Articles by Abhishek Sur (Articles: 38, Technical Blogs: 48, Tip/Tricks: 10)

Articles: 38, Technical Blogs: 48, Tip/Tricks: 10

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	Most Commonly Used Functions in SQL Server 2005/2008 15 Aug 2009 Updated: 6 Aug 2012 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 356,522 Bookmarked: 140 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This Table of Contents and articles is editable by all Silver members and above. Please update the article with as many as function you aware in SQL Server 2005/2008 that we are used generally. This will put all of them under a single article.
	Code Project GIT Meet 2010 20 Jan 2011 Updated: 25 Jan 2013 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 49 Popularity: 8.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 335,737 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It's all about the unofficial CodeProject meetup in Lonavala (a hilly region between Pune and Mumbai), India on 11th December 2010. Supported by GIT members.
Database Development
SQL Server	Working with CLR Objects in SQL Server 2005 or Above Part 2 2 Aug 2009 Updated: 2 Aug 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 278,065 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 424 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Gives an introduction of how to create SQL CLR managed objects in SQL server.
	Working with CLR Objects in SQL Server 2005 or Higher: Part I 2 Aug 2009 Updated: 2 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.65 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,231 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 402 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Gives an introduction to CLR programming in SQL Server databases. This is the first part of a two-part article series.
Desktop Programming
Win32	Use of Isolated Storage (A Simple Demo) 28 Jul 2008 Updated: 28 Jul 2008 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 672,642 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 1,834 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article will help you to use Isolated Storage Classes
	Windows 7 Trigger Start Service 3 Jan 2010 Updated: 17 Jan 2010 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 85,036 Bookmarked: 76 Downloaded: 1,889 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implement services that start/stop automatically to some events like Device attached, Network Availability, Firewall port modified, Domain join, Group Policy change etc
WPF	Introducing Ribbon UI Control for WPF 7 Aug 2010 Updated: 27 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 128,034 Bookmarked: 48 Downloaded: 20 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Ribbon UI control set with the use of all items that would look nice with your application in WPF. A sample application is also provided.
	Code InfoBox Visual Studio Extension (VSX) 2010 28 Jan 2010 Updated: 31 Jan 2010 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 120,849 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 1,693 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A WPF Infowindow placed on the right hand corner of the Code Canvas which informs you about the code statistics
	Simplest Way to Implement Multilingual WPF Application 31 Oct 2010 Updated: 31 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 7.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 133,987 Bookmarked: 52 Downloaded: 7,139 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Easiest way to handle Localization in your WPF application
	WPF Tutorial : Beginning 28 Dec 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 310 Popularity: 11.80 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,205,219 Bookmarked: 545 Downloaded: 17,903 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article will guide you through the basics of WPF programing with in-depth knowledge about the architecture and the working principles of WPF programs. The article finally creates a sample "Hello World" application to step you into a new foundation.
	WPF Tutorial : Fun with Border & Brush 28 Dec 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 8.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 246,821 Bookmarked: 69 Downloaded: 3,940 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, you will find most of the interesting things with Border and Brush elements.
	WPF Tutorial - TypeConverter & Markup Extension 28 Dec 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 54 Popularity: 8.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 154,925 Bookmarked: 86 Downloaded: 3,757 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. XAML as an Extensible Markup Language has great flexibilities to create objects in XAML itself and do functions like automatic binding, Conversion of Data, etc. Markup Extension allows you to truly extend your markup upto a certain extent to elevate you to write less code and design your application
	WPF Tutorial - Dependency Property 28 Dec 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 89 Popularity: 9.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 415,653 Bookmarked: 172 Downloaded: 9,590 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF introduces a new property system which is enhanced by Dependency property. There are many improvements of Dependency Property over CLR properties. In this article, I have discussed how you could create your own Dependency Property and to work with various features of it.
	WPF Tutorial - Styles, Triggers & Animation 28 Dec 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 74 Popularity: 9.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 210,620 Bookmarked: 97 Downloaded: 7,408 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I have specified how you could use Style, Triggers and animation in your WPF application to make your application more attractive, interactive and user friendly.
	WPF Tutorial - Concept Binding 28 Dec 2010 Updated: 30 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 8.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 230,518 Bookmarked: 118 Downloaded: 7,622 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Binding is the most important topic of WPF programming. In this article, I have demonstrated how you could employ DataBinding to ensure that the Presentation logic is separated from the View and also give a simple demonstration on how the DataBinding concept works.
	WPF Tutorial : Layout-Panels-Containers & Layout Transformation 28 Dec 2010 Updated: 21 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 175 Popularity: 10.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 500,259 Bookmarked: 219 Downloaded: 10,228 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the basics of WPF application, how you can deal with layout, placements of controls and position.
	Pluggable Styles and Resources in WPF with Language Converter Tool 31 Oct 2010 Updated: 31 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,215 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 749 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I have shown how you can build pluggable Resources for styles, Languages or any static objects, etc. Therefore building a new style doesn't hamper your code and you can easily plugin any new style to the application even though it is already in the production environment.
High Performance Computing
Parallel Processing	A Coder Interview With Abhishek Sur 5 Jun 2013 Updated: 5 Jun 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 6.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,097 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Abhishek Sur, a herculian CodeProject author and two-time CodeProject MVP.
Programming Languages
C#	Folder protection for Windows using C# and concepts on Windows Shell menu for folders 15 Oct 2007 Updated: 11 May 2012 Rating: 4.07/5 Votes: 86 Popularity: 7.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 368,454 Bookmarked: 142 Downloaded: 35,969 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Unique folder protection that issues Windows Class IDS to protect folders.
	Windows 7: New Features Explained using .NET 27 Dec 2009 Updated: 29 Mar 2021 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 78 Popularity: 8.79 Licence: CPOL Views: 186,365 Bookmarked: 263 Downloaded: 9,989 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. New Win7 features explained with simple demo applications
	GC Algorithm and Story of WeakReference 31 Oct 2010 Updated: 31 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,063 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 198 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WeakReference comes very handy when working with Large objects. In this application, I have demonstrated how you could easily use this class to improve the performance of your application.
	Restful Crud Operation on a WCF Service 3 Oct 2010 Updated: 3 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 115,657 Bookmarked: 82 Downloaded: 3,604 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I have introduced how easily you can create a RESTful service in WCF
	Best Practices of Memory Usage 12 Jul 2009 Updated: 25 Jul 2009 Rating: 3.73/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 70,455 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A discussion of Memory management in your program
C# 4.0	C# 5.0 vNext - New Asynchronous Pattern 13 Nov 2010 Updated: 20 Nov 2010 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 93 Popularity: 9.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 240,490 Bookmarked: 168 Downloaded: 2,348 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. C# 5.0 CTP was introduced recently, this article is specally dealing with my own understanding with this realease with few sample applications
	Dynamic Type Using Reflection.Emit 25 Oct 2010 Updated: 4 Nov 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 80 Popularity: 9.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 296,197 Bookmarked: 153 Downloaded: 2,510 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I have provided sample codes to ensure you could build your own Dynamic Type easily using Reflection.Emit classes.
	Reflection is Slow or Fast? A Practical Demo 5 Nov 2010 Updated: 5 Nov 2010 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 68 Popularity: 8.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 113,505 Bookmarked: 132 Downloaded: 671 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article demonstrates how Reflection APIs behaves in real time development and also gives you few ways to improve its performance.
Javascript	Expanding Image Animator 18 Sep 2007 Updated: 15 Mar 2008 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.12 Licence: CPOL Views: 73,064 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 1,207 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Animation of an image. Using multiple images as thumbnails, you can enlarge it to a specific size.
PHP	Google Maps in HTML, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, etc. with Ease 21 Sep 2007 Updated: 1 Dec 2009 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 119 Popularity: 9.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 922,032 Bookmarked: 356 Downloaded: 17,168 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article will guide you with complete knowledge of how to add a Google map in your webpage with knowledge of JavaScript, use of Geocoder, use of InfoWindow, use of Marker, Tabbed Markers, Maximising marker, creating context menu, streetview in your map
Visual Basic	Working with MS Excel(xls / xlsx) Using MDAC and Oledb 7 Jun 2009 Updated: 9 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 78 Popularity: 9.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,172,955 Bookmarked: 218 Downloaded: 30,492 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simple demo to create/modify/delete Excel for both windows and web
	Difference Between DirectCast and TryCast 12 Jul 2009 Updated: 16 Jul 2009 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,633 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What is the difference between DirectCast and TryCast
	Basics of LINQ & Lamda Expressions 28 Feb 2009 Updated: 28 Feb 2009 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 134 Popularity: 9.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 798,877 Bookmarked: 263 Downloaded: 4,020 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Basic Examples to work with Language Integrated Query(LINQ) concept that was introduces with C# 3.0 and/or .NET 3.5 (Corresponding VB.NET code included)
	How to Send Mails from your GMAIL Account through VB.NET or C#. Windows Programming, with a Bit of Customization 18 Sep 2007 Updated: 9 Aug 2012 Rating: 4.12/5 Votes: 90 Popularity: 8.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 602,472 Bookmarked: 220 Downloaded: 43,351 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sending Mails from your Windows Application
XML	Code Security in .NET 16 Aug 2008 Updated: 16 Aug 2008 Rating: 4.07/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 6.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 389,185 Bookmarked: 96 Downloaded: 1,710 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. All about vulnerabilities with Code Reverse Engineering, and the best steps to fix them (DotFuscator included).
Web Development
ASP.NET	Basics of Bing Search API using .NET 31 Oct 2009 Updated: 31 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.60 Licence: CPOL Views: 341,542 Bookmarked: 80 Downloaded: 3,570 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article will enable you to add custom search rules to your application using Bing Search API with much more
	Query Notification using SqlDependency and SqlCacheDependency 9 Jan 2011 Updated: 3 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 90 Popularity: 9.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 464,534 Bookmarked: 196 Downloaded: 17,485 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article demonstrates how you can use SQL Server Query Notification feature to get notification from database whenever the result of a command gets changed. Sample application demonstrating SqlDependency and SqlCacheDependency is also included.
	Simplify Code Using NDepend 3 Nov 2009 Updated: 3 Nov 2009 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 281,693 Bookmarked: 55 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using this article you will get the basic idea of how you could use NDepend to control/analyze your application. It allows to apply design rules and refactor code.
	Visual Studio 2005 Project And Item Templates 26 Oct 2008 Updated: 11 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 116,966 Bookmarked: 103 Downloaded: 2,507 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. All about Project and Item Templates. You can use Custom Templates to make your development process faster than you ever think. Create your own Template for Visual Studio and distribute with all others. You can also learn how to create an installer to install a template.
HTML	Microsoft VEMap Using Pure JavaScript 29 Sep 2009 Updated: 2 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,745,497 Bookmarked: 64 Downloaded: 1,629 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article will guide you with samples to create and embed Microsoft Map in your website within minutes. The intention is to give basic knowledge on how JavaScript library could be used to embed Custom Map.

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.NET
	Garbage Collection Notifications in .NET 4.0 [Technical Blog] 11 Aug 2010 Updated: 11 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,621 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. About Garbage Collection Notifications in .NET 4.0
	Internals of Exception Handling [Technical Blog] 30 Jan 2011 Updated: 30 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,173 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Internals of Exception Handling
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	Internals of Anonymous Types [Technical Blog] 6 Feb 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,450 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Internals of Anonymous Types
	Inversion of Control: Practical usage of Interface, Delegate or Events [Technical Blog] 20 Feb 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,241 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Inversion of Control: Practical usage of Interface, Delegate or Events
	Implementation of an Observer [Technical Blog] 29 Aug 2010 Updated: 27 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,840 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Hi Folks,As few people told me to implement an observer in my last post where I just showed how to use it, here is the post where I am going to clear out confusions for you. If you have read my other post, you might already know what is an Observer and why it is required. Lets recap this a bit more.
	Marble Diagrams and Rx [Technical Blog] 12 Sep 2010 Updated: 27 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,751 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A discussion about how to draw Marble Diagrams
	Internals of loops (While, For and ForEach) [Technical Blog] 20 Jan 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,040 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Internals of loops (While, For and ForEach)
	How to create a WCF service without Visual Studio [Technical Blog] 15 Sep 2010 Updated: 15 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,420 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating a WCF service without Visual Studio
	Dependency Injection & IoC [Technical Blog] 26 Feb 2011 Updated: 26 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,050 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dependency Injection & IoC
Desktop Programming
Win32	UnCommon C# keywords - A Look [Technical Blog] 2 Aug 2009 Updated: 7 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 142 Popularity: 9.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 986,226 Bookmarked: 193 Downloaded: 291 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some of both Documented and Undocumented Keywords that we dont use often like Check, StackAlloc, Fixed,default,@variables,Nullables, __arglist,__reftype etc are explained with simple examples
	Grant Access to your Assembly from COM Objects [Technical Blog] 12 Sep 2009 Updated: 14 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 286,550 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 27 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Make your class library COM visible using few simple steps
WPF	Deal with Performance in WPF applications [Technical Blog] 12 Mar 2011 Updated: 12 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.10/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,962 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Deal with Performance in WPF applications
	Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF [Technical Blog] 7 Sep 2010 Updated: 7 Sep 2010 Rating: 3.86/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 59,418 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF
	RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes) [Technical Blog] 11 Mar 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,762 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)
	Working with ICollectionViewSource in WPF [Technical Blog] 24 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Jan 2018 Rating: 3.52/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.46 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,157 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Working with ICollectionViewSource in WPF
	Unhandled Exception Handler For WPF Applications [Technical Blog] 30 Jun 2010 Updated: 30 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 7.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 143,630 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 1,575 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article will demonstrate how you could handle Unhandled Exceptions from both UI and NonUI threads for your WPF application.
	How to Render Bitmap or to Print a Visual in WPF [Technical Blog] 19 Aug 2010 Updated: 19 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 65,215 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 783 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article shows how you could use RenderTargetBitmap to render a visual into BitmapSource and convert the same into actual image.
XAML	Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa [Technical Blog] 3 Oct 2010 Updated: 3 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,853 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Load your XAML from external file or from String XML to start working on an existing application instantly using XamlReader and XamlWriter
Operating Systems
Windows	Dynamic Behaviour on Objects at Runtime With Custom ExpandoObject [Technical Blog] 5 Jul 2010 Updated: 5 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,925 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 53 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article describes how you can deal with dynamic object to inject members during runtime. It also demonstrates how to create Custom DynamicObject.
Programming Languages
C#	How To: Expose Events from UserControl [Technical Blog] 11 Jan 2010 Updated: 11 Jan 2010 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,742 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 638 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Pass data from a User control easily using Custom Events. I have added one sample application with this.
	Partial Methods - An Uncommon Note [Technical Blog] 13 Sep 2010 Updated: 27 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,670 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A note about Partial methods
	Create Enumeration as Bit Flags [Technical Blog] 24 Oct 2010 Updated: 26 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,711 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create Enumeration as Bit Flags
	Operator Overloading with Implicit and Explicit Casts in C# [Technical Blog] 10 Jul 2010 Updated: 10 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.15/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,845 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 68 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post demonstrates how easily you can implement a class / structure that may take part in arithmetic operation using Operator overloading of implicit and explicit cast operators
	5 nice things to have in C# 5.0 [Technical Blog] 28 Sep 2010 Updated: 28 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 106,063 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Few new specifications on C# 5.0, a future of C#
	Internals of a Delegate [Technical Blog] 25 Dec 2010 Updated: 26 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,720 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Internals of a Delegate
	Different approaches to Casting [Technical Blog] 23 Jan 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,280 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Different approaches to Casting
	All about .NET Timers - A Comparison [Technical Blog] 11 Mar 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 70,381 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. All about .NET Timers - A Comparison
	Garbage Collection Algorithm with the use of WeakReference [Technical Blog] 9 Aug 2010 Updated: 27 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,360 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article will demonstrate the story of WeakReference in light of Garbage Collection.
	Get Reflected use TypeDescriptor [Technical Blog] 5 Feb 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,561 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Get Reflected use TypeDescriptor
	Screen Capture in WPF & WinForms Application [Technical Blog] 3 Jul 2010 Updated: 5 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,302 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 1,614 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The post will demonstrate how you can capture a snapshot of a screen from within the application itself.
	IObserver and IObservable - A New addition to BCL [Technical Blog] 23 Aug 2010 Updated: 27 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,410 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here in the post, I am going to discuss about IObserver and IObservable interfaces and its connection to Push based approach on Reactive Framework.
	Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL [Technical Blog] 15 Oct 2010 Updated: 15 Oct 2010 Rating: 3.86/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,021 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL
	Internals of Extension Methods [Technical Blog] 16 Jan 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,571 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Internals of Extension Methods
	ADO.NET - Some Internals Uncovered [Technical Blog] 18 Dec 2010 Updated: 18 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,281 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ADO.NET - Some Internals Uncovered
	ADO.NET : Some internals uncovered - Part 2 [Technical Blog] 1 Jan 2011 Updated: 1 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.96 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,340 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ADO.NET : Some internals uncovered
	Internals to C# Iterators [Technical Blog] 23 Jan 2011 Updated: 23 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.63 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,610 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Internals to C# iterators
	Lazy Initializer to Defer Expensive Object Creation [Technical Blog] 12 Jul 2010 Updated: 12 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,520 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How simply you can use Lazy initialize to defer the execution of a method or property for values to whenever it is required.
	Win32 Handle (HWND) & WPF Objects - A Note [Technical Blog] 5 Dec 2010 Updated: 5 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,873 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Win32 Handle (HWND) & WPF Objects - A Note
	Ways of Throwing an Exception in C# [Technical Blog] 7 Dec 2010 Updated: 7 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,821 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here are the ways to throw an exception in C#
	Memory Management in .NET [Technical Blog] 12 Jul 2009 Updated: 23 May 2012 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 6.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 139,358 Bookmarked: 50 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Discussion on Memory Management
	Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition [Technical Blog] 6 Sep 2010 Updated: 6 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,100 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition
	Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 & its Internals [Technical Blog] 13 Feb 2011 Updated: 13 Feb 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,241 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 & its Internals
C# 4.0	Working with Tuple in C# 4.0 [Technical Blog] 5 Nov 2010 Updated: 26 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,411 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Working with tuple in C# 4.0
XML	Progress Streamed File Download and Upload with Resume facility [Technical Blog] 24 Sep 2010 Updated: 24 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,001 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 36 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Progress streamed file download and upload with resume facility
	XML Binding in WPF with Sample RSS Reader [Technical Blog] 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,520 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. XAML is getting more and more popular and has also been introduced for Mobile applications. Recently, while I was exploring the internet, I found that the recent version of Windows 7 mobile interfaces use Silverlight to deal with the interface...
	Code Snippet in Visual Studio [Technical Blog] 23 Jul 2010 Updated: 23 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.82 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,713 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 195 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I have introduced how you could use code snippets in your program to enhance code productivity.
Web Development
ASP.NET	Weird Error: Unable to Validate Data in ASP.NET website [Technical Blog] 8 Nov 2009 Updated: 8 Nov 2009 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.13 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,932 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A weird error that comes when a page is opened for a long time and then posted back
XHTML	Compress Response and HTML WhiteSpace Remover [Technical Blog] 12 Jul 2009 Updated: 26 Jul 2009 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 190,721 Bookmarked: 50 Downloaded: 354 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use of GZipStream or DeflateStream to compress your HTML output in your response when available. Added new class as WhiteSpaceFilter to remove whitespaces from HTML.

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SQL Server	How To Select Record Based on Row Number [Tip/Trick] 20 Jan 2010 Updated: 20 Jan 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 57,730 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It is a common issue of many of the guys on how we can fetch a record based on its record number. It is really easy to get first 10 records usingSELECT TOP 10 * FROM EMPBut when we want to fetch records in such a way say I need to fetch record from 40 to 50. This comes very handy when...
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WPF	HandOffBehavior for Smooth Animation in WPF [Tip/Trick] 15 Mar 2011 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,010 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When animation is not totally complete, default animation behavior might produce jurky animation. Here is a demo how you could make it smoother.
	InputBinding for WPF and Silverlight with MVVM [Tip/Trick] 20 Mar 2011 Updated: 20 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,342 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF inputbindings to bind your key and mouse events directly with your ViewModels
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C#	Disable Close Button from Title bar of a Window [Tip/Trick] 8 Dec 2009 Updated: 8 Dec 2009 Rating: 4.17/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,512 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. As a developer, you must have found few things that are really haven't thought of earlier. On that note, Say you want to disable Close Button of a window. It is easier to disable other button (using properties available with Form) from control box of the window, or even remove the control box...
	How to PING Server in C# [Tip/Trick] 13 Sep 2010 Updated: 18 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 201,573 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
	Alternate to Thread.Sleep [Tip/Trick] 27 Apr 2011 Updated: 27 Apr 2011 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,234 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Thread.Sleep is actually used to block the thread Temporarily for an interval. Async CTP brings forth one probable alternative if you dont want to write yourself : TaskEx.Delay(milliseconds)Probably in next release it will be Task.Delay(milliseconds)This works little different as it...
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ASP.NET	Comparision between Response.Redirect, Response.RedirectParmanent and Server.Transfer [Tip/Trick] 10 Sep 2009 Updated: 10 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,910 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It is to be noted, .NET has lately introducedResponse.RedirectParmanent() after a long await. The main motive of this is tohave permanent response redirection to the Search Engines.Response.RedirectParmanent() is an extension function introduced in .NET 4.0.Themain motive of it is to indicate
	Confirm Postback of a page from Client End [Tip/Trick] 13 Sep 2009 Updated: 13 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,980 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It is a very common issue to handle automatic postbacks to controls. Here I am going to explain how we can handle autopostback of a button click using Javascript Event. Suppose you have a button : Now you want to occationally c
	Common issues to ASP.NET input controls for Enabled / Visible / ReadOnly Properties [Tip/Trick] 13 Dec 2009 Updated: 13 Dec 2009 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,901 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Hi Guys,It is common behavior of ASP.NET that if a control is set to Visible = "false", the response stream doesn't contain the definition of it. Therefore, if you want to make the control visible during runtime from Javascript always put display = none in styles attribute.Say you have a...
	Javascript hack to disable Right Click and Text Selection [Tip/Trick] 22 Sep 2009 Updated: 22 Sep 2009 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,742 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes we have requirement to disable Right Click context menu and Text selection of a web page from the user, so that the user cannot use the right click default context menu and also to disable text selection so that sensitive data could not be copied from the website. To Disable Context Menudo

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