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Cryptographic Interoperability: Keys

by Jeffrey Walton

Import and export Cryptographic Keys in PKCS#8 and X.509 formats, using Crypto++, C#, and Java.

Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

by Daniel Vaughan

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.

WPF: If Carlsberg did MVVM Frameworks: Part 6 of n

by Sacha Barber

It would probably be like Cinch, an MVVM framework for WPF.

A Project Dependency Graph Utility for Visual Studio 2008

by Marc Clifton

Review your project dependencies.

Latest Articles

WCF Client For Web Services that Require Authorization by HTTP Header

by NikStar

Using OutgoingMessageProperties and OperationContextScope to implement authorization by http header for WCF client that communicates with non WCF-based web services.

Working with MSDTC...

by Sufyan S Jabr

All that you need to know when working with MSDTC, troubleshooting and problem solving.

Multi RDP Client .NET - A Simple and Friendly User Interface for You to Work and Navigate Easily Through a Tabbed RDP Remote Window

by Jayson Ragasa

Multi RDP Client .NET is used for managing your RDP connections. It allows you to Import/Export .RDP files, disconnect all connection at one click, and connect all your servers at one click as well.

Using a Resource Dictionary in WPF

by Rahman Masudur

Few tricks about using a Resource Dictionary in WPF

All Articles

.NET 3.5

How to create an easy plugin-system in C#

15 Feb 2013 by Dread_Sharp

How to build an easy plugin system with C# which only takes about 30 lines of code!

Saving User Settings in Winform Application

19 Mar 2012 by Rishikesh_Singh

The article displays how to save user setting or preference at run time.

Using of .NET TransactionScope

24 Jan 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

Using of .NET TransactionScope

Adding INotifyPropertyChanged to Entity Framework Classes

14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX

Automatically implement INotifyPropertyChanged for every property in Entity Framework 6.0 entity classes

IP Location

9 Dec 2013 by dietmar paul schoder

How to get the location of a specific IP-address

Number Only Behavior for WPF

1 Oct 2015 by Clifford Nelson

Presents a behavior to prevent entry of anything but digits into a control

How to Automatically Close Un-closed HTML Tags using C# for ASP.NET Web Applications

7 Oct 2014 by Milad Ashrafi

We need this script for database based ASP.NET websites for using HTML content in post pages.

Convert LINQ to Entity Result to a DataTable

22 Mar 2011 by Mohammad Al Hoss

entity-framework

Resolving a hostname in C# and retrieving IP version 4 address

15 Aug 2012 by Tyronne Thomas

Resolving a hostname in C#

Deeply Nested JSON Deserialization Using Recursion and JavaScriptSerializer

28 Apr 2015 by Hassan Alrehamy

JSON Deserialization in depth concept and Dictionary mapping. Special Thanks to Dr. Coral Walker

Consuming Google Maps API Rest Services in .NET

23 Jul 2010 by Pandey Vinay

This is a direction to use Google Maps API Rest Services instead of using it from JavaScript.

How To Hide Or Show .NET Tabs Programmatically

20 Nov 2011 by Bernhard Hiller

That's far too obscure.All you need to do is store a reference to the TabPage instance which was removed from the TabPages collection of the TabControl. You may use the form where the TabControl is placed for that purpose.You could also create your own TabControl which has an extra property...

Call WebService Dynamically and Read WebService Definition

17 Apr 2012 by abhinavshastri

How to Call WebService Dynamically and Read WebService Definition

InnoSetup, Optimize your .NET Application with ngen - Part II

8 Apr 2014 by Fabrizio Stellato

Run ngen to optimize your application during the installation process

Using Linq to create a Dictionary of sub-Lists by grouping from a collection.

27 May 2014 by OriginalGriff

This is really easy - but it's hard to work out for the first time. For example, get a list of files, and group them by the date which is in the 2nd to 10th characters of the name, ignoring extensions. Easy!

ISupportInitialize.BeginInit problems?

29 Mar 2012 by barrd

Fix an exception related to ISupportInitialize.BeginInit and learn why it happens.

Quartz.Net - Custom Base Job

7 Jun 2012 by AndrewSmith

Creating a custom base job class for quartz scheduler development

Detect Change In ActiveControl

25 Feb 2013 by TnTinMn

UpdateDefaultButton - Allows detecting change in ActiveControl

How-To Convert a String Collection to a Multi-Enum Item Using TryParse

14 Feb 2014 by BenScharbach

How-To Convert a String Collection to a Multi-Enum item using TryParse

Code behind JavaScript

18 Apr 2014 by Raju_B

Code behind JavaScript

Copy Paste and Insert in Datagridview (Winforms)

28 May 2014 by Thava Rajan

Copy and insert data at any postion in your datagridview

Strings To Colours

17 Jun 2014 by cjb110

A String To Brush Converter for WPF/Silverlight

MVVM Taskbar Notifier

20 Jun 2014 by NobsterTheLobster

Implements a taskbar notifier using an invisible window and a popup control

Alphanumeric count up

27 Jan 2015 by HiDensity

Class providing methods to count up a string using a definable character set.

Entity Framework 5.0 - Performance Tuning Using SqlBulkCopy

22 Jul 2016 by Abhay@Accenture

Performance tuning using SqlBulkCopy

entity-framework

Custom MessageBox with checkbox

11 Sep 2016 by Avatar2400

This is a simple class that allows you to have message box with checkbox and other small features.

Reading .CSV File And Inserting Data to SQL Table using SqlBulkCopy

11 Feb 2010 by Angsuman Chakraborty

Introduction...

Transparent Database Encryption Tool

25 May 2012 by Tauseef M

This tool is used for Encryption of Database in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

Selfhosted Secure WCF by Id password, custom validation

2 Aug 2012 by Himanshu Thawait

WCF With No config file needed – all setting in code only, No IIS – Self hosted, consume by channel factory

Creating SQL Joins in Simple Steps

20 Sep 2012 by Sreedhar Puligundla

Simple steps to create SQL joins by using SQL Server 2008 Management Studio

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

Display Advertising Filmstrip

25 Mar 2013 by jkirkerx

Basically a slideshow script, but more simple in design and easier to deploy.

How to Bind Derived Type in MVC View

9 May 2013 by Abhay@Accenture

How to bind Derived Type in MVC View

web_development

Custom Message Box Using Thread That Closes Automatically

29 May 2013 by Surendra Adhikari SA

Implimenting a message box that closes automatically using thread.

How to create a task in Windows Task Scheduler

14 Jun 2013 by Mike Meinz

Source code to demonstrate the creation of a new task in Windows Task Scheduler.

Serialize Kendo Treeview Data in JSON

26 Aug 2013 by linush

How to serialize a kendo treeview current view into JSON data

Using Masked TextBox in .NET

11 Oct 2013 by heemanshubhalla

How to use Masked Textbox control in .NET

Rendering AltNETType (= .NET FreeType port) with OpenGL

14 Oct 2013 by Demid Korneev

Example of AltNETType use in OpenGL

Back and Forward button for MDI Parent form to traverse through opened MDI child forms

27 Feb 2014 by Sarath Jayachandran

Testing Public and Private Functions in JavaScript using Jasmine and Chutzpah

31 Mar 2014 by Divikiran

JavaScript Testing

nKnight - Role Based Access Control(RBAC) Solution for C#.NET

7 Apr 2014 by subhajit bhadury

nKnight - RBAC Solution for C#.NET

How to Get Words Separated in a String Concatenated by Delimiter

14 Apr 2014 by Ankur .K. Vishwakarma

This tip shows you a T/SQL function to split a string concatenated by a delimiter.

SQL-Server-2008R2

Resetting All Other DropDownLists When a Selection of a Particular DropDownList Changes

22 Sep 2014 by Ajith K Gatty

This tip helps you to reset all your DropDownList values to the default one when a DropDownList changes its selection.

web_development

Easy JSON Recursion in VB.NET with Nested Levels

16 Mar 2017 by Robert Bettinelli

Easy JSON Recursion in VB.NET with nested levels

Managing Application Scoped Connection Strings

25 Dec 2011 by Juan Davel

Managing Application Scoped Connection Strings

Creating Func delegates using TextToCalcExpression

16 Mar 2012 by Carlos Conceição

This article how you can use TextToCalcExpression to generate Linq Expressions in runtime

Legendre Symbol (C# code)

24 Apr 2012 by Matt T Heffron

This is an alternative for "Legendre Symbol (C# code)"

Create job to export Stored Procedure daily

27 Nov 2012 by Aadhar Joshi

Creating job in sql server which automates taking backup of all stored procedures and functions in physical drive.

SQL-Server-2008

SQL-Server-2005

Mocking Event Handlers

19 May 2013 by Yossi Yaari

A solution for monitoring Events called during test.

Another Generic State Machine

19 May 2013 by Yossi Yaari

A basic yet generic state machine implementation

SharePoint Mapper (SPMapper)

23 May 2014 by MB Seifollahi

A SharePoint Server Object Model List Mapper to CRUD

Hiding contents in ASP.Net user control designer

14 May 2014 by atlaste

How to fix hiding controls in the Visual Studio user control designer

.NET WinForms Tray Icon Implemenation with Win7 and Vista Features

23 Oct 2014 by BrokenEvent

.NET WinForms Tray icon implemenation with Win7 and Vista features: GUID identification, large custom icons, custom UI instead of the hint, etc.

WPF Preloader Control

4 Nov 2014 by Diwakar M A

WPF based preloader animation sample. Let's make WPF applications more interactive during long process.

Dynamic SQL Connection in ASP.NET 3.5 with User Controls

19 Jun 2015 by ss9o9o9o

Transferring backup files from a remote SQL Server and Dynamic SQL Connection with Restore utility.

SQL-Server-2005

Non-Repeatable Collections

4 Apr 2010 by Eugene Sichkar

Actually .net 3.5 have non-repeatable collection class - HashSet class and ISet interface.

How to Create Subreport using Microsoft Reporting Service

18 May 2010 by T.Ashraf

Introduction...

GCD Simplified using lambda

12 May 2011 by DrABELL

Hello Steven,As FYI: recently I have published on CodeProject a short article (tip) on rather efficient implementation of GCD/LCM based on Euclid algorithm. They use iteration instead of recursion, because re-cursive algorithms in general and in this particular case are relatively...

Get rid of XmlInclude when using XmlSerializer

29 Jul 2011 by Bob Sandberg

How would you do this, if objects included inside one of the serialized objects was an abstract class? E.g.:abstract class Base{ public int x;}class A : Base{ public int y;}class B : A{ public int z;}class SomeOtherClass{ public string...

Get rid of XmlInclude when using XmlSerializer

1 Aug 2011 by Daniel Gidman

Serializable Extra Types for .NET 4[^]Does what you are looking for using attributes.

RESTful API in WCF get called more than one time, but client called it once only!! What is wrong? Your answer is here!!

1 Mar 2012 by SumitJaiswal

Custom paging like Google paging

7 May 2012 by coolnavjot31

Custom paging with only 10 pages shown in pager.

The Elegant Art of Programming

18 May 2012 by PIEBALDconsult

This is an alternative for "The Elegant Art of Programming"

Querying DataSet With LINQ in ASP.NET

31 Jul 2012 by HemendraSingh88

Hi, here we will see how to query a DataSet with LINQ(Language Integrated Query).

Xml-WebService Array Parameters

12 Sep 2012 by Praveen Kumar Chauhan (PRK)

Sending Data Through XML to web Services

ASP.NET TreeView Automatic Numbering using CSS

5 Oct 2012 by TheCoolCoder

Numbering for Multilevel ASP.Net Treeview using CSS Counters

web_development

Manipulating a string array using a Lambda Expression

7 Nov 2012 by Wendelius

This is an alternative for "Manipulating a string array using a Lambda Expression"

RTF TO HTML

14 Nov 2012 by chanakamax

Convert RTF TO HTML

How to Search Information from TFS based on Change Set and Comment

26 Nov 2012 by efero

How to search information from TFS based on Change Set and comment.

Push2Linux - A Mass Unix Deploy Tool

11 Dec 2012 by Dane Balia

An Understanding of what it does and how it can help.....

Limited Length Logging

18 Feb 2013 by dirigo

Preventing a log file from growing forever

Mirror keys for multiboxing MMORPG games like WOW/LOTRO

7 Mar 2013 by joejames111

Raw input 64-bit .NET classes.

Web-based Data Access Object

3 Apr 2013 by In the Face of God

Generalize to access data in a database via HTTP

Image Re-sizing Utility

19 Apr 2013 by indianDEV

Re-sizing images to equalize the width & height

Find and Replace Content of Multi-Resource File using Console Application

21 Apr 2014 by munagalasantosh

Access Multiple Resource file and find and replace the textual content in resource file

Like Magic, No Strings Attached

28 Mar 2013 by dgDavidGreene

Helper utility replaces magic string property names.

7 Dec 2014 by Dinand.dotnet

How to easily run a function in C# from the view using ajax/jquery

WCF Service Hosted on "any binding, on Any Hosted Domain"

15 Feb 2015 by mozwizard

Out of frustration comes simplicity ...

ADO.Net Connectivity using Stored Procedure and Output parameters

10 May 2015 by Ankit Bansal MVP

This articles explains the insertion of data into SQL Database using Stored Procedures with Output Parameters. Some Bootstrapping is also used to create a good looking HTML.

Display Vietnamese Characters in PDF Created by iTextSharp

15 May 2015 by Daniel Nguyen Vinh

The iTextSharp API is a powerful Open Source tool for creating PDF documents on the fly; it has the ability to generate multilingual PDF but it does not come with the default setting. In order to display Unicode characters such as Vietnamese, please follow our post

Hosting an Excel Application in an MDI Form

8 Dec 2009 by Your Display Name Here

How to use WebBrowser, a form, and an MDI parent to open Excel files

Non-Repeatable Collections

4 Apr 2010 by Anthony Daly

Download source - 30 KBDownload library - 5 KBIntroductionThis set of Non-Repeatable Collections has a very simple concept - to only allow one item of each type to be added, meaning that you cannot have duplicate items in the collection.BackgroundAlthough the .NET Framework...

Get rid of XmlInclude when using XmlSerializer

17 Nov 2011 by Gusdor

The above solution made me grin as it helped me solved my serialization puzzle. However, if you have an extensible format with components spread over multiple assemblies, this solution may not pick up all the types.I brute force it as follows:List knownTypes = new...

Zipping using System.IO.Compression

24 Jan 2012 by MacSpudster

Here's a .NET 3.5 version.Basic testing done./// /// http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/315115/Zip-using-System-IO-Compression /// /// mods by GNoter ~ 20120124_094448 /// - Made dotNET v3.5 compatible /// - dotNET v3.5 does not have the optional param capability that dotNET...

Upgrading VS 2008 projects to VS 2010 projects with PowerShell script

12 Mar 2012 by Vivek Krishnamurthy

Power shell script for upgrading Visual Studio 2008 solutions and projects into Visual Studio 2010.

Priority Scenario

9 Mar 2012 by ankushpawar

Priority Scenario

PictureBox Image Exchange by Drag and Drop (just using mouse event)

30 Apr 2012 by Martin Mok

Many drag and drop effects can be simply done by mouse event.

Using Google Search By Image within your .NET Application

14 May 2012 by Mohamed Amine Aboura

Using Google Search By Image within your .NET application

Use UserControls to substitute the job DataList Server Control does in WebForms

26 May 2012 by pramodchand

Using collection of UserControls in WinForm since WinForm does not have a control like DataList server control of WebForm.

Using Split Function convert single column to multicolumn in SQL

16 Aug 2012 by Balwant.mnd

My requirement is to convert a single column of a table to another multi column table with the save data that single column contained.

Quick RSS

14 Mar 2013 by Anshul R

Quick way to read RSS

Using Remote Attribute for Remote Site Validation MVC

20 Mar 2013 by umair zubairy

using Remote Attribute in MVC, vb.net

DataGridView Row Delete in CellSelect Mode

1 Apr 2013 by Weberto.com

Event to delete rows by selected cells.

Accessing ADS User's

4 Jun 2013 by V R Shukla

How to access Active Director users on a WinNT network and show them in a dropdown list.

Restrict a textbox to allow decimal upto two places

17 Jun 2013 by Dipti Dutta

KeyDown event handler to restrict numbers to two decimal places.

Quicklaunch Navigation as a Pop-out in SharePoint 2010

30 Sep 2013 by Leong Yee Khin

Using JavaScript to display the Sharepoint 2010 quick launch navigation

Subset - Sum Problem with Numeric Collections

17 Apr 2014 by Matt T Heffron

This is an alternative for "Subset - Sum Problem with Integer Arrays "

Capturing Entire Content of an Internet Explorer Window

14 Jun 2014 by Kaveh Yazdi Nezhad

A simple solution to capture entire HTML code of a web page which is displaying on Internet Explorer

How To Get An Extension Attribute from AD

19 Dec 2016 by Abhay@Accenture

Get an extension attribute from AD using Principal Extensions in System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement

active-directory

Draggable WinForms Controls

8 Apr 2011 by intrueder

Extension method to make any WinForms control to be draggable at runtime

Thread-Safe ObservableCollection<T>

10 Dec 2016 by Cory Charlton

A thread-safe implementation of the ObservableCollection class