To fully understand how to use ASP.NET, it is necessary to know the basic operation of the web (for example as occurs a request from browser to server, what are the technologies used, how a web server processes the request, etc.)

Binding to ComboBox.SelectedItem through a custom dependency property

by mrjvdveen

Today we are looking into databinding to the ComboBox.SelectedItem property through a custom dependency property in a UserControl.

Buffer.BlockCopy Not As Fast As You Think

by JasonShort

Buffer.BlockCopy is not as fast as you think

Building a Sudoku Solver in F#

by Cyborgx37

A simple F# application that solves Sudoku puzzles. Links to helpful resources are also provided.

Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the API

by Giorgi Dalakishvili

This post is part of a series about building a simple mathematical expression evaluator.

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

by Paulo Morgado

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

C# File Upload with Form Fields, Cookies and Headers

by Sky Sanders

Full featured HTTP upload utility

Change Shared folder location in an MVC 3 site

by Buaziz

a detailed article on how to change the location of the Shared folder, also applies to the Views folder.

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

by Derek Lakin

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

Code Management on a budget

by Ritesh Ramesh

Code Management on a budget

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

by Melick

Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Error in Installing SharePoint 2013 in Windows Server 2012

Configuring ASP session state on SQL server

by Ritesh Ramesh

This is a brief to the point note on how to setup ASP session state to use SQL server to store session information.

Content Controls and Open XML 2.0 SDK

by atverma

In this blog, I’ll focus on Content Controls and Open XML 2.0 SDK from the experience I gained in the last 2 months.

Convert Accented Characters to Simple Characters

by Martin Jarvis

How to convert accented characters to simple characters

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

by Derek Lakin

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

Creating a Custom Window Style

by Derek Lakin

I'll show you how to implement a custom Style by implementing a custom message box.

Creating a Data Access layer using Unity

by Martin Hinshelwood

I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework!

Database Driven Unit Testing Using VSTS

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Database driven unit testing using VSTS

Data-binding Among Complex Expressions in C#

by Adrian Alexander

Data-binding among complex expressions in C#

Dependency Property Performance and Lissajous Figures

by Colin Eberhardt

A simple lesson regarding the speed of dependency properties ... and a funky Oscilloscope!

Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure?

by Martin Hinshelwood

From time to time your website structure may change. When this happens you do not want to have to start from scratch with your Google rankings, so you need to map all of your Old URLs to new ones.

Download Files in ASP.NET

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to download different types of files in asp.net

Duplex Service in WCF

by Md. Rashim Uddin

Duplex service in WCF

Dynamic Linq Queries

by StormySpike

Alright, let’s assume that we are lazy coders, we have building a lot of Linq queries lately, and it’s getting repetitive. We keep having to remember to add a certain where clause to every query, couldn’t we just abstract this somehow?

Exploring Web.config - system.web/httpModules

by Sky Sanders

Exploring Web.config - system.web/httpModules

Generating Captcha images – ASP.NET MVC

by Buaziz

In this article, we will define our implementation to handle Captcha images.

Get the Size of Files Having Long Path in C#.NET 3.5

by Komal Mangal

Get the size of files having long path in C#.NET 3.5

Getting started with LINQ

by Cyborgx37

LINQ is syntactical sugar for extension methods and lamda expressions. To understand LINQ, it is important to first grapple with these concepts.To begin, let's look at a simple and somewhat common scenario.

Google Static Maps HTML Helper

by Buaziz

creating an MVC HTML Helper for Google Maps

Hands on Lab for Key Features Used in Silverlight/WPF Projects

by ManojKumar19

Hands on Lab for MVVM, Value Converter, XAML Binding, Delegate Command pattern, INotifyPropertyChange, Lambda Expression, LINQ etc. in Silverlight/WPF project

Host WCF as Windows Service without Installing

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to host WCF as a Windows service (without using a web project) and how to code it so that you can test interactively without installing the service.

How can you implement the Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser feature?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Here I will explain the feature & step by step process for implementing the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser functionality.

How to Choose between IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and Control while Implementing a Class

by atverma

Criteria behind choosing IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and base Control classes(System.Windows.Form.Control and System.Web.UI.Control) while implementing a Class

How to get the length (duration) of a media File in C# on Windows 7

by Williarob

If you have ever looked at a media file (audio or video) in explorer on a Windows 7 PC, you may have noticed that it displays additional information about that media file that previous versions of Windows didn't seem to have access to, for example the length/duration of a Quicktime Movie Clip.

How to Limit an Input Value to a Specific Range Using a Generic Extension Method

by Adam Zuckerman

A generic extension method that allows my program to limit an input to a specific range

How To Set Elements Of An Array Of A Private Type Using Visual Studio Shadows

by Paulo Morgado

How To Set Elements Of An Array Of A Private Type Using Visual Studio Shadows

How to Solve SSIS Error Code 0xC020801C/0xC004700C/0xC0047017

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

This post shows you how to solve SSIS Error Code 0xC020801C/0xC004700C/0xC0047017

How to: Create a Date Picker Composite Control in ASP.NET (C#)

by Salmanzz

How to create a Date Picker Composite Control in ASP.NET (C#)

HTTPS Communication in WCF using Self-sign Certificate

by Md. Rashim Uddin

HTTPS Communication in WCF

Implementing a Dead Simple Licensing Library with PostSharp

by emiaj

Hello everyone, had been a long time from my last post (as usual, been busy busy busy). Today I want to talk about something that for most .Net developers is unknown but has been in the development industry a long time ago. I’m talking about Aspect Oriented Programming - AOP.

INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged in Real Life using Expression Trees

by atverma

INotifyPropertyChanging and INotifyPropertyChanged in Real Life using Expression Trees

Installing .NET 3.5 service pack 1 along with application setup

by Harsh Baid

Installing .NET 3.5 service pack 1 along with application setup.

Introduction to Munq IOC Container for ASP.NET

by Matthew Dennis

This is the first in a series of articles about using the Munq DI IOC Container and IOC containers in general.

JavaScript and User Controls 101

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to best embed/associate JavaScript with ASP.NET user controls

JQuery Confirm Box

by Christopher John Paul

JQuery Confirm Box is very simple, and it can be easily customized

Lambda Expression in C# 3.0

by Shakeel Iqbal

Lambda Expression is one of the best features of C# 3.0

Leverage the .NET framework classes from VBA

by Pragmateek

Introduction Following my previous article on a similar subject, Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.Net or C++/CLI, I’ve received an interesting feedback from a VBA developer who wanted to leverage the advanced support of the .Net framework for regular … Continue reading →

Lightweight Task Scheduling for .NET / Silverlight

by Philipp Sumi

A lightweight task scheduling library that allows you to easily schedule the invocation of callback methods at specified times or intervals. Supports .NET 3.5 and Silverlight.

LINQ Group By with NULL Database Values

by JasonShort

LINQ Group By with NULL database values

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

LINQ: Single vs. First

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Single vs. First

LINQ: Single vs. SingleOrDefault

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Single vs SingleOrDefault

LINQPad Helps You Learn LINQ

by JasonShort

LINQPad helps you learn LINQ

Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server

by Martin Hinshelwood

I am not sure if this is a good idea, but I was bored one day and decided to add a TFS Error Log provider for Elmah. There are 2 ways you can do this.

Logging and Tracing WCF Soap Messages

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to log and trace WCF Soap messages?

Logging with Dynamic Objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - User Interaction Logging

by erik_nl

Logging with dynamic objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - user interaction logging

Magic of JQuery in ASP.NET, Simplifying AJAX

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Magic of JQuery in ASP.NET, simplifying AJAX

Massively Parallel RNG using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

by Adnan Boz

Massively Parallel Random Nunber Generation using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

Multiple Publishers - Multiple Subscribers Communication

by Ondrej_Uzovic

Simple example showing how to implement the communication scenario where subscribing applications can receive notification messages from more publishing applications.

Nested GridView in ASP.NET using C#

by Debopam Pal

This example shows you how to create a nested GridView.

NHibernate and Complex Types for Native Keys

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to use complex classes as primary (not composite!) keys with NHibernate

Observable : Automatically Notify Property Owner When a Property is Changed

by Leung Yat Chun

Reduce the property declaration code to one line, yet still usable directly.

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – Ghost Excel Instance

by Samir Sameja

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – Ghost Excel Instance

Office Interop Object Collection Technique – The right way

by Samir Sameja

In this article, I will write about the way to release interop references.

Optional passed by reference parameters with C# for VBA COM APIs

by Pragmateek

Introduction If you've already developed COM APIs with .Net, typically in C# with VBA as the consuming language, you've probably leveraged two powerful features: by-reference parameter passing that allows the API to change the input object itself, not only its ... Continue reading ...

Out and REF in C#

by Shivprasad koirala

This blog explains C# Out and REF parameters in detail.

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

by Paulo Morgado

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

Pex & Moles - Testing Business Layer

by hoonzis

Pex is a tool which helps generate inputs for unit test. Moles is a stub framework used to isolate the unit tests from code which is not being tested. In this post, I will try to describe an attempt to use Pex and Moles to test a typical business layer.

Priority Queue in C# with the Help of Heap Data Structure

by Alexey Kurakin

This article describes generic priority queue implementation in C#, which uses min-heap as underlying storage.

Programming Windows Phone 7 – Hello World

by Sarath C

A simple Windows Phone 7 application

Publish-Subscribe Communication

by Ondrej_Uzovic

Simple example showing how to implement a communication scenario where one application sends notifications to other applications.

Reduce the Size of MongoDB Documents Generated from .NET/C#

by Pragmateek

How to reduce the size of MongoDB documents generated from .NET/C#

REST in WebApi

by tranthanhtu.vn

In "REST - Overview" article, I were introduced the basic rules in RESTful, Can you show me how to implement in WebApi?Ok, in this article, we will learn how to implement those rules in WebApi using C#.Where could I get sourcode was used in this article?Please checkout the code at https://github.com

Running .NET 1.1 Applications on .NET 2.0

by Paulo Morgado

Running .NET 1.1 Applications on .NET 2.0

Security: Protect Against POET Attacks with Custom Errors!

by Martin Jarvis

Protect against POET Attacks with Custom Errors!

Silverlight Captcha Example

by Jeremy Likness

Silverlight, with its powerful text and graphics manipulation capabilities and strong interaction with the scripting DOM, seems to be the perfect engine for a Captcha challenge.

Silverlight charts, and reaching my inner child

by Pete O'Hanlon

Silverlight charts, and reaching my inner child

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

by Jeremy Likness

Use the Managed Extensibility Framework to export dictionary resources using custom ExportProvider in Silverlight

Silverlight: How to Receive Messages from Desktop Application

by Ondrej_Uzovic

Simple example showing how Silverlight application can receive messages from a standalone desktop application

Silverlight: How to Send Message to Desktop Application

by Ondrej_Uzovic

Very simple example showing how to send a message from Silverlight application to standalone desktop application

Silverlight: Reflection Image Button

by Jeremy Likness

A simple Silverlight control that creates an image button with zoom and reflection

Simple Steps to Enable Tracing in WCF

by Imran Abdul Ghani

Simple steps to enable tracing in WCF

SingleInstance(Of T) Class for Windows Phone 7

by Nikos Baxevanis

This post aims to provide a way to implement lazy initialization in a multi threaded environment using the SingleInstance(Of T) Class.

SSIS Package: Export Data from Database, Daily to New Excel Without Using Script Task

by TheDhruv

Export data from a SQL Server database table to an Excel sheet day wise.

State Design Pattern

by Salmanzz

State Design Pattern

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

by Pragmateek

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

by Pete O'Hanlon

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

The "Fancy Proxy" - Having fun with WCF - 6-DynamicDuplexProxy

by Diego Resnik

Using Dynamic Proxy & MSMQ Duplex to create a proxy that switches automatically between online & offline network state

The Entity Framework (v1 and v4) Deal Breaker: TPT Inheritance

by Sam Meacham

So what’s wrong with EF’s TPT inheritance? The SQL that EF generates. With some simple testing (2 or 3 subclasses) everything may appear to be fine. In fact, you may even be impressed that EF manages to fetch all the data you need in a single trip, indeed, in a single query.

The Evolution Of C#

by Paulo Morgado

The Evolution Of C#

Tip: Debugging a SharePoint 2010 Timed Job

by Christoph Keller

Debugging a SharePoint 2010 Timed Job

TIP: Improve Readability with Shorter String.Format Statements

by Martin Jarvis

How to improve readability with shorter String.Format statements

Trace SOAP Request/Response XML with TraceExtension

by Arindam Sinha

SOAP Request/Response XML can be logged with TraceExtension

UnCommon C# keywords - A Look

by Abhishek Sur

Some of both Documented and Undocumented Keywords that we dont use often like Check, StackAlloc, Fixed,default,@variables,Nullables, __arglist,__reftype etc are explained with simple examples

Undoing MVVM

by Pete O'Hanlon

Providing Undo/Redo across VMs (part 1 - simple properties)

Updating the Command Line Parser

by Martin Hinshelwood

Staring from the original Command Line Parser v1.0 code, I wanted to be able to add multiple commands, or even nest commands. The result is a nice simple commanding architecture conducive to creating multiple commands.

User Preference using Application Settings

by Arindam Sinha

Saving user preferences while closing the application and loading that while opening next time - implemented through Application Settings

Using a Resource Dictionary in WPF

by Rahman Masudur

Few tricks about using a Resource Dictionary in WPF

Using Anonymous Types Outside of Local Context with Dynamic Keyword

by Alexander Turlov

With another powerful feature introduced in C# by .NET 4 called dynamic types anonymous types are given even more reasons to be used since they now can be used outside of their scope of visibility. Sounds fantastic? Let me show you how it's done.

Using Expressions for Fun and Profit

by StormySpike

Using Expressions for Fun and Profit

WCF Part 1: Why WCF?

by Himanshu DS

Why WCF?

Web Site Globalization With ASP.NET Routing

by Paulo Morgado

Web Site Globalization With ASP.NET Routing

Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I)

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will discuss about developing a simple multitouch application using .NET 3.5 SP1.

Windows 7 Taskbar C# Quick Reference

by Arik Poznanski

Following are some listings to be used as a quick reference to common Windows 7 Taskbar features using Windows API Code Pack.

Windows Workflow Sequential Workflow Unit Testing

by Jeremy Likness

Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) is a powerful programming model and designer for workflow processes. Using workflow is easier than some may believe.

WPF: Animate Visibility Property - Update

by Arik Poznanski

Back in this post I showed you how you can easily add a fade-in / fade-out effect to a UIElement that changes its Visibility property, using a simple attached property.Some people encountered a problem using this property when they bind the UIElement to a model which initially hides the control.