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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

.NET 4: string.IsNullOrWhitespace()

17 May 2010 by Sarang Date

Any string input can have these many possible states1) String is null2) String is empty3) String contains nothing but white space4) String has some contentTill now, .NET had static method for stringbool string.IsNullOrEmpty()which handled first two conditions for...

.NET 4: string.IsNullOrWhitespace()

12 Aug 2010 by jfriedman

public static class StringExtensions { public static bool IsNullOrWhitespace(this string s) { if (null == s) return true; return string.IsNullOrEmpty(s.Trim()); } }

.NET Important Topics Summary - Code Examples

31 May 2016 by Yaseer Mumtaz

.NET interview questions and answers with real world examples and code snippets

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 1

28 Apr 2013 by emadns

A basic tutorial for ReportMax tool

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 3

23 Apr 2013 by emadns

Using the Chart control in ReportMax

.NET WinForms ReportViewer: Non-printable Report Background (Elements)

14 Mar 2014 by Nikita D. Sinelnikov

HowTo: make the report background (elements) of Microsoft .NET Report (.rdlc) non-printable

3 Layer Architecture for Beginners in ASP.NET C#

19 Jan 2015 by JatinKhimani

Develop a web application in 3 layer architecture code style

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

A Generic Factory Method-Create Object From Interface Parameter using Reflection

14 Oct 2013 by S. M. Ahasan Habib

I will demonstrate a generic factory method which will create object from interface type parameter from an assembly (either current or provided) with the help of reflection

A new approach to multithreading?

3 Sep 2014 by PEtter Ekrann, Martin Helgesen

A strange idea I had for doing multithreading more managable.

A Pagination Solution using IEnumerable<T>

17 Jul 2014 by Marlon Hizole

An elegant approach to pagination

A Simple and Effective Way to Localize ASP.NET MVC Data Annotation Texts and Error Messages

22 Dec 2012 by scott_liu

By use of a cutomized metadata provider, MVC model data annotation validation messages can be localized in a simple and elegant way.

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

A Simple C# Console Menu

17 Jan 2015 by LLLLGGGG

A really simple implementation of a C# menu for console applications

A Thread Pool for the Producers/Consumers Process

27 Jan 2013 by Alessandro Lentini

This tip is connected to my previous one. I show how to use .NET 4.0 BlockingCollection in a simple way.

A Visual Studio 2010 style ToolBox control

26 Nov 2012 by nilotpalbarpujari

VS 2010 style toolbox written in C#

A WPF StackPanel-Surrogate with Shared-sizing Scope Ability

14 Sep 2014 by Mario Vernari

Here is a simple trick for simulating the shared-sizing feature of the WPF Grid even in a StackPanel fashion.

Accessing ADS User's

4 Jun 2013 by V R Shukla

How to access Active Director users on a WinNT network and show them in a dropdown list.

Accessing SSRS Reports from SharePoint Site using C#

20 Dec 2013 by Subodh Raikar

Accessing SSRS Reports from SharePoint Site using C#

Action Filter for Compression

17 Apr 2014 by gunjan k saxena

This tip will help to create an action filter to compress the contents like Json, partial view, etc.

Adapter Design Pattern in C#

7 Mar 2014 by Vipin_Arora

Adapter Design Pattern in C#

Add HTML Page Contents to ASPX Page Programmatically

28 Dec 2014 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

Ever wondered how to add HTML file contents to the aspx page by code. Take a look at the implementation.

Add New User Registration Information in XML with C#

14 Nov 2014 by Anurag Prajesh

Add new user registeration information in XML with C#

XML-documentation

Adding connection string during installation

11 Jul 2013 by Purushotham Agaraharam

Setup file creation and adding a connection string custom control.

Adding INotifyPropertyChanged to Entity Framework Classes

14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX

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

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.

AHAH in ASP.NET MVC using ActionFilters, XMLHttpRequest and HistoryAPI

13 Mar 2014 by BradodarB

Simple example outlining how to optionally employ AHAH based views in an MVC application.

Alphanumeric count up

27 Jan 2015 by HiDensity

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

An enhanced WebMatrix Bakery template

27 Nov 2012 by Gianmaria Gregori

How to add a random sliding effect to the Bakery home page

Android GCM Push Notification

6 Aug 2012 by Mukund Thakker

Android GCM Push Notification

web_development

Another Generic State Machine

19 May 2013 by Yossi Yaari

A basic yet generic state machine implementation

Application Startup Permissions Validator

28 Mar 2013 by Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

This is a simple class/demo application that shows how to check whether the account that is being used to run the application has administrative rights.

Are Speed Considerations Concerning List Still Important (Performance of Loyc's AList<T>)?

11 Feb 2019 by Steffen Ploetz

Compare the speed of generic collections running on .NET Framework 4.6.1, .NET Core 2.1 and Mono/.NET 4.5 based on the framework's version of List against Loys's version of AList.

Arrays Generator

26 Jul 2015 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Generate your arrays using a GUI tool

ASP.NET 4.0 HttpHandler Routing Support

24 Oct 2011 by AlexCode

Adding support for IHttpHandler on ASP.NET Routing

ASP.NET 4.0 HttpHandler Routing Support

7 Nov 2011 by AlexCode

Hi guys, I have a new version of this.Although it works as expected for the majority of cases, I found a problem on the previous version of this code, that is, it reuses the HttpHandler for different requests and that can be a problem on more complex implementations where inner properties are...

ASP.NET Adrotator and its Implementation

1 Dec 2014 by Anurag Prajesh

How to add banner and slideshow in your website with adrotator

ASP.NET DatePicker (Persian/Gregorian)

28 Jul 2014 by Ruhollah Heidarpour

Just another ASP.NET Persian(Jalali/Shamsi/Solar) / Gregorian Datepicker

web_development

ASP.NET MVC4: Bundling and Minification

23 May 2012 by BalaG Ganesan

ASP.NET MVC4 - Bundling and Minification

ASP.NET TreeView Automatic Numbering using CSS

5 Oct 2012 by TheCoolCoder

Numbering for Multilevel ASP.Net Treeview using CSS Counters

web_development

ASP.NET Validation Made Easy

9 Jan 2014 by nasir_ml

ASP.NET textbox validation made easy.

Assert Property Values for Two Objects or Two Lists

2 Mar 2016 by Akhil Mittal

Helper class to compare two class objects while unit testing

Assignments According to Covariance and Contravariance in Generics

11 Sep 2014 by Francesco Bagnasco

Just a quick sample to clarify what we can do and what we can't

Attributed RelayCommand

4 Jun 2014 by arpanmukherjee1

RelayCommand.CanExecute in MVVM with attributes not WPF Requery

Auto Generate Code (CRUD) for 3 Layered architecture

12 Dec 2016 by Suresh Dasari's

Auto Generate Code (CRUD) for 3 Layered architecture (Entity, Data Access & Business Layer) with Stored Procedures based on table design.

SQL-Server-2005

AutoComplete ComboBox Control From Database

26 Aug 2010 by alrosan

AutoCompleteExtender working with EntityFramework! (Reload 2015)

12 Nov 2015 by Eduardo Yost

Creating a Web User Control containing an AutoCompleteExtender for data through WCF (JSON) allowing to store the entity selected through EntityFramework. Entity object serialization from the server to the client and the client to the server.

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.

Avoid Out-of-memory Troubles with Very Large Lists(Of T)

15 Jan 2016 by veen_rp

Big lists (>1,000,000 items) can cause out-of-memory errors raised by .NET. Manage them by a List of List(Of T)

Avoiding Deadlocks with System.IO.Stream BeginRead/BeginWrite

10 Apr 2013 by Jason Curl

Using System.IO.Stream default implementation of BeginRead() and BeginWrite() may result in unexpected deadlocks.

BackUp and Restore with SMO of SQL Server 2008

26 Oct 2015 by Hernán Hegykozi

This tip will show how to perform a backup and restore database from an application in VB.NET 2010.

SQL-Server-2008

Backup/Restore PostgreSQL databases

5 Mar 2013 by Saddoud Anis

Allow your applications the ability to backup and restore your PostgreSQL databases.

Basic MVVM Listbox Binding in WPF

11 Aug 2014 by Jdarmanovich

Basic MVVM pattern for binding items to a listbox in WPF

Best way to use Entity Framework

14 Jan 2013 by Kundan Singh Chouhan

Simplest, best and most robust architecture.

Bind Crystal Reports with Dataset or Datatable

5 Aug 2014 by saurav ray

Article determines how to bind a crystal report with a virtual database

SQL-Server-2008R2

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

Bing Maps in Windows Phone

9 Nov 2012 by Houssem_Dellai

Using Bing Maps in Windows Phone 7

Windows-Phone-7

Book Review: Practical ASP.NET MVC 4.0

23 Dec 2012 by RobLazarus

This books is a tour de force and a must-have for any ASP.NET MVC developer as it will save you hours of time and frustration researching solutions to the various questions you may encounter when using MVC 4.

Boost Up Your Serialization/Deserialization Similar to JSON

23 Dec 2012 by Oleksandr Kulchytskyi

This tip explains how to increase performance in serialization by using MessagePack

Building Data Access Layer Using Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0

20 Aug 2013 by Jitendra Ballia

Building data access layer using enterprise library

C# .NET Interoperability with Native C Libraries on Cross Platform : PART I

10 Jan 2014 by deepi2014

This tip is to showcase how to write “Native C Library” so that it can be used for Cross Platform with .NET interoperability with Native C Libraries.

C# Bluetooth Monitor for Lego Mindstorms NXT

19 Aug 2015 by charles922

Program that continuously monitors the NXT via Bluetooth

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.

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!

C# Named Pipes with Async

16 Aug 2012 by Maddog Mike B

A message server using named pipes and the Async CTP library (async and await keywords)

C# Open Text File, Read First Line for a Specific Word, If the Word Exists, Move the File

10 Mar 2014 by caed

C# - Read Text File, Match a Word in First Line, Move File if Word Matches

C# Web File Download with BITSadmin

27 Mar 2013 by metastruct

When WebClient, HttpRequest, and all else fail, BITSadmin solves your download woes

C#.NET Interoperability with Native C Libraries on Cross Platform: PART II

17 Jan 2014 by deepi2014

An attempt to taking up an existing published article “C#.NET Interoperability with Native C Libraries on Cross Platform” towards the next level.

C++ .NET Command Line Calendar

14 Oct 2010 by InActive

How to use the .NET DateTime class in C++ to generate a basic calendar via a console program

Cache System in Silverlight 5 RIA Application - Part 2 - Data write

17 Nov 2012 by Michele Ziparo

An effective way to implement a caching system in Silverlight (MVVM) RIA

Calendar of Events in Windows Phone

15 Oct 2012 by Houssem Dellai

Developing a Windows Phone app step by step

Calling a J# DLL from .NET 4.0

25 Feb 2011 by David Thielen

Calling a J# DLL from .NET 4.0

Calling an ASMX webservice from other server using jquery and PHP

25 Jun 2014 by SibeeshKV

Calling an ASMX webservice from other server using jquery and PHP

Captcha Code Implementation in MVC

3 Jun 2014 by jayant jaiswal

Captcha code

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

Caution When You Are Disabling a Checkbox in Edit View

1 Feb 2014 by Madhav Hatwalne

Caution when you are disabling a checkbox in Edit View

Central jQuery Version Control

21 Oct 2013 by Sitang Ruan

Central jQuery Version Control

Change Resolution Before Starting Application

27 Dec 2013 by Kees van Spelde

How to change resolution before starting an application

Changing the line spacing in a RichTextBox control

3 Oct 2011 by Manfred Rudolf Bihy

Using SendMessage and the PARAFORMAT structure, one can easily change the line spacing in a RichTextBox control

Changing Version Number Dynamically

23 Aug 2012 by Purushotham Agaraharam

Dynamic changing of version number using SolutionInfo.cs through out the application.

Charting in .NET 4

19 Sep 2012 by Trilok Arora

Introduction to Charts in .NET 4

Check Modem or GSM Phone by AT Commands

26 Nov 2014 by SergVoloshyn

Main program for testing modem or GSM phones by AT commands, use only standard classes and libraries.

Check Not Implemented Members at Runtime

15 Jun 2017 by Ordiales

Create default interface implementation or whatever you want with runtime checking not implemented members

Class Library that uses HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse with JSON.Net and XML Serialization

22 Oct 2014 by jelo pasiolan

This class is useful for HTTP web request and gets the response from the server. If the response is JSON or XML, this class also contains a method to parse or deserialize the response.

Clear All textbox Text On One Click

26 Feb 2014 by Narendra Singh Rathore

How to clear all textbox text on one click

Clientside GridView with jQuery template and AJAX in ASP.NET

4 Jul 2013 by sumit_kapadia

Create and Bind gridview at client side with Jquery Template and ajax in asp.net

Clone an Entity in Entity Framework 4

11 Oct 2012 by markmnl

Method to clone an EntityObject without serilization or detaching it

Code behind JavaScript

18 Apr 2014 by Raju_B

Code behind JavaScript

Color Block Overlay for DataGridView

27 May 2014 by Matus Kovacik

This component allows to overlay grid with colored blocks spanning across multiple columns.

ComboBox DataSource AddItem Extension

19 Nov 2015 by B.O.B.

A simple extension to add an item that has a data source bound to combobox.items

ComboBox with Suggest Ability based on Substring-Search

5 Aug 2013 by Physlcu$

A custom ComboBox that supports live filtering of items by Substring-Search or any other Lamda-Expression

common Singleton Pattern implementation using Generic

17 Oct 2011 by omid rezaei hanjani

Customized implementation of the Singleton pattern using Generics.

common Singleton Pattern implementation using Generic

5 Oct 2011 by Paulo Zemek

All classes are naturally Lazy loaded.So a better implementation will be:public class Singletonwhere T: new(){ public static readonly T Instance = new T();}You will notice that before calling the singleton class, the object will not be loaded.Surely there are...

Compare .NET Objects Tutorial

4 Apr 2014 by Arthur Peka

A tutorial to compare .NET objects

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

Compressing Script Files using GZIP

30 May 2013 by KK Kod

How to compress JavaScript and CSS files in a web application to reduce page loading time, using GZIP.

Configure Email Providers (SMTP/GMail) using Dependency Injection (DI)

9 Aug 2013 by Kishan Zunjare

Configure email providers like SMTP/GMail using Dependency Injection.

Configure WCF Service to REST

31 Oct 2014 by Shivarajbk

This tip explains how to write RESTFUL WCF service for Android applications.

Connecting to a C# ocket with a timeout, without using asynchronous (ConnectAsync)

19 Nov 2012 by Tyronne Thomas

Connecting to a C# socket with a timeout.

Consuming OAUTH Enabled Restful WCF Service using JavaScript

10 Sep 2014 by Surya Kiran Bonugu

Client Web Application which consumes OAUTH enabled restful WCF service using JavaScript