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Utilizing Visual Studio Extensions

29 Apr 2010 by Adil Mughal

Hey folks, today I would like to mention one of the underutilized features of Visual Studio and that is the use of Visual Studio extensions. In particular, the integration of Visual Studio extensions through Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010. You will find Extension Manager in Tools...

Zoom in and out Code in Visual Studio 2010

29 Apr 2010 by Adil Mughal

One of the simple feature I like is of Zoom in and out :) and that’s because while presenting on several events I need to increase the font or use magnifier but now I can just zoom in and zoom out using Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Up/down. So now I don’t have to do that Zoom in to...

For Vs Foreach - Benchmark 2013

25 Jan 2013 by adriancs

Performance Comparison of For Loop and Foreach Loop

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Saving a Screenshot Using C#, A.K.A "Console Monitor"

9 Sep 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is an alternative for "Console Monitor"

Combining MDX with T-SQL in One Result Set for SSRS (Hybrid Query)

27 Sep 2014 by Ahmad A.A. Ahmad

Combining MDX with T-SQL in One Result Set for SSRS (Hybrid Query)

SharePoint 2013 Web Part ToolPane Tweak

25 Jan 2014 by Ahmad F Hassan

5 minute trick

Run Executable from Resources in C#

17 Jun 2015 by Ahmed E Osama

Run an executable that is inside the resources in C#

Increase productivity with Visual Studio extensions

30 May 2012 by Ahsan Murshed

This article gives ideas to developers to increase development time productivity using the free Visual Studio 2010 extensions.

Inactive code block doesn't lose color - it would be color faded

23 Apr 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Unlike previous version of Visual Studio (2005, 2008), which used to display inactive code block in grayed mode, the new version - VS 2010 - would display them in faded down color (core colors will be preserved).For example:#ifdef _DEBUGvoid CClass::AssertValid(){ ASSERT(this); ...

Auto Completion for #include in VS2010

1 May 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Visual Studio 2010, for Visual C++ projects/code, now supports auto complete feature for #include statement too!Just type in #include directive followed by " or

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Pinning the variables/expressions while debugging

1 May 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

This feature may not seem useful initially, and might appear distracting you. But it is one of the very useful (new) features in Visual Studio 2010. You'll love it after using it for a while!While debugging, you typically put some variables in Watch Window (or use Locals, Autos etc). When...

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Shortcut: Open Containing Folder

20 Nov 2010 by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Open the Folder of current file with a simple keystroke

Yet Another Spy

28 Dec 2014 by Akos Mattiassich

Find a window on the desktop, spy its properties and manipulate it.

Poor Men's AboutBox with Animated Auto Scroll TextBox

2 Oct 2014 by Akos Mattiassich

How to make from a simple TextBox an animated eye candy.

Serialize/Deserialize any object to an XML file

28 May 2013 by akramKamal

Code to serialize/deserialize any object to an XML file.

Batch IDE

20 Mar 2015 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Small tool to write, run batch codes

PictureBox with a ScrollBar

28 Mar 2015 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Surf your PictureBox using scrolling bars

Live Log Viewer

14 Jun 2016 by Alex Wiese

Monitors log files and displays text as it is appended to the file

Windows Services Cannot Create More than a Certain Number of Processes

20 Jan 2016 by Alexandros Pappas

Windows Services cannot create more than a certain number of processes, whereas Console Applications seem not to have a limit.

Launching UI Application from Windows Service

14 Jan 2016 by Alexandros Pappas

Windows Service that launches UI app

Reusable WPF RadioButton Control (Data Binding to enum)

28 Jul 2014 by alexbk66

Reusable WPF RadioButton control which takes the pain away

.Net Progress Bar - Single or Multi-Threaded

15 Jul 2014 by AlexF185

A dynamic progress bar control easy to use and literally plug and play

Custom Paging Control

20 Apr 2013 by Aliaa Ezzat

Custom paging control for repeaters

Truth Table and Simplification of a Boolean Expression

30 Oct 2016 by Amar zaidi

Generation of Karnaugh table

Windows

Balloon Message using JavaScript & CSS in ASP.NET

18 Feb 2015 by AMB-03

This is a very simple way to create a balloon message... without using any plugin

Find Duplicate Files and Delete Them

1 Sep 2012 by AmitGajjar

Application for seaching similar kinds of files in different folders.

Bind Dropdownlist in ASP.NET using jQuery AJAX

26 Nov 2013 by Amol Jadhao

How to bind dropdownlist in ASP.NET using JQuery Ajax

DB Independent Code using Wrappers

20 Aug 2014 by Amol M Vaidya

A simple Data Connection Library to avoid rewriting code when the DB changes

An Easy Way To Query a Database

14 Feb 2011 by Andrew Rissing

The following samples should take advantage of using statements and furthermore built in features of the ADO.NET framework. Furthermore, if you open a connection, make sure you open it at the latest time possible and close it as soon as possible.Edit: While I was originally not trying to...

A fast and simple DataGridView analogue

18 Jan 2013 by Andrey Sitaev

Here I placed source files, binaries and brief instructions for FastGrid control.

Custom ASP.NET DropdownList Control Using Chosen jQuery Plugin

26 Oct 2015 by Angel Blandón

Custom ASP.NET DropdownList control using chosen jQuery plugin

Calling Server-Side Code from Client-side Using JavaScript and TextBox's onblur Event

6 Mar 2015 by Ankur .K. Vishwakarma

Calling server-side code from client-side using JavaScript and TextBox's onblur event

Adding Image in the Image Control without Stretching/Compressing the Image

22 Oct 2014 by Ankur Rawat

Adding Image in the Container without stretching/compressing the Image

ASP.NET

WPF Animation

18 Sep 2012 by Anup Kumar Verma

Taskbar Notification like animation in WPF from code behind

VS2010 Macro - Collapse Lines of Code Between Comments

18 Aug 2013 by ARNOULT

Visual Studio 2010 Macro : Collapse all sections of code between 2 lines of comment

macros

WPF MVVM Validation ViewModel using IDataErrorInfo

24 Sep 2014 by arpanmukherjee1

A base viewmodel implementing IDataErrorInfo

Handle XML File Using XML DOM

3 Mar 2015 by Asad Bukhari

This tip explains simple steps to define XML DOM against XML document. This way, you can easily manipulate XML document as simple class objects.

MVC Dynamic UI for Complex Models

18 Feb 2016 by Asher Barak

Using MVC with complex models - understanding and solving the problem

Fast Fourier Transform using DX11

14 Jan 2015 by Asif Bahrainwala

FFT using DX11 compute shader

Wi-Fi Remote for Sony TV

6 Mar 2021 by Avirup Das

This tip describes an application to control with Sony TVs connected to your Home Wi-Fi network from PC.

ShimNotSupportedException when trying Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint Emulators

2 Jan 2013 by Ayman M. El-Hattab

Creating Unit Tests using the SharePoint Emulators

Dev

How to Add Sharepoint 2010 WebPart Editor Functionality

28 Apr 2015 by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions and demonstration of how to add functionality to a WebPart's built-in Editor

How to Convert Accented Characters to HTML Codes

15 Jun 2015 by B. Clay Shannon

Replacing accented characters in a text file with their HTML code equivalents

Row Header Cell Images in DataGridView

24 May 2011 by Balu Sathish

This post helps to load image in row header cell of a datagridview.

Dev

How To Create Rounded Edge Button (or rounded corner button) in Winforms

8 Apr 2015 by basilke7007

How to create rounded edge button (rounded corner button) in Winforms

Printing Images Quickly and Efficiently to an A4 Page [VB.NET]

1 Jan 2015 by Benjamin Lifshitz

With this code, you can print images quickly and efficiently, using the largest part of the A4 page for your image.

How-To Convert a String Collection to a Multi-Enum Item Using TryParse

14 Feb 2014 by BenScharbach

How-To Convert a String Collection to a Multi-Enum item using TryParse

How To Hide Or Show .NET Tabs Programmatically

20 Nov 2011 by Bernhard Hiller

That's far too obscure.All you need to do is store a reference to the TabPage instance which was removed from the TabPages collection of the TabControl. You may use the form where the TabControl is placed for that purpose.You could also create your own TabControl which has an extra property...

DesignTime adding of Controls to a UserForm on a WinForm

15 Jul 2011 by BillWoodruff

An interesting change in behavior in VS 2010 Pro ?

BIM-ISO8583

25 Mar 2013 by Bim Garcia

Implementation of ISO8583 in .NET

Get DataBase Connection Strings in Easy Way

1 Mar 2011 by bipin9

goto Server Explorer right Click on DataBase Click on properties in properties window you will get Connection String copy it & use where you want use !!

Needleman Wunsch Algorithm in C#

23 Aug 2013 by BlackMirrh

Sequence Alignment using Needleman Wunsch algorithm in C#

Use Webclient to Make An Auto Updater

17 Sep 2014 by BlueMaple_chief

To make a simple auto updater demo, I use webclient 'interfaces' to download the file and monitor the progress.

Twitter API for beginners

3 Feb 2016 by Brahmaputra Mehta

In this tutorial you can see how to start with C# to Twitter rest api anew

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.NET WinForms Tray Icon Implemenation with Win7 and Vista Features

23 Oct 2014 by BrokenEvent

.NET WinForms Tray icon implemenation with Win7 and Vista features: GUID identification, large custom icons, custom UI instead of the hint, etc.

Create Folders Using Data from Excel File

22 Aug 2014 by brpulsani

How to create folders using data from Excel file

Office

Fast Voronoi Diagram in C#

15 Jul 2014 by Burhan Joukhadar

Fortune Voronoi Diagram in C#

2D Drawing on Windows Forms and the Use of Transformation Matrices While Demonstrating the Trapezoid

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Super-Easy Code Block Toggling

15 Nov 2011 by Caner Korkmaz

For debug use, you can do something like this:#ifdef DEBUG #define dprintf(...) printf(__VA_ARGS__)#else #define dprintf(...)#endif//Usage:dprintf("In debug mode.");//orchar *foo = "foo";dprintf("%d bar.",foo);// :)/*Edit reason :: *if you type...

InstallShield: Filtering output files

12 Jul 2013 by chait301

Custom output files in installer.

Simple Polynomial Addition and Subtraction

2 Dec 2014 by charles922

Simple Polynomial Addition and Subtraction using Lambda Expressions for sorting Lists

18 Dec 2014 by charles922

Use of the Trapezoidal Rule to integrate a function

3D Puzzle with OpenGl and C#

20 Jan 2015 by charles922

3D programming with OpenGl and C# to create an interactive puzzle

C# Bluetooth Monitor for Lego Mindstorms NXT

19 Aug 2015 by charles922

Program that continuously monitors the NXT via Bluetooth

Falling Blocks

19 Oct 2015 by charles922

Another way to implement Falling Blocks Game

Communication Library Files - TCP Client/Server

2 Apr 2015 by Chris Jorna

Source code and demo on general TCP client & server library mainly usable for / tested on SICK lidar devices

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

UDP based Windows chat application

13 Jul 2012 by Christopher John Paul

UDP based chat application.

Cinchoo - Simplified File Type Associations Development

4 Feb 2015 by Cinchoo

Simple and easy to associate file types to an application

String Format ValueConverter

9 Aug 2015 by Clifford Nelson

This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.

Get DataBase Connection Strings in Easy Way

3 Mar 2011 by crocks256

The ConnectionStringBuilder classes in .NET can be quite handy...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlconnectionstringbuilder.aspx[^].

Creating PartitionedDictionary

2 Nov 2014 by D Sarthi Maheshwari

A suggested solution to create Partition based Dictionary (reducing chances of OOM errors and adding capability to hold bigger KVP set in Dictionary).

Creating ConcurrentPartitionedDictionary

11 Nov 2014 by D Sarthi Maheshwari

A suggested solution to create serializable Partition based ConcurrentDictionary (reducing chances of OOM errors, reduced memory consumption and adding capability to hold bigger KVP set in Dictionary).

String.TryTo<T> and String.To<Nullable> Extensions

16 Nov 2014 by D Sarthi Maheshwari

Extension method on String class to convert string to IConvertible structs and nullable types

C# Fast Rational Arithmetic

22 Feb 2015 by D. Christian Ohle

New Rational class to solve epsilon and robustness problems especially for graphics algorithms.

Free Up To Date Historical Stock Data

19 Aug 2014 by D. Infuehr

How to download historical raw stock data for each symbol traded at nasdaq and nyse.

Windows

Database Object Model

21 Feb 2012 by databaseobjectmodel

A Sample ORM project

Custom Application Configuration XML files Warning

21 Jun 2010 by DaveAuld

Here is a lesson I learnt while working with custom application settings in XML files and Visual Studio

Research-Inspired Extensions Hit Visual Studio App Store

11 Oct 2013 by David C Shepherd

A peek into the inspiration behind two cutting edge Visual Studio extensions.

FFMPEG Video Converter with Progressbar VB.NET

24 Jan 2016 by David Vanson

How to make a video converter that shows the conversion progress to the user using ffmpeg

Arduino Code Printing

15 Nov 2015 by David Vanson

A small application to pretty print Arduino code with syntax highlighting

VB10

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