Many options of the .LESS CSS parser can be set directly from the Web.config file, but many of them are not clearly described. Here is my attempt to document them.

.NET and COM interop story

by Adrian Dorache

Let's see a short example using COM objects exposed by Internet Explorer. The code below changes the color of every link in an HTML document.

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

by John Atten

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

.NET ListView: Reacting to Column Resize When User Doubleclicks Header Separator

by Gediminas Geigalas

I just came up with a hack for .NET ListView to react to users doubleclider separator to auto resize the column to fit column contents.

[OoB] Sonar with Arduino, C#, JavaScript and HTML5 (Part 2)

by morzel

Part 1 described the general idea behind Sonar project, hardware components used and Arduino sketch... This second post in "Out of Boredom" series is about C# and JavaScript programs that make it possible to display ultrasonic range sensor data in web browsers.

“Agile Development” – The Software Industry’s New Meme

by Steve Naidamast

“Agile Development” – The Software Industry’s New Meme

“Cannot Evaluate Expression Because the Code of the Current Method is Optimized”

by Sandeep Mewara

Possible solutions to the problem

“View this as root” – A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools

by Abhijit Jana

A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools

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

by Khurram Punjwani

Create a slideshow in SharePoint 2007.

19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 1

by Anton Angelov

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

19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 2

by Anton Angelov

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

2010: The Deconstruction…

by Steve Naidamast

Initial notes… The following piece is a sociological analysis of the state of professional software development today.

3 Easy Ways to Store Data Locally in a Windows Phone App

by Alex Turok

Our applications – no matter whether games, productivity tools or business software – are all about data.

3 Simple Steps to Create SharePoint 2013 Site Collection

by Imran Abdul Ghani

3 Simple Steps to Create SharePoint 2013 Site Collection

3D Engine, from GLUT to GLFW

by Martin Vorbrodt

3D Engine, from GLUT to GLFW

5 Simple Steps for Using Web API in ASP.NET Web Forms Application

by Imran Abdul Ghani

5 simple steps for using web API in ASP.NET web forms application

A Bug in Custom ISAPI Filter Related to Keep-Alive

by Zhuyun Dai

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

A Client Server File Sharing Application

by Ayobami Adewole

A Client Server File Sharing Application

A Collaboration White Board Using HTML 5 and SignalR

by Anuraj Parameswaran

A very simple and lightweight collaboration white board using HTML5 canvas API, JQuery and SignalR

A Complete Impersonation Demo in C#.NET

by Wayne Ye

A complete Impersonation demo in C#.NET

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

by Philip Laureano

A mind-bending experience

A Crash Course In CSS Sprites

by Zac Gery

A Crash Course In CSS Sprites

A Critical Section is not 100% user mode synchronization object

by Sarath C

Talking about Critical Section's internal use of kernel objects

A Custom linq query builder

by beatles1692

In my opinion one the most interesting features of Linq is Expression Trees.They let us build structured queries over IQueryable type.IQueryable ,as its name implies, is an interface that let us build a query over a provided object of type T.Although IQueryable and expression trees are mostly u

A Helper Class to Get the Current Location on a Windows Phone Just Once

by Don Kackman

Here is a helper class to get the current location on a Windows Phone just once

A Leap In Embedded Programming; .NET Micro Framework

by jebarson

A Leap In Embedded Programming; .NET Micro Framework

A Little HTML5: Using JSON and File API to View Starred Google Reader Posts

by Keyhole Software

Using JSON and File API to view starred Google Reader posts.

A Managed ETW Provider and the 15002 Error

by Sebastian Solnica

A managed ETW provider and the 15002 error

A Mobile Application Served From CouchDB

by Keyhole Software

A mobile application served from CouchDB.

A more extensible way to build plugin system

by Gediminas Geigalas

This post explains how plugin architecture can be improved to allow better extensibility and provide backward compatibility after updates.

A non-generic IList implementation without any Boxing and Unboxing

by gUrM33T

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

A Recipe For Password Security

by Bob McGowan

Using strong cryptography with entropy to secure user passwords.

A simple container used in MVC web applications with DI (Dependency Injection)

by RizviHasan

A simple container used in MVC web applications with DI.

A Sneak Preview of WebSocket-enabled WCF Services

by Nikos Baxevanis

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

A Synchronous Observer of Asynchronous Events

by Orjan Westin

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

A Way to Improve Performance of your Web Application Significantly

by Brij

A way to improve performance of your web application significantly

Accordion Panel with CSS

by John Bhatt

Accordion Panel with CSS

Account Unknown

by ledtech3

Account unknown

ACCU 2009: So many sessions, so little time...

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Preamble [21st April 2009]Well, we're here at the Barcelo Oxford Hotel again, and for us ACCU 2009 starts tomorrow (though the pre-conference workshops happen on the Tuesday, we haven't booked onto one this year).We are a little more prepared this year than last - for example we now have a 6 fo

Action Based ViewModel and Model Validation

by Pete O'Hanlon

Action based ViewModel and Model Validation

Add *subdomains* to the Compatibility View List

by BC3Tech

How to add subdomains to the compatibility view list

Add a Settings Panel in Charm Bar – Privacy Policy

by ShubhamSaxena

Add a Settings Panel in Charm Bar.

Add Column Header to Custom ViewBase (ListView.View)

by Leung Yat Chun

Add column header to custom ViewBase (ListView.View)

Add More Space to Your Windows Virtual Machine System (C:) Drive

by Sujay Sarma

Here's how to add more space to your Windows Virtual Machine System (C:) drive

Adding a Verb to the dotnet CLI Tooling

by matt warren

How to add a verb to the dotnet CLI tooling

Adding SignalR to an ASP.NET WebForms Project

by Jeffrey T. Fritz

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

Adding User Control and Defining its Functionality in C#.NET

by Komal Mangal

How to add user control and define its functionality in C#.NET

Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element

by Gil Fink

Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element

Adjusting View so Keyboard Doesn’t Hide a UIController

by Dennis E White

Adjusting View so Keyboard doesn’t hide a UIController

Adplus: Handling Managed Exceptions

by Sebastian Solnica

Managed exceptions and the ways we can handle them using Adplus

Advanced Control of UAC

by Mohammad Elsheimy

How to have advanced control over UAC

AfxGetMainWnd in C#

by Chris_Green

AfxGetMainWnd in C#

Agile Baby Steps: A Parable To Help You Get Started

by Rob Kraft

We often hesitate to take the action that shows we are committed to doing something new. We read about it, analyze it, and try to understand it; but real learning requires that we go beyond reading. We must DO.

Agile Project Management Tools

by kishore Gaddam

Agile Project Management Tools

AH, Ah, ah, ah…Staying Alive…Staying Alive

by Steve Wellens

Sometimes you want your web page to 'stay alive'. That is, if a user is filling out a complicated form, you do not want the session to time out before they are finished. The user could get very angry and rightfully so: You might even get yelled at!

Ajax is Not Really What You Think It Is

by Charles Boyung

My goal here is to explain the differences between what Ajax really is and what most people are interpreting it to mean.

akka : state machines

by Sacha Barber

In this post we will look at 2 ways you can write state machines with Akka. We will firstly examine the more primitive (but easily understandable) approach, and then look into the more sophisticated approach offered by AkkaFSM. What Is A State Machine?

Always Encrypted Feature in SQL Server 2016

by Manjuke Fernando

Always encrypted feature in SQL Server 2016

An alternative way to create the menu bar

by João Paulo Figueira

An alternative way to create the menu bar

An Early Bird's View of Windows 8 "Metro UI"

by Vijay Rajanna

In this post, you will read about an early bird's view of Windows 8 "Metro UI"

An Easier Way to Debug Windows Services

by jgauffin

Here is an easier way to debug windows services

An Introduction to Design Pattern – Part 1

by sayem.bd

This article is the first part of a series of article which will try to explain the basics of design patterns

An Introduction to Design Pattern - Part 2

by sayem.bd

This article is the second part of a series of articles which will try to explain the basics of design patterns.

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1)

by rudigrobler

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1)

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 2)

by rudigrobler

If your application is associated with a specific file extension, then you get the last part for free! The taskbar also lists files opened by your application in the Recent category!

Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 2)

by rudigrobler

In my “quest” to create thumbnails similar to the ones used in Internet Explorer 8, I hit a couple of snags!

Anatomy of the Windows 7 Taskbar - ThumbnailToolbarButton

by rudigrobler

With Windows 7’s public release less than 2 weeks away (22 October 2009), I decided to dig into how the taskbar works!

Android development: a Bluetooth label/receipt printing demo

by hjgode

BtPrint4 A Bluetooth Label printer demo This is my first Android project and I had to learn how to get an Android activity working.

Android Development: btPrint4 Prints Demos and Files to Bluetooth Receipt and Label Printers

by hjgode

This is an update to my btPrint4 Android application.

Android Navigation Bar Menu Tutorial using Bottom Bar Library

by Andy Point

How to create Android Navigation Bar Menu using Bottom bar Library

Android's Graphics Buffer Management System (Part I: gralloc)

by Neta777

CodeProjectIn this post series I'll do a deep dive into Android's graphics buffer management system.

Android's Graphics Buffer Management System (Part II: BufferQueue)

by Neta777

In this post, I'll describe graphics buffers flows in Android, with special attention to class BufferQueue which plays a central role in graphics buffer management.

Angular JS AutoComplete In MVC With Web API

by Sibeesh Passion

In this article we will learn how we can create Angular JS autoComplete text box with the data from SQL Server database. We use MVC architecture with Web API and Angular JS to fetch the data and do all the manipulations. I am creating this application in Visual Studio 2015.

AngularJS Custom Directive with Two-way Binding Using NgModelController

by Gilly Barr

AngularJS Custom Directive with Two-way Binding Using NgModelController

AngularJS: When/Where to Load Files

by Sibeesh Passion

Introduction Hi all, I hope you are fine. Today we will learn about Angular JS HTML DOM elements.

Announcing MVC3 Validation Groups

by Martin Jarvis

The new MVC3 Validation Groups

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

by ledtech3

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

Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library (AntiXSS)

by nageshwa

Anti-cross site scripting library (AntiXSS)

API design 101

by ocoudert

There are striking lessons in failed software architectures, and it all starts with API design. I am sharing here my practical experience with C++ projects, but most of these advices also apply to Java.

App.Config Transforms Outside Of Web Project

by Sacha Barber

App.Config Transforms outside of Web Project

Application Security Economics

by CdnSecurityEngineer

When you want to buy something that you can afford, what do you do? Well if you’re like most people you go to some financial institution and take out a loan in the amount of the item you wish to…Read more ›The post Application Security Economics appeared first on Security Synergy.

Apply CSS Important In JQuery And CSS

by Sibeesh Passion

In this post we will discuss how we can apply CSS important in JQuery. We all know that we can not apply a important CSS property directly to an element. It does not work. But still there is a solution for that. Here I am going to share you that. I hope you will like […]

Architecting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

by Ben Liebert

Architecting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Articles: Create Azure AKS Cluster with Windows Server Containers Preview

by OwenDavies

Microsoft announced back in May of the Windows Server Containers support in Azure Kubernetes Service Preview. Finally we can run Windows containers on the AKS service. It’s still only in preview, but fingers crossed will be coming to General Availability soon..

Articles: How to create an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell

by OwenDavies

So you want to create a Virtual Machine on Azure, this can be done in the portal. But really we want this scriptable, so that we can run it at a later date if needed and also so we can leverage this work and use it to create other virtual machines at a later date..

ASP.NET 4.0 and Control IDs

by trottin

In .NET 4.0, there is a new option when adding controls to a page or user control: ClientIDMode. This property offers you four choices: Legacy, Static, Predictable, Inherit...

ASP.NET AJAX Controls for MVC Developers

by Jeffrey T. Fritz

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

ASP.NET Callback – and HOW?

by Cruz Boon

Implementing ASP.NET callback.

ASP.NET Callback – and WHY?

by Cruz Boon

ASP.NET callback issues.

ASP.NET Controls – Problem sorting GridView with SqlDataSource control

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET Controls – Problem sorting GridView with SqlDataSource control

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor Pages

by User 1043264

How to use Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core 2.0. Continue reading

ASP.NET Interview Questions for Beginners and Professionals - Part 4

by Imran Abdul Ghani

ASP.NET Interview Questions for Beginners and Professionals - Part 4

ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 2 – Suggesting Content

by TheyCallMeMrJames

This is the second post in a series about jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. Two perpetually frustrating tasks I have dealt with are scratching out a UI to collect data and having to work with that data client-side.

ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 3 – Model Binding

by TheyCallMeMrJames

This is the third post in a series about jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. 100% of the developers I have talked to this morning are enjoying jQuery and how it makes ASP.NET MVC sites a treat to work on. Of course, the sample size was one (1) developer, and he’s writing this post.

ASP.NET MVC Custom HTML Helpers (C#)

by Murali Gowda

Create custom HTML Helpers to make it easier to generate view content.

ASP.NET Web Services – How to Overload a Web Method?

by Arun Ramachandran India

WebMethod overloading in ASP.NET web services

ASP.Net Web Services – How to use session state in a web service?

by Arun Ramachandran India

CodeProject In the last blog post, we have discussed about consuming web services from the client application. In this article we will go over how to use session state in a web service. This is continuation of the previous article.

ASP.NET Web Services Dependency Injection using Unity

by Rui Jarimba

Web Services Dependency Injection using Unity

ASP.NET, MVC 3, the Razor View Engine and Google Maps

by TheyCallMeMrJames

With the release of MVC 3, the updated project templates and the Razor view engine we have several new features and tool improvements at our disposal. I wanted to see how hard it would be to get a quick mash-up of some ASP.NET goodness and the Google Maps API.

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing

by Nikola M. Živković

Asynchronous Programming in .NET – Motivation and Unit Testing

Authentication Against CRM Contact using Custom STS

by Manoj.Kumar12

Authentication against CRM contact using custom STS

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

by saramgsilva

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

Auto + Mobile: Cars Have Always Driven The Future Of Technology

by Dan Rowinski

When the smartphone meets the automobile, the future of technology is the road ahead.The post Auto + Mobile: Cars Have Always Driven The Future Of Technology appeared first on ARC.

Auto-gen a URI string based on a method call

by BC3Tech

Auto-gen a URI string based on a method call.

Automatic JavaScript, CSS versioning to refresh browser cache

by Omar Al Zabir

Automatic JavaScript, CSS versioning to refresh browser cache

Automating Backups on SQL Server Express Version

by Raymund Macaalay

How to automate Backups on SQL Server Express Version

Auto-update your NuGet packages at build time

by BC3Tech

How to auto-update your NuGet packages at build time

Azure Mobile Service with Pusher Integration (Real Time APP)

by ArindamNayak

Azure Mobile Service with Pusher Integration (Real Time APP)

Azure Tutorial; Be in cloud (Part 3) [Web Role]

by jebarson

Azure Tutorial; Be in cloud (Part 3)

BackgroundWorker and UI Threads

by Ivan Krivyakov

BackgroundWorker and UI threads

Banishing String Literals from XAML Resource References

by Daniel Vaughan

Banishing String Literals from XAML Resource References

Basic Git Command Line Reference for Windows Users

by John Atten

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

Basic Introduction of Code Access Security for Beginners

by RaviRanjanKr

A simple theoretical blog to help you learn about what is Code Access Security and its pros and cons

Batch Uploading Music Files to Echo Nest

by staffan_v

Batch uploading music files to Echo Nest

Be Careful of Those SPECIAL Names in Unity

by Simon Jackson

Be careful of those SPECIAL names in Unity

Beautiful Gilded Text with CSS

by Benaiah Mischenko

Ever want to create beautiful gilding beside your text with CSS? (Here’s a demo, if you’re in a modern browser) It’s actually quite easy. Here’s how… First, some simple HTML. I’ll just give you this one: Concept 1 Minstrel Then, you need [...]

Beginners guide on CSS Selectors

by Prava-MFS

As we all know about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language used for styling the web pages written in HTML, XML or XHTML. In CSS, selectors play a vital role to declare which part of the web page, the style applies to and it is done by matching the tags or attributes present in […]

Beginners guide to Angular CLI

by santosh.yadav198613

Hello Everyone in this blog we will learn how to utilize the functionalities provided by Angular CLI to create a new Angular 5 App. And we will see different commands available in Angular CLI to increase our productivity.

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

by Zhuyun Dai

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

Better Algorithm for Finding UpdatePanel that will be Updated During Page Request

by n.podbielski

A better algorithm for finding UpdatePanel that will be updated during page request

Binding Checkbox in GridView (A work around)

by Syed Mujtaba Hassan

I needed to bind a checkbox in gridview to a database field but to my disappointment I found that this was not easy. We could bind “Text” property but what if I don’t want to display the value I am binding (e.g. ID of that record). Here is a work around.

Binding on a Property which is not a DependencyProperty

by jmix90

A lot of controls expose properties which are not DependencyProperties and then you can’t put a binding on it. On some other cases, you only have a getter as accessor and you can’t put a binding on it too...

Bing News, Your Blog Reader

by BC3Tech

Bing news - your blog reader

Bitwise – Something You Learned During College Time

by Cruz Boon

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

Blendability Part IV – Design Time Support for MEF

by Tomer Shamam

Design Time Support for MEF

Bluetooth Server Programming on Windows

by Vijay Rajanna

Bluetooth Server Programming on Windows

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming Revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

by matthewproctor

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming Revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

by matthewproctor

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action

by Gil Fink

The book is all about Entity Framework 4.

Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running

by Gil Fink

Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running

Book Review: Continuous Integration in .NET

by Nathan Gloyn

For a newcomer to CI in the .NET world, I would recommend you read this book as it will provide you with information and guidance to help you get your CI process in place.

Book Review: Swift Essentials

by PeteBarber

Book review: Swift Essentials

Book Review: WebRTC Integrator's Guide

by Sampath Lokuge

Book Review: WebRTC Integrator's Guide

Book: Code Complete 2nd Edition

by Syed Umar Anis

Code Complete 2nd Edition

Boost UI Rendering with Client Side Templating

by Taiseer Joudeh

Boost UI rendering with client side templating.

BoxCop – Static Assembly Analyzer Tool

by zenwalker1985

A small tool called BoxCop which is basically a static analyzer just like FxCop

Boxing and the Unified Type System

by Keith Holloway

Boxing and the Unified Type System

Browse Internet Faster and Save Power using a Smart HOSTS File

by Omar Al Zabir

How to browse the internet faster and save power using a smart HOSTS file

Browser Selector – A simple windows app to associate different urls to different browsers

by Shameel

This article introduces you to BrowserSelector, an open source app that acts like a bootstrap to associate urls to different browsers installed on your machine,.

Building a Custom Documentation Tool

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

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

Building a docking window management solution in WPF

by Ashish Kaila

How to build a docking window management solution in WPF

Building a Facebook Graph API Application using ASP.NET

by Pete Mourfield

Building a Facebook Graph API application using ASP.NET

Building a LOB Gamification Service Administration Website: Web API CRUD

by DapperDanH

In this post, I would like to discuss adding, deleting, and updating data through the Web API.

Building a self-hosted, RESTful web service with WCF

by Alejandro Gaio

Building a self-hosted, RESTful web service with WCF.

Building a Sudoku Solver in F#

by Cyborgx37

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

Building a Windows Phone App

by matthewproctor

How to build a Windows Phone app

Building a Windows Phone App

by matthewproctor

How to build a Windows Phone app

Building an Operating System? Time to Drop the Objects!

by Chris Boss

By using a procedural based approach using such a three tiered system, I strongly believe that operating systems could be designed to be simpler, faster and smaller, which is exactly what we need today for our mobile platforms.

Building apps & games for Xbox One using UWP – Build once and target many

by Simon Jackson

For my sins, I was asked back to FutureDecoded again this year to give a talk on the Microsoft UWP platform, specifically about bringing games to the XboxOne using UWP. By all accounts the session went well (especially as there was standing room only by the time the …

Building ASP.NET TextBox with Integrated Validation And Switchable Input Modes

by Ali Tarhini

The textbox we are about to discuss will have the regular asp.net validator controls built in and configurable as properties from within the textbox. Also the textbox's input type is customizable and varies between Text,Digits,Alphabets...

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

by Andrei Ion Rînea

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

Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the API

by Giorgi Dalakishvili

This post is part of a series about building a simple mathematical expression evaluator.

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

by Giorgi Dalakishvili

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

Building Installation Packages with Windows Installer XML

by Ayobami Adewole

How to install packages with Windows Installer XML

Building OpenPOS: Part 8 – Windows 7 Love

by rudigrobler

Building OpenPOS – Windows 7 Love

Building PlanetFall, a LunarLander-inspired game for Windows Phone 8

by matthewproctor

Lunar Lander was an arcade game developed by Atari, Inc.

Building Plugin-Based Applications with Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

by User 9557924

In this post I will try to cover some of the basic concepts and features of MEF over a working example.

Building Your First MEAN Stack Web Application – Part 2

by Imran Abdul Ghani

Part-2 in the series of developing a basic Web Application using MEAN Stack

Building Your Own System.Reflection API from Scratch, Part II: Round Tripping, Starting with Byte Zero

by Philip Laureano

How to build your own System.Reflection API from scratch

C# 6.0 New Features

by Madhur Kapoor

New features of C# 6.0

C# Design Patterns: Factory

by micahs

What is the factory design pattern? Well to begin with, it is something that is referenced frequently in software architecture. Functionally, a factory builds an object. More specifically, factories render instances of an abstract class type.

C# Properties and Expression Trees

by thebacon

In this post, I'd like to show some useful examples of expression usage, specifically calling properties.

C# Regular Expression Helper

by Ali BaderEddin

A tool to make it easier to learn C# regular expressions...

C# SMTP Configuration for Outlook.Com SMTP Host

by John Atten

C# SMTP configuration for Outlook.com SMTP host

C# Windows Form is Busy

by Ali BaderEddin

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

C#, Web API: HTTP GET with a Request Body

by Vidyasagar Machupalli

C#, Web API: HTTP GET with a Request Body

C#: A Better Date-Masked Text Box

by John Atten

John on Google CodeProjectLet’s face it. Managing date information within the .net framework (or any framework, really . . . Java is not much better) is a pain the the ass. Really. What makes it even worse is managing user data entry of date information.

C#: Side Effects and LINQ's Defferred Execution

by Alex Turok

It is difficult for me to imagine a program that doesn't deal with collections of some type – all our applications do proliferate with Arrays, Lists HashSets, DataTables and dozens of others. When writing code in C# the first tool I consider when faced with a collection is LINQ.

C++ static members and function

by pi19404

This article describes basic concepts of C++ Storage Access Specifiers.

C++/CLI Cheat Sheet

by Sebastian Krysmanski

Table of Contents [hide] 1 Introduction 2 Handles 3 CLR types 3.1 Native and managed types on stack and heap 3.2 Handles and Value Types (.Net Structs and Enums) 3.3 Casting Handles 3.4 Passing handles 3.5 Mixing native and managed types 3.6 Type Of 4 Modifiers: visibility 5 Modifiers: abstract

C++: Smart-pointers, "this" and callbacks

by Paulo Zemek

Simply put, the this variable is not a smart pointer.

Caching Strategy Reminder for Maven-Based Docker Builds

by Keyhole Software

My local development feedback loop between code change and runnable container was annoyingly long on a Maven-based project I was recently working on. I wanted to speed things up.

Caching Using Zend Framework (1st Step Towards Zero To Hero)

by Biswal Tanmaya

In this blog, we will discuss how to cache your whole project.

Calling Method in Parent Page from User Control

by Dinesh K Mandal

Calling method in parent page from user control

Calling Send and Receive Pipelines from the orchestration expression shapes

by Abdul_Rafay

Calling Send and Receive Pipelines from the orchestration expression shapes

Calling WCF Services with jQuery…Stripped Down

by Steve Wellens

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

Calling Web Service from Windows Phone 8 App

by Madhur Kapoor

How to call web service from Windows Phone 8 app

Calling Web Service Functions Asynchronously from a Web Page

by Steve Wellens

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

Calling Web Services from JavaScript

by Morris Bahrami

How to call Web Services from JavaScript

Calling Web Services from Silverlight after the Browser has closed

by Daniel Vaughan

There are two things I wanted to look at. Firstly, I wanted to allow a web service to be called after the Silverlight application’s Exit event is raised. Secondly, I wanted to provide the Silverlight application with the opportunity to cancel, or at least interrupt the close window process.

Can’t Activate iMember360 Plugin in WordPress

by Morgan Estes

Fixing protocol errors in WordPress plugins

Can’t Deploy to Windows 10 Mobile 10581? Read this

by BC3Tech

If you can't deploy to Windows 10 Mobile 10581, read this...

Cardinality Estimation in Linear Time using Sub-Linear Space

by danielthesolver

The cardinality of a collection A (which might be an ordered or unordered list, a set, or what not) is basically the number of unique values in A. For example, the collections [1,2,3,4] and [1,2,1,3,1,4,3] have the same cardinality of 4 (and also correspond to … Continue reading →

Cascading drop-downs with Cross-site Lookup for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

by Dmitriy Kozlov

Cascading drop-downs with Cross-site Lookup for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365.

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

by Chris_Green

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

Change of Approval Status in SharePoint Edit Form

by Dmitriy Kozlov

Change of approval status in SharePoint edit form

Changing Screen Resolution Programmatically via DirectX

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to change display settings (resolution, bit count, etc.) using C# and DirectX SDK

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

by Derek Lakin

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

Character Encoding with ASP.NET MVC Helpers

by Cindy Potvin

Character Encoding with ASP.NET MVC Helpers

CharmFlyout - Another Charming Custom Control

by John Michael Hauck

Settings charm flyouts to a C# Metro application.

Chart Widgets With Server Side Data In MVC Using Angular JS And Web API

by Sibeesh Passion

In this article we will learn how we can create some client side chart widgets with the data from SQL Server database. We use MVC architecture with Web API and Angular JS to fetch the data and do all the manipulations. I am creating this application in Visual Studio 2015.

Check File type at client side – jQuery

by Sandeepkumar Ramani

Check File type at client side – jQuery

Chocolatey - Package Management for Windows

by OwenDavies

A quick look at what is Chocolatey and how to install it

Choosing the Right Data Provider

by Simon Jackson

How to choose the right data provider

Christmas Carol: XML Signatures

by Ivan Krivyakov

Christmas Carol: XML Signatures

Class Programming Where Possible, Object Programming When Needed

by Gary H Guo

Discuss unifying static programming and dynamic programming in application development

Clean Up Old Files using PowerShell

by Bryan O'Connell

A simple script for deleting files in bulk

Client People Picker on a Custom SharePoint Form

by Dmitriy Kozlov

How to put the client people picker that has become available in SharePoint 2013 onto a custom form with the help of the latest version of Forms Designer 2.8.9

CLR Versions Compatibility

by Girish J Jain

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

CNTK 106 Tutorial – Time Series Prediction with LSTM using C#

by Bahrudin Hrnjica

How to implement CNTK 106 Tutorial in C# - this tutorial lecture is written in Python and there is no related example in C#. For this reason, I decided to translate this very good tutorial into C#.

Code Builder for jQuery AJAX (Calling Web Services)

by Steve Wellens

Code builder for jQuery AJAX.

Code Management on a budget

by Ritesh Ramesh

Code Management on a budget

Coding in Education, a programmers point of view!

by Chris Boss

I have followed stories about learning to code in education and am intrigued by what I have read.

Collections for WPF and NHibernate

by Adrian Alexander

Collections for WPF and NHibernate

Colorful Microsoft Windows Forms Controls

by Ahmed_Said

Colorful Microsoft Windows Forms Controls

COM and .NET: Cleaning up

by Steve L. Powell

COM and .NET: Cleaning up

Combining jQuery with ASP.NET AJAX

by Nitin Singh India

Combining jQuery with ASP.NET AJAX.

Combining WCF Data Services, JSONP, and jQuery

by Gil Fink

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

Combining WinJS, TypeScript, jQuery and KnockOut

by Timmy Kokke

A very simple Windows Store application based on TypeScript that uses jQuery and KnockOut to get some data from the internet and show this in a GridView

Common Sense Software Engineering – Part II; Requirements Analysis

by Steve Naidamast

Common Sense Software Engineering – Part II; Requirements Analysis Due to the nature of this critical component to software development, this essay intends to present this subject in broad strokes to incite interest among developers in pursuing their own development agendas properly.

Common Service Locator: Separate hard reference of your IoC/DI container from your solution

by Sohel_Rana

How to use Common Service Locator to lose dependency of your project on IoC container.

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

by Steve Wellens

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

Comparison of Android vs iPhone vs Nokia vs BlackBerry vs Windows Mobile 7

by Adrian Vintu

A comparison of Android vs iPhone vs Nokia vs BlackBerry vs Windows Mobile 7

Compile-Time Validation of Composite Object Data Binding Expressions

by Daniel Vaughan

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

Compiling Same Code on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 Metro

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Download Code (1.14 MB)I was thinking about how to write code that will work on both Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Metro). In theory some of the techniques that could be used are well known. But I wanted to try them out. So I decided to try some things out in a piece of throw away code.

Computer Algorithms: Quicksort

by stoimenpopov

Quicksort is a very elegant general purpose sorting algorithm and every developer should be familiar with its principles.

Concurrent Collections with .NET 4.0

by Brij

Concurrent Collections with .NET 4.0

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

by Dileep Ashok

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

Configure Outlook as the TFS SMTP Client

by Tarun_Arora

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use Outlook.com as the SMTP client for your TFS.

Configuring a Chocolatey Install

by Gordon Beeming

Configuring a Chocolatey install

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

by Melick

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

Connect to Ubuntu from Windows via RDP

by Tharaka MTR

Connect to Ubuntu from Windows via RDP

Constructing the SUT (System Under Test) – Eradicating Brittle Unit Tests

by Hideous Humpback Freak

How to construct the SUT (System Under Test) – Eradicate Brittle Unit Tests

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Automated Acceptance Tests with SpecFlow and Selenium Part 1

by Graham D Smith

In the previous post in this series we covered using Release Management to deploy PowerShell DSC scripts to target nodes that both configured the nodes for web and database roles and then deployed our sample application. With this done we are now ready to do useful work with our deployment pipeline,

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Server Configuration and Application Deployment with Release Management

by Graham D Smith

At this point in my blog series on Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS we have finally reached the stage where we are ready to start using the new web-based release management capabilities of VSTS and TFS. The functionality has been in VSTS for a little while now but only came to TFS with Update 2 o

Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Server Configuration as Code with PowerShell DSC

by Graham D Smith

I suspect I’m on reasonably safe ground when I venture to suggest that most software engineers developing applications for Windows servers (and the organisations they work for) have yet to make the leap from just writing the application code to writing both the application code and the code th

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Automatically Versioning Assemblies as Part of The Build

by Graham D Smith

In a previous post in this series on implementing continuous delivery with TFS we looked at how some simple tweaks to the build process can help with the goal of baking quality in. This post continues in the vein of making improvements to the pipeline by addressing the issue of assembly versioning.

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Building the Deployment Pipeline using an Agent-based Release Template

by Graham D Smith

In this instalment of my series on implementing continuous delivery with TFS we finally get to build the deployment pipeline with Release Management. This won’t be a tutorial on how to use Release Management so if you need to get up to speed with it I have a getting started post here.

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Configure Application Insights

by Graham D Smith

If you get to the stage where you are deploying your application on a very frequent basis and you are relying on automated tests for the bulk of your quality assurance then a mechanism to alert you when things go wrong becomes crucial.

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Creating an All-in-One TFS Server

by Graham D Smith

Continuous delivery with TFS: Creating an All-in-One TFS Server

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Creating Automated Web Tests with Selenium

by Graham D Smith

In this blog post (which is part of my series on on implementing continuous delivery with TFS) we look at creating automated web tests with Selenium.

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Making Sense of the DSC Feature in Release Management

by Graham D Smith

Making Sense of the DSC Feature in Release Management

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Preparing for the Deployment Pipeline

by Graham D Smith

This post is part of a series of posts on building a continuous delivery pipeline with TFS. We are getting very close to the point where we can use Release Management to build the deployment pipeline but there are still a few configuration tasks to take care of first.

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Running Automated Web Tests with MTM

by Graham D Smith

In this instalment of my series on implementing continuous delivery with TFS we pick up where we left off in the previous post and add the automated web tests we created to Microsoft Test Manager. We then look at how to schedule these tests for automatic execution through the deployment pipeline.

Continuous Mobile Deployment with VSTS – Part 2

by BC3Tech

In my last post we talked about setting up CI & CD for your Xamarin.Android project. Let’s continue on with our cross-platform story today by targeting Windows 10.

Controlling Azure Virtual Machines from PowerShell

by OwenDavies

Windows Azure portal has the full breadth of Azure visually displayed for you to see your Azure subscription and discover new things on the platform. But manually clicking through to provision a new VM or restart a VM isn’t the dream.

Controlling Your Web Camera Using C#

by Jake Drew

Controlling your web camera using C#.

Convert a Double to String: M3

by Kelum W. Ganegoda

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

Converted 4-Tier Architecture

by S Leistikow

Converted 4-Tier architecture.

Converting DirectX .X Files for Use in Games

by Simon Jackson

How to convert DirectX .X files for use in games

Copy a table using SQL Server Management Objects

by User 6619207

How to copy a table using SQL Server Management Objects

CQRS – Simple Architecture

by Member 11794279

CQRS – Simple Architecture

Create a Web Part Page Programmatically

by Melick

How to create a web part page programmatically

Create and Deploy Windows Azure Application

by Brij M

How to create and deploy a Windows Azure application.

Create Custom Windows in WPF with Ease

by Ashish Kaila

How to create custom Windows in WPF with ease

Create Multiple jQuery Mobile Pages and Link them - Part 2

by Talking Dotnet

In my previous post about Writing your first jQuery Mobile app - Part 1, I have explained about creating single page, changing themes and creating navigation button.

Create your own Hulu.com

by rudigrobler

This demo will ONLY focus on the VIDEO ON DEMAND scenario!

Create zip files using PowerShell

by Bryan O'Connell

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

Creating a custom context menu using jQuery

by Arpit Jain

Creating a custom context menu using jQuery.

Creating a Custom Database Connection Pool

by mopicus

How to create a database connection pool

Creating a Custom ErrorProvider Component for Use With Windows Forms Applications

by Richard James Moss

How to create a custom ErrorProvider component for use with Windows Forms Applications

Creating a Custom Kudu Script for the AllReady App

by Bill Wagner

How to create a custom Kudu script for the AllReady app

Creating a Custom TypeConverter: Part 1 - Getting Started

by Richard James Moss

How to use TypeConverter allowing complex objects to be edited as though they were simple strings

Creating a Custom TypeConverter: Part 2 - Instance Descriptors, Expandable Properties and Standard Values

by Richard James Moss

This follow up article expands upon the sample in the first part, to include more concise design time code generation, expandable property support, and finally custom lists of values.

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

by Derek Lakin

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

Creating a Custom Visual Studio Project Template for Ivonna

by Artem Smirnov

Creating a custom Visual Studio project template

Creating a Custom Window Style

by Derek Lakin

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

Creating a File Uploader Using JavaScript and HTML 5

by Arpit Jain

This article explains how to upload a file using HTML 5 and JavaScript.

Creating a Multi-paged Container Control with Design Time Support

by Richard James Moss

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

Creating a Scrum Team Project in Visual Studio 2012 using Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 Process

by kishore Gaddam

How to use SCRUM Template 2.0 to manage projects in VS 2012 TFS

Creating a Simple Plugin System with .NET

by Duke Of Haren

How to create a simple plugin system with .NET

Creating a Simple Sheet Designer in C#

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Give the user the flexibility to design his sheet, report, bill, invoice, whatever.

Creating AJAX Pagination WITHOUT the Pages

by Jamie Munro

How to create AJAX pagination without the pages

Creating CodeCollaborator Reviews using Command Line

by pollirrata

How to create CodeCollaborator reviews using command line

Creating Custom Context Menu using jQuery

by Arpit Jain

How to create custom context menu using jQuery

Creating Dialog Box in jQuery Mobile - Part 4

by Talking Dotnet

This post is Part 4 of creating a dialog box in jQuery mobile.

Creating Multiple Identical VMs in Microsoft Azure

by Gaston Verelst

In this post, I show how to create an image from a VM in Microsoft Azure, and use this to create identical VMs.

Creating Transacted Files in Windows Vista

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to create transactional vista using C# and Windows Vista (and higher) SDK.

Creating Visual Web Part Properties

by Raymund Macaalay

How to create WebPart properties.

Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio

by saramgsilva

This article aims to present the Microsoft App Studio for creating applications for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1. A few months ago Microsoft released Windows Phone App Studio Beta, a service that allows any person without programming skills … Continue reading →

Creating/Extending a Culture

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to create/extend a culture and register it for future use (even by Windows)

Critical Error – Start Menu and Cortana Aren’t Working

by skydger

Critical Error – Start Menu and Cortana aren’t working

Cross Site Scripting...

by Rick Bassham

An easy way to do an AJAX call to another domain

Cross-Platform Selenium with DotNet Core

by Andrew Blank

A bit about this project I was asked by a co-worker for an example of using Selenium Web Browser Automation with C# so I wrote a quick example in C# with MSTest and DotNet Core and I posted it to Github. https://github.com/andyrblank/Selenium-C-Sharp-Example What is Selenium?

Cross-site Lookup Column for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office 365

by Dmitriy Kozlov

Cross-site lookup column for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office 365

Cryptography: Asymmetric Encryption by Using Asymmetric Algorithm Classes

by RaviRanjanKr

This blog will enable you to understand the basic of Cryptography with Asymmetric Encryption Algorithm Classes.

Cryptography: Symmetric Encryption by Symmetric Algorithm Classes – Part 2

by RaviRanjanKr

This blog enables you to understand the basics of Cryptography with Symmetric Encryption Algorithm Classes.

Crystal Reports User Group Selections

by JasonDove

The basis of this solution is to control which fields are grouped on within the report, this will in turn change the summary operations and change the entire context of the report. This is done using Crystal Reports built-in Parameters in a way often overlooked by developers.

CSS and JavaScript minify and combine in MVC3

by m_kramar

CSS and JavaScript minify and combine in MVC3.

CSS Divide Page into Sections

by Víctor Sumozas

CSS divide page into sections

CSS Friendly Menu Control in ASP.NET 4.0

by Abhijit Jana

CSS Friendly Menu Control in ASP.NET 4.0

CSS Tips - Margins in Internet Explorer

by Jamie Munro

This is the first article to follow-up on my why "Why Is Internet Explorer Better?".Today's article is going to discuss how Internet Explorer deals with margins.

CSS Transitions Explained

by Dave Ceddia

CSS transitions explained

CSS: Creating nested numbered list using CSS-Counters

by Prava-MFS

Hello everyone, today I am going to share one basic thing, which you all may know about it. I am going to explain how can we create numbered list using CSS. So, let’s go through it quickly without wasting much of our time :). HTML provides us few ways of creating lists.

CSS: Custom HTML5 Form Validation with Visual Effects using Pseudo Class

by Prava-MFS

CSS: Custom HTML5 Form Validation with Visual Effects using Pseudo Class

Cumbersomeness Web.Config

by M Sheik Uduman Ali

Cumbersomeness Web.Config

Cumulative Update – 9 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available!

by Rohitmssqlfun

Cumulative Update – 9 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available!

Custom Android Navigation Drawer

by Val Okafor

In this blog post ,I will show a walk-through on how to create a custom Navigation Drawer using the auto generated Android Studio Navigation Drawer template. This also applies if you are working with the ADT plugin in Eclipse.

Custom Android Navigation Drawer

by Val Okafor

Custom Attributes with Extension Methods: Resource Key

by Chris_Green

Using a custom attribute to contain a resource key

Custom Controls Lesson - Using A Child Container's Control Collection

by Adam Zuckerman

I am building a custom control (an accordion style of control) for WinForms. During the building of the collapsible panel, I ran into an issue: how do I expose the control collection of a child control as the main control's control collection?

Custom fields and save site as template problem

by Dmitriy Kozlov

A solution for the custom fields and save site as template problem.

Custom Media Player in WPF (Part 1)

by Panagiotis Bailis

Custom media player in WPF (Part 1)

Custom Message When No Rows in GridView

by John Bhatt

Custom Message when no rows in GridView

Custom Pager using prev and next in jQuery

by Sibeesh Passion

Custom Pager using prev and next in jQuery

Custom RoleProvider is Not So Scary After All

by Gediminas Geigalas

Implementing a custom RoleProvider using Unity IoC library to support custom roles in ASP.NET MVC

Custom Serilog Sink Development

by Bob Crowley

Custom Serilog Sink Development

Custom Splash Screen using Silverlight 4.0

by KevinBhavsar

Custom Splash Screen using Silverlight 4.0

Custom Terminals and User Interface (UI) in Windows Terminal

by Jeremy Likness

How to customize the new Windows Terminal for Windows 10 for custom font, look and feel, as well as setup terminals for git-bash, Node.js, PowerShell, and Azure Cloud Shell.

Custom VSTS Task: Code Analysis & Email

by Kevin Mack

Custom VSTS Task: Code Analysis & Email

Custom Web Parts is not getting displayed after deployment in Share Point 2010. How to Resolve?

by Abhijit Jana

In SharePoint 2010, we can create Visual Web parts very easily from Visual Studio and can deploy it directly from Visual Studio...

Custom YES/NO Dialog with DialogResult in WPF

by Nikola Breznjak

This is a simple example of how to make a custom YES/NO dialog with DialogResult in WPF.

DataGridView – Stacked Header

by Deepak-VS

DataGridView – Stacked Header

DataGridView – Stacked Header – Export to HTML/Excel

by Deepak-VS

How to export data to Excel with formatted headers.

Date Counting

by Dennis E White

Date counting

Date Validation JavaScript vs Code Behind vs RangeValidator

by gmtzgtz

Date Validation JavaScript vs Code Behind vs RangeValidator

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

by Abhishek Sur

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

Debugging a Deployed Site

by Steve Wellens

"It works on my machine." How many times have we heard that? Getting something to work on other machines, after deployment, can be the final challenge in a successful project.

Debugging Unity 3D with VSCode

by Simon Jackson

Debugging Unity 3D with VSCode

Debugging XML Transforms (XSLT) with Visual Studio

by Steve Wellens

XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.There is so much to learn in our technical world… and so little time….and for some of us, even fewer brain cells. Alas, such is the life of a nerd/dweeb/geek.The latest technology I spent brain cells on is XML Transforms.

Decorator Design Pattern in .NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Decorator Design Pattern in .NET

Defining Document Compatibility In Internet Explorer 8

by Paulo Morgado

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

Deleting Files using File System Task in SSIS

by Raymund Macaalay

Deleting Files using File System Task in SSIS

Dependency Injection Frameworks

by Ashish Kaila

An introduction to Dependency Injection.

Deploying Windows applications using ClickOnce (Visual Studio 2008)

by Manjuke Fernando

How to deploy Windows applications using ClickOnce (Visual Studio 2008)

Deploying Windows Azure Application – VS2010 IDE

by Brij M

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

Design and the Gestalt Principle of Closure

by Zac Gery

The Gestalt Principles are based on the observation that people actively and subconsciously organize things into patterns and objects. These principles are organized into Proximity, Similarity, Closure, Good Continuation, Common Fate, and Good Form. They can be applied to all avenues of life.

Design and the Gestalt Principle of Proximity

by Zac Gery

Design and the Gestalt Principle of Similarity

by Zac Gery

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

Design Modern HTML Forms

by Camilo Reyes

The word “modern” gets thrown around a lot in UI design. I feel like it often gets misinterpreted into meaning whatever you want. To add to the confusion, a quick look in the dictionary defines modern as.

Designing Custom Forms for Smartphones, Tablet Devices, and Regular PCs

by Dmitriy Kozlov

Designing Custom Forms for Smartphones, Tablet Devices, and Regular PCs

Designing the Business Intelligence Application

by Mark Brownsword

Designing the business intelligence application

Designing your Azure MySQL DB with a UWP Demo

by Abdelrahman El Kinani

Azure MySQL DB, how to design it, basic UWP todo demo

Detailed Tutorial for Building ASP.NET WebAPI RESTful Service

by Taiseer Joudeh

A sample eLearning system API which follows best practices for building RESTful API using Microsoft technology stack

Details explanation on Compression Enabled Session for SQL Server and State Server Session Mode in ASP.NET 4.0

by Abhijit Jana

Details explanation on Compression Enabled Session for SQL Server and State Server Session Mode in ASP.NET 4.0

Detecting System Information of WP7 Device

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Detecting System Information of WP7 Device

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

by Stephen Cleary

How to detect a dropped TCP/IP connection

Determining the Owner of a File/Folder in C#.NET and Dealing with General Exceptions

by Komal Mangal

This article will help you determining the owner of a file/folder which is displayed in the Advanced Security Settings.

Develop Mobile Applications Using Web Development Skills

by Arian Celina

How to develop mobile applications using web development skills

Developer Tools: Paint.NET

by Zac Gery

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

Developing custom AD rotator control with multiple Image Mapping using C#.NET & XML

by kiran dangar

Developing custom AD rotator control with multiple Image Mapping using C#.NET & XML

Developing Hybrid Mobile Apps with Phonegap, AngularJS, Bootstrap

by Arian Celina

How to develop Hybrid Mobile Apps with Phonegap, AngularJS, Bootstrap

Developing Resolution-Independent Applications in WPF

by DotNetForAll

How to develop resolution independent applications in WPF

Developing Universal Windows Apps using Widows 10 & Visual Studio 2015

by Rajneesh Kumar Verma

This article will let you to start developing Universal Windows App in windows 10 using Visual Studio 2015

Developing Web Parts for MOSS is easy!

by Raymund Macaalay

In this post, I will show you how easy it is to develop webparts in MOSS (Sharepoint). If you know how to develop in .NET, then it will be a breeze. It will be as easy as 13 steps, so here we go.

Development: Windows 10 UWP Wireless Label/Receipt Printer demo

by hjgode

Windows 10 UWP wireless label/receipt printer demo

Diagnosing a Windows Service timeout with PerfView

by Sebastian Solnica

Today I would like to share with you an interesting (I hope) diagnostics case in one of our system services. The IngestService (that is its name) was not starting properly for the first time – it was being killed because of exceeding the default 30s timeout.

Diagnosing applications using Performance Counters

by Sebastian Solnica

Performance counters are used to provide information how well the operating system or an application, service, or driver is performing.

Difference betweeen ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC

by Imran Abdul Ghani

Difference between ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC

Different Versions of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010

by Abhijit Jana

Different Versions of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010

DirectoryInfo.GetFiles Returns More Files Than Expected

by Inaki Ayucar

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

DirectX and WinRT Continued

by Super Lloyd

My latest developments at writing a clean WinRT component exposing a clean yet complete DirectX D3D (and maybe D2D as well) API to C#.

DirectX Made Simple

by Super Lloyd

DirectX made simple

Disable Local Workspaces in TFS 2013

by Jeremy A. Wilson

How to disable local workspaces in TFS 2013

Display message on client from anywhere in code with ASP.NET

by n.podbielski

Display message on client from anywhere in code with ASP.NET.

Displaying a SharePoint List from another team site in Sharepoint Foundation 2010

by Raymund Macaalay

I remember I was using MOSS before and this is possible by using by connecting to another library like how it was disucssed in this blog http://sharepointgeorge.com/2009/display-sharepoint-list-site-data-view-web-part/, but now I had changed jobs and I am implementing the free version first whi

Displaying date/time using the user timezone in ASP.NET MVC

by jgauffin

How to display date/time using the user timezone (without it being configured anywhere in your application)

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

by Richard James Moss

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

Distributed Cache - Simplified

by Diego Resnik

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

Dividing Up A Rectangle Based on Pairs of Points using C#

by Richard James Moss

This article describes how to break up a rectangle into smaller parts based on user defined co-ordinates.

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

by Martin Hinshelwood

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

Domain Driven Design: A "hands on" Example (Part 3 of 3)

by Suarte

A hands on example of domain driven design - Part 3

DotNetZip

by Morris Bahrami

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

Dynamic Behaviour on Objects at Runtime With Custom ExpandoObject

by Abhishek Sur

The article describes how you can deal with dynamic object to inject members during runtime. It also demonstrates how to create Custom DynamicObject.

Dynamic Programming in C# 4.0 – An Overview

by Alphakoda

Introduction to dynamic programming in C# 4.0

Dynamic Two Way Real Time Map – Using SignalR and Google Maps

by SleepyCrat

An example of two way communication between a web application and its connected users

Dynamically Formatting Phone Field with JavaScript

by Alvin Bunk

How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript

Dysfunctional Programming 101

by AlexTatiyants

Functional programming has been all the rage lately, yet surprisingly few have heard about an intriguing alternative known as Dysfunctional (or FUctional) programming.

Easily download Ch9 videos

by Gordon Beeming

Script to easily download Ch9 videos.

Easy Model and Validation Localization in ASP.NET MVC3

by jgauffin

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

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

by Sadeque Sharif

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

Eclipse on a USB Flashdrive

by kribo

Eclipse on a USB flashdrive

Educating Clients About the Way the Web Works

by Martin Jarvis

Educating clients about the way the web works

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook Database. Part 2 – The Client

by Leom Burke

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 2 – The Client

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook Database. Part 2 – The Client

by Leom Burke

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook Database. Part 2 – The Client

Effective Shell Interlude: Understanding the Shell

by Dave Kerr

You may be familar with the shell, but it can be useful to understand some of the surrounding concepts in detail. How does a shell differ from a terminal? What is a tty? How do shells really work? Hopefully as you read this article you'll discovery something that you didn't know about shells.

Effective Shell Part 2 - Become a Clipboard Gymnast

by Dave Kerr

In this article, I'll show you how you can use the shell as an efficient tool to compliment how you use the clipboard.

Elevate permission on a SQL login having read only access to Execute Stored Procedures and to View Database Schemas

by Manjuke Fernando

Due to an unavoidable situation, it was decided that all the write access to a particular server (SQL Server) was required to be removed immediately. And only few people should be able to access the server with full privileges.

Embedded Programming – Getting Started With the Netduino - Part 2

by Codeman the Barbarian

Embedded Programming – Getting Started With the Netduino - Part 2

Embedding Font To Resources

by Ernest Poletaev

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

Enable Windows 8 App(HTML) to make XHR Request to Service Hosted in Different Domain

by Murali Gowda

Enable Windows 8 App(HTML) to make XHR Request to Service Hosted in Different Domain

Encrypt Connection String in web.config

by madan535

In this post we will learn how to encrypt connection string in web.config

Encrypt And Decrypt ConnectionString In Web.Config File

by Sibeesh Passion

In this article we are going to see how we can encrypt and secure our connection string in our web config file. As you all know the connection string is the pillar of our data.

Entity Framework and T4: Generate Specification Objects for Your Entities

by Rui Jarimba

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

Entity Framework Code First and WCF Data Services

by User 6619207

Entity Framework Code First and WCF Data Services

Escape or Sanitize HTML in Angular

by Dave Ceddia

Escape or sanitize HTML in Angular

Essential Macros for C Programming

by hudku

Essential macros for C programming

Evaluating Harmon.ie For IBM Notes 9

by James Carr (Crashcarr)

The results have been pleasantly surprising in adding additional functionality to Notes and SharePoint.

Everything in Active Directory via C#.NET 3.5 (Using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement)

by Raymund Macaalay

Everything in Active Directory via C#.NET 3.5 (Using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement)

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

by jmix90

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

Experimenting with C# 6’s New Features

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

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

Explore WebAssembly System Interface (WASI for Wasm) From Your Browser

by Jeremy Likness

WebAssembly now lives outside of the browser thanks to the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and runtimes like Wasmer and Wasmtime. Learn how to build and run your own WASI modules without leaving your favorite browser.

Exploring Client Callback

by Brij

Exploring Client Callback

Exploring the Internet of Things (IoT) with Lync (& Skype for Business) and .Net Gadgeteer

by matthewproctor

This article demonstrates how to use Lync as an endpoint for monitoring hardware and devices - in this instance the Gadgeteer Fez Spider board with a Gas Sensor.

Exploring TypeScript and What Makes It Sweet

by Bryan O'Connell

Exploring TypeScript and what makes it sweet

Exploring Web.config - system.web/httpModules

by Sky Sanders

Exploring Web.config - system.web/httpModules

Export Hierarchical (Multi-Level) HTML Table With Styles Using jQuery

by Sibeesh Passion

Export Hierarchical (Multi-Level) HTML Table With Styles Using jQuery

Export Multiple Windows Tasks

by Sujay Sarma

How to export multiple Windows Tasks

Export your Unity Kinect Project for Windows Store

by Vangos Pterneas

How to export your Unity Kinect project for Windows store

Expression Blend Cannot Open Your Custom Control in Designer?

by Ashish Kaila

Expression Blend and Visual Studio designer(s) have stringent conditions that a user control has to follow in order for its type to be even declared compatible for loading.

Expression Parsing and Nested Properties

by n.podbielski

Expression Parsing and Nested Properties

Extend ORM Generated Class

by Pranay Rana

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

Extending Blend for Visual Studio

by Timmy Kokke

Extending Blend for Visual Studio.

Extending C# ListView with Collapsible Groups (Part II)

by John Atten

Continued examination of C# ListView subclass with collapsible groups.

Extending Classic (6.0) Visual Basic – Part 1

by Chris Boss

Visual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option.

Extending ICSharpCode.TextEditor Syntax Highlighting Schemas

by Ernest Poletaev

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

Extending Internet Explorer – Scenario based overview

by Jyothikarthik_N

Extending Internet Explorer – Scenario based overview

Extension Me Async: Run a System.Action Instantiation Asynchronously

by Caleb McElrath

This article will briefly focus on the topic of Asynchronous Programming by extending System.Action delegates.

Extension Me Convert: A Binary Look at System.IConvertible Derivations

by Caleb McElrath

Extension Me Convert: A Binary Look at System.IConvertible Derivations

Extract worksheets from Excel into separate files with PowerShell

by Bryan O'Connell

The title says it all.

Extracting Table Data from Word Document using Aspose Words

by Manas Bhardwaj

How to extract table data from Word document using Aspose Words

eXtreme Agile: Continuous Mobile Deployment with VSTS

by BC3Tech

If you’ve followed .Netitude for a while, you definitely know I’m a fan of Continuous Integration.

eXtremecode ASP.NET Generator Introduction

by Sheikh Abdul Wahid

Xtremecode or eX ASP.Net Generator is simply a tool which takes a collection of database connections as an input and produces a well-formed ASP.NET application.

F# 15 : Code Organization (Modules / Files/ Types)

by Sacha Barber

Now that we have some of the basic types and pattern matching under our belts, I thought it high time that we learnt a bit about how to organize our own code. Throughout some of the posts we have already been through I have been referring to modules such as the “List module”. In this […]

Façade Design Pattern

by adityaswami89

Façade design pattern

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

by Nicolas Brassard

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

Fast Build Turnaround Time is Essential

by User 11633146

Fast build turnaround time is essential

Faster than Reflection: Delegates. Part 1.

by n.podbielski

This article is first part of the series of three. Next ones you can find here and here.. Code for all three articles, with new features and bug fixes is available on GitHub and as Nuget package.. Why not Reflection?. If you working with .

Few Features of ASP.NET Core 2.0

by Passion4Code

This post lists a few features of ASP.NET Core 2.0.

Few important tips that you should know while using ASP.NET Session

by Abhijit Jana

Few important tips while using ASP.NET Session

Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio

by Abhijit Jana

A few tips on customizing debugging windows

Fiddler in Action - Part 1

by Mehdi Khalili

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

Fiddler In Action - Part 2

by Mehdi Khalili

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

FileSystem Syncher – Part 3

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

FileSystem Syncher

FileSystemWatcher vs Locked Files

by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

You monitor a folder for new files with FileSystemWatcher and try to move those them on arrival. You get an IOException: ...being used by another process. The copying had not finished. Here, I offer a fairly robust solution to this.

FilterableDataGridView (C#.NET)

by Akos Orban

A DataGridView control with built-in Filtering

Final Chapter: Continuous Mobile Deployment with VSTS

by BC3Tech

In the final installment of my Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment series, we’ll tackle the real wrench in the system: iOS.

FindControl for Windows Forms

by Joel Ivory Johnson

A quick implementation of FindControl for Windows Forms.

First Date with WCF Named Pipe Transport (Duplex)

by comiscience

WCF named pipe transport

First Windows 8 App with JavaScript and HTML

by Gergo Bogdan

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

Fix: Black Screen after upgrading to Windows 8 on Dell Vostro

by Nitesh Kejriwal

Black screen after upgrading to Windows 8 on Dell Vostro.

Forcing Derived type to apply custom attribute

by Fun@learn

Introduction This article illustrates options to force attributes on derived types. Background In .NET eco system, Attributes are not inheritable. This means any attribute applied on base class are not applied/inherited on derived class.

ForEach Method for the Collections

by Pranay Rana

ForEach method for the collections

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

by Sebastian Solnica

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

Format Text Out as a Table (Format-Table) in PowerShell

by Melick

Format text out as a table (format-table) in PowerShell

Formatting Date, Number Data on BCS OOB Business Data List Webpart

by abin jaik

Formatting date, number data on BCS OOB business data list webpart

Four Tier IOC Application (Converted Tier Architecture)

by S Leistikow

Four tier IOC application.

FreeNAS – Windows (CIFS) Shares on ZFS

by anichin

How to create a Windows (CIFS) share that will be accessible on the local network and will demostrate how to use the ZFS snapshots to restore lost data.

Friendly Error Messages

by Ivan Krivyakov

I would rather have the message honestly tell me what happened, and only then elaborate on a list of typical reasons.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use String States

by Keyhole Software

The String State anti-pattern is the use of a Java String to represent the state of an object.

From C to Hardware

by ericevenchick

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

Full Screen Engine to make Compact Framework Applications Fullscreen

by hjgode

A class to make a Windows Mobile compact framework forms fullscreen. Includes code to catch all keys (no more working softkeys)

Fun with Enums and a Generic File Date/Time Stamper

by bobleith

A generic file date/time stamper.

Functional Programming in a Nutshell

by Luis D. Aguilar

Functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats application operations as a sequential execution of functions.

Games as a Service?

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Games as a service

Generate Genealogy View in ASP.NET C# using Google Organizational Chart

by Arkadeep De

How to create a genealogy view in ASP.NET C# using Google Organizational Chart

Generate insert Statements from a Specific Table Data using SQL Server

by Tharaka MTR

Generate insert statements from a specific table data using SQL Server

Generating Web Services Server Using Axis2

by Marek Piechut

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

Generics and Constraints over Generics

by Brij

Generics and Constraints over Generics

Get an unique session in each browser tab

by jgauffin

Get an unique session in each browser tab

Get Detailed IP Address Information of any JAVA Client

by Debopam Pal

This example shows you how you get detailed information of any client IP address such as Country Code, Country Name, City and many more.

Get Inventory of All SharePoint Documents Using Windows PowerShell

by James Carr (Crashcarr)

Get inventory of all SharePoint documents using Windows PowerShell.

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

by essentialSQL

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

Get Ready to Learn SQL Server: What is a Database NULL Value?

by essentialSQL

What is a Null Value? In databases a common issue is what value or placeholder do you use to represent a missing values. In SQL, this is solved with null. It is used to signify missing or unknown values. The keyword NULL is used to indicate these values.

Get Ready to Learn SQL Server: 6 – Group and Summarize Your Results

by essentialSQL

Grouping results returned from your queries using the GROUP BY clause

Get Ready to Learn SQL: 5. Query Results Using Pattern Matching

by essentialSQL

Query Results Using Pattern Matching in SQL

Get Ready to Learn SQL: 6. How to Group and Summarize your Results

by essentialSQL

How to Group and Summarize your Results in SQL

Get Ready to Learn SQL: 7. Simplified Data Modeling

by essentialSQL

Simplified Data Modeling in SQL

Get Ready to Learn SQLServer: 18. How To Use the EXCEPT Operator

by essentialSQL

How to use the Except Operator in SQLServer

Get Started with Power BI Desktop

by essentialSQL

In this guide, I’ll show you how to get started using Power BI. We’ll then get some sample data and use it to build a simple project.

Get Time of Code Execution Using StopWatch

by Pranay Rana

How to get the time of code execution using stopwatch

Get Your Thread Synchronization Right the First Time

by Ben M Watson

Get Your Thread Synchronization Right the First Time

GetFinalPathNameByHandle API Hangs

by Naveen

GetFinalPathNameByHandle is an new API introduced in Windows Vista. We will look at how to resolve an issue related to its usage.

GetMyMusicOffOfMyIpodAndOntoMy...

by timtocci

Originally this application was a console application that I developed to get the music off of my iPod. After my post on transparent forms in VIsual Basic I decided to port it to a Widget format to make it easier to use and demonstrate what goes into creating a transparent Windows Forms application.

Getting a custom attribute

by Scott Dorman

Attribute programming has a lot of benefits and, when done correctly, can greatly simplify the amount of code that you need to write. One drawback to using attributes is that the code required to retrieve a custom attribute from a type is a bit cumbersome and is very repetitious.

Getting Bit by Caching

by Jonathan Wood

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

Getting Hardware and Software Details of the Computers in your Domain

by Morris Bahrami

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

Getting in the RAII

by WebBiscuit

Looking at a simple MIDI handle wrapping class

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

by John Atten

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

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

by John Atten

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

Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio

by Simon Jackson

MonoGame (for those of you not yet aware) is a Game Building Framework / API born from the ashes that was the Microsoft XNA Framework that provides a very easy to use API to build games.

Getting started with nodejs - Building an MVC site

by Gilly Barr

Getting started with nodejs.

Getting started with Prism 2, formerly known as the Composite Application Library

by Wes Aday

IntroductionPrism is a set of libraries that allow developers to compose applications from separate components into a composite application.

Getting started with Python

by ashish__shukla

What is Python? Python is a general purpose,interpreted and high-level programming language.It is object-oriented and dynamically typed programming language.Dynamically typed means that variables are not required to be declared before using them.Instead you directly assign value to a variable.

Getting Started with WebDriver C# in 10 Minutes

by Anton Angelov

Short tutorial on how to start using one of the world's best web automation frameworks - WebDriver. Exact steps to follow through code in C# and images.

Getting Started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 1 of 2

by Shayne P Boyer

How to get started with Windows Phone and MVVM light

Getting Started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 2 of 2

by Shayne P Boyer

Getting started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light

Getting Started With Windows Phone Development

by Madhur Kapoor

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

Git: Combine and Organize Messy Commits Using Interactive Rebase

by John Atten

This post describes a rather specific use of Git’s rebase command.

Gitting Out of Subversion

by Brady Kelly

I recently started migrating my code repositories from Subversion (svn) to Git. This is an account of my setting up Git and migrating one of my svn repositories over to a Git repository [...]

Give Windows 8 Another Chance

by JJ Bussert

Give Windows 8 another chance

Golden Ratio and GPdotNET v2 User Interface

by Bahrudin Hrnjica

Golden Ratio and GPdotNET v2 User Interface

Google I/O 2014 Recap for Web Developers

by Stephen C Young

Google I/O 2014 Recap for web developers

Google Search Results To Highlight Mobile-Friendly Content

by Dan Rowinski

It is 2014. Your website should be optimized for smartphones. The post Google Search Results To Highlight Mobile-Friendly Content appeared first on ARC.

Google Spreadsheet Server Monitoring

by Stephen Akins

Monitor your websites using a Google Spreadsheet and some PHP

Gotcha: PB Deployment – SYSTEM var not supported error

by Sam Varadarajan

SYSTEM var not supported error.

Grabbing Information of a Terminal Services Session Programmatically

by Raymund Macaalay

Grabbing Information of a Terminal Services Session Programmatically

Graffiti CMS Plugin – Custom Categories for RSS Feed Items

by Charles Boyung

Graffiti CMS Plugin – Custom Categories for RSS Feed Items

Grandia's initiative bar

by Victor Rene

Gradia's initiative bar

Grant Access to your Assembly from COM Objects

by Abhishek Sur

Make your class library COM visible using few simple steps

Grokking the CLI - Part 1: Meta Mayhem

by Allen C. Copeland Jr

Grokking the CLI - Part 1: Meta Mayhem

Grokking the CLI - Part 2: Meta Meanderings

by Allen C. Copeland Jr

Grokking the CLI - Part 2: Meta Meanderings

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

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

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

Guide to Writing Custom Functions in Excel: Part II Automation Add-In

by Steve L. Powell

Automation Add-In

Guide to Writing Custom Functions in Excel: Part III, C++ RTD add-in

by Steve L. Powell

In the previous article we developed a custom function in Excel using an Automation Add-in. It was fairly straightforward and didn’t take long but performance isn’t one of it’s strengths and there is no way to properly document it within Excel for the user. The RTD is an automation add-

Guideline for your first (Android) mobile application

by Adrian Vintu

I've had multiple requests on information about developing an (Android) mobile application so I decided to add my tips in this guideline. Please mind that these tips are general and may not apply to all situations.

Guidelines to Fluent Interface design in C# - Part 1

by Andre Vianna

History, the basic concepts of Fluent Interfaces and a small glossary of terms that I will use in this series of posts

Guidelines to Fluent Interface design in C# - Part 2

by Andre Vianna

Some techniques to code each part of the sentence with some samples.

Handling Cookies with Redirects and HttpWebRequest

by Joel Ivory Johnson

The HttpWebRequest handles redirects automatically. That's usually a nice feature but it can actually get in the way when the web server is setting cookies in the same response in which it is sending a redirect.

Handling Larger JSON String Values in .NET and Avoiding Exceptions

by Rion Williams

Handling larger JSON string values in .NET.

Handy Development Tools for Assisting Others From Your Browser

by Rion Williams

Handy development tools for assisting others from your browser

Hard Links vs. Soft Links

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Symbolic links: a) Hard Links. b) Soft (Junction) Links

Having Fun With HTML 5 History API – Part Three

by Andrei Ion Rînea

Having fun with HTML 5 history API - Part 3

Helper Function to Update/Insert/Delete Collections in Linq2Sql

by m_kramar

Helper function to update/insert/delete collections in Linq2Sql

Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL

by Abhishek Sur

Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL

High Performance HTML Forms

by Camilo Reyes

High Performance HTML Forms

History of Internet Explorer [Birth of #IE to #IE9]

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

History of Internet Explorer [Birth of #IE to #IE9]

How Agile Changed the Software Development Workplace

by Saleh Hamadeh

In the last three decades, software development has undergone a drastic change. Computer science started out as a mix of discrete mathematics and electrical engineering. As more people bought personal computers, most businesses sold their software for fixed prices.

How AutoHotKey Saved the (Visual Studio) Day

by Joseph (landofjoe.com)

Lance Hilliard has created a AutoHotKey script to effectively disable the Ctrl-Shift-S keyboard shortcut for Lync.

How Do I Handle a “Error converting data type” Error?

by essentialSQL

An answer to fix an error converting data type from varchar to float

How Do I Use SQL Server to Sort Alphanumeric Values?

by essentialSQL

Sort Alphanumeric Values with SQL Server

How Does a LightSwitch HTML Client Application Work?

by defwebserver

How a LightSwitch HTML client application works.

How Much Do You Know About Mobile Sensors ?

by Vijay Rajanna

A post to find out how much you know about mobile sensors

How security is very much like MMA

by GarethI

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

How to Add ActiveX Control at Run Time using C#.NET

by Vivek Goyal

How to Add ActiveX Control at Run Time using C#.NET

How to Add Custom Fields to User Profile in WordPress Using Plugins

by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to Add Custom Fields to User Profile in WordPress Using Plugins

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

by StevenHollidge

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

How to become a better GIT Collaborator

by Simon Jackson

Some of the best working practices for working with open source projects.

How To Become A Web Developer. Part 4: Functional Programming

by Stephen C Young

Functional Programming

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

by Pragmateek

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

How to build a language binding for a web API

by Pragmateek

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

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

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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

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

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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

How To Build A Specific Project From A Solution with MSBuild

by Vasil Trifonov

How to build a specific project from a solution with MSBuild

How to Build an Enterprise Framework for .NET Based Web Application

by Gaurav5582

How to Build an Enterprise Framework for .NET Based Web Application

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

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend

How to Check User Permission for the Web, List, or SharePoint Item in SharePoint JavaScript Object Model

by Melick

How to check user permission for the web, list, or SharePoint Item in SharePoint JavaScript Object Model.

How to Compress Files in Metro Style Applications

by rajendran_sp

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

How to Configure SharePoint Treasure (Synonym) In MOSS 2007

by Syed Adnan Ahmed

The concept of treasures in SharePoint world is not new. It was also used in SharePoint 2003. Treasures are like synonyms or similar words that you specify in SharePoint for keywords search.

How to Convert a Date Time to “X minutes ago” in C#

by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to Convert a Date Time to “X minutes ago” in C#

How to Convert Android View to PDF

by Val Okafor

In this blog post, I discuss how to convert Android View to PDF.

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

by Nitesh Kejriwal

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

How to Count Work Days Between 2 Dates in SQL Server

by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to count work days between 2 dates in SQL Server

How to Create a Hierarchical Menu Using HTML, CSS and jQuery

by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to create a Hierarchical Menu using HTML, CSS and jQuery

How to create a tic tac toe game with web standards (Part 5-Final)

by Member 8292021

How to create a tic tac toe game with web standards.

How to Create a Windows 8 App for SharePoint: Part 2 – The Development Stage

by Alex Choroshin

Developing a Win8 app and integratinge it with SharePoint Online 2013.

How to create Custom Web Service WCF (REST) in SharePoint 2013

by Melick

SharePoint native web services can be access via _vti_bin mapped path.

How to Crop an object using Expression Blend?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Crop an object using Expression Blend

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

by Melick

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

How to Debug in IE on a Mac

by AlexTatiyants

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

How to Debug Windows Services written in .NET? (Part I)

by Sebastian Solnica

How to debug Windows services written in .NET

How to Deploy Files in Different Servers with Team Build

by ozkary

How to Deploy Files in Different Servers with Team Build

How to Describe Object State

by Gaston Verelst

How to describe object state

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

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

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

How To do Case Sensitive String Match in SQL Server

by Nitesh Kejriwal

How to do case sensitive string match in SQL Server

How to embed a Video in SharePoint?

by Imran Abdul Ghani

There are several ways a user can add audio or video clips to a SharePoint page when editing the page in browser. Here we are going to discuss the following ways to embed a video to SharePoint. We will follow a step by step approach to achieve the desired output.

How to Enable gzip Compression in IIS7

by Ghanshyam N Patel

How to enable gzip compression in IIS7

How to enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

How to Fail Your Brand New Windows Phone Application

by Alex Turok

How to fail your brand new Windows Phone application

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

by Adam Zuckerman

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

How To Find Controls present in HeaderTemplate or FooterTemplate of Repeater Control in ASP.NET

by Nitesh Kejriwal

How To Find Controls present in HeaderTemplate or FooterTemplate of Repeater Control in ASP.NET

How to Fix Orphaned SQL Users

by Tharaka MTR

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

How to format texts of TextBlock using xaml in Windows Phone

by RaviRanjanKr

This blog help you to learn how to format texts of TextBlock control in Windows Phone.

How to Get a List of Files and Folders Without Directory.GetFiles Access Denied Error

by merlin981

I know the title is a bit long, but it descriptive of the problem. Recently I had need to retrieve a listing of files and folders given a root path. All worked well, until I tested on Vista and Windows 7 machines.

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

by AlexTatiyants

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

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

How to Get SharePoint Client Context in SharePoint Apps (Provider Hosted / SharePoint Access ) in CSOM (Client Side Object Model)

by Melick

How to get SharePoint client context in SharePoint Apps in CSOM

How to Get Started in Computer Programming?

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

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

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

by Williarob

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

How To Get Your Identity Tokens

by Gordon Beeming

How to get your identity tokens

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

by StevenHollidge

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

How To Implement Back To Top Feature in Html/Asp.Net/PhP

by Nitesh Kejriwal

Friends, In many websites having long contents we have seen a “Back To Top” or “Scroll To Top” button when clicked takes you to the top of the webpage. We see this kind of feature normally on the product listing pages of e-commerce websites.

How to Implement Custom configSection with Nested Elements in C#

by Adarsh Chaurasia - Passionate Trainer

After completing this exercise, you should be able to implement custom configSection, with nested elements, in your application's config file.

How to Implement eWay Client Side Encription in Windows Form Application

by Sergi Ortiz Gomez

My solution that can work with eWay payments from Windows Form Applications

How to Implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to implement template binding in Silverlight custom control

How to Improve ASP.NET UpdatePanel Performance

by Alexander Turlov

How to Improve ASP.NET UpdatePanel Performance

How to Improve Workflow Performance in SharePoint Services 3.0

by Melick

SharePoint workflows are getting slow for several reasons. in my environment I'm having a problem with following performance issues, therefore in my environment i got following problems. When a item added to the library it takes some times to initiate the workflow.

How to install and configure Xdebug to work with PHP5 on Ubuntu

by DareenH

The Xdebug extension helps you debugging your script by providing a lot of valuable debug information.Before you install xdebug you should have PHP5 and Apache2 already working properly.

How to Install SQL server 2008 on Windows 7

by Razib Chandra Deb

In my previous post I show How to Install IIS on Windows 7. Now I am going to show How to Install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. First you need the installer, download it from here. Requirements: Visual Studio … Continue reading →

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

by Eric Xue (brokensnow)

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

How to Install Windows 8.1 on Mid-2009 Macbook Pro

by Aniruddha Loya

How to install Windows on Macs?

How to interact with File; File System

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

How to interact with file; file system

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

by Melick

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

How to make Video splash

by Mohamed M. Shaheen

This blog has been contributed to Forum Nokia Wiki at http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_make_Video_splash In those a few lines you will find a code of how to create easy startup splash screen that can play video files of any format (GIF,AVI,mpg,3gpp,real etc..)video splash classpack

How to Make Your System Slower With WMI

by Alois Kraus

With the new Windows Performance Toolkit you can now identify bottlenecks in your system which did not show up in any profiler.

How to Open Documents in Office Web Apps in SharePoint apps (Provider Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)

by Melick

How to open Documents in Office Web Apps in SharePoint apps (Provider Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)

How to Open Edit Form Right After Creation of an Item in SharePoint

by Dmitriy Kozlov

How to open an edit form of an item right after its creation

How to Open Large XML files without Loading the XML Files?

by Sandeepkumar Ramani

How to Open Large XML files without Loading the XML Files?

How to Open Web Page in Internal Browser of Visual Studio

by Utkarsh Shigihalli

How to open a web page in internal browser of Visual Studio

How to optimize software for Windows and tablets

by Chris Boss

How to optimize software for Windows and tablets.

How to Pass ASP.NET Server Side Array to Client Side and Binding them with HTML Element?

by Abhijit Jana

How to pass ASP.NET server side array to client side and binding them with HTML element

How to Preserve State Across Pages in a Windows 8 App

by BillOsuch

How to preserve state across pages in a Windows 8 app

How to Render MVC View on a Modal Popup Window

by Raymund Macaalay

How to render MVC view on a Modal popup window

How to Return Random Rows Efficiently in SQL Server

by Nadeem Afana

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

How to set Current User Name to InfoPath Person/Group Picker

by Melick

How to set Current User Name to InfoPath Person/Group Picker

How to Setup seam3-Security in JBoss 7

by Edward Legaspi

Setup Seam3-security in JBoss 7

How to setup Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller on a VPC (Server)

by Syed Adnan Ahmed

This article will explain how to setup Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller on a VPC. Steps remain the same for physical machine.

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

by Inaki Ayucar

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

How to Solve Issues of Internet Not Working with Windows Phone 8 Emulator

by RaviRanjanKr

This blog will help you to solve the issues while connecting Internet with Windows Phone 8 emulator during deployment process.

How to sort View List DropDown in SharePoint 2010

by Raymund Macaalay

How to sort the listviews you have created in SharePoint.

How to Tell if an Assembly is Debug or Release

by DaveBlack

How to tell if an assembly is optimized

How To Use .NET Code on a Network Share From Windows

by ferventcoder

Use .NET Code on a Network Share from Windows.

How to Use ASP.NET “Property Pages” to create or host a Silverlight application in ASP.NET Site?

by Abhijit Jana

How to Use ASP.NET “Property Pages” to create or host a Silverlight application in ASP.NET Site?

How to use CPU instructions in C# to gain performace

by Adnan Boz

How to use CPU instructions in C# to gain performace

How to Use Git and Github for Windows from Within a Windows auth Proxy Network

by eric hexter

If you work at a company where you need to type in your user id to access sites on the internet and when you want to use git to push to a repository on the internet and it just hangs, here is a solution.

How to use SharePoint Feature to Activate and Deactivate Custom SharePoint Master page

by Melick

How to use SharePoint Feature to Activate and Deactivate Custom SharePoint Master page

How to Use SSH to Access a Linux Machine from Windows

by John Atten

How to use SSH to access a Linux machine from Windows

How to use the preview of the new Azure Management APIs, SDK 2.2

by IInjac

How to use the preview of the new Azure Management APIs, SDK 2.2.

How to Use Update Cursors in SQL Server

by Manjuke Fernando

Using Update Cursors in SQL Server

How to Verify Phone Numbers using Twilio and Parse

by Saleh Hamadeh

This post discusses how to verify phone numbers using Twilio and Parse

HOWTO Configure the Windows Firewall on a Windows Server

by Sujay Sarma

How to configure the Windows Firewall on a Windows Server

How-to: Successfully Install Kinect on Windows (OpenNI and NITE)

by Vangos Pterneas

How-to: Successfully install Kinect on Windows (OpenNI and NITE).

HTML 5 and jQuery – A Match Made in Heaven

by Steve Wellens

An introduction to HTML 5 Custom Data Attributes.

HTML 5 and jQuery – A Match Made in Heaven

by Steve Wellens

What are HTML 5 Custom Data Attributes?

HTML Parsers: The Journey to a More Semantic yet Forgiving Web

by danielthesolver

HTML5 is the next major revision of the html standard. If all works well, it should become the dominant markup in the nearest future ousting both html4 and xhtml1 from their cozy locations. A lot of people say HTML5 is the next big thing. In some sense, yes. But in another no.

HTML to PDF in ASP.NET

by M.Hussain.

This post is about conversion of HTML to PDF in ASP.NET using a free third party library (nReco htmltopdf) and exe (wkhtmltopdf).

HTML5: The New Frontier

by stephen.vaubell

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

HTTP 500 – Internal server error

by Sandeep Mewara

Possible resolutions.

Hub Control in Blend

by Timmy Kokke

The basics of the Hub control and how to use it when working in Blend for Visual Studio 2013 preview.

Identify Memory Leaks in Visual CPP Applications

by Duleeka Gunatilake

Identify Memory Leaks in Visual CPP Applications

IDENTITY Property in SQL Server

by Vivek Johari

Identity property in SQL Server

IE 8 - IP Address Mapping Accelerator

by Steve Wellens

On the ASP.NET forums where I moderate, the poster's IP address is displayed at the bottom of the post. Often I am curious and paste the poster's IP address into an IP locator web page to find out where they are posting from. This was tedious.

IE 8 Can Profile JavaScript

by Steve Wellens

Being on the software "bleeding edge" is similar to being the "point man" in combat. I generally avoid being the first to adopt new technology until some other poor bastard has led the way…and occasionally paid a price: The price being missed deadlines, ulcers and ruined reputations. No thanks.

IE11 Now Available on Windows 7

by Garry Pilkington

Microsoft have released IE 11 for Windows 7.

If your plumbing doesn’t work you’re just not using enough pipes

by Pragmateek

Introduction The following article is my response to “John” comment on my other post about native C++/C# interop using C++/CLI. The initial request was rather simple: for whatever reason John wanted to use the C++/CLI wrapper from Python and not … Continue reading →

IIS Rewrite Rules That You Can’t Live Without

by Buaziz

The most common Url rewrite rules for IIS 7 and above.

Image Sprites and CSS Classes creator

by AlexCode

Image Sprites and CSS Classes creator

Immutable Collections Should Not Implement Mutable Interfaces

by jgauffin

This post tells us why immutable collections should not implement mutable interfaces.

Implement a CMS Site using MVC with Inbuilt SEO Functionality

by Adrian Cini

Implement a CMS Site using MVC with Inbuilt SEO Functionality

Implement Custom fonts using Effects in Xamarin Forms

by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Recently I had requirement to use custom fonts (a font other than one present in device) in one of my Xamarin forms app, so I [...]

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

by Neeraj Kaushik1980

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

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

by Neeraj Kaushik1980

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

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

by Robert Friberg

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

Implementing Simple Neural Network in C#

by Nikola M. Živković

What was initially just a thought exercise grew into quite a cool mini side-project

Improve CSS Development Productivity using Sass and Compass Part 1 - Configure Environment

by Andy Feng

Improve CSS Development Productivity using Sass and Compass Part 1 - Configure Environment

Improve performance by caching and compression

by TechMyTalk

This article explains caching filter and compression filter that are suitable for use with any web application to optimize the number of requests and the response size.

Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to Improve Productivity

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Improved Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 to improve productivity

Include JavaScript files safely

by Cruz Boon

How to include JavaScript files safely.

Include Scripting Engine in Your Own Application

by deveck

How to include a scripting engine in your own application

Including custom client-side validations in your ASP.NET MVC app

by Thomas Weller

Demonstrates how a self-written validation can be incorporated into a web page (using a bit of JavaScript) and how this can be mapped to a custom validation on the domain side

Inline CSS Styles for HTML Emails with HttpModule

by Leland Richardson

HTML-based emails are one of those evil things in the life of a web-developer that we would all rather never have to do... but alas, it needs to be done.

Inline spreadsheet-style edit mode for the Related Items control on a SharePoint form

by Dmitriy Kozlov

Forms Designer has just gotten a new feature: the related items control is now able to do inline spreadsheet-style quick editing. This feature is supported in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office 365.

Install SharePoint Online Management Shell on Client-Side

by piyush_singh

How to install SharePoint online management shell on client side

Install Windows 8 from a Rusty 256 MB USB Stick

by marcofranssen

Install Windows 8 from a rusty 256 MB USB stick

Install Zend Framework 2 on Windows OS !!!

by Prava-MFS

How to install Zend Framework 2 on Windows OS

Installation of SQL Server Express 2014 on Windows 10

by Mithun Pattankar

Step by step process of installation of SQL Server Express 2014 on Windows 10

Installing and Using SQLite on Windows

by John Atten

How to install and use SQLite on Windows

Installing ASP.NET Core Docker For Windows

by Sibeesh Passion

Installing ASP.NET Core Docker For Windows

Installing FreeNAS to USB stick (new and simpler way)

by anichin

Installing FreeNAS to USB stick.

Installing OSQA on Windows in Production

by Yaroslav Govorunov

A very simple step by step guide to install OSQA on Windows server in production

Installing Redmine on Windows in Production

by Yaroslav Govorunov

A very simple step by step guide to install Redmine on Windows server in production

Installing XP SP3 "Access Denied"

by Steve Wellens

Installing XP SP3 "Access Denied"

Integrating SAP Web Services into Microsoft .NET Environments

by WolfiG

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

Integration testing an ASP.NET MVC application without web server or browser

by Thomas Weller

Integration testing an ASP.NET MVC application without web server or browser

Internet Explorer 10 User Agent Strings On Windows 8 64bit

by Paulo Morgado

Internet Explorer 10 User Agent Strings On Windows 8 64bit

Internet Explorer 7 and CSS….DOH!

by Steve Wellens

I wanted a cheap, simple visual indicator similar to a progress bar. Note, not the kind of dynamic progress bar used when updating AJAX pages, more of a single-bar graph. It should have been simple task.

Interoperability returning a string from a Win32 DLL

by Praveen Kumar Katiyar

Returning a string from a Win32 DLL using Interop.

Introducing a validation library

by jgauffin

Introducing a validation library

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

by Philip Laureano

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

Introducing Musketeer – The Performance Counter Data Collector

by Sebastian Solnica

How to create a very simple Windows Service (I will call it Musketeer) that will collect information about other processes running on a server

Introduction into C++ Builds with Gradle

by thoughts-on-coding

A short introduction into the modern build system gradle

Introduction to Android development: TouchCalculator

by Ali Ozgur

Introduction to Android development: TouchCalculator

Introduction to ASP.NET Validation

by Dhanushka Madushan lk

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

Introduction to HTML5 Development using VS 2010, HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4

by kishore Gaddam

This is an introduction to HTML5 development using VS2010, HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4

Introduction to jQuery in ASP.NET Applications

by Ayobami Adewole

Introduction to jQuery in ASP.NET applications

Introduction To Practical Domain Driven Design

by SneakyPeet

Introduction To Practical Domain Driven Design

Introduction to Scaling PHP Applications – Part 1

by Keyhole Software

In the two-part series on scaling PHP applications, this part will focus on replacing Apache.

Introduction to Scaling PHP Applications – Part 2

by Keyhole Software

This blog will go into advanced topics that need consideration when moving a LAMP stack to a scaled architecture.

Introduction to Scaling PHP Applications – Part 2

by Zachary Gardner

This was originally posted on the Keyhole Software blog on 11/25/2013. This is the second blog in a two-part series on scaling PHP applications. The first blog in the series focused on replacing Apache+mod_php with Nginx+PHP-FPM.

Introduction to Semantic Web

by Member 11794279

"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently.

Introduction to Windows Phone Programming: Part 1

by Joel Ivory Johnson

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

Introduction to Windows Phone Programming: Part 2

by Joel Ivory Johnson

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

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

by jgauffin

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

Ionic Hybrid Mobile App using MobileFirst Platform 7.1 CLI

by Vidyasagar Machupalli

Ionic Hybrid Mobile App using MobileFirst Platform 7.1 CLI

IOT, Makers and Windows

by Chris Boss

IOT, Makers and Windows

iPhone/iPad Development With MonoTouch – A Tutorial

by Keyhole Software

iPhone/iPad development with MonoTouch - a tutorial

IronPython: A Quick WinForms Introduction

by Dev Leader

IronPython: A quick WinForms introduction

Is JavaScript Function Invocation Confusing?

by _debasis

Is JavaScript function invocation confusing

Is software development too complex today ?

by Chris Boss

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

IsNullOrEmpty for Generic Collections in C#

by Gaurav Aroraa, irneb

IsNullOrEmpty for Generic Collections in C#

Java SE 8 new features tour: Functional programming with Lambda Expression.

by Mohamed Taman

Understanding lambda expressions....This article of the “Java SE 8 new features tour” series will deep dive into understanding Lambda expressions. I will show you a few different uses of Lambda Expressions. They all have in common the implementation of functional interfaces.

Javascript and CSS file versioning

by Bibhu Dutta

Lately, I was in conversation with our QA lead, which made us realize of an issue that, certainly will cause inconvenience to the end users of the web application on which we are working on. Although the issue is very … Continue reading →

Javascript Dictionary

by Brij

Javascript Dictionary

JavaScript, the Back Button, and Windows Phone 8 Development

by Jamie Munro

JavaScript, the Back button, and Windows Phone 8 development

Jenkins Pipeline Step: Node Security Project

by Karl Stoney

How to configure Jenkins to automatically check your Node.JS projects dependencies against the Node Security Project

jQuery 3D Content Image Slider in ASP.NET MVC

by madan535

jQuery 3D Content Image Slider in ASP.NET MVC

jQuery AJAX and HttpHandlers in ASP.NET

by Ravi_Baghel

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

jQuery Mobile: Prefetching and Caching Pages - Part 3

by Talking Dotnet

Prefetching and caching pages.

jQuery Promise: An introduction to AJAX with multicast delegates

by Nitin Singh India

An introduction to AJAX with multicast delegates.

jQuery Tree with Checkboxes

by jqwidgets

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

jQuery: Execute/Run Multiple Ajax Requests Simultaneously

by Talking Dotnet

How to execute/run multiple Ajax requests simultaneously

Just waiting for a 7 inch Intel based Windows 8 tablet !

by Chris Boss

I am just waiting for the first Windows 8 small footprint tablet, 7 inch screen and so thin and lite it just weighs nothing in my hands.

Keep Nuget Packages Out of Source Control with Nuget Package Manager Restore

by John Atten

Keep Nuget packages out of source control with Nuget Package Manager Restore.

Keeping the lights on! – Architecting for availability?

by Kevin Mack

Hello all, It’s been a while since I did a blog post outside of the weekly updates. But I wanted to do one in terms of conversations that I’ve been having a lot lately and seems to be largely universal. High Availability.

Kinect for Windows: Find User Height Accurately

by Vangos Pterneas

Kinect for Windows: Find user height accurately

Lambda Expression in C# 3.0

by Shakeel Iqbal

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

Layered Software Architecture

by Reader Man San

I wanted to further read about Plugin Architecture, which I made a list for reading about it, in this article: “C# Plug-In Architecture Articles“, so added more reading for Layered Software Architecture, and found the following very interesting presentations: .

LeakMon - Track Handle Leak, GDI Leak and Memory Leak in your Applications

by Naveen

LeakMon - Track Handle leak, GDI Leak and Memory Leak in your Applications

LeakMon :- Part 2 Under the hood

by Naveen

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

Learn Date and Time in Android

by Val Okafor

Working with date and time is one of the common task Android developers perform.

Learn design patterns from real projects: RigsOfRods case study.

by Issam Lahlali

The majority of developers have already heard about design patterns, GOF(Gang Of Four) patterns are the most popularized, and each developer has his way to learn them , we can enumerate: Reading a book or a magazine. From web sites. From a collegue. Doing a training.

Learning Poco: Load XML Configuration

by stfairy

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

Learning The S.O.L.I.D Programming Principles: Dependency inversion principle [Part - VI]

by Gaurav Aroraa

In our previous posts we learned ‘What is S.O.L.I.D. Programming Principles and a detailed explanation with code of Single Responsibility Principle, Open/closed Principle, Liskov Substitution Principle and Interface Segregation Principle.

Learning The S.O.L.I.D Programming Principles: Liskov substitution principle [Part - IV]

by Gaurav Aroraa

History: In our previous posts we learned ‘What is S.O.L.I.D. Programing Principles’ and a detailed explanation with code of Single Responsibility Principle and Open/closed Principle. S.O.L.I.D. is an acronym introduced by Michael Feathers as: 1.

Lessons Learned from Legacy Windows Programming

by Chris Boss

Lessons learned from legacy Windows programming

Let's try Win 8 Release Preview and VS2012

by Gergo Bogdan

Steps for Windows Application development for Windows 8 using HTML5/JavaScript and also WPF and XAML.

Leverage the .NET framework classes from VBA

by Pragmateek

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

LINQ to Visual Tree

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post demonstrates a Linq API which can be used to query the WPF / Silverlight Visual Tree.

Listening to HTML Events from BHO

by Adrian Alexander

How to listen to HTML Events from BHO.

Listview with Custom Scrollbars

by deveck

Listview with custom scrollbars

Load And Use Custom Font Without Installing It

by Ernest Poletaev

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

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

by Tarun_Arora

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

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

by Tarun_Arora

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

Load ASP.Net User Control Dynamically Using jQuery

by Dinesh K Mandal

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

Load Login Page Debug Mode. Save Time.

by Víctor Sumozas

Load login page debug mode. Save time.

Load XML And Show As li In Angular JS

by Sibeesh Passion

How to load an XML file and show as li using ng-repeat in Angular JS

Loading Assemblies using Assembly.Load, Assembly.LoadFrom and Assembly.LoadFile

by Pankaj.Sinha.Techno

Loading assemblies using Assembly.Load, Assembly.LoadFrom and Assembly.LoadFile

LOB Gamification Service Admin Website: Data Services

by DapperDanH

The goal of this post is to use ASP.NET MVC Web API to surface database data to the client browser.

Local Image Caching with Custom Image Control in WPF

by Ivan Leonenko

Local image caching with custom control in WPF

Localization of .NET applications

by Inaki Ayucar

These last days, I had the chance to mess up with the Localization infrastructure inside Visual Studio 2008. I must realize it´s the first time I seriously get into this issue, and I´m impressed with the work done on it.

Localizing Your App Name and Tile on Windows Phone 8

by BC3Tech

How to localize your app name and tile on Windows Phone 8

Logging with Dynamic Objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - User Interaction Logging

by erik_nl

Logging with dynamic objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - user interaction logging

Logout User After Browser Close in ASP.NET C# Using Web Services

by Arkadeep De

Logout User After Browser Close in ASP.NET C# Using Web Services

Low Cost Design of Useful Utility Classes

by Esteban Alvarez

Low cost design of useful utility classes

Madcap Idea 11: Finishing the ‘View Rating’ Page

by Sacha Barber

Finishing the 'view rating' page

Making Cross Domain jQuery AJAX Calls

by micahs

Making Cross Domain jQuery AJAX Calls

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

by Stephen Akins

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

Making the Compiler Do the Work

by sashan govender

This was a program I wrote a while ago (2003) to demonstrate what can be done with template metaprogramming in C++.

Making UserControls And Namespaces Work

by webdev_hb

How to make UserControls and Namespaces work

Making your game stand out with Cortana on Windows 10

by Simon Jackson

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

Mapping Network Drive using C#

by Raymund Macaalay

Mapping Network Drive using C#

Mass Compromise of IIS Shared Web Hosting for Blackhat SEO: A Case Study

by Jake Drew

This case study tells the detailed story of tracking down real world hackers selling counterfeit goods.

Massively Parallel RNG using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

by Adnan Boz

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

Master Page, Child Pages: Dynamic Communication Flexibility

by Steve Wellens

How to have "static" buttons on a Master Page call functions in child pages when clicked.

Master the Managed Azure Mobile Services Backend – Part One

by IInjac

CodeProject Welcome to this multi-part series about the managed version of theWindows Azure Mobile Services backend.

Master the Managed Azure Mobile Services Backend–Part Four

by IInjac

CodeProject It’s been a while since the last part, but I have been terribly busy. In the last part you learned about custom controllers, the ApiServices-class and the Authorization level attributes. In this part you will learn how to wire up everything.

Master the Managed Azure Mobile Services Backend–Part Two

by IInjac

CodeProject In the first part of this series you learned about the basic differences between the JavaScript and the managed backend. This part will introduce you to the basics of ASP .NET and OWIN.

Mastering Unity 4 Scripting (video series)–A Review

by Simon Jackson

By the end of this book you should be able to make scrolling backgrounds, clever AI for bad guys, and be able to save / load and change levels in the way Unity3D always wanted you to but forgot to mention.

Mathos Parser is now an expression compiler

by Artem Los

The requirement of performing several thousands of calculations (for example, during integration) led to the optimization with pre-scanned expressions. But the aim to make Mathos Parser even faster still remained.

Measuring Finger / Mouse Velocity at Release Time

by User 11633146

Measuring finger/mouse velocity at release time

MEF Architecture in Detail

by kishore Gaddam

Let us take a deep dive into the MEF architecture.

Memory Barriers and Thread Synchronization

by Martin Vorbrodt

Memory barriers and thread synchronization

MessageBoxes and worker threads

by Ivan Krivyakov

MessageBoxes and worker threads

Meta Programming in ANKHOR

by Alexander Golde

Meta Programming is a concept that dates back to languages such as LISP or Smalltalk. The term is used for programs that write or modify other programs – or perform operations on themselves.

Meta Programming in ANKHOR

by Alexander Golde

Meta Programming is a concept that dates back to languages such as LISP or Smalltalk. The term is used for programs that write or modify other programs – or perform operations on themselves.

Meteor Tutorial for Web and Mobile App Development

by Imran Abdul Ghani

Meteor is one of the most popular JavaScript platform for web and mobile application development. Just like Ionic (we covered in previous Mobile App Development Tutorial), we will explore various features of Meteor as a web and mobile app development platform.

Microservices with minimum overhead using ASP.NET Web API and Azure – part 1 – Architecture

by Member 11794279

This is the first one of two posts concerning approach to build cost effective, but prepared for scaling systems, using ASP.NET Web API and Azure.In the era of building systems that aim to provide services at global scale, requirements for scalability and high availability are becoming our brea

Microsoft Edge WebDriver- What Everybody Ought to Know About

by Anton Angelov

Examples how to use the Microsoft Edge WebDriver to create UI automated tests executed against the new Microsoft browser- Edge.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 in 60 Minutes

by matthewproctor

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 in 60 minutes

Microsoft Sync Framework

by Ashish Kaila

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

Migrating your Old TFVC Repository to Git with Full History in Azure DevOps

by Arun Endapally

How to migrate your old repositories in TFVC to Git with full history

Missing Server side dependencies - Problems and Solutions

by Eric Xue (brokensnow)

Missing Server side dependencies - Problems and Solutions

Mobile Development

by hjgode

A simple taskbar addon showing the WiFi signal strength

Mobile Development – A Simple Unicode Character Map

by hjgode

A charmap tool like we have on Windows Desktop PCs

Mobile Development – Compact Framework: Managed Extension Framework (MEF)

by hjgode

Mobile Development – Compact Framework: Managed Extension Framework (MEF)

Mobile Development – RDP AutoLogin Extended (Version 4)

by hjgode

RDP AutoLogin extended

Mobile Development – Reset Device Password

by hjgode

How to reset Windows Mobile device lock/PowerOn password

Mobile Development – Shake That Thing

by hjgode

Talking with G-sensors and vector algebra. Shake and Orientation detection.

Mobile Development – Simple Serial Communication Application

by hjgode

A simple application to connect to a serial port

Mobile Development – Start Apps with Another Using injectDLL

by hjgode

Mobile Development – Start Apps with Another Using injectDLL

Mobile Development – Subclassing the Camera View (CameraCaptureDialog, SHCameraCapture)

by hjgode

This article uses a technique known as subclassing.

Mobile Development: A Battery Monitor for the taskbar

by hjgode

A battery status monitor for the Windows mobile taskbar

Mobile Development: A Binary Clock for the taskbar

by hjgode

Mobile development - a binary clock for the taskbar

Mobile Development: A remote CPU monitor and CPU usage analysis

by hjgode

A remote CPU monitor and CPU usage analysis.

Mobile Development: Analyze QRcode content on Windows Mobile

by hjgode

A demo app to show how these nifty QR barcodes are encoded to hold URLs, business cards, appointments or other data.

Mobile Development: another keyboard hooking tool: keyToggleCtrl

by hjgode

An application that works in the background using a keyboard hook.

Mobile Development: Disable Windows Mobile 6.5 Start and Close Button

by hjgode

Windows Mobile 6.5.3. Class to subclass menu toolbar to disable Start and Close button clicks

Mobile Development: Easy to Use Background Thread With GUI Update

by hjgode

How to update GUI elements from inside a worker thread without using Invoke. Uses MessageWindow, WndProc and SendMessage with WM_COPYDATA.

Mobile Development: Hooking the keyboard – KeyToggle

by hjgode

Using keyboard hook to remap keys to function keys on windows mobile.

Mobile Development: Manage the event db, What Wakes Up Your Device

by hjgode

The event db (it is my naming) holds all events and actions that can be invoked to launch an app or fire some events.

Mobile Development: Move your Form

by hjgode

Some code to make your smartdevice forms being moveable.

Mobile development: Netstat, know your device’s open ports

by hjgode

Know your device’s open ports.

Mobile Development: PingNG-the Next Generation ping

by hjgode

PingNG - the next generation ping

Mobile development: pocketHosts - Edit Windows Mobile hosts entries

by hjgode

Edit Windows Mobile hosts entries.

Mobile Development: RDP AutoLogin v5

by hjgode

Based on version-4, here is a more extended version with the option to preset Resource mapping (Device storage and Remote desktop sound)

Mobile development: Show a small information window using Win32 API

by hjgode

Show a small information window using Win32 API.

Mobile Development: Subclass Foreign Window using injectDLL

by hjgode

Mobile Development: Subclass foreign Window using injectDLL

Mobile Development: Watch the Power of Your Device, Think Green

by hjgode

This is a very simple application to show the values of GetSystemPowerStatusEx2 in live view.

Mobile Development: writing today screen plugins the easy way

by hjgode

today Plugins with compact framework The following today or home screen plugins for Windows Mobile are based on a work of CrisText at codeplex. The codeplex sources provide a framework to create home screen plugins very easily.

Mobile Development: Yet Another Kiosk Mode Library

by hjgode

How to disable StartMenu clicks and Win key for kiosk mode application using a library

Mobile Development-PingAlert: Watch Your Servers

by hjgode

Three tools to peridically launch an app, ping a list of hosts and show a notification

Mobile Development-Using Layout Managers

by hjgode

Using layout managers for compact framework apps that are orientation aware

Mobile Programming – Cmd line tools for automated tests

by hjgode

Small tools to perform device functions.

Mobile webapps with nodejs & typescript - Part I

by Oto Ciulis

Alternative methodology for developing mobile web applications using TypeScript and Node.js

Mobile webapps with nodejs & typescript - Part II

by Oto Ciulis

Mobile webapps with nodejs and typescript - Part II

Mobile webapps with nodejs & typescript - Part III

by Oto Ciulis

Mobile webapps with nodejs & typescript - Part III

Model-View-Presenter and Model-View-ViewModel in Prism

by Wes Aday

This is a beginners introduction to the MVP and MVVM design pattern as implemented in Prism

Model-View-ViewModel in WPF - Part I

by Wes Aday

This code that I am presenting here is a derivative of the demo application written by Josh Smith, http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com.

Modifying an array of string values (default marshaling)

by Praveen Kumar Katiyar

Modifying an array of string values.

Modifying GhostDoc XML Comment

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

A simple trick to add to custom node to the XML commenting.in GhostDoc

Modifying SharePoint 2007 Web Part Pages with JavaScript

by James Carr (Crashcarr)

How to modify SharePoint 2007 web part pages with JavaScript

MongoDb and LINQ: How to Aggregate and Join Collections

by Petru Faurescu

Insights in data aggregations and joining collections with MongoDB and .NET Driver

MongoDB Geo-Spatial Mobile Demo

by Keyhole Software

MongoDB is a scalable NoSQL document-oriented data store that has built-in geo-spatial indexing. Let’s look at its characteristics and then check out a mobile geo-spatial demo application.

mongo-monitor - A Simple CLI to Monitor Your MongoDB Cluster

by Dave Kerr

mongo-monitor - A Simple CLI to Monitor Your MongoDB Cluster

Monitoring Lync 2013 with MRTG

by matthewproctor

Monitoring Lync 2013 with MRTG

MonoGame goes Portable

by Simon Jackson

MonoGame goes portable

MonoGame: Using Libraries with Windows Phone Projects

by Simon Jackson

MonoGame - Using libraries with Windows Phone projects

Most Important Regular Expression for parsing HTML

by danielthesolver

The usefulness of Regexes (Regular Expressions) is ineffable. Especially in parsing documents, it’s a well-suited and indispensable tool.

Mouse automation with AutoItX

by Vlad Neculai Vizitiu

Hello and welcome, In this post, we are going to talk about how we can automate part of the windows desktop environment using AutoItX. What is AutoItX? Before we can talk about AutoItX first we need to talk a little bit about AutoIt.

Moving a Form without the Title Bar

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to allow your form to be draggable from its body

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

by Raymund Macaalay

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

Moving to Windows 7 – First Impression

by Sam Varadarajan

Overall I like the look and feel and even performance. I am not happy with Microsoft ditching backward compatibility every time.

MSDOS Batch Scripting Pains

by lkurian

I wanted to write a script that could collect the logs from the different servers and bring it to my desktop each morning.

Multi select list using jQuery

by Nitin Singh India

Multi select list using jQuery.

Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools

Multi-site / Multi-languages with Sitecore

by James Coleman

Multi-site / Multi-languages with Sitecore

MVC Attribute to Restrict Users to Enter Any Kind of HTML Tags in the Input Fields

by nirman b doshi

MVC attribute to restrict users to enter any kind of HTML tags in the input fields

MVC Complex Model Postback: Bind Field to JSON string

by m_kramar

MVC Complex model postback: bind field to JSON string

MVC Output Caching using custom FilterAttribute

by Ben Liebert

MVC output caching using custom FilterAttribute.

MVVM for Windows Phone Developers–Use it Guys! (Part 4)

by IInjac

MVVM for Windows Phone developers

MVVM in WPF Part II

by Wes Aday

This is the second part in a two part article on the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern in WPF.The ModelOur friend the Model is responsible for getting and holding onto the data. The data could come from anywhere, a file, a database, thin air, etc.

M-V-VM: How to keep collections of ViewModel and Model in sync

by jmix90

As pointed out in this post, collections of the ViewModels and the models are not in sync.

MVVMLight Using Two Views

by Barry Lapthorn

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

My Home Backup Strategy, Part 2: Online Services

by Christian Specht

My home backup strategy: Part 2 - Online Services

Native Vs Hybrid Mobile App Development

by Imran Abdul Ghani

Native Vs Hybrid Mobile App Development – it’s a choice you have to make once you get started with mobile app development. Native Apps are conventional and they are called this way, because they use the native language of the platform.

Navigation Bar With Context Menu

by jqwidgets

How to add a Context Menu to a Navigation Bar

New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0

by Shameel

.NET Core 3.0, with a significant number of changes and improvements, was released on 23rd September 2019. The most important changes are discussed in this article. The post New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0 appeared first on The Developer Space.

New HTTP Support for Command/Queries in Griffin Framework

by jgauffin

New HTTP support for Command/Queries in Griffin Framework

Newgen: Making a simple HTML Widget

by Code0987

Making a simple HTML Widget.

NHibernate and Complex Types for Native Keys

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to use complex classes as primary (not composite!) keys with NHibernate

No More Magic Strings! Presenting: @string.of

by Arik Poznanski

Implementing a "stringof" operator using expression trees

No More Pain to Configure WCF 4 Services

by Sandeepkumar Ramani

WCF configuration is much more complex compared to ASP.NET Web Services.

No RAII to copy

by WebBiscuit

A hidden danger of wrapping using RAII rears its head when we start copying the object around. Let's look at why and what we can do.

Node.js for Home Grown Utility Applications

by Bobby Lough

Node.js for home grown utility applications

Nokia 6212 NFC SDK Issue – This SDK has Been Tested with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Only

by Adrian Vintu

Nokia 6212 NFC SDK Issue – This SDK has been tested with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 only

NTFS rights on user home directories

by Kristofer Kallsbo

A quick script that loopes through all folders and checks if there is a user account in the domain; if not it will move the directory to the __unconnected__ folder.

NumericTextBox (C#.NET)

by Akos Orban

A TextBox for numbers with built-in mathematical expression evaluation

Objective-C @property Attributes

by Eric Anderson IO

With the Apple watch coming soon there has been an influx of new iOS developers. Because of this I keep seeing the same type of conversations and pull requests centered around this one topic property attributes.

OCD Windows Phone photogs, Beware

by BC3Tech

OCD Windows Phone photogs, beware

Office 365 Video & Office 365 APIs

by abin jaik

Office 365 Video & Office 365 APIs

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – Ghost Excel Instance

by Samir Sameja

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – Ghost Excel Instance

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – The right way

by Samir Sameja

In this article, I will write about the way to release interop references.

Office365 API – Connected Services

by Anooj Nair

Office365 API – Connected Services

One At A Time SQL Agent Job

by JJ Bussert

A script that looks to see if there are any instances of job that are still running and if it does not find one it starts one.

One More Time About Resource vs. EmbeddedResource

by Ivan Krivyakov

Difference between 'Resource' and 'Embedded Resource' Build Actions described

One Small Thing About Printers and Windows

by Duc Huy Nguyen

One small thing about printers and windows

Open 16-bit Windows Applications Natively on 64-bit Windows Using OTVDM/winevdm

by Minh Danh Nguyen (ToughDev)

How to open 16-bit Win apps natively on 64-bit Windows using OTVDM/winevdm

OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 1: Initialize the GameWindow

by Eowind

OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 1: Initialize the GameWindow

OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 2: Compiling Shaders and Linking Them

by Eowind

OpenGL 4 with OpenTK in C# Part 2: Compiling Shaders and linking them

Optimize WordPress Speed Hosted on IIS

by JIN Weijie

How to optimize WordPress speed hosted on IIS

Optional passed by reference parameters with C# for VBA COM APIs

by Pragmateek

Introduction If you've already developed COM APIs with .Net, typically in C# with VBA as the consuming language, you've probably leveraged two powerful features: by-reference parameter passing that allows the API to change the input object itself, not only its ... Continue reading ...

Paging in MS SQL Server 2005/2008 using ROW_NUMBER()

by Vivek Goyal

Paging in MS SQL Server 2005/2008 using ROW_NUMBER()

PanView - A Metro Panning Custom Control

by John Michael Hauck

PanView - a Metro panning custom control

Parallelizing C++ Boost Unit Test Cases

by Naveen

An improvisation to boost unit test frame work that will let you run unit test cases in parallel.

Parameterized View in Oracle

by Sabarinathan A

The primary purpose of a Parameterized View lets you retrieve PL/SQL record collection structures in a SQL context.

Parse the Salt Please

by Simon Jackson

After playing a lot with Parse over the last few weeks, I thought I’d share some of my findings.

Parsing HTML Tags in C#

by Jonathan Wood

Code to parse HTML tags in C#

Passing and Getting Date Object to and from Date and datetime Fields

by Dmitriy Kozlov

Passing and getting Date object to and from date and datetime fields

Passing Values Between Pages in Silverlight 4

by Manas_Patnaik

Various approaches available for passing values between Silverlight pages

PCL Targets for Mono / MonoGame Projects

by Simon Jackson

PCL targets for Mono / MonoGame projects

PDB files out of the debugger

by Sebastian Solnica

PDB files out of the debugger

Per developer configuration files (Visual Studio)

by Florian DREVET

Per developer configuration files (Visual Studio)

Performance Tip: A Few Words on ASP.NET Session State

by Betclic Tech

A session is like a cache but per user; we can’t store everything in cookies or reload user’s data in every request, that’s why we also have sessions.

Performing Page Navigation in Windows Phone Apps

by Madhur Kapoor

How to perform page navigation in Windows Phone apps

PhoneGap and Jquery Mobile A Truly Winning Combination

by Jamie Munro

Any regular readers may have noticed that I finally got around to updating and adding a new book under "My Books" on the right-hand side of the screen.

PhoneGap: Utilizing Native Mobile Features with Plugins

by Keyhole Software

PhoneGap: Utilizing Native Mobile Features with Plugins

Picking the Right Tools for Your Project

by Shayne P Boyer

Picking the right tools for your project.

Points To Remember While Developing App For Windows 8

by ShubhamSaxena

This post is to keep in mind some points what to do and what not to do while developing apps for Windows 8.

Portable MVVM Light - Move Your View Models

by Shayne P Boyer

Move your View Models.

Portable MVVM Light - Move Your View Models: Part 2

by Shayne P Boyer

In this post, I'll add a DataService and a Model class that will be used to get the most recent posts from the Windows Phone blog and display the results.

PowerBuilder – Using C# Visual Objects in PB Classic Applications

by Matt Balent

How to use C# Visual objects in PB classic applications

PowerShell Script – Windows Server – How to Enumerate Windows Server Shutdown Reasons

by Sujay Sarma

How to enumerate Windows Server shutdown reasons

PowerShell: Extracting Persisted Workflow Instances to XML Files

by Steve Psaltis

Extract variables from a persisted workflow to debug an issue or to verify your persistence

Practical Applications of the Adaptive Interface Pattern: The Fluent Builder Context

by User 6724513

Fluent builder context

Pragmatic CQRS: Verifying Username Uniqueness When Registering a New User

by Tom Janssens

In this article, I will show you a proper way to resolve the issue respecting CQRS/DDD principles

Preparing the Development Environment for Java – Windows and Ubuntu

by Andrei Ion Rînea

How to prepare the development environment for Java - Windows and Ubuntu

Preventing .NET Garbage Collections with the TryStartNoGCRegion API

by matt warren

How to prevent .NET Garbage collections with the TryStartNoGCRegion API

Printing a PDF from a web page

by David Truxall

How to print a PDF document but not allow the user to manipulate the PDF in any other way.

Printing PDF Silently in Servoy

by Pradiptab2

How to print PDF silently in Servoy

Problem with GO statements in SQL scripts

by Morris Bahrami

How to workaround the problem with GO statements in SQL scripts.

Problems installing Windows 8 apps

by Gordon Beeming

Problems installing Windows 8 apps.

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data - Part 1

by Bob McGowan

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data - Part 1

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data: Part 2 - The Setup

by Bob McGowan

Utilizing SQL Server FILESTREAM capabilities from .NET

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data: Part 3 - Creating Tables

by Bob McGowan

Utilizing SQL Server FILESTREAM capabilities from .NET

Programmatic iOS UI Development

by Dennis E White

Programmatic iOS UI Development

Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0

by Abhijit Jana

Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0

Programmatically Changing UI Language in Windows Phone

by BC3Tech

Let’s have a look at some tweaks to the default phone project created for Windows Phone 8.0 (and 8.1 Silverlight)

Programmatically Compress and Decompress Files

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to compress and decompress files programmatically using C#

Programmatically PIN Shortcut onto Taskbar on Win7

by Wayne Ye

Describes how to programmatically pin shortcut onto Taskbar on Windows 7

Programming Barcodes: Scanning the Nuances

by Zac Gery

Scanning the nuances in barcodes.

Programming Direct2D – Part 2 – Basic Geometry

by Sarath C

In this installment, let’s cover basic primitives. The basic primitives are the mostly used shapes like lines, rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle etc.

Programming for Date Ranges

by Charles Boyung

How to program for date ranges

Programming for Performance Part 1: Being Smart About Code Reuse

by Charles Boyung

Performance. It’s a very simple concept. When you write an application or build a website, it needs to do what the user requests in a timely fashion.

Programming for Performance Part 3: Normalization Gone Mad!

by Charles Boyung

This is the third part in my series on programming for performance.

Programming Perfection: Noble Quest or Fool's Gold?

by Zac Gery

The topic of perfection is a common discussion at the programming dinner table. Is it good? It is bad? It is healthy? Is it possible? Is it realistic? As expected, a topic with this many questions has a wide variety of entrenched opinions.

Progress Bar in Cell – Excel

by johnniealan

This article describes about adding progress bar in cell.

Project YakShayQRS: Another CQRS Evolution

by Tom Janssens

My efforts to minimize CQRS in several iterations

PropertyGrid Collection Events

by Ali BaderEddin

When changing collections in an object through PropertyGrid, the PropertyChanged event doesn't get called.

Publish Site from TF Service to Azure Website

by Gordon Beeming

All the steps of connecting a project in TF Service to Azure using integrated continuous build

Python – Search Youtube for Video

by Grant Curell

This code is for Python 3. I was surprised to discover that I couldn’t really find a good way to do this when I Googled for a solution. I just kept getting results for Google’s youtube API, which is great… but also massive overkill for what I wanted to do.

Query Plan Caching - My SQL Server Nightmare

by Martin Thwaites

If you have an issue with a slow part of a site after a large dataload, that you can't replicate after a DB restore, it's likely you could be dealing with a similar issue.

Quick Look at Azure App Services

by Piusn

Quick look at Azure app services

Quick Tip – Converting JSON Serialized .NET DateTime to JavaScript Date

by Gil Fink

Converting JSON serialized .NET DateTime to JavaScript Date.

Quick Tip – EA Server: Reset Jagadmin Password

by Sam Varadarajan

This is a really quick tip on how to reset password for the administrator id “jagadmin” used in EA Server.

Quick Tip: How to do TDD/BDD and Debug Unit Tests with Visual Studio Express Editions

by Tom Janssens

How to do TDD/BDD with Visual Studio Express editions

Raspberry Pi 2: Installing the Operting System

by Sabarinathan A

Installing the Raspberry Pi.

ReaderWriterLock FTW!

by StevenLJackson1

Describes the .NET ReaderWriterLock object and how to use it effectively to create a thread safe Singleton.

Ready IIS at Windows 7–with only two steps

by Cruz Boon

Installing IIS 7 on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Real-time scheduling

by Gert Boddaert

Real-time scheduling in operating systems.

Recreating the Windows 8 SkyDrive App

by Chris P Herring

How to recreate the Windows 8 SkyDrive app

Refactoring: What’s the origin of bad design?

by Issam Lahlali

What’s the origin of bad design?

Refresh ASP.NET Membership Database with SSIS

by Mario K. Tacke

Refresh ASP.NET Membership Database with SSIS

Regular Expressions – Big daddy o’ string manipulation

by Jyothikarthik_N

Regular Expressions – Big daddy o’ string manipulation

Release Management vNext - Token Web.Config for Azure Web Apps

by Kevin Mack

Hello All! Welcome to TotalALM. This is a new blog being written by Kevin Mack, and Brandon Rohrer, and you will be seeing many more posts from the two of us about all things ALM. To find out more about who we are, please feel free to check out our bios on this site.

Remote debugging Windows Azure Cloud Services from Visual Studio 2013

by AssemblySoft

When your cloud services have been deployed and things are maybe not going quite as you expected, the first thing you may turn to is diagnostics.

Remote Threads Basics - Part 2

by Alexey Kurakin

This article is the second part of my series about remote threads. In this part, I describe how you can create permanently executing thread with any of your code inside address space of another process.

Remote Threads Basics - Part 3

by Alexey Kurakin

Last part in my series about remote threads

Remote Threads Basics. Part 1

by Alexey Kurakin

In this part of the tutorial, general information about remote thread is described: what are remote threads, how they can be created and used.

Remote Validation in MVC3: Simple Way to Pass the Form value from Custom View Model to Controller via Remote Attribute

by Sadeque Sharif

If you need to do remote validation against more than one parameter as well any type of value from form then, this article will help you a lot to do your job perfectly.

Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less “Suspense” through .NET 4.5.1′s App Suspend Feature

by Rion Williams

This article covers one of the switches that you might be interested in flipping, the App Suspend feature, which is available in .NET 4.5.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less “Suspense” through .NET 4.5.1′s App Suspend Feature

by Rion Williams

Remove slow startups and enjoy less "suspense" through .NET 4.5.1's app suspend feature

Removing Hidden System Shares

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Remove hidden system shares on your Windows

Repository Pattern

by adityaswami89

This blog post discusses the Repository Pattern

Requesting Admin Approval at Application Start

by Mohammad Elsheimy

Learn how to request UAC elevation at application start

Resolve SharePoint Document Locked for Editing Issue

by Eric Xue (brokensnow)

How to resolve SharePoint document locked for editing issue

Resolving Windows Folder Access Denied Error

by Sifiso W Ndlovu

Resolving Windows folder access denied error

Resource: Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans

by Bryan O'Connell

Review of the ebook: Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans.

Reusability defined by Microsoft Enterprise Library

by Himanshu DS

This is an overview of Enterprise Library and how the use of it is making developer’s life easy.

Reusable Tree Operations for the .NET Framework

by Adrian Alexander

A better way for exposing common tree operations on .NET Framework tree types

Revisiting XML Configurations In Unity

by Gil Fink

Revisiting XML Configurations In Unity In the past I wrote a few tutorials about Unity application block. One of the things I wrote about was how to configure a Unity container using design time configuration.

RIA Services through Web Services

by Steve Maier

The same database and the same RIA Services can be used as a Web Service by using some simple additions to the setup of your project.

Ribbon with C++, Part 1: Introduction to the Windows Ribbon Framework

by Arik Poznanski

The basics of the Windows Ribbon Framework - a rich command presentation system that provides a modern alternative to the layered menus, toolbars, and task panes of traditional Windows applications.

Robert’s Rules of Coders: #11 Separate User Interface Logic From Business Logic

by Rob Kraft

Separate User Interface Logic From Business Logic

Rock the Cache Bar, Rock the Cache Bar

by Steve Wellens

It's possible you may develop dozens of web sites without ever doing any data caching. However, if you are trying to increase performance, data caching can be a key tool. The Asp.Net Cache object is remarkably easy to use, but it has many settings which makes it extremely powerful.

Round Up A Number to the Greatest 10s Place

by Tharaka MTR

How to round up a number to the greatest 10s place

Rows and Columns Merging in ASP.NET GridView Control

by Brij M

Rows and Columns Merging in ASP.NET GridView Control

RPT to CSV

by Rick Bassham

A simple console application to convert the fixed-width output from the "Output to File" option in SQL Server Management Studio to a CSV file

Ruby on Rails on Windows in production

by Yaroslav Govorunov

This article is primarily aimed at rookie web-programmers and those who are thinking of sticking to Ruby on Rails.

Running a Background Service in a Web Application (No Windows Service was Involved During this Process)

by Raymund Macaalay

How to run a background service in a Web Application

Running a Client Side Script from Server Side Code in ASP.NET

by Paul S. Chapman

How to run a client side script from server side code in ASP.NET

Running Applications on A Higher Priority

by Raymund Macaalay

Running Applications on a Higher Priority

SAAS – Delivery Model

by puri keemti

SAAS (Software as a Service) comprises of technologies SOA, Web services and AJAX as a new approach to build enterprise application. It is deployed as hosted service and access over internet for all vendors.

Safe Cast string to enum

by n.podbielski

Safe cast string to enum

Safely Deploying Changes to Production Servers

by Omar Al Zabir

Steps to ensure that the web sites are properly recycled, caches are cleared, all the data stored at Application level is initialized

Salient.Web.Security.AccessControlModule

by Sky Sanders

AccessControlModule can impart a greater consistency and usability upon the default behaviour of FormsAuthentication and allow any client script code to leverage FormsAuthentication in a straight forward manner.

Sample Code to Scramble a Word using C# String object

by T Manjaly

This post shows sample code to scramble a word using C# string object

SAP ITS Mobile: Intermec Browser contra iBrowse

by hjgode

iBrowse and Intermec Browser code incompatible due to name changes iBrowse_xxx is now IB_xxx

Scalable Security Engagement Problem

by CdnSecurityEngineer

Scalable Security Engagement Problem

Schedule a Daily Backup with SQL Server Express

by outcoldman

Schedule a daily backup with SQL Server Express

Schedule Internet Access for Devices in Your Home using IFTTT and Disney’s Circle

by BC3Tech

Disney's new Circle internet parental control service provides good feature on its free tier that can be enhanced with other services. Here's how you can use IFTTT to schedule the internet to turn on and off for your entire household or just specific devices in your household... CodeProject -->...

ScoopBox

by H. Hasanov

ScoopBox is a C# library that automates the configuration file building and generates a script which inside contains commands to execute using PowerShell.

SCRIPT Open ports in Windows Firewall for SQL Server Connectivity

by Sujay Sarma

SCRIPT Open ports in Windows Firewall for SQL Server connectivity

Scripting on Windows

by Ivan Krivyakov

Scripting on Windows

Scripting out Monotony with AHK

by James Coleman

Scripting out Monotony with AHK

Security Design Patterns – Secure Process Creation

by CdnSecurityEngineer

Intro – Secure Process Creation I chose the Secure Process Creation pattern as the first pattern to kick of the series on security design patterns because process creation is everywhere in the software world today. Ensuring that the way processes…Read more ›

Security in WIF

by Member 11794279

In this post, we’ll focus on security.

Send a private client certificate (p12) in HTTP Post

by Shabbir Lathsaheb

I was developing an application to post xml data to a URL (REST call) using asp.net and C#. The endpoint was hosted with a third party vendor and they had a much secured hosting environment.

Send Email from SSIS with option to indicate Email User and Password

by Raymund Macaalay

Send Email from SSIS with option to indicate Email User and Password

Sending Notifications with Corona Updates to Thousands of Doctors (using Azure Notification Hub)

by Gaston Verelst

How to send out regular notification updates using Azure Notification Hub

Sept 2010 TFS Power Tools Release Available

by Shai Raiten

Sept 2010 TFS Power Tools Release

Serial Port Programming – Part 3: Final touches and sending data

by Pantelis Chatzinikolis

This class can be pulled into any project along with the control to update the settings and you can quickly implement serial port communications in any project.

Serial Port Programming Part 1 – A (Very) Brief Introduction

by Pantelis Chatzinikolis

A (very) brief introduction to serial port programming

Serial Port Programming Part 1–A (Very) Brief Introduction

by Pantelis Chatzinikolis

Serial Port Programming Part 1–A (Very) Brief Introduction

Serialization 101 - Part III: XML Serialization

by MBigglesworth79

XML Serialization

Serialize and Encrypt an Object using C#

by hans.hinnekint

How to serialize and encrypt an Object using C#

Serialize JSON Object to String

by ozkary

Serialize JSON Object to String

Serializing and Deserializing Objects…to and from…XML

by Steve Wellens

Over on the ASP.NET forums I recently had the opportunity* to help a few lost souls by showing them how to serialize objects to XML and deserialize the XML back into objects.

Serializing ArrayLists of Disparate Objects to XML Strings

by Steve Wellens

In an earlier post here, I wrote two functions to Serialize and Deserialize objects to XML strings. Since then, while reading a book about XML, I learned of even more power in the .NET XML Serialization libraries*...

Serializing System.DateTime for SQL Server

by Gediminas Geigalas

Learn how to serialize System.DateTime for use in SQL Server stored procedures

Serve up Debug Symbols for your NuGet packages? Heck yeah!

by BC3Tech

While playing around with NuGet as much as I have been, I noticed something in the ‘nuget pack’ command that I thought was pretty interesting. A ‘-symbols’ flag. “What’s this do?” I thought. So, naturally, I gave it a shot. What NuGet spat out for me was a .

Service Listening to TCP, HTTP and Named Pipe at the same time

by Ondrej_Uzovic

A simple example showing how to implement a service listening to TCP, HTTP and Named Pipe at the same time.

Session Tracker plugin

by Nadeem Afana

Session Tracker plugin

Session Variables Management

by M.Hussain.

Session variables management

Set Process Memory Limit with Process Governor

by Sebastian Solnica

I wrote this tool to test my .NET applications (including web applications) for memory leaks.

Setting a "Content-Disposition" HTTP Header in Web API Controller Method

by Alexander Turlov

Setting a "Content-Disposition" HTTP Header in the Web API Controller method.

Setting Cache Control HTTP Headers in Web API Controller Method

by Alexander Turlov

The Web API framework has a number of support objects that simplify the job.

Setting Directory ACLs To Mimic Standard Windows Permissions

by Adam Zuckerman

How to set directory ACLs to mimic standard Windows permissions

Setting Up the View of Results in Cross-site Lookup Column for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

by Dmitriy Kozlov

Setting up the view of results in Cross-site Lookup column for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

Setting Up VS Code for Scala Development on WSL

by Shun Huang

How to set up Visual Studio Code for Scala development on WSL

SharePoint 2010 Master Page Customizations Through Code

by Oddleif Halvorsen

Ever been in a situation where you need to modify a SharePoint master page, but really would like not having to create a custom master page? It can be done. Sure, this depends on the amount of customizations, but in a lot of situations you can do what you need from code.

SharePoint Site Map

by matt-dot-net

How to provide a standardized site map across our SharePoint publishing enterprise

SharePoint SPSite ListView

by Ali BaderEddin

How To Get All Site Urls Without Creating an SPSite object?

SharePoint User Profile Export from the UserProfile Database

by Eric Xue (brokensnow)

Extracting the entire UserProfile AD user details into a CSV file

SharePoint: Can’t Activate Site Collection Feature When Creating New Site From a Custom Web Template

by Alex Choroshin

In SharePoint, can’t activate Site Collection Feature when creating new site from a Custom Web Template

SharePoint: Getting "This collection already contains an address with scheme HTTP" Error When Creating a Custom WCF Service

by Alex Choroshin

How to fix this error.

Sharing Code: Adding NavigationService

by saramgsilva

An example about NavigationService in share code scenarios, that will be registered in one IOC container and injected by the view model’s constructor.

Sharing Source Files Among Projects

by Joel Ivory Johnson

How to share source files among projects

Should I be Concerned about PDB Files?

by Bibhu Dutta

Should I be concerned about PDB files?

SignalR in a Nutshell

by Keyhole Software

I have had the opportunity to work with SignalR over the last 6 months and I really like how easy it was to set up and get working. It has opened my eyes to a lot of possibilities for web projects. I’ll do my best to explain the technology as I’ve been exposed to it. What […]

SignalR Online Counter Sample

by Bahrudin Hrnjica

A very simple SignalR Web Application which counts how many users are online.

Significant Enhancement in Internet Explorer 9

by Wayne Ye

Introduces enhancements in IE 9 performance/web standards

Silverlight 4: How to Drag and Drop External Files?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will describe another feature of Silverlight 4 “Access to external content”. Here I will show how to drag and drop some external images to my sample application.

Simple Achievement System in C#

by Michael Adaixo

Achievements are becoming more and more usual in games. They provide the player a sense of accomplishment and progress by rewarding them with badges that proves their skill and experience. Some achievements are simple and other require a combination of particular actions to unlock.

Simple Implementation of MVC Cascading Ajax Drop Down

by Raymund Macaalay

Here is a simple implementation of MVC cascading Ajax dropdown

Simple Properties Mapper by Reflection: Stop Copying Manually Each Property of Your Objects !

by jmix90

Simple properties Mapper by reflection: Stop copying manually each property of your objects !

Simple Shell Script to Kill An Application

by RizviHasan

Here is a simple shell script to kill an application

Singletons in C#, Static Constructor vs Static Initialization

by User 6619207

In C#, you can implement a thread safe singleton where the complexity is hidden in the .NET Framework, you do not even need an if statement!

Skype Web SDK Prerequisites

by matthewproctor

The Skype Web SDK requires that the Unified Communications Web API (UCWA) framework is installed and enabled on your Front-End, Edge and Director servers.

Skype Web SDK Sending an Instant Message - Part 2

by matthewproctor

In a previous tutorial, we looked at how to interactively log in and send an instant message. It occurred to me that it would be remarkably simple to automate the process, so that a single JavaScript file could be used to simply send a message.

Skype Web SDK Troubleshooting

by matthewproctor

Sometimes connecting to or using the Skype Web SDK isn't as straight forward as you'd like. I'm collecting a list of common issues and scenarios below that can be used to help troubleshoot and identify deployment issues.

Skype Web SDK Troubleshooting - Part 2

by matthewproctor

Whilst building my next Pluralsight course, I've come across a few more scenarios and solutions to keep in mind, many specific to the Chrome web browser.

Slapshot! - Mobile DevOps with HockeyApp

by Kevin Mack

Slapshot! - Mobile DevOps with HockeyApp

Slightly Rough Exchanges: Troubleshooting Transactional Issues with TransactionScope

by Rion Williams

In my previous post, I discussed the use of TransactionScope within C# and how it might simplify how transactions are managed within your applications.

So What's the Difference Between a Custom Control and User Control?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

That's a good question that came up after the series in my blog.

So Where Do We Go From Here?

by Pete O'Hanlon

Well, Microsoft has finally unveiled what is commonly known as Windows 8. The Metro UI represents a dramatic step forward for Windows applications.

So you want to be a Unity3D game developer?

by Simon Jackson

I’ve compiled an extensive list of resources at your disposable on your Unity3D journey, split up in to sections to allow you to target what you need.

Software Architect Conference 2012

by Chris_Green

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend the Software Architect Conference this year in London. This is the same group which puts on DevWeek. It was short and sweet, just 2 days without the additional sessions before and after.

Software Architecture Cheat Blog 2: Single Responsibility Principle

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Define Principle Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) states that there should never be more than one reason for class to change.

Software Architecture Cheat Blog 3: Open Closed Principle

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Open Closed Principle (OCP) states that software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension but closed for modifications.

Software Development for Today's Mobile Would Benefit from Something Which Would Surprise You !

by Chris Boss

Software development for today's mobile would benefit from something which would surprise you

Solution to the MSSQL Server “Suspect”

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Solution to the MSSQL Server “Suspect”

Solution: Apache Start Issues on Windows 8.1

by Nitesh Kejriwal

This is a solution for Apache start issues on Windows 8.1

Solution: Error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified

by Nitesh Kejriwal

Solution to a very common problem that we face while working with SQL

Solve IIS 8 Error: Could not load type ‘System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule’

by Zhuyun Dai

How to solve "Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule’ IIS 8 error

Sort a JSON Array Programmatically by a Property

by Sibeesh Passion

Sort a JSON Array Programmatically by a Property

Sortable ListView

by Ali BaderEddin

The Windows Forms ListView control doesn't provide column sorting functionality. This article shows how to implement sorting while taking field type into consideration (sort by date, number, ...)

Source Code Versioning with Git in Visual Studio

by Ayobami Adewole

Source code versioning with Git in Visual Studio

Speed up Selenium Tests through RAM Facts and Myths

by Anton Angelov

Research how to speed up Selenium tests through putting browsers files on RAM Drive. Benchmarks and time comparison between all major browsers.

SPList Image and SPFile Icon

by Ali BaderEddin

Take advantage of SPList.ImageUrl and SPFile.IconUrl to improve the user experience of WinForm apps for SharePoint.

Splitting and Merging PDF Files in C# Using iTextSharp

by John Atten

Splitting and merging PDF files in C# using the iTextSharp library.

SQL DB Restore using PowerShell

by Ali BaderEddin

Restore an SQL database on a local or remote SQL server using PowerShell

Sql Server - How To Write a Stored Procedure in SQL Server

by Vivek Johari

Stored Procedure in SQL Server can be defined as the set of logically group of SQL statement which are grouped to perform a specific task. This article will describe the Stored Procedure in SQL Server and their benefits.

SQL Server – What Exactly is COALESCE Function?

by Arun Ramachandran India

What exactly is COALESCE function in SQL Server?

SQL Server and Duplicate Indexes

by Martin Thwaites

Finding and removing indexes in SQL Server is an excellent way to remove bottlenecks, especially if you've "inherited" the application.

SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting for Developers

by Markus Greuel

Some tips for developers who have to deal with a slow SQL server.

SQL Server: Simple way to swap column values

by aasim abdullah

A simple way to swap column values.