SignalR is great for building real-time web functionality. MVVM is great for developing your front-end. What if they can be used together? This tip will show how to do just that, using as example a simple project to do live chart on a web browser.

Javascript

Mobile

.NET

Knockout.js

Open Source .NET License Tool, EasyLicense !

5 Jul 2017 by LoveJenny

EasyLicense is an open-source license tool for .NET applications.

.NET

licensing

Use Icons for cursors, not ".CUR"

16 Mar 2010 by Bill9603

Many developers use ".cur" cursor files. Using them myself in Visual Studio 2008, they are not the easiest things to work with for many reasons.They are not easy to create without expensive software. (unless you are using the editor within Visual Studio)They cannot easily be ported in the...

.NET

Visual-Studio

Using WebBrowser.Document.InvokeScript() to mess around with foreign JavaScript

23 Feb 2010 by C. Groß

The WebBrowser.Document.InvokeScript() method claims to provide a way to interact with JavaScript code inside of a WebBrowser HTML document. Trying to mess around with a third-party JavaScript over which I had no control (meaning: included in an external webpage that I could not alter), however,...

Javascript

.NET

Download of file with open/save dialog box

1 Oct 2013 by Erika Chinchio

In this article I will explain how to automate the process of downloading files with the open/save dialog box, protected by authentication.

.NET

ASP.NET

Dev

OperationResult Class in Support of Multiple Return Values from a Method

14 Dec 2015 by Darek Danielewski

Sometimes, you just must return multiple values from a method. Instead of specifying out or passing arguments by reference, consider an OperationResult class.

How to Control TP-Link Smart Plug HS1XX

27 Dec 2017 by Alberto M.

How to control TP-Link Smart Plug (HS100 or HS110) with C#

C# Poisson Cumulative Distribution for large Lambdas

8 Apr 2020 by Gunnar S

Implementation of the Poisson Cumulative Distribution function for large Lambdas

Easy to Use Parallel foreach, that can be Magnitudes Faster than the .NET Version

10 Jul 2018 by Viktor Kovács

Parallel foreach loop implementation for nested loops

Set Owner of a WPF Window to a Form

28 Nov 2011 by Akos Orban

Set Owner of a WPF Window to a Form

.NET

WinForms

WPF

Abusing Extension Methods and Null Continuation

31 Dec 2019 by Marc Clifton

Please don't do this!

.NET

The Windows API: Learn It - Live It

22 May 2010 by #realJSOP

Don't drink the kool-aid. You still need to know how to use the Windows API in .Net apps.

.NET

Windows

Setting up PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) with C#

29 May 2010 by becker666

Sample working C# code to carry the IPN

.NET

Autosuggest TextBox from database column in Windows Forms

19 Apr 2012 by Deepak_Sharma_

This article will show how to create an auto-suggest TextBox that will suggest data from a SQL Server database column.

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!

Premature .NET garbage collection, or "Dude, where's my FooBar?"

3 Sep 2011 by Phil Atkin

A surprising and potentially destructive 'feature' of the .NET garbage collector

.NET

M1.NET - Decrypt Arcade Audio

6 Feb 2023 by shunninghuang

Software named M1.NET which shows the details of decrypting arcade game audio

Changing Databases at Run-time using Entity Framework

18 Jul 2014 by Matthew Givens

How to change databases at run-time in a user-friendly manner.

Implementing a Basic REST Based ASP.NET Web API Service with Multiple GET Methods and its Consumption using JQuery Client

22 Oct 2014 by Mathew Soji

This tip guides through implementing a basic REST based Web API service with multiple GET methods and its consumption using JQuery client

Using Microsoft Chart in WPF

2 Jul 2015 by Bharat Mallapur

Sample project to host MS-Chart in your WPF application

How to Generate C# Classes from Microsoft SQL Server

11 Jun 2021 by Mashudu Nemukula

Generate C# object class from common SQL databases types

.NET

SSMS

Creating a Simple "scratch card" Control in WinForms

21 Oct 2015 by OriginalGriff

A simple "scratch card" like control for Winforms, where the user can reveal the image by "scratching off" a cover

.NET

VS2013

Dev

How to Toggle String Case in .Net

9 Feb 2011 by Robert Rohde

This one should outperform both the other methods for longer strings because of the StringBuilder.string s = "AbCdEfGhI§$%&/()1234567890";var sb = new StringBuilder(s.Length);foreach (char c in s) sb.Append(char.IsUpper(c) ? char.ToLower(c) : char.ToUpper(c));s =...

.NET

Saving User Settings in Winform Application

19 Mar 2012 by Rishikesh_Singh

The article displays how to save user setting or preference at run time.

LINQ - GroupBy

21 Jan 2013 by Srinivasu Pemma

This tip provides an easy way of dealing with different types of data sources for LINQ Group By taken from my blog http://www.srinetinfo.com/2012/12/linq-group-by.html

Introduction to C# on ReactOS

19 Feb 2019 by Steffen Ploetz

How to compile and run the first C# application in ReactOS

.NET

Dev

multi-platform

Using of .NET TransactionScope

24 Jan 2010 by Md. Marufuzzaman

Using of .NET TransactionScope

.NET

.NET3.5

Visual-Studio

New line in textbox of Microsoft rdlc report

16 Nov 2010 by Olga Tabulov

Ever tried to put a break in the textbox of the rdlc report? \n and such don't work...

.NET

reporting

Monitor Database Changes

21 Oct 2013 by Member 7874525

This how you can monitor your database changes

JIT Compilation Affects Code

22 Jul 2013 by Igor Ladnik

An interesting code illustrating the influence of Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation in .NET on code formation.

.NET

Adding INotifyPropertyChanged to Entity Framework Classes

14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX

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

Getting Started with MahApps.Metro

16 May 2015 by Mark Heath

Learn how to get started with MahApps.Metro, an open source library for giving your WPF applications a modern look and feel.

Make Buzzer (Internal Speaker) Sound in Windows 7/8/10 32bit / 64bit

14 Jan 2022 by Andreoli Carlo

In our company, we find ourselves in need of using the internal PC (buzzer) on Windows7 64bit. At the end, we figured out how to do it.

ASP.NET Core Web API, Multiple Get or Post Methods with Single Controller

10 Jun 2016 by TheForceIsSharp

ASP.NET Core Web API, Multiple Get or Post methods with single controller

A WPF CheckBox ListBox

11 Oct 2017 by Clifford Nelson

This tip presents a way to display checkboxes for selection of ListBox Items instead of the default highlighting

LookAheadEnumerator: Implement Backtracking in Your Parsers

23 Dec 2019 by honey the codewitch

Easily implement efficient backtracking capabilities over any enumeration

Implementing ICustomFormatter in C#

13 Mar 2020 by honey the codewitch

How to provide custom formatters for string.Format() in C#

.NET

All-Topics

string

Get DataBase Connection Strings in Easy Way

16 Feb 2011 by jim lahey

Or you could just pop over to:http://www.connectionstrings.com/[^]Use the exhaustive samples they provide and not hard code your connection strings by using a standard .NET configuration file:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1xtk877y.aspx[^]

Working with Age: it's not the same as a TimeSpan!

30 Mar 2013 by OriginalGriff

Working with an Age (as in a persons age) is not the same as a Timespan, and there is no simple way to return an age. This provides a class to solve this.

.NET

jQuery Autocomplete, MVC4, and WebAPI

19 Aug 2013 by luivis7

A simple example of how to use jQuery Autocomplete to make an AJAX call to WebAPI in an MVC4 application.

IP Location

9 Dec 2013 by dietmar paul schoder

How to get the location of a specific IP-address

Get List of Installed Applications of System in C#

6 Jun 2014 by Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi

How to list the installed applications of your system and their setup details in C# language

.NET

Windows

registry

Detecting Client Connection in WCF Long Running Service (Heartbeat Implementation)

30 Sep 2014 by WaqaarRasool

Heartbeat Implementation in WCF Service in C#

.NET

VS2013

WCF

Null Propagation Operator: A New Feature of C# 6.0

24 Apr 2015 by arora.abhishek

In this tip, we will learn about the new feature of C# 6.0, the Null Propagation Operator.

.NET

VS2013

Introduction to Windows 10 IoT

11 Feb 2016 by Martin Gmuca

A brief introduction to Windows 10 IoT development

Win10

.NET

Dev

How to Create Custom Paging for a Crystal Report Viewer

11 Jan 2019 by akshay_zz

This article will provide you the alternative way to navigate page in a crystal report viewer, as default paging looks broken

.NET

ASP.NET

Dev

A Few Missing Methods on BinaryReader

23 Apr 2021 by honey the codewitch

BinaryReader needs a better way to read strings and types. Here's a quick and dirty fix

How to Debug the Design Time Errors in WPF XAML File?

20 Oct 2015 by Manish Dubeyy

How to debug the design time errors in WPF XAML file?

A Butterworth Filter in C#

22 Apr 2016 by Darryl Bryk

C# code for a low-pass Butterworth filter is presented

Changing Input Language

16 Nov 2010 by alrosan

How to change input language

.NET

Windows

Uploading a file and creating a Zip File in ASP.NET with C#

18 Jul 2013 by Mannava Siva Aditya

Uploading a file and creating a Zip file in ASP.NET with C#.

.NET

ASP.NET

Using Font Icons

12 Aug 2013 by Le Sourcier

This tip helps in using font icons as ImageSource.

Debug ASP.NET MVC Application with Glimpse

11 Jan 2015 by Muhammad Hassan Tariq

Glimpse Extension for server side debugging and diagnostic information of ASP.NET applications

Simple simulation of load balancing

11 Mar 2015 by Ivan Yakimov

In this article I'll explain how to make something similar to load balancer on your single developer machine.

.NET

IIS

Dev

Create a Drop Down Calculator Opens like DateTimePicker

24 Jun 2015 by Nadun Liyanage

This tip describes creating a user control to display a drop down calculator that pops out like the DateTimePicker in Visual Studio

Number Only Behavior for WPF

1 Oct 2015 by Clifford Nelson

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

Get a Collection of All Running Excel Instances

26 Nov 2016 by JamesFaix

Get a collection of all running Excel interop Application objects (not just the active one)

Insert Multiples Records to SQL Server Database

15 Mar 2017 by Ricardo_Torres_Torres

Read text file and insert mutiples records in just one SQL Sentence

WPF Disabled Items Behaviour

6 Aug 2016 by Clifford Nelson

This tip presents a way to have disabled items in your ComboBox

SelectedItems Behavior for ListBox and MultiSelector

26 Sep 2017 by Clifford Nelson

A behavior that allows the developer to bind an IList to SelectedItems of a ListBox or MultiSelector.

What is a Coroutine?

19 Mar 2020 by honey the codewitch

Learn how to use a powerful programming technique for multitasking in your projects

.NET

All-Topics

Dev

Creating Custom WPF Icon Button

26 Apr 2020 by Omnia Hussain

A walk-through for creating a custom WPF button that contains both icon and text

.NET

WPF

Dev

Expect the Unexpected

6 Apr 2011 by #realJSOP

Never assume you know what the framework is going to do

.NET

Passing Object Collections to ASP.NET Web API

16 Jan 2014 by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US

POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.

Many Questions Answered at Once — Collaboration between Windows Forms or WPF Windows

26 Mar 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Popular question on Forms collaboration, also answered for WPF

Google reCaptcha v2 with MVC5

9 Apr 2015 by Royston Malcomber

Setting up Google reCaptcha version 2 with MVC5

Proper, Translatable Pluralization in .NET with MessageFormat

12 Apr 2015 by Jeffijoe

Writing properly formatted, grammatically correct, translatable UI messages

.NET

Dev

string

Executing Stored Procedure with User Defined Table Type Parameter in Entity Framework Using EntityFrameworkExtras

26 Sep 2015 by AshishShukla6

This tip describes step by step implementation of executing stored procedure having user-defined table type as a parameter in entity framework using EntityFrameworkExtras package.

How to Create and Download File with Ajax in ASP.NET MVC

17 Nov 2016 by winsonet

Create and download the file with Ajax call in ASP.NET MVC

Building React Web Apps on .NET Core

21 Mar 2017 by dsuryd

Simple, lightweight, yet powerful way to build real-time React + C# .NET web apps with dotNetify-React.

C# Code Reuse with a Traits Class

15 Apr 2021 by Thoits

A design pattern for C# that reuses a generic base class, modifying it using a traits class to allow changes that cannot be accomplished through overrides in an inherited class.

.NET

design-patterns

VB .NET/WinForms: Create Form's MainMenu by Load Menu from Resource-Only DLL

5 Jan 2023 by vblover Programmer

Load Menu from Resource-Only DLL (created by VC++) and Set for Form As MainMenu by API Functions.

Batch Processing with Directory.EnumerateFiles

12 Aug 2023 by Bohdan Stupak

Batching is a nice technique that allows you to handle big amounts of data gracefully. Directory.EnumerateFiles is the API that allows you to organize batch processing for the directory with a large number of files.

.NET-Core

.NET

Dev