.NET4.5

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by David Rogers Dev

Learn how to load related entities using the Entity Framework with simple examples

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Generating RDLC Dynamically for the Report Viewer Local Report

by tetsushmz

This article explains how to dynamically create RDLC.

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

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Working with MSDTC...

by Sufyan S Jabr

All that you need to know when working with MSDTC, troubleshooting and problem solving.

Miller Columns for WPF

by Alexey A. Popov 2

A simple implementation of Miller columns (cascading columns) control

Dialog Message in C# for .NET Framework 4.5

by chris_mackay

A reference for writing your own dialog message box in Windows

Generic DAL for ADO.Net - A Revisit

by #realJSOP

A rewrite of a previous article with more liquid nitrogen and bacon

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.NET4.5

24 Jul 2014 by David Rogers Dev

Learn how to load related entities using the Entity Framework with simple examples

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C#5.0

.NET4.5

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

6 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

Generating RDLC Dynamically for the Report Viewer Local Report

2 Jan 2014 by tetsushmz

This article explains how to dynamically create RDLC.

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

15 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Lightning-Fast Nested User Groups in C#

5 Dec 2015 by Daniel Miller

This article describes the C# implementation for a high-performance user/role security principal hierarchy.

Windows-Service for Multithreading with Remote Control GUI

25 Feb 2016 by J.Starkl

A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program

Understanding and Implementing Factory Pattern in C#

9 Feb 2015 by Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article, we will try to understand what is Factory Pattern, what are the benefits of this pattern and how we can implement this pattern using C#.

Graphing Calculator in C# with LES

12 Jun 2017 by Qwertie

It has 41 features in about 1000 lines of code* - but only 3 lines are needed to parse the expressions you type in. Uses WinForms, BackgroundWorker, GDI+ and LES.

C#6.0

.NET4.5

.NET

WinRT: StyleMVVM Demo 1 of 2

4 Nov 2013 by Sacha Barber

A look at an excellent WinRT MVVM framework.

WinRT: StyleMVVM Demo 2 of 2

5 Nov 2013 by Sacha Barber

StyleMVVM Demo App

Decorator Pattern Usage on a Simplified Pacman Game

9 Dec 2013 by Petar Brkusanin

An example of how Decorator, Dependency Injection, and Composition Root patterns can be used to extend the base game functionality.

Solution Build Timer for VS 2005/2013/2015/2017/2019

10 Jun 2019 by User 40411

Add-in for VS2005, VS2013/2015 and VS2017/2019 that provides the time taken to build a complete solution

Sketcher : Two Of n

14 Aug 2014 by Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

Build My Own 3D Graphics Engine Step By Step

1 Feb 2017 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

How to build my own 3D graphics engine from ZERO step by step

Calling ASP.NET WebAPI using HttpClient

24 Jun 2013 by Madhur Kapoor

In this post, we are going to learn how to call an ASP.NET WebAPI using HttpClient libraries.

Sketcher : Three Of n

14 Aug 2014 by Sacha Barber

Angular.Js / Azure / ASP MVC / SignalR / Bootstrap demo app

Flexpressions

10 Oct 2012 by Andrew Rissing

An intuitive-fluent API for generating Linq Expressions.

WIA Scanner in C# Windows Forms

4 Jul 2014 by Chakravarthi Elchuri

How to use WIA supported scanner using C#

C# Docx to HTML to Docx

22 Dec 2016 by Ozesh Thapa

Converting Docx To Html to Docx

A Lean and Mean Un-opinionated Templating Engine

21 Mar 2016 by Marc Clifton

Based on Razor template engine syntax, a straightforward, extensible, easy to maintain implementation of a templating engine.

Create Desktop UX With ASP.NET MVC (Part 1 of 3)

22 Mar 2017 by raddevus

Part 1: Master the ASP.NET MVC Project Template & Technologies (Razor, jQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS). Part 2: Build an ASP.NET MVC app which runs in the browser but feels like using a desktop app.

Simple SignalR Server and Client Applications Demonstrating Common Usage Scenarios

16 Jul 2019 by Mustafa Kok

SignalR server and client applications for demonstrating common scenarios like connecting, disconnecting, joining and leaving groups, sending messages to all clients, to specific or group of clients

Cross Cutting Concerns in .NET Applications

27 Nov 2015 by Christian Vos

How to use Microsoft Unity Interception as a solution for cross cutting concerns in a .NET application

WinRT : Simple ScheduleControl

16 Sep 2013 by Sacha Barber

Implementing a Basic REST Based ASP.NET Web API Service with Multiple GET Methods and its Consumption using JQuery Client

22 Oct 2014 by Mathew Soji

This tip guides through implementing a basic REST based Web API service with multiple GET methods and its consumption using JQuery client

SOLID Principles: The Liskov Principle -> What, Why and How

11 Nov 2018 by Christian Vos

SOLID principles: The Liskov Principle, a simple example in C#

ASP.NET Identity 2.0 Change Primary Key from String to Integer

1 Jun 2014 by S. M. Quamruzzaman Rahmani

ASP.NET team released Identity framework 2.0. The new release contain some new features like generic primary key. This article explain how to change primary key from string to integer & use it with MVC5.

Faster than Reflection: Delegates. Part 3.

6 Sep 2016 by n.podbielski

If you want to optimize code, which is based on Reflection, delegates may be the thing you are looking for. In this part are explained generic methods and events.

Asp.Net: Monitor performance without using windows performance counters.

15 Feb 2017 by Sergey Volk

Open source framework for monitoring Asp.Net Web Api 2 and MVC5 applications performance without using windows performance counters, automates performance counters data collection, store and visualization.

Dynamically adding controls on a hierarchical structure on MVC

6 Aug 2012 by _DanV_

How to dynamically add controls on a hierarchical structure on MVC.

A C# SMTP server (receiver)

17 Sep 2012 by ObiWan_MCC

A C# SMTP server (receiver).

Recording Audio to WAV with WASAPI in Windows Store Apps

19 Jan 2013 by padmore

Getting started recording audio to WAV with WASAPI in Windows Store apps

Azure WebState

9 Jun 2013 by Florian Rappl

Crawling tons of (individual) web information and creating statistics using Windows Azure.

Adding INotifyPropertyChanged to Entity Framework Classes

14 Dec 2014 by MarkLTX

Automatically implement INotifyPropertyChanged for every property in Entity Framework 6.0 entity classes

Random Name Generation Using Markov Chains

31 Oct 2016 by phil.o

This article describes the building of Markov Chains and their use for generating random names or words.

Sorted Page from Distributed Unsorted Data Sets

12 Mar 2018 by Igor Ladnik

Algorithm and code to create sorted page out of several large volatile unsorted data sets.

Win10

.NET4.5

Inheriting from a Look Less WPF Control

31 Jul 2017 by Dirk Bahle

This article explains how to take advantage from look-less WPF controls through inheritance

Handling authentication-specific issues for AJAX-calls

18 Sep 2013 by Sergey Zwezdin

For modern web-applications has become the usual to use AJAX when you create user interfaces. However, it makes our headache from time to time. And often these difficulties are associated with authentication and processing such requests on the client.

IP Location

9 Dec 2013 by dietmar paul schoder

How to get the location of a specific IP-address

Using Reactive Extensions - the basics

29 Feb 2016 by Kenneth Haugland

How to connect hot observables to Rx

ASP.NET Web API - Keeping It Simple

25 Nov 2016 by kannankeril

This article is an attempt at splitting out the controller layer to reduce its complexity and improve quality and maintainability of the resulting code.

Excel Pixelating Image Creator

30 Aug 2017 by simonp_ca

Use Excel worksheet's cells as pixels to render real image (for fun and experiment)

Async Await and the Generated StateMachine

28 Jan 2013 by Amit Bezalel

The StateMachine internals displayed

.NET4.5

.NET

WebBrowser Element Events and Values

16 Feb 2013 by Marc Clifton

Sinking WebBrowser button element events and getting/setting input element values programmatically, without a web server.

Using Font Icons

12 Aug 2013 by Le Sourcier

This tip helps in using font icons as ImageSource.

Kinect v2 Point Cloud Scanner and Viewer

3 Apr 2017 by Edgar Maass

Display a Point Cloud grabbed by the Microsoft Kinect v2 in a OpenGL control

Undo/Redo Implemented via Stateless Command Stacks in WPF Applications (Sprint 1/4)

17 Nov 2018 by MarkWardell

Undo/Redo Commands implemented with Minesweeper game example

Microsoft Orleans - A Worked Example

19 Jul 2016 by Duncan Edwards Jones

A quick example of how to use the Microsoft Orleans library to develop a distributed, fault tolerant fund accounting system

LINQ to Entities, Cross Apply, and Left Outer Join

12 May 2017 by DaveDavidson

In this article, I show LINQ to Entities syntax that will produce queries with CROSS APPLY and LEFT OUTER JOIN clauses.

SQLXAgent - Jobs for SQL Express - Part 1 of 6

27 Feb 2018 by #realJSOP

Create and run jobs kinda like SQL Server Enterprise - Users Guide

ASPxGridView Excel style – Adding notes to grid cells

5 Jan 2013 by Mario Majčica

Adding notes to grid cells and visually mark them.

Reading Ultrabook Sensor Data with the Windows 8 Sensor API

6 Nov 2012 by Yvan Rodrigues

A head start for App Innovation contestants

Async/Await in WPF to invoke WCF with Busy Indicator and Abort Feature

30 Nov 2015 by Nejimon CR

Implement WCF web service access from WPF with busy indicator and premature cancellation feature without using delegates, background worker, or separate event procedure

CourseLearner: Azure based E-Learning product

9 Jun 2013 by Ravi Gadag

Azure based e-learning product.

Passing Object Collections to ASP.NET Web API

16 Jan 2014 by Tom Glick Philadelphia, US

POC to demonstrate passing of collections of complex objects to ASP.NET Web API Controllers.

APOD Website Scraper, a HOPE demonstration

2 Jun 2014 by Marc Clifton

Using the Higher Order Programming Environment, scrape the APOD website's 20 years of photos and explore APOD's.

Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms

17 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.

Google reCaptcha v2 with MVC5

9 Apr 2015 by Royston Malcomber

Setting up Google reCaptcha version 2 with MVC5

Executing Stored Procedure with User Defined Table Type Parameter in Entity Framework Using EntityFrameworkExtras

26 Sep 2015 by AshishShukla6

This tip describes step by step implementation of executing stored procedure having user-defined table type as a parameter in entity framework using EntityFrameworkExtras package.

Debuggable Windows Service Template Project with C#

21 Jul 2019 by Mustafa Kok

Easily debuggable Windows service project template written in C#

Custom serialization for ExpandoObjects in ASP.NET WebAPI

5 Dec 2012 by tumbledDown2earth

Using dynamic or ExpandoObject is a breeze to dynamic data WebAPIs, but when serializing to XML, it can cause a brain damage sometimes :)

Modeling the Biochemical System Using VB

6 Oct 2013 by Mr. xieguigang 谢桂纲

Mathematical method of S-system equation to simulate a biochemical network system

Automating Semantic Mapping of a Document With Natural Language Processing

13 Aug 2014 by Marc Clifton

Using AlchemyAPI, we create visualizations of keyword and sentence relationships so the user can extract meaningful concepts quickly and efficiently.

Thread Apartment Safe Open/Save File Dialogs for C#

24 Nov 2014 by Christian Kleinheinz

Using the .NET OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog for an application in multithreaded apartment mode (MTA)

C# Gets Pattern Matching, Disjoint Unions, Tuples and Ranges

8 Mar 2016 by Qwertie

Well, not literally. Enhanced C# supports pattern matching, ADTs, and tuples, so Plain C# gets all that by transitivity.

MRU (Most Recently Used) WPF control

26 Aug 2017 by Dirk Bahle

Implementing a WPF/MVVM Control libray (with backend) that manages a Most Recently Used list of files.

Entity Framework and Crystal Reports - Entities to Datasets

23 Jan 2013 by Justin Shepertycki

Using Entity POCOs as a DataSource for your Crystal Reports

Line Fitting in Images Using Orthogonal Linear Regression

12 Apr 2013 by Jonathan Nethercott

Describes an algorithm for calculating the equation of a line in an image using orthogonal linear regression.

How to Automatically Close Un-closed HTML Tags using C# for ASP.NET Web Applications

7 Oct 2014 by Milad Ashrafi

We need this script for database based ASP.NET websites for using HTML content in post pages.

Download Files in ASP.NET

30 Sep 2013 by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to download different types of files in asp.net

How to Use enum with Entity Framework 5 ?

26 Nov 2013 by Sampath Lokuge

This blog post shows how to use enum with Entity Framework 5.

.NET4.5

.NET

entity-framework

WPF and IronPython Business Rules - Part 2

9 Jun 2015 by beep

A full WPF sample application demonstrating IronPython business rules

Cool Privilege Control System Part 2 -- asp.net MVC with WCF

29 Feb 2016 by wells cheung

Privilege Control System based on MVC and WCF.

Dynamic Modules with Prism and the Modern UI for WPF Toolkit

23 Mar 2016 by Rubén Hinojosa Chapel

Prototype for a plugin architecture based on the Prism Library and the Modern UI for WPF (MUI) toolkit

Using Unity Framework in ASP.NET MVC 5

28 Dec 2016 by Snesh Prajapati

In this article we will learn how to use Unity framework with ASP.NET MVC 5 application to register and resolve dependent objects.

Sound in games - Rooms

31 Jul 2012 by Kenneth Haugland

How to calculate a reverbration time in a room

Resolving a hostname in C# and retrieving IP version 4 address

15 Aug 2012 by Tyronne Thomas

Resolving a hostname in C#

How to Read a PE Image's Manifest Resource using an Undocumented Internal .NET Class Method

21 Jan 2013 by Kerem Guemruekcue

This short article shows how to use an undocumented internal class method from the System.Deployment.Application.Win32InterOp namespace to get a PE images manifest resource.

Keeping Sensitive Config Settings Secret with Azure Websites and GitHub

8 Jun 2013 by Phil Lee NZ

A strategy for keeping sensitive configuration values, such as connection strings, out of your source control repository, but still available to your app both locally and in the cloud. We're looking specifically at Azure websites and GitHub.

WorkflowChannel for Windows Azure BizTalk Service (WABS)

30 Jan 2014 by Roman Kiss

This article describes how a Windows Azure BizTalk Service Bridge pipeline can be extended for message mediation by Workflow (VETER + WORKFLOW Pattern).

State Machine - State Pattern vs. Classic Approach

5 Aug 2014 by Chris875

State pattern and procedural solution illustrated

iPhone like controls for .Net, Part 2: IOS switch

28 Jul 2014 by hgbecker

Animated IOS like On/Off switch.

.NET4.5

.NET

Dev

The List Trifecta, Part 3

12 Aug 2014 by Qwertie

SparseAList and some AList benchmarks

The Blum Micali Algorithm and Cryptographically Secure PRNGs (CSPRNGs)

23 Sep 2014 by Cryptonite

The Blum Micali algorithm provides for a cryptographically secure PRNG (pseudo random number generator).

Getting startet with OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET for serious applications

26 Mar 2019 by Steffen Ploetz

Check OpenGL as a basis for appealing applications, that are not necessarily games.

Find the Pointer

14 Nov 2016 by Peter N Robinson

Press either CTRL key to find out where the mouse pointer is...

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Session Expiration Time out Popup using jquery

10 Mar 2017 by Sujeet Bhujbal

In this article, I will tell you how to create a cross-browser session expiration popup box using jQuery easily

Just Another .NET AOP Framework: NConcern

7 May 2017 by Jung Hyun, Nam

Introducing NConcern, a free open source compile-time AOP framework

UpdaterApp - a Library for Easy Update

26 Sep 2019 by William Costa Rodrigues

This article explains an easy method to download and update your WinForms application

Miller Columns for WPF

4 Jan 2023 by Alexey A. Popov 2

A simple implementation of Miller columns (cascading columns) control

Simple Metro Style Application with WCF service and MS Excel Database

16 Apr 2013 by Muhammed Anseer K K

Creating a metro style application with WCF

Volatile As It Should Be

22 Apr 2013 by Paulo Zemek

This article presents a class that allows volatile reads and writes as they are expected to work.

Using Azure Lease Blob

9 Jun 2013 by Roman Kiss

This article describes how the Azure Lease Blob can help the composition of the business model during the runtime in the distributed event-driven pub/sub architecture.

Using JayData to Consume the Visual Studio LightSwitch OData Business Layer in a AngularJs CRUD Application

26 Oct 2013 by defwebserver

You can consume your backend OData Visual Studio LightSwitch services in AngularJs

Finding Non-disposed Contexts in Entity Framework 6.x Applications

28 Sep 2014 by Vahid_N

It's easy to forget not disposing object contexts, which leads to memory leaks and also leaves too many related connection objects not disposed as well.

Creating SharePoint Word Documents with AngularJS using LightSwitch

19 Jan 2015 by defwebserver

You can implement SharePoint documents in your AngularJS applications much easier when you create your code in a Visual Studio LightSwitch Cloud Business app.

Syrilium.Caching

19 Mar 2015 by Hrvoje Batrnek

Easy and seamless caching implementation of any virtual method in any class

Export HTML Div (with Hindi Unicode content) to PDF in ASP.NET

21 Mar 2015 by Amit Singh Baghel

A useful tip to export a Div to PDF (with Unicode support) with the help of NReco-PDF Generator for .NET (C#), JQuery and Handler in ASP.NET

Long Running Process Status Check with SignalR in ASP.NET MVC

21 Apr 2015 by Yaseer Mumtaz

This small tip will explain how you can check status of long running processes in ASP.NET MVC web application using SignalR by sending messages from server to client during execution.

WPF/MVVM Application for showing SystemColors list

4 Sep 2015 by Igor Sorokin