intel Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit
This article is a simple, step-by-step guide for those who have ideas and want to quickly implement them. We’ll use code to demonstrate how easy it is to build an application on Amazon S3. We’ll also highlight questions that you may ask before releasing an application.
What is a content management system? Does it really work? Why should I use it? How does it help me? This article answers the most common questions developers ask about content management systems (CMS).
In the recent past, we saw a lot of new technologies flourish in an IT industry such as VOIP, Skype, Webex, social networks and many more. But what happened with the old means of communication?
Learn the principle behind Microsoft's new Doloto and 6 other cool techniques that I did in Pageflakes to load large amounts of JavaScript without compromising performance
If you’re about to release your software internationally and it’s written in .NET, then you ought to consider protecting your code and IP. This article outlines 7 ways to protect your .NET code from reverse-engineering and other malicious forms of attack.
In an earlier article I wrote about 10 ways to get more productive in Visual Studio. This is a follow up with new neat things coming with Visual Studio 2013.
Analyzing the Snake game, we'll study an application for the new Windows Phone 7 platform, focusing on localization, Inversion of Control, navigation, transition effects, triggers, Isolated Storage, audio and we'll also use Blend to create a rounded glowing button, and other things...
Managing strings contained in a project-scoped resource file can be a real pain. This component makes it easier to colocate the strings with their corresponding classes, even if they are business objects.
This article presents a .NET like Dictionary implemented in C++, which has better performance and consumes less memory than the STL's unordered_map class.
This is a quick article on how to apply a nice easy base class to the age-old problem of getting your classes to support internal worker threads in a thread-safe manner
In this part I have added the routines to update the database on exit, and because I felt very generous, I have added in a routine to import data from an Excel datasheet.
Creation of a basic icon editor with as little code as possible, that is running on ReactOS and Windows, to check out the stability of application development capabilities on ReactOS
If you are good at highschool maths, basic c++ and know a little bit about electronics, you can follow this series of tutorials to make your DIY artificial intelligent robots.
Provides an overview and discussion of the author's BitmapManipulator C# class, including examples of each feature, as well as numerous .NET/GDI+ caveats.
Sometimes, a bug fix cannot meet the challenges by a regression test. So thinking twice for a better solution is worthwhile for troubleshooting and bug fixes.
DP Line approximation algorithm is a well-known method to approximate 2D lines. It is quite fast, O(nlog_2(n)) for a n-points line and can drastically compress a data curve. Here, a fully OOP implementation is given.
The article is about extending the capabilities of GDI+ in C# , When programmers look to develop serious imaging applications, a surprising shortcoming is noticed in GDI+. The shortcoming is the absence of an API which is useful in selecting regions within an image in a user interactive way.
A tiny fireworks simulator based on a simple physical engine. The user can configure 10 launchers with the initial speed of the bomb, the explosion form and the explosion colour.
This application is designed to put way points on a track map picture and to set the height of the track points in order to produce a TXT or XML file which resumes the track information.
DP Line approximation algorithm is a well-known method to approximate 2D lines. It is quite fast, O(nlog_2(n)) for a n-points line and can drastically compress a data curve. Here, a fully OOP implementation is given.
This library provides a simple set of classes for creating GUIs. It uses only the Win32 API with some common controls. The development is at the beginning and many changes are to be done.
A somewhat lightweight article, that covers some issues that we should all be conscious of when reworking prototype code (and deciding whether to rework prototype code!) with a case study.
A checksum is a value which is computed which allows you to check the validity of something. Typically, checksums are used in data transmission contexts to detect if the data has been transmitted successfully.
Using UIImagePickerController to replicate the profile selection features found in the contacts app requires solving some vexing problems. This article presents one approach for a class that replicates the functionality using the UIImagePickerController.
This class uses keybd_event and CreateProcess to create a script processor and executor. The script can be used for automation of daily tasks such as opening and checking mail accounts, automating the functionality of software etc. This will work with any app which can take input via keyboard.
The Win API cannot access inifile in UNICODE, sometimes, we may want to add some wide characters into INI file, so I wrote a class to access INI file in UNICODE
An Open Source lightweight framework (named Simple Client Server Library (SCS)) that is delevoped to create Server/Client applications using the simple Remote Method Invocation mechanism.
In this article, I will explain the implementation of an Open Source lightweight framework (named Simple Client Server Library (SCS)) that is developed to create client/server applications using a simple Remote Method Invocation mechanism over TCP/IP.
A collection of classes for CE that do not use ATL or MFC, plus an FTP client, database viewer, and sample application that solves beam deflection equations.
A discussion of various approaches to threading, covering locks, mutexes, semaphores, concurrent collections, work queues, threads, PLINQ, TPL, exception handling, and cancellation tokens
MultiMap is similar to a .NET Dictionary collection type, but accepts duplicate Key,Value pairs during addition. The MultiMap collection is also a concurrent collection.
This library is intended for use in a multi-environment system, but it certainly be used under less stringent environmental confines, even down to a single desktop machine taht needs to connect to a single database server.
If you want to have an easy-to-use Dialog Box to browse through the network, have a look at this. This library allows for selecting network shares, directories, files, ... and will ask for a user name and password, if needed.
This article is a tutorial on how to create a CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete) Form using SharpDevelop and PostgreSQL, implementing a BindingNavigator to explore the table used in the application.
For purposes of Unit Testing in globalized applications, you could sometimes need to change the CurrentCulture to test methods against different languages. Here are a few classes that provide a Fluent syntax for switching to another culture.
Walks you through building a generic custom action to manipulate and XCopy the .addin file along with your add-in assembly that will work for most add-in deployment scenarios.
This article shows how to construct a custom business object helper that will populate business objects from a datareader using generics, reflection, and custom attributes
This is a Web Control which is a custom file upload. It will accept only a specified range of file formats, and also integrates with the target page's validation.
If you demand the most possible control of your code, if you like to force Windows looking your way, and if you are lazy enough, this tutorial is exactly for you.
This article describes an easy approach to the construction of a custom ASP.NET 2.0 image button control that contains both a mouse-over effect and calls a JavaScript function when clicked.
This article is intended to show an opportunity for customizing the list view control (report view, single-line mode) using the custom scrollbar control.
At times, business needs are so unique that we have to write new controls in addition to the existing Toolbox provided controls. This article explains how to write such a unique control, named Range Control. Control source and a sample app are included.
A text document printing class that adds customizable header, footer, and line numbers to your printed text. The text can also be printed using three different styles.
Makes the input of date values as fast as the user can via keyboard. Also has the ability to pick date from a picker like in the traditional DateTimePicker.
How to implement an Explorer Desktop Band that uses the Microsoft’s Performance Data Helper interface to display current performance data about activity such as memory, disk, and processor usage.
Zen is to SQLite what SQLite was to flat file management systems. It provides the full set of capabilities needed to meet the needs of modern edge data management.
Other articles describe replacements for MessageBox() with extra buttons for "Yes to All" and "No to All", but you still have to write the code to handle those buttons. This article presents a class that does all the work for you.
Looking for a way to draw 2D line graphs with C#? Here's yet another charting class library with a high degree of configurability, that is also easy to use.
A simple class that stores settings in an XML file located anywhere. This class can be used directly as a visual component in VS. Use this as it is or as an inspiration for something better!
A Margin structure that can be used in a variety of situations, like layout, drawing and printing. Now comes with a custom TypeConverter and a usage sample.
by Octavio Loyola-González, Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez, Milton García Borroto
In this article, we introduce a framework in C# for fingerprint verification, we briefly explain how to perform fingerprint verification experiments and how to integrate your algorithms to the framework.
There are many tools out there for reports, varing by price, capabilities and learning curves. I wanted an ASAP tool (As Simple As Possible :-)) to produce HTML outputs and view them with emphasis, on dynamic creation capability. I started out with making a reporter for ADO DataSets.
This article introduces you to an open source solution for decoupling your data management and query logic from the NoSQL vendor-specific integration logic.
This article presents a class that can either be readily used as a Container for existing worker threads or can be enhanced(inherited) for OO Style programming
This article presents a reusable class and technique for easily doing Asynchronous Programming using the Begin/End Pattern and the new Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) library.
A generic list/stack/queue with bi-directional and failsafe enumerator, recycled doubly linked list nodes, and wait-for-empty and wait-for-any methods.
Keeps the GPS active in Windows Mobile, allowing for instant, accurate location determination. Also a tutorial on how to access GPS data with almost no code.
Purely object oriented ADO code component to get your project running, no matter what database you are using at the backend. Specialised for SQL Server.
A joystick control using a simplified polar coordinate system to return an orientation and magnitude, and a custom Vehicle UserControl with an Offset method that uses the said coordinate system.
Ever wanted a program which could run another one from user selected directories recursively, complete with STDIO Redirection for console programs, program timeout settings, etc.? What's more, you can easily modify the source to match your own needs. Kamal Shankar presents such a quick tool.
Earlier this year, we open-sourced ChakraCore, the heart of the JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and the Windows 10 Universal App Platform. Today we'll walk you through what's new and what's next in ChakraCore, including some upcoming work like Modules, WebAssembly, ES2017 and beyond.
