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5 Sep 2013 by Mubin M. Shaikh
Create time dimension with 24 hour plus values and time buckets in your data warehouse
7 Jul 2015 by Arthur V. Ratz
This tip is especially useful for users who own the licensed copy of Windows 7/8/8.1, and would like to upgrade to Windows 10 after July 29, 2015.
12 Apr 2023 by Bohdan Stupak
A short example of how byte[] misuse may hurt memory consumption
27 Oct 2013 by Murali Pamidi
Politics aside, here are 7 simple tweaks that could make heathcare.gov website instantly fast.
23 Aug 2012 by Vitaly Tomilov
Simplest and quickest way to automatically bind array of image bytes to asp:Image object.
21 Jul 2014 by Cristian Moldovan
jQuery unobtrusive validation plugin with Twitter Bootstrap 3 showing error messages as tooltips
17 Jun 2014 by OriginalGriff
The Article editor does work - but sometimes it does do things the hard way, and tries to frustrate you on purpose, I'm sure...
8 May 2019 by Bruno Tabbia
Automatic positioning and resizing of explorer windows, without overlapping (for obsessive superusers)
15 Jul 2017 by dsuryd
SignalR is great for building real-time web functionality. MVVM is great for developing your front-end. What if they can be used together? This tip will show how to do just that, using as example a simple project to do live chart on a web browser.
5 Jul 2017 by LoveJenny
EasyLicense is an open-source license tool for .NET applications.
3 Apr 2013 by OriginalGriff
Questions here quite often ask "how do I send data from one form to another?" and I must have answered this a dozen times. So, a series of three tips to cover the process.
25 Feb 2015 by Kewin Rausch
A tool for translating C/C++ makefile projects in Visual Studio compatible ones
14 Dec 2015 by Darek Danielewski
Sometimes, you just must return multiple values from a method. Instead of specifying out or passing arguments by reference, consider an OperationResult class.
19 Apr 2012 by Deepak_Sharma_
This article will show how to create an auto-suggest TextBox that will suggest data from a SQL Server database column.
15 Feb 2013 by Dread_Sharp
How to build an easy plugin system with C# which only takes about 30 lines of code!
19 Mar 2012 by Rishikesh_Singh
The article displays how to save user setting or preference at run time.
21 Jan 2013 by Srinivasu Pemma
This tip provides an easy way of dealing with different types of data sources for LINQ Group By taken from my blog http://www.srinetinfo.com/2012/12/linq-group-by.html
2 Jan 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
How to abate the CodeProject spam crisis.
22 Nov 2013 by dyma
Sunflower fractal, so that you can play and create a wonderful image
14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX
Automatically implement INotifyPropertyChanged for every property in Entity Framework 6.0 entity classes
16 May 2015 by Mark Heath
Learn how to get started with MahApps.Metro, an open source library for giving your WPF applications a modern look and feel.
10 Jun 2016 by TheForceIsSharp
ASP.NET Core Web API, Multiple Get or Post methods with single controller
11 Oct 2017 by Clifford Nelson
This tip presents a way to display checkboxes for selection of ListBox Items instead of the default highlighting
13 Mar 2020 by honey the codewitch
How to provide custom formatters for string.Format() in C#
19 Dec 2011 by Robert S Sharp
I'm not sure that GC would matter very much in such a simple app.But, it's either a call to Dispose on your SmtpClient after you're done using it:smtp.Dispose();or use a using:using (SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient{ Host = "smtp.gmail.com", Port = 587, Credentials = new...
19 Aug 2013 by luivis7
A simple example of how to use jQuery Autocomplete to make an AJAX call to WebAPI in an MVC4 application.
6 Jun 2014 by Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi
How to list the installed applications of your system and their setup details in C# language
27 Jan 2015 by SREENATH GANGA
Auto updating the exe if the latest exe is available in the network share
11 Feb 2016 by Martin Gmuca
A brief introduction to Windows 10 IoT development
25 Jan 2016 by Garbel Nervadof
Convert HTML table data from a website into PHP array
11 Jan 2019 by akshay_zz
This article will provide you the alternative way to navigate page in a crystal report viewer, as default paging looks broken
10 May 2021 by Steffen Ploetz
Check whether ReactOS is able to run OpenGL, determine a convincing IDE and get started with the OpenGL on ReactOS.
23 Apr 2021 by honey the codewitch
BinaryReader needs a better way to read strings and types. Here's a quick and dirty fix
16 Mar 2012 by Anurag Gandhi
A Query to copy an individual table data between databases
18 Jul 2013 by Mannava Siva Aditya
Uploading a file and creating a Zip file in ASP.NET with C#.
4 Aug 2013 by Faisal(mfrony)
Understand the use of covariance in .NET 4.0
12 Aug 2013 by Le Sourcier
This tip helps in using font icons as ImageSource.
14 Sep 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
How to use the keyboard events of the user and use them to dynamically change the User Interface or to perform some actions
24 Jun 2015 by Nadun Liyanage
This tip describes creating a user control to display a drop down calculator that pops out like the DateTimePicker in Visual Studio
15 Mar 2017 by Ricardo_Torres_Torres
Read text file and insert mutiples records in just one SQL Sentence
6 Aug 2016 by Clifford Nelson
This tip presents a way to have disabled items in your ComboBox
26 Sep 2017 by Clifford Nelson
A behavior that allows the developer to bind an IList to SelectedItems of a ListBox or MultiSelector.
26 Mar 2021 by Southmountain
Some quick configurations to get MFC support for console application
17 Mar 2022 by Ladware.Net
Blazor and Windows Form desktop application
12 Sep 2012 by 3PillarLabs
This article help users to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace functionality easily in Android apps.
29 Jan 2014 by Sivaji1565
View unsafe pointer as an array in C# watch window
10 Jul 2014 by _Flaviu
A small guide to use VTK in MFC
9 Jan 2015 by Kristian Lindberg Vinther
An implementation of a line segment intersection algorithm
26 Mar 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Popular question on Forms collaboration, also answered for WPF
12 Apr 2015 by Jeffijoe
Writing properly formatted, grammatically correct, translatable UI messages
20 Jun 2015 by vaid_sumit
Achieving Low Coupling & High Cohesion by applying SOLID principles
11 Jan 2016 by hesido
A super simple method for listing Enum members in WPF using databinding
1 Apr 2017 by Marco Bertschi
This tip presents an easy way of verbosely converting an exception and its inner exceptions to a string in order to get access to all details.
1 May 2017 by Arthur V. Ratz
This tip/trick introduces the basic ideas on how to avoid memory mismatched allocation/deallocation issues detected by Intel® Inspector XE for Visual Studio 2015
2 Aug 2016 by Evgeny Pereguda
Simple article about using of Desktop Duplication API for capture desktop screen WITH image of cursor
12 Aug 2023 by Bohdan Stupak
Batching is a nice technique that allows you to handle big amounts of data gracefully. Directory.EnumerateFiles is the API that allows you to organize batch processing for the directory with a large number of files.
5 Jul 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman
For programmers it is more important that you identify whether you are allowed to do something.
2 Oct 2012 by MarkLTX
A WPF window for displaying exceptions, nested inner exceptions, and their properties using a tree and rich text.
7 Jul 2013 by Behrooz Bahrameh
This tip describes how to read Excel files and make an array of objects from Excel.
6 Nov 2014 by Orjan Westin
Simplifying the use of dynamically sized C structs
26 Feb 2015 by Shridhar Gowda
This tip will explain how to sort a table / GridView on an ASP.NET or MVC(AngularJs) application. I am demonstrating both client side and server side sorting. I am sure you will have a great knowledge on this topic after reading it.
7 Apr 2015 by perspolis
Calculating permutation in a non-recursive way
29 Jun 2016 by The Zakies
we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands
20 Jan 2017 by Pete O'Hanlon
Using the implicit operator and fluent APIs to simplify building tests
14 Aug 2017 by Ehtesam Ahmed
This article gives you quick tip about how you can remove duplicate rows easily using common table expression in SQL
16 Aug 2017 by Clifford Nelson
This is a simple behavior that can be attached to a ContentControl and allows zooming and dragging the Content.
4 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson
This behavior will require that for any Group of ToggleButton/Checkbox controls that are associated together, the user cannot set all to not IsChecked.
6 Feb 2020 by honey the codewitch
A circular buffer implementing IList
27 Apr 2019 by OriginalGriff
This is an alternative for "List Only Files Created or Modified Yesterday in C#"
19 Dec 2010 by qlipoth
Drop-in Function to get the steps to convert one list to another
16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon
Step-by-step instructions for adding an Async Task to an Android Activity
11 Oct 2014 by Nosey Parker
How to calculate subnet fast and get active ip-addresses
10 Jan 2015 by dietmar schoder
Poisson disc algorithm: fundamental C# classes and methods for the artwork production in the area of generative art.
13 Oct 2016 by Wendelius
A little tip on how to format repeating values in SQL output using LAG function
28 Nov 2016 by Clifford Nelson
The WPF WebBrower control leaves a lot to be desired.
25 Jun 2018 by Clifford Nelson
A way to create a custom derived control with the XAML file attached like a UserControl
3 Feb 2019 by Thinira
Continuous Integration and Delivery with VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services)
19 Nov 2018 by CPallini
How to generate a spiral numerical pattern without using arrays
24 Feb 2020 by honey the codewitch
A relatively safe, simple, yet high performance technique for using lists as dictionary keys.
13 Apr 2018 by _Flaviu
A method of how to get rid of "close" menu from multiple CDockablePane panels
25 Nov 2010 by Sivaraman Dhamodharan
How do you use the Template explorer and assign parameter values.
19 Jul 2013 by Mikhail-T
How to convert string to text file and return it back to user as a result of a controller action
23 Feb 2012 by Mahmud Hasan
How to use variable in SELECT TOP SQL command
13 Jul 2012 by Manas Bhardwaj
How to access the variables/properties from C# in JavaScript?
17 Jun 2013 by josh-jw
This article will give you a good idea about adding external jar files in Android Studio.
19 Sep 2013 by Amey K Bhatkar
UpdatePanel tutorial.
3 Dec 2013 by Darek Danielewski
Clear guide on how to embed an image inside an HTML email
12 Mar 2014 by FLouis38
Thinking about making a career in IT? It may be easier than you think.
18 Apr 2014 by Garvit Arya
It is a personalized web Browser that can open a certain website directly.
29 Mar 2015 by FrostedSyntax
Extends the jQuery object, adding a function to center the selected element to the window
18 Sep 2015 by Wendelius
This tip shows how to calculate a difference between two datetime values and to express the difference in years, days, hours, minutes and so on.
27 Apr 2016 by Clifford Nelson
This article presents a way to display a message in a single control with several sources in a priority order
19 Jul 2016 by Christian Koberg
Console output, general applicable to all executables on a Windows system
7 Oct 2016 by Yury Dymov
Using Google CDN might break your site in China
12 Jun 2017 by LukeCodes
This is a simple macro script to search and retrieve individual cells in an Excel document.
5 Jan 2017 by Clifford Nelson
This is a simple popup that includes drag capability. The code should be helpful to anyone looking to create a control drag capability.
7 Feb 2017 by Clifford Nelson
This tip presents a control that is derived from the ItemsControl that uses a UniformGrid to display.
7 May 2017 by Jung Hyun, Nam
Introducing NConcern, a free open source compile-time AOP framework
3 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson
Normally a popup will stay open until explicitly closed. The Behavior will close the Popup if the mouse is clicked within or outside the Popup area or leaves the Popup area.