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Convert Excel to XML file/XML Schema, and validate Excel against XML Schema
by Gaurang Desai
Provides a utility and code library to convert an Excel file to XML file as well as generate XML Schema. It validates an Excel file against XML Schema.

Spell Check, Hyphenation, and Thesaurus for .NET with C# and VB Samples - Part 1: Single Threading
by Thomas Maierhofer
New NHunspell (Open Office spell checker for .NET) functions at a glance.

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Using WPF to Visualize a Graph with Circular Dependencies
by Josh Smith  5.00/5 (27 votes)
Reviews a WPF application that displays an object graph which can be rearranged by the user at runtime, and highlights circular dependencies in its nodes

Managed Fusion
by Simon Allaeys  5.00/5 (13 votes)
Managed Fusion - A managed API to view and manipulate the Global Assembly Cache

Spell Check, Hyphenation, and Thesaurus for .NET with C# and VB Samples - Part 1: Single Threading
by Thomas Maierhofer  5.00/5 (11 votes)
New NHunspell (Open Office spell checker for .NET) functions at a glance.

WF4 Custom activities for message mediation
by Roman Kiss  5.00/5 (9 votes)
This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the custom message mediation activities for xaml workflow. It is based on the upcoming Microsoft .NET 4 Technology.

Calcium: A modular application toolset leveraging PRISM – Part 3
by Daniel Vaughan  5.00/5 (7 votes)
Introducing the Calcium SDK. Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.

How to add Maps and GIS into Silverlight Applications
by dmart23
ESRI has developed an API to allow you to embed maps and add GIS functionality using online services from ESRI’S ArcGIS Online and Bing Maps for Enterprise. This article will demonstrate how to use ESRI’s ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF.

Painless Automated Web UI Testing
by Todd Anglin
Telerik and ArtOfTest promise to revolutionize the way web testing is done by introducing the ultimate web testing solution: WebUI Test Studio. The tool is designed specifically for modern web applications; productivity and test maintenance are taken to another level.

.NET vs .NET CF Development
by Resco Developer Tools
At the first sight, the mobile applications development can be considered equal to the desktop development. But it is not.

Web-based Scheduling Solution with the WOW-Factor for ASP.NET 2.0 and Up
by Murtaza Abdeali
Infragistics WebSchedule lets you create Web-based scheduling applications with a superior user experience to rival the richest desktop-based scheduling applications. This article looks at new features in the NetAdvantage for Web Client 2009 Vol. 2 release that deliver that WOW-Factor.

Converting Scanned Document Images to Searchable PDFs with OCR
by Bill Bither
Demonstrates the use of Atalasoft's DotImage GlyphReader OCR to enable .NET applications to digitize paper documents as searchable PDFs that can be indexed by search engines.

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21 Nov 2009 (updated)	ZoomBoxPanel, Adding a Fade Out Subsidiary Slider Control: Part 4 Tom F Wright
21 Nov 2009 (new)	Calcium: A modular application toolset leveraging PRISM – Part 3 Daniel Vaughan [unedited]
21 Nov 2009 (updated)	Unit Testing and Integration Testing in business applications Omar Al Zabir [unedited]
20 Nov 2009 (updated)	Popup Window Finder and Mouse Tracker in C# Dianyang Wu
20 Nov 2009 (updated)	CaptureConsole.DLL - A Universal Console Output Redirector for all Compilers Elmue
20 Nov 2009 (updated)	WPF: IconButton DavidSchmitt
20 Nov 2009 (updated)	Strongly Typed DataSet Generator Akram Mellice
20 Nov 2009 (new)	Wrapping a Treeview's Nodes Property to Provide Extra Functionality (Such as Sorting) J.Guyette
20 Nov 2009 (updated)	WPF Book Reader chameau
20 Nov 2009 (updated)	Dynamic SQL Generator OmarGamil

11 Nov 2009 (updated)	Silverlight MultiBindings, How to attach multiple bindings to a single property. [Technical Blog] Colin Eberhardt [unedited]
3 Nov 2009 (updated)	Separating layers and components with constructor injection and Unity [Technical Blog] Giorgio Bozio [unedited]
30 Oct 2009 (new)	Using Munq IOC with ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 [Technical Blog] Matthew Dennis [unedited]
26 Oct 2009 (updated)	How to get the length (duration) of a media File in C# on Windows 7 [Technical Blog] Williarob [unedited]
26 Oct 2009 (new)	Introduction to Munq IOC Container for ASP.NET [Technical Blog] Matthew Dennis [unedited]
23 Oct 2009 (new)	How to get the length (duration) of a media File in C# on Windows 7 [Technical Blog] Williarob [unedited]
21 Oct 2009 (updated)	Binding to ComboBox.SelectedItem through a custom dependecy property [Technical Blog] mrjvdveen
21 Oct 2009 (updated)	Dependency properties and collections combined with XAML [Technical Blog] mrjvdveen
7 Oct 2009 (new)	Silverlight Behaviors and Triggers: TextBox Magic [Technical Blog] Jeremy Likness [unedited]

20 Nov 2009 (updated)	Getting All Controls in an ASP.NET Page [Tip/Trick] Aviad P.
19 Nov 2009 (updated)	Always dispose a from [Tip/Trick] beatles1692
19 Nov 2009 (updated)	BizTalk 2009 Application Monitor [Tip/Trick] mohamad12345
19 Nov 2009 (updated)	Create a sharepoint list item using javascript. using lists.asmx webservice [Tip/Trick] Isha Attlee
19 Nov 2009 (updated)	How to create Database User programmatically? [Tip/Trick] Ramy Mahrous
19 Nov 2009 (updated)	Creating SQL Server Login programmatically [Tip/Trick] Ramy Mahrous
17 Nov 2009 (updated)	Color tinting algorithm in C# [Tip/Trick] Christopher Erker
3 Sep 2009 (updated)	use PRE tags [Tip/Trick] Luc Pattyn

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