This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the Custom Routing Manager for managing messages via Routing Service built-in .Net 4 Technology.
This article describes a design, implementation and tooling of model driven WorkflowServices logically centralized in the Repository and physically decentralized for their runtime projecting.
In this article, we will try to understand what is Factory Pattern, what are the benefits of this pattern and how we can implement this pattern using C#.
This article introduces how to create and manage .NET enterprise applications using your favorite technology (Data Access Application Block, LINQ, NHibernate, ASMX, and WCF) with the Model Driven Development approach by Sculpture.
Development in C# without care of resource consumption can lead to overloading the system. This article describes a case with large waste of memory and CPU time and how to avoid it.
This post is about implementing Chain Of Responsibility design pattern, and few possible extensions to the same using Managed Extensibility Framework or MEF
XCODE & Android Studio mobile app projects built using Ionic's Capacitor with an Angular 14 UI. Includes WebRTC for video conferencing, and SwipeClouds for Playing Millions of HD Movies & Videos and A Custom Capacitor Plugin for Scraping User Data for Targeted Delivery of video ads to mobile phones.
Silverlight 4 has the feature to talk with Excel or any other application using the COM API. In this article, I will guide you to understand this feature step-by-step.
A full-scale all-assembly .DLL module for the situations that warrant it can offer a tremendous power and speed boost over using inline ASM or intrinsics alone.
An articial life algorithm that attempts to solve a problem by flying a swarm of entities through a range of possible solutions where each entity is guided by the performance of other members of the swarm
jsRazor is unbeatably powerful and stupidly simple client-side rendering approach that consists of ONLY TWO functions. Tiny javascript library entirely eliminates the need for server-page rendering, in the same time giving your apps unmatched simplicity and flexibility.
Often, when WPF developers have to write a custom window, they find themselves drowning in countless articles, blog posts, and StackOverflow threads each depicting a different approach to the problem.
This article focuses on internal supply chain management systems visibility via chart reports, and provides assessment apparatus to manage and monitor activities spawned during business processes, hence paves the way for timely and precise business decisions.
The Exif Compare Utility is a WinDiff equivalent for image files that compares the Exif meta-data and displays the differences and similarities. The application is written using WPF and MVVM.
In this article, we will demonstrate how to compute full SVD of a given matrix A and discuss about the code in C++11 implementing the full SVD computation by using simple iteration and Jordan-Gaussian methods.
Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.
This article will show how to use data binding and styles to show data coming from a Microsoft SQL database using the new object-relational model introduced in Visual Studio 2008, LINQ to SQL, allowing grouping, sorting and filtering of data with almost no code.
This article will cover the basics of network programming using Network View in Unity 3D. We will be creating an Authoritative Server based networking environment showcasing the basics functions of network programming using Unity 3D and C#.
This article is about the Entity-Component-System (ECS). It is a design pattern which allows you great flexibility in designing your overall software architecture.
In this article, we will demonstrate how to create and deploy Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) cells and train it to predict future simple moving average (SMA).
This article presents a behavior that can make another UIElement visible when the mouse down event occurs on the UIElement this behavior is attached to. Have extended this to directly support fading of a Popup control
This article will cover the basics of Leap Motion integration into your Unity 3D project. We will look at the basic setup and implementation of the basics to get you started. In order for you to try the code, you will need to have the Leap Motion hardware.
An extended Static markup extension implementation for Silverlight 5 and WPF supporting invoking static methods with arguments, and a Silverlight Type markup extension implementation.
This article helps in identifying database design issues like certain fields missing, nullable fields, Primary key not found issues in production environment using SQL Server schema views.
jLinq is a Javascript query language that makes it easy to work with large arrays of information. Today, jLinq 2.2.0 is released which offers new commands, bug fixes and more!
A strategy for keeping sensitive configuration values, such as connection strings, out of your source control repository, but still available to your app both locally and in the cloud. We're looking specifically at Azure websites and GitHub.
Ouellet Convex Hull is currently the only ‘Online’ Convex Hull in O(log h) per point, where 'Online' stands for dynamically add one point at a time. Based on our own test against many other algorithm implementations, including Chan and Voronoi/Delaunay, it appears to be the fastest one.
In this article, we will formulate and discuss CLOPE data mining clustering algorithm that allows to drastically increase the quality and efficiency of categorized data clustering and can be easily used for recommendation-specific purposes
This article describes how the Azure Lease Blob can help the composition of the business model during the runtime in the distributed event-driven pub/sub architecture.
In this article, we'll look at how you can add social networking buttons to your website to connect it to other networks. We'll use BuildButtons for the heavy lifting.
Create, read, update, delete,Log in and Log out, (CRUD) operations are easy to perform in ASP.NET MVC. By using the default T4 scaffolding templates and strongly-typed views you can quickly build a web application that can create, update, and delete records.
This article describes the security techniques required to create a secure offline password manager and how the Libsodium library has been used to achieve this. YAPM stores passwords with AES encryption and authenticates users with an Argon2 hash.
Some claim that it's hard to use DocFX to generate GitHub Pages, but I discovered that it is pretty straightforward, once you mark all the booby traps.
This article describes how to build a lightweight test bench for testing user interfaces which are written entirely in C#/.NET, using NUnit or any other unit test framework.
Having too many files in one folder causes file manipulation to slow down the program. The class presented here is intended to provide a tree-like folder structure for file writing.
Step-by-step guide on how to develop wi-fi remote control HTML5 applications for mobile phones and use them in IoT applications with NodeMCU and compatible devices (ESP8266 / ESP32)
This article explains approaches to determine if an HTTP request is coming from a mobile phone and then redirecting the request to a page optimized for a mobile browser.
IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty profile is a flexible and dynamic server profile of WAS which enables the WAS server to deploy only required custom features instead of deploying a big set of available JEE components.
This is a small tip containing my thoughts on why we should not blindly create interfaces and/or abstract class for each and every class in our application.
We frequently need to control (or limit) the public operations of an object based on the sate of another object (mostly the owner). I have listed four ways of dealing with such situations with a sample player, playlist scenario.
A new data-driven programming idea and method is proposed and discussed here, whose purpose is to improve programming flexibility, constructivity, and sharing
This is the second article in a series of articles covering how to develop HTML5 applications for Intel AppUp (SM) center. This article will address a new feature of HTML5 called Web Workers. We'll present an application that illustrates the use of Web Workers, as well as some other HTML5 features s
We have discussed in our previous post the decorator pattern’s role, and giving a very detailed illustration about it. Also, we have discussed its design varieties and clarified when to use each design and why.
Loops are a standard item in any programmer's toolbox. But as often as they make their way into our code, you have to wonder why you don't see more improvements to using them. This post discusses some ideas to improve your loops by using Extension Methods.
This article offers insight in all aspects of identifiers, and proves that any set of identifiers contains strong evidence which can be used to explore a software model.
This would be article series where we will develop the professional website in MEAN stack and finally deploy it to a server. First, we will develop a static website with Angular 5 and use node.js only to run the website on a server.
This piece illustrates how to construct a simple generic mapper that will copy every property value from one class to another where the name and type of the property is the same in both classes; it goes on to suggest a way of constructing generic tests that can be used for any instance of the
In this article I will ground the discussion on the several aspects of delivering a modern parallel code using the Intel® MPI library, that provides even more performance speed-up and efficiency of the parallel “stable” sort, previously discussed.
The open-source Spring Framework has become a popular application framework for building enterprise Java apps. This chapter explores the newest features in Spring AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming), including @AspectJ-style annotations, the AspectJ pointcut language, Spring AOP XML tags and more.
This article demonstrates how to generate plain old class objects (POCO) from the Entity Framework v4 (EF4) and use them through RIA Services in SilverLight version 4.
The primary purpose of this article is to provide quality sample source code for VB.NET developers interested in building data-centric applications using the .NET Framework.
When dealing with the insane proliferation of web-enabled devices and the great unknown of where our websites will go, it pays to take a step back and focus on what’s important.
ORM objects and basic CRUD operation procedures are first phase tasks that come after establishing a first version of the database. This java-based code generation tool builds those classes and stored procedures.
Do you spend days and nights developing dynamic web sites in ASP.NET? Do you need to simplify your job, get more sites done and gain more clients? Kentico CMS for .NET will help you.
Why organizations considering moving to an Agile development methodology to increase product quality, decrease costs and respond more quickly to market needs should also consider the changing requirements that the new model places on the SCM system and which aspects are critical to success.
This is the first in a series of articles covering how to develop HTML5 applications for Intel AppUp (SM) center. This series, will address a range of topics from the basics of getting a minimal application packaged using the AppUp encapsulator tool to applications that illustrate different feature
In this article, Paul Farquhar, recounts his first experience with HTML5 and how he was inspired to create a spirograph app using Canvas. This article shows the initial spirograph design that Paul created, as well as sample codes and additional resources.
Terrain Rendering is a game technology code sample that demonstrates how to render large-scale terrains in real time by efficiently distributing the tasks between the CPU and the GPU. This article provides an overview of the terrain-rendering application and includes a link to the free code.
Learn how to turn the latter into the former, and how a pragmatic approach to software configuration management can significantly improve your development efforts.
Ultrabook devices represent a new category for developers with a huge market potential. Powered by 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors, Ultrabook devices support rich, secure application experiences and HD media. This article provides an overview of key features and the developer opportunity.
Advanced features of contemporary mobile devices provide vast opportunities for their utilization in various situations. These opportunities can cause serious snags that programme developers have not met in desktop environment before. Mobile environment is specific, yet very challenging and prospect
A new flagship of Resco’s product line Enterprise Solution Prototypes (ESP) brings revolutionary features and is specifically designed for SFA and CRM solutions
Data input is part of every mobile application nowadays. But it is the data input that causes complicated situations for programmers due to relatively limited options of mobile devices.
The success of contemporary mobile applications is determined by both, rich functionality and attractive GUI. Let’s find a way how to be successful and effective in development of such applications.
Can Windows Mobile apps be graphically as attractive as the ones for iPhone, while bringing rich functionality? Let’s see what opportunities we have and how much can be achieved.
Current mobile devices feature such tech specs, one could only dream about a few years ago. They provide great work optimization opportunities. Despite that, many of them are used in business scenarios only occasionally.
Every developer wishes his application was not only efficient but also attractive, full of beautiful graphical elements and easy to operate. It is definitely one of the most important factors deciding whether the app will be commercially successful or not.
Designers used to write style guides in unwieldy documents or Wikis to ensure a consistent look, but such style guides soon went stale and obsolete. Enter Quince Pro™ by Infragistics, a private, secure and organized way to collaborate, communicate and cultivate private UX design libraries.
Would you believe that a functional mobile app can be built before you finish a cup of coffee? Probably not. But I would like to convince you that the reverse is true. Read on to find out the details.
Explore the fast and highly customizable UI controls in Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business from the perspective of a Microsoft Expression Blend user. In revealing much of the data grid’s object model, I cover some of the more popular ways to format and style grids in Blend.
Efficient anti-aliasing techniques are an important tool of high-quality, real-time rendering. A new Intel technique called Morphological Antialiasing (MLAA) addresses limitations of the standard technique, MSAA. This article discusses MLAA implementation. Includes code samples and free download.
With rise of iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms, plenty of mobile developers are starting to question the future of Windows Mobile platform. Is it gonna last or is it already dead??
Discover how quickly and easily you can create BI apps, deploy scalable dashboards and reports, and embed analytics into existing apps. You can then deploy your apps to any number of users on any platform, including mobile - all without per-user fees.
Ever wonder exactly how long it takes your customers to view your website? Let's break down a single page lifecycle and see exactly where time is spent delivering that page to your customers.
Providing a rich, interactive experience will increase visitors returning to your website. Symfony, known as a stable and powerful development environment, can be used to create a wide range of Web projects. Here we provide an introduction to Symfony and a guide to getting started.
An AJAX Proxy HttpHandler built using ASP.NET that continuously delivers content from external domains to the browser and is thus faster and more scalable than any other proxy service.
Droptiles mimics the experience of Windows 8 Start screen using HTML, Javascript and CSS. It offers a framework to build Dashboards comprised of Tiles. Tiles are mini-Apps built using Javascript. They launch a full screen app when clicked. Apps can be any regular website to custom built applications
In this post, I am going to walk you through creating your own central hub to allow your connected devices to authenticate people using facial recognition system.
In this article, I will guide you through the steps of customization with the help of a sample application. We will need Microsoft Expression Blend for the full customization. Read the complete article to learn about it.
In this article, I will show you how to fire Triggers to call some methods present in your ViewModel, instead of writing in the code behind file. Read more to learn about it.
Joint Power over IP project has started the phase of public testing. All testers can try it out and charge their laptop batteries, free of charge, for limited period of time.
This article is about a very light-weight enum extension library that takes advantage of dynamic types in .NET 4.0 to provide a simple way to add meta attributes to an enum field.
This article enables you to generate table in any database such as Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL, SQLite, Sybase, etc. just by typing table name and its fields. Then you can use NHibernate facilities to make query for data layer.
Reviews a WPF application that displays an object graph which can be rearranged by the user at runtime, and highlights circular dependencies in its nodes.
Everyone knows automated tests are good, unit test is good, we should all do it. But when you try to convince management that it's going to take double the time to deliver anything from now on, you are kicked out of the room. Learn how I convinced a dev lead to do automated test.
In this article, we'll demonstrate an approach the allows to increase the performance (up to 600%) of the code that implements the conventional distribution counting algorithm (DCA) using NVIDIA CUDA 8.0 Runtime API
Discusses the six major types of combinatorial collections, with examples and formulas for counting. Expands with a C# Generics-based set of classes for enumerating each meta-collection.
The second article in a series devoted to a WPF application that plays streaming audio podcasts off the Internet. This article discusses the idea and implementation of look-less applications.
A reflection based wrapper for the Oracle Data Provider for .NET – allows your application to dynamically load the Oracle.DataAccess.dll assembly installed on your client’s computer.
Playing with some of the cutting edge stuff to develop a live drawing white board on a web page where multiple people can collaborate and each person has the same view at the same time without any page refresh.
PDF MERGER and PROTECTOR is the best pdf merger software which is fast and powerful way to join(Merge) PDF files with password protection as well as you can apply stamper with either any type of image or text. Using this utility you don’t required installation of Adobe Acrobat. Looks Exciting ???
In this article, I will guide you through creating a UI Wrapper Library for the installation experience of your Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.
A tutorial explaining how to develop the "Turnstile" animation as featured in the Windows Phone 7 UI, along with an easy-to-use ItemsControl that applies the effect to its items.
The seventh version of the dynamic, configuration-less and self-adaptive Kerosene ORM library, that provides full real support for POCO objects, natural SQL-like syntax from C#, and advanced capabilities while being extremely easy to use.
Understanding of complex jQuery Datatable tricks and Save it's state in SQL Server with a basic concepts of jQyuery template. Sample Application used .NET 4.5, Entityt Framework.
In this article, we're going to create a starfield in JavaScript. We'll see how the core langauge features work, how to create classes, and how to use the HTML5 Canvas.
An alternative approach in which dialogs are entirely specified as C++ code that requires neither IDE support to be written nor IDE generated resources to be executed. Powered by the C++ type system.
Provider Design Pattern is a new pattern that Microsoft formalized in .NET 2 to increase application performance where there is no need to explicitly instantiate classes.
The idea is to use Dependency Injector (DI) framework Ninject to dynamically target our application to SQL Server or Oracle database either by using Entity framework (EF) or Dapper ORM using global settings
The Evaluation Engine is a parser and interpreter that can be used to build a Business Rules Engine. It allows for mathematical and boolean expressions, operand functions, variables, variable assignment, comments, and short-circuit evaluation. A syntax editor is also included.
Do you work with Silverlight DataGrid and want to group your records inside the DataGrid in a proper manner? If so, this article is for you. Here we will learn about data grouping inside a DataGrid.
The article shows how to interop between a WCF service and a WWS client, and also how to rewrite the WCF service in WWS retaining compatibility with existing WCF clients.
In this article I will guide you creating a File Explorer in Silverlight 4. This step-by-step guide will help yoou understanding the API call and how to access local files, folders and drives using the Silverlight 4 COM APIs.
This article introduces the implementation of an algorithm written in Visual Basic .NET that allows us to quickly and easily parse and evaluate the resulting value of various mathematical expressions
In this article, I will demonstrate in a step-by-step manner how we can create a Text-to-Speech application using the COM APIs in Silverlight 4. Read it. Learn and Vote for this Article. Feedback and/or Suggestions are most welcome.
In this article we'll discuss an approach of using jQuery's Ajax requests to implement an indexed search filter based on an example of creating a simple phone book web application with ASP.NET MVC.
Maintaining code with complex permissions tends to be difficult, because the code can be distributed across multiple classes. By embedding permissions directly on methods and properties within a class, code is reduced and maintainability is simplified.
AJAX is a modern way to building web application where most of the code runs at client side for better performance and user experience. So how can we make secure AJAX call to protect from CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) attack?
The article will guide you with samples to create and embed Microsoft Map in your website within minutes. The intention is to give basic knowledge on how JavaScript library could be used to embed Custom Map.
The pieces start coming together! Development of the SOLID Poker project continues, and the latest addition is a versatile engine to Generate Spec Based Poker Hands, allowing for extensive algorithm based testing.
This project developed using combination of Entity Framework 6.0 + Code First Approach + Web API 2 + Repository Pattern + ASP.NET MVC 5 + SQL Server 2012 + Unit of Work Testing + Bootstrap.
In this post, I will demonstrate how to animate the items in a specific direction in your PathListBox control. This will not only guide you for animation in PathListBox but also will help you understanding the StoryBoard creation (if you are very new to Silverlight).
Describes all debugging features like Breakpoints, DataTips, Watch Windows, Multithreaded Debugging, Parallel Program Debugging and IntelliTrace Debugging
The LEDBulb is a .NET user control for Windows Forms that emulates an LED light. Its purpose is to provide a sleek looking representation of an LED light that is sizable, has a transparent background and can be set to different colors.
Introduction to Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them. It is about how to work together to achieve a common goal. This article focus on how technology team work together well to plan, build and deliver software.
This article describes the development of XAML Finance, a cross-platform application which works on the desktop, using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), on the web, using Silverlight and on Windows Phone 7 (WP7).
UI and code-behind is executed in different threads. Long running processes need asynchronous execution. This artice shows a way of doing this in a ViewModel approach.
This article demonstrates how to implement the Huffman adaptive compression alogrithm to compress graphics images of 256 colors depth and other multimedia files
UFrame makes a DIV behave like an IFRAME that can load any ASP.NET/PHP/HTML page and allows all postback and hyperlink navigation to happen within the DIV - a painless way to make regular pages fully AJAX enabled
Presents a helper class to easily display user-friendly enum value representations including customizable and localizable text, images, and arbitrary XAML content. This class can also be used as a general XAML switch statement for enum and non-enum classes.
TV Screen in the Reception, When nothing happens (no one is in the reception) we can display videos on the screen but when someone enters the frame show him the Kinect Image, and if the user is doing something funny, capture his image and save it.
I built my own Internet of Things, IoT, home automation system that is controlling 30 different things with 4 different types of microcontrollers with nearly 150 commands. This article talks about IoT design patterns and the lessons learned from the design patterns that I have used.
Paging must be effective for large scaleable applications. Without smart and effective paging and sorting for huge amount of data, user request takes more time and uses more resources.
Activity of android application is main entity which likes windows on win32 platform. It has lifecycle, contains gui widgets, and manages them together. Activity can create child activities, with initial parameters, and gets results from them. Here gives an example to operate activities, which code
This article describes how to add a fully client side Multiple File Upload functionality to your page. Include select multiple files at a time, Select from different folders, Apply validation, show files in thumbnails and remove files from the list.
In this article, we will create a simple binary clock using C# and WPF. The project itself will serve to show some peculiarities, like the use of Tasks, how to manipulate the UI of a WPF page, and basic data conversions.
An Azure based software solution allowing users to discover events around them on a massive scale. Features ASP.net MVC4, Entity Framework and a large importing backend utilizing Azure virtual machines
In this article, I will show you how to create an Drag and Drop ListBox using the Silverlight 4 ToolKit. Here you will learn how to drag and drop between two ListBoxes as well as in the same ListBox.
This article talks about the Builder Design pattern, When can this pattern be used and when should it be implemented. We will then see a small rudimentary implementation of Builder pattern in C#.
I would talk about Windows 10 from a developer's perspective. Windows 10 has not yet been released, but it is better to know the tool to get your hands ready to develop applications.
This article demostrates the C++ code that implements AI binary distribution evolutionary algorithm for finding the "nearest" neighbor values of the given value of x in the array of N elements.
This article illustrates how to use Node.js by WCF which is written in C# and using node.js as real time communication technology with the aid of C# code to connect MS SQL Server.
This article describes what is state pattern, when could we find state pattern useful and how to have a rudimentary implementation of state pattern in C#.
Live SDK provides a set of controls and APIs that enable applications to integrate single sign-on (SSO) with Microsoft accounts and access information from SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Windows Live Messenger on Windows Phone and Windows 8.
The Companion App: Its basically a utility app proposed for ultrabook which consists of the likes of a search tool, a geo location browsing tool and a language translator tool.
A database-driven banner rotator control rotating based on a specific time (and not on page refresh). Each banner will have a display time (in seconds) to move to the next one.
Scalable, high performance, and low latency reverse AJAX grid. This is a COMET based multi-client capable grid control. This grid control can COMET-update to multiple clients with varying data needs. Complete performance report included.
This article demonstrates how to convert the WinForm version of the Microsoft chart control into a WPF and MVVM compatible chart control and how to use it to create various charts in a WPF application.
DaST is a brand new concept with open-source framework. The article is to highlight the most important differences of the latest RC version, and to demonstrate one more time DaST elegance and simplicity over MVC and WebForms by example of creating a fully dynamic tree view web application.
Turn your current static website or blog into a lifestreaming portal with all your social activities with ASP.NET 4.0, C# 4.0, PLINQ, Task Parallel Library, Dependency Injection, and plug-in architecture.
The article shows how to embed a XNA-based game into a WinForms control with ease. Also, it explains how to integrate an XNA GS project into VS2008 (this IDE is not currently supported by XNA GS), and in turn, to be able to use WPF with your XNA-based creation.
Entity Framework is world’s most difficult ORM for n-tier application. See how I have produced a 100% unit testable fully n-tier compliant data access layer following the repository pattern using Entity Framework.
This article talks about how to compile Python source code on WP8, the changes made on the source code, and an example using Python in a WP8 native app.
Silverlight 4 has the power to talk with any other application using the COM API. After reading this article, you will be able to pin/unpin any Windows application to your Windows 7 taskbar directly from your Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application.
Learn the principle behind Microsoft's new Doloto and 6 other cool techniques that I did in Pageflakes to load large amounts of JavaScript without compromising performance
An introduction to Custom Roles Based Reporting for ASP.NET MVC applications using the Entity Framework. Protecting confidential information is a business requirement and in many cases also an ethical and legal requirement.
This second article from the "MVC Basic Site" series presents in details the exceptions management rules and their implementation for an ASP.NET MVC web site, and provides some utile base classes and source code for Logging and Exceptions Management that can be reused.
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