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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

TCP Socket Off-the-shelf

22 Jan 2014 by Igor Ladnik

Wrapper to facilitate usage of TCP sockets

Routing Manager for WCF4

29 Apr 2010 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

29 Mar 2010 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

6 Nov 2010 by defwebserver

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

Reflection Studio - Part 2 - User Interface: Themes, Dialogs, Controls, External Libraries

22 Sep 2010 by Guillaume Waser

Reflection Studio is a "developer" application for assembly, database, performance, and code generation, written in C# under WPF 4.0.

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

6 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Computer Algebra System for .NET Framework

21 Jun 2013 by Igor S Medvedev

The article describes a C# library for symbolic computations.

Silverlight 4 Video Player

8 May 2011 by defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.

Expression-blend

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016 by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

Real-Time Gauge with ChartJS and Spike-Engine

23 Jun 2015 by Kel_

Presents a real-time gauge implementation that can be used for building dashboards

Windows Phone Crosswords

3 Jul 2012 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Learn how to create a Windows Phone crosswords game taking advantage of online internet resources

PSAM WPF Control Library

19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84

PSAM Control Library ported over to WPF

WPF Layout to Layout Transitions

27 Nov 2012 by Yuriy Zanichkovskyy

Layout to layout transitions made easy

Basic Routing for HttpHandler

10 Jun 2012 by Vitaly Tomilov

Simple way of mapping HttpHandler requests into controller/action

web_development

10 Oct 2012 by Andrew Rissing

An intuitive-fluent API for generating Linq Expressions.

Windows Resize and Move

8 May 2019 by Bruno Tabbia

Automatic positioning and resizing of explorer windows, without overlapping (for obsessive superusers)

Numbered Bookmarks - Visual Studio Extension VSX 2010

1 Mar 2010 by The Manoj Kumar

A Visual Studio 2010 extension for creating numbered bookmarks.

Silverlight 4 Drag and Drop File Manager

6 May 2010 by defwebserver

A Silverlight file manager that allows drag and drop multiple file uploads

ViewModel 1st Child Container PRISM Navigation

20 Aug 2013 by Sacha Barber

Shows how to use PRISM navigation API in VM 1st with child container support

Deployment, because WPF desktop applications aren't dead yet

18 Dec 2015 by Mohamed Kalmoua

This article describes how you can deploy your application using ClickOnce and Windows Installer technology.

Using WF4 WorkflowInvoker

1 Sep 2009 by Roman Kiss

This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the custom service operation invoker for invoking a xaml workflow. It is based on the upcoming Microsoft .NET 4 Technology.

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!

Autoshutdown Service in C#

10 Jan 2014 by Kees van Spelde

This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#"

30 Sep 2009 by Fiwel

Different ways to apply image filters.

Tasks/Continuations and Death of the ThreadPool?

15 Aug 2009 by Sacha Barber

Using the VS2010 Tasks namespace.

WCF by Example - Chapter VII - Decoupling of WCF Services from the ViewModel

11 Oct 2011 by Enrique Albert

Baseline WCF Distribution Layer - Decoupling of WCF Services and ViewModels.

Export to Excel Functionality in WPF DataGrid

24 Oct 2010 by Nithyaduruvan, Sathishkumar_P

This article describes about the export functionality of Excel sheet from WPF datagrid.

Using LINQ for type Conversion

25 Feb 2010 by dasblinkenlight

Converting between types in .NET

Excel Add-in for Exporting Data to XML

21 Jan 2015 by Syed Umar Anis

ExcelXMLExport is a Microsoft Excel 2010 / 2013 Add-in that generates XML data from Excel sheet.

WPF-Less GDI+.NET Report Component: Star Report

25 Jan 2013 by FatCatProgrammer

StarReport: WPF-less GDI+.NET report component.

Introduction to Composite WPF (CAL, Prism): Part 2

19 Jul 2009 by Jammer

An article showing an extremely simple implementation of CompositeWPF.

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

28 Sep 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

Small Paging Control for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

27 Jun 2012 by freedeveloper

A small control to control paging in Windows Presentation Foundation.

SQL-Server-2005

Dynamically adding controls on a hierarchical structure on MVC

6 Aug 2012 by _DanV_

How to dynamically add controls on a hierarchical structure on MVC.

A C# SMTP server (receiver)

17 Sep 2012 by ObiWan_MCC

A C# SMTP server (receiver).

multi-threading

Mouse and Keyboard Tracking and Simulator

21 Nov 2014 by CodeFate

Revision of the Global Mouse and Keyboard Library from Brian Geiman

Adding INotifyPropertyChanged to Entity Framework Classes

14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX

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

Serialize/Deserialize objects by reference to transfer json between server and client

31 Aug 2016 by Sheshnath Kumar

This article will find out a solution to serialize/deserialize object by reference at server and client, also will serialize/deserialize objects having circular references.

Simple Silverlight 4 Example Using oData and RX Extensions

23 May 2010 by defwebserver

A simple Silverlight application that uses RX Extensions to communicate with an oData service.

Real-time SPC Web Application for iPad/Android tablet using jQuery/AJAX/AJAX enabled WCF Service

18 Dec 2013 by Gokuldas

Real time SPC is a Web Application for iPad and Androind using HTML5 and jQuery AJAX.

How to Mock Test an Entity Framework Model-First Project

29 Aug 2012 by linush

Explains how to mock test an EF Model-First project using ADO.NET Entity Data Model template

Inheriting from a Look Less WPF Control

31 Jul 2017 by Dirk Bahle

This article explains how to take advantage from look-less WPF controls through inheritance

Handling authentication-specific issues for AJAX-calls

18 Sep 2013 by Sergey Zwezdin

For modern web-applications has become the usual to use AJAX when you create user interfaces. However, it makes our headache from time to time. And often these difficulties are associated with authentication and processing such requests on the client.

IP Location

9 Dec 2013 by dietmar paul schoder

How to get the location of a specific IP-address

Handling SoapException Detail with a WCF Client from a Web Service

4 Nov 2009 by Larry Aultman

How to catch and handle ASMX based SOAP exceptions in a WCF client.

Voice and Text Conferencing Library

14 Feb 2010 by Irfan alam

A library for creating a voice and text conferencing application

Hacking the Mono C# Compiler.

9 Oct 2010 by Stefan Savev 2

Describes how to dump information from the C# parse tree

virtual-machine

Dependency Injection with ObjectPoolManager (OPM)

31 Oct 2010 by NavnathKale

Lightweight and simple

Microsoft Interop API to convert the .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx and .xls,.xlsx, .rtf to HTML

13 Dec 2012 by Vijay Tanwar

Convert Word documents, Excel sheets to HTML files using Microsoft Office Interop API and render the result back to a client browser.

WebBrowser Element Events and Values

16 Feb 2013 by Marc Clifton

Sinking WebBrowser button element events and getting/setting input element values programmatically, without a web server.

Conway's Game of Life - A Rule Framework and Implementation

15 Apr 2013 by tumbledDown2earth

A rule engine based approach to add and remove rules to play Conway's Game of Life

A Study of Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Automated Measuring Systems using VB.NET

24 Jan 2015 by syed shanu

Gage R&R using VB.NET.

Using Font Icons

12 Aug 2013 by Le Sourcier

This tip helps in using font icons as ImageSource.

Chromium (CefSharp) Tor Browser

28 Jan 2016 by ahmet_uzun

An alternative Tor Browser built with C# using CefSharp and Tor.NET.

Advanced WPF TreeViews Part 2 of n

22 Sep 2017 by Dirk Bahle

A list of advanced tips & tricks on Virtualized WPF TreeViews

How to Configure TFS Server to Build Solutions v.2008 and v.2010 Side by Side on the Same Machine

9 Jan 2010 by Sergey Arhipenko

This article shows how to build different versions of Visual Studio solutions on the same build server.

WCF by Example - Chapter XIV - Validation & Exception Management

25 Oct 2012 by Enrique Albert

WPF Validation using the IDataErrorInfo interface combined with Validation attributes

SQL-Server-2005

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

Working with CLR Objects in SQL Server 2005 or Above Part 2

2 Aug 2009 by Abhishek Sur

Gives an introduction of how to create SQL CLR managed objects in SQL server.

SQL-Server-2005

Applying Data Templates Dynamically by Type in WP7

19 Oct 2010 by Florin Badea

This article presents a way to apply data templates dynamically by type in the Windows Phone 7 platform

Running a Workflow Asynchronously To Improve The Performance

8 Mar 2012 by Reza Ahmadi

In this article a simple math calculation is implemented in WF4.0 using different techniques to compare their execution time.

Custom serialization for ExpandoObjects in ASP.NET WebAPI

5 Dec 2012 by tumbledDown2earth

Using dynamic or ExpandoObject is a breeze to dynamic data WebAPIs, but when serializing to XML, it can cause a brain damage sometimes :)

Using Intro JS (Integration to Code Project FAQ)

11 Nov 2014 by Sibeesh KV

Using Intro JS (Integration to Code Project FAQ)

Thread Apartment Safe Open/Save File Dialogs for C#

24 Nov 2014 by Christian Kleinheinz

Using the .NET OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog for an application in multithreaded apartment mode (MTA)

C# Gets Pattern Matching, Disjoint Unions, Tuples and Ranges

8 Mar 2016 by Qwertie

Well, not literally. Enhanced C# supports pattern matching, ADTs, and tuples, so Plain C# gets all that by transitivity.

General DynamicObject Proxy and Fast Reflection Proxy

15 Sep 2010 by Yury Goltsman

Extending functionality by wrapping entity using DynamicObject. Improving performance of Reflection by using cache and expressions

Add Most Recently Used Files (MRU) List to Windows Applications

26 Nov 2012 by Adib Saad

A .NET4.0 alternative for "Add Most Recently Used Files (MRU) List to Windows Applications"

Creating a WCF Service with JSON Data and Using it on iOS

31 Mar 2013 by Melih Mucuk

Creating a WCF Service with JSON data for use on iOS

Line Fitting in Images Using Orthogonal Linear Regression

12 Apr 2013 by Jonathan Nethercott

Describes an algorithm for calculating the equation of a line in an image using orthogonal linear regression.

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.

MyMDb your local IMDB store

22 Jul 2013 by Paw Jershauge

Want your own movie database??? Download IMDB in 20 minutes.

SQL-Server-2008

Download Files in ASP.NET

30 Sep 2013 by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to download different types of files in asp.net

ServicePredicateBuilder for creating Serializable Expressions

30 Nov 2015 by Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari

A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services

WebBrowser IE Emulation for Google Maps JavaScript API Key Requirement

4 Jul 2016 by Avelino Ferreira

"Don't care about Google Maps/Routing/StreetView programming. This Control gives your WinForms applications the power of Google Maps API v3". - my previous article. Unfortunately, since Dec.2015, Google Maps JavaScript API applications requires authentication and the program stopped working properly

Convert LINQ to Entity Result to a DataTable

22 Mar 2011 by Mohammad Al Hoss

entity-framework

What's Difference Between .net Frame Work 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0

1 Apr 2011 by JeevithaMani

Overview.N...

Garbage collectotion takes care of all the memory management

11 Jun 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Yes, we don't have to worry about memory management. However, flush of the stream has nothing to do with memory management. We need to take care about the flush and closing of the stream. Pay attention: many classes implement System.IDisposable. You need to make sure IDisposable.Dispose for such...

How to access commandbindings in c# WPF application?

29 Jan 2012 by Wonde Tadesse

Basically it's not only you need to bind the command but you need to associate events as well. For example Executed="CloseCommandHandler" CanExecute="CanExecuteHandler"/>// Create the CommandBinding.CommandBinding CloseCommandBinding = new...

Sound in games - Rooms

31 Jul 2012 by Kenneth Haugland

How to calculate a reverbration time in a room

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

15 Aug 2012 by Tyronne Thomas

Resolving a hostname in C#

ASP.NET MVC3 Slideshow Control using jQuery and XML

11 Sep 2012 by Bryian Tan

Article on how to create an ASP.NET MVC3 slideshow user control/partial view using jQuery and XML

7 Oct 2012 by Briti Sundar

This app will help users to quickly add different type of effects on a picture like sketch, oldphoto, emboss, nightvision, cartoon, oilify, etc.

How to Read a PE Image's Manifest Resource using an Undocumented Internal .NET Class Method

21 Jan 2013 by Kerem Guemruekcue

This short article shows how to use an undocumented internal class method from the System.Deployment.Application.Win32InterOp namespace to get a PE images manifest resource.

Keeping Sensitive Config Settings Secret with Azure Websites and GitHub

8 Jun 2013 by Phil Lee NZ

A strategy for keeping sensitive configuration values, such as connection strings, out of your source control repository, but still available to your app both locally and in the cloud. We're looking specifically at Azure websites and GitHub.

Using a Customized Messagebox in ASP.NET

17 Aug 2013 by Prince Tegaton

Building a Custom User Control for Messagebox

Ultra High Quality Image Rotation on a GPU

16 Sep 2013 by Nick Kopp

Ultra high quality frequency domain image rotation on a GPU.

CCTreeMiner: An algorithm for Subtree Mining Problems

8 Apr 2014 by Claude He

CCTreeMiner: An algorithm for Subtree Mining Problems

State Machine - State Pattern vs. Classic Approach

5 Aug 2014 by Chris875

State pattern and procedural solution illustrated

The List Trifecta, Part 3

12 Aug 2014 by Qwertie

SparseAList and some AList benchmarks

Easy Way to Implement Mobile Site in ASP.NET

24 Dec 2014 by Prince Tegaton

This entails how to easily add mobile website feature to your ASP.NET website/app

How to compile and use Xapian on Windows with C#

9 Apr 2010 by Sean Goodpasture

A look at how to compile and use the Xapian search technology on Windows, and its pitfalls.

Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions

29 May 2010 by defwebserver

An example of Silverlight 4 OData Paging with RX Extensions.

how to add rows to WPF datagrids

9 Feb 2011 by Laurence1234

Hi there,While using a tutorial found hereI ProgrammerI worked through the example and adapted it for your needs.public partial class MainWindow : Window { public struct MyData { public int id { set; get; } public string title { set;...

How to pass data from one form to another in C#?

21 May 2012 by Mohamed Mitwalli

Hi , You can use Session //for assign DataSet ds = new DataSet(); Session.Add("Name", ds); // for retrieve ds = (DataSet)Session["Name"];Exploring Session in ASP.NET[^]Session management options in ASP.NET[^]Session Management in...

LinesGrid control - An easy way to draw a grid in WPF

13 Nov 2012 by maximaximum

The article describes how to draw a grid of vertical and horizontal lines in WPF.

Writeable Application Scope Settings

18 Jun 2012 by Niel M.Thomas

Create and use writeable Application Scope settings.

Can I do: Private Function XX() (ByVal ABC As String) As Single ? Trying to return XX() ...

20 Jun 2012 by VJ Reddy

The following syntax can be used to return an array of Single values. The array is a reference type. Hence, even though xx is a local variable within the function when it is returned from the function it gives reference to the array object on the heap holding the values assigned within the...

The Perils of Canceling WPF ComboBox Selection

21 Jun 2012 by Ivan Krivyakov

How to deal with a stubborn combo box that won't let you cancel invalid user selection

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

Windows-Phone-7

access modifiers in c#

10 Jul 2012 by Prasad_Kulkarni

Access modifiers are an integral part of object-oriented programming. They support the concept of encapsulation, which promotes the idea of hiding functionality. Access modifiers allow you to define who does or doesn't have access to certain features.public -No restrictions to...