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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

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.NET 3.5

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

My Experiences with the 'Sys is undefined' Javascript error

17 Aug 2012 by Abey Thomas

This is an issue which can happen for a variety of reasons - but how do you find the right one?

How to Bind Derived Type in MVC View

9 May 2013 by Abhay@Accenture

How to bind Derived Type in MVC View

web_development

Entity Framework 5.0 - Performance Tuning Using SqlBulkCopy

22 Jul 2016 by Abhay@Accenture

Performance tuning using SqlBulkCopy

entity-framework

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

Call WebService Dynamically and Read WebService Definition

17 Apr 2012 by abhinavshastri

How to Call WebService Dynamically and Read WebService Definition

Comparision between Response.Redirect, Response.RedirectParmanent and Server.Transfer

10 Sep 2009 by Abhishek Sur

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

How to make REST requests with C#

21 Nov 2012 by AdamNThompson

A reusable component for makeing REST service requests using C#

Convert Arabic Number To Alphabet (التفقيط) تحويل الأرقام إلى حروف

11 Nov 2012 by ahmed_alashrafy

تفقيط الأرقام العربيه

Increase productivity with Visual Studio extensions

30 May 2012 by Ahsan Murshed

This article gives ideas to developers to increase development time productivity using the free Visual Studio 2010 extensions.

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

A multi-thread queue for the producers/consumers process

15 Jan 2013 by Alessandro Lentini

How to write a simple multi-thread queue for the typical producer-consumer process

.Net Progress Bar - Single or Multi-Threaded

15 Jul 2014 by AlexF185

A dynamic progress bar control easy to use and literally plug and play

Avoid default formatting when exporting data from datagrid to excel.

14 Oct 2010 by ambatisreedhar

Export to Excel,default formatting of excel,excel number format,excel date format,excel currency format

Effectively Flushing Reserved Memory By Process

15 Jun 2014 by Amin Esmaeily

This trick is about how to effectively reduce reserved memory by process.

Binding with Properties defined in Code Behind

7 Jul 2013 by Amit_Mittal

An easy way to bind XAML with properties defined in code behind

Generate Game List Based on List of Players in C#

2 Sep 2014 by Andre van Dun

Generate game list based on list of players in C#

Quartz.Net - Custom Base Job

7 Jun 2012 by AndrewSmith

Creating a custom base job class for quartz scheduler development

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

11 Feb 2010 by Angsuman Chakraborty

Introduction...

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.

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

Priority Scenario

9 Mar 2012 by ankushpawar

Priority Scenario

Conversion Between All .NET Languages

10 Jun 2010 by Anshul R

The Perfect Translation/Conversion of Code

Checking Internet Is Connected Or Not From .NET

27 May 2011 by Anshul R

Dim value As Boolean = My.Computer.Network.IsAvailable can be used in a situation where the only network a system will be connected to is the Internet.Dim value As Boolean = My.Computer.Network.Ping(hostNameOrAddress ,timeout) hostNameOrAddress can be any valid website -...

Quick RSS

14 Mar 2013 by Anshul R

Quick way to read RSS

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...

Watermark image on page print in ASP.NET

20 May 2012 by Anup Kumar Verma

Printer independent Watermark on webpage print in asp.net & C#

18 Sep 2012 by Anup Kumar Verma

Taskbar Notification like animation in WPF from code behind

Understanding and Extending Controller Factory in MVC

24 Feb 2014 by Anupam Singh_

This tip is all about understanding the controller factory and exploring it...

How to get property name using Expression

16 Dec 2011 by ARanadhir

How to get property name using Expression

Encrypt and Decrypt Password in ConnectionString in webconfig file or Appconfig File using C#

24 Apr 2014 by Arvind Singh Baghel

I am writing code to encrypt password in connection string in config file and decrypt password while getting connection from config file.

Lazy Loading using Windsor Castle

13 Feb 2014 by Ashwin. Shetty

Lazy loading object in DI using Castle Windsor & System.Lazy

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

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.

A simple generic TreeList

18 Aug 2010 by B. Verboven

Convert a generic list of (recursive) objects into a simple hierarchical TreeList

A simple generic TreeList

18 Mar 2012 by B. Verboven

This is an alternative for "A simple generic TreeList".

MVC Dynamic Authorization

14 Jul 2013 by Bahram Ettehadieh

A simple way to implement "Dynamic Authorization" with the ability to assign permissions for actions to roles or users.

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.

Generic Method to Convert DataReader Result into List of CLR Objects

24 Apr 2014 by Bankey Sharma

Converting DataReader Result into List of Objects Using Generic Type, Property Attribute and Reflection

entity-framework

ISupportInitialize.BeginInit problems?

29 Mar 2012 by barrd

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

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

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...

WinForm on the Fly with Events

26 Mar 2014 by biffthebootmaker

Winform programmatically creating a form and with corresponding events

Connecting Windows Form Application With ADO.NET in C#

2 Dec 2012 by Bikash Karmokar

Connecting Windows Form Application With ADO.NET in C#

C# Alternative ProgressBar

3 Sep 2013 by blitzkrieged

An alternative ProgressBar for C# with extra functionality

Automatically Create Dump File When Program Hangs

24 Jan 2019 by Bloody Chicken

How to automatically create a dump file when the program hangs

A Simple and Powerful Library to Deal with Web Robots Control Strategy

6 Mar 2014 by bluecurve01

How to parse robots.txt and robots meta tag

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...

.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.

Copy Remote Website to Modify Functionality Locally

1 Aug 2014 by Bryan Lyman

A method for duplicating a web page (including all scripts and styles) to run as if it originated from your own server, then modify server-side and client-side functionality afterwards.

Creating Func delegates using TextToCalcExpression

16 Mar 2012 by Carlos Conceição

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

Read n bytes from the serial port in .NET

6 Mar 2012 by cass3000

Read n bytes from the serial port in .net

A Custom ServiceHostFactory

8 Sep 2008 by cesar_boucas

A custom derivative of ServiceHostFactory to control how WCF service hosts are created.

Custom Print Functionality for Microsoft Report Viewer (RDLC)

1 May 2012 by Chamila Nishantha

This tip describes how to create your own printing functionality rather than using built in print functionality on Microsoft Report Viewer.

reporting-services

Concatanate Report Pages into one Report (XtraReport)

5 May 2012 by Chamila Nishantha

Adding report pages to create one report

RTF TO HTML

14 Nov 2012 by chanakamax

Convert RTF TO HTML

Ajax Asynchronous postback

6 Sep 2012 by Christopher John Paul

Ajax Asynchronous Postback Method

Strings To Colours

17 Jun 2014 by cjb110

A String To Brush Converter for WPF/Silverlight

Number Only Behavior for WPF

1 Oct 2015 by Clifford Nelson

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

Synchronize Two Scroll Viewers in WPF

20 Mar 2013 by CodeHawkz

Often we try to synchronize scrolling, but WPF does not have a direct support for this one. Therefore, this article is on that.

Custom paging like Google paging

7 May 2012 by coolnavjot31

Custom paging with only 10 pages shown in pager.

Thread-Safe ObservableCollection<T>

10 Dec 2016 by Cory Charlton

A thread-safe implementation of the ObservableCollection class

Creating PartitionedDictionary

2 Nov 2014 by D Sarthi Maheshwari

A suggested solution to create Partition based Dictionary (reducing chances of OOM errors and adding capability to hold bigger KVP set in Dictionary).

LINQ Tutorial for Beginners

10 May 2013 by d.ban

A LINQ tutorial for beginners.

Push2Linux - A Mass Unix Deploy Tool

11 Dec 2012 by Dane Balia

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

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.

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

How to Edit ListViewItems Directly

5 Apr 2013 by dapeacenforcement

Easy way to edit the right ListViewItem (Row/Column) after MouseDoubleClick.

C# Storable Box Control 1.4.0.4

6 Mar 2015 by Darkencrow

A multi-drawer style collapsable UI container

Select multiple checkboxes in a GridView in online shopping websites

12 Jul 2013 by Deenuji

Select multiple checkboxes in a GridView in an online shopping website.

Auto complete textbox in jQuery Tabs content

2 Jun 2012 by deepaktripathi

Using auto complete textbox in jQuery Tabs content via AJAX in an Microsoft MVC project.

Rendering AltNETType (= .NET FreeType port) with OpenGL

14 Oct 2013 by Demid Korneev

Example of AltNETType use in OpenGL

Like Magic, No Strings Attached

28 Mar 2013 by dgDavidGreene

Helper utility replaces magic string property names.

C# Extension Method to Convert List into a Delimited Text String

13 Oct 2015 by dibley1973

A simple C# extension method to convert List into a delimited text string. Ideal for creating CSV files!

IP Location

9 Dec 2013 by dietmar paul schoder

How to get the location of a specific IP-address

7 Dec 2014 by Dinand.dotnet

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

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.

Limited Length Logging

18 Feb 2013 by dirigo

Preventing a log file from growing forever

Testing Public and Private Functions in JavaScript using Jasmine and Chutzpah

31 Mar 2014 by Divikiran

JavaScript Testing

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.

How to Get User Controls ClientID in JavaScript in aspx Page

16 Apr 2013 by Dnyaneshwar Kondbale

Get ClientID of User control which is register on Page In JavaScript.

Extensions and Reflections and Generics oh my!

5 Mar 2017 by DotNetSteve

Creating an extension class for View Models to save public properties using Generics and Delegates, replacing a reflection implementation

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...

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!

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.

Dynamically generate a LINQ query with a custom property

23 Mar 2012 by Elvis Begluk

Dynamically generate LINQ query with a custom property.

Automatic Undo/Redo

11 Feb 2015 by Emiliano El Mariachi

Here is a small library to help you have an automatic undo/redo feature without explicit dependency on Undo/Redo system.

WPF C# / VB.NET Additional (fourth) button on window titlebar (Aero only!)

22 Jul 2014 by Emiliarge

Using WindowChrome from Microsoft.Windows.Shell.dll

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Read and write MS Access (mdb) database without ADO and SQL via Microsoft DAO

18 Aug 2014 by Emiliarge

Read and write data to Access databases without limitations caused by the use of the SQL.

C# / VB.NET / C++ CLI: Create, read and write MS Access (mdb, accdb), MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Compact and SQLite databases

13 Nov 2014 by Emiliarge

Both MS Access formats (mdb and new - accdb), MSSQL 2008 R2, MSSQL CE, SQLite, MySQL

C#: Read and Write Excel (*.xls and *.xlsx) Files Content without Excel Automation (using NPOI and ADO.NET)

30 Aug 2014 by Emiliarge

2 ways to read and write data to *.xls and *.xls files and display it on DataGridView.

Create BarCode Images in ASP.NET

9 Feb 2014 by Er. Mayank Kothari

Generate barcode image in web application

The Elegant Art of Programming

15 May 2012 by Erol Esen

This tip uses the elegant LINQ to solve pesky daily problems.

LINQs and Pancakes

14 Jan 2014 by Erol Esen

This tip is about modifying the ingredient quantities of a recipe using LINQ.

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 serialize list of linq entities (ex. from DBML)

10 Dec 2009 by EuGenius_Krivbass

Today I was trying to save list of entities those were generated by DBMLThis code shows how you can store your list in XML string and put it in ViewState, after that you get your list back.Using the CodeYou can use this code as you need.Here is class Serializatorpublic class...

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

WPF: Compare two brushes using IsEquals

17 Dec 2012 by fadi_sayyed

WPF Compare two brushes IsEquals

Convert Text Represented Number to Numeric String

7 Jun 2013 by FatzBomb

How to convert a written number to a numerical value anywhere in a string.

Check which .NET Framework version is installed from command line

1 Nov 2012 by Fenil Desai

Check which .NET Framework version is installed from command line