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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.

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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

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.NET 3.5

UnCommon C# keywords - A Look

7 Sep 2009 by Abhishek Sur

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

How to Limit an Input Value to a Specific Range Using a Generic Extension Method

19 Feb 2013 by Adam Zuckerman

A generic extension method that allows my program to limit an input to a specific range

Massively Parallel RNG using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

22 Sep 2011 by Adnan Boz

Massively Parallel Random Nunber Generation using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

Data-binding Among Complex Expressions in C#

8 Feb 2013 by Adrian Alexander

Data-binding among complex expressions in C#

Using Anonymous Types Outside of Local Context with Dynamic Keyword

10 Nov 2011 by Alexander Turlov

With another powerful feature introduced in C# by .NET 4 called dynamic types anonymous types are given even more reasons to be used since they now can be used outside of their scope of visibility. Sounds fantastic? Let me show you how it's done.

Priority Queue in C# with the Help of Heap Data Structure

29 May 2011 by Alexey Kurakin

This article describes generic priority queue implementation in C#, which uses min-heap as underlying storage.

Windows 7 Taskbar C# Quick Reference

14 Mar 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Taskbar features using Windows API Code Pack.

WPF: Animate Visibility Property - Update

13 Apr 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Back in this post I showed you how you can easily add a fade-in / fade-out effect to a UIElement that changes its Visibility property, using a simple attached property.Some people encountered a problem using this property when they bind the UIElement to a model which initially hides the control.

Trace SOAP Request/Response XML with TraceExtension

17 Aug 2009 by Arindam Sinha

SOAP Request/Response XML can be logged with TraceExtension

User Preference using Application Settings

16 Aug 2009 by Arindam Sinha

Saving user preferences while closing the application and loading that while opening next time - implemented through Application Settings

Content Controls and Open XML 2.0 SDK

23 Jul 2010 by atverma

In this blog, I’ll focus on Content Controls and Open XML 2.0 SDK from the experience I gained in the last 2 months.

INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged in Real Life using Expression Trees

23 Jul 2010 by atverma

INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged in Real Life using Expression Trees

How to Choose between IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and Control while Implementing a Class

31 Jul 2010 by atverma

Criteria behind choosing IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and base Control classes(System.Windows.Form.Control and System.Web.UI.Control) while implementing a Class

Change Shared folder location in an MVC 3 site

12 Oct 2011 by Buaziz

a detailed article on how to change the location of the Shared folder, also applies to the Views folder.

Google Static Maps HTML Helper

12 Oct 2011 by Buaziz

creating an MVC HTML Helper for Google Maps

Generating Captcha images – ASP.NET MVC

4 Dec 2011 by Buaziz

In this article, we will define our implementation to handle Captcha images.

Tip: Debugging a SharePoint 2010 Timed Job

9 May 2011 by Christoph Keller

Debugging a SharePoint 2010 Timed Job

JQuery Confirm Box

15 Jul 2012 by Christopher John Paul

JQuery Confirm Box is very simple, and it can be easily customized

Dependency Property Performance and Lissajous Figures

2 Jun 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

A simple lesson regarding the speed of dependency properties ... and a funky Oscilloscope!

ASP.NET Underground Tour (Part 1)

16 Apr 2012 by cpsglauco

To fully understand how to use ASP.NET, it is necessary to know the basic operation of the web (for example as occurs a request from browser to server, what are the technologies used, how a web server processes the request, etc.)

Getting started with LINQ

2 Nov 2009 by Cyborgx37

LINQ is syntactical sugar for extension methods and lamda expressions. To understand LINQ, it is important to first grapple with these concepts.To begin, let's look at a simple and somewhat common scenario.

Building a Sudoku Solver in F#

3 Jun 2011 by Cyborgx37

A simple F# application that solves Sudoku puzzles. Links to helpful resources are also provided.

Nested GridView in ASP.NET using C#

27 Nov 2013 by Debopam Pal

This example shows you how to create a nested GridView.

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

7 Apr 2009 by Derek Lakin

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

14 Apr 2010 by Derek Lakin

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

Creating a Custom Window Style

6 Apr 2009 by Derek Lakin

I'll show you how to implement a custom Style by implementing a custom message box.

The "Fancy Proxy" - Having fun with WCF - 6-DynamicDuplexProxy

16 Feb 2010 by Diego Resnik

Using Dynamic Proxy & MSMQ Duplex to create a proxy that switches automatically between online & offline network state

Implementing a Dead Simple Licensing Library with PostSharp

17 Sep 2009 by emiaj

Hello everyone, had been a long time from my last post (as usual, been busy busy busy). Today I want to talk about something that for most .Net developers is unknown but has been in the development industry a long time ago. I’m talking about Aspect Oriented Programming - AOP.

Logging with Dynamic Objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - User Interaction Logging

10 Jan 2011 by erik_nl

Logging with dynamic objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - user interaction logging

Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the API

23 Apr 2012 by Giorgi Dalakishvili

This post is part of a series about building a simple mathematical expression evaluator.

A non-generic IList implementation without any Boxing and Unboxing

18 May 2009 by gUrM33T

A simple workaround to avoid boxing and unboxing while still using a non-generic IList implementation

Installing .NET 3.5 service pack 1 along with application setup

29 Aug 2012 by Harsh Baid

Installing .NET 3.5 service pack 1 along with application setup.

WCF Part 1: Why WCF?

12 Dec 2012 by Himanshu DS

Why WCF?

Pex & Moles - Testing Business Layer

28 Jul 2012 by hoonzis

Pex is a tool which helps generate inputs for unit test. Moles is a stub framework used to isolate the unit tests from code which is not being tested. In this post, I will try to describe an attempt to use Pex and Moles to test a typical business layer.

Simple Steps to Enable Tracing in WCF

13 Jul 2012 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Simple steps to enable tracing in WCF

LINQPad Helps You Learn LINQ

7 Aug 2017 by JasonShort

LINQPad helps you learn LINQ

Buffer.BlockCopy Not As Fast As You Think

7 Aug 2017 by JasonShort

Buffer.BlockCopy is not as fast as you think

LINQ Group By with NULL Database Values

5 Jul 2010 by JasonShort

LINQ Group By with NULL database values

ASP.NET AJAX Controls for MVC Developers

27 Dec 2012 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

I've been spending a bit of time over the past month looking into ALL of ASP.NET, not just MVC or SignalR or WebAPI.

NHibernate and Complex Types for Native Keys

3 Jun 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to use complex classes as primary (not composite!) keys with NHibernate

JavaScript and User Controls 101

3 Jun 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to best embed/associate JavaScript with ASP.NET user controls

Silverlight: Reflection Image Button

4 Jul 2009 by Jeremy Likness

A simple Silverlight control that creates an image button with zoom and reflection

Windows Workflow Sequential Workflow Unit Testing

28 Aug 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) is a powerful programming model and designer for workflow processes. Using workflow is easier than some may believe.

Silverlight Captcha Example

1 Sep 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Silverlight, with its powerful text and graphics manipulation capabilities and strong interaction with the scripting DOM, seems to be the perfect engine for a Captcha challenge.

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

2 Dec 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Use the Managed Extensibility Framework to export dictionary resources using custom ExportProvider in Silverlight

Host WCF as Windows Service without Installing

5 Dec 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to host WCF as a Windows service (without using a web project) and how to code it so that you can test interactively without installing the service.

Get the Size of Files Having Long Path in C#.NET 3.5

29 Jul 2015 by Komal Mangal

Get the size of files having long path in C#.NET 3.5

Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I)

26 Aug 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will discuss about developing a simple multitouch application using .NET 3.5 SP1.

How can you implement the Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser feature?

30 Oct 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here I will explain the feature & step by step process for implementing the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser functionality.

Observable : Automatically Notify Property Owner When a Property is Changed

5 Jun 2010 by Leung Yat Chun

Reduce the property declaration code to one line, yet still usable directly.

Database Driven Unit Testing Using VSTS

13 Jan 2010 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Database driven unit testing using VSTS

Magic of JQuery in ASP.NET, Simplifying AJAX

6 Jan 2011 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Magic of JQuery in ASP.NET, simplifying AJAX

Hands on Lab for Key Features Used in Silverlight/WPF Projects

5 Jun 2012 by ManojKumar19

Hands on Lab for MVVM, Value Converter, XAML Binding, Delegate Command pattern, INotifyPropertyChange, Lambda Expression, LINQ etc. in Silverlight/WPF project

Updating the Command Line Parser

23 Aug 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood

Staring from the original Command Line Parser v1.0 code, I wanted to be able to add multiple commands, or even nest commands. The result is a nice simple commanding architecture conducive to creating multiple commands.

Creating a Data Access layer using Unity

21 Aug 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood

I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework!

Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server

21 Aug 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood

I am not sure if this is a good idea, but I was bored one day and decided to add a TFS Error Log provider for Elmah. There are 2 ways you can do this.

Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure?

12 Jan 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood

From time to time your website structure may change. When this happens you do not want to have to start from scratch with your Google rankings, so you need to map all of your Old URLs to new ones.

Convert Accented Characters to Simple Characters

12 Jul 2010 by Martin Jarvis

How to convert accented characters to simple characters

TIP: Improve Readability with Shorter String.Format Statements

3 Jul 2010 by Martin Jarvis

How to improve readability with shorter String.Format statements

Security: Protect Against POET Attacks with Custom Errors!

21 Sep 2010 by Martin Jarvis

Protect against POET Attacks with Custom Errors!

Introduction to Munq IOC Container for ASP.NET

23 Nov 2010 by Matthew Dennis

This is the first in a series of articles about using the Munq DI IOC Container and IOC containers in general.

Logging and Tracing WCF Soap Messages

11 May 2012 by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to log and trace WCF Soap messages?

HTTPS Communication in WCF using Self-sign Certificate

1 Apr 2013 by Md. Rashim Uddin

HTTPS Communication in WCF

Duplex Service in WCF

29 Sep 2013 by Md. Rashim Uddin

Duplex service in WCF

Download Files in ASP.NET

30 Sep 2013 by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to download different types of files in asp.net

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

2 Nov 2019 by Melick

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

Binding to ComboBox.SelectedItem through a custom dependency property

21 Oct 2009 by mrjvdveen

Today we are looking into databinding to the ComboBox.SelectedItem property through a custom dependency property in a UserControl.

SingleInstance(Of T) Class for Windows Phone 7

14 May 2011 by Nikos Baxevanis

This post aims to provide a way to implement lazy initialization in a multi threaded environment using the SingleInstance(Of T) Class.

Publish-Subscribe Communication

19 Oct 2010 by Ondrej_Uzovic

Simple example showing how to implement a communication scenario where one application sends notifications to other applications.

Multiple Publishers - Multiple Subscribers Communication

24 Oct 2010 by Ondrej_Uzovic

Simple example showing how to implement the communication scenario where subscribing applications can receive notification messages from more publishing applications.

Silverlight: How to Send Message to Desktop Application

1 Nov 2010 by Ondrej_Uzovic

Very simple example showing how to send a message from Silverlight application to standalone desktop application

Silverlight: How to Receive Messages from Desktop Application

8 Nov 2010 by Ondrej_Uzovic

Simple example showing how Silverlight application can receive messages from a standalone desktop application

The Evolution Of C#

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

The Evolution Of C#

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

LINQ: Single vs. SingleOrDefault

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Single vs SingleOrDefault

LINQ: Single vs. First

13 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Single vs. First

Web Site Globalization With ASP.NET Routing

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

Web Site Globalization With ASP.NET Routing

How To Set Elements Of An Array Of A Private Type Using Visual Studio Shadows

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

How To Set Elements Of An Array Of A Private Type Using Visual Studio Shadows

Running .NET 1.1 Applications on .NET 2.0

13 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

Running .NET 1.1 Applications on .NET 2.0

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

17 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

28 Sep 2010 by Paulo Morgado

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

Silverlight charts, and reaching my inner child

30 Jul 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

Silverlight charts, and reaching my inner child

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

28 Sep 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

1 Feb 2010 by Pete O'Hanlon

Providing Undo/Redo across VMs (part 1 - simple properties)

Lightweight Task Scheduling for .NET / Silverlight

13 Feb 2010 by Philipp Sumi

A lightweight task scheduling library that allows you to easily schedule the invocation of callback methods at specified times or intervals. Supports .NET 3.5 and Silverlight.

Reduce the Size of MongoDB Documents Generated from .NET/C#

18 Mar 2014 by Pragmateek

How to reduce the size of MongoDB documents generated from .NET/C#

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

5 Apr 2014 by Pragmateek

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

Leverage the .NET framework classes from VBA

24 Apr 2014 by Pragmateek

Introduction Following my previous article on a similar subject, Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.Net or C++/CLI, I’ve received an interesting feedback from a VBA developer who wanted to leverage the advanced support of the .Net framework for regular … Continue reading →

Optional passed by reference parameters with C# for VBA COM APIs

5 Sep 2015 by Pragmateek

Introduction If you've already developed COM APIs with .Net, typically in C# with VBA as the consuming language, you've probably leveraged two powerful features: by-reference parameter passing that allows the API to change the input object itself, not only its ... Continue reading ...

Using a Resource Dictionary in WPF

2 Apr 2020 by Rahman Masudur

Few tricks about using a Resource Dictionary in WPF

ASP.NET MVC – Conditional Rendering

3 Feb 2010 by Rajeesh.C.V

How we could write a conditional rendering HTML helper in ASP.NET MVC

Configuring ASP session state on SQL server

24 Aug 2010 by Ritesh Ramesh

This is a brief to the point note on how to setup ASP session state to use SQL server to store session information.

Code Management on a budget

24 Aug 2010 by Ritesh Ramesh

Code Management on a budget

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ASP.NET MVC: Add HTML5 Microdata to Your Applications using Metadata Providers

3 Apr 2012 by Rui Jarimba

You can use Metadata Providers to add microdata to your ASP.NET MVC applications.

ASP.NET date picker control - Part 2

24 Aug 2009 by Salmanzz

In this post, I will explain you how I have embedded JavaScript, images and stylesheet to my previous article.

How to: Create a Date Picker Composite Control in ASP.NET (C#)

2 Jul 2009 by Salmanzz

How to create a Date Picker Composite Control in ASP.NET (C#)

State Design Pattern

14 Aug 2009 by Salmanzz

State Design Pattern

The Entity Framework (v1 and v4) Deal Breaker: TPT Inheritance

18 Mar 2010 by Sam Meacham

So what’s wrong with EF’s TPT inheritance? The SQL that EF generates. With some simple testing (2 or 3 subclasses) everything may appear to be fine. In fact, you may even be impressed that EF manages to fetch all the data you need in a single trip, indeed, in a single query.

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Office Interop Object Collection Technique – The right way

4 Jan 2010 by Samir Sameja

In this article, I will write about the way to release interop references.