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200 articles overall
150 new, 84 updated, 1 moved. 16 were edited, 184 unedited
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New articles added Last week
- 3 different approaches for implementing the Jquery autocomplete with aspnet - Devakumar Sai Chinthala
3 different approaches for implementing the Jquery autocomplete with aspnet (Unedited)
ASP.NET, jQuery
- How to: using ASP.NET 4 QueryExtender control - Sarang Date
This article demonstrates how to use newly added QueryExtender control in ASP.NET 4 to filter data dynamically on a web page using declarative syntax (Unedited)
C#, ASP.NET
- Chating in asp.net using Ajax (Pop-up windows) - Narsimlu Keshagouni
Chating in asp.net using Ajax and SQL Server (Unedited)
VB (VB.NET), Javascript, .NET (.NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5), ASP.NET, Ajax, Dev
- Visual Studio 2010 and MS SQL 2008- Authentication System using asp.net ( JQuery, Json and Web services.) - composeme
how to call server side methods or functions directly using JQuery in ASP.Net Csharp. (Unedited)
Windows, ASP.NET, SQL-Server (SQL2008), Visual-Studio (VS2010), jQuery
- Silverlight Pictures Album control - Narsimlu Keshagouni
Silverlight Pictures Album control with zooming and slideshow (Unedited)
C# (C#3.0), .NET, Silverlight, Dev
- XML Photo Album In Silverlight - johnjollystupid
Loading pictures from xml file and allowing users to save them to their local machine (Unedited)
VB, .NET (.NET3.5), Silverlight, Dev
- Presentation Model (MVVM) good practices - Thiago de Arruda
Showing some good practices that can be applied to the Presentation Model/MVVM pattern. (Unedited)
C#, .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Architect, Dev
- Step by Step Guide to Silverlight 4 Command Binding - KunalChowdhury
Silverlight 4 now came up with the support of Command Binding. Using Command binding you can easily develop your Silverlight MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) applications where your view will not know about data. In this article, I will describe you the Command binding feature in Silverlight 4 Step-by-St (Unedited)
C#, .NET, XAML, Silverlight, Dev
- How to work with Silverlight BusyIndicator? - KunalChowdhury
Silverlight BusyIndicator is not a new thing in Silverlight. It was first added in Silverlight 3 Toolkit in November 2009 release (if I am not wrong). In this post I will describe about this for those who wants to know about it. So, What is this Busy Indicator? Busy indicator is a tool which you ca (Unedited)
C#, XAML, Silverlight, Dev, Design
- How to create a Unit Testable solution in Silverlight - Anil_gupta
This article is about the best practices to write a Silverlight application which is highly unit testable. (Unedited)
C# (C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0), Silverlight, Architect, Dev, Design, testing
- T-SQL Split String User-Defined Function - db_developer
This is open source assembly with function that splits string to parts, which you can deploy at your SQL Server (Unedited)
SQL, SQL-Server (SQL2005, SQL2008), Architect, DBA, Dev
- Scrambler - Leo Koach
Create Encrypted text that changes each time for the same message! (Unedited)
C# (C#3.0), Windows (WinXP, Vista, Win7), Visual-Studio (VS2008), Architect, Dev, Design
- Mastering Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 - A Beginner's Guide - Abhijit Jana
Describes all debugging features like Breakpoints, DataTips, Watch Windows, Multithreaded Debugging, Parallel Program Debugging and IntelliTrace Debugging
C# (C#3.0, C#4.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7), ASP.NET, Visual-Studio (VS2010)-Topics, Architect, Dev, QA, Design
- Generic SinglyLinkedList in C# with basic and advanced custom operations - Sarang Date
Following article describes C# implementation of various basic and advanced operations including some of the programming problems involving singly linked list (Unedited)
C#, list, programming, Algorithms
- A C# Threading Reference Manual - logicchild
An Article that defines Managed Threading from the Basics to the Intermediate (Unedited)
C# (C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), Visual-Studio (VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), Architect, Dev
- Sending Email with Gmail, Yahoo, and Live mail Via Smtp - charles henington
Simple Email with Gmail, Yahoo, and Live mail via Smtp (Unedited)
C#
- How to use FxCop - Anil_Saran
Step by step guide how to use FxCop as well integrate into Visual Studio (Unedited)
.NET, Architect, Dev
- Extending Castle DynamicProxy - Thiago de Arruda
Shows how to extend the proxy generated by this framework by using Reflection.Emit (Unedited)
C#, MSIL, .NET, XAML, WPF, Architect, Dev
- Skinning a WPF App in Blend - Meshack Musundi
Learn how to skin a WPF application in Expression Blend (Unedited)
VB, .NET (.NET3.5, .NET4.0), WPF, Dev
- Handwriting Recognition using Kernel Discriminant Analysis - César de Souza
Demonstration of handwritten digit recognition using Kernel Discriminant Analysis and the Optical Recognition of Handwritten Digits Data Set from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. (Unedited)
C#, .NET, WinForms, Dev
- Sorting Algorithms Codes in C#.net - Muhammad Jibran Khan
This Article Have the Codes of QuickSort,MergeSort,BubbleSort,HeapSort (Unedited)
C#, Algorithms
- Solar Calculator - Calculate Sunrise, Sunset and Maximum Solar Radiation - pkalkie
C# assembly for calculating Sunrise, Sunset and Maximum Solar Radiation (Unedited)
C# (C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0), Windows, .NET (.NET2.0, Mono, .NET3.0, .NET3.5, .NET4.0), Linux, Visual-Studio (VS2008), Dev
- Three Methods for Root-finding in C# - John D. Cook
Three numerical algorithms for solving equations, each implemented in C#
C# (C#4.0), Windows, .NET (.NET4.0), Dev
- Another thread pool - imagiro
A simple thread pool with minimal dependencies (Unedited)
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), Win32, Visual-Studio (VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), MVC, Dev
- Parallel Tasks in .NET 3.0 - David Cruwys
Provide a mechanism to execute a list of tasks in parallel on multiple threads and communicate back to the calling thread useful state such as exceptions, timeouts and successful task completion. (Unedited)
C#, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), .NET (.NET1.1, .NET2.0, Mono, .NET3.0, .NET3.5), Architect, Dev
Articles updated added Last week
- Using Color to Perform Hit Testing - gggustafson
Provide a Color Hit Testing User Control that supports hit testing using color (Unedited)
C#, Windows, Visual-Studio, GDI+, WinForms, Dev
- Developing facebook connect application using asp.net - Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury
Step approach for developing a facebook connect application with asp.net (Unedited)
C# (C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0), .NET (.NET1.0, .NET1.1, .NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5), ASP.NET, Architect, Dev
- Advanced TreeView v1.6 - » йаνиатн ќalЭ «
Simple but advance-featured TreeView control. (Unedited)
C#, VB (VB.NET), Javascript, XML, CSS, HTML, .NET, ASP.NET, Ajax, Architect, Dev, Design
- Silverlight Advanced View Model Style Video Player - defwebserver
A full featured Silverlight View Model Style Video Player (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0), .NET (.NET4.0), XAML, Silverlight, Dev, Design
- Silverlight 4 Drag and Drop File Manager - defwebserver
A Silverlight file manager that allows drag and drop multiple file uploads (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0), .NET (.NET4.0), Silverlight, Dev, Design
- Silverlight View Model Style Popup - defwebserver
An example of an easy to use View Modal Style Popup and Silverlight Value Converter (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0), .NET (.NET4.0), Silverlight, Dev, Design
- Silverlight 4 Video Player - defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style Video Player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable' (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0), Windows, .NET (.NET4.0), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Dev, Design
- Silverlight File Manager - defwebserver
An implementation of the View Model Style pattern to create a simple Silverlight 4 File Manager (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0), .NET (.NET4.0), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Architect, Dev, Design
- Unit Testing A Silverlight View Model Style Modal Popup - defwebserver
An example of a View Model Style Modal Popup Unit Test (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0), .NET (.NET4.0), Silverlight, Architect, Dev, Design
- Deploy and use SPCopy, Part 2 - Mark Nischalke
Accessing functionality in SPCopy from Part 1 (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0), .NET (.NET3.5, .NET4.0), PowerShell, Architect, Dev
- The deep table - Alejandro Xalabarder
A natural way of joining tables using SQL (Unedited)
SQL, Architect, Dev, Design
- Using BitBlt to Copy and Paste Graphics - Fade (Amit BS)
This article will demonstrate how to use BitBlt. and provide some technical pointers
VB, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003), .NET (.NET1.0), Dev
- Image Viewer UserControl - Jordy "Kaiwa" Ruiter
The article is about a UserControl I wrote. Opposed to PictureBoxes and other methods to displaying images on your forms this one provides a totally diffrent approach. (Unedited)
C#, Windows, GDI+, WinForms
- SVG Artiste - An SVG Editor - Ajay Britto
A Vector based tool to create and edit SVG images (Unedited)
.NET (.NET2.0), Visual-Studio (VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), GDI+, Dev, Design
- Gurux Data Refinery - Gurux Ltd
Retrieve data from a physical device, process it, and visualize the results. (Unedited)
C# (C#3.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7), Win32, Win64, WinForms, LINQ, MySQL, CEO, DBA, Dev, SysAdmin, Sales, Marketing
- 7 Simple Steps to Run Your First Azure Blob Program - Shivprasad koirala
7 simple steps to run your first Azure Blob Program
C# (C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0), .NET (.NET1.0, .NET1.1, .NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5, .NET4.0), ASP.NET, SQL-Server (SQL2000, SQL2005, SQL-CE, SQL2008), Visual-Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), Azure, Architect
- Xml serialization of generic Dictionary, multidimensional array and inherited type with sharpSerializer .NET - Pawel idzikowski
How to serialize to XML any generic, derived or other complex type, which XMLSerializer can not serialize. (Unedited)
C# (C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0), XML, Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), WinMobile (WinMobile5, WinMobile6), .NETCF, .NET (.NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5, .NET4.0), Win32, Win64, DBA, Dev
- Programming Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms - Mohammad Elsheimy
Learn how to program with Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms applications (Unedited)
C#, .NET, COM, WinForms
- TracerX Logger and Viewer for .NET - MarkLTX
Easy to use logger with a powerful viewer that supports filtering by thread, logger, etc.
C#, XML, Windows, .NET (.NET2.0), Visual-Studio (VS2005), Dev
- Workspace Template Manager to Intelligently Update Workspace Information of a Build - Mr Ravi Agarwal
Workspace Template Manager for Team Build to intelligently update workspace information at the right time across builds in Team Foundation Server
C#, .NET-Topics
- 6 important .NET concepts: - Stack, heap, Value types, reference types, boxing and Unboxing. - Shivprasad koirala
6 important .NET concepts: - Stack, heap, Value types, reference types, boxing and Unboxing. (Unedited)
C# (C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0, C#4.0), .NET (.NET1.0, .NET1.1, .NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5, .NET4.0), ASP.NET, SQL-Server (SQL2000, SQL2005, SQL-CE, SQL2008), Visual-Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010), Architect
- DWinLib: An Overview - David O'Neil
An overview to DWinLib - a minimal Windows wrapper (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
- WPF x FileExplorer x MVVM - Leung Yat Chun
This article describe how to construct FileExplorer controls included DirectoryTree and FileList, using Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. (Unedited)
C#, Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), .NET (.NET3.0, .NET3.5, .NET4.0), Win32, Win64, WPF, Architect, Dev
- WPF : If Carlsberg did MVVM Frameworks Part 2 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF (Unedited)
C# (C#3.0, C#4.0), .NET (.NET3.5, .NET4.0), WPF, Architect, Dev, Design
- WPF: If Carlsberg did MVVM Frameworks Part 5 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF (Unedited)
C# (C#3.0, C#4.0), .NET (.NET3.5, .NET4.0), WPF, Architect, Dev, Design
- WPF : If Carlsberg did MVVM Frameworks Part 3 of n - Sacha Barber
It would probably be like Cinch a MVVM framework for WPF (Unedited)
C# (C#3.0, C#4.0), .NET (.NET3.5, .NET4.0), WPF, Dev, Design
- Shortest/Fastest Path For Large Amount of Nodes - Part 1 of 3 - Djikstra without Arrays - Andre Vianna
Lowering the memory consumption to allow Djikstra's algorithm to handle large amount of nodes. (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0), Windows, .NET (.NET4.0), LINQ, DBA, Dev
- NHunspellTextBoxExtender - A Spellchecking IExtenderProvider for TextBoxes using Hunspell for .NET - William Winner
Extends controls inheriting TextBoxBase to provide off-line spell checking functionality
VB.NET, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio (VS2010), Dev
- SQL Server Style Wildcard Matching - TFB_PLC
Match SQL Server style wildcards in client code.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Dev
- MailMergeLib - A .NET Mail Client Library - Norbert Bietsch
MailMergeLib is a SMTP mail client library. It makes use of .NET System.Net.Mail and provides comfortable mail merge capabilities. MailMergeLib corrects a number of the most annoying bugs and RFC violations that .NET 2.0 to .NET 4.0 suffer from.
C# (C#2.0, C#3.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET2.0, ASP.NET, Visual-Studio (VS2005, VS2008), Dev
- How to convince developers and management to use automated test instead of manual test - Omar Al Zabir
Everyone knows automated tests are good, unit test is good, we should all do it. But when you try to convince management that it's going to take double the time to deliver anything from now on, you are kicked out of the room. Learn how I convinced a dev lead to do automated test. (Unedited)
All-Topics, CEO, Architect, Dev, QA, Design
- Tips and Tricks to rescue overdue projects - Omar Al Zabir
A story of a typical offshore project which is overdue, customer shouting and screaming, offshore guys working day and night and how we brainstormed on some tricks to get out of this. (Unedited)
All-Topics, CEO, Architect, Dev, Sales
Technical blogs added Last week
- ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 1 – Getting Started - TheyCallMeMrJames
This is the first post in a series about jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. If you’ve had web development experience with ASP.NET and JavaScript it is highly likely that you’ve heard of or are maybe even interested in the new partnership of these two technologies. Getting started isn’ (Unedited)
ASP.NET, jQuery, Dev
- ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 4 – Advanced Model Binding - TheyCallMeMrJames
The 4th post in a series on jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. In this article, I'm going to look at three more complex examples of real-world model binding and where jQuery might fit in the mix. (Unedited)
ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, VS2010, Dev
- Changelog for domain objects - lowleveldesign
In this post, I would like to present you a simple way to implement changelog system for database objects using NHibernate session interceptor and database triggers. (Unedited)
C#, XML, SQL-Topics
- Faster faster loops - Pete O'Hanlon
Using the Task Parallel Library in .NET 4.0 (Unedited)
C# (C#4.0)-Topics, Dev
- How to call a .NET DLL from a VBScript - Raymund Macaalay
You might be wondering how you can call a .NET DLL from a VB Script. Well, look no further, as I will explain how to achieve this in a step by step manner. (Unedited)
C#, VBScript
- Using MbUnit StaticTestFactory to Validate Sitemap.xml Links - Martin Jarvis
I’ve been investigating a replacement for our current link checker (SEO Optimization Toolkit) to be run automatically as part of our build so that we can get a quick heads up if one of our dynamic pages breaks. The problem is that as most of our sites are built with Ektron there’s a lot of pot (Unedited)
C++, SQL, Windows, SQL-Server, DBA
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Chris Maunder
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