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Making a uninstall shortcut with Visual studio setup project

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:56:20 GMT

In this Article you will learn how to Make a uninstall shortcut with Visual studio setup project.

Model View Presenter (MVP) design pattern and data binding

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:45:00 GMT

Model View Presenter (MVP) design pattern is the evolution of the MVC design pattern and it's aimed at providing a cleaner separation of concerns between the view, the model, and the controller improving the architecture (you can use several UI technologies without recompiling the business logic components) and testability of the enterprise solution. The pattern was originally developed at Taligent in the 1990s. In this article, I will explain the principles and how to use the MVP design pattern along with data binding with an example using C# language in Microsoft.NET.

Making Use of the Error Provider Control

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:30:31 GMT

This article shall address the use of the error provider control in Win Forms application development. The error provider control is most useful in displaying errors associated with data entry tasks on a Windows form.

Build a simple watermarking utility in C#

Tue, 19 May 2009 18:15:10 GMT

This article shall describe an approach to building a simple watermarking utility that may be used to add watermarks to any supported image file format. The resulting application shall permit the user to open any supported image file format into a scrollable picture box.

REST Eanbaled Service in WCF Tutorial

Tue, 19 May 2009 18:12:38 GMT

This tutiorial will explain how to create and consume a basic REST Enabled service in WCF. This is very basic tutorial but it will be very helpful in debugging common error while creating REST Services.

21 Important FAQ questions for WPF and SilverLight

Thu, 21 May 2009 22:19:53 GMT

This article talks about 21 important FAQ from the perspective of WPF and Silver light. Both of these technologies are connected to a certain extent. This article not only explains the theory aspect of these technologies but also shows small samples for each of them.

Edit and encrypt Web.Config sections using C# 2.0

Tue, 19 May 2009 18:08:51 GMT

An article to illustrate editing and encrypting of sections of Web.Config file programmatically.

Transfer data from MS Access to XML

Tue, 12 May 2009 17:02:58 GMT

This example illustrates how to access data from MS Access and create an XML file and write the data into it.

Summary from different blogs 10 May 2009

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:46:04 GMT

AutoMapper and StructureMap C# contextual and reserved keywords Multithreading Geneva Beta 2 RIA Services May Preview

Step by step guide for creating your own "Windows Explorer"

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:33:20 GMT

This article explains a step by step procedure for creating an application similar to Windows Explorer.

Introduction of ADO.NET Data Service

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:18:23 GMT

This article will give introduction of ADO.NET Data service

Silverlight 2 Web Service Part I - The Beginning

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:13:52 GMT

This tutorial is meant to shed some light upon how you can build you own Web Service using a WCF Service class. This is the first turtorial in a series of tutorials on how to access remote data with a Web Service. In this tutorial we start by simply returning a string from a Web Service method and displaying the value in the silverlight page, using a TextBlock, when the user clicks on a button. We also look at how you can dynamically use the current port alotted by Visual Studio in Debug mode without having to change he endpoint data in the configuration file.

Programming in C#: Understanding the SortedDictionary Class

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:11:28 GMT

This article illustrates a powerful collection in C#, the SortedDictionary. In the article we will discuss two ways to sort key-value pairs: using an IComparer object and using IComparable keys.

MVP (Model View Presenter) - Supervising Controller.

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:55:45 GMT

This articles discusses a general implementation of the Supervising Controller MVP (Model View Presenter) pattern for a win-forms application and the use of a dialog broker to allow pulling additional logic into the controller class.

Introduction to Biztalk Server

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:52:05 GMT

This article is the first one part of a series of articles intended to illustrate the principles and applications of Microsoft Biztalk Server.

Expander control for Silverligt 2

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:45:07 GMT

This tutorial is ment to shed some light upon how you can create you own Silverlight 2 Expander contol. This control can be used as a stand alone control, or can be used in a StackPanel as a repetitive control. The control uses a template to format the control and to assign data to intrinsic conrols. The expander control consists of two areas, a header and a footer. The footercan be expanded or collapsed by clicking on a button.

ASP.NET Controls - Validators problem (NetFx 1.1 versus NetFx 2.0+)

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:11:14 GMT

This post describes an issue regarding Validators and Controls ID value.

How to Create A JQuery Plugin

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:01:45 GMT

A small tutorial about creating JQuery Plugins

Using the BackgroundWorker component

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:33:58 GMT

This article discusses the BackgroundWorker component in .NET 2.0, it will show you how to use it to execute tasks in the background of your application

Free Geocoder.us web service in c#

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:25:57 GMT

This article gives you detailed information about the geocoding service. By using this you can easily estimate the latitude and longitude of a physical address.

WCF and SilverLight with Cross domain isssue

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:22:08 GMT

This tutorial will expalin about how to consume WCF in SilverLight, solve Cross Domain issue and to host WCF service in IIS.

Building your own Mail Client using C#

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:46:02 GMT

This post will go with you step by step towards building your own Mail Client using C#.

Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:31:17 GMT

Say you're building a web application and you want, against your better judgment perhaps, to allow end users to easily customize the look and feel - a comment scenario within a blog engine or any hosted application

Vote for Gaia Ajax: asp.netPRO Readers' Choice 2009

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:21:15 GMT

Gaia Ajax - the ASP.NET toolbox for building Ajax applications without JavaScript - is nominated to this years aspnetPRO Readers' Choice.

SharePoint Quick Start FAQ - Part 4

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:06:57 GMT

This is my fourth series of SharePoint Quick Start FAQ. In this series the theme is WebPart , WebPart and WebPart J. So let's enjoy the WebPart bonanza.