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Parameter count mismatch Error

Thu, 21 May 2009 19:22:17 GMT

Yesterday, I spent a whole day chasing a very weird and strange error - I was getting an exception at the main method. The error description was: "Parameters count mismatch".

Crafting a C# Forms Editor from scratch

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:07:57 GMT

A Forms Editor allows you to add, move, resize, and delete controls on your form. The dialog editor of VC6 and the Forms Designer of VS.NET are Forms Editors we commonly use at design time.

Creating A Tabbed Menu Control For ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:16:05 GMT

Tab menus are a fairly common thing that I use in a lot of my applications. I like tabs because they help break up large chunks of, usually, related information.

Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:46:03 GMT

In this post I want to show you how to use jQuery to create an AJAX login screen. I am going to use an ASP.NET MVC application for this demonstration

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 5 - Views

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:31:02 GMT

Well we've arrived at the last part of our series on ASP.NET MVC. In this post we'll be looking at Views, ViewData, and HTML Helpers. We'll be discussing how to call Views from Controllers and how to use HTML Helpers to create your markup.

Property, Dependency Property and Threading

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:59:30 GMT

are Property, Dependency Property thread safe?

Why Should You Always Locate Your Convertors In App.Xaml

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:46:13 GMT

Where do you locate your convertors? do you put them in the Window.Resources section? or in the UserControl they are being used for?

Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:01:12 GMT

Use User controls inside templtes

Creating a WPF / Silverlight Control With a Semi Transparent Backgroun

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:16:29 GMT

Yesterday I was trying to create a control with a partially transparent background,. I am writing this because what I thought was so straight forward, was not.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 4 - Controllers, ControllerActions, and

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:31:13 GMT

In this post we'll look the first of two parts that really hold our application together, the Controller. In the next post we'll cover the View and how it ties into the Controller.

Things to Notice When Binding to Large Collection

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Lately I was working on an application that had to display a large amount of objects on screen and allow filtering. I have learned that scrolling large collections was not so simple in WPF, and I definitely did not see the problems coming.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 3 - Url Routing

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:31:17 GMT

Url Routing has become a very common these days. In fact, at least among the websites I visit, it has become more common than not routing urls. Url Routing is part of the ASP.Net framework, both MVC and WebForms, that lets you easily rewrite and map your urls to make them look nicer and be more serach engine friendly.

Advanced Bidirectional Silverlight 2.0 to ASP.NET Integration - Part 1

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:49:54 GMT

This is the first post covering techniques for both sending data into your Silverlight environment from ASP.NET as well as getting data out of Silverlight without resorting to a lot of new elements in your architecture. The goal is to use what you already have with the least fuss. You may think you need to resort to 'pushing' all data from Silverlight into say a service using WCF but that is not the case in many scenarios. For example, you may have activity which the user creates inside Silverlight 2.0 that results in visual elements you want to send out to ASP.NET for persistence in your ORM environment (where Silverlight has no involvement).

Free Tool For Managed and Unmanaged Deadlock Detection

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:16:12 GMT

Deadlocks are terribly difficult to find and even more difficult to debug. Debug Inspector is a free tool that allows you to view the call stacks of multiple threads at the same time, plugs in to the internals of the CLR and automatically detects deadlocks.

Handle External Links With Custom Http Handler

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:01:06 GMT

In this article I'll talk about External Links Handling. We often need to manage more external links particularly in the mail or newsletter. These links must remain Standing, even when changing architecture of the website.

Creating a Website Sitemap Using Nested DataList and a Web. Sitemap Fi

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:35:29 GMT

Creating a Website Sitemap Using Nested DataList and a Web. Sitemap File

Serialization Exception: PropertyChangedEventManager is not serializab

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:41:12 GMT

How to solver the SerializationException called when you are trying to serialize and de-serialize and object that is involved in a binding.

ASP.NET MVC SiteMap

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:56:02 GMT

A sitemap solution for ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET Health Monitor

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:15:40 GMT

advanced .net error handling for your ASP.NET applications. Store your errors in the database along with some user credentials for future review and data mining.

Throwing Exceptions From Constructors?

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:07:50 GMT

Is it OK to throw exceptions from constructors? There are lots of philosophical arguments about this question, you may become confused trying to understand what's the right thing to do. I am writing this article to shed some light on the "throwing exceptions from constructors" topic.

Filtering You Data Using Predicates

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:01:12 GMT

A while back I wrote an article about How to sort data by manipulating the view only, This article will handle filtering the data without changing it.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 1

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:16:04 GMT

a quick look at building an application using the new ASP.Net MVC Beta, part one will handle the database

C# 4.0 Dynamic Lookup - Are You Kidding Me?

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:46:02 GMT

One of the core features introduced in C# 4.0 is called Dynamic Lookup which allows a unified approach to invoking things dynamically. When you have an object of type dynamic you can do whatever you like with it, those operations are resolved only at runtime. I DON'T LIKE IT, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Validate Your Regular Expressions With This Free Online Silverlight To

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:01:02 GMT

Validate you regular expressions with this online silverlight regular validation tool

How To Get Free Disk Space And Other WMI Stuff (.NET)

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:46:11 GMT

Before actually saving the file, I need to compute its anticipated size and compare it with the free disk space to see if there is enough storage for that operation. After searching a bit about how to get the free disk space, I came across the solution which uses the System.Management namespace.