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TCP Socket Off-the-shelf

by Igor Ladnik

Wrapper to facilitate usage of TCP sockets

Routing Manager for WCF4

by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the Custom Routing Manager for managing messages via Routing Service built-in .Net 4 Technology.

An extensible ExifReader class with customizable tag handlers

by Nish Nishant

An ExifReader class in C# that supports custom formatting and extraction. StyleCop compliant code, with demos for WPF and Windows Forms.

Silverlight DataTrigger is the Answer to View Model / MVVM Issues

by defwebserver

How using the Silverlight DataTrigger allows you to run a process and then raise another when using View Model (MVVM)

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Editor3D: A Windows.Forms Render Control with interactive 3D Editor in C#

by Elmue

An easy to use 3D control which can be integrated into an application in a few minutes

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.

Smart Home – Controlling Shelly® Devices (Part 1)

by Ralf Meier

In this article, I demonstrate how to integrate Shelly® relays into my smart home, controlling the devices through routines in VB.NET.

Working with MSDTC...

by Sufyan S Jabr

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

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.NET4

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

28 Sep 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

3 Feb 2017 by tranthanhtu.vn

In "REST - Overview" article, I were introduced the basic rules in RESTful, Can you show me how to implement in WebApi?Ok, in this article, we will learn how to implement those rules in WebApi using C#.Where could I get sourcode was used in this article?Please checkout the code at https://github.com

Download Files in ASP.NET

30 Sep 2013 by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to download different types of files in asp.net

Writing a .NET Debugger (part 4) – Breakpoints

1 Dec 2010 by Sebastian Solnica

Writing a .NET debugger – breakpoints

The Stored Procedure Framework Now Supports Dynamic Fields within Multiple Recordsets

1 Aug 2016 by dibley1973

The stored procedure framework now supports dynamic fields within multiple recordsets

LINQ: Single vs. First

13 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Single vs. First

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.

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

Writing a .NET Debugger (Part 3) – Symbol and Source Files

9 Nov 2010 by Sebastian Solnica

How to load module debugging symbols (PDB files) into the debugger and how to bind them with source files

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

Embrace Reflection and Export Any List Collection to CSV

29 Oct 2012 by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Embrace reflection and export any List collection to CSV

Generating an MD5 Hash from a String Using LINQ

7 May 2013 by Rion Williams

Generating an MD5 hash from a string using LINQ.

Applying Conditional Attributes in ASP.NET MVC Views

3 Dec 2013 by Rion Williams

Applying conditional attributes in ASP.NET MVC Views.

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

5 Apr 2014 by Pragmateek

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

Web Site Globalization With ASP.NET Routing

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

Web Site Globalization With ASP.NET Routing

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.

Small Sample of Using Code Contracts

29 Sep 2010 by outcoldman

This is a small sample of using code contracts.

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

1 Jul 2017 by outcoldman

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

Authentication Against CRM Contact using Custom STS

30 Oct 2013 by Manoj.Kumar12

Authentication against CRM contact using custom STS

The Evolution Of C#

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

The Evolution Of C#

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

Convert Accented Characters to Simple Characters

12 Jul 2010 by Martin Jarvis

How to convert accented characters to simple characters

How Dynamic Language Runtime(DLR) Feature in .NET Framework 4 is a Boon for Debugging COM Objects

23 Jul 2010 by atverma

How dynamic language runtime (DLR) festure in .NET Framework 4 is a book for debugging COM objects

How to host a service in Azure and expose using WCF and Visual Studio 2010: Issues Faced and Quick Fixes

23 Jul 2010 by atverma

How to host a service in Azure and expose using WCF and Visual Studio 2010

NuGet: How to Install a Package in 19 Easy Steps

8 Jun 2013 by Ivan Krivyakov

How to install a NuGet package in 19 easy steps

OData Service using WCF Service

25 Sep 2015 by Rajneesh Kumar Verma

Using OData and WCF Service and visualize result using LinqPad

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

28 Sep 2010 by Paulo Morgado

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

LINQ: Introducing The Skip Last Operators

12 Dec 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Introducing The Skip Last Operators

Using DirectoryInfoEx to Simplify ContextMenu Construction

24 Oct 2010 by Leung Yat Chun

This post explains how to use ContextMenuHelperEx in DirectoryInfoEx to simplify ContextMenu construction under .NET 4.0 Framework.

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.

Logging with dynamic objects in .NET 4.0 (part 1-n)

10 Jan 2011 by erik_nl

Logging with dynamic objects in .NET 4.0 (part 1-n)

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

Bitwise – Something You Learned During College Time

23 Nov 2012 by Cruz Boon

Let’s say, we have a survey requirement. See how we can store multiple selections in a field by using bitwise.

Implementing the GeoCoordinateWatcher as a Reactive Service

28 Jan 2013 by Paulo Morgado

With Rx, events are first class citizens that can be passed around and composed as needed in a very simple way.

Windows-Phone-7

WebAPI Follow-up... What About Protocol Buffers?

3 Feb 2013 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

As a follow-up to my previous article about WebAPI, I received an interesting question from a friend on LinkedIn: Is there a way to emit data in Protobuf format?

WPF Enumeration Data Provider

11 Feb 2013 by Stephen Brannan

WPF Enumeration Data Provider

Nested GridView in ASP.NET using C#

27 Nov 2013 by Debopam Pal

This example shows you how to create a nested GridView.

C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics

16 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics

Select N+1 Problem – How to Decrease Your ORM Performance

18 Aug 2010 by Gil Fink

This post will introduce the select N+1 pitfall and explain how to avoid it in Entity Framework.

entity-framework

Duplex Service in WCF

29 Sep 2013 by Md. Rashim Uddin

Duplex service in WCF

Speed Up Blocking Functions with PLINQ

7 Aug 2017 by JasonShort

In this article, I want to cover a particular problem I have had many times over the years. How do you speed up multithreaded apps that are bound by blocking functions, or long running I/O operations?

Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 & its Internals

13 Feb 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 & its Internals

A Complete Impersonation Demo in C#.NET

20 Jun 2013 by Wayne Ye

A complete Impersonation demo in C#.NET

1 Feb 2010 by Pete O'Hanlon

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

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.

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.

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.

CRUD Operation in ASP.NET MVC 4 and AngularJS

25 Sep 2015 by Rajneesh Kumar Verma

This article will guide you to Create, Read, Update and Delete Data using Angular JS in ASP.NET MVC 4

Out and REF in C#

28 Sep 2015 by Shivprasad koirala

This blog explains C# Out and REF parameters in detail.

Step Into .NET Framework 4.0 Source Code

12 Jul 2010 by Arik Poznanski

How to configure your Visual Studio 2010 to step into the source code of .NET Framework 4.0.

Parallel Programming Easier than ever using .NET Framework 4

9 Sep 2010 by Raymund Macaalay

Parallel programming is easier than ever using .NET Framework 4

Simple Steps to Enable Tracing in WCF

13 Jul 2012 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Simple steps to enable tracing in WCF

The Truth About HttpHandlers and WebApi

3 Feb 2013 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

HttpHandlers had their place, but going forward, I'm going to use WebAPI whenever I need to transmit data over HTTP to browsers or any other connected client.

Concurrent Collections with .NET 4.0

17 Jan 2011 by Brij

Concurrent Collections with .NET 4.0

Much Improved .NET 4.0 WPF Text Rendering

22 Oct 2009 by User 271009

Much improved .NET 4.0 WPF text rendering

C# 4.0: Dynamic Programming

18 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

The major feature of C# 4.0 is dynamic programming - not just dynamic typing, but dynamic in a broader sense, which means talking to anything that is not statically typed to be a .NET object.

Generic Repository Pattern MVC

29 Apr 2016 by Mayur V Lohite

Generic Repository Pattern MVC

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

MVVM using POCOs with .NET 4.0 and the DynamicViewModel Class

27 Dec 2010 by Nikos Baxevanis

This post aims to provide a way to implement the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) architectural pattern using Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) while taking full advantage of .NET 4.0 DynamicObject Class.

Exploring Web.config - system.web/httpModules

18 Apr 2010 by Sky Sanders

Exploring Web.config - system.web/httpModules

HTTPS Communication in WCF using Self-sign Certificate

1 Apr 2013 by Md. Rashim Uddin

HTTPS Communication in WCF

How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010

23 Sep 2010 by atverma

How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010

LINQ Group By with NULL Database Values

5 Jul 2010 by JasonShort

LINQ Group By with NULL database values

Managed Extensibility Framework

9 Feb 2010 by Andriy Buday

MEF is the Framework which allows you to load extensions to your application easily. It does discovery and composition of parts you need to be included in your application at run-time. You could extend your behavior simply by adding a new Plugin.

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.

entity-framework

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.

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.

Entity Framework and T4: Generating GetHashCode() for your entities

19 Dec 2011 by Rui Jarimba

A simple Entity Framework T4 template that generates GetHashCode() method

LINQPad Helps You Learn LINQ

7 Aug 2017 by JasonShort

LINQPad helps you learn LINQ

Using MemoryCache in .NET 4.0

27 Nov 2011 by Dinesh K Mandal

Using MemoryCache in .NET 4.0

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

Observer in .NET 4.0 with IObserver(T)

17 Jun 2010 by User 6619207

The IObservable(T) and IObserver(T) interfaces are part of base class library of .NET 4.0. It's great that there is now a out of the box solution to implement the observer pattern. This was overdue, because other languages provide classes to implement this pattern already since a long time.

INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged in Real Life using Expression Trees

23 Jul 2010 by atverma

INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged in Real Life using Expression Trees

LINQ: Single vs. SingleOrDefault

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Single vs SingleOrDefault

Implementing Repository Pattern with EF4 POCO support

30 Jul 2012 by Morshed Anwar

Implementing Repository Pattern with EF4 POCO support.

Data-binding Among Complex Expressions in C#

8 Feb 2013 by Adrian Alexander

Data-binding among complex expressions in C#

Map Data from Database Context to Excel Sheet using LINQ & Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

16 Nov 2013 by Debopam Pal

Using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel library, you can bring your data from your database against LINQ query and store them into an Excel Sheet.

SQL-Server-2008

Justin‘s VSTO Knowledge Base: 01, First VSTO Application

10 Jan 2015 by izualx

First, let me introduce my development enviroment. I’m using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and all my VSTO applications are basing on VSTO 4.0 and .Net Framework 4.0. All my demo code is basing on them and if you are using VS 2008, you can port these code to VS2008 very easily.

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

Programming Windows Phone 7 – Hello World

9 Oct 2010 by Sarath C

A simple Windows Phone 7 application

CSS Friendly Menu Control in ASP.NET 4.0

18 May 2010 by Abhijit Jana

CSS Friendly Menu Control in ASP.NET 4.0

RIA Services through Web Services

20 Aug 2010 by Steve Maier

The same database and the same RIA Services can be used as a Web Service by using some simple additions to the setup of your project.

C# 4.0: Dynamic’s compiler tricks

7 Jun 2009 by StormySpike

So, I was curious today, I had some code that used dynamic and was wondering what the heck the compiler was doing on the back end. So, I wrote up a very small test program, and tore into it using Reflector. The version of Reflector I used still only decompiles to C# 3, so it [...]

Lambda Expression in C# 3.0

8 Feb 2010 by Shakeel Iqbal

Lambda Expression is one of the best features of C# 3.0

State Design Pattern

14 Aug 2009 by Salmanzz

State Design Pattern

Solve Mongo DB Element Does Not Match Any Field or Property of Class

15 Mar 2015 by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Solve Mongo DB Element does not match any field or property of class

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.

JQuery Confirm Box

15 Jul 2012 by Christopher John Paul

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

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.

Using the GeoCoordinateReactiveService

28 Jan 2013 by Paulo Morgado

How it can be used in a simple application

Windows-Phone-7

Error Condition: HttpException: maxRequestLength Exceeded. ASP.NET

13 May 2013 by Amogh Natu

This post explains the cause and solution for the HttpException: maxRequestLength exceeded.

C# 4.0: Named And Optional Arguments

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

As part of the co-evolution effort of C# and Visual Basic, C# 4.0 introduces Named and Optional Arguments.

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

17 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

Code Management on a budget

24 Aug 2010 by Ritesh Ramesh

Code Management on a budget

web_development

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

Install SharePoint Online Management Shell on Client-Side

24 Jul 2014 by piyush_singh

How to install SharePoint online management shell on client side

C# 4.0: DXLinq, a DynamicObject example

5 Jun 2009 by StormySpike

System.Xml.Linq is a great library, it lets us very easily manipulate XML, in very close fashion to how we would interact with other data sources. My only issue is that it tends to seem a little redundant...

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#)

Advanced MEF Programming

6 Feb 2011 by kishore Gaddam

Advanced MEF Programming

TIP: Improve Readability with Shorter String.Format Statements

3 Jul 2010 by Martin Jarvis

How to improve readability with shorter String.Format statements

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