Visual-Studio

by dontumindit

An Easy Way To Query a Database

by Andrew Rissing

The following samples should take advantage of using statements and furthermore built in features of the ADO.NET framework. Furthermore, if you open a connection, make sure you open it at the latest time possible and close it as soon as possible.Edit: While I was originally not trying to...

by FZelle

You are both wrong with the DataAdapter.Why do you think there is an overload with the querystring and the connectionstring?public DataSet select_query(string query, string con_str){ try { using (SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(query,con_str)) { ...

by woric

The sample code provided by Andrew Rissing is a huge improvement over the original, but incorrectly catches the exception and displays a MessageBox. (Andrew correctly points out this is not a good idea.)A better solution is to allow the exception to fail:public DataSet...

An Updated Batch Image Resize Tool

by PrimeCoder

Nice,How about adding a couple of other methodspublic static void Parameter(IDbCommand command, string naam, object value){ IDbDataParameter par = command.CreateParameter(); par.ParameterName = naam; par.Value = value ?? DBNull.Value; ...

by rmliu

Resize either images or canvas only, resize batch images

Angular CLI and ASP.NET Core Angular Template

by Iman Memarpour

How to set up your environment to use Angular CLI with your ASP.NET Core 2.0 Angular template

AngularJS & Web API Active Directory Security

by Bert O Neill

AngularJS and Web API Active Directory Security (Authorisation)

AngularJS 2.0 Getting Started with Visual Studio

by Thinira

In this tip, we will discuss how to setup Angular 2.0 in Visual Studio and write a very basic “Todo” application.

Application Startup Permissions Validator

by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

This is a simple class/demo application that shows how to check whether the account that is being used to run the application has administrative rights.

Applying Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Web API REST Methods

by B. Clay Shannon

How to apply Attribute Routing to Web API Controllers

Applying Reusable Read Only Styles for WPF Controls at Application/User Control Level

by Ponkarthikeyan Thangavel

This tip describes about applying reusable read-only styles for WPF controls at Application/User Control level

Arabic Calendar Date to English Calendar Date Windows Form C#

by shouvith hydrose Kerala

This article explains how to change Arabic Calendar Date to English Calendar Date in Windows Form C#.

Archive Multiple Files In Zip & Extract Zip Archive

by Farhan Ghumra

Learn how to create zip archive and extract it without any 3rd party library

ASP.NET 5 and Ubuntu

by Hugo Carnicelli

During this article, we are going to explore what is currently necessary to run an ASP.NET 5 website on Ubuntu.

ASP.NET DatePicker (Persian/Gregorian)

by Ruhollah Heidarpour

Just another ASP.NET Persian(Jalali/Shamsi/Solar) / Gregorian Datepicker

ASP.NET Menu Control Issue in Chrome and Safari

by Tejas Vaishnav

ASP.NET menu control not shown properly in Chrome and Safari

ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 Installation Errors - Incompatible with .NET 4.5 or Earlier, Upgrade to .NET Framework 4.5 latest version

by Shemeer NS

ASP.NET MVC 4 for VS2010 Installation Errors, 0x81f40001 - This product is incompatible with .NET 4.5 or earlier. You must upgrade to .NET Framework 4.5 to the latest version before installing this product, with Web Platform Installer and MSI.

ASP.NET MVC 5 - Bootstrap 3.0 in 3 Steps

by JoaoSousa23

This tip walks you through the steps for creating a ASP.NET MVC 5 Web Application using Bootstrap as template for layout.

ASP.NET timed page reload

by James Gabel

ASP.Net timed page reload on button click/form submission.

Attach to IIS WPW3 process using vscommands extension in Visual Studio 2010

by Praveen Bhosage

How to attach to IIS WPW3 process using the vscommands extension in Visual Studio 2010.

Auto Complete Control Like in GMail/Hotmail/Facebook

by Bikash Prakash Dash

How to create an auto suggestion control like Gmail/Hotmail/Facebook to add items in list.

Auto Completion for #include in VS2010

by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Visual Studio 2010, for Visual C++ projects/code, now supports auto complete feature for #include statement too!Just type in #include directive followed by " or <, it will list all possible header files. It will also show the full-path of the file (selected in listbox), on the right side of...

AutoCompleteExtender working with EntityFramework! (Reload 2015)

by Eduardo Yost

Creating a Web User Control containing an AutoCompleteExtender for data through WCF (JSON) allowing to store the entity selected through EntityFramework. Entity object serialization from the server to the client and the client to the server.

Automated Creation of NuGet Packages

by DannyVarod

Fast, stable and powerful creation of NuGet packages

Automatic Copying of Release Executables to a Specific Folder on a Successful Build

by OriginalGriff

How to automatically copy release executables to a specific folder on a successful build

Automatic Version Increase/Decrease (Assembly)

by phome

CAAV, Increase/Decrease the version segments in AssmblyInfo.cs or template files in the specified folder and its sub-folder

Automatically Stepping over STL

by ed welch

Automatically stepping over STL

Autos - Immediate Access to Resources Without Clicking

by tc99

Immediate access to resources without clicking

Autos Window in Visual Studio 2013

by Abhishekv 11

Autos Window in Visual Studio 2013

Avoid default formatting when exporting data from datagrid to excel.

by ambatisreedhar

Export to Excel,default formatting of excel,excel number format,excel date format,excel currency format

Azure Cloud Service with ASP.NET MVC and WCF

by Mukesh Pr@sad

This tip describes how to build an application in Azure Cloud with ASP.NET MVC and WCF.

Back and Forward button for MDI Parent form to traverse through opened MDI child forms

by Sarath Jayachandran

Badge Notifications in Windows 8

by ROHIT SHAW

It shows how to display a badge notification in Windows 8 metro app

Balloon Message using JavaScript & CSS in ASP.NET

by AMB-03

This is a very simple way to create a balloon message... without using any plugin

Basic MVVM and ICommand Usage Example

by Nomesh G

Setting up basic MVVM in WPF and ICommand usage to allow operations on ViewModel from view.

Batch IDE

by Alaa Ben Fatma

Small tool to write, run batch codes

Batch Script of TFS Checked Out Files

by yuvalsol

Batch script that retrieves checked out and changed files from TFS and saves their paths to output file

Beginner's Guide: How to Implement log4net in VB.NET Web Application

by Robby Tendean

Simple implementation guide for log4net in a VB.NET web application.

Beginners tutorial on how to load Crystal Reports using Crystal Report Viewer in Visual Studio 2012

by Rahul Krishnan R

Simple article to load a crystal report rpt file using crystalreportviewer in Visual Studio 2012

Bench a Dialog on the Taskbar

by Roger65

A project to place a Dialog Box on the Taskbar

Best way to use Entity Framework

by Kundan Singh Chouhan

Simplest, best and most robust architecture.

BIM-ISO8583

by Bim Garcia

Implementation of ISO8583 in .NET

Binarizing image (Thresholding) using EmguCV

by hirosht

Step by step method of thresholding a image using the EmguCV API in C#

Bind Crystal Reports with Dataset or Datatable

by saurav ray

Article determines how to bind a crystal report with a virtual database

Bind Dropdownlist in ASP.NET using jQuery AJAX

by Amol Jadhao

How to bind dropdownlist in ASP.NET using JQuery Ajax

Binding Enum-Values to a ComboBox

by manchanx

Tidy, generic solution to bind Enums (with or without a DescriptionAttribute) to a ComboBox or other Controls

Binding jqxGrid to SQL Database using ASP.NET Web Service ( Responsive & Right-to-Left & Farsi )

by Masoud Ehteshami (Iran)

main source : https://www.jqwidgets.com

BizTalk Mapping - Map Multiple Schemas to a Single Output Schema

by prachi_pandey

Map fields from multiple schemas to fields of a single output schema

Bluetooth Desktop Locker with Android Application

by Arkadeep De

Bluetooth Desktop Locker with Android Application

Boost serialization BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_GUID in VS C++ project

by jean Davy

#include must not be in precompiled header

Bootstrap datepicker and Knockout Model Binding

by DiponRoy

Bootstrap datepicker and Knockout Model Binding

Box Editing with VS2010 - Editing multiple lines at once

by Ratish Philip

Visual Studio 2010 provides a feature by which it is now possible to edit multiple lines at one go.For e.g. say you have a class which you have three member variables which are declared as private.public class MyClass{ private int myInt; private double myDouble; private...

Branch files recursively in VSS

by Manas Bhardwaj

Did you know that there is no way to branch the files recursively in Microsoft VSS? Here is a work around:From Visual SourceSafe Explorer, go to View ->Search ->WildCard SearchThen search for Wildcard: * (a single asterisk) with Search in current project and all subprojects...

Broadcasting Data using .NET TPL Dataflow

by Thrivikram Hathwar

How to broadcast data using .NET TPL dataflow

Bug Fixes for Reading Barcodes from an Image - III

by Matthias Böhnke

Bug Fixes for Reading Barcodes from an Image - III

Building a Contact Form Using C#/ASP.NET MVC

by O.Nasri

This tip shows you how you can implement a contact form in C#/ASP.NET MVC

Building OrderBy Lambda Expression from Property Name in C#

by DiponRoy

Let's make a lambda expression from a property name of a particular entity, and use it for OrderBy shorting

Bypass and Restore SSL Certificate Validation in VB.NET

by Robby Tendean

How to bypass SSL certificate validation checking and restore it

Bypass and Restore SSL Certificate Validation in VB.NET

by Pascal Hubert

Looks like what I use!ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = New RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(Function() True)

C# - Fast Memory Copy Method with x86 Assembly Usage

by OKarpov

How to use ASM in C#.NET and most fast memory copy method

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI and WinAPI: How to Programmatically Press Mouse Button, and Check if Mouse Button or Keyboard Key Pressed

by Emiliarge

Using WinAPI functions - GetAsyncKeyState and mouse_event

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Create, read and write MS Access (mdb, accdb), MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Compact and SQLite databases

by Emiliarge

Both MS Access formats (mdb and new - accdb), MSSQL 2008 R2, MSSQL CE, SQLite, MySQL

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Read and write MS Access (mdb) database without ADO and SQL via Microsoft DAO

by Emiliarge

Read and write data to Access databases without limitations caused by the use of the SQL.

C# / VB.NET and WinAPI: How to Access Window of Other Application

by Emiliarge

Using FindWindow() and WindowFromPoint() to identify window, and SetWindowText(), MoveWindow(), SetForegroundWindow(), EnableWindow() to interact with it

C# Alternative ProgressBar

by blitzkrieged

An alternative ProgressBar for C# with extra functionality

C# Bluetooth Monitor for Lego Mindstorms NXT

by charles922

Program that continuously monitors the NXT via Bluetooth

C# Class To Download Files Synchronously, That Supports Cancel/Resuming And All Other Information

by Ahmed Amer Jaf

Downloading files from the Internet with one line without Freezing Form

C# Convert DataTable to List of Objects Dynamically

by saddam abu ghaida

This article describes how to convert any Data Table to List of Objects at runtime using Reflection

C# CountryInfo LanguageInfo CurrencyInfo Classes

by Jochen Scharr

C# CountryInfo class, LanguageInfo class and CurrencyInfo class, derived from CultureInfo respectively RegionInfo for a more intuitive and compile-safe handling of countries, languages and currencies

C# Fast Rational Arithmetic

by D. Christian Ohle

New Rational class to solve epsilon and robustness problems especially for graphics algorithms.

C# Knob Control using Windows Forms

by Fabrice Lacharme

Yet another Knob Control in C#

C# Open Text File, Read First Line for a Specific Word, If the Word Exists, Move the File

by caed

C# - Read Text File, Match a Word in First Line, Move File if Word Matches

C# Slider/Trackbar Control using Windows Forms

by Fabrice Lacharme

Yet another slider/trackbar in C#

C# Storable Box Control 1.4.0.4

by Darkencrow

A multi-drawer style collapsable UI container

C# USB HID Interface

by Szymon Roslowski

Just another approach to understanding communication between HID devices and C#.

C#: Read and Write Excel (*.xls and *.xlsx) Files Content without Excel Automation (using NPOI and ADO.NET)

by Emiliarge

2 ways to read and write data to *.xls and *.xls files and display it on DataGridView.

C#: WebBrowser vs Gecko vs Awesomium vs OpenWebKitSharp: What To Choose And How to Use

by Emiliarge

Comparison of 4 browser engines and controls + some tips for using them (in attached projects and in tip text). Short and clear.

C#: Website HTML Content Parsing, or How To Get Needed Info From Website

by Emiliarge

How to get and parse website content.

C++ - Lightweight Parsing Command Line Arguments

by Daniel Petrovic

In this tip, I want to represent a quick lightweight possibility (one of many) for parsing command line arguments on the fly using C++17.

Cache System in Silverlight 5 RIA Application - Part 1 - Data Load

by Michele Ziparo

An effective way to implement a caching system in Silverlight (MVVM) RIA

Cajoling Multi-Platform Solutions in Visual Studio

by ergohack

Here is a trick to create a Visual Studio solution that simultaneously builds multiple platforms for targeted projects.

Calculating hash values in Windows Metro Style applications using C#

by Tyronne Thomas

Calculating hash values in Windows Metro style applications using C# and .NET 4.5.

Calculating Permutation without Recursion - Part 2

by perspolis

Calculating permutation in a non-recursive way

Calendar of Events in Windows Phone

by Houssem Dellai

Developing a Windows Phone app step by step

Calling ASP.NET Webservice using JavaScript on Regular Interval of Time

by Praveen Chandran

This tip describes how to call a webservice using JavaScript and also calling that webservice in a regular interval of time without doing a postback in the page.

Calling orchestration using Call orchestration Shape

by Abhay giri

Here we see how can we invoke other orchestration by using Call orchestration shape

Calling Server-Side Code from Client-side Using JavaScript and TextBox's onblur Event

by Ankur .K. Vishwakarma

Calling server-side code from client-side using JavaScript and TextBox's onblur event

Capture a Text Image on the Tracing Layer and Passing it to a Main Form (Using OCR MODI)

by Bob Stoom

New drag-and-drop intuitive engine on the OCR MODI base

CDatabaseExt - A Simple Way to Connect to a Database and Retrieve Data

by _Flaviu

A class designed to connect to a database through ODBC and perform basic operations such as inserts, updates, and deletes

Centralized place for documents and templates - VS Build Task

by Andrej Kamikovski

How to copy files to central place set in configuration or setup directly with visual studio build task

Change of Basis for Rotations and Vectors

by milkboy31415

This code transforms rotations and vectors between reference frames such as Unreal, 3d Studio Max, etc.

Changing Visual Studio 2013 CAPS Menus to Normal

by Shemeer NS

Changing Visual Studio 2013 CAPS Menus to Normal

Changing Windows Aero Color

by Tejashwi Kalp Taru

Ever wanted to change the Windows Aero color without restarting the DWM?

Check maxlength of multiline textbox in JavaScript

by Surjit Singh Dadhwal

This post will help you to resolve problem of checking maxlength of Multiline textbox (Internet Explorer, Chrome & Firefox)

Check Modem or GSM Phone by AT Commands

by SergVoloshyn

Main program for testing modem or GSM phones by AT commands, use only standard classes and libraries.

Cinchoo - Simplified File Type Associations Development

by Cinchoo

Simple and easy to associate file types to an application

Class to Transform an OFX (Microsoft Money) File into a DataSet

by rodrigo diniz

A small class that transforms the contens of an OFX file into a DataSet.

Clear Text On Windows Aero Glass

by Rixterz123

How to get text to show perfectly clearly on Aero glass

Cloudforge Git for Visual Studio/ Svn to Git Guide

by Dinand.dotnet

Use Git with cloudforge, and switch from SVN to Git

Code Coverage And Generics

by Andrew Rissing

How to get that last little nagging line to be covered...

Code Review for Visual Studio 2012 Professional with TFS 2012

by 2irfanshaikh

VS 2012 Professional or lower versions do not have the Code Review module. To achieve this, I came up with a solution which will add a new work item type in TFS 2012. We will also learn how to create a new work item type in TFS.

Color Block Overlay for DataGridView

by Matus Kovacik

This component allows to overlay grid with colored blocks spanning across multiple columns.

ColorSelector and MenuButton in GIS Applications

by Wu Yehao

A ColorSelector control used in GIS Applications, with a menu button for displaying

Combining MDX with T-SQL in One Result Set for SSRS (Hybrid Query)

by Ahmad A.A. Ahmad

Combining MDX with T-SQL in One Result Set for SSRS (Hybrid Query)

ComboBox with Suggest Ability based on Substring-Search

by Physlcu$

A custom ComboBox that supports live filtering of items by Substring-Search or any other Lamda-Expression

Commenting

by Anshul R

Shortcut for Commenting

Communication Library Files - TCP Client/Server

by Chris Jorna

Source code and demo on general TCP client & server library mainly usable for / tested on SICK lidar devices

Compare Two Databases, Find Differences and Update using Visual Studio

by Rijwan Ansari

How to compare two databases using SQL Server Database Project (Template) available in VS.

Complete Date/Time Picker Control

by Peter T. Ringering

A complete replacement to Microsoft's Date/Time Picker control.

Complex Math Library for C# and VB.NET

by Karl Tarbet

Complex math library for C# and VB.NET

Computing Easter Date - VB Function

by Jose Xavier

VB Function to Comput Easter Date

Conditional Breakpoint using Make Object Id feature

by Kamran Bilgrami

Effective way of debugging by taking advantage of some not well-so-known features of Visual Studio

Conditional Sum for Rdlc (aka ReportViewer)

by _Groker

Code for summing by group in a RDLC report

Connecting Windows Form Application With ADO.NET in C#

by Bikash Karmokar

Connecting Windows Form Application With ADO.NET in C#

Console BEEP Methods, Notation, and Generation

by Dustin Halstead

Hark back to the days of text based adventure games, and simple PC, speaker sound.

Console simple progress

by aaverian

A very simple console progress bar.

Constructor Dependency Injection Pattern Implementation in C#

by Sandeep Singh Shekhawat

This tip is about the Constructor Dependency Injection Pattern Implementation in C#.

Consume an Atom Feed in an ASP.NET Web Page

by Dominic Burford

Consuming / displaying an Atom feed on an ASP.NET web page

Consuming AJAX-Enabled WCF Services from both Client and Server

by RalphZero

This is a simple example of an Ajax-Enabled WCF Service (hosted in IIS) that can be consumed by both client-side and server-side code.

Consuming JsonP from a WCF Service ( C# .Net ) using jQuery across different Domains

by Rocky R. Fernandes

Accessing Json Data across different domain using JsonP to get arround Security warning

Consuming the Holidaywebservice2 with Visual Studio 2010

by Jules Harcourt

How to use the excellent Holiday web service in VB.NET using VS 2010.

Control Resizing on a UserControl in WinForms

by #realJSOP

Control resizing is a bit more mysterious than it might appear at first glance.

Control Visual Studio Load Time

by T.Umarani

Control Visual Studio startup time

Controlling Drawn Shapes #2 (simulator)

by rld1971

Adding a physics engine and investigating other .NET tools

Conversion Between All .NET Languages

by Anshul R

The Perfect Translation/Conversion of Code

Convert a Windows Form to PDF

by Frans Jan

This article shows how to save a Windows Form to a PDF file.

Convert doc/docx Documents to PDF with Foxit Reader

by El_Codero

Convert doc/docx documents to pdf with Foxit Reader Printer. Works without use of Word Interop/SharePoint.

Convert JSON to C# Classes using Paste JSON as Classes Feature

by Kuv Patel

Convert JSON to C# classes in Visual Studio

Convert Numbers to Words Neatly

by Normz Antonino

This tip shows you how to convert numbers to words neatly.

Convert Text Represented Number to Numeric String

by FatzBomb

How to convert a written number to a numerical value anywhere in a string.

Convert VS2008 .msi to WiX project

by User 4838655

A simple utility to convert VS2008 .msi to WiX project

Converting Multiple Image Files to PDF

by jansok

A tip on converting multiple image files (BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF) to single or multiple PDF

Copy document with versions from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 Online site using .Net Managed Client Object Model

by ShrutiASharma

Utilizing SharePoint Client Object model to copy files with versions from SharePoint 2010 site to SharePoint 2013 online site.

Copying linked content files using MSBuild

by Matt Perdeck

Sometimes we need to share JavaScript, CSS or images files amongst several web applications. This post shows how to do this using Visual Studio's linked files feature, combined with a simple MSBuild target to ensure the shared content files can be found by the browser.

Count the Number of OLE Automation Instances

by SaahilPriya

The sample demonstrates how to count the number of OLE Automation Objects running at a particular time.

CPU Usage with graphical indication using C# .NET

by Tyronne Thomas

CPU usage with C#.

Crafting on Hex String

by Nosey Parker

Crafting on hex string

Create a Drop Down Calculator Opens like DateTimePicker

by Nadun Liyanage

This tip describes creating a user control to display a drop down calculator that pops out like the DateTimePicker in Visual Studio

Create and Deploy Custom Timer Job Definition in SharePoint Programatically

by Ravi Rachchh

Create and deploy custom timer job definition programatically in SharePoint.

Create Animation using Separated Images

by Ruzli999

How to create Animation using separated Images

Create Crystal Report Document Dynamically from List of Objects in Applications without Database

by ashkanpower

How to create Crystal report document dynamically from a list of objects in applications without database

Create Data and Control Templates using Delegates

by Paulo Zemek

Avoid generating strings as templates. Avoid the complicated FrameworkElementFactory. Create templates that use a delegate to create new instances, so you can use normal code to do the job.

Create deployment package for SharePoint 2013 Project using Visual Studio

by senthill

This article describes how to create deployment package for sharepoint 2013 project using using visual studio

Create Floating/Sliding/Moving Menu in C#.NET

by Noble KC

Floating/Sliding Menu or Panel in C#.NET

Create Folders Using Data from Excel File

by brpulsani

How to create folders using data from Excel file

Create PDF from Images using VB.NET

by Fahmi Noor Fiqri

Create PDF from Image files using VB.NET and PDFSharp library.

Create RSA Key Container and Encrypt/Decrypt Config in C#

by Yaseer Mumtaz

This tip contains securing Web or App config sections in C# with code snippets.

Create SendEmail Workflow 4 Custom Activity

by User 8388951

In this tip, we are going to create an activity that can send an e-mail message to a target user.

Create Table and Stored Procedure in SQL Server and connect it from ASP.NET using C#

by Prakash Lekhak

We will create a Table and Stored Procedure in Sql Server 2008R2 and data will be inserted and retrieved by using Asp.net using C#

Create Thumbnail Image from PDF using Ghostscript

by Saranya Mahesh

Upload PDF, save file name to database, save pdf to a folder, create a thumbnail image of pdf and save it to a folder, and also save the image to database

Create Visual States in Blend 2015

by Zain Nisar

How to create visual states and what is state group?

Create Visual Studio forms for items you frequently use

by OriginalGriff

Quite often, when I create a new form, the first thing I need to add is an OK and a Cancel button. Recently, I realized that I could create templates for these in Visual Studio and save some time.

Create Your First MVC Project in Umbraco (ver 6)

by piyush_singh

How to create your first MVC project in Umbraco

Creating a folder the advanced way [VB.Net Code]

by TechKidd

This trick is on a intermediate/advanced level.

Creating a Issue in Jira using Rest Api

by Abhijit Ghosh (Subho)

Creating a Issue in Jira using Rest API and Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML)

Creating an Installer in Visual Studio and Inno Setup

by tSlappy

Creating an installer for Windows (Desktop) application in Visual Studio and Inno Setup

Creating an Issue with Multiple Attachments in Jira using Rest API

by Abhijit Ghosh (Subho)

This is an alternative for "Creating a Issue in Jira using Rest API". This is an upgraded version as it contains a way of sending attachments with the issue. This version doesn't use MSXML as it is not recommended by Microsoft.

Creating and Using Code Snippets in Visual Studio

by B. Clay Shannon

The easiest way to create and use code snippets in Visual Studio

Creating ConcurrentPartitionedDictionary

by D Sarthi Maheshwari

A suggested solution to create serializable Partition based ConcurrentDictionary (reducing chances of OOM errors, reduced memory consumption and adding capability to hold bigger KVP set in Dictionary).

Creating Custom C# Code Snippets in Visual Studio

by Akash Gutha

Code snippets are automatic code generators that can generate code with just a unique string and a tab press.

Creating MSBuild projects from .sln files.

by Pete O'Hanlon

If you want to create MSBuild files, and only have Visual Studio solutions, take heart - there is a trick that will help you out.

Creating PartitionedDictionary

by D Sarthi Maheshwari

A suggested solution to create Partition based Dictionary (reducing chances of OOM errors and adding capability to hold bigger KVP set in Dictionary).

Creating your own library in Visual Studio

by Chrene91

A tip to fellow programmers developing in the .NET environment

CRUD in ASP.NET MVC 4 with KnockOut.JS

by Indresh_Prajapati

This tip will help beginners to implement CRUD operations in ASP.NET MVC 4 with scripting language as KnockOut and Database as MS SQL 2008R2.

CUDA 3.0 and Nexus Parallel Nsight on VS 2010

by GPUToaster™

CUDA 3.2 on VS2010 in 9 steps

by Kerem Kat

Compile and run CUDA 3.2 projects from VS2010 in 9 easy steps

Custom .NET DLLs into the Add Reference Dialog

by Palash Biswas

However, if you want to show VS2008 to display your custom DLLs within in the list maintained by the Add Reference dialog, all you need to do is place a copy of the DLL within the PublicAssemblies folder located under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE. Once you have done...

Custom Application Configuration XML files Warning

by DaveAuld

Here is a lesson I learnt while working with custom application settings in XML files and Visual Studio

Custom Control for Effective Paging and Page Navigation for GridView with Full Source

by Sreedhar Puligundla

Creating custom control for gridview paging and page navigation

Custom MenuStrip and A Form Without Borders (Full Control)

by Bob Stoom

Working code of the custom MenuStrip on the LinearGradientBrush constructor base. And how to control Form without borders.

Custom Message Box DLL

by Pranav_

Create DLL to draw your own message box

Custom Paging Control

by Aliaa Ezzat

Custom paging control for repeaters

Custom Popup Fade-in Window in C#/Winform/.NET

by Sean Chung

In this tip, I'll show you how I make a replacement for tooltip

Custom Seed Serializer for Entity Framework Code First C#

by DiponRoy

Custom Seed Serializer for Entity Framework Code First C#

Custom String to ValueType Converter

by Kishor Deshpande

Methods which facilitate the conversion from string to value type

Custom Tool (Single File Generator) for Visual Studio 2015

by paul1167

A Skeleton of a Single File Generator: Create, Register, Apply

Customizing Bootstrap – Adding a New Panel Type

by jnegron215

This tip will describe how to add a new Panel type to a customized version of the bootstrap framework.

Customizing the WIX Installer

by VaibhavTiparadi

Quick and easy way of customizing the WIX Installer

Customizing Visual Studio 2010 Start Page

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here is the alternate URL of the Tips (from where it has been copied fully): Tips and Tricks: Customizing Visual Studio 2010 Start Page[^]

Dapper.NET Sample with MVC 4- Add,Edit,Update,Delete

by Gihan Liyanage

Simple Dapper.NET Example with MVC

Data validation in WPF

by DonWim

how to implement data validation via regular expressions in a WPF application

Database Object Model

by databaseobjectmodel

A Sample ORM project

DataGridView Row Delete in CellSelect Mode

by Weberto.com

Event to delete rows by selected cells.

Datagridview with Multisort

by MarioRainer

Here is a simple way to sort the datagridview by Multi-Columns

DataGridView: Make Enter Key Move to Next Column

by Jαved

DataGridView: Make Enter Key Move to Next Column

DataTable to List using Generics

by Abdul Ahad Monty

Convert DataTable to List using Generics.

Datatip - Get Out of My Way

by Kamran Bilgrami

How to remove datatips if you want to view code at the same time

DB Independent Code using Wrappers

by Amol M Vaidya

A simple Data Connection Library to avoid rewriting code when the DB changes

Debug with RPC

by Member 7961821

Life debug plug-in of non debugable host

Debugging Release Projects in C++ - Finding the Lost Object Information

by Yochai Timmer

Debugging C++ projects in release. Finding the lost object information

Delete Column in DataGridView

by Markus Kühter

How to Delete Columns in a DataGridView

Demo ASP.NET 4.0 - Free - Prometric

by Rafael Leal da Silva

Hello my friends.Microsoft is providing a test in prometric of NET 4.0, free.It is free!!!!Schedule your exam in prometric.In the link below, you find the code of...

Demonstration of Wlan APIs from MSDN

by david pretham

Windows Native API application

DependentTaskRunner - How to Run Tasks with Dependencies and Stay Sane

by Alon Lek

Running tasks in parallel while taking into account the dependencies between them

Deploying Workflow as WSP File

by Jean Paul V.A

Deploying a Workflow as a WSP file.

Deploying Workflow as WSP File

by Jean Paul V.A

Designer Debugging in WinRT

by Vinoth Kumar J

Designer debugging in WinRT

Designing the Layout of Windows Forms using a TableLayoutPanel, with auto-expand panels

by Hassan Mokdad

This is a just a small tip to show a simple way of designing the user interface of Windows Forms for Desktops applications.

DesignTime adding of Controls to a UserForm on a WinForm

by BillWoodruff

An interesting change in behavior in VS 2010 Pro ?

Desktop Manager - Organize Your Desktop

by Ivan0001

You have too many icons on your desktop? Well, this will solve your problem. With this program, you can organize your desktop, create categories and add programs/documents to category.

Detect a DoubleClick to Prevent a Change in Checkstate

by JRCoderMan

Detects a double-click via an initial and subsequent OnMouseDown event

Detecting USB Modem Device using C#

by Shivachalappa Gotur

Detecting USB Modem Device using C#.NET

Developing Leap Motion Integrated Windows 8.1 Apps

by Muhammad Muddasar Yamin

This tip is about the development Leap Motion integrated Windows 8.1 metro apps using C#

Developing Sharepoint Windows Forms

by AfnanMof

Steps How to Develop Sharepoint Windows Forms

Disable APM for Hard Drive in Windows

by slaon77

Setting APM level for SATA hard drive

by AntounPG

by jarvisa

public void ControlStatus(Control control, bool isDisable){ foreach (Control c in control.Controls) if (c.HasControls()) ControlStatus(c, isDisable); else { WebControl wc = c as WebControl; if (wc != null) ...

by PSU Steve

You can just use "not IsDisable" versus the IF...ELSE block. Additionally, the recursive call to ControlStatus should be done all the time so that the parent control is enabled/disabled along with the children. // to enable\disable the control & its child controls public...

Display line number in Visual Studio

by a_pess

Alternative For VB.NET Windows Forms Private Sub ControlEnabled(ByVal ctrl As Control, ByVal isDisable As Boolean) Me.ControlEnabled(ctrl, isDisable, True) End Sub Private Sub ControlEnabled(ByVal ctrl As Control, ByVal isDisable As Boolean, ByVal allowRecurse As...

by sathya4260

Tip to get the line number in Visual Studio

Display line number in Visual Studio

by Henry Minute

I know that some people like to have line numbers and it is particularly useful if you are sending code to somebody else, like posting it on CP in Q&A when asking for help with a problem, for example. In cases like that, it is much easier to say "the error is on line 123".However, I don't...

DLL with configuration file

by fmsalmeida

Using configuration files in DLL is not trivial, but is very simple.

DLL with configuration file

by lewax00

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, you can just go to properties for the project, Settings tab, and click "This project does not contain a default settings file. Click here to create one.".

DMath is DirectXMath for All

by Jose A Pascoa

Part 1 - Using DMath from C#

DNS resolving and Parsing IP Address in Metro Style Applications (WinRT)

by Tyronne Thomas

DNS resolving and parsing IP address in Metro Style applications (WinRT).

Do Smart coding using Code Snippets in .NET

by Joshi, Rushikesh

You learn how to create your own Code Snippets and publish them to your Team to use them.

Doing Some Unit Testing with XUnit

by Dave Clemmer

Using XUnit.net to develop some unit tests, using Fact and Theory form of testing, including happy path tests and tests expected to throw exceptions

Download Mail Details With attachment using IMAP

by Sujith Karivelil

This article Describes Connectivity to Gmail using IMAP, and also guide you to download and save mail content along with attachment.

Drag Multiple Controls with Shadows Effects

by Vincenzo Barone

This tip shows how to make a multiple controls drag effect in winform.

Drawing a Custom Mainframe Window for MFC SDI Applications

by Biruk Abebe

How to completely take control of drawing a custom application window including the captionbar, menubar, toolbar, borders and statusbar in MFC Single document interface (SDI) applications using the MfcSkinSDI class.

Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection

by Sunil_Sebastian

Duplicate Notifier for a List using ObservableCollection.

Dynamic DropDownList Binding in ASP.NET MVC With Database

by Member 10872251

Cascading DropDownList in ASP.NET MVC

Dynamic SQL Connection in ASP.NET 3.5 with User Controls

by ss9o9o9o

Transferring backup files from a remote SQL Server and Dynamic SQL Connection with Restore utility.

Dynamically Browse Active Directory Objects

by Sebastian Sosna

A simple program which lets you browse containers of your Active Directory

Dynamically creating a predicate delegate

by Randy Kroeger

Created a POC that dynamically builds a predicate using Expression and Reflection.

Easier FTP Management Class (.dll)

by Member 12032084

.dll for making the FTP management with VB.NET easier

Easy Desktop Web Stats

by Michael J Hill - OH

Create a Windows desktop app to display daily web stats from your personal site

Easy SFTP (Secure FTP) With C# and PSFTP

by metastruct

SFTP Files using PLINK as a process in C#

Easy USB Remover (F10 to remove)

by Prabakaran T

If you often use removable USB devices like a flash drive, you are probably already familiar with the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon that sits in the system tray. The problem for many people is that the icon is tiny, and clicking it just right to bring up the menu is a pain.

Edit Word Documents using OpenXML and C# Without Automation/Interop

by koolprasad2003

This tip explains how to use Word Automation using OpenXML and C# without Word Interop.

EditedFormattedValue v/s Value in Datagridview

by agent_kruger

There is usually a mis-conception with people thinking "DataGridView Cell.Value" gets the current value of the cell in datagridview. This article will tell you the difference between "EditedFormattedValue v/s Value in Datagridview".

Electronic Signature with Canvas and JavaScript

by Miller Nguyen

This article will show you how to implement a complete solution of electronic signature by using HTML5 canvas in ASP.NET (VB).

Embedded WebBrowser (IWebBrowser2) in Pure C++ (no MFC, etc)

by Emiliarge

Simple WebBrowser (IE) class in Pure C++

Embedding Chrome in a WPF VB.NET Application using CEFSharp

by The Myth

Embedding Chrome in a WPF VB.NET application using CEFSharp

Enable Debugging in Visual Studio when browsing silverlight in Firefox

by shankeyshankey

Encrypt ConnectionString in Web.Config

by Yamin Khakhu

Encrypting the configuration in Web.Config

Encrypting all Stored Procedures in a Database

by jroughgarden

This is an alternative for "Encrypting all Stored Procedures of a Database".

Encrypting all the Stored Procedures of a Database

by qadirv

Quick C# console application to encrypt all your database stored procedures

Encypt and decrypt StorageFile in Windows Store apps

by Farhan Ghumra

Encypt and decrypt StorageFile in Windows Store apps.

English Language Convert to Arabic in Windows Application C#

by shouvith hydrose Kerala

This tip will explain how to convert English language to Arabic language in Windows Forms C#.

Enhanced Remedy Macro

by Jack Ross

A nice CLI for managing the BMC trouble ticketing service

Entity and Mapping Class Generator for EF

by Daniel Miller

This tip provides a simple solution to automate the generation of entity and mapping classes for Entity Framework.

Entity Framework 2.1 - npg PostgreSql Error

by Wael Al Wirr

PostgreSQL exception 42P01

Entity Framework Code First Auto Migration Using ASP.NET MVC 5

by Rakibul Islam 33

In this tip, we will try to understand SOLID Architecture principles using simple ASP.NET MVC 5 examples.

Entity Framework Code First Migrations Alternative

by DiponRoy

How to handle database scheme changes with normal SQL scripts, without migration in Entity Framework code first

Entity Framework Migrations enabled in Data Access Class Library used in MVC project

by Valentino_Lokesh

Migrations enabled in Class Library (Data Access Layer) and the same is referenced to MVC ProjectNo need to maintain the Data Access and Model classes in the MVC Project. We can have separate Class library for Model and Data Access and have migrations enabled in Data Access where DbContext resides.

Entity Framework on MySQL with nHydrate

by Christopher R Davis

Use model driven development with a MySql backend

Entity Model to Excel using LINQ in C#

by Debopam Pal

How to bring data from Entity model to Excel file using LINQ.

Excel Automation with SAP Generated Report

by ehab_nour

Processing SAP generated Excel file as a report to get some information

EXE to MSI -- MSI Wrapper using WIX Toolset v4

by JakeG

WIX template for wrapping EXE with a MSI installer for easier deployment with group policy

Execute System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect Method with Timeout Controlled by System.Threading.Timer

by JRINC

Connect to remote socket via System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect method with timeout controlled by System.Threading.Timer

Executing AS400 Commands Programmatically using WPF and C#

by K Barakathulla Khan

Programmatically connecting to AS400 and executing commands

Executing Stored Procedure with User Defined Table Type Parameter in Entity Framework Using EntityFrameworkExtras

by AshishShukla6

This tip describes step by step implementation of executing stored procedure having user-defined table type as a parameter in entity framework using EntityFrameworkExtras package.

Export Multidimensional Array to Excel with Formatting in C#

by Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman

This is an alternative for "Export DataTable to Excel with Formatting in C#".

Export to Excel in ASP.NET C#

by JatinKhimani

Export Gridview data in Excel formate with gridview design.

Expressmapper - The New .NET Mapper!

by Yuriy Anisimov

Expressmapper - lightweight, lighting fast and easy to use .NET mapper

Extract Bookmark from PDF file

by Md Kamruzzaman Sarker

Bookmark extraction from PDF files and showing it in a treeview.

Extract Tables from PDFs

by moneema14

A parser event listener for PDF tables to .NET Dataset object

Facade Design Pattern in C# Example

by Vipin_Arora

It is a tip to implement Facade design pattern in c#

Face Detection with 10 Lines of Code - VB.NET

by Dejan Mauer

Probably the easiest way to detect faces in images by using Accord.net framework

Facebook blocker

by pavan1361

adding require blocking site in hosts file

Fast Barcode 39 Detection

by LORY Flavien

Fast detection of big barcode 39

Fast base64 functions for encode/decode

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

A quick solution to transform binary data to plain text

Fast Excel Import and Export

by Jose Segarra

Fast, really fast, import/export from Excel OOXML

Fast Expression Evaluation

by Palash Biswas

Use Expression += Value instead of Expression = Expression + Value. Since Expression can be arbitrarily complex, this can result in lots of unnecessary work. This forces the JIT to evaluate both copies of Expression, and many times this is not needed. The first statement can be optimized far...

Fast Expression Evaluation

by ProtoBytes

A better method of finding solutions to problems like this is to use a tool to decompile the IL which is assembled .NET. The tool I recomend is LINQPad; which features a lambda button which will decompile the sample code fragment being analyzed.To further your understanding of such...

Fast Fourier Transform using DX11

by Asif Bahrainwala

FFT using DX11 compute shader

Fast Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) Algorithm

by ZamirF

Can we simplify it by: (This essentially passes only two numbers). public int GCD(int value1, int value2){ int max = 0; bool gcdFound = false; int counter = 1; //Make sure both numbers are atleast 2 or above if (( value1 <= 1 ) || (value2 <= 1)) return...

Fast Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) Algorithm

by jfriedman

/// /// Find the Greatest Common Divisor /// /// Number a /// Number b /// The greatest common Divisor public static long GCD(long a, long b) ...

Fast Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) Algorithm

by Mauro Leggieri

It is better to do this:public static long LCM(long a, long b){ return (a / GCD(a,b)) * b;}To avoid overflow on big numbers.

Fast Voronoi Diagram in C#

by Burhan Joukhadar

Fortune Voronoi Diagram in C#

Fast, simple Bitmap editor class

by Rui Jorge Carvalho

Fast and simple Bitmap processor...

Faxing with XP and C#

by Leon van Wyk

Send faxes with C# using Win 2k or XP

FFMPEG Video Converter with Progressbar VB.NET

by David Vanson

How to make a video converter that shows the conversion progress to the user using ffmpeg

Field Based Security in ASP.NET MVC 3 for Different Roles

by Ajay Bachale

MVC3 Role base security.

File Data Inspector

by Fabrizio Stellato

Simply search data in file

File Upload using WCF REST API and JavaScript

by lusgon

Uploading a file using WCF REST API and JavaScript

Filtering Threads in a Multi-Project Solution

by Kamran Bilgrami

Effective way of debugging multi-threaded application in a multi-project solution

Find Duplicate Files and Delete Them

by AmitGajjar

Application for seaching similar kinds of files in different folders.

Find IP address in a Metro app (Windows 8)

by Abhinav Sultania

How to find IP address of machine in metro App(Windows 8)

Finding a substring in a text

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to find a substring in a text, forward and backward, with Case Sensitive and Match Whole Word options.

Finding Properties in Objects and Write and Read to them

by Marc Koutzarov

Sometimes, it is useful to know if an object has a certain property and then fill it by only having the propertyname as a string at hand.

Finding source files in Solution (Visual Studio)

by Jose David Pujo

Sometimes we spend a lot of time opening - closing folders trying to find .cpp / .cs / .h files in the Solution

Finding the assemblies loaded in the current AppDomain

by Saikumar Koona

Finding assemblies loaded in the current AppDomain.

FindWhat

by Roger65

Find file or use wildcard i.e. dlg*.h, or *.*

Finite-Difference Model for the Thermal History of the Earth

by Yuri Heymann

Source code for the article titled "A Finite-Difference Model for the Thermal History of the Earth

First You See Them. Then You Don’t. Now You Will.

by dgDavidGreene

How to find and link config and other files from other projects within your solution.

Flag Design With F# And GDI+

by Farhad Reza

This tip describes the use of GDI+ with F# language through Flag design.

Flexible Logging using log4net

by Prabu ram

This is a logging component enabling extended logging and multiple targets

Forgot Password With Check Email From Database

by Muhammad Aqib Shehzad

Forgot Password and Email Check from Database

Four Easy Steps to Set Up OWIN for Form-authentication

by Assil

This post demonstrates the simplest use of OWIN with ASP.NET. It will not teach you OWIN nor Claim-based auth, nor design or security.

Four Ways to Implement Lazy Loading in C#

by Francesco Cariaggi

Analyzing the Lazy Loading design pattern.

Free Up To Date Historical Stock Data

by D. Infuehr

How to download historical raw stock data for each symbol traded at nasdaq and nyse.

From scratch, made a mfc library in Visual Studio 2015

by Juan AG

Create a dll wich uses MFC statically linked and allow you to call normal methods, static methods and global variables, quick an easy

FTP Upload/Download of Text Files in MetroApps

by wendas

This shows how to use the new async logic to read/write, and upload/download text files in Metro apps.

Fun with F#

by Amal Nanda

Fun with F#F# (pronounced "F sharp") is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework that combines the succinct, expressive, and compositional style of functional programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET, that lets users concentrate on...

Fuzzy lib with GUI using mvvm light and OxyPlot

by Søren Gullach

Fuzzy lib that have a GUI and uses Lagrange for member curve generating

FxEngine Plugin to Stream Video Data from a Webcam

by m_sylvain

This tip shows how to build an FxEngine plugin to stream video data from a webcam

Gated Check-in in Git Repository

by Rahul R Shanbhag

This tip explains how we can make the Git pipeline fail when the Sonarqube quality gates analysis for the corresponding branch fails.

GDI Leak Detector - A special debugger to detect and locate GDI leaks

by cdp_anhui_china

A special debugger to detect and locate GDI leaks, with source code.

Gems for typedef and namespace in C

by Southmountain

Gems for typedef and namespace in C

Generate a PDF document from exported stream of a crystal report

by lidialee

I have a report which can be viewed in Crystal Report viewer in VS. Client needs to generate a PDF file with a click of a button and the PDF should pop up upon finishing exporting and let the client decide where to save the file.'vb.netImports...

Generate a PDF document from exported stream of a crystal report

by atverweij

The last part can be written much easier in VB:Private Sub msGPDF_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles msGPDF.Click Dim Stream As IO.Stream = objRpt.ExportToStream(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat) Dim Buffer(CInt(Stream.Length)) As Byte ...

Generate Sample XML from XSD

by Joshi, Rushikesh

How to Generate Sample XML from XSD

Generate temporary files with any extension

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to get temporary files with any extension.

Generate XML in ASP.NET MVC5 and AngularJs using Database Value

by Md._Mehedi_Hasan

This tip will help you to generate .xml file in AngularJs and ASP.NET MVC5 using XElement of C#.

Generating Breakpoints

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

How to generate breakpoints

Generating constructors at compile time

by PIEBALDconsult

This is an alternative for "C# Convert DataTable to List of Objects Dynamically"

Generic Async Factory

by Krishnan Srinivasan

A Generic Extensible Async Factory

Genetic Algorithm

by Loay Al Lusi

Genetic Algorithm is used to search for maximum/minimum value of a given function using the concept of chromes and genes.

Get a list of physical disks and the partitions on them in VB.NET the easy way

by pdoxtader

Use DeviceIoControl, QueryDosDevice and WNetOpenEnum to get information about your system.

Get Assembly full name from Visual Studio (VersionNo, Culture, PublickeyToken)

by senguptaamlan

Getting Assembly full name from Visual Studio

Get at your Solutions Quickly in VS2010 with Windows 7 Pinning and Jump Lists

by TheyCallMeMrJames

Windows 7 introduced Pinning and Jump lists, two features that, when combined, let you get at your most recent projects quickly.Visual Studio 2010 is also smart enough to differentiate between files, projects and solutions, only displaying the bigger-picture items in the jump lists.To...

Get DataBase Connection Strings in an Easy Way

by dontumindit

Communication with database in .NET is easy but sometimes one gets stuck by wrong format of connection string

by jim lahey

Or you could just pop over to:http://www.connectionstrings.com/[^]Use the exhaustive samples they provide and not hard code your connection strings by using a standard .NET configuration file:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1xtk877y.aspx[^]

by bipin9

goto Server Explorer right Click on DataBase Click on properties in properties window you will get Connection String copy it & use where you want use !!

by crocks256

The ConnectionStringBuilder classes in .NET can be quite handy...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlconnectionstringbuilder.aspx[^].

Get Outlook 07 email & attachments entry ID using C#.NET

by MikkelAndersen

I get it from the web.config via ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings;This makes it possible to keep all connectionstring settings in the web.config file.For example: http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet1676.htm[^].

by Md. Marufuzzaman

Introduction...

Getting all the ip-addresses on subnet and filtering by availability

by Nosey Parker

How to calculate subnet fast and get active ip-addresses

Getting started with GIT, Visual Studio, and BitBucket

by OriginalGriff

Getting started with GIT, Visual Studio, and BitBucket isn't difficult - but it can take a bit of working out. Here is a simple explanation of what to do to get a new project under source control.

Git – Visual Studio 2022, v17.3.0, Line Staging

by Mark Pelf

An overview and comments on a new feature of VS2022, v17.3.0, Git Line staging

Globalization in WPF

by Vipul Bhatnagar

Create a multilingual application WPF

GMDH Algorithm Implementation

by Sa Sha

Implementation of GMDH algorithm, using a sigmoid function. C++, VS, AlgLib-based

Google Map with JSON

by mparvez

Google Map with JSON

Google ReCaptcha 2.0 - ASP.net Control

by Komail Haider

.Net control/wrapper for the Google NEW ReCaptcha API 2.0

Google reCaptcha v2 with MVC5

by Royston Malcomber

Setting up Google reCaptcha version 2 with MVC5

Handle CSS File with Visual Studio 2012

by Abdur Rashid

How to handle CSS file with Visual Studio 2012

Handle XML File Using XML DOM

by Asad Bukhari

This tip explains simple steps to define XML DOM against XML document. This way, you can easily manipulate XML document as simple class objects.

Handling events in google calendar using google API v3

by Sujith Karivelil

This article will help you to create, update and delete events/ appointment in google calendar from your web application.

Handling Events in WPF in an Easy and Short Hand Way

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This tip is for WPF developers, understanding the usage of lambda expressions for handling the events instead of markup based or function based event handlers.

Handling Excel Lists with Interop

by HP2M

This tip covers handling two Excel lists using Interop.

Header Comment Visual Studio AddIn for C#

by sreeyush sudhakaran

Application to add a file header comment at the start of every human-created code file

HelloWorld.dll: The simplest way to create your first DLL

by pasztorpisti

How to create your first DLL without coding too much... :)

Hide Intellisense info to view code

by Dean Oliver

How to hide Intellisense info to view code.

Hiding contents in ASP.Net user control designer

by atlaste

How to fix hiding controls in the Visual Studio user control designer

Hiding Data in an Image File

by Pikoh

A simple method to join several images in a single file and recover them afterwards

Highlight Search Text in Search Result

by Bikash Prakash Dash

How to highlight search text in a search result using ASP.NET

Hosting WCF Service

by Math08avan

Hosting WCF Service - Self Hosting

How can we get the security access information.

by Md. Marufuzzaman

For programmers it is more important that you identify whether you are allowed to do something.

How Do I Capture the Enter Key in a Windows Forms Combobox

by Sergi Ortiz Gomez

Quick tip for capture ENTER key in a Windows Form combobox

How to Add Custom XSD Validation Intellisense in Visual Studio

by RemcoReitsma

This tip shows how you can add an XSD schema in Visual Studio to enable XML intellisense.

How to Add Sharepoint 2010 WebPart Editor Functionality

by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions and demonstration of how to add functionality to a WebPart's built-in Editor

How to Allow Hot Key Combinations to Insert Specified Characters Into a Textbox (C#/Winforms)

by B. Clay Shannon

Set up hotkey combinations to insert characters you specify, such as accented characters or other "special" characters, into a textbox

How to Automate Facebook Tasks with C#

by Soufiane Rabhi

C# Facebook SDK

How to avoid SFxCannotImportAsParameters-DifferentWrapperName

by Henning Dieterichs

This tip shows how to change a WSDL-file to avoid the SFxCannotImportAsParameters_DifferentWrapperName-Exception, which is thrown when importing the WSDL-file in Visual Studio

How to Change Master Page @ Run-time

by Shridhar Gowda

This tip will give complete knowledge of how to change master page, render controls and accessing its eventhandlers @ runtime.

How To Change Screen Brightness in C#

by John Melling

This is a simple program that demonstrates a method used to adjust the screen brightness on any C# application.

How to change targeted C# version in Visual Studio

by Snesh Prajapati

I found that changing targeted C# version for a project in Visual Studio is bit tricky. And even if you choose old .NET framework version, Visual studio will use default C# version to compile C# code, until you explicitly set the targeted C# version.

How To Change Visual Studio Default Editor

by Shai Raiten

About changing the Visual Studio Default Editor

How to Compare Database Schema in VS 2012, How to Update the Target Database to the Server

by Syed Moula Ali

How to compare database schema in VS 2012 and how to update the target database to the server

How to Connect a Client on Your Host to a Server Running on Andoid Emulator

by infal

How to establish a connection to server running in Android emulator

How to Control TP-Link Smart Plug HS1XX

by Alberto M.

How to control TP-Link Smart Plug (HS100 or HS110) with C#

How to Convert Accented Characters to HTML Codes

by B. Clay Shannon

Replacing accented characters in a text file with their HTML code equivalents

How to Convert between Romaji and Hiragana/Katakana

by Nguyen.H.H.Dang

This is a dirtiest trick that shows you how to convert text between Romaji and Hiragana/Katakana

How to create a Google Heatmap in VB.NET

by Michael Rosqvist

A small sample showing how to create a Google Heatmap in ASP.NET/VB.NET

How to create a multi-level IVR (Interactive Voice Response) menu system in C#

by W.Walker

It presents step-by-step how to create an advanced multi-level VoIP IVR in C# in order to extend your basic menu system and to improve your whole customer service.

How to create a navigation-wizard with a Windows Form Project

by Mark Springer

Allow navigation - forward, backward, branching, and loops with a few changes to your existing projects

How to Create a Project Template for Visual Studio

by Houssem_Dellai

This short tip will show you how to create a project template for Visual Studio and make it available for any VS user.

How To Create A REST Based JSON Service in WCF

by Manish_Kaushal

This tip provides a quick starter guide to create a RESTful JSON service in WCF.

How to Create a Simple Expandable / Collapsible Panel

by Noble KC

How to create a Simple Expandable / Collapsible Menu Panel for Windows Forms in C#.NET

How to Create a Video Recording Application (NVR/DVR software) for an ONVIF IP Camera using C#.NET

by Oliver_Hart

I’ll show how to record audio and video stream into MPEG-4 file format by using C# to be able to save and store what happened in the area that is under video surveillance.

How To Create Rounded Edge Button (or rounded corner button) in Winforms

by basilke7007

How to create rounded edge button (rounded corner button) in Winforms

How to Create SQL Server Database Project With Visual Studio

by Rijwan Ansari

Learn about SQL Server Database Project (Template) available in VS

How to Create WCF Services - Beginner Code

by supreetph

Creating and consuming WCF

How to Create, Write to, and Read From Sharepoint 2010 Lists with C#

by B. Clay Shannon

CRD Operations (there is no "Updating" method shown, so crud, it's not CRUD) with Sharepoint 2010

How to Debug Visual Basic Script with Visual Studio

by Leo Chapiro

This tip shows how easy it is to debug the VBScript by using Visual Studio Debugger

How to Display a Toast Message and Remove It When the Application Closes

by frankvdhorst

A quick way to add a toast notification to uwp applications and remove when the app closes...

How to display or hide standard button cues.

by priyamtheone

How to Distribute C run-time (CRT) Libraries with Your Application

by OlegKrivtsov

Some tips on available ways of distributing CRT DLLs with your Visual C++ application

How To Do Simple Image Binarization?

by Lai Taiyu

How to do simple image binarization?

How To Do Simple Ordered Dither Algorithm (Half-tone image)?

by Lai Taiyu

A simple ordered dither algorithm (Half-tone image)

How To Do Unit Testing with C++ in Visual Studio 2015

by Juan AG

Let´s do unit testing in a C++ project inside Visual Studio 2015 quick and easy

How to Dynamically Show or Hide sections of a Sharepoint Web Page

by B. Clay Shannon

Use C# and jQuery to control the visibility of a section of a Web Part or Web Page

How to Easily Insert A New Row (on Top) in WPF (VS & Sublime)

by _Noctis_

How to use Sublime text editor to help with your VS development

How to Easily Test RESTful Methods with JSON.NET from a Windows Forms Utility

by B. Clay Shannon

Easily Test RESTful Methods with JSON.NET on Windows Forms

How to establish a reservation of classroom web system using ASP.NET?

by Lai Taiyu

To establish a reservation of classroom web system using ASP.NET

How to fix "LocalDB - Requested Login failed"

by Ed Nutting

How to fix LocalDB / SQL Server: "Cannot open database "XYZ" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user ABC"

How To Hide Or Show .NET Tabs Programmatically

by KazMaxLtd

This article describes how to hide or show TabControl tabs at runtime

How To Hide Or Show .NET Tabs Programmatically

by Bernhard Hiller

That's far too obscure.All you need to do is store a reference to the TabPage instance which was removed from the TabPages collection of the TabControl. You may use the form where the TabControl is placed for that purpose.You could also create your own TabControl which has an extra property...

How to Host Windows Form in Windows User Control

by Aydin Homay

In the tip, I want to illustrate how to host windows form in windows user control

How to Identify if the Executable is 32-bit or 64-bit

by Amit KD

How to identify if the executable is 32-bit or 64-bit

How to Import Some (void *) Returning Type Function into a C# Project Compiled with cygwin g++

by Garai Márton

Cygwin DLL imported into C# project

How to Insert Missing Spaces After Punctuation Marks in .docx Files using C# and the DocX Library

by B. Clay Shannon

Insert missing spaces following punctuation marks

How To Insert Records Into A Table That Has No Primary Key, using LINQ to SQL?

by karimbaig5

This tip provides an idea about how to insert a record into a table having no primary key using LINQ to SQL.

How to Insert Spaces Between Words Even When They Begin or End with "Strange" Characters Using C# and the DocX Library

by B. Clay Shannon

Inserting spaces between words using C# and the DocX Library

How to Instantiate Objects in Web API from Args Passed in a URI to a RESTful Method

by B. Clay Shannon

Easily (and elegantly) inflate objects based on args passed to a REST method in a URI

How to kill process by process name and user name using C#?

by yosonwan

Sometimes we need to kill a process programly. This article talk about how to get process array to process name and filter it.

How to Launch Visual Studio with an Alternative Configuration

by Puresharper

Visual Studio is a nice IDE with a lot of features. One of them is an ability to launch multiple instance with different configuration.

How to Limit TextBox Entries to Decimal or Integer Values in Windows Forms with C#

by B. Clay Shannon

How to Limit TextBox Entries to Decimal or Integer Values in Windows Forms with C#

How to Lock Windows NT Workstation

by Md. Marufuzzaman

Introduction How can you lock your Windows NT based Workstation programmatically? To do this, you just need a little basic knowledge on how to use user32.dll. Here you will find a function name as LockWorkStation() and you need to know how to call this function. A sample example with the...

How To Make A Clear Color Image (Histogram Equalization)?

by Lai Taiyu

How to make a clear color image (Histogram Equalization)?

How To Make A Clear Gray Image (Histogram Equalization)?

by Lai Taiyu

How to make a clear gray image (Histogram Equalization)?

How to make a MS Report using several datatables

by Vidor

How to make a MS Report using several datatables.

How To Make a Simple Draggable-Resizable Text Box

by Nguyen.H.H.Dang

A simple draggable-resizable TextBox control inherited from RichTextBox

How to Make a Sliding SplitView in UWP (C#)

by Georgeutc

Adding sliding functionality to UWP XAML SplitView

How to make any UI element drag-able using Behaviors in WPF

by Ahmed_Said

How to make gradient colored Controls in Windows Forms

by Ahmed_Said

How To Make The ListView Aware Of Data Changes

by dimpant

Learn how to properly use the NotifyDataSetChanged method of the ListViewAdapter to remove items from a ListView

How to Minify js and CSS file using Visual Studio 2012

by Abhishek Kumar Goswami

I came up with this article where I can describe how we can create minified version of our js and css file.

How to Pass a Large String to a Web API Method (Apart from the URI)

by B. Clay Shannon

Pass a long string to a Web API method (not as part of the URI query)

How to Post HTML Table Rows as a List/Array to MVC Controller

by Ricardo R Carneiro

In this tip, I describe how to post/send data of a table (or list) of HTML for a LIST/ARRAY in C#.

How to programmatically warm boot a Windows CE device

by B. Clay Shannon

Simple way to warm boot a Windows CE device

How to Really Clean the Solution

by Laszlo Voros

How to really clean your Visual Studio Solution

How to recover MySQL Website Configuration Tool Icon in VS 2010

by adriancs

Discovering MySQL Website Configuration Tool on Visual Studio 2010

How to Refactor a Visual Studio 2012 Solution under Source Control

by Infoteam SA

Editing a Visual Studio solution file

How to Remove Dot signs viewed instead of spaces (White Spaces)?

by Tarun Dudhatra

How to Remove Dot signs viewed instead of spaces (White Spaces)?

How to Remove Extra Spaces and Add Missing Spaces Between Sentences in .docx files using C# and the DocX Library

by B. Clay Shannon

Make sentences having one and only one space between them

How to Replace a List of Words in a .DOCX File using the DocX Library

by B. Clay Shannon

Replace words in .docx files using the DocX Library

How to Restrict the Calendar Dates on Microsoft AJAX Calendar Extender

by TheKarateKid

Shows how to restrict and format the dates on Microsoft AJAX Calendar Extender...

How to Save Excel Files to SQL Server and Make them downloadable from an ASP.NET Web API Project

by B. Clay Shannon

Save Excel (or other types of) files to SQL Server, then read them out again and make them downloadable via a link on an ASP.NET Web API page

How to Secure Your Application with Matching Processor Id Complete [the DLL source code]

by skhurams

the source code is available

How to select a block of text in Visual Studio

by tamash_ionut

How to select a block of text in Visual Studio

How to send a command to a Zebra QLn220 Printer from a Compact Framework app

by B. Clay Shannon

Sending commands in a Compact Framework app via C# to a Zebra QLn220 printer

How to Send Data from One aspx Page to Another using jquery and Not Cookies or Query String

by Shivi Gupta Lucknow

Here we will see how to send user name from a login page to the welcome page using $.ajax() method.

How to set an alternate row color in SSRS 2005

by Ahmed_Said

How to Sign ClickOnce Deployment if ClickOnce Code Signing Function in Visual Studio Doesn't Work

by Ajcek84

How to properly sign ClickOnce deployment in a way that actually works

How to Sort a Table in ASP.NET and MVC

by Shridhar Gowda

This tip will explain how to sort a table / GridView on an ASP.NET or MVC(AngularJs) application. I am demonstrating both client side and server side sorting. I am sure you will have a great knowledge on this topic after reading it.

How to Split a GIF Frame By Frame and Save Them to Memory

by blitzkrieged

This is a demonstration of splicing an animated GIF (or any image) frame by frame without having to write to the disc.

How to Split Long Strings into Manageable Portions and Display them in a MessageBox

by B. Clay Shannon

An easy method for slicing long strings into "bite-sized" portions for episodic (serial) display

How to Split Long Strings into Manageable Portions and Display them in a MessageBox

by PIEBALDconsult

This is an alternative for "How to Split Long Strings into Manageable Portions and Display them in a MessageBox"

How To Use Any Color In Your C# Apps

by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions for an easy way to use any color in a C# app

How to Use AOP in C# with NConcern .NET

by Puresharper

A simple library can allow you to introduce Aspect-Oriented Programming without any difficulty

How to Use ASP.NET WebForm for JSON or XML Response

by TheKarateKid

Shows how to use simple ASPX page to return JSON or XML response

How to Use Form Authentication in ASP.NET and MVC

by Shridhar Gowda

This tip will give you a knowledge of how to implement form authentication in classic ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. I am sure you will have considerable knowledge after reading this tip.

How to: Debug a Sharepoint 2010 Custom Web Service

by hagerAly

This tip shows how to debug a Sharepoint 2010 custom web service.

How To: Measure execution time in C#

by Kanasz Robert

How To Measure execution time in C#

How To: Measure execution time in C#

by Member 7709321

Here is a useful generic class you can directly use in your project.public class Timer{ public static readonly bool IsHighPerformance; [DllImport("Kernel32.dll")] private static extern bool QueryPerformanceCounter(out long lpPerformanceCount); //Retrieves the current...

How To: Measure execution time in C#

by spot9969

Please try this method to get execution time. I'm not sure that it is very accurate.public static TimeSpan GetDuration(Stopwatch sw, ThreadStart method){ sw.Reset(); sw.Start(); method(); sw.Stop(); return sw.Elapsed;}you can put it into any common static class and use as...

How-To Convert a String Collection to a Multi-Enum Item Using TryParse

by BenScharbach

How-To Convert a String Collection to a Multi-Enum item using TryParse

HPC Template Library, A Supplement to the STL

by trident99

The HPC Template Library is a supplement to the Standard Template Library providing threadsafe containers.

HTML Parser

by Ahmed Ali El-Sayed

C# DLL for use it in .Net Applications, you can convert it easy to any code

HTTP Error 500.30 - ANCM In-Process Start Failure - .NET Core

by Gaurang Majithiya

Usually, you will see this error when you run your project from Visual Studio. This error itself says that it's a start failure while running your project from Visual Studio.

HTTP Library Class

by Neil Cross

HTTP library class for easy downloading files via HTTP.

Idle Windows in C#

by Carlos Leyva Pena

How to use Application.Idle event in C#

Illustrating the State Pattern with a Very Basic Example

by Rajesh Buddaraju

A simplified example is used to describe the state pattern

Image Re-sizing Utility

by VaibhavTiparadi

Re-sizing images to equalize the width & height

Images Animation By Using Story Board in Windows Phone 8/8.1

by Muhammad Muddasar Yamin

This tip is about making images animation for Windows Phone 8/8.1 using Storyboard class in C#.

Implement Split A/B pages in your ASP NET project

by TheCardProject.co.uk

Quickly set up the ability to serve up several pages and record which was served in SQL Server

Implementing Azure Information Protection in MS Office documents and PDFs programmatically

by Aditya-Sharma0712

How to set classification label to an Excel/Word/PDF file at the time of its creation during runtime programmatically

Implementing IComparable and IEquatable safely and fully

by A. Ganzer

Using snippets to create a full and correct implementation of complex interfaces

Import Data from Excel to SQL Using SSIS 2012 Dynamic Configuration

by sudheer mattapally

How to import data from Excel to SQL using SSIS 2012 Dynamic Configuration

Importing a Locally Defined Symbol without Using a Module Definition File

by David A. Gray

Inactive code block doesn't lose color - it would be color faded

by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Unlike previous version of Visual Studio (2005, 2008), which used to display inactive code block in grayed mode, the new version - VS 2010 - would display them in faded down color (core colors will be preserved).For example:#ifdef _DEBUGvoid CClass::AssertValid(){ ASSERT(this); ...

Including stdafx.h in a non-default location

by Albert Holguin

The vc compiler and intellisense don't look for pre-compiled header in a similar manner, this is a summary of the issue along with workarounds

Increase productivity with Visual Studio extensions

by Ahsan Murshed

This article gives ideas to developers to increase development time productivity using the free Visual Studio 2010 extensions.

Insert and Bind Records from a dropdownlist using AJAX UpdatePanel

by mimtiyaz

Insert and bind records from a dropdownlist using AJAX UpdatePanel

Insert Spaces Between CrammedTogetherWords in .docx files using C# and the DocX Library

by B. Clay Shannon

Yet another docx tip - insert spaces between lowercase and uppercase chars

Insert/Access/Format/Filter/Se...

by Debopam Pal

Export Advanced Excel 2007 Report

Installing SDK for Windows Universal App Development in Visual Studio 2015

by Umer Qureshi

This tip guides you on how to install and integrate Windows 10 Development Kit in Visual Studio 2015 for universal app development.

Installing the WTL Wizard for Visual Studio 2010

by Yvan Rodrigues

How to install the WTL Wizard for Visual Studio 2010.

Installing Windows Identity Framework

by ely_bob

Installing Windows Identity Framework

InstallShield: Filtering output files

by chait301

Custom output files in installer.

Instantiating Objects Without Stopping Your Debugging Session

by Kamran Bilgrami

How to instantiate objects without stopping your debugging session

Integrate G-MAP in VB.NET Windows Application without API

by TANMAY N

How to Integrate Google map in VB.NET without using any API in VB.NET Windows application

Integrating your own resource compiler in Visual Studio

by Fredrik Norén

Introduction I...

Intellisense is more intelligent in Visual Studio 2010

by Parthasarathy Mandayam

Intellisense is much faster and more intelligent in Visual Studio 2010. It is actually 2 to 5 times faster than previous versions. The IDE will now filter your intellisense as you type.Let's say you want to create an instance of "WeakReference". Just type WR and the IDE will prompt you with...

International System of Units Notation

by Frank T. Clark

A simple class for abbreviating integers with SI suffixes common in computer use.

Introducing an Open Source DirectUI Library - SOUI

by flyhigh

SOUI is a directui library and had been used in many commercial softwares, which is published based on MIT and is completely free to any user.

Introducing Textmode in ASP.NET 4.5

by sankarsan parida

This topic for clear description about all types of TextMode behaviour of textbox properties.

Invoking foreign remoting interfaces in remote hosts using C#

by ugavnholt

How to invoke foreign remoting interfaces in remote hosts.

IP Address & URL Encoder

by Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri

Non Printing Characters are invalid when placing it in URL field. These characters may include &, ^, % signs, etc. most Web Platforms somehow have ways to encode and decode this escaped format. This program is design to develop a Logic for Encoding and Decoding the URL, IP Address and HTML Attribute

Isolated Storage using Log4Net

by TapasU

IsolatedStorage with Log4Net

IValueConverter Example and Usage in WPF

by Nomesh G

Implementation and usuage of ValueConverter.

JavaScript tool to parse solution files

by Member 351555

Parse a microsoft visual studio 2008 solution file to create a project dependency graph

jGrid

by Rakesh Ku Nayak

A new plugin named jGrid to display grid with pagination and sorting functionality in an easy way

Joomla Remote SQL Call -VB.NET Client

by FrankNight

In this tip, I show a set of helper classes useful to prepare and send messages to the SqlXML Joomla component and execute remote SQL calls to your hosted website.

JqueryAjaxToCs

by Dinand.dotnet

How to easily run a function in C# from the view using ajax/jquery

Just Another .NET AOP Framework: NConcern

by Jung Hyun, Nam

Introducing NConcern, a free open source compile-time AOP framework

Just My Threads

by Kamran Bilgrami

How to display only threads related to your application in Threads Windows

Killing a process using MainWindowTitle

by Tarek Elqusi

Using the MainWindowTitle property to close a running program by killing the associated process.

Kinect Version 2 Depth Frame to .mat File Exporter Tool

by SergentMT

Tool for extracting depth frames from Kinect v2 to .mat files, with point cloud generator script. Ready to use!

Let's Build iOS App in Xamarin.iOS Part I - An Introduction

by SubhamoyBurman

Understand the basics of how iOS applications are constructed and how Xamarin helps you to do so in C#

Levenshtein Edit Distance Algorithm

by furkanavcu

Implement the Levenshtein Edit Distance algorithm.

Like Magic, No Strings Attached

by dgDavidGreene

Helper utility replaces magic string property names.

LinesGrid control - An easy way to draw a grid in WPF

by maximaximum

The article describes how to draw a grid of vertical and horizontal lines in WPF.

LinqPAD Script of the Day: RandomStringGenerator

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

RandomStringGenerator

LinqPAD Script of the Day: WorldClock

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

LinqPAD Script of the Day: WorldClock

List of Tables of Microsoft Access DataBase

by dontumindit

While dealing with databases, sometimes there is a need to get a list of tables in the application

Live Log Viewer

by Alex Wiese

Monitors log files and displays text as it is appended to the file

Live View of Web-page Developing MVC Apps within Visual Studio 2012

by DataBytzAI

Get a quick view of your MVC app as you code

Load C# Class Instance or Structure from a byte[] Buffer

by Nick Yakov

How to can load a structure with unsafe coding and fill the structure using a byte array.

Load textures using OpenGL and Light weight Corona Image I/O

by GPUToaster™

Localized String in Form's resx with Designer Support

by coffee_machine

A component to add localized strings to a Form's res'x.

log4net for Multiple Build Configurations

by Ryszard Dżegan

How to prepare log4net or other custom, XML-based configuration file for particular build or environment

Logging in C++

by Pankaj Choudhary - C++ Devepoler

Logging in C++

Logging SOAP Web Service Envelop (Request and Reply) in .NET

by Mohsen Heydari

Intercepting WCF and SOAP services for logging SOAP envelope

M1.NET - Decrypt Arcade Audio

by shunninghuang

Software named M1.NET which shows the details of decrypting arcade game audio

Make Buzzer (Internal Speaker) Sound in Windows 7/8/10 32bit / 64bit

by Andreoli Carlo

In our company, we find ourselves in need of using the internal PC (buzzer) on Windows7 64bit. At the end, we figured out how to do it.

Make F5 Execute the Query in the Visual Studio Query Editor Just like in the SSMS Query Editor

by Brady Kelly

This tip describes how to make the F5 key in Visual Studio execute open SQL queries, instead of starting the project debugging.

Making a Nice Wait Effect

by MuhsinFatih

Making a nice tailed round effect

by OriginalGriff

F1 in Visual Studio takes forever, and rarely comes up with anything useful. Replace it with a Google MSDN search!

by MattPenner

Thanks OriginalGriff! This is great and really helped me out. :-D However, for my tastes I like to open the URL in the default browser (currently that's Chrome for me), which allows me to easily open up several tabs from the links or bookmark useful entries.Also, the original F1 would...

by HelenmaryC

I tried to run this the first time without any documents open and it threw an error, so I made a small mod to the original code to prevent VS from whining at me under those, probably limited, circumstances:Dim url As String = "www.google.com/search?q=MSDN"If DTE.ActiveDocument IsNot...

by Henry Minute

I have an alternative Macro which, like the modification from newmodel, only requires you to have the cursor in or at either end of the search word.It also allows for searching from the Output Window and HTML Text.I have to confess that it is not all my own work, although the version...

Many Questions Answered at Once — Collaboration between Windows Forms or WPF Windows

by Ed Nutting

There is a very easy alternative to this in VS 2010 now :) Go to the Help menu, select 'Manage Help Settings', ignore any error messages ( I get 'You do not have permission to modify content under the location specified for the help content store'). Anyway, ignore any error messages then in the...

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Popular question on Forms collaboration, also answered for WPF

MAPI/Exhange Server Name

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to get the MAPI server nane

Max Query String Length in URL - ASP.net 4.0

by santosh poojari

We can now set the URL querystring length in asp.net

Merge PowerPoint Presentations (PPTX) & save as PDF

by LazyCoder0

This article describes how to merge PowerPoint Presentations (PPTX format) and save as PDF in .NET applications using Office Automation (OpenXML SDK).

Microsoft Workflow - AntiMarketing

by User 11310514

Microsoft workflow - antimarketing

Migrate from WCF Rest Services to Web API 2- Basics of Attribute Routing

by RaviAakula

Web API 2- Basics of Attribute Routing

Minimal Undo - An Undo/Redo Framework

by zdf

A solution for conversion of a non-undoable application to an undoable one.

Mirror keys for multiboxing MMORPG games like WOW/LOTRO

by joejames111

Raw input 64-bit .NET classes.

Modbus TCP class

by Stephan Stricker

A Modbus TCP class.

Model Binder Basics and Custom Model Binder

by Mahesh Pachbhai

Model Binder Basics and Custom Model Binder

Modified VS 2012 Theme - Cool Blue

by ~T~A~B~

Modifed theme color settings for Visual Studio 2012.

Modifying Variable Values without Leaving Your Debugging Session

by Kamran Bilgrami

How to modify variable values while remaining in your debugging session

MPP Viewer

by Vivek Krishnamurthy

MPP Viewer is a simple viewer for Microsoft Project files. I works well with 2000/2003/2007 file formats.

MS Access (*.mdb) + C#: SELECT, INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE Queries

by Emiliarge

Queries in Microsoft Access (MDB) databases.

MSDN: Sync with 'Table of Contents' - Shortcut!

by Ajay Vijayvargiya

I needed a faster way to Sync and see treeview on left in MSDN, for the topic I am browsing - Found a trick!

Multicast Message Broker

by Matus Kovacik

Single class encapsulating UDP IP multicasting functionality and exposing it via observer pattern.

Multilanguage solution by using Reflection

by arsser

Choose the UI language at runtime and using XML to save the infomation.

Multilevel Nested Gridview in ASP.NET

by Chakravarthi Elchuri

Display data in Multi nested gridview using C# in ASP.NET

Multi-Monitor Support

by Nirosh

VS 2010 allow code files to move outside the parent window and positioned in another monitor that connected to your system. In order to do that you can simply click on a document tab drag it to the new monitor and drop it.

Multiple Animations in WPF

by lally727

Running multiple animations in one WPF XAML

Multiselect ListBox and ListView Items like Windows Explorer

by Kelvin33

A quick and dirty way to enable multi-item selection in listbox and listview WPF controls.

Multithreaded, Customizable SysLog Server - C#

by metastruct

Multithreaded, customizable SysLog server in C#.

MVC Application from Empty Application

by shivendra pratik

Convert an Empty Web Application to MVC Web Application using VS 2015 IDE

MVVM Taskbar Notifier

by NobsterTheLobster

Implements a taskbar notifier using an invisible window and a popup control

MySQL Connector for Visual Basic

by rolandomontero

MySQL Connector for Visual Basic, obtaining a data table

NanoXML - Simple and fast XML parser

by BrokenEvent

Simple and fast .NET XML parser without using System.Xml

Needleman Wunsch Algorithm in C#

by BlackMirrh

Sequence Alignment using Needleman Wunsch algorithm in C#

NHibernate Mappings for Composite Keys with Associations

by begeeben

This example demonstrates how to work on mappings with associations for legacy database tables designed purely using multiple primary keys/composite keys.

Nondeterministic Random Number Generation

by Cryptonite

I keep reading articles on the web about how all random number generators on a computer are "pseudo" random, or "deterministic". Here I present an approach for nondeterministic number generation.

Non-Repeatable Collections

by Anthony Daly

Download source - 30 KBDownload library - 5 KBIntroductionThis set of Non-Repeatable Collections has a very simple concept - to only allow one item of each type to be added, meaning that you cannot have duplicate items in the collection.BackgroundAlthough the .NET Framework...

Non-Repeatable Collections

by Eugene Sichkar

Actually .net 3.5 have non-repeatable collection class - HashSet class and ISet interface.

Nuget's Get-Package - See Entire Package Name

by Brady Kelly

Nuget's Get-Package command truncates some long package names. This is about how to avoid that.

ObjectGenerator

by saddam abu ghaida

This post addresses the possibility to create any kind of object and fill it with random data based on properties data types to ease data creation and inserting it in the database in CRUD application.

Obtain Hardware Configuration Using C# and .NET

by paul1167

Enumerate System Features

Obtaining Input Form a Joystick with C# and DirectX Form A to Z

by Mostafa Korashy

Taking you through a step by step process of programming joystick with C#

OctTree Implementation for overlap detection in C#

by sajjad kardani moghadam

Octa Tree is a 3D space partitioning algorithm

One Step to Create an Image Button for Silverlight Applications

by Jun Du

I had to create a trivial image button for my Silverlight web site. I Googled the web and got tons of tips and suggestions. However, most of them involve several editing steps through resources, template or style. Some require additional tools, such as Expression Blend. In my...

Open .key and .cer files, sign string with private key

by Antonio Lopez R

Specific implemetation for Mexico CFDI. others can use as they need

Open associated files with C# program

by Magyar András

Almost all of the basic functions of the program(browser, text editor, image editor, media player) that you can associate files with it and open it. I want a simple and effective method to show the arguments (associated files) to open. How to associate files with C# program?

Open Chat using Azure and Windows RT

by Houssem_Dellai

Developing the client and server side for a chat application.

OpenGL MFC/CDialog - Basic

by ReturnVoid

Working example: OpenGL CDialog Multiple Context

Operation Password: CryptoAPI with AES 256

by KarstenK

Using the Wincrypto in the Windows SDK

OrderedLock in C#

by PavyBez

OrderedLock in C# to catch potential deadlocks at runtime

Outlook AddOn With User Control (Task Pane / Custom Form)

by Leo Chapiro

Outlook AddOn to store the attachments in the file system

Overlooked reason for debug step slow-down in Visual-Studio

by Itai Basel

If your VS debgger is running slow and you checked out all other tips with no help - maybe you unchecked this one and forgot to recheck it after you were done.

Pass OUTPUT Parameter from Stored Procedure to SSIS Precendence Constraints

by Baliram Suryawanshi

Pass OUTPUT parameter from stored procedure to SSIS Precendence Constraints

Passing Object Collections to ASP.NET Web API

by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US

POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.

Passing parameters to Success method in executeQueryAsync in SharePoint

by shahed.sohail

Passing Parameters to Success method in executeQueryAsync.

Password Dialog for Visual Studio Deployment Projects

by meraydin

A custom dialog that has a password textbox for your VS2012 projects

Paste Table Data into an Editor Then Quickly Format for Good Appearance

by RedDk

Use ALT+SHIFT to "block" select text (thinking of justifying columnar relations of words/data/etc. so the visual appearance is perfectly tabular) ... and TAB (TAB+SHIFT to undo) to MOVE SELECTION right (and left) ...

PayPal REST API Recurring Payment via Stored Credit Card

by Aman Thakur

The tip explains how to make recurring payments using the Stored Credit Cards in the Paypal Vault.

PC Keyboard Layout on Mac OS X

by dknyoli

PC Keyboard Layout on Mac OS X

Peer Process and its Significance in Improving Robustness of Software Application

by Anant Beriwal

How to counter crash issue in applications

PictureBox Image Exchange by Drag and Drop (just using mouse event)

by Martin Mok

Many drag and drop effects can be simply done by mouse event.

PictureBox with a ScrollBar

by Alaa Ben Fatma

Surf your PictureBox using scrolling bars

Pin Variables While Debugging in Visual Studio 2010

by TheyCallMeMrJames

When you hover over a variable with the debugger running you will see a thumbtack that allows you to pin the variable to the editor window. This is cool for a number of reasons.1) It is much easier to see changes to a set of variables in any kind of a loop construct. You can even pin...

Pinning the variables/expressions while debugging

by Ajay Vijayvargiya

This feature may not seem useful initially, and might appear distracting you. But it is one of the very useful (new) features in Visual Studio 2010. You'll love it after using it for a while!While debugging, you typically put some variables in Watch Window (or use Locals, Autos etc). When...

Plotting a Specific Location on an Image While Zooming In(+) or Out(-)

by Tino Fourie

Retain a plotted location on an image while zooming in(+)/out(-).

Poor Man’s Visual Studio Cppcheck Integration

by Aleksey Vitebskiy

Simple and free Cppcheck integration into Visual Studio.

Poor Men's AboutBox with Animated Auto Scroll TextBox

by Akos Mattiassich

How to make from a simple TextBox an animated eye candy.

prevent a goback to the previous page and refresh the current page in asp.net 1.0 app

by Mack Ait-Aoudia

This article describe a solution to prevent some browser's functionnalities

Prevent code executing at Design Time in Visual Studio for Winforms Apps

by Keith Barrow

If you have a Winforms application that auto loads data, there is no doubt that you’ll have come across the problem of data loading at design time (i.e. when opening the code in the designer). At best, this slows the designer down, at worst it might crash VS and prevent the control from...

Prevent code executing at Design Time in Visual Studio for Winforms Apps

by Ron Beyer

If you are designing in a WinForms component, which is anything that derives from Control at some point (Forms, UserControls, panels, etc), then you can use the following code:if (this.Site.DesignMode) //Do stuff[edit]The above will throw an exception if Site is not set (in...

Prevent code executing at Design Time in Visual Studio for Winforms Apps

by tonyt

Either method is good for testing if you are in the designer, but another problem aside from preventing code execution, is preventing code from being jitted in the Designer. For example, you may reference assemblies or components that are dependent on native code, which cannot be loaded into any...

Prevent Cutting or Copying Blank Lines in Visual Studio

by Ashoka RKT

How to prevent cutting or copying blank lines in Visual Studio

Preventing stubbed methods from being released

by Reiss

A handy way to stub methods in development, but preventing them from being shipped in release mode.

Preventing stubbed methods from being released

by Julien Villers

Nice tip! I'm also a proponent of using your friend the preprocessor to stop you from making big mistakes, along with your best friend, the compiler.You can combine both using this alternative code:private bool ValidateUserDetails(string userName, string password){ //TODO: Default value...

Preventing stubbed methods from being released

by Sander Rossel

Very nice tips indeed!A somewhat different approach to this might be to use the Debugger.IsAttached[^] static property.Though this works somewhat different.if (System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached){ // This code executes when starting from VS either in release or debug...

Preventing Visual Studio from removing "using System"

by nijuniro

Hi,I've just got stuck on some problems with CommandEvents, but I managed to find that solution:http://www.dotnetmonster.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/vs-ext/623/DTE-CommandEvents-handlers-not-working-reliably[^]It says that you must keep the reference for CommandEvents object. It did the trick for...

Preventing Visual Studio from removing "using System"

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Shave all you create with Occam's Razor.

Print Directly to Selected Local or Network Printer

by Max Methot

This little simple and easy to read program will help you understand how to print to a specific printer, local or shared on a network.

Printing Images Quickly and Efficiently to an A4 Page [VB.NET]

by Benjamin Lifshitz

With this code, you can print images quickly and efficiently, using the largest part of the A4 page for your image.

Problem of Empty Pages in SSRS

by mohamad alameddine

The main problem of this issue is the width of the report page and the margins. Many articles are written on that. Please check if your problem is this before continuing this article. Else check the solution provided for empty pages problem.

Programmatically Create a Sharepoint 2010 Web Part

by B. Clay Shannon

Basic steps on how to programmatically create a Visual WebPart in Sharepoint 2010

ProgressBar using JQueryUI and SignalR

by Kashif Amin Makhdoom

Progressbar using JQueryUI and SignalR

Push2Linux - A Mass Unix Deploy Tool

by Dane Balia

An Understanding of what it does and how it can help.....

QueryBuilder: A Simple Way to Read and Write Query Strings

by FrostedSyntax

A simple tutorial to create a pair of classes that enable you, through the use of objects, to read and write query strings in any context

Queue Processor

by Damijan Vodopivec

Implementation of an event queue for delayed processing

Quick Tip - Steps to Decode Windows Error Code

by TapasU

Steps to decode Windows Error code

Quickest Way to Create a .NET Database Application

by Subha.N

Tip to create a database application using C# .NET in the shortest time possible.

Quickly Find Visual Studio Solutions

by Gordon Beeming

Quickly Find Visual Studio Solutions

React Coming to Visual Studio! But I Want It Now!

by Stephen Hewison

Get developing with React/JSX in Visual Studio 2013

Read & Insert Data Using Stored Procedures in C#

by gayani dassa

Read & Insert Data Using Stored Procedures

Real Label Size and View Angle Measurement Tool

by Member 13092868

This tool helps you create a label with given degrees of view angle. Also helps you estimate REAL label height and width by providing you linear correction functions to apply to inaccurate MeasureString values

Real-time Notifications with SignalR

by GustavoMartins

Notify the users on the progress of time consuming operations in real-time

Receiving response from POP3 mail server

by evry1falls

Receiving response correctly from pop mail server is the first step on receiving emails to your own email client.

Recording Your Video In Own Website

by Kamal Surani

Recording video of your product and promoting video in cloud to get more customers

Redirecting std::clog to Test Framework Output

by Zebedee Mason

Wrap writing to the test logger with std::streambuf then substitute in std::clog

Refactoring in Visual Studio 2008

by charan anasam

Visual Studio comes with seven refactoring options as explained here.

Refactoring std::auto_ptr

by Martin Vorbrodt

How to refactor std::auto_ptr

Regex to remove someone's overzealous use of regions.

by Daniel Vaughan

A Visual Studio regex to remove someone's overzealous use of regions in VS. Find and replace: (^.*\#region.*$)|(^.*\#endregion.*$) Remember to enable regular expressions in the Visual Studio find and replace dialog.

Registry Export File (.reg) Parser

by Henryk Filipowicz

A class to read and parse reg files

Relative Design Components on WinForm

by turbosqel

Simple code to make your components always fit exact size of Form, during and after resize.

Releasing a Visual Studio Extension

by Zebedee Mason

How I avoid embarrassing releases (now)

Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

by Hiren solanki

Remove HTML and get a plain text from inside

Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

by PIEBALDconsult

How about loading it into an XmlDocument and getting the InnerText? (Provided the HTML is well-formed XML, of course.)

Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

by JHoye

Consider using the open source HTML Agility Pack library (htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com).It lets you use XPATH queries to access very specific parts of an HMTL document, and the HTML does not have to be valid, well-formed XML. In addition to accessing the raw inner text of an element you can...

Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

by MarcoBot

NOTE: If you're really wanting plain text, then you should also be sure to decode the HTML entities (System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode()) on the resulting text, or you'll wind up with HTML/XML character entity text in your output, such as & and [ If you're going to immediately output the...

Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

by KevinAG

Sorry, but I have to vote this way down. Your regular expression (or @Chris's) is not robust enough for what I would consider "real world" data. Especially if this is used on any kind of public web site, I would be afraid of JavaScript injection attacks and other things (depending on its usage)....

Remove all the HTML tags and display a plain text only inside (in case XML is not well formed)

by Andreas Gieriet

I think the following Regex and HtmlDecode would do:string html = ...;string textonly = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode( Regex.Replace(html, @"|", ""));Any HTML construct that would not be stripped off properly by this?

Remove blank lines from code in Visual Studio

by Dave Paras

Remove blank lines from code in Visual Studio

by linebenchmark

Remove all blank lines, containing or not spaces:^:b*$\n

Remove blank lines from code in Visual Studio

by Ziv Nitzan

There is also a Visual Studio extention called CodeMaid that has a lot of cleaning options http://bit.ly/diMTaR

Remove splash screen of Visual Studio 2008 / 2010

by Dave Paras

Remove splash screen of Visual Studio 2008 / 2010

Remove unused "using"

by Palash Biswas

How to remove unused "using"

Remove unused "using"

by Simon P Stevens

The PowerCommands[^] addin for visual studio also includes an option to "remove and sort usings" for all files in a whole project (or solution). It can come in handy when you don't want to go through and do each file manually.

Remove unused "using"

by zenwalker1985

I find Organize Usings -> Remove and Sort option much more useful than Just using Remove Usings. After it sorts, the using statements looks nice. :) In case you don't want to install any addins.

Rendering AltNETType (= .NET FreeType port) with OpenGL

by Demid Korneev

Example of AltNETType use in OpenGL

Rendering Shapefile in OpenGL-2

by Durga Prasad Dhulipudi

Rendering polygon shapefiles and filling them

Rendering Text with OpenType Fonts Using GDI

by wmjordan

Rendering text with OpenType fonts by P/Invoking GDI API in WinForm applications.

Reorder DataGrid/ListBox Items with Drag and Drop Wpf

by Anis Derbel

The easy way to Reorder your DataGrid/ListBox with Drag and Drop

Replay Failed Workflow

by SumitJaiswal

Knowledge sharing article on WWF.

Research-Inspired Extensions Hit Visual Studio App Store

by David C Shepherd

A peek into the inspiration behind two cutting edge Visual Studio extensions.

Resetting All Other DropDownLists When a Selection of a Particular DropDownList Changes

by Ajith K Gatty

This tip helps you to reset all your DropDownList values to the default one when a DropDownList changes its selection.

Resetting the Visual Studio Experimental Instance

by Mario Majčica

A quick guide on how to reset the Visual Studio Experimental instance environment

Resize form using GraphicsPath

by hari19113

This code will help us to reshape our Windows form.

Responsive GUI Application Tricks

by PawelBujak

How to avoid blocking long operations in GUI applications, that lead to hung state.

Retrieving TFS Test Case Parameters using C#

by PlebProgrammer

How to retrieve TFS test case parameters in C#

Reusable WPF RadioButton Control (Data Binding to enum)

by alexbk66

Reusable WPF RadioButton control which takes the pain away

Rewriting "Rewriting XML Files"

by sbarnes

Sometimes better isn't, necessarily

Rewriting XML Files

by sbarnes

Rewriting and restoring XML files (streams) with two helper classes

Row Header Cell Images in DataGridView

by Balu Sathish

This post helps to load image in row header cell of a datagridview.

R-tree:Space Search Algorithm

by HateCoding

This tip will show you an example for using R-tree.

Rules Engine

by Member 3531622

Create a Rules Engine in less than 50 lines of code which is extremely powerful, extensible and adaptable

Run C# application on user logon (Windows Forms)

by Thomas Daniels

A tip about how to run a Windows Forms application in C# on user logon

Run Executable from Resources in C#

by Ahmed E Osama

Run an executable that is inside the resources in C#

Run SQL queries on datatables with SqlToDataset

by DerStauner

With this library it is possible to query datatables with SQL commands.

Run Web Application in Multiple Browsers (Visual Studio)

by Artefakt94

Run Web Application in Multiple Browsers (Visual Studio)

Run/Debug with New Browser Session in Visual Studio

by DataBytzAI

A solution for starting with a new browser session each time you run/debug a VS web project

Running a Windows .NET application on Linux

by Nelson Kosta Souto

Running the same compiled assembly on Windows and Linux.

Running NUnit GUI tests using FinalBuilder

by RedSunBeer

A self created final builder tutorial

Running Programs on a Remote Machine with Web Services

by smoore4

Run programs on remote machines without PsExec or WMI

Save a TreeView into an XML File

by Norbert Eder

The article includes a sample project showing how to save the nodes of a TreeView into an XML file.

Save Message to MSG Compound File

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

How to save a message to an MSG Compound file.

Saving a Screenshot Using C#, A.K.A "Console Monitor"

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is an alternative for "Console Monitor"

Saving Visual Studio Settings for All Your Projects

by PJ Arends

How to use a .props file for your custom user settings across all your projects

ScreenShot in 4 Steps

by Mohammed Ibrahim.L

Screenshot using C#

Scroll Window

by Tu (Le Hong)

A scroll window that surpasses the 16-bit limit and can be hosted by a dialog.

Scrum Definition of Done and Team Foundation Server

by SumiranLingwal

Practical implementation of Scrum Definition of Done (DoD) in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Search and highlight text in MS Word through C#

by DARSHAN MODANI

Code to search and highlight text in MS Word.

Secure Mailing

by Rumman92

An application which allows user to create the encrypted message and then emails it to the desired person.

See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer

by Gil Yoder

Visual Studio 2010 has a new visualizer for WPF that exposes a dependency object's visual tree.

Select, Insert and Delete in MVC using WCF Services

by Pranav_

Performing insert delete and select in MVC 4.0 using WCF services, with one view and different action methods.

Self-Cleanable Collection and Self-Cleanable Event

by Vassili Kravtchenko-Berejnoi

Use of System.WeakReference for self-cleanable registration of (short-life) objects

Self-debugger attach to process

by Mauro Leggieri

Self-debugger attach to process

by Daniele Rota Nodari

I was glad to integrate your code into my C# application.Actually, within the debugger windows, I can't recognize any human-readable reference to the calling process, but the function is working. :)So, for whoever may be interested, the following code is my C# 4 equivalent:using...

Send Email using WCF Service

by Sujeet Bhujbal

How to send email using a WCF Service.

Serial Port Communication

by Sreedeep.S

Serial Communication with the .NET Framework in Winforms

Serialize/Deserialize any object to an XML file

by akramKamal

Code to serialize/deserialize any object to an XML file.

Service Locator Pattern

by Gautham Prabhu K

Creating and using Service Locator pattern

Session in ASP.NET MVC

by DiponRoy

Session in ASP.NET MVC

Session Manager Utility for ASP.NET

by DiponRoy

Session Manager Utility for ASP.NET

Set for Success

by DigitalInBlue

Guidance on C++/C++!1 Parameter Passing

Setting Breakpoint for a Particular Thread Only

by Kamran Bilgrami

Visual Studio provides rich options to debug multi-threaded applications. This tip discusses one way of filtering your break points for a particular thread.

Setting up the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Studio 2012 for Azure

by nitinnigam21

Setup Azure CI/CD Pipelines using Visual Studio

by Harsh Deep Gupta

We are going to see how to configure Azure DevOps CI/CD and setup Azure Pipeline using Visual Studio.

Setup your ASP.NET Membership Login in MVC (or any project you want)

by Alexandre Paula

aspnet Membership Login in any project you want.

SharePoint 2013 Data Access Layer using SPMetal

by Ahmad F Hassan

Step by step, creating LINQ to SharePoint Data Access Layer using SPMetal

SharePoint 2013 Web Part ToolPane Tweak

by Ahmad F Hassan

5 minute trick

SharePoint Development Environment Set-up For Custom Solutions

by Atish Dipongkor

Permissions required to provide a user for custom solutions development like Sandbox, Farm in SharePoint using Visual Studio

SharePoint Mapper (SPMapper)

by MB Seifollahi

A SharePoint Server Object Model List Mapper to CRUD

SharpComponents

by Niquo

A menustrip, toolstrip and statusstrip which retrieve their data from ONE component.

SharpForm - Customized Form

by Niquo

A form which is drawn in a custom way

ShoppingCart using Gridview in ASP.NET

by headshot9x

How to create ShoppingCart using Gridview in asp.net with code VB

Shortcut for format code file with proper spacing or tab

by Dave Paras

Shortcut for format code file with proper spacing or tab

by Prerak Patel

Here you'll fine many more..http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/files/Visual%20Studio%20.NET%202005%20Keyboard%20Shortcuts.htm[^]

Shortcut for format code file with proper spacing or tab

by Behzad Talebpour

Alternatively, you can erase your closing bracket (}) and VS will format the whole block (between opening & closing bracket). This works only if there is no syntax error in that block.

Shortcut to generate different property snippets in Visual Studio

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Shortcut to generate different property snippets in Visual Studio

by cechode

I ended up adding one for a Lazy Property: propLazy ...

Shortcut: Open Containing Folder

by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Open the Folder of current file with a simple keystroke

Show Forms Current Monitor on Dual (or more) Monitors

by Tantum

How to show your forms in the current active display on dual (or more) monitors

Show Threads in Source

by Kamran Bilgrami

Find out which threads are running what line of code and how they may be related to other running threads

Showing Method Parameter Values in Callstack Window

by Kamran Bilgrami

An easier way to show parameter values of chain of methods from Visual Studio

SignalR, Angular JS and ASP.NET MVC Real Time Communication

by Yaseer Mumtaz

Using SignalR with AngularJS to develop real time communication application in ASP.NET MVC and C#.

Silverlight User Control Validation

by User-Rock

Silverlight user control validation display techniques

Simple .Net progress bar using async/await

by furytrader

Using .Net's Async/Await Framework To Create ProgressBar

Simple Animation for your Windows Forms or Controls using C#.NET

by Noble KC

Simple Animation with Timer control in C#.NET (Sliding and Scrolling Effects)

Simple Bitmap Buttons for WinForm Applications

by Daniel Lieberwirth (BrainInBlack)

This describes a simple way to create interactive, bitmap based, buttons for WinForm applications.

Simple C# FTP Class

by metastruct

Easy to use class for downloading, uploading, and other FTP commands.

Simple ChessBoard Graphics

by Farhad Reza

A simple ChessBoard graphics using GDI32

Simple Custom Collection Designer Support

by Midi_Mick

The simplest solution for adding a custom collection of custom objects to the designer

Simple Display Dialog of Waiting in WinForms

by Dean Feng

A simple method to display a waiting dialog in WinForm application, and not block the main form.

Simple Easy C# SplashScreen with Minimal Coding

by Thomas D Lynch

Fast and simple way to display a splashscreen while your first Windows form loads.

Simple Full Screen Method (Hides Taskbar)

by trantrum

Visual Studio Winforms 100% Full Screen Method

Simple Graphics Class

by Farhad Reza

A simple graphics class for 2D drawing

Simple Log

by Jochen Scharr

A simple but robust logging class

Simple Method to Convert Latitude and Longitude to Readable Address

by Godwinsmith

Function to find the exact address of particular latitude and longitude using Google maps service in C#

Simple Model/Entity Mapper in C#

by DiponRoy

Let’s see how to make a simple model or Entity mapper using reflections in C#

Simple Model/Entity Mapper in C#

by ThiagoTane

This is an alternative for "Simple Model/Entity Mapper in C#"

Simple Polynomial Addition and Subtraction

by charles922

Simple Polynomial Addition and Subtraction using Lambda Expressions for sorting Lists

Simple Response Object for ASP.NET

by DiponRoy

Simple response object for ASP.NET

Simple Side By Side Migration Project Template for WPF .NET Core 3.1

by MarkWardell

An aid to Port WPF Framework Applications to .NET Core 3.1

Simple SSRS Report using MDX Query

by Ajit Kumar Thakur Microsoft

This tip contains simple step by step solution to read SSAS cube data using MDX query and display in SSRS report.

Simple Text Markup Language (STML) Parser

by Tawani Anyangwe

A simple custom HTML parser for converting STML into HTML

Simple Unit of Work Design Pattern

by Ravindra T C

Simple Unit of Work Design Pattern

Simple Usages of HttpWebRequest and RestSharp with JSON.NET

by B. Clay Shannon

Simple RestSharp and HttpWebRequest with JSON.NET examples

Simple Web Scraper

by Rumman92

A simple web scraper that loads only the readable contents of a website.

Simple WPF Date Control

by Oleg_100

This tip describes a simple WPF Date control that makes it easier to type in the dates.

Simplest Workable Logging and Emailing of Messages from ASP.NET using Log4Net

by B. Clay Shannon

Steps to add logging to files and emailing from ASP.NET apps

Single Instance Form Application in C#

by AdventureDriver

Make a single instance form application that redisplays the one and only interface of the other instance.

Single Instance Web Application

by Pinakpani Dey

Run one instance of web application in client browser

Sizable Glyph for CheckBox/RadioBox Control - WinForms

by psychohamster

This article will show you how to use the Sizable CheckBox control I have designed.

Software Development and the Bitness Challenge

by citrin

About the bitness challenge in software development

Solid Background of a Transparent Control on a Form

by Omer Aziz

Solid background of a transparent control on a form

Solution information, prevent duplicate information in your projects

by Eduard Keilholz

Solution information file

Solution Load Manager for Visual Studio 2010/2012

by Pavlo Iarovyi

Visual Studio extension to change "hidden" option for project loading to optimize loading big solutions.

Solve Error RC2135: File Not Found: xxxxx.tlb

by Mukit, Ataul

This tip tells you what to do when you are faced with the RC2135 problem in the resource file.

Some Handy Visual C++ Pre-Processor Macros

by Cale Dunlap

C/C++ pre-processor macros which I have found to be quite useful, so I decided to share them. I hope they help you as much as they've helped me.

Some Useful Intellisense Code Snippets

by BotCar

Some Visual Studio Intellisense Code Snippets that might be of some use to you

Sorting in WPF-MVVM

by 1sumitanand

Sorting of simple ListView Elements in Ascending/Descending Order

SP Beginners Part 1 – Create a Web Application on Farm and Getting It Functioning in Visual Studio

by NikiGrly

Steps to create a web application on your farm.

Sparsely Documented Cause of Compiler Error C2143

by David A. Gray

Sparsely documented cause of compiler error C2143

Specifying Ports When Running Applications in Visual Studio

by Rion Williams

This post will provide a short walk-through for handling and updating these areas of your application to gain more control over debugging, testing and running your applications through Visual Studio.

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

SQL Change Data Capture (CDC) table not working after adding new columns to the source table and Using CDC with a frequently changing schema

by Rajesh Manjarekar

When CDC is turned ON against a table and the underlying table schema changes, such as adding/removing a column, changing datatype etc

SQL Connection message event handler use

by Dineshshp

This article will describe about SQLConnection Message Event Handler and BackugroundWorker functionlity.

SSIS - Import Text File

by Math08avan

SQL Server Integration Services - How to read a text file

Start Visual Studio From "Run" Command Prompt

by Sundeep Ganiga

Many developers face this issue of delay in opening Visual Studio IDE.Here is a small solution to resolve this.Open Run Command Prompt(Start->Programs->Run or Windows Logo + R) and type the text given below.a) devenv : Opens VS IDE With Splash Screen.b) devenv...

Start Visual Studio From "Run" Command Prompt

by T Chandra Prakash

If you want to open Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 .............Open Run Command Prompt(Start->Programs->Run or Windows Logo + R) and type below text.a) msdev : Opens MSVC++ IDE With Splash Screen.

Step by Step Approach to Create a Visual Studio SharePoint Workflow (Sequential)

by Melick

Create a Visual Studio SharePoint Workflow (sequential).

Steps: Check-in/Check-Out Mechanism for TFS - To Avoid Build Errors and Improve Productivity

by Mohammed Hameed

Check-in/Check-Out mechanism for TFS - To avoid Build errors and improve productivity.

StopOnFirstBuildError

by Thang Believe

Stops a solution build immediately after a project has failed to build

Strategy for Separating UI and Back-end Code Development

by Giancarlo Rhodes

Creating the Web UI

String Format ValueConverter

by Clifford Nelson

This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.

String Interpolation or String Handling in C# 6.0 with New Feature

by idreeskhan

String interpolation or String handling in C# 6.0 with new feature

String.TryTo and String.To Extensions

by D Sarthi Maheshwari

Extension method on String class to convert string to IConvertible structs and nullable types

Structured and decoupled logging with SLAB, plus a Loggly listener

by Dave Clemmer

Using the Microsoft patterns and practices Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) to both structure your logging information and decouple how you choose to log from your application code that initiates logging related events. Plus, a Loggly listener is included that you can use to log messages.

Sudoku Generator using DataGridView

by Ivan Tsurkan

Sudoku Generator

Sudoku Project in VS 2010

by Rui Jorge Carvalho

Sudoku game solver with a "SudokuControl"

Summary of the Behaviour Exhibited by Enum.IsDefined Method (.NET)

by M-Badger

What responses to expect from the enum.IsDefined method in .NET given a variety of inputs

Super Message Box

by Redgum

A customizable MessageBox() DLL and test application with dozens of built-in icons and color schemes

Super Simple Live Tile Notification Using an Image (C++)

by sam stokes

This sample demonstrates how to use the Tile Template, specifically the TileSquareImage and an image.

Super-Easy Code Block Toggling

by TheyCallMeMrJames

If you have two blocks of code that you are testing and need to switch back-and-forth between them, here's a commenting trick that works as a powerful code block toggling mechanism.Say you have a variable called foo of type string and want to change between using initialized values and...

Super-Easy Code Block Toggling

by Caner Korkmaz

For debug use, you can do something like this:#ifdef DEBUG #define dprintf(...) printf(__VA_ARGS__)#else #define dprintf(...)#endif//Usage:dprintf("In debug mode.");//orchar *foo = "foo";dprintf("%d bar.",foo);// :)/*Edit reason :: *if you type...

Super-Easy Code Block Toggling

by ILa @ work

This nice trick extends into://*/block 1/*/block 2; // commented out/*/block 3;/*/block 4; // commented out//*/and removing the first slash gives inverted alternation:/*/block 1; // commented out/*/block 2;/*/block 3; // commented out/*/block...

Suppress field in Crystal Reports

by Eranda Ketawalage

Suppress field in Crystal Reports.

Sync Calendar Creator Export .CSV to Google Calendar

by Mike Meinz

This sample program demonstrates how to use Google Calendar API v3 to delete Google Calendar events, insert Google Calendar events and update Google calendar events based on a .CSV file exported from Calendar Creator.

Syrilium.Caching

by Hrvoje Batrnek

Easy and seamless caching implementation of any virtual method in any class

Tabbed IE Browser Control

by Emmery Chrisco

Tabbed Browser Control addon

TcpClient.BeginConnect with Timeout

by Nosey Parker

TcpClient.BeginConnect with timeout

TDD using MOQ

by Ashwin. Shetty

Test Driven development using Mocking Framework

Temporarily Hide IntelliSense

by Shining Legend

Reveal hidden text when IntelliSense covers your code

Temporarily Hide IntelliSense

by TheyCallMeMrJames

Here's how you might word this to be a little more clear:When IntelliSense is invoked in Visual Studio it can sometimes obscure text or information from the code block below the line you're editing. To momentarily reveal the covered area below the IntelliSense window, press and hold the...

Test Multicast IP Network Traffic

by Vladan.Obradovic

Test Multicast IP network traffic passing through the firewall between the computers that are in different IP sub-nets

Text Max Length Programmatically | Tested on WinPhone APP

by Alaa Ben Fatma

Choose your text maximum length programmatically and show a message whenever the length = the maximum length

Text Scraping using Regex in C#

by Mohammed Ibrahim.L

How to extract a specific text from a webiste

Textbox Balloon Tooltip .NET 2

by Nishith Jain

Balloon tool tip for the text box.

Textbox for numbers with a comma thousand seperator comma for currency C#

by mohammad amiri

A textbox usercontrol that displays numbers separated by comma such as currency.

TextBox with Placeholder

by Andiiiii

Extended TextBox with placeholder

TFS: Stop running out of disk space on your build servers

by Shining Dragon

A TFS build template that cleans up after itself once the build is complete

The (Probably) Simplest Intro to Visual Studio Unit Testing Ever Written

by B. Clay Shannon

This is a bare-bones, step-by-step tutorial into getting your first test project set up in a Visual Studio solution that already has a project that you want to test

The Curious Case of the Missing Azure Connection String

by Max R McCarty

What Azure Website’s can do to make our life easier when it comes to securing our application’s connection strings.

The Power of ViewState in ASP.NET

by taha bahraminezhad Jooneghani

How to prevent one-click attacks.

The Virtual Inheritance and Funny Tricks

by cocaf

The virtual inheritance helps to solve certain class design problems even if they are unrelated to the "deadly diamond of death".

The Visual Studio 2010 Recent Project Listing and IIS Web Sites

by HelenmaryC

The VS2010 Recent Project list is not very friendly about displaying web sites which you are running under IIS Express rather than the ASP.NET development server.

The Web Developer Checklist : A One-Stop-Shop for Improving the Web

by Rion Williams

A one-stop-shop for improving the web.

ThreadSafe Collections

by me.ajaykumar

Thread safe collections

Tip – Walk Before You Can Run

by Toby Steed

Walk before you can run

Tips & Tricks: Faster Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Faster code generation in Visual Studio 2010

Tips & Tricks: Visual Studio 2010 Debugging using Breakpoints

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here I will describe you how to debug using VS2010

Tips and Tricks: Customizing Visual Studio 2010 Start Page

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to customize Visual Studio 2010 Start page

Translating Form Applications to Nonstandard Languages

by BouncyTarget

Quickly adding alternate languages (Pirate, KJV, ValleyGirl) to your C# form-based application

Treeview Dropdown With Search

by Er. Puneet Goel

This tip implements the TreeView like DropDownList with Search Functionality using Telerik Kendo.

TreeView with Controls (Supported Org Chart Style)

by Vyacheslav Chernykh

CTreeView is the advanced TreeView control for .NET WinForms that supports more features, different layouts and any controls in the nodes.

Trimmed Value Binding in knockout.js

by DiponRoy

Trimmed value binding in knockout.js

Two Useful MVVM Code Snippets

by MatthewThomas

Visual Studio code snippets for implementing MVVM properties and commands

Two Way Binding using JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC With Database

by Member 10872251

Two way binding using JavaScript

TypeName, TypeOf and GetType in VisualBasic

by Frank Klaassen

A number of methods are available to determine the type of an object, each with its own specific characteristics.

UDP based Windows chat application

by Christopher John Paul

UDP based chat application.

Unix ucontext_t Operations on Windows Platforms

by xdoukas

A tip on the implementation of Unix ucontext_t operations on Microsoft Windows.

Update an ASP.NET Gridview using ajax client side scripting

by Richard Roe

Example to show how to update an ASP.NET GridView control using Ajax JQuery client side script

Update Listview Items

by nazim_altinay

Update Listview items

Update Your Project Templates in VS2010

by TheyCallMeMrJames

If you create smaller projects, plug-ins, libraries or, perhaps, you are a web developer that likes to keep the latest JavaScript libraries in the mix, consider updating your project templates in Visual Studio 2010.Here's how you might update the jQuery libraries to the latest for an ASP.NET...

Updating Typescript in VS2015/ASP.NET MVC

by Jon McKee

A how-to and fixing common errors

Upgrading Swagger to 5.2.X for Web API with Owin

by Manoj Deshmukh

Steps to upgrade your Web API Swagger package to 5.2.x version from earlier 4.1.x version

Upgrading VS 2008 projects to VS 2010 projects with PowerShell script

by Vivek Krishnamurthy

Power shell script for upgrading Visual Studio 2008 solutions and projects into Visual Studio 2010.

Upload and Delete Video File to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage with ASP.NET MVC

by Mukesh Pr@sad

Upload and Delete Video File to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage with ASP.NET MVC

Upload the Image and Preview it Dynamically without Saving it

by M.Farrukh Abbas

How to upload an Image and preview it dynamically without saving it using FileUpload control in ASP.NET (C#).

Usage of a TrackBar as a ToolStripMenuItem

by A. Duman

Usage of a TrackBar as a ToolStripMenuItem

by Kabwla.Phone

Create a custom eventargs to make the eventhandling simpler.Any code interested in the change in the tractbar is very likely interested in its value..../// /// Custom event arguments class so we can push the value of the trackbar/// to any interested subscribers./// public class...

Use Camel-Case and 'Contains' Filtering in Visual Studio 2010's IntelliSense

by TheyCallMeMrJames

Handy Keyboard Shortcuts in VS2010's IntelliSense

Use form as subform

by Antonio Lopez R

Use existing form as a subform

Use Form as Subform

by Carlos1907

This is an alternative for "Use form as subform"

Use Icons for cursors, not ".CUR"

by Bill9603

Many developers use ".cur" cursor files. Using them myself in Visual Studio 2008, they are not the easiest things to work with for many reasons.They are not easy to create without expensive software. (unless you are using the editor within Visual Studio)They cannot easily be ported in the...

Use Intel C++ compiler with C++/CLI

by 8MX

Quick and easy way to use the Intel C++ compiler with C++/CLI.

Use IntelliSense in JavaScript Files

by TheyCallMeMrJames

Leverage VSDoc and DEBUG file documentation in VS2010

Use of the Enum Description (With Special Characters) in C#

by Gokhan Erdogdu

Can your enums have userfriendly descriptions? How to have enum values with spaces?

Use Webclient to Make An Auto Updater

by BlueMaple_chief

To make a simple auto updater demo, I use webclient 'interfaces' to download the file and monitor the progress.

Useful Refactoring Trick with instance variables

by Ruselo Riva Asentista

User Responsive Web Query Builder using ASP.NET

by Reeshabh Choudhary

Web platform based query builder to play with your database :)

Using 64-bit Shortcuts from a 32-bit Application

by 0xC0000054

A C# library that resolves 64-bit shortcuts from a 32-bit application

Using a Background Worker in WPF Along with Animation in .NET 4.0

by Subramanyam Shankar

This tip describes how to use a background worker in WPF along with animation to provide better user experience.

Using a TabControl for easy prototyping / testing

by _Noctis_

Use a project with a TabControl to quickly test theories, questions, problems

Using Built-in Visual Studio Diff Tool in VS Extension

by Mykola Tarasyuk

An approach to call built-in Visual Studio commands from within Visual Studio extensions

Using C# code inside JavaScript code

by Ahmed_Said

Using C# code inside JavaScript code

by Prosanta Kundu online

I always prefer this approach belowASPX pageIn aspx.cs page Page_LoadPage.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(Page.GetType(), "pageVars", string.Format("var TextBox1 = '{0}';", TextBox1.ClientID),true);When required...

Using C# to Monitor Bandwidth for Wireless Devices Using NetworkInterface and .NET LINQ

by Tyronne Thomas

Using C# to monitor the bandwidth for wireless devices.

Using CoPilot in VS Code to Rocketship Your Coding

by DataBytzAI

A fast intro to working with CoPilot in VS Code

Using Data Classes in ASP.NET - A Beginner's Guide

by Wombaticus

A beginner's introduction to using data classes in ASP.NET.

Using HttpLib to consume web services

by Redslide

HttpLib makes it easier to asynchronously consume data from web services in C#. The library contains methods to upload to and download from web services.

Using Integer Instead of Enum in XAML

by Piyush Manharlal

Using integer instead of Enum for ComboBox and Radio Button in XAML

Using IP based Geolocation - and why it's pretty much useless.

by OriginalGriff

I've answered quite a few questions in the last couple of months about how to get the physical location of a client from a website. And people seem to get annoyed when I say: "Don't. It's no real use". But that's the truth: you can get it, but it won't be accurate. Let's have a look and see why.

Using Kendo UI Grid with ASP.NET MVC5 Web API

by Ly Nguyen - LN

How to use Kendo UI Grid with Web API

Using Laptop Webcam as a Touch Button

by Zain Ul Abidin

Now it's time to change the usage scope of your laptop Webcam

Using LightSwitch Office Integration Pack with Complicated Table Relationships

by Michael_Lu

Provides tips for exporting documents involving tables connected by relationships

Using Masked TextBox in .NET

by heemanshubhalla

How to use Masked Textbox control in .NET

Using of .NET TransactionScope

by Md. Marufuzzaman

Using of .NET TransactionScope

Using SQL Bulk Copy with your LINQ-to-Entities datacontext - Part 1

by Måns Tånneryd

This tip shows how to significantly speed up inserts of large amounts of data using the entity framework.

Using Visual Studio Macros for Creating NHibernate Mapping file and Entity class

by Santx - Santosh

Using Visual Studio to find a database connection string

by OriginalGriff

Visual Studio has a Server Explorer built in to handle database access - it can lalso generate database connection strings ready for saving in application config files.

Utilizing Visual Studio Extensions

by Adil Mughal

Hey folks, today I would like to mention one of the underutilized features of Visual Studio and that is the use of Visual Studio extensions. In particular, the integration of Visual Studio extensions through Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010. You will find Extension Manager in Tools...

Validation Dimensions of Physical Quantities .NET

by Oleksiy Hornostal

This is the simple and fast validator for physical quantities and units. The validator can compare them using loaded physical expressions

VB & C# .NET/WinForms: Language Selector ComboBox

by vblover Programmer

Custom DropDownBox with all languages of the world to select a language.Save and reload Selected language using Application Settings

VB.NET Classes from SQL DB

by IssamK

How to automatically generate classes for your database tables

VB.NET Emailing System Based on Templates

by Member 10168565

How to send emails based on RTF templates containing images and attachments, while giving the user the possibility to modify the content before sending

View Multiple Web Browser Windows in the Visual Studio IDE

by AspDotNetDev

View multiple browser windows in the Visual Studio IDE to consolidate your workflow.

Virtual Cache

by Gerardo Recinto

Virtualization of RAM & Disk for high-speed, low-footprint & scalable data caching

Visual C++: How to Create Standalone Win32 Application Not Requiring Visual C++ Runtime

by Emiliarge

How to statically link a Win32 Project with Visual C++ libraries (m***.dll)

Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 - unable to start program element not found

by e.bonavero-miller

Not much on this one that was helpful so I thought I'd put what worked for me.Cntrl + Alt + Del > Processes > end all iexplore.exe and WebDev.WebServer.exe processes.Since devs generally debug with the dev webserver end those processes first and retest. Although iexplore handles stay...

Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 - unable to start program element not found

by Peace ON

I found this on MSDN.[^]Above link solved my problem permanently.HTH

Visual Studio 2010 "Recently Used" Locations

by Anshul R

MRU Locations and other locations in the Registry

Visual Studio 2010 Black-Out

by Anshul R

A solution for Visual Studio 2010 black-out

Visual Studio 2010 Black-Out

by GPUToaster™

Actually it requires the GUI to repaint...So you can minimize and then maximize again!. Worked for me.

Visual Studio 2010 Black-Out

by anon - lth

It was my ATI card anti-aliasing setting. Problem was gone after it was set on 'application-controlled'. You also may turn the hardware acceleration off in Visual Studio (Tools/Options/Environment/General/Visual experience)...

Visual Studio 2010 extension for collapsing Solution Explorer items

by Ashoka RKT

Recursively collapse child items.

Visual Studio 2010 Reading SVN Revision and Updating File and Product Version (Easy Way)

by prodrigues1990

Easy Assembly Version reflecting SVN working revision

Visual Studio 2010 Solution Creator AddIn

by igorvelho

VS2010 AddIn that allows to create a solution adding multiple projects at same time

Visual Studio 2010 TFS Solution CheckIn Hotkey

by AlexCode

Quick way of showing the Solution check-in modal window on Visual Studio

Visual studio 2010 Tip&Tricks

by dbg_af

Hi,I just built a tips site using Visual Studio 2010, the tips are about Visual Studio 2010,(I built the site using Silverlight and it contains video clips tips)Visit the site at:http://vs2010.zxq.netThanks, ;P

Visual Studio 2013 and High DPI Displays

by Joan M

Getting Visual Studio 2013 look sharp again when used in high DPI scaled monitors

Visual Studio 2013 Use HTTPS (SSL) On Web Application Projects

by congiuluc

This tip teaches you how to enable HTTPS (SSL) on Visual Studio 2013 Web Projects

Visual Studio 2019 Enhanced Scroll Bar

by Viswanatha Swamy

This tip imposes a quick glance at Visual Studio 2019 Enhanced Scroll Bar, including bookmarks, breakpoints, saved/unsaved changes, unused parameters, warnings, errors and find hits.

Visual Studio 2022 IntelliSense Hover Not Working Problem

by Mark Pelf

VS 2022 extensions can interfere with the IntelliSense Hover functionality.

Visual Studio Box Selection with Alt Key

by Vadim Loboda

This is an alternative for "VS2010 Box Selection with Copy and Paste"

Visual Studio Editor - Controls disappearing at Design Time

by Mike 2005

In Design Mode a form suddenly fails to display its controls even though the project continues to work normally.

Visual Studio Intellisense is Not Working? Try This.

by Avtem

A couple of fixes when your Visual Studio Intellisense becomes buggy

by thatraja

Visual Studio Project Conversion - Converting VS 2005 projects to VS 2008 (Commandline mode)

by Anshul R

Open the project file in notepad. .vbproj or .csproj.Change the VS version.

by Klaus Luedenscheidt

Or just use: SolutionConverter[^].Only restriction is that C++ is not fully supported.