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Custom Controls in Win32 API: Scrolling

by Martin Mitáš

How to support scrolling within your controls.

Understanding the Insides of the SMTP Mail Protocol: Part 1

by Higty

This article describes the mail sending process using the SMTP mail protocol.

by David Rogers Dev

Learn how to load related entities using the Entity Framework with simple examples

The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates, Fixed

by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Derived work based on the article by Sergey Ryazanov "The Impossibly Fast C++ Delegates": this good solution is fixed and further developed using C++11.

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FingerPrintf: A Small Library for Quick Usage of the Biometric API, Fingerprint and Camera

by Michael Chourdakis

Use your sensors for identification and verification

Pathfinding Algorithms in C#

by KristianEkman

A comparison of Dijkstra and Astar

Visual Studio Extensibility (Day 2): Deploying Visual Studio Extension on Staging Server and GIT via Continuous Integration

by Akhil Mittal

Directly check in VS extension to Git repo and automatically deploy to staging server via continuous integration

Making HTTP REST Request in C++

by Shao Voon Wong

Example of making HTTP REST Request in C++

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Xamarin with TinyIoC

26 Dec 2016 by n.podbielski

Use of IoC container in Xamarin on example of TinyIoC

Mobile

VS2013

Xamarin

IOC

Finding Whales in Ocean Water: Edge Detection, Blob Processing, and RGB Channels in C#

12 Jan 2016 by Jake Drew

Edge detection, blob processing and RGB channels in C#

VS2013

Getting Started with AngularJS

9 Jul 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

How to get started with AngularJS

Paging In MVC 5 with Entity Framework

13 Aug 2014 by raju melveetilpurayil

One more example of how to do Paging in MVC

One More Time About Resource vs. EmbeddedResource

1 Nov 2014 by Ivan Krivyakov

Difference between 'Resource' and 'Embedded Resource' Build Actions described

IDataErrorInfo with Fluent Validation

9 Dec 2014 by adityaswami89

Article on Validation in XAML applications with Fluent technique

Expression Based Property Getters and Setters

29 Apr 2013 by Nick Polyak

Expression Based Property Getters and Setters

VS2013

A Minimalist Example of Using Html5 Canvas to Save Signature as Image Using Web API

31 Mar 2014 by Manas Bhardwaj

Here is a minimalist example of using Html5 Canvas to save signature as Image using Web API

Creating a Custom TypeConverter: Part 2 - Instance Descriptors, Expandable Properties and Standard Values

30 Jul 2013 by Richard James Moss

This follow up article expands upon the sample in the first part, to include more concise design time code generation, expandable property support, and finally custom lists of values.

Windows

VS2013

Creating a Custom TypeConverter: Part 1 - Getting Started

30 Jul 2013 by Richard James Moss

How to use TypeConverter allowing complex objects to be edited as though they were simple strings

Windows

VS2013

Create ASP.NET Control for Image Resizer and Cropper Keeping Aspect Ratio

29 Jul 2017 by Debashis 10433656

How to create an ASP.NET control for image resizer and cropper keeping aspect ratio

Kinect for Windows Version 2: Body Tracking

11 Apr 2014 by Vangos Pterneas

Kinect for Windows Version 2: Body Tracking

VS2013

Mining Webpages in Parallel

19 Mar 2015 by Jake Drew

How to mine webpages in parallel

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parallel

How To Create Dynamic Angular JS Tabs In MVC

16 Feb 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

In this post, we will see how we can create Angular JS dynamics tabs in MVC application.

TagIt Control With Data From Database Using Angular JS In MVC Web API

25 Feb 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

How to load the tags from database in MVC Web API using Angular JS

Working With Test Client In ASP.NET Web API Help Page

31 May 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

Working With Test Client In ASP.NET Web API Help Page

Using WIX with Managed Custom Action

18 Dec 2012 by Vasil Trifonov

Using WIX with Managed Custom Action

Windows

VS2013

Visual-Studio

Data Templates Implementation Outside of WPF

28 May 2014 by Nick Polyak

Data Templates implementation outside of WPF

WPF

VS2013

XAML

Bridging the Client-Server Boundary – An Experiment in Architectures for Next-generation Web Applications

1 May 2015 by Ben Liebert

Bridging the client-server boundary – an experiment in architectures for next-generation web applications

HTML

VS2013

Programmatically Extract or Unzip Zip, Rar Files And Check

25 Feb 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

In this post, we will see how we can extract or unzip the uploaded files and check for some files in it in a programmatic manner.

HTML

VS2013

Generating Proxies During Runtime using Reflection.Emit

8 Dec 2016 by n.podbielski

Reflection.Emit is very powerful tool. It creates IL code and since C# is converted into IL too, we have the same functionality as in C# and even more. It is very powerful and at the same time very complicated. Because of that, it is worth discussing how and for what it should be used.

Best Practice Front-end Architecture using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Rivets.js

28 May 2014 by Ben Liebert

Best practice front-end architecture using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Rivet.js

Event Bindings Outside of WPF

9 Jun 2014 by Nick Polyak

Event bindings outside of WPF

VS2013

All-Topics

Azure: How To Publish A Web Site From VS2013 to Azure

4 Nov 2014 by Sacha Barber

How to publish a web site from VS2013 to Azure

VS2013

Azure

jQuery Datatable With Server Side Data

25 Feb 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

In this article, we will learn how we can work with jQuery Datatables with server side data.

Top 5 Pieces of Advice for Users of Microsoft Cognitive Services

12 Mar 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is a small post, containing a few suggestions for users of Microsoft Cognitive Services.

Azure

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WPF

JsonR(aw): Lightweight JSON Protocol

21 Dec 2012 by Robert Hoffmann

Lightweight JSON protocol proposal

Dividing Up A Rectangle Based on Pairs of Points using C#

18 Feb 2013 by Richard James Moss

This article describes how to break up a rectangle into smaller parts based on user defined co-ordinates.

Introducing Bing Code Search, An Easy Way to Find Code Samples From Within Visual Studio 2013

5 Apr 2014 by Rion Williams

Introducing Bing Code Search, an easy way to find code samples from within Visual Studio 2013

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Capturing Unhandled Exceptions in a Mixed Native/CLR Environment

26 Aug 2014 by Ivan Krivyakov

Capturing unhandled exceptions in a mixed native CLR environment

C++

.NET

VS2013

Continuous Delivery with VSO: Configuring the Basics

12 Mar 2015 by Graham D Smith

Continuous Delivery with VSO: Configuring the Basics

Dithering an Image Using the Floyd‑Steinberg Algorithm in C#

15 Jun 2015 by Richard James Moss

Dithering an image using the Floyd‑Steinberg algorithm in C#

VS2013

How to Place Order via FIX Message?

1 Apr 2016 by Neeraj Kaushik1980

Walk-through implementation to “Place an Order on via FIX message channel”

VS2013

All-Topics

Xamarin Frame and Style with Padding

23 Apr 2016 by n.podbielski

Xamarin Frame and Style with Padding

Translating Text with Azure Cognitive Services

22 May 2017 by Richard James Moss

An article covering the basics of using Azure cognitive services to translate text via simple HTTP requests

VS2013

Azure

localization

Getting Started with a Team Explorer Plugin for VS 2013 - Part 2

10 Jan 2014 by Gordon Beeming

How to get started with a Team Explorer plugin for VS 2013

VS2013

Multiple Validation Groups

10 Dec 2012 by Cruz Boon

Multiple validation groups

Using Cascading ListBoxes to Display Hierarchical Data in Windows 8

28 Jan 2013 by BillOsuch

How to use cascading ListBoxes to display hierarchical data in Windows 8

Win8

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Getting Started with a Team Explorer Plugin for VS 2013 - Part 3

10 Jan 2014 by Gordon Beeming

How to get started with a team explorer plugin for VS 2013

VS2013

Debugging Deeper through Reference Source

12 Apr 2014 by Rion Williams

How to debug deeper through reference source

C++

VS2013

All-Topics

Best Practice Front-end Architecture Using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Rivets.js

30 May 2014 by Ben Liebert

Best practice front-end architecture using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Rivets.js

Authentication using Facebook, Google and Microsoft account in WP8.0 App (MVVM)

30 Jun 2014 by saramgsilva

This sample show to connect one Windows Phone 8.0 app to Facebook, Google and Microsoft account. Main Features: Login/Logout and has an about page with feedback, share in social networks, review and share by email. Download C# (19.4 MB) Introduction … Continue reading →

Time Complexity 2 – How To Count It

23 Jul 2015 by xszaboj

How to count Time Complexity?

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algorithm

time

Faster than Reflection: Delegates - Part 1

27 Feb 2017 by n.podbielski

If you want to optimize code, which is based on Reflection, delegates may be the thing you are looking for.

How to Avoid 26 API Requests On Your Page?

19 Dec 2014 by Cybermaxs

How to avoid 26 API requests on your page

WPF User Controls: Do Not Use Merged Dictionaries for Shared Resources

25 Nov 2014 by Ivan Krivyakov

New instance of a merged dictionary will be created for every user control. This can (and does) lead to increased loading time and memory footprint.

Windows

VS2013

WPF

Distributed Cache using Redis and ASP.NET Core

21 Dec 2016 by Petru Faurescu

Quick introduction on how to use Redis with ASP.NET Core. It includes a full example loading sample Twitter messages.

Towards a Better Local Caching Strategy

26 Nov 2014 by Cybermaxs

Towards a better local caching strategy

Binding Metro UI Tiles with Knockout.js

10 Jan 2013 by Sk. Tajbir

How to build Metro UI Tiles in Knockout.js

ASP.NET Repeater with jQuery Dialog Popup : Reading Data from a WebMethod

30 Sep 2015 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

This blog will take you through the steps to call a simple WebMethod to get the details of one record shown on a Repeater and show the retrieved details on jQuery Dialog popup.

Metro UI Alert Message using ASP.NET User Control & jQuery

27 Apr 2013 by Sk. Tajbir

This post shows how to create Metro UI message box for different websites to show message. Message box is managed from ASP.NET user control and used jQuery to animate the box.

Web API With Angular JS

11 Feb 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

In this article, we will learn about CRUD operations in Web API using Angular JS.

Javascript

HTML

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Send SMS Using ViaNett in C# Application

5 Apr 2016 by Passion4Code

A quick and interesting way to send SMS using a simple C# application

VS2013

PrintManager – Setting Advanced Printer Options

30 Apr 2015 by RobertWatkins

How to set advanced printer options using PrintManager

.NET

VS2013

All-Topics

Detecting Software Keyboard Events in Xamarin Android

25 Feb 2017 by n.podbielski

Reusable service for detecting if software keyboard is visible or not on Xamarin Android

Dynamic Runtime Delegates Conversion

30 May 2017 by n.podbielski

Explanation how to convert from one delegate type to second delegate of unknown or dynamically created type when their signatures match.

VS2013

delegates

Using MVC Grid In MVC

14 Dec 2015 by Sibeesh Passion

Using MVC grid in MVC

HTML

VS2013

MVC

Generic Repository Pattern MVC

29 Apr 2016 by Mayur V Lohite

Generic Repository Pattern MVC

What is CodeLens?

9 Jul 2014 by Shivprasad koirala

In this blog, we will discuss about CodeLens, a new feature of Visual Studio 2013.

Paging in MongoDB – How to Actually Avoid Poor Performance?

22 Sep 2017 by Petru Faurescu

Few insights on how to better paginate results in MongoDB, and to achieve excellent performance

Sending Stream to ServiceStack

3 Dec 2012 by Vasil Trifonov

Sending a stream to ServiceStack

.NET

VS2013

streaming

How to Search Good Places to Travel (MongoDb LINQ & .NET Core)

22 Sep 2017 by Petru Faurescu

Walkthrough article to run LINQ queries with MongoDB, import data and define indexes

Calling Web Service from Windows Phone 8 App

22 Oct 2014 by Madhur Kapoor

How to call web service from Windows Phone 8 app

Understanding ASP.NET MVC using Real World Example, for Beginners and Intermediate Programmers

30 Jan 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article provides a brief description and overview of ASP.NET's MVC framework, and how developers can covert their real-world objects into MVC framework, to create web applications.

ASP.NET GridView: CRUD Operations

8 Dec 2014 by Kinyanjui Kamau

ASP.NET GridView: CRUD operations

Addressing a Simple Yet Common C# Async/Await Misconception

19 Feb 2018 by Ben Hall (failingfast.io)

I regularly come across developers who hold the misconception that code in a method will continue to be executed, in parallel to code in an awaited method call. So I'm going to demonstrate the behaviour we should expect in this article.

WCF Service and Ninject

9 May 2016 by xszaboj

Dependecy injection with ninja

Angular 2 with ASP.NET Core Web API – Build a Simple Notebook App – Part 1

24 Nov 2016 by Petru Faurescu

Build step by step an Angular 2 application running on IIS and ASP.NET Core. The project also has live samples. This is the first part of building an Angular 2 Notebook WebApp.

Small Helper Tool for Configuration Transformations

21 Apr 2015 by Vasil Trifonov

Small Helper Tool for Configuration Transformations

How to Compress Files in Metro Style Applications

10 Sep 2012 by rajendran_sp

How to use the ZipArchive class in a Metro style app to compress a set of files and save the compressed file to a particular location.

Serialize and Encrypt an Object using C#

11 Jan 2016 by hans.hinnekint

How to serialize and encrypt an Object using C#

How To Build A Specific Project From A Solution with MSBuild

17 Sep 2013 by Vasil Trifonov

How to build a specific project from a solution with MSBuild

Windows

VS2013

New Features in Visual Studio 2015 | 2013 | 2012 | 2010

4 Oct 2015 by Imran Abdul Ghani

Microsoft’s Visual Studio went through an enormous development in recent years. How it evolves since 2010 till the latest version i.e. Visual Studio 2015 is the purpose of this Web Development Tutorial.

How to Customize Profile Information in ASP.NET Identity?

18 Jul 2015 by Imran Abdul Ghani

This post discusses how to customize profile information in ASP.NET identity

HTML

VS2013

ASP.NET

Why Do We Use Interfaces in C#?

23 Aug 2015 by DotNetForAll

Why do we use interfaces in C#

VS2013

Change the Page Title Dynamically Using Angular JS

8 Mar 2016 by Sibeesh Passion

How to change the title of a page dynamically using Angular JS

VS2013

AngularJs

Creating a Custom ErrorProvider Component for Use With Windows Forms Applications

17 Feb 2013 by Richard James Moss

How to create a custom ErrorProvider component for use with Windows Forms Applications

Windows

VS2013

Ultra Fast Excel Export Component for MVC4

22 Apr 2014 by mopicus

Ultra fast Excel export component for MVC4

MS-Excel

VS2013

ASP.NET

Twitter Crawler and Status Analyzer with the Crawler-Lib Engine

16 Feb 2015 by Thomas Maierhofer (Tom)

Twitter Crawler and Status Analyzer with the Crawler-Lib Engine

.NET

VS2013

twitter

The Forms and Web API Bridge

11 Apr 2016 by Passion4Code

The Forms and Web API Bridge

VS2013

API

Named and Optional Arguments In C#

6 Jul 2015 by Sibeesh Passion

Named and optional arguments in C#

VS2013

jQuery UI Autocomplete in MVC 5 - Selecting Nested Entity

22 Apr 2014 by morzel

Creating Autocomplete for string property is very easy. Using it for selecting some custom type is a bit more complex but there is a way to implement it cleanly...

Windows: Getting Callback on Child Process Exit in C++

7 Aug 2014 by Ivan Krivyakov

Getting callback on child process exit in C++

C++

VS2013

API