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Developing Applications for Visio with Visual Studio

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:28:38 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to extend the Visio functionality by writing an Visio add-in with VSTO, creating a standalone application with both Windows Forms and WPF, and finally by building a browse application with WPF (XBAP).

WPF DataGrid CheckBox Single Click Checking/Unchecking

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:13:46 GMT

WPF DataGrid has a very annoying behaviour of forcing users to click twice on a checkbox in order to check or uncheck it. There are a number of solutions proposing handling mouse preview events and switching a DataGrid into the edit mode manually. The problem with such solutions is that the require writing quite a lot of extra code that seems to be an overkill for such a minor, yet irritating problem. I propose a better option, to use a DataGridTemplateColumn instead of DataGridCheckBoxColumn.

8 Best open source alternative to NHibernate.

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:05:41 GMT

NHibernate is one of the best ORM library in .NET to build data access code faster. We identified best open source alternative to NHibernate. According to the requirement pick any library and build the data access layer in .NET.

Graphical Tools for SQL Server CE 4.0

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:45:06 GMT

SQL Server CE 4.0 CTP has promising features, but it's a bit unclear how to manage its databases. This post explains how to use WebMatrix and SQL Server Toolbox for that task.

Introducing SQL Server CE 4.0 CTP

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:30:52 GMT

Learn what SQL Server CE 4.0 means for ASP.NET developers. Find out where you can get it and how to install. And finally learn how you can create tables with no tools provided.

Calculate Age from Date Of Birth using SQL Server

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:45:52 GMT

Script to calculate the Age in Years, Months, Days, Hours and Minutes

Improve Performance by Reducing IO - Creating Covered Index

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Here is my quick blog post on how Cover Index can Improve Performance by Reducing IO.

How to not suck at a techincal interview

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:00:03 GMT

CORRECT LINK THIS TIME. Tips to improve your marketability during a technical interview. Mostly a rant :)

IE6 Update: Help kill Internet Explorer 6 (BlogEngine.NET Extension)

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:30:05 GMT

IE6 is like an illness that just won't go away but now there is another new project to kick his ass: www.ie6update.com - With this small extension you are able to include this project into your BlogEngine.NET with just copying a single file.

Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:15:01 GMT

Simone looks at the last year's stats and lists the most popular posts we wrote in 2009. And also writes his overall top 10

Design Patterns are not a Silver Bullet and the State of the Programmi

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:47:29 GMT

Design patterns are not a universal tool that can be applied to any project or be used with any programming language. Quality code can be produced without implementing any pattern or even without using OOP. One shouldn't think of their colleagues as of bad developers if they don't know the names of fancy design patterns. Moreover, not any single programming project is a business application.

Exploring .Net 4 Features - Tuples

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Taking a look at some of the new features which are part of .Net 4. We will be focusing this episode on Tuples. Tuples allow you to return multiple values from a method with simplicity and ease by allowing you to dynamically create a return object which is typed for your specific needs.

Kiss your databse only once!!!

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 GMT

This article explains about how to update the multiple records in the data controls to the server in a single transaction.

Design Patterns - Which to use When? Take the Quiz!

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:15:00 GMT

I received several questions on how to pick a Design Pattern, which motivated me to write this post. As it was mentioned in the Design Patterns overview article, there is no rule of thumb in selecting a Design Pattern. Developers should not choose a design pattern and design a solution around it. Instead they need to analyze at a higher level, the problem they are attempting to solve and pick a Design Pattern that is most appropriate.

Introduction to Model View Control (MVC) Pattern using C#

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:45:00 GMT

The benefits of using the Model-View-Control (MVC) pattern in our development projects is that we can completely decouple our business and presentation application layers. Furthermore, we will have a completely independent object to control the presentation layer.

The Many Flavors of Cloud Computing

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Keith Pijanowski gives us his insights into the many flavors of Cloud Computing."Word choice is important when giving a new idea a name. However, sometimes an idea is so big and far reaching that no collection of words can accurately describe it. The history of science gives us many examples of ideas that are too big for their names. Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, Albert Einstein's theory of Special Relativity and his theory of General Relativity are all ideas which are too big for the simple words that are used to refer to them. Furthermore, when a new idea changes the way you perceive the world around you then you need to understand this change to fully understand the idea itself. Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software Plus Services (S+S) are all ideas that are too big for their names. These ideas are also going to change the way we perceive and utilize the internet. In this post I want to go beyond the words and get at the core ideas behind SaaS, PaaS, and S+S in order to illustrate what the internet is going to look like once these ideas are realized.", Read More.

AJAX File Upload in ASP.NET with the AsyncFileUpload Control

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:26:33 GMT

Finally, it has become possible to easily add AJAX file uploading capabilities to ASP.NET applications. The newly released version of the AJAX Control Toolkit ships with two new controls, one of them is called AsyncFileUpload control which was designed specially for the above mentioned purpose

LINQ to SQL, Lazy Loading and Prefetching

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:00:04 GMT

Lazy loading in an ORM can be really useful or a royal pain if you walk through a lot of data. LINQ to SQL uses lazy loading of related entities and entity sets but there are a couple of ways that allow you to do eager loading instead. Both require some extra effort and foresight.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 Released

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:45:00 GMT

Today we just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work we did in Preview 1 released two months ago. Some of the cool new features we've added to Preview 2 include...

Are you Ready for some FOOTBALL- Powered by Silverlight?

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:30:00 GMT

Here's a new online viewing experience for all you folks trying to watch Sunday Night Football while working on your computer...The NFL and NBC will be delivering the entire Sunday Night Football season utilizing Silverlight 3.0 and IIS7 Smooth Streaming. The Sunday Night Football online experience will be groundbreaking, and set a new bar for what can be done with live online video. Better yet - it cannot be achieved today with anything but Silverlight 3 and IIS7 Smooth Streaming.

C# Identify Crisis, You Have To Know Your Identity

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:45:00 GMT

Marking the beginning of the end of C# as language and its ongoing identity crisis.

How to create 3 tire application using LINQ

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

This article describes how to create 3 tire architecture project in LINQ to SQL.

AI: Population based Incremental Learning in C# and .NET

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:45:00 GMT

In this article I would like to discuss another offshoot of the genetic algorithm called Population Based Incremental Learning (PBIL).

Creating Master Details Application using WPF 3.5 and LINQ to XML

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:30:04 GMT

In this article we will see how to create a Master Details application using WPF 3.5 and LINQ To XML and how WPF makes use of LINQ to XML.

SQL Azure Manager

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:00:04 GMT

SQL Azure manager: a community effort to quickly enable connecting to your SQL Azure database(s) and perform basic tasks.