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Understanding the SynchronizationContext in .NET with C#

by honey the codewitch

Take control of which thread your code gets executed on, and how it does

A Coder Interview With Mike Meinz

by CodeProject, Mike Meinz

Welcome to our continuing series of CodeProject interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Mike Meinz, who shares some highlights from 45 years in the industry.

A Coder Interview With Iris Classon

by CodeProject, Iris Classon

Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Iris Classon.

WPF: Where to Put Value Converters?

by Arik Poznanski

The question this posts tries to address is: Where to put value converters?

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Why Software Companies Die

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The article describes technical and sociological reasons for software companies deaths.

JSON by Design: A Walkthrough of a High Performance JSON Processor

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Build Your Own NAS Device

10 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

How to go about buildingyour own NAS device

Where can I get information about latest technologies been used in Dot Net from a Developer's perspective

9 Jan 2011 by #realJSOP

You're connected to the internet. That really should be enough.

activex container for silvelight

18 Feb 2011 by #realJSOP

I'm with Sandeep on this. It's pointless, which means it's not sensible. Silverlight is a web technology and is hosted by a web site. You don't "install" xap files on a desktop.

Chat application which can work on internet

16 Mar 2011 by #realJSOP

They ALL work over the internet. And yes, WCF should be fine. You don't have to worry about clients IP addresses because they don't change as long as their connection to the internet is alive. The only time their IP will change (about 99.99% of the time) is if they cycle the power on their...

Software Time estimation

12 Apr 2011 by #realJSOP

I estimate what I think it's going to take ME to complete the task, add vacation, sick time, and all company holidays, and then double that number. I find that it's pretty accurate.

Can we use 2 methods out of 3 methods defined in interface when its body is also defined in class implementing it.

29 Feb 2012 by #realJSOP

You don't have to use them all, but you DO have to implement them all.

Twitterizer for API v1.1

18 Apr 2013 by #realJSOP

Go here for an update that utilizes the Twitter API v1.1

hex2utf8 conversion using c#.net

10 Nov 2010 by .NET Developer66

Hi,I am using serial port communication in my project, wherein I am sending a 4k of data using serial port. The last but 2 bytes are the sum of all bytes I send to the antenna, which is more than (greater than) 7F.The value is not recognisible by the ASCII code, so I want to implement...

hex2utf8 conversion using c#.net

14 Nov 2010 by .NET Developer66

Thank u for the reply but the problem is i will send the data asEx: 3A 54 31 32 33 ..... 9B 82 0D 0A here the underlined data is nothing but the sum of all the bytes iam sending to the antenna (excluding 3A, 0D, 0A: those are start and end of communication) the last but 2 bytes are...

can i use vc++ for serial port communication

14 Nov 2010 by .NET Developer66

Hi,i am using c#.net from serial port communication in my project, but i am unable to handle hex values greater than 7F, so can i use VC++ for my project.

serial port communication for hex to UTF 8 transfer

14 Nov 2010 by .NET Developer66

I am placing the code for my query, where the data I am sending to the antenna is not converted to ASCII and I am getting error in the communication the bolded values are not converted to ASCII equivalent and I am unable to communicate with the antenna so if I use UTF8 as a converter can I send...

DocMounter 2: A tool to build VS.NET documentation (now with Sandcastle)

15 Nov 2010 by 10Tec, Sergey Gorbenko

Tool for creating MS Visual Studio documentation files - XML Summaries, HxS/MSHC help solutions and manuals.

Formatting and Automation

7 Nov 2019 by 10xlearner

Formatting and automation

Install Zend Framework 2 on Linux/Ubuntu OS !!!

9 Oct 2014 by 19sanjeev

How to install Zend framework 2 on Linux/Ubuntu OS

Getting Started with Angular JS

9 Oct 2014 by 19sanjeev

How to get started with Angular JS

Getting started with Zend 2 – “Hello World” Part-1

10 Oct 2014 by 19sanjeev

Hi all, in my last blog I explained how to “Install Zend framework 2 in Linux”. Now, I am try to explaining how we can write code in Zend Framework 2. After installing Zend Framework 2, Project folder structure will look like below Now, we need to modify 3 files in setting. 1.

Angular JS: A Simple Workout With Addition of Two Numbers

23 Oct 2014 by 19sanjeev

A Simple Workout With Addition of Two Numbers in Angular JS

Batch Renaming of Files in a Batch File

25 Jan 2010 by 4277480

If you want you can windows power shell:cd "c:\New Folder (2)"get-childitem -Path *.* | rename-item -NewName {"0" + $_.name}

The ASUS Zenbook UX31: Initial Impressions

31 Jan 2012 by @Encosia

The ASUS Zenbook UX31: Initial impressions

hardware-review

code for creating heatmap in apex

27 Aug 2012 by __TR__

Assuming that you are referring to apex programming language used in Force.com platform, you might find the below link helpful.http://developer.force.com/projectpage?id=a06300000030w9LAAQ[^]Also its better you post questions like these in force.com community as you might be able to get a...

what better language.....?

13 Sep 2012 by _Amy

Quote:Which programming language is best?If you ask the answer of this question from me, in simple words I'll say, "The programming language which I understand easily and implement my own ideas(algorithm), that is the best programming language for me".Although, nothing is so easy, there is...

Diving Deep With SEMAPHORE And MUTEX

26 Nov 2015 by _Ankit_Singh_

Diving Deep with SEMAPHORE and MUTEX

Access Autonumber define my own ..................,

16 May 2011 by _Maxxx_

Your field appears to comprise three sub-fields - a two character code (JV in your example) a date (30aprl2011 in your example) and an autonumber field - so ou could use access autonumber field, together with two other fields (the code and the date) to build the field you require - use a 'view'...

Logging: How to Growl with NLog 3 (or 2.1)

15 Jun 2014 by _Noctis_

This will set you logging from your NLog to your Growl in no time.

Bridging the Gap between Linqpad and Visual Studio (with JSON and Extension Methods)

8 May 2015 by _Noctis_

This will allow you to integrate your linqpad code easily to Visual Studio

increase of disks capacity formula until 2000

26 Sep 2011 by _Starbug_

Hi,anyone know the formula of increasing disks capacity until 2000?

Implementing IComparable and IEquatable safely and fully

22 Jun 2012 by A. Ganzer

Using snippets to create a full and correct implementation of complex interfaces

Dropdownlist - Get Id of Selected Value

16 Oct 2012 by Aarti Meswania

If you have load data in DropDownList as below,DropDownList1.DataSource = DtCategoryDropDownList1.ValueMember = "Cate_id"DropDownList1.DisplayMember = "Category"then,dropdownlist will have value as belowdropdownIndex ValueMember Displaymember0 1 Books1 ...

How do I group to review subgroup

4 Sep 2016 by AB Masud

textBoxRecords.AppendText(matc...

Encapsulation versus Abstraction

13 Feb 2011 by Abdul Quader Mamun

Thank you for your question.Encapsulation is hiding implementation from end user. Example:String str1="Hello";Console.Write(str1.Length); In the above example, str1 String instance object hide implementation details of Length from client.Abstraction is everything that need...

BizTalk does not recognize change in Web Services

2 May 2009 by Abdul_Rafay

As a good practice, always publish Web Services when the orchestrations which are being published as a Web Service are stopped or are in an unlisted state so this error will not occur.

Sending an HTML-Formatted E-Mail Message from BizTalk

5 May 2009 by Abdul_Rafay

Text emails from BizTalk are really simple to send; you can easily configure the SMTP adapter in BizTalk and send text emails.

Creating Oracle Adapter Metadata from Visual Studio in BizTalk 2006 – Points to consider in Enterprise

13 May 2009 by Abdul_Rafay

Creating Oracle Adapter Metadata from Visual Studio in BizTalk 2006 – Points to consider in Enterprise

Using Polling Statement and Executing Custom SQL using BizTalk Oracle Adapter

19 May 2009 by Abdul_Rafay

Using Polling Statement and Executing Custom SQL using BizTalk Oracle Adapter

Executing Stored Procedure using BizTalk Oracle Adapter

19 May 2009 by Abdul_Rafay

Executing Stored Procedure using BizTalk Oracle Adapter

Message Debatching – Values not being mapped in a Transformation – Null Values in Destination Schema

30 May 2009 by Abdul_Rafay

Message Debatching – Values not being mapped in a Transformation – Null Values in Destination Schema

Convert a Generic List to a Datatable

23 May 2010 by Abhijeet Singhai

A Generic List with a feature of converting itself to a DataTable

Most Commonly Used Functions in SQL Server 2005/2008

6 Aug 2012 by Abhijit Jana, Abhishek Sur

This Table of Contents and articles is editable by all Silver members and above. Please update the article with as many as function you aware in SQL Server 2005/2008 that we are used generally. This will put all of them under a single article.

Using Bookmark in Visual Studio

10 Oct 2009 by Abhijit Jana

Speedup code navigation using Bookmarking in Visual Studio

Beginners Guide’s to ASP.NET MVC Framework – Part 1 of n

19 Oct 2009 by Abhijit Jana

This article describes an overview of ASP.NET MVC Framework, MVC Control Flow, etc. This article is Part 1 of the ASP.NET MVC Framework series.

Mastering Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 - A Beginner's Guide

6 May 2010 by Abhijit Jana

Describes all debugging features like Breakpoints, DataTips, Watch Windows, Multithreaded Debugging, Parallel Program Debugging and IntelliTrace Debugging

Modify “Dirty Indicator” – Using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool

24 Jul 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to modify "dirty indicator" using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity power tool

How to pass external values with GridView HyperLinkField which are not part of your Gridview DataSource member

4 Aug 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to pass external values with GridView HyperLinkField which are not part of your Gridview DataSource member

One of my favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts - Very useful !

8 Aug 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to use a single shortcut key “Ctrl+.” in different places of your development

How to setup multiple startup projects in Visual Studio ?

10 Aug 2010 by Abhijit Jana

Small tips of Visual Studio where you will get to know how you can launch multiple projects at the same time.

How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio

27 Aug 2010 by Abhijit Jana

A post on how to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio

IIS Articles Archives

1 Sep 2010 by Abhijit Jana

In this blog post, I have going to list out all of my IIS articles that I have published over last few years.

Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods

3 Sep 2010 by Abhijit Jana

In this post, I have explained how you can mark methods as obsolete using obsolete attributes which are not in use or may be removed in upcoming builds.

Tips on Debugging : Using DebuggerStepThrough attribute

22 Sep 2010 by Abhijit Jana

Using DebuggerStepThrough attribute

How to track an object which is Out of Scope while Debugging?

20 Oct 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to track an object which is Out of Scope while Debugging?

Multipurpose Find Combo Box in Visual Studio

1 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

Multipurpose Find Combo Box in Visual Studio

Use Shortcut or Context Menu for “Open Containing Folder” in Visual Studio

25 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

Use Shortcut or Context Menu for “Open Containing Folder” in Visual Studio

New Features of IntelliTrace Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1 Beta

22 Dec 2010 by Abhijit Jana

New Features of IntelliTrace Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1 Beta

Does IntelliTrace support all the .NET Frameworks?

22 Dec 2010 by Abhijit Jana

Does IntelliTrace support all the .NET Frameworks?

Code Project GIT Meet 2010

25 Jan 2013 by Abhijit Jana, Abhishek Sur, Ankur^\m/, Kunal Chowdhury «IN», Sandesh M Patil

It's all about the unofficial CodeProject meetup in Lonavala (a hilly region between Pune and Mumbai), India on 11th December 2010. Supported by GIT members.

Track Changes and Advance Scroll Mode in Visual Studio 2010

7 Mar 2011 by Abhijit Jana

Track Changes and Advance Scroll Mode in Visual Studio 2010

Customizing Visual Studio Extension Icon in Visual Studio 2010

25 May 2011 by Abhijit Jana

How to customize /change the default Visual Studio extension icon and provide your own icon over there.

How to say thanx to memebers from whom i got reply of my post in this forum?

13 Feb 2010 by Abhinav S

Vote vote vote - that is the best way.:)

Convert VB6 to VBNET.....help me

18 Aug 2010 by Abhinav S

What have you tried so far?Noone will translate code for you. Post the problems you run into and someone can help you.

neeeeeeeeeeed help

14 Oct 2010 by Abhinav S

Check the mobile provider's website.They may have provided some information.

how to forward multiple mails to one recipient

25 Jan 2011 by Abhinav S

Add all the address in the "to" section?

DropDownList With Filter

12 May 2011 by Abhinav S

Have a look at Filter Items in the Dropdown control after DataBinding[^].

artificial neural network

12 Dec 2011 by Abhinav S

Why don't you start by reading a little about this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwriting_recognition[^]. This site discusses some processes as well.

check framework installed by batch file

29 Mar 2012 by Abhinav S

You can do this via a small C# program - see here[^].

Need Help To Creat Blog Page

12 Apr 2013 by Abhinav S

You can do this with Html and Javascript - http://html5doctor.com/designing-a-blog-with-html5/[^].Another article - http://www.quackit.com/create-a-blog/[^].

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

Weird Error: Unable to Validate Data in ASP.NET website

8 Nov 2009 by Abhishek Sur

A weird error that comes when a page is opened for a long time and then posted back

How To: Expose Events from UserControl

11 Jan 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Pass data from a User control easily using Custom Events. I have added one sample application with this.

i forget password in ms- access file how to open the file

10 Feb 2010 by Abhishek Sur

I think you better ask Microsoft regarding this. Brute Force will take hell lot of time to detect your password. I think if the password is 6 characters long, it will take a long time based on the CPU performance.:thumbsup:

Unhandled Exception Handler For WPF Applications

30 Jun 2010 by Abhishek Sur

The article will demonstrate how you could handle Unhandled Exceptions from both UI and NonUI threads for your WPF application.

Screen Capture in WPF & WinForms Application

5 Jul 2010 by Abhishek Sur

The post will demonstrate how you can capture a snapshot of a screen from within the application itself.

Operator Overloading with Implicit and Explicit Casts in C#

10 Jul 2010 by Abhishek Sur

This post demonstrates how easily you can implement a class / structure that may take part in arithmetic operation using Operator overloading of implicit and explicit cast operators

Lazy Initializer to Defer Expensive Object Creation

12 Jul 2010 by Abhishek Sur

How simply you can use Lazy initialize to defer the execution of a method or property for values to whenever it is required.

Code Snippet in Visual Studio

23 Jul 2010 by Abhishek Sur

In this article, I have introduced how you could use code snippets in your program to enhance code productivity.

Garbage Collection Algorithm with the use of WeakReference

27 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

The article will demonstrate the story of WeakReference in light of Garbage Collection.

How to Render Bitmap or to Print a Visual in WPF

19 Aug 2010 by Abhishek Sur

The article shows how you could use RenderTargetBitmap to render a visual into BitmapSource and convert the same into actual image.

IObserver and IObservable - A New addition to BCL

27 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Here in the post, I am going to discuss about IObserver and IObservable interfaces and its connection to Push based approach on Reactive Framework.

Implementation of an Observer

27 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Hi Folks,As few people told me to implement an observer in my last post where I just showed how to use it, here is the post where I am going to clear out confusions for you. If you have read my other post, you might already know what is an Observer and why it is required. Lets recap this a bit more.

Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF

7 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF

Marble Diagrams and Rx

27 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

A discussion about how to draw Marble Diagrams

Partial Methods - An Uncommon Note

27 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

A note about Partial methods

How to create a WCF service without Visual Studio

15 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Creating a WCF service without Visual Studio

5 nice things to have in C# 5.0

28 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Few new specifications on C# 5.0, a future of C#

Create Enumeration as Bit Flags

26 Jan 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Create Enumeration as Bit Flags

Reflection is Slow or Fast? A Practical Demo

5 Nov 2010 by Abhishek Sur

The article demonstrates how Reflection APIs behaves in real time development and also gives you few ways to improve its performance.

Internals of a Delegate

26 Jan 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Internals of a Delegate

Internals of Extension Methods

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Internals of Extension Methods

Internals of loops (While, For and ForEach)

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Internals of loops (While, For and ForEach)

Different approaches to Casting

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Different approaches to Casting

Get Reflected use TypeDescriptor

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Get Reflected use TypeDescriptor

Internals of Anonymous Types

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Internals of Anonymous Types

Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 & its Internals

13 Feb 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 & its Internals

Inversion of Control: Practical usage of Interface, Delegate or Events

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Inversion of Control: Practical usage of Interface, Delegate or Events

Dependency Injection & IoC

26 Feb 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Dependency Injection & IoC

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

All about .NET Timers - A Comparison

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

All about .NET Timers - A Comparison

GridView Pagination issue when dynamically added….!

27 Mar 2010 by abin jaik

NullReferenceexception issue for gridview pagination

How to send XML data to a Webpage using “POST” Method

27 Mar 2010 by abin jaik

The scenario defined here explains data sending between 2 websites, one is the requestor website, which sends XML POST data and the other is the responder website, which collects data from the requestor website.

Cascading dropdowns in InfoPath from SharePoint

26 May 2010 by abin jaik

This post explains how to create cascading dropdowns in infopath, that fetches data from Sharepoint

Let’s create a project, shall we? (Part 1)

28 Feb 2017 by Abu_yanal

What are we going to build? – Part 0 Let’s create a project, shall we? – Part 1Â (This post) Adding splash screen – Part 2 In order to get started, we need do the setup for our solution (the base block) and start from there. Project Setup: This is a trivial part, you need to