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10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part B

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:46:13 GMT

This is part B of the 10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot article. In this article I will talk about another 5 issues that even the best developers have to be aware of. In other words, I will try to prevent you from programaticly shooting yourself in the foot.

Creating a Silverlight Fade In and Out Popup Window

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:16:03 GMT

how to create a pupup window in silverlight without using the popup control

XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It's Important

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:46:04 GMT

No comments appeared in the Visual Studio tooltip. On In this article, I am going to explain why it is so important to generate XML documentation file for each one of your .Net projects.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 1

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:16:04 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?

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:46:02 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 09:01:02 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 06:46:11 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.

Spice Up Your Navigation With CSS Drop Down Menus

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:16:25 GMT

In this article I will show you how to create a drop down navigation menu that is XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS valid, opens external links in a new window, and is JavaScript free.

Terrible Code Example - Methods From Hell

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:16:10 GMT

Learn how not to code your applications with this terrible code example that I have come accross.

How To Localize Your Application Using String Tables

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:46:08 GMT

Unfortunately for us the developers, nowadays, many customers require that that the product they purchased, will be localized to a specific language

HOW TO CREATE CODE SNIPPETS EASILY | Dev102.com

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:59:21 GMT

Snippy the Code snippet editor, creating code snippets was never so Easy!!!

Webcams, Threads and the Clipboard

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:24:37 GMT

Describes overcoming the issue of accessing the system's clipboard using the .NET Framework within a threaded application (in the context of capturing images from a webcam using the avicap32 API).

Project Life Cycle beyond SDLC

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:34:46 GMT

Many people think project life cycle circulates around SDLC. In this article we will discuss about other phases which occur before SDLC starts. I know that companies have tailor made phases we have just tried to put phases followed by majority IT companies. We have visualized two companies Shreya ltd who is the customer and Hanu software who is the vendor.

Project Life Cycle beyond SDLC

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:18:25 GMT

Naming Collisions And The Using Directive

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:31:06 GMT

Are you familiar with the following C# compilation error: "CS0104: ClassA is an ambiguous reference between Namespace1.ClassA and Namespace2.ClassA"? Most software developer would solve that error by...

Object Oriented Programming With JavaScript

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:01:03 GMT

In this article we are going to take an introductory look at how OO JavaScript works. I am going to assume you are familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Generate An Assembly Source Code Using The Reflector

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:16:17 GMT

If you are a .NET developer, you should probably know the .NET Reflector which is a great tool for viewing, navigating and searching through the class hierarchies of .NET assemblies (even if you don't have the code for them). I am using this tool a lot but here is something I only recently discovered: one can export an assembly and let the Reflector generate its source code. The output of this process is a directory with a project file and all of the source files.

Measure String Size In Pixels (C#)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:16:03 GMT

Sometimes we need to know the width of a given string in pixels, do you know how to compute it? Before writing some long code, please notice that the .NET framework class library provides such a method...

How To Use The SVN Client and Start Working With Your SubVersion Versi

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:31:03 GMT

how to use the Tortoise SVN client and work with your svn version control server

How to Install Your Own Subversion Version Control Server Using Visual

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:46:02 GMT

This article will have 2 sections One will discuss the SVN Server installation and configuration and the second part will be about how to use the SVN client.

A Web Based Sequence Diagram Editor

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:16:13 GMT

After I published a post about SDEdit which is a free desktop sequence diagram editor, I received a mail from Steve Hanov who wanted to introduce me with a very impressive alternative to SDEdit. Steve has created a web service that creates renditions of sequence diagrams, it is completely online and...

WPF Binding Converter Best Practices Continued

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:31:14 GMT

A sequel to the lates article about WPF Binding Converters

Measuring Programmers By Extra Hours

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:01:04 GMT

I am writing this article as a sequel to the Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code article. Let me please talk about another common metric - measuring the amount of extra hours a software developer has done.

EventArgs.Empty - Do You Use It?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:31:08 GMT

Anyway, we can define EventArgs as a private member and use it instead of allocating an EventArgs object every time the event is raised. Fortunately, there is no need for that, C# introduce us the EventArgs.Empty...

A Better WPF Custom Context Menu

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:01:02 GMT

A new and improved context menu style that is more extensible and allows submenus