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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

"How to series" about MVC, jQuery, JSON, paging, mapRoute

19 Apr 2013 by Necmettin Demir

"How to series" about MVC, jQuery, JSON, paging, mapRoute.

'XNA Sample Game' for Beginners

17 Jan 2016 by Harsha Wansooriya

Sample Game using XNA

.NET 4.0 FAQ Part 1 -- The DLR

11 Oct 2009 by Shivprasad koirala

In this article we will discuss about new feature DLR and also about ‘dynamic’ and ‘expando’ objects.

.NET Application Framework (Spring.net + ibatis.net)

17 Oct 2019 by Changqin Liu

C# framework integrated with spring.net and ibatis.net

.NET Asynchronous Patterns

6 Jan 2014 by Assil

This article describes asynchronous patterns in .NET and how to do them.

.NET Gridview with AJAX and REST Web Services

31 Aug 2010 by Livio Francescucci

How to create an ASP.NET gridview AJAX enabled connected with WCF SOAP and REST webservices.

.NET Remoting Events Explained for VB.NET

25 Oct 2015 by Greg Nutt

This is a VB.NET Version for ".NET Remoting Events Explained"

.NET Type Conversion Utility

14 Jan 2014 by Ron Beyer

Convert what System.Convert can't.

.NET Versioning and Multi-targeting on C# Application and Component

3 May 2016 by Southmountain

this post discussed .NET versioning and multi-targeting of .NET application and component written in C#.

12 reasons to consume OData feeds using Simple.OData.Client

22 Nov 2013 by Vagif Abilov

The article describes limitations of WCF Data Services client and shows how Simple.OData.Client can become a better alternative

15 Steps to Develop a Product Management System in Only a Day

23 Mar 2010 by Eunge

The article introduces how to easily develop business solutions in RapidWebDev through developing a product management system with the special requirement step by step.

3D object Rotation in WPF using Leap Motion

24 Jun 2013 by Meshack Musundi

Rotating a 3D object in a WPF application using hand gestures and Leap Motion

6 ways of doing locking in .NET (Pessimistic and optimistic)

2 Oct 2010 by Shivprasad koirala

6 ways of doing locking in .NET (Pessimistic and optimistic)

A Basic Tour To Dynamic Keyword - Dotnet 4.0

27 Oct 2010 by Niladri_Biswas

This short tutorial will give the idea about the usage of Dynamic Keyword in dotnet 4.0

A Better Thread Synchronization Class

23 Apr 2016 by pdoxtader

Wait, timeout and evaluate early thread release criteria easily and clearly with WaitTimeout

A Better Way for a Client to Work with WCF Services

8 Nov 2010 by JP van Mackelenbergh

A component which allows to work with WCF services in a robust way

A better WPF-Browser-Control (IE-Wrapper)

16 Aug 2013 by Robert Köpferl

This article provides a better browser control than the one included in WPF

A Brief Test on the Efficiency of a .NET 4.0 Parallel Code Example

1 Jul 2010 by Wayne Wood

Verify the execution efficiency of a series of short .NET 4.0 parallel programming samples

A C# data import caching solution utilizing Generics and your existing business classes

7 Jul 2010 by Josh Fischer

Leverage your existing classes and the power of Generics to speed up and simplify importing denormalized data into your system.

A C# SMTP server (receiver)

17 Sep 2012 by ObiWan_MCC

A C# SMTP server (receiver).

multi-threading

A couple of tricks when using the standard WPF .NET 4.0 DatePicker control

9 Mar 2012 by Sacha Barber

Show hows to alter the DatePicker to use keyboard up/down keys for cleverer date selection.

A Crontab Linux like Windows Service

30 Aug 2009 by marcominas

A Windows Service that uses interface to work like the Linux Crontab service

A DataGridView Column Show/Hide Popup - Menu Style

1 Sep 2009 by Fiwel

A DataGridView column show/hide popup - Menu style.

A DatePicker based Event Calendar with MVC3 and AJAX

2 Feb 2012 by Keith Barrow

A DatePicker based Event Calendar with MVC3 and AJAX

web_development

A Developer's First Look at Visual Studio 2010

19 Sep 2009 by jebarson

New features of Visual Studio 2010 discussed

A Format Control String Surprise

12 Jun 2016 by David A. Gray

What happens when you have more items in your list than you have items in your control string?

A free "Export to Excel" C# class, using OpenXML

17 Dec 2013 by Mike Gledhill

How to easily add an "export to Excel" feature to your app

A Fully Characterized SplitButton

25 Dec 2010 by tgis.top

A SplitButton with its button part has all the characteristics that a Button has.

A Generic IEqualityComparer for Linq Distinct()

15 Jul 2010 by Seth Dingwell

An implementation of IEqualityComparer that can be used to compare any class by one of its properties

A Generic Way to Delay-load/Lazy-load Any Number of Control/s using UpdatePanel

7 Oct 2010 by simpledotnetsolutions

Delay-loading using UpdatePanel

A Group of GroupBox

16 Dec 2010 by tgis.top

CheckGroupBox, RadioGroupBox, CollapsibleGroupBox controls

A Look at Fluent APIs

14 Jan 2011 by Sacha Barber

A look at Fluent APIs and an example of one.

A Look At NServiceBus Sagas

23 Feb 2014 by Sacha Barber

A small article on how to use NServiceBus to create workflows

A look inside the ASP.NET Charting conlrol

21 Oct 2010 by Ed Guzman

The Chart control gives you freedom to develop graphic reports.

web_development

A Look under the hood of the .NET Framework

11 Feb 2013 by Sander Rossel

Journey to the center of the .NET Framework with a chance of IL along the way!

A master-detail view with Entity Framework

22 Jul 2016 by Mohamed Kalmoua

In this article, I will create a master-detail view using the Entity Framework.

A Money type for the CLR

18 Mar 2013 by codekaizen

A convenient, high-performance money structure for the CLR which handles arithmetic operations, currency types, formatting, and careful distribution and rounding without loss.

A New Parser Generator for C#

5 Mar 2016 by Qwertie

LLLPG, the Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: now parsing C# itself!

A Nice Way to Collect All Input Errors in a Submit and Feedback to the User at a Time

2 Mar 2010 by Eunge

ValidationScope is used to collect all input errors in a context although validation code exists in independent APIs.

A Phone Like Control

1 Nov 2010 by Sacha Barber

A control that partially emulates a popular phone.

A Pie Menu for WPF

5 Jan 2013 by Mass Soldal Lund

Creating a pie menu control for WPF

A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM

6 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

This article describes building a sample Silverlight application with the MVVM Light toolkit, WCF RIA Services, and a pluggable application architecture using MEF.

A Potentially Informative Article about the WPF Engine

4 Nov 2010 by logicchild

An article that describes WPF for the beginner and provides some tips for the intermediate.

A Quick Guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell - Part 2

17 Aug 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part 2) is to introduce you to using of VB / Microsoft .NET library, Function, Methods as well in your Microsoft Windows PowerShell script.

A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-1.

22 Aug 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part-1) is to introduce you with Microsoft Windows PowerShell.

A Quick Guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell: Part 3

21 Aug 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

The objective of this article (Part 3) is to introduce you to Microsoft Windows PowerShell and learn some basic command of windows PowerShell.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 1

7 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 1 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 2

8 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this second part, we will go through various topics on how MVVM Light Toolkit is used in our sample application.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 3

8 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this part, we will discuss how custom authentication, reset password, and user maintenance are implemented in the sample application.

A Silverlight Expense Report Module using View Model (MVVM)

30 Aug 2010 by defwebserver

This module allows you to easily gather, and process Expense Reports, from users in your DotNetNuke portal

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 1

8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 1 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 2

8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Simple ASP.NET Flickr Application

16 Nov 2010 by Mario Majčica

A simple Flickr application using the Flickr.Net API library and some cool effects.

A Simple Autosave/Recovery Paint Application

16 Dec 2018 by Praveen Raghuvanshi

An application explaining the basic implementation of Autosave feature

A Simple C# Property System

31 Jan 2013 by zaphoed

The following article demonstrates a C# implementation of a simple property system.

A simple example of SQL server admin tools.

13 Sep 2009 by Md. Marufuzzaman

A simple example of SQL server admin tools.

SQL-Server-2005

SQL-server-2000

A simple NewsTicker - Two implementations

23 Apr 2014 by Graham Lemon (UK)

Implementing a simple News Ticker custom control for Winforms .NET to reduce flicker as much as possible.

A Simple Sample: WCF Service

1 Nov 2010 by syntaxed

Writing, configuring, and consuming a WCF Service using VS2010

A Simple UDP Messaging Client Toolkit

15 Oct 2010 by Andre Trollip

A simple set of classes to make creating Peer to Peer messaging easy using UDP. Features built-in message concatenation and delivery receipts for reliable transmission.

A Simple WPF Text Clock Gadget for Windows

28 Jan 2013 by Agent__007

A simple WPF text clock gadget for Windows

A Software Tool for Injury Analysis of Automobile Crash Data

15 Mar 2019 by Darryl Bryk

A software application is presented which facilitates the analysis of crash test data, automatically generates graphs with injury criteria, and generates reports

A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps

25 Jul 2014 by JamesHurst

Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars

custom-controls

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.

A Sudoku program with some advanced features

13 Jan 2015 by Jacques Fournier

Sudoku is a program built in C# with a WPF user interface.

A Template For Using Datagrid in Monitoring UI

19 Mar 2016 by amar nath chatterjee

Here is a template or pattern for using datagrid in building monitoring UI for simulations and tabulated data presentations.

A Universal Enum Editor for WinForms

26 Feb 2016 by Alan Seedhouse

An Editor Control to edit both Flags and non-Flags Enums

A Windows Phone 7 App from the Ground Up

21 Dec 2010 by Don Kackman

Building a WP7 browser app for last.fm

Windows-Phone-7

A WPF Application in COBOL (for Visual Studio Extensibility Developers)

20 Sep 2010 by paul_the_kelly

Utility for VSX developers, or for COBOL developers who want to see a WPF application

A WPF DateTimePicker That Works Like the One in Winforms

9 Sep 2011 by Magnus Gudmundsson

A WPF DateTimePicker that Works like the one in Winforms

custom-controls

Abstracting the ORM Framework

8 Jul 2013 by JP van Mackelenbergh

Abstracting the ORM Framework via Repository/Unit Of Work patterns

Accessing Backed Up iPhone SMS Messages

27 Oct 2014 by Dominick Marciano

When iPhone SMS messages are backed up to your computer using iTunes, the messages are stored in a SQLite database. This article will show the layout of this database file and how to access all saved message information.

Actionless Frameworks

14 Jan 2015 by Paulo Zemek

Understand how to create fully configurable frameworks that let your application evolve without creating bottlenecks.

ActiveRecoverySwitcher

3 Nov 2013 by Lyubomir Rumenov Velchev

How to switch between N number of threads - primary and secondary services. Show a way to implement backup service switch. This could be easily converted to load balancing service.

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"

Add Responsive Behaviour to a GridView in ASP.NET

28 Apr 2014 by Declan Bright

A technique which ensures that an ASP.NET GridView displays nicely on small screen devices.

Add-in Programming

12 Jul 2010 by hamityildirim

Add-in - add-on programming and an example for Outlook add-in regions, views, rules, and reports.

Adding data-bindable attributes to C# enums using the dynamic runtime

16 Mar 2011 by Nish Nishant

This article is about a very light-weight enum extension library that takes advantage of dynamic types in .NET 4.0 to provide a simple way to add meta attributes to an enum field.

ADO+.NET

5 May 2013 by Paulo Zemek

This library is intended to "replace" ADO.NET by solving type mismatches and by creating typed readers that are faster and easier to use than DataTables.

ADO.NET Data Access Component for SQL Server in C# and VB.NET

28 Sep 2012 by AdamNThompson

A data access component for SQL Server in VB.NET.

SQL-Server-2005

Advanced SQL Server Monitor with Performance Graph, Analysis and Version Control

10 Jan 2012 by Huisheng Chen

monitor sql server processes and jobs, analyse performance, object version control, view executing sql query, kill process / job, object explorer, database shrink/log truncate/backup/detach/attach etc

stored-procedure

Advanced using OData in .NET: WCF Data Services

16 Dec 2010 by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon

Samples showcasing usage of OData in .NET (WCF Data Services); samples go in increasing order of complexity, addressing more and more advanced scenarios.

entity-framework

Advanced WPF TreeViews Part 2 of n

22 Sep 2017 by Dirk Bahle

A list of advanced tips & tricks on Virtualized WPF TreeViews

Adventures with C# 4.0 dynamic - ExpandoObject, ElasticObject, and a Twitter client in 10 minutes

29 Mar 2010 by Anoop Pillai

Explores the dynamic features in C# 4.0, and a few cool things you can do with the same.

Aimee.NET - Faster Unit Tests and Refactoring the Documents Folder

8 Dec 2010 by Matthew Dennis

Refactoring Lucene.NET to follow .NET best practices and conventions rather than Java's coding styles and limitations. This is the second in a series of articles that will be available at www.codeproject.com that follow the process from beginning to end.

Aimee.NET - Refactoring Lucene.NET: Setting up the Project

19 Nov 2010 by Matthew Dennis

Refactoring Lucene.NET to follow .NET best practices and conventions rather than Java's coding styles and limitations. A series of articles will be available at www.codeproject.com that follow the process from beginning to end.

All About TransactionScope

6 Jan 2014 by S. M. Ahasan Habib

In this article, I explain with transaction related theory and code sample, how in various scenarios we can use TransactionScope with various options for managing real life transactions.

An Educated Look at the WPF Capabilities for Brushes, Media, and Animations

23 May 2010 by logicchild

An article that demonstrates how to use video, images and animations via WPF

An End-To-End LightSwitch HTML Example

15 Jun 2013 by defwebserver

Step-by-step tutorial to create a HTML5 LightSwitch application

An Enhanced Mathematical Expression Recursive Descent Parser in C#

15 Jan 2018 by Michael B Pliam

A very scalable recursive descent math expression parser with built in math functions and variable storage in C#

An Example of Strategy Design Pattern for Beginners

25 Oct 2010 by Niladri_Biswas

This example shows how and where to implement the strategy design pattern.

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.

An HttpListener Server for Handling AJAX POST Requests

30 May 2013 by arshad115

A very simple HttpListener server which implements handling AJAX requests. Made to present a web service endpoint in your Windows Forms application.

An Improved Version of AGauge (A fast and performing gauge)

28 Aug 2012 by Code Artist

An improved version of WinForms gauge control based on AGauge.

An introduction to Big Integer class - Dotnet 4.0

26 Oct 2010 by Niladri_Biswas

This short article will show some of the benifits that the BigInteger class provides

An introduction to Complex Struct of dotnet 4.0

27 Oct 2010 by Niladri_Biswas

This short article will show some of the benifits that the Complex Struct provides

An introduction to Expando Object- Dotnet 4.0

26 Oct 2010 by Niladri_Biswas

This short article will highlight upon some of the features of Expando Object

An Introduction to Named Parameters - C#4.0

26 Oct 2010 by Niladri_Biswas

TThis article will tell about the advantage of using named parameter

An introduction to Optional Parameters - C#4.0

26 Oct 2010 by Niladri_Biswas

This article shows the benefits of using Optional Parameter

An Introduction to Real-Time Stock Market Data Processing

20 May 2013 by Paul A Francis

Discusses how stock market trading works, the different types of market data available, and provides a code example with sample data that processes a market data feed

An Introduction to SortedSet Collection of .NET 4.0

25 Oct 2010 by Niladri_Biswas

This article will introduce some of the benefits of using SortedSet.