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Maintain Scroll Position Problem fix for Chrome.

by Wonde Tadesse

The other option will be to use Update Panel ASP.NET control as much as possible. It helps to retain the current position on the page whenever a postback happens to the page.

Comparator - Data Sources Comparer

by Alex Pumpet

A simple program for comparing table data from two sources - SQL databases, Excel, CSV or XML-files

Introduction to D3DImage

by Dr. WPF

.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.

ASP.NET: Understanding OWIN, Katana, and the Middleware Pipeline

by John Atten

OWIN, Katana and Middleware Pipeline in ASP.NET

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Data Validation with Visual FA

by honey the codewitch

How to validate fields for things like data entry applications.

Atata - C# Web Test Automation Framework

by Yevgeniy Shunevych

An introduction to Atata C#/.NET web UI test automation full-featured framework based on Selenium WebDriver

A Simple Example of Scraping a Web Page Using Visual FA

by honey the codewitch

Scraping the web is easy with Visual FA. Here's an example of how.

Decouple ASP.NET Core Identity, Authentication and Database Engines

by Zijian

Reusable codes for JWT security in business applications

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C#

"Add to Calender": Adding event to Microsoft Outlook through Web Application

18 May 2012 by deeptibansal

Adding event to Microsoft Outlook through Web Application

"Maximizing XOR" Challenge Sample

27 Mar 2015 by Joe Programmer 1

Maximizing XOR challenge sample

"Method can be made static" May Hide OO Design Flaw

16 Aug 2022 by Bohdan Stupak

"Method can be static" Microsoft Code Analysis warning may hide a violation of object-oriented design

"smart" WPF text-box with Input Restriction and Validation

24 Jan 2016 by Daniel Brousser

Custom TextBox control for UI input validation

'Unauthorized Access Exception' when trying to delete folder created from code

7 Jan 2011 by Anupama Roy

How to delete a folder created via code programmatically

(C#) Determining whether the current build mode is Debug or Release

4 Feb 2012 by SoftwareMonkeys

Sometimes, it's useful to know whether you're running in debug or release mode so you can do extra work during debugging and skip it during release. This class makes that as simple as possible.

(C#) Determining whether the current build mode is Debug or Release

29 Jan 2012 by Pablo Aliskevicius

You can make it a bit shorter: public virtual bool IsDebug { get { #if (DEBUG) return true; #else return false; #endif } }Thanks for sharing,

(C#) Determining whether the current build mode is Debug or Release

1 Feb 2012 by Huisheng Chen

Have a look this one, I just wrote: Accurate way to tell if an assembly is compiled in debug or release mode in c#[^] public static bool IsInDebugMode(string FileName) { var assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(FileName); var attributes =...

(C#) Determining whether the current build mode is Debug or Release

3 Feb 2012 by SoftwareMonkeys

While I think alternative 3 could be quite useful I often have access to the assembly name and not the actual file name.For example the assembly name might be:Company.ProductWhereas the file name might be:Company.Product.dllThere are times when I'll fully qualify a class such...

(C#) Determining whether the current build mode is Debug or Release

24 Feb 2012 by Andreas Gieriet

I prefer the [Conditional("DEBUG")] attribute over #if DEBUG.This is especially advised for your logging example.E.g.[System.Diagnostics.Conditional("DEBUG")]private void Validate() { /* check instance integrity */ }or[System.Diagnostics.Conditional("DEBUG")]public static...

(Dynamically) Implement ToString() as a Lambda Function

16 Jun 2016 by Tomaž Štih

How to (dynamically) implement ToString() as a Lambda function

(Linq and Nullable Values) OR (SQL ISNULL with LINQ)

4 Jan 2011 by Pranay Rana

(Linq and Nullable Values) OR (SQL ISNULL with LINQ)

.Gif viewer / Snipper Control

27 Jun 2015 by Pedram_Niloufari

C# .Gif viewer / Snipper control

.git and Dropbox Integration within Visual Studio

23 Sep 2013 by sumit_kapadia

Simple and free approach to manage your code on cloud with git-SCN and dropbox

.Net - Use The Framework

22 May 2010 by #realJSOP

Don't reinvent the wheel - use the one that's already on the cart.

.Net - Use The Framework

6 Apr 2010 by TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

The following is far easier to understand and use than the Outlaw's tip (IMHO).text = Regex.Replace(text, "screen_fadetimeout=\"[^\"\']+\"", "screen_fatetimeout="99");It has the following advantages:1. It is one line of code2. It is easier to read3. It is faster (note: XmlElement...

.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 Bitmaps with Full 16bit Support

18 Mar 2014 by Johannes Bildstein

Reading and writing Bitmaps with full 16bit per channel (and possibly more)

.NET Code Comment Utilities

19 Mar 2015 by Peter T. Ringering

A program that makes editing code comments and XML comments easier.

.NET Coding Best Practices

20 Jan 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy

.NET Coding Best Practices - Vinayak's thumb rulesDo not hard code strings/ numerics. Instead of that use constants as shown below.Bad practice int Count; Count = 100; if( Count == 0 ) { // DO something… }Good practice int Count; Count = 100; private...

.NET Configuration File Corrupts On Write

9 Nov 2021 by Member 12660776

Programmatically Adding New ConfigurationSectionGroup Corrupts Declaration Section With Multiple Group Declarations.

.NET Core 7 Razor pages: Updating Section of a Razor Page (Partial Update), Without Re-rendering the Whole Content, with Means of Ajax POST

27 Sep 2023 by Victor Sirghii

On the parent razor page, we add Partial View which will serve as the updatable container. On Ajax calls from the parent page, we update only Partial view content, not the whole page, thus creating a smooth user interaction experience.

.Net Core DI, How to register all existing assignable types in an assembly

13 Jan 2020 by M.M.Mohseni

In this article, we'll explain how to register (Add) all specific interface assignable types in an assembly and will use them in a class.

dependency-injection

.NET Core Versioning Demystified

19 Mar 2020 by RickZeeland

Version all your .NET Core projects in one swoop fell!

.Net custom Culture with use case

6 May 2015 by Etienne Louise (974)

In this article I'll show how to create custom culture and then show an exemple of how to use it in an ASP.Net MVC application.

.NET DataTable To JSON Format Conversion Tool for WCFServices

4 Nov 2013 by SimbarasheM

A .NET v4 Library for converting DataTable row(s) to JSON String for WCFServices

.NET DateTime to Unix Time and Vice Versa

7 Jul 2015 by Pavel Durov

Tip about converting .NET DateTime to Unix double timestamp and vise versa - on .NET

.NET Double Reference

31 Mar 2011 by Jon_Slaughter

Simple class to encapsulate a double reference

.NET Get Correct Caret Position from TextBox Control

8 Jul 2014 by B.O.B.

How to get correct caret position from Textbox control

.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 Interop with 32 and 64-bit DLLs

11 Dec 2014 by Zzzzzoltan

A novel solution to the 32 vs 64-bit DLL interop problem

.NET Interprocess Communication using Named Pipe

25 Dec 2014 by Amir Hamza Md. Kayes

.NET interprocess communication using named pipe

.NET Library for Accessing and Querying Google Analytics V3 via Service Account

30 Jan 2014 by rmostafa

Simple Google Analytics Access, with Service Account Credential OAuth2

google-analytics

.NET Methods Inlining and Loops

24 Jan 2016 by Dmitry Orzhevsky

This article dives into .NET method inlining topic and shed some light on one particular case when CLR is more likely to inline method - looping.

.Net Performance tip - 2

22 May 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy

.Net Performance tip - 2

.Net Performance tip - 2

22 May 2010 by DaveAuld

Here is a better evaluation of performance in .Net of the If / Switch operations;http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/SpeedTestIfElseSwitch.aspx[^]

.Net Performance tip - 3

22 May 2010 by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy

.Net Performance tip - 3

.NET Performance Tip – Benchmarking

21 Jul 2018 by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

Micro-Benchmarking Your C# - Pitfalls and A Tool To Help You Mitigate Them

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 1

28 Apr 2013 by emadns

A basic tutorial for ReportMax tool

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 2

21 Apr 2013 by emadns

Second tutorial for loading data through code - Sqlite

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 3

23 Apr 2013 by emadns

Using the Chart control in ReportMax

.NET Runtime Library for Delphi

11 Oct 2015 by Bismark Appah

.NET Runtime Library for Delphi

.NET SQL Server Stored Procedure Data Access Layer

3 Jan 2015 by Peter Piotti

A clean, simple alternative to using the Entity Framework for stored procedures data access in a .NET/SQL Server environment

.NET Standard, What are the Alternatives?

19 May 2020 by Daan Acohen

An explanation of how to support multiple platforms in .NET development

.NET TransactionScope and its default Transaction Isolation level issue

1 Feb 2013 by S. M. Ahasan Habib

.NET TransactionScope and its default Transaction Isolation level issue.

.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

.NET WinForms Tray Icon Implemenation with Win7 and Vista Features

23 Oct 2014 by BrokenEvent

.NET WinForms Tray icon implemenation with Win7 and Vista features: GUID identification, large custom icons, custom UI instead of the hint, etc.

.NET XML Input Parameter to RESTful API & ByPassing SSL Certificate

23 Oct 2015 by Yaseer Mumtaz

XML input parameter to RESTful API using HttpClient and bypassing the SSL certificate

.NET ZLib Implementation

16 Feb 2018 by Alberto M.

Zlib compress / decompress implementation using .NET 4.5.1, with no external DLLs

1 to 1 Object Mapping with IDictionary

15 Nov 2010 by qlipoth

All too often, I have to match disparate objects 1 to 1

12/24 Hour Time format

5 Jun 2011 by thatraja

Display Date Time in 12/24 hour time format in C#/VB.NET

15.2 What's New for XAF

29 Nov 2015 by Michael Bogaerts

What brings the 15.2 release for XAF (win) developers

entity-framework

2 Options to Remove a Windows Service (and a Dummy do-nothing Windows Service for You to Play With)

24 Aug 2018 by simonp_ca

How to remove Windows service from Service List (not just stop/disable it, but to delete it from the list totally)

2-Legged OAuth Authentication in .NET (C#)

5 Jul 2012 by Sumit Chawla

2-Legged OAuth Authentication in .NET (C#)

Windows-service

2D Drawing on Windows Forms and the Use of Transformation Matrices While Demonstrating the Trapezoid

18 Dec 2014 by charles922

Use of the Trapezoidal Rule to integrate a function

3 Layer Architecture for Beginners in ASP.NET C#

19 Jan 2015 by JatinKhimani

Develop a web application in 3 layer architecture code style

3-D's of Windows 8.1 Store Background App

11 Mar 2014 by Prasanna Venkatesh . K

Writing a Windows store background app from the scratch

32-Bit or 64-bit OS ??

21 Sep 2010 by GPUToaster™

A simple way to detect bitness of an OS Programatically. (C# and C++ examples given)

32-Bit or 64-bit OS ??

13 Oct 2010 by Reinhard Ostermeier

In .NET 4.0, you can also use the new System.Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem and System.Environment.Is64BitProcess

32-Bit or 64-bit OS ??

19 Sep 2010 by Aescleal

In C++ you can use the size of a pointer to work out what sort of process you're running in:bool is_64_bit(){ return sizeof(void *) == 8;}This has got the advantage of being portable and you don't have to call any OS functions.You can do something similar in C - just return...

32-Bit or 64-bit OS ??

20 Sep 2010 by a_pess

To check 64Bit Operating system in VB.NET,Public Shared Function is64BitOPeratinSystem() As Boolean Return (Marshal.SizeOf(IntPtr.Zero) = 8)End Function

32-Bit or 64-bit OS ??

5 Aug 2011 by The_Mega_ZZTer

Version check is wrong. It happens to work correctly only because no minor versions of Windows 5 were released after 5.1 (AFAIK... are Windows Server 2003 and Embedded XP and Media Center XP still 5.1?). A theoretical version 5.2 would fail the check. I submit the following...

3D effects in Windows Store App

2 Feb 2014 by AnobikDey

A description of how images and other controls can be rotated and used to give 3d Effect in Windows Store Apps

3D Puzzle with OpenGl and C#

20 Jan 2015 by charles922

3D programming with OpenGl and C# to create an interactive puzzle

4 Solutions to Merge Multiple Excel Worksheets into One

25 Jan 2014 by Calabash Sisters

This article aims at talking about some useful solutions for you to merge to multiple excel worksheets into one.

4 Ways to do Object Copying

7 Feb 2014 by comiscience

4 ways to do Object copy

7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

19 Jul 2015 by Revanth Ramesh

Futuristic Talking 7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

?? Operator

12 Mar 2012 by Muthu Nadar

This article will explain about null coalescing operator along with its advantage and disadvantage.

[EF] Initialize database with data using Code First

16 Jun 2012 by Nadege Rouelle

How to add initialization data when configuring Entity Framework Code First.

[How to] Listen to your DragEventArgs!

12 Apr 2017 by Dave “DWC” Curry

How to wire up drag+drop events through multiple objects.

[Silverlight] Custom Datapager UserControl

24 Aug 2012 by Savalia Manoj M

How to create custom Datapager Usercontrol in Silverlight?

[tut 3] Graphics Program using C# Drag & Drop & Delete Objects

7 Apr 2016 by The Zakies

Part 3 of a tutorial to show a graphics program using C# using GDI and SVG drag and drop and delete objects

[tut 6] Line Drag & Drop & Line Selection

20 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we will build an outline line around the drawn lines so we would test the mouse click on this outline to know which line is selected. and we would in the coming update build a select function inside the move tool

[tut 7] Drag & Drop points in lines

24 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

in this tut we will create a technique to enable the user to control points within a drawn line, by drawing circles around points of the line , when the user clicks a circle he would control the corresponding point.

[tut 8] Hand tool

29 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

we would create Hand_tool to pan through the drawing form, and we would use a custom cursor of open and closed hands

[tut 9] hand tool (part 2) navigator panel

3 Jul 2016 by The Zakies

we will continue the functionality of the hand tool with having a navigator panel which works as a map, we will also have a red rectangle which tells the user where he is actually viewing inside the whole form, also it can be moved to pan the form

[tut1] GDI+ Artwork from svg

13 Mar 2016 by The Zakies

Tutorial 1 (how to create a vector graphics program)

[tut4] Draw Lines with Circle and Rectangle End

7 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

[tut4] how to draw lines & to draw different types on end shapes like rectangle and circle using C#

[tut5] form communication,multi tab program, custom cursor for each tool

20 Jun 2016 by The Zakies

Learn how to implement a tecnique of a parent form that createes and controls other forms , through the tecnique of using the tab control, also learn how to implement a menu for the tools, and how to add cutom cursor for each tool

[Uwp] Make a Resizable Splitview

27 Sep 2018 by Georgeutc

A very simple Resizable SplitView

[WPF] Screen Cutter

16 Apr 2013 by Louis_Liu

WPF application to capture screen.

A .NET Approach to EmguCV

25 Feb 2015 by saad_lah

Complete guide for beginner to setup EmguCV project and run first program in Visual Studio

A .NET File System Watcher

20 Feb 2014 by toneware

A utility that monitors a selected directory for changes

A 2D Grid Splitter

19 Sep 2012 by Jens Theisen

A grid splitter separating four quadrants

A 64bit Bit-Field in C#

5 Nov 2014 by Jeong, WonYoung(Brad)

Making BitField with C# alternative to BitField made with union and struct of C++

A Basic Cipher Transform

16 Feb 2022 by charles henington

Simple user defined Cipher Transform that I got the idea from https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5319044/ARC4-Encryption-Library

A Basic MVC Application and UI Testing through Selenium Web Driver

30 Nov 2014 by SrikantSahu

This is a simple application developed using C# MVC and jquery for basic CRUD operations. The application can be unit tested using selenium web drivers.

A Basic WCF Service using EF

22 Dec 2015 by MarcusCole6833

A basic tutorial on how to Use WCF service with the Entity Framework

A Beginner's CRUD Using WCF in ASP.NET

16 Jul 2015 by Math08avan

A simple example for CRUD actions using WCF service in ASP.NET

SQL-Server-2012

A Butterworth Filter in C#

22 Apr 2016 by Darryl Bryk

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

signal-processing

A C# Extension to Recursively Select All Descendents

9 Mar 2017 by TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

How to recursively select all descendants using an extension method

A C# implementation of AI MEMO 239, Item 169- Count the one bits in a number

12 Apr 2012 by OriginalGriff

If you haven't heard of AI Memo 239, then you need to have a look at it. It is an MIT memo from 1972 containing "clever code" and such like. Some of it is absolutely beautiful!

A C# implementation of the Tail -f command

4 Dec 2010 by Felice Pollano

A C# implementation of the Tail -f command

19 Dec 2010 by Ian Shlasko

Unless I'm misreading your code on CodePlex, it looks like your utility loads in the entire file every time it changes. That might be fine for tiny files, but it would be a huge performance hit for larger ones (a few megs, for example).Why not do it a bit more simply?using (FileStream str...

A C# LIKE implementation that mimics SQL LIKE

18 Jun 2013 by Michiel du Toit

Code for a C# string.Like extension method.

A C# Single Application Instance Class

15 Apr 2015 by sx2008

An easy-to-use class to prevent multiple instances of your application from opening and focusing/activating the first instance window.

A Collection of Simple Widgets

30 Dec 2022 by Graham Wilson

A collection of simple .NET Framework/.NET WinForm controls and utilities.

A computational statistics class

19 Nov 2013 by YOSSI ROZENBERG

A computational statistics class in C#

A Console Progress Bar in C#

6 Jan 2020 by honey the codewitch

Easily add progress reporting to your console apps