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Top 5 Small but Must have Extension Methods

Thu, 28 May 2009 11:51:11 GMT

Covering a few very basic and use extension methods

Add Vista Look to your WPF Control on Windows XP

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:18:24 GMT

Explains how to convert a XP looking UI into Vista look using WPF running under Window XP

Customized Html Controls: Creating Custom Checkbox

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:41:39 GMT

This will discuss about how we can create a custom checkbox using CSS and jQuery

Random Sort a List Using LINQ

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:22:14 GMT

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a one of very useful feature of .net 3.5 framework. This allows you to query objects and perform complex operations simply and efficiently. There are lots of trick which can be used with the help of LINQ. In this article I am explaining how can we random sort a List using LINQ

Purely CSS Callouts

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:32:14 GMT

This article explains how you can create callouts using CSS and without using a single image. This will use the CSS thick border technique for creating slant area...

Top 7 Tip for Optimizing CSS

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:10:03 GMT

It is very easy for CSS to grow to a huge size if you are not following proper guidelines to optimize this. By doing so you are not only making you css cleaner but also decreasing the response size of file. Here are some tip for optimizing the CSS.

Animated Progress Bar without Images in JavaScript

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:45:53 GMT

How to create a cool looking animated progress bar without using any images using javascript, css and html

Maintaining Dirty and New state of objects

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:43:30 GMT

Explains how to manage Dirty, Clean, New and Old state of business objects in you application

Object Oriented Programming with JavaScript : Timer Class

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:23:57 GMT

How to do object oriented programming with JavaScript by taking simple example to a timer class..

Avoiding Event != null Check

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:25:00 GMT

Describes about how we can eliminate the repeating check of Event != null every where in code before raising any event..

Layout Form without Tables with CSS Trick

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:25:20 GMT

Creating a form with lots of field could be a tedious task as it involves playing with TR and TD in html table. Along with that it also increases the size and complexity of the html code of out page.

"Default Text" Fields Using Simple jQuery Trick

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:08:41 GMT

A lots of the time you want to add instructions to text box fields of the page to provide usability information to the users. Alternate way of doing this could be using default text in the input fields. A default text is the text which appears in the text box when it is empty

How not to cache a page output in ASP.NET

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:58:47 GMT

Sometime you have requirement like the page should never be cached. Every time user request a particular url it should give you fresh version of the page or file. To achieve this simply added Location="None" to the OutputCache directives.

Creating always visible div using CSS

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:16:03 GMT

Explains how easily we can create an always visible div using very simple CSS trick in html..

Are you Throwing Exceptions correctly?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:01:02 GMT

Discuss practices to throw exceptions to intact the exception stack trace

Step by Step Guide to Add a SQL Job

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:05:04 GMT

Describes Step by Step process of adding a sql job in SQL Server 2005

Force a file to download in ASP.NET

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:29:31 GMT

This article is about how we can force the user to dowload a particlar file or file type by adding the content-disposition header

Online regular expression tester with Help

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:06:46 GMT

Cool Online regular expression tester with Help

Using Thread Pool for Multi-Threading application

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:31:22 GMT

How to use thread pool for multithreading in a .net application ..

int to enum, enum to int, string to enum, enum to string

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:37:55 GMT

This post describes how can we convert enum into different data types. These are very often used operation. This is very simple to achieve thing...

Create RSS feed programatically

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:06:44 GMT

This article will explain how can you to create you own utility to generate rss feed from yous data programatically..

How to cache a page output in ASP.NET

Sat, 24 May 2008 19:30:58 GMT

If your ASP.NET page contains processing and db calls and you know that it's output is not changing that frequently then you must cache you page out. It is easy to do this in ASP.NET..

How to set 100% table height in html

Fri, 23 May 2008 01:34:01 GMT

This is very commonly faced problem by the html designer/developers. Table height doesn't expanding to 100% of the space even they set it in the style..

Add parameterized queries in MySql (OleDb)

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:25:02 GMT

Adding parameters the queries in System.Data.Odbc works different than System.Data.SqlClient. While using a SqlCommand we add parameters in form of @parameter name. Parameter names are directly mapped to their values. ..

Daily Coding

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:23:56 GMT

DailyCoding.com is amiming to point useful coding tips and tricks which one may use while doing day-today coding. This site basically includes daily coding in C#, .net, asp.net, sql, html..