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Creating a Sound Recorder in C and C#

Fri, 28 May 2010 15:06:29 GMT

using MCI

Using jQuery to Find which ASP.NET Control caused a PostBack

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:30:52 GMT

Here's a simple script that uses jQuery to find out which ASP.NET Button caused a postback. You can similarly implement this script for other ASP.NET Controls too

SQL Server - Create Indexes from the Missing Indexes DMV

Fri, 28 May 2010 09:19:06 GMT

Glenn Berry (Blog) writes a lot of queries to extract information from the system DMV's. One of them in particular I found extremely helpful in fixing some of the issues in my system. I took his query (the CTE at the top) and added some text manipulation to actually generate the create statements for you to save you some time. I had much grander plans for this, but unfortunately I've been meaning to post this for over a month now and simply haven't had time to get back to it, so rather than just let it go by the wayside and never post it, I figured I'd just post what I had now and then possibly post an update sometime in the future if I ever finish it.

SQL SERVER - Find Most Expensive Queries Using DMV

Wed, 19 May 2010 15:00:52 GMT

The title of this post is what I can express here for this quick blog post. I was asked in recent query tuning consultation project, if I can share my script which I use to figure out which is the most expensive queries are running on SQL Server. This script is very basic and very simple, there are many different versions are available online. This basic script does do the job which I expect to do - find out the most expensive queries on SQL Server Box.

Localize the jQuery DatePicker Control in an ASP.NET Page

Sat, 22 May 2010 03:00:52 GMT

The jQuery UI DatePicker widget is highly configurable and full of features, and I use it in my applications whenever I can. In this article, we will see how to localize the DatePicker based on the value selected from an ASP.NET DropDownList.

Lights! Camera! Action! Video record of Selenium

Thu, 06 May 2010 23:33:53 GMT

Recording video of Selenium tests being run is the next big thing on from capturing a screenshot when something goes wrong. People can see work flows and where it did go not just the aftermath that screenshots can show.

Create a SlideShow with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:45:52 GMT

This article demonstrates how to display ASP.NET Panels one after the other, and after a fixed duration, like a slide show.

Combining Virtualization and Microsoft SQL Server

Tue, 04 May 2010 14:56:16 GMT

Old mindsets and turf protections can kill any project. Beyond that key realization lays a number of real technical issues to solve. Here's what to look out for and what to ignore.

SEO for Blogengine.net

Tue, 04 May 2010 11:29:13 GMT

BlogEngine.NET is already optimized for search engines, but there are some points which have to receive attention, like adding tags and a description to your blog posts. With the robots.txt and the sitemap feature of BlogEngine.NET you have the possibility to affect the search results which search engines like Google shows.

Smart Card Authentication Module Update - added Support for Membership

Mon, 03 May 2010 20:15:51 GMT

This is a follow-on update on how to implement non-Active Directory Integrated Smart Card / Client Certificate Authentication with ASP.NET using Http Modules. This long overdue version adds support for ASP.NET Membership, Roles, and Profiles.

Using LINQ to represent XML data as an Object containing Master-Detail

Tue, 04 May 2010 15:45:51 GMT

In this article, we will read an XML file containing Master-Detail records and represent it as an object using LINQ.

Simple Databinding and 3-D Features using Silverlight in Windows Phone

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:45:52 GMT

Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is the upcoming next generation Mobile Operating System by Microsoft. Amongst the many features, one of the nice features is that it has support for Silverlight. So most of the new features like 3-D, Databinding etc. are now available on WP7. In this article I will explain the basic Databinding as well as 3-D feature on Windows Phone 7.

Automating Web Deployment using Windows Installer XML (WIX)

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:00:52 GMT

Deployment of web sites is usually done by copying the compiled ASP.NET web site files into the target virtual directory using Copy Web Site or Publish web site features in Visual Studio and manually creating and configuring the Web Site in IIS. Though this method is simple, it involves lot of manual effort in verifying the Pre Requisites, Creating/Modifying or Configuring the Web sites in IIS. We can automate this whole process by building a simple Windows Installer Package using WIX.

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:00:00 GMT

You can now download the reference cards (available as print ready pdf's) for the default keybindings in Visual Studio 2010 for Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and Visual F# over here

SOLVED - 'srcDomainMulti' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:41:24 GMT

When converting a project from C# to VB I ran into this compiler error which stopped me in my tracks for about 15 minutes. Just when I gave up and decided to rebuild the page by hand inspiration hit and I found my solution...

Using-Flash-with-ASPNET-MVC-and-Authentication.

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:10:56 GMT

to workaround authentication with mvc

Silverlight 4 Released

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:15:00 GMT

..and the much awaited announcement is finally here! Silverlight 4 was announced by Scott Guthrie at DevConnections! Here are some important links

.NET 4.0 And Our Parallel Future

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

A look at .NET 4.0 Parallel features, and how we can use LINQ to make them even easier to use.

Rounded Corners with the Cornerz jQuery plugin

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:00:00 GMT

I found a useful plugin to create rounded corners with ease. The output looked consistent in most of the latest browsers I tested it on. Here's a post introducing you to the plugin

.NET - Three Ways to Populate a Select Element with ASP.NET MVC and jQ

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:15:03 GMT

The following article demonstrates three ways to populate a select element using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery.

Reason of Compute Scalar before Stream Aggregate

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:15:00 GMT

Running the following query will give you Stream Aggregate Operator in Execution Plan. To turn on Execution Plan, press CTRL + M. I would like to know your feedback about Stream Aggregate Operation.

Using IIS Rewriting with MVC Routes to Keep Your Routes Simple

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:55:34 GMT

I saw an interesting question this past week on how to set up MVC Routes to work with some ugly legacy URL's. There was probably several way to get it to work with MVC routes, but I recommended using IIS Rewriting to map those legacy URL's to clean MVC routes.

Moving data between two ListBoxes - Difference between jQuery 1.3.2 an

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:45:05 GMT

The following article demonstrates the benefit in using jQuery 1.4 over 1.3.2 when you need to move data between two select elements.

Resolving the error "Validation of viewstate MAC failed" in an ASP.NET

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:48:47 GMT

This article explains the reason for this error and how to resolve it using the RenderAllHiddenFieldsAtTopOfForm property

ASP.NET MVC 2 - ScottGu's Blog

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:45:00 GMT

Over the last six months the ASP.NET team has been steadily releasing preview, then beta, and now release candidate builds of ASP.NET MVC 2. Given that the final release is not too far away, I thought it was a good time to start a new multi-part ASP.NET MVC 2 blog series that discusses the new features and how best to take advantage of them.