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M1.NET - Decrypt Arcade Audio

6 Feb 2023 by shunninghuang

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

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.NET

Visual-Studio

VS2008

ini

text

A PostgreSQL Notification Example

15 Oct 2020 by RickZeeland

PostgreSQL notifications Windows Forms application

Extract Tables from PDFs

15 Oct 2018 by moneema14

A parser event listener for PDF tables to .NET Dataset object

XML

VS2013

Visual-Studio

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.

How to Add an AsyncTask to an Android Activity

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions for adding an Async Task to an Android Activity

Creating Custom WPF Derived Control with Attached XAML File

25 Jun 2018 by Clifford Nelson

A way to create a custom derived control with the XAML file attached like a UserControl

WPF Select All Focus Behavior

20 Jun 2018 by Clifford Nelson

This behavior will select the entire text when a TextBox or PasswordBox gains focus

Data Virtualization using DataGrid

30 Oct 2018 by Carsten Breum

Data Virtualization example with a pagesize and async data request

How to Compile Legacy Win32 Programs in Visual Studio 2019?

4 Feb 2020 by Southmountain

Some tips on how to compile legacy Win32 programs in Visual Studio 2019 - may save you few hours to figure out why

Popup Log Viewer

1 Jul 2019 by Lance Roberts

A tray utility for monitoring log files and popping up error messages

Using WPF Behavior to Reduce Loading Time

18 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

I had a situation where a control appearing was significantly affected by the initialization of the UserControls. This behavior fixed my problem.

Formify - Forms Made Fast

27 Dec 2018 by Alessio Aronica

Generate forms from MVC models in one simple line of code

Manipulate network adapter via WMI in plain C and C++

18 Dec 2021 by Kai Schtrom

Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WMI class in plain C and C++

Creating and Invoking an Activity in Droidio (Android Studio)

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to create an Android Activity and its associated Layout file, then invoke (intent) them from another Activity

XSLT to transform Excel XML worksheet to "named" nodes

10 Jun 2014 by Anamera

This XSLT will output an Excel worksheet containing a CSV type of record collection in a more usable XML format.

A Simple Library to Generate PowerPoint Presentations

5 Jun 2014 by Erik Vullings

Generate a PowerPoint presentation, consisting of slides with a title and an image, without requiring Microsoft Office

Pretty-view XML

2 Aug 2017 by Nikita D. Sinelnikov

Creating a pretty-view XML for web applications (or other needs)

Freehand Drawing using Google Map and Spatial Search

15 Mar 2021 by Pablo A Martinez

How to use Google map and Spatial search to do freehand drawing

Using Extension Methods To Avoid XML Problems

17 May 2010 by Rama Krishna Vavilala

I will just make it a little more compact by omitting the Contains method:public static string GetValue(this XElement root, string name, string defaultValue) { return (string)root.Elements(name).FirstOrDefault() ?? defaultValue; }The explicit operators for XElement...

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C#3.0

LINQ

Reading XML Data into a DataTable Using ASP.NET

26 Jul 2013 by Mannava Siva Aditya

Reading XML data into a DataTable.

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ASP.NET

Convert Trx into HTML using TRXER

16 Apr 2015 by kingddd

Introducing a new tool to transform trx (mstest results file) into HTML report

Making a HTML Table from XML in a C# Console App

23 Jun 2015 by MarcusCole6833

A simple program to make an HTML page from an XML file

Launching a VB.NET Class Library from an MS-Office Excel Ribbon

9 Nov 2015 by veen_rp

A simple, step by step tutorial to set up an MS-Office Excel Ribbon, launch your own .NET applications from Excel and interact with the spreadsheet values.

Floating Point and Integer Arithmetic Benchmark

5 Jun 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Performance of Floating Point and Integer Arithmetic has closed gap in modern CPU

Another DatagridView for Windows Forms

21 Dec 2018 by Member 3471983

Add Filter Sort and Theme to a datagridview

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MS-Excel

Simple Log Viewer

21 Feb 2021 by HenkAlles

Show Simple Log - see the article by Jochen Scharr - in the browser with a nice layout

Run Client in Lua Script Completely

31 Oct 2022 by flyhigh

By implementing a UI library and exporting its necessary components to lua script, we can create a beautiful UI and implement relevant logic in Lua script completely.

Parsing an HTML document by using a recursive function

14 Apr 2010 by marc9889

This is an example of one way to parse an HTML document by using a recursive function. In this example, an html document is loaded from a text file, but the code also demonstrates (in remarks) using a web page as a source file.When the recursive function is called, a conditional statement...

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ASP.NET

Do Smart coding using Code Snippets in .NET

19 Apr 2011 by Joshi, Rushikesh

You learn how to create your own Code Snippets and publish them to your Team to use them.

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Visual-Studio

style

Grouping XML elements using XSLT version 1.0

6 Nov 2011 by Adel Refaat

A quick example of how to do grouping in XSLT version 1.0

XSLT

XML

Save a Collection of Objects as XML and/or JSON and/or CSV

10 Feb 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to save a collection of objects as XML, JSON, or CSV

Rewriting "Rewriting XML Files"

1 Apr 2014 by sbarnes

Sometimes better isn't, necessarily

Complete Open XML Spreadsheet in VB

25 Apr 2014 by Frankxcid

Class that allows you to programmatically create an Open XML Excel spreadsheet

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Windows

ASP.NET

Implementing Load More button using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery - Part One

26 Oct 2015 by Hamid Mosalla

In the next two posts, I’m going to show you how to build a load more button for your page using ASP.NET MVC, you can use it for any various kind of things, but in the case of this tutorial, I’ll use it for my fictitious product list.

Calling Rest APIs in Jira using JavaScript

31 Aug 2016 by adityave22

This article explains how to write JavaScript code in Atlassian Jira to call external REST APIs and load json data into Jira custom fields

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Javascript

Jira

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)

A Custom WPF ScrollViewer

7 Dec 2018 by Dirk Bahle

Making better use of the available UI space.

Add Clipboard Text Provider Capability to Your C# OpenGL App on X11

18 Feb 2019 by Steffen Ploetz

How to realize text copy functionality via inter process communication for your OpenTK based C# OpenGL application running on X11

Real Label Size and View Angle Measurement Tool

12 Aug 2019 by Member 13092868

This tool helps you create a label with given degrees of view angle. Also helps you estimate REAL label height and width by providing you linear correction functions to apply to inaccurate MeasureString values

Reconnect Windows 10 VPN Automatically

5 May 2020 by Marcus Müller

Use Windows 10 build-in tools to configure VPNs for automatic reconnection after a connection is lost

Formatting an XML string in Silverlight

7 Jan 2011 by Paul Schwartzberg

If you have unformatted XML in a string and need to format it for visual presentation, e.g. for sending it to your UI, here's how to do it for Silverlight 4.0.

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Silverlight

Social Sharing Buttons using jQuery and XML

15 Sep 2011 by Bryian Tan

Social sharing buttons script created by using jQuery and XML for your website

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jQuery

plugin

Badge Notifications in Windows 8

28 Jun 2012 by ROHIT SHAW

It shows how to display a badge notification in Windows 8 metro app

Using XPath to Query the Internet

10 Dec 2013 by Bruce Yang CL

A way to query the data from Internet

Header Style Combo Box Drop Down Filter Button

16 Jan 2014 by Codes Of Shadows

Header Style Combo Box Drop Down Filter Button

IIS Express (8.0) x Handler Mappings!

30 Jan 2014 by @donis2014

How to configure IIS Express "applicationhost.config" for handler mappings

Change an Android Layout's default header text

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to quickly and easily change a Layout's header text

Autos - Immediate Access to Resources Without Clicking

1 Jan 2015 by tc99

Immediate access to resources without clicking

How to Add Custom XSD Validation Intellisense in Visual Studio

15 Feb 2015 by RemcoReitsma

This tip shows how you can add an XSD schema in Visual Studio to enable XML intellisense.

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Visual-Studio

Case Insensitive XPath Queries

3 Apr 2018 by Christiaan van Bergen

How to perform XPath queries on all lower case elements

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.NET

XPath

Base64 Encoding

23 Mar 2019 by Martin Vorbrodt

Base64 encoding

XML

C++

XML-RPC

23 Mar 2019 by Martin Vorbrodt

XML-RPC

XML

C++

HTTP

Cinchoo ETL - Quick Start: Converting JSON to XML File

28 Sep 2022 by Cinchoo

Quick tutorial about converting JSON to XML file using Cinchoo ETL

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.NET

JSON

Applying XSL Transformations

31 Mar 2010 by Ilka Guigova

Setup: A data from one module is passed into another so that Module 1 takes a (flat) file as input and feeds an xml structure into Module 2. While Module 2 is internal, Module 1 is designed to handle different customer inputs into the system. However, it is not always possible to generate the...

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Get rid of XmlInclude when using XmlSerializer

29 Jul 2011 by Bob Sandberg

How would you do this, if objects included inside one of the serialized objects was an abstract class? E.g.:abstract class Base{ public int x;}class A : Base{ public int y;}class B : A{ public int z;}class SomeOtherClass{ public string...

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.NET

.NET3.5

Get rid of XmlInclude when using XmlSerializer

1 Aug 2011 by Daniel Gidman

Serializable Extra Types for .NET 4[^]Does what you are looking for using attributes.

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.NET

.NET3.5

Data Tables to Formatted XML (for loops vs. LINQ to XML)

2 Oct 2011 by Vishnu Kesaraju

Using LINQ to XML to convert datatables to formatted XML.

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LINQ

PrettyXML (.NET Port)

12 Jul 2012 by PIEBALDconsult

This is an alternative for "PrettyXML (.NET Port)"

Querying DataSet With LINQ in ASP.NET

31 Jul 2012 by HemendraSingh88

Hi, here we will see how to query a DataSet with LINQ(Language Integrated Query).

Converting a .NET DateTime object to a JavaScript Date object

1 Oct 2012 by Jason N. Gaylord

When using a WCF or ASMX web service in ASP.NET, you might find the need to pass back a DateTime object via JSON. However, what you might not realize is that by passing a .NET DateTime object back to JavaScript, you’d receive an “Invalid date” script exception. The data being passe

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Windows

Strongly Typed Sub-Lists Which Modify Their Parent List (No Events)

5 Oct 2012 by Bryan Lyman

Generic list wrapper that returns a smaller strongly typed sub-list which modifies the parent-list when changed, without using events

Converting XML string to HTML Table

19 Dec 2012 by Rajesh Kuramdasu

This article describes about converting an XML string to a HTML table.

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 2

21 Apr 2013 by emadns

Second tutorial for loading data through code - Sqlite

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.NET

ASP.NET Web API Generic HttpContent Reader and Serialization Helper

21 Aug 2013 by karlodegrano

A generic HttpContent Reader that can be used to replace FromBody parameter on Http Action

Framework for Performing Aggregation and Plain MongoDB Queries in myBatis Style

12 Sep 2013 by dmgcodevil

Framework for performing aggregation and plain MongoDB queries in myBatis style

Generating HTML Reports for Dynamic Table Structures

3 Jan 2014 by Sergii Syrovatchenko

This tip describes the most convenient way of process automation of generating HTML reports for dynamic table-structures and sending them to different people.

How to Pass a Large String to a Web API Method (Apart from the URI)

27 Feb 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Pass a long string to a Web API method (not as part of the URI query)

Invoke a POST method with XML Request message in C#

24 Apr 2014 by Amogh Natu

This tip explains how to call a web method with a POST request using xml request messaage in C#.

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.NET

HTTP

Use Android Themes to Incorporate a DRY Layout

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Simple steps needed to globally change a widget property

How to Enclose Multiple Android Widgets in a Rectangle

21 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

In which the user is shown how to enclose multiple widgets in a rectangle

How to Add Borders to Android Widgets

30 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Add borders to Android widgets, such as EditTexts, to "set them off/apart"

Add Menu Items, and Respond to Them, in Android Activities

4 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Wherein the steps to add menu items, and respond to them being selected, is delineated

How to Reference Colors by Name in Android Layouts

9 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

A handful of easy steps to enable using names instead of hex vals for colors

Read .xml Files and Add them into SharePoint 2010 through PowerShell

11 Jul 2014 by MANPREET SINGH

How to read XML files and add them into SharePoint 2010 through Powershell

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PowerShell

Using FTP with Nant

19 Sep 2014 by Dominic Burford

Using FTP with Nant

XML

Nant

FTP

Adding unit testing and code coverage to your Nant scripts

19 Sep 2014 by Dominic Burford

Adding unit testing and code coverage to your Nant scripts

XML

Windows

Nant

XML Database and XQuery to the Rescue

26 Jan 2015 by John C Rayan

How to process very large XML files

XML

Dev

Key Points while getting started with WiX

26 Feb 2015 by Mohit Johri

This article will give a brief introduction about WIX toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code with an example

A Programmatic Approach of Configuring web.xml

13 Apr 2015 by Keerthi_Kumar_N

Configuring the web.xml for any Java/J2ee project using a programmatic approach

Java

XML

Dev

Processing Legacy “Data Islands” with jQuery

7 Jan 2016 by Sandeep Neela

Platform independent jQuery workaround for legacy “Data Islands”

ExpandoObject: Serialization OOP and Processing XML Files without Heads Taken

19 Feb 2016 by mbruchet

It is often requested by the customer to import a data file in XML format. It is therefore easier to work in object mode, however, the XML transformation into a pure object might take time to be developed. ExpandoObject provides an answer to this problem ...

XML

WebAPI

Android Torch App

22 Jun 2018 by Azim Zahir

This is a demonstration of a Torch application built using Android.

Google NewsStand Animation Android

1 Jul 2020 by Hariprasanth S

Navigation pattern like in Google News Stand app with transitions

Not Every Memory Allocation Failure is OOM

24 Dec 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

It could be a hacking to crash your program.

Xamarin Forms: Check and Request for Permissions

11 Jan 2019 by Harshit Gindra

Check and request for Permissions in Xamarin Forms mobile application

Dependency Injection in "WCF Service Library" Project with Self hosting

30 Jul 2019 by Sunny Makode

There are several contents available on the internet that talk about injecting dependencies through .svc file's markup [in WCF service application] and it's easy when you have a WCF service application. But, it is equally easy to do that even in your WCF Library project (without .svc).

How to Auto-generate Multiple Custom Columns in a WPF DataGrid for Same Type Properties

1 Apr 2020 by Vassili Kravtchenko-Berejnoi

A generic workaround for auto-generating multiple custom columns in a WPF DataGrid in case where the data class has multiple properties of the same type

Auto Generate a Lot of Columns in Reporting Services (RDL)

15 May 2021 by be05x5

SQL script that will generate XML code that you can copy paste into your RDL file and just do it that way

SQL

XML

RDL

WPF and RX - Dispose vs Complete

16 May 2021 by G.TR

This tip shows two different approaches for disposing view models that use Reactive Extension

Override Date, Time, Currency and Number Formats in ASP.NET Applications

18 Jan 2024 by Lance Ford

Step-by-step guide to enable an ASP.NET web application to override date, time, currency and number formats.

The prefix '' cannot be redefined from '' to 'namespaceURI' within the same start element tag.

27 Nov 2009 by db_developer

xmlns is special attribute. It determines namespace of current element and its children all as well. You do not have to add it to XmlDocument (XmlElement) explicitly. Use method of XmlDocument:public virtual XmlElement CreateElement( string prefix, string localName, string...

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XML parsing in WP7

30 Jul 2010 by Slava Khristich

Parsing and navigating XML tree in Windows Phone 7 (WP7)

XML

Windows-Phone-7

MS Excel: Get Column Letter By Index/Index By Letter (2003/2007)

15 Nov 2010 by Niyazi Yarar

Helps developer to get excel column letter or index

XML

MS-Excel

Parsing an HTML document by using a recursive function

19 Sep 2011 by marc9889

In response to the request to use a website (instead of a file), the pertinent code is shown below. Note that you will need to replace "www.somewebsite.com" with the website page that you want to capture the source code (HTML, for example) from.Dim webclient As System.Net.WebClient = New...

XML

HTML

ASP.NET

Formatting an Xml string in Silverlight

12 Jul 2011 by Paul Schwartzberg

Formatting XML in a string for visual presentation.

Delete an XML node using the node name

24 Aug 2011 by George Swan

Can't you do the same thing without the need for a select statement?XElement xElement = XElement.Load(path);xElement.Elements ("Node").Remove();xElement.Save(path);

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Get rid of XmlInclude when using XmlSerializer

17 Nov 2011 by Gusdor

The above solution made me grin as it helped me solved my serialization puzzle. However, if you have an extensible format with components spread over multiple assemblies, this solution may not pick up all the types.I brute force it as follows:List knownTypes = new...

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.NET

.NET3.5

Set your maxUrlLength in ASP.NET MVC

18 Feb 2012 by Dean Oliver

Persist your objects/settings in XML

5 Sep 2012 by amitthk

A useful class for persisting your settings to XML config files.