Best C# article of March 2011

Architect

Generic Method Problem in Unity Dependency Injection Container

8 Mar 2011Mahmudul Haque Azad

Generic Method Problem in Unity Dependency Injection Container

Clickable areas in a picturebox

16 Mar 2011Albin Abel

Like HTML images, we can have clickable areas in a picturebox of windows application

GDI

Converting a nullable object to an integer

19 Mar 2011AspDotNetDev

Here is a slightly shorter version of your first conversion:object someValue = 1;int result = someValue as int? ?? -1;

Converting a nullable object to an integer

19 Mar 2011Jonathan Cardy

Sending an Email in C# with or without attachments: generic routine.

3 Mar 2011Manas Bhardwaj

I would use Attachment [^] instead of MailAttachment[^]One should also use System.net.mail[^] instead of System.Web.Mail[^] which is now obsolete.

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

16 Mar 2011Abhishek Sur

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

The Workings of Dynamic Lambda in LINQ

7 Sep 2023Tragdor

A quick lesson in LINQ and dynamic Lambda statements

LINQ

Building a Facebook Graph API Application using ASP.NET

3 Mar 2011Pete Mourfield

Building a Facebook Graph API application using ASP.NET

Windows

How to Toggle String Case in .NET

5 Mar 2011SimmoTech

This code is 27% faster on my machine (.NET 4/AnyCPU on a 64bit i5 processor) for the Unicode test than the Ayoola/Bell algorithm.No unsafe code (in fact was 18% faster than the unsafe version as posted) and works with Unicode.public static string ToggleCase_SimmoTech(string s){ ...

Sending an Email in C# with or without attachments: generic routine.

8 Mar 2011Hariharan Arunachalam

These are the same classes in VB.NET in case needed.I've also made the mail server address a parameter to allow the code to be runnable on copy paste.The problem while sending the bigger files was the smtp client's timeout(default 100s). I've made this dependent on the attachments' size...

A (Mostly) Declarative Framework for Building Simple WPF-based Wizards

7 Mar 2011Mark Olbert

A declarative framework for building WPF wizards.

Flashcards.Show – Planning a Cross-Platform Solution

1 Apr 2011Arik Poznanski

Flashcards.Show – Planning a Cross-Platform Solution

Making the ApplicationBar bindable

14 Mar 2011rudigrobler

How to make the ApplicationBar bindable in a WP7 application.

Image that is grayed when disabled, for use in buttons, etc.

20 Mar 2011Thomas Willwacher

AutoGrayImage: An image class that changes to grayscale when it becomes disabled.

WPF

Passing information to a page using a custom HttpHandler

27 Mar 2011Albin Abel

Instances of pages not accessible like other classes. This demonstrates how to instantiate a page and pass parameters through a custom HttpHandler.

Windows Phone 7: How to Communicate with a Desktop Application

28 Mar 2011Ondrej_Uzovic

A simple example showing how to implement communication from a Windows Phone 7 to a standalone .NET application using HTTP

Simple Interprocess Communication

29 Mar 2011Neil A. Harding

WP7 TombstoneHelper

29 Mar 2011rudigrobler

What data to save when your application is tombstoned

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile

Call Functions Until One Meets Condition

2 Apr 2011AspDotNetDev

VB.NET Version (C# Version)Thanks to cechode for inspiring this tip/trick. Suppose you have the following functions:Function Step1() As Boolean Return TrueEnd FunctionFunction Step2(ByVal val1 As Integer, ByVal val2 As Integer) As Boolean Return val1 = val2End...

Adding Filtering to GridViews

22 Mar 2011Tragdor

How to make a robust GridView with filtering capabilities

How to Toggle String Case in .NET

5 Mar 2011SimmoTech

Two more goes and then I'm done. (Wish I could get a job doing this kind of stuff! Wish I could get a job!)This is similar to my previous attempt but Reflector showed how ToLower() and ToUpper() are implemented and we can save some time by caching the CurrentCulture.TextInfo which saves...

Fluent NHibernate - Working with Database Views

5 Mar 2011Gilly Barr

Fluent NHibernate - Working with Database Views

All-Topics

database

Is Your string usable in the SL4 RichTextBox

7 Mar 2011#realJSOP

Extension method that checks for a properly Xaml-ized string

Silverlight

string

Google Code Upload Utility

10 Mar 2011Rick Bassham

A utility written in C# that you can use to upload files to a code.google.com project

Cross Site Scripting...

10 Mar 2011Rick Bassham

An easy way to do an AJAX call to another domain

Tracking High Scores on Windows Phone 7

12 Mar 2011Joel Ivory Johnson

How to implement local high scores in Windows Phone 7

C# Serialisation - The Best Way

20 Mar 2011Ed Nutting

C# Serialisation - The Best Way

Adding fonts to Infragistics WebHtmlEditor

23 Mar 2011Narsimlu Keshagouni

Adding fonts to Infragistics WebHtmlEditor

C#3.0

JavaScript Organization for ASP.NET MVC3 with Razor Engine

24 Mar 2011Guilherme Meinlschmiedt Abdo

A technique to automatically register JavaScript View files.

Fast File Copy With Managed Code: UBCopy Update!

24 Mar 2011SQLServerIO

Fast File Copy With Managed Code: UBCopy Update!

Reference members of a StaticResource

7 Jan 2012Thomas Willwacher

A static resource with a Path property. For example, it can be used to redirect command handling to a resource object.

WPF

Repeaters and Lost Data After Postback (Viewstate)

30 Mar 2011Chris_Green

How to solve the issue of lost data in Repeaters on postback

Creating Postback Rows in a GridView

22 Mar 2011Tragdor

Code for creating postback rows in a GridView

Mobile Development-PingAlert: Watch Your Servers

2 Mar 2011hjgode

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

Windows

Scalable State Synchronization using P2P - Part 3 - How to Use the Infrastructure (Tutorial)

3 Mar 2011Ron zigelman

How to use the infrastructure in your own project

Scalable State Synchronization using P2P - Part 2 - Running the Test Application

3 Mar 2011Ron zigelman

Scalable state synchronization using P2P - Part 2 - Running the test application

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

8 Mar 2011hjgode

This article uses a technique known as subclassing.

Windows

IP Relay for Visual Studio Mobile Device Web Development

16 Mar 2011R%S

Enable access from mobile phone emulator to Visual Studio WebDev.WebServer listening on localhost

Intercept Method Calls in C# based on Attributes

18 Mar 2011jfriedman

Interceping Method Calls based on Attributes

CLR

Multicast delegates in winform control update

21 Mar 2011Nitin Singh India

People wonder how do delegates work and the threading issues associated with multicast ones.

C#3.0

WinForms

Generic Thread Start

22 Mar 2011supercat9

Another approach is to use a generic delegate-factory class. Essentially, the class has a field of generic type, a delegate field which accepts an argument of that type, an parameterless instance method which accepts an argument of that type and invokes the delegate with it, and a static method...

C#3.0

C#4.0

C#2.0

Introducing the Rabbit Framework and its Dynamic Idea

23 Mar 2011Yiyi Sun

Rabbit Framework is a new lightweight framework for building web sites using ASP.NET Web Pages / WebMatrix. This article describes one interesting idea out of many found in the framework.

How to Toggle String Case in .NET

23 Mar 2011MacMaverick

And yet another ...5% slower ... than the fastest to date -> SimmoTech's v2,(an awesome piece of righteously parsimonious code).85% less filling ... the diet version -> 44 vs 256 bytes(.Net v2 and above)private const int AddressBitsPerUnit = 5;private const int BitsPerElement =...

How to run method in separate thread

24 Mar 2011Nick Reshetinsky

You may actualy skip delegate types when assigning a method to execute: private void DoLongOperation( ) { // long processing } Thread thr = new Thread(DoLongOperation); thr.Start( );