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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

WCF Client For Web Services that Require Authorization by HTTP Header

24 Dec 2023 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...

30 May 2023 by Sufyan S Jabr

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

Automatically Create Dump File When Program Hangs

24 Jan 2019 by Bloody Chicken

How to automatically create a dump file when the program hangs

Beveled Panel with Shadow Effect - Now With Tabs

2 Feb 2018 by RickZeeland

This is an alternative for "Beveled Panel with Shadow Effect"

A High-Quality IconBitmapEncoder for WPF

11 Nov 2017 by Herbert Lausmann

An IconBitmapEncoder that produces high-quality icons, written in VB.NET and C#, WPF

Writing a DataTable to a CSV File

8 Sep 2017 by Thomas Corey

A quick way to write the contents of a DataTable to an RFC 4180-compliant CSV file

Beveled Panel with Shadow Effect

8 Aug 2017 by practicalDeveloper

A panel that has rounded borders, gradients, edges/bevels and a shadow

UiDispatcherHelper - Dispatcher Helper Class for UI Bound Actions in WPF

10 Apr 2017 by Swapnil Dhage

This is a helper/utility class that will add a layer of abstraction as well as separation for dispatcher related operations in WPF.

System.Diagnostics Useful Actions

5 Apr 2017 by Juan Francisco Morales Larios

Useful Actions for debugger in System.Diagnostics

Easy JSON Recursion in VB.NET with Nested Levels

16 Mar 2017 by Robert Bettinelli

Easy JSON Recursion in VB.NET with nested levels

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

How to Call Code Behind Method from Client Side

20 Dec 2016 by Shivi Gupta Lucknow

Using JavaScript and jquery, I will demonstrate how to call codebehind method from the client side. There are three ways of doing so.

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

Thread-Safe ObservableCollection<T>

10 Dec 2016 by Cory Charlton

A thread-safe implementation of the ObservableCollection class

How To Sort Two Dimensional Array in Selected Sort Order by Column One, Then By Column Two, Then By Column Three . . . Then By Column N?

10 Oct 2016 by Perić Željko

Sort two dimensional array by using DataGridView class

A Simple RTF Print Form

1 Oct 2016 by Howard 9448490

A WYSIWYG Printer Interface for Rich text

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.

Creating a Link in the Left Pane of the File Explorer - like OneDrive or DropBox

22 Aug 2016 by Sujith Karivelil

Creating a link in the left pane of the file Explorer - like OneDrive or DropBox

Entity Framework 5.0 - Performance Tuning Using SqlBulkCopy

22 Jul 2016 by Abhay@Accenture

Performance tuning using SqlBulkCopy

entity-framework

NamingFormatter - String Interpolation in Runtime Solution

10 Feb 2016 by Kouji Matsui

This library is simple and is a substitution of System.String.Format.

Illustrating the State Pattern with a Very Basic Example

29 Dec 2015 by Rajesh Buddaraju

A simplified example is used to describe the state pattern

Replace HTML Tags From text/string Using regex

12 Dec 2015 by Rajdeep Debnath

Replace all HTML tags from text/string

ToolStripInlineColorPicker

15 Nov 2015 by Nobuhiro Ida

How to build an in-line color picker control on MenuStrip or ContextMenuStrip

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!

Number Only Behavior for WPF

1 Oct 2015 by Clifford Nelson

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

C# Code Execution Time Compiler - WPF Application

15 Aug 2015 by Rakesh Vemula

A Windows application which processes your code and shows how much time it takes to execute your code.

Oracle Home Selector

10 Aug 2015 by hevesir

Oracle Home Selector

Create and Consume ASP.NET WebAPI Services - MVC

9 Aug 2015 by saurabh sri

Basic steps to create ASP.NET WebApi services.

Stored Procedure Returns No Fields Even After Refresh Fields

15 Jul 2015 by Member 10295860

Using stored procedure type for binding data to dataset in SSRS or adding entity to Entity data model

entity-framework

Caching web pages in asp.net 3.5 on hard drive

12 Jul 2015 by Sem.Shekhovtsov

Caching the entire asp.net 3.5 web forms page using modules.

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

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

Convert Your Home Desktop to Webserver using IP-forwarding

11 May 2015 by Shibasis Sengupta

This tip describes how to convert your personal laptop into a webserver available on world wide web

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.

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

C# Storable Box Control 1.4.0.4

6 Mar 2015 by Darkencrow

A multi-drawer style collapsable UI container

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

15 Feb 2015 by mozwizard

Out of frustration comes simplicity ...

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.

Alphanumeric count up

27 Jan 2015 by HiDensity

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

3 Layer Architecture for Beginners in ASP.NET C#

19 Jan 2015 by JatinKhimani

Develop a web application in 3 layer architecture code style

MySQL Connector for Visual Basic

17 Jan 2015 by rolandomontero

MySQL Connector for Visual Basic, obtaining a data table

Adding INotifyPropertyChanged to Entity Framework Classes

14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX

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

How To Insert Records Into A Table That Has No Primary Key, using LINQ to SQL?

12 Dec 2014 by karimbaig5

This tip provides an idea about how to insert a record into a table having no primary key using LINQ to SQL.

7 Dec 2014 by Dinand.dotnet

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

A Dive into ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

26 Nov 2014 by Sambhav Yadav - Sam D Silva

ASP.NET page/master page/user control's life cycle from the perspective of Session and View State

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

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.

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).

Working with LINQ to Entities & LINQ to DataTable

31 Oct 2014 by ShaikAnwar

This topic gives us an idea of how to write Linq queries on Entities & DataTable. This covers some basic querying and also usage of joins and group by using LINQ.

Creating or Editing the Web.config dynamically for Page Level Access (Asp.net web forms)

27 Oct 2014 by Israel Gebreselassie

This tip/trick shows you how to edit the web.config file dynamically .

.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.

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.

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

Service Locator Pattern

18 Sep 2014 by Gautham Prabhu K

Creating and using Service Locator pattern

OData

15 Sep 2014 by me.ajaykumar

OData

How to setup database versioning tool RoundhousE

2 Sep 2014 by Rohan Kishor Garud

RoundhousE (RH) is a database migrations engine that uses plain old SQL Scripts to transition a database from one version to another.

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

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#

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.

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.

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.

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

22 Jul 2014 by Emiliarge

Using WindowChrome from Microsoft.Windows.Shell.dll

A Pagination Solution using IEnumerable<T>

17 Jul 2014 by Marlon Hizole

An elegant approach to pagination

.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

Lambda Expressions in C# and Java

10 Jul 2014 by Peter Silling

Lambda expressions were introduced in Java 8, and the concept is little bit different than in C#. We'll go through how these things are implemented in C# and in Java.

License Keys in VB.NET - Revisited

10 Jul 2014 by maz2331

License Key class to make generating and validating keys easy.

MVVM Taskbar Notifier

20 Jun 2014 by NobsterTheLobster

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

Extract Keys from Federation Meta Data File (ADFS)

19 Jun 2014 by Peter Boyall

Quick routine to extract keys from FederationMetaData.xml

Strings To Colours

17 Jun 2014 by cjb110

A String To Brush Converter for WPF/Silverlight

Effectively Flushing Reserved Memory By Process

15 Jun 2014 by Amin Esmaeily

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

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

Simple Method to Convert Latitude and Longitude to Readable Address

9 Jun 2014 by Godwinsmith

Function to find the exact address of particular latitude and longitude using Google maps service in C#

Copy Paste and Insert in Datagridview (Winforms)

28 May 2014 by Thava Rajan

Copy and insert data at any postion in your datagridview

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!

SharePoint Mapper (SPMapper)

23 May 2014 by MB Seifollahi

A SharePoint Server Object Model List Mapper to CRUD

How to Convert a Date Time to “X minutes ago” in C#

17 May 2014 by Mukund Thakker

In this post, we will see how we can convert date time in "X Time ago" format in C#.

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

Send Data to remote machine using IPV6/IPV4 based address

29 Apr 2014 by munagalasantosh

send data to other system using two different ways, one way using IPV6 and other way is IPV4.

Receive IPV6 or IPV4 based Data Using C#

27 Apr 2014 by munagalasantosh

Receive IPV6 or IPV4 based data using TcpListener

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

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.

Insert Data Using Stored Procedure in ASP.NET

23 Apr 2014 by Rajendra D. Patel

How to insert data using stored procedure in ASP.NET

SQL-Server-2008R2

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

Code behind JavaScript

18 Apr 2014 by Raju_B

Code behind JavaScript

How to Sort an Object List in C#

18 Apr 2014 by Member 4742039

How to sort an object list in C#

Subset - Sum Problem with Numeric Collections

17 Apr 2014 by Matt T Heffron

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

Subset - Sum Problem with Integer Arrays

16 Apr 2014 by munagalasantosh

Get all the array index where the sum equals or is greater than some x value

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

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

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

7 Apr 2014 by subhajit bhadury

nKnight - RBAC Solution for C#.NET

JavaScript Validation for textbox Special Character Selection

31 Mar 2014 by Silvercorer

JavaScript validation for textbox special character selection

Testing Public and Private Functions in JavaScript using Jasmine and Chutzpah

31 Mar 2014 by Divikiran

JavaScript Testing

WinForm on the Fly with Events

26 Mar 2014 by biffthebootmaker

Winform programmatically creating a form and with corresponding events

Adapter Design Pattern in C#

7 Mar 2014 by Vipin_Arora

Adapter Design Pattern in C#

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

Visual Image Cryptography Generator

6 Mar 2014 by Jacky Yiu

Visual cryptography is a cryptographic technique which allows visual information (pictures, text, etc.) to be encrypted in such a way that the decryption can be performed by the human visual system, without the aid of computers.

Factory Pattern Example in C#

2 Mar 2014 by Vipin_Arora

This tip is about how to implement factory design pattern

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

27 Feb 2014 by Sarath Jayachandran

Nested gridview Edit

25 Feb 2014 by JatinKhimani

Nested GridView With Editing Facility of both gridview.

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...

Export to Excel in ASP.NET C#

24 Feb 2014 by JatinKhimani

Export Gridview data in Excel formate with gridview design.