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Pay Attention to the Foreach Implicit Casting

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:15:00 GMT

In order to reduce an explicit conversion effort using the foreach statement, the C# developers decided to do an automatic conversion for us. We must pay attention to it...

Changing Brush Brightness in WPF/Silverlight

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Changing Brush Brightness in WPF/Silverlight from code in runtime

Creating A RESTful API With WCF

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:30:00 GMT

Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. As such, it is not just a method for building "web services." The terms "representational state transfer" and "REST" were introduced in 2000 in the doctoral dissertation of Roy Fielding,[1] one of the principal authors of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specification.

Formatting Your WPF Data - String.Format Is In the House!

Fri, 29 May 2009 11:45:02 GMT

How to format your Binded Data

Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine

Wed, 27 May 2009 19:15:00 GMT

Taking a introductory look at the Spark View engine. The Spark is a view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly.

My Dot Net Developer's tools list, and more.

Wed, 27 May 2009 02:00:01 GMT

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some non-development tools that are a part of my day to day life and make things easier. Here's the complete list:

Creating Gapped and Bulleted Shapes in WPF/Silverlight

Tue, 26 May 2009 05:00:03 GMT

How to create a shape with bullets on the joints of it's segments

The Dynamic Programmer - Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0

Mon, 25 May 2009 17:00:06 GMT

If you ever played with some language that have the Tuple type I bet you miss it in .Net. Well 4.0 adds it. Let's take a look at the implementation and how to use it.

Simulate Mouse Click On WebBrowser Control

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:49:46 GMT

Sample C# code for executing any type of mouse click on a WebBrowser control by calling a set of unmanaged functions from the user32.dll library.

How to Create A JQuery Plugin

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:01:45 GMT

A small tutorial about creating JQuery Plugins

Context Help Made Easy

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:50:22 GMT

Most application developers have been through it. During the later stages of a project, you find yourself spending time working with an HTML Help author to connect the screens and dialogs of your application to context sensitive help.

Packet Capture and Analayzer

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:39:11 GMT

The first idea of writing a packet sniffer program came from a reply to my comments on one of the projects named NetSend ( Sending popup messenger messages between computers ) by Marc Clifton. Marc asked me What about receiving message. To say the truth, I didn't know how I could do that. I knew a program which I had downloaded and tested years ago. But I didnt know the way of it. So I made a search on net about programs that can receive messages created by NetSend. And I noticed that many of them were using packet sniffer libraries. And then decided to learn how it is done. My search attempts gave a result and I found a free library named WinPCap.

Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:16:13 GMT

a while back we had 2 great posts and one page about visual studio shortcuts. The first one had a list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts and the second one had 11 Visual Studio Shortcuts. We also have a Visual Studio CheatSheet with all the Keyboard shortcuts Visual Studio has.

Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:46:03 GMT

In this post I want to show you how to use jQuery to create an AJAX login screen. I am going to use an ASP.NET MVC application for this demonstration

How to Create a Drag & Drop / Move, Zoom In & Out Content Control

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:46:03 GMT

As the Headline says, I will show you how to make a Drag and Drop / Move Content control. for this example I will use a canvas and an Image. But you can easily make it more generic by using a Content Control instead of the image.

Why the ItemsControl ScrollViewer Attached Property Does Not Work

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:16:12 GMT

In my latest article I discussed Scrolling and Binding to large collections in WPF. We saw some disturbing behavior when binding a large collection to an ItemsControl. After Further Examination I found out very interesting things regarding that matter.

Debugging With Tracepoints

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:31:04 GMT

Well, last week, while I saw John Cunninghams session at PDC 2008 about Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks, I learned something new about breakpoints. The Visual Studio debugger has another feature called tracepoints.

An Extensive Examination of the DataGrid Web Control

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:17:56 GMT

This article is the first in a multi-part series on using the DataGrid Web control

Improving the readability of the Specification pattern

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:10:09 GMT

A quick tip on how to use extension methods to improve the readability of the Specification pattern.

Simple Multi-Threaded Queued Job Management Implementation

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:21:12 GMT

Today I'll talk about Multi-Threaded Queued Job Management Implementation with C#. We often need to make some work asynchronously on Windows Forms Application or ASP.NET Web Applications like (Sending Mails, Sending SiteMap Pings, Sending Blog PingServices ....). In order to not slow down our Application we need to start these Jobs in separated Threads.

System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:23:59 GMT

But I could not connect to the database. A connection error occured. The error speaks: System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater But the odd is that I could easily connect to the database using OLEDB provider.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 2 - The Model And The Repository Pattern

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:31:04 GMT

In this part we are going to jump in and get an MVC Application created and look at the Model portion of the application. We'll create our domain objects and data repositories.

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

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:46:13 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 14:16:03 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 06:46:04 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.