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Comparator - Data Sources Comparer

by Alex Pumpet

A simple program for comparing table data from two sources - SQL databases, Excel, CSV or XML-files

CPS1.NET: A C# Based CPS1 (MAME) Emulator

by shunninghuang

CPS1 emulator, ROM hacking

by David Rogers Dev

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

Using Python Scripts from a C# Client (Including Plots and Images)

by Thomas Weller

Demonstrates how to run Python scripts from C#

Latest Articles

C# MVVM Toolkit Demo

by Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using the MVVM Toolkit and some self-created interfaces / services for MessageBox and some dialogs.

SequelMax: C++ XML SAX Parser

by Shao Voon Wong

C++ SAX library to simplify XML parsing

Portable Elmax: C++ XML DOM Parser

by Shao Voon Wong

Tutorial on a cross-platform C++ XML DOM library

WPF: DataGrid Filterable, Multi Language

by Macabies Gilles

An easy-to-use filterable, multilingual custom DataGrid control for managing and filtering data for your WPF applications

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.Net - Use The Framework

22 May 2010 by #realJSOP

Don't reinvent the wheel - use the one that's already on the cart.

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.NET

LINQ

.Net - Use The Framework

6 Apr 2010 by TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

The following is far easier to understand and use than the Outlaw's tip (IMHO).text = Regex.Replace(text, "screen_fadetimeout=\"[^\"\']+\"", "screen_fatetimeout="99");It has the following advantages:1. It is one line of code2. It is easier to read3. It is faster (note: XmlElement...

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.NET

LINQ

.NET Code Comment Utilities

19 Mar 2015 by Peter T. Ringering

A program that makes editing code comments and XML comments easier.

.NET Configuration File Corrupts On Write

9 Nov 2021 by Member 12660776

Programmatically Adding New ConfigurationSectionGroup Corrupts Declaration Section With Multiple Group Declarations.

.NET Reporting Tool Tutorial - 2

21 Apr 2013 by emadns

Second tutorial for loading data through code - Sqlite

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.NET

2 Options to Remove a Windows Service (and a Dummy do-nothing Windows Service for You to Play With)

24 Aug 2018 by simonp_ca

How to remove Windows service from Service List (not just stop/disable it, but to delete it from the list totally)

A Custom ServiceHostFactory

8 Sep 2008 by cesar_boucas

A custom derivative of ServiceHostFactory to control how WCF service hosts are created.

A Custom WPF ScrollViewer

7 Dec 2018 by Dirk Bahle

Making better use of the available UI space.

A Free & Useful Converter from VB project to C# project

3 Jun 2022 by Southmountain

This tip shares some lessons and thoughts after using this converter.

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A PostgreSQL Notification Example

15 Oct 2020 by RickZeeland

PostgreSQL notifications Windows Forms application

A Programmatic Approach of Configuring web.xml

13 Apr 2015 by Keerthi_Kumar_N

Configuring the web.xml for any Java/J2ee project using a programmatic approach

Java

XML

Dev

A Robust CSV Reader

14 Jan 2020 by David A. Gray

The routines in this library can parse any string that I can throw at it, including Common Name strings read from X.509 Digital Certificates.

A Simple Library to Generate PowerPoint Presentations

5 Jun 2014 by Erik Vullings

Generate a PowerPoint presentation, consisting of slides with a title and an image, without requiring Microsoft Office

Add Clipboard Text Provider Capability to Your C# OpenGL App on X11

18 Feb 2019 by Steffen Ploetz

How to realize text copy functionality via inter process communication for your OpenTK based C# OpenGL application running on X11

Add Menu Items, and Respond to Them, in Android Activities

4 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Wherein the steps to add menu items, and respond to them being selected, is delineated

Add New User Registration Information in XML with C#

14 Nov 2014 by Anurag Prajesh

Add new user registeration information in XML with C#

Adding OnClick Event for button in XML

8 Oct 2013 by Praveen Maniyath

Code for implementing a click event for button in Android.

Java

XML

Dev

Adding unit testing and code coverage to your Nant scripts

19 Sep 2014 by Dominic Burford

Adding unit testing and code coverage to your Nant scripts

XML

Windows

Nant

An exe to generate CodeMetrics Summary report in HTML form

18 Jul 2012 by dreamzlife

A simple way to parse multiple CodeMetrics XML data and generate a summary report.

XML

XSL

And Now... How to Open an XML File in JavaScript for Web

23 Oct 2018 by Matias Lopez

How to open an XML file in JavaScript for Web

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HTML

Javascript

Android Development - Running Android App

10 Dec 2012 by ShubhamSaxena

Running an Android app.

Android Torch App

22 Jun 2018 by Azim Zahir

This is a demonstration of a Torch application built using Android.

Animated Splash Screen in Windows Store

10 Mar 2014 by Malak Zia Nasir

Override the Windows Store app default splash screen with an animated one

Another DatagridView for Windows Forms

21 Dec 2018 by Member 3471983

Add Filter Sort and Theme to a datagridview

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MS-Excel

Applying XSL Transformations

31 Mar 2010 by Ilka Guigova

Setup: A data from one module is passed into another so that Module 1 takes a (flat) file as input and feeds an xml structure into Module 2. While Module 2 is internal, Module 1 is designed to handle different customer inputs into the system. However, it is not always possible to generate the...

XSLT

XML

ASP.NET Adrotator and its Implementation

1 Dec 2014 by Anurag Prajesh

How to add banner and slideshow in your website with adrotator

ASP.NET Web API Generic HttpContent Reader and Serialization Helper

21 Aug 2013 by karlodegrano

A generic HttpContent Reader that can be used to replace FromBody parameter on Http Action

Auto Generate a Lot of Columns in Reporting Services (RDL)

15 May 2021 by be05x5

SQL script that will generate XML code that you can copy paste into your RDL file and just do it that way

SQL

XML

RDL

Auto Transform T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Templates on Project Build

3 Jul 2019 by rohitsies

This article describes an advanced technique and configuration to automatically transform and run your all or selected T4 templates when a project is build.

Autos - Immediate Access to Resources Without Clicking

1 Jan 2015 by tc99

Immediate access to resources without clicking

Badge Notifications in Windows 8

28 Jun 2012 by ROHIT SHAW

It shows how to display a badge notification in Windows 8 metro app

Base64 Encoding

23 Mar 2019 by Martin Vorbrodt

Base64 encoding

XML

C++

Basic App to Insert the Contents of an XML File into a SQL Table with SQLBulkCopy

16 Nov 2015 by MarcusCole6833

Making XML SQL .NET style!

Bee: A Suite of Self-Balancing Binary Tree Based Dictionaries

13 Sep 2019 by honey the codewitch

A B-tree, an AVL tree, and a Splay tree in C#

Building a C# WPF Twitter Reader with REST API (Now .NET Core 3 Version!)

18 Jun 2022 by Peter Sun (247)

Create a C# WPF app to read Twitter tweets and retweets via REST API with grouping related users / friends by categories. As a bonus, tweets can be saved in Azure / Cloud, and viewed in an Azure website.

C# - XML Writer Settings - Adding Line breaks/indentation

27 Sep 2010 by Karthik. A

When dynamically creating XML documents, they appear just like a normal text file. This tip is to add line breaks and indentation automatically (I posted this in my blog a while ago)

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C# How To Read .xlsx Excel File With 3 Lines of Code

29 Jul 2014 by dietmar paul schoder

Read rows and cells from an xlsx-file: quick, dirty, effective.

C# Slider/Trackbar Control using Windows Forms

9 Dec 2019 by Fabrice Lacharme

Yet another slider/trackbar in C#

C# WPF Master-Detail View Navigation: A Data-Driven Approach

5 Jul 2018 by Peter Sun (247)

Master-detail view navigation using manageable data-driven and code-behind techniques

C++11 std::div() Benchmark

15 Jan 2019 by Shao Voon Wong

C++11 std::div() Benchmark

Calling an ASMX webservice from other server using jquery and PHP

25 Jun 2014 by SibeeshKV

Calling an ASMX webservice from other server using jquery and PHP

Calling Rest APIs in Jira using JavaScript

31 Aug 2016 by adityave22

This article explains how to write JavaScript code in Atlassian Jira to call external REST APIs and load json data into Jira custom fields

XML

Javascript

Jira

Case Insensitive XPath Queries

3 Apr 2018 by Christiaan van Bergen

How to perform XPath queries on all lower case elements

XML

.NET

XPath

Change an Android Layout's default header text

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to quickly and easily change a Layout's header text

Check Network V1.0

23 Apr 2014 by mohamedkamaleed

Network check v1.0

Cinchoo ETL - Converting JSON to XML with Namespaces

27 Oct 2021 by Cinchoo

Tip to convert JSON to XML with namespaces using Cinchoo ETL

Cinchoo ETL - Deserialize Selective XML Nodes from Large XML File

7 Nov 2021 by Cinchoo

Use Cinchoo ETL to deserialize selective XML nodes from large XML file

Cinchoo ETL - Quick Start: Converting JSON to XML File

28 Sep 2022 by Cinchoo

Quick tutorial about converting JSON to XML file using Cinchoo ETL

XML

.NET

JSON

Complete Open XML Spreadsheet in VB

25 Apr 2014 by Frankxcid

Class that allows you to programmatically create an Open XML Excel spreadsheet

XML

Windows

ASP.NET

Connect an External Stylesheet to XML

19 Mar 2012 by tomjoly45

How to connect an external stylesheet to XML.

CSS

XML

Dev

Convert CSV file to XML with DataTable in Visual Basic

22 Jan 2015 by Emiliano Musso

A quick method to convert a CSV file in XML

Convert DataSet or XML to JSON using VB.NET

18 Apr 2011 by Jesse Fatherree

Convert DataSet or XML to JSON using VB.NET

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JSON

Convert DataTable to XML, XSD, and HTML

6 Aug 2013 by pramod.hegde

Converts DataTable to XML, XSD, or HTML using XSLT and C#

Convert Trx into HTML using TRXER

16 Apr 2015 by kingddd

Introducing a new tool to transform trx (mstest results file) into HTML report

Convert XML to Object using LINQ

17 Apr 2012 by Naufel Basheer

Convert complex XML to an object using LINQ

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LINQ

Converting a .NET DateTime object to a JavaScript Date object

1 Oct 2012 by Jason N. Gaylord

When using a WCF or ASMX web service in ASP.NET, you might find the need to pass back a DateTime object via JSON. However, what you might not realize is that by passing a .NET DateTime object back to JavaScript, you’d receive an “Invalid date” script exception. The data being passe

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Windows

Converting HL7 to XML

27 Jul 2015 by Shru37

Modified code from another article to consider field repetitions while converting HL7 message to XML

Converting XML string to HTML Table

19 Dec 2012 by Rajesh Kuramdasu

This article describes about converting an XML string to a HTML table.

Converting XML to an Dynamic Object using ExpandoObject

27 Apr 2020 by RemcoReitsma

Load an XML document and convert it to a dynamic object

Create CSV from JSON in C#

19 Mar 2017 by Yaseer Arafat

Using Extension Method and JSON Serializer

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ADO.NET

Create XML and Extend its Nodes

17 Apr 2014 by SaahilPriya

Creates an XML File, and extends its Node if it already exists

Java

XML

Creating a Issue in Jira using Rest Api

5 Oct 2014 by Abhijit Ghosh (Subho)

Creating a Issue in Jira using Rest API and Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML)

Creating and Invoking an Activity in Droidio (Android Studio)

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to create an Android Activity and its associated Layout file, then invoke (intent) them from another Activity

Creating Custom WPF Derived Control with Attached XAML File

25 Jun 2018 by Clifford Nelson

A way to create a custom derived control with the XAML file attached like a UserControl

Creating or Editing the Web.config dynamically for Page Level Access (Asp.net web forms)

27 Oct 2014 by Israel Gebreselassie

This tip/trick shows you how to edit the web.config file dynamically .

CrossCutterN: A Light Weight AOP Tool for .NET

31 Mar 2022 by David_Cui

A brief introduction to CrossCutterN tool remade for AOP programming in .NET technologies

Customize List View Column Headers

20 Sep 2023 by Javad Taheri (drjackool)

Show or hide, reorder, save and restore list view column headers

Data Tables to Formatted XML (for loops vs. LINQ to XML)

2 Oct 2011 by Vishnu Kesaraju

Using LINQ to XML to convert datatables to formatted XML.

XML

LINQ

Data Virtualization using DataGrid

30 Oct 2018 by Carsten Breum

Data Virtualization example with a pagesize and async data request

DataGridView to Crystal Report in C#

6 Jun 2013 by mohammad amiri

this tip discuss about showing datagridview data to crystal report using c#

Delete an XML node using the node name

23 Aug 2011 by b4usat

How to delete an XML node using its name.

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Delete an XML node using the node name

24 Aug 2011 by George Swan

Can't you do the same thing without the need for a select statement?XElement xElement = XElement.Load(path);xElement.Elements ("Node").Remove();xElement.Save(path);

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Dependency Injection in "WCF Service Library" Project with Self hosting

30 Jul 2019 by Sunny Makode

There are several contents available on the internet that talk about injecting dependencies through .svc file's markup [in WCF service application] and it's easy when you have a WCF service application. But, it is equally easy to do that even in your WCF Library project (without .svc).

Deploying Your WCF Web Service to IIS

7 Oct 2014 by Dominic Burford

Deploying your WCF web service to IIS

Determining all bootable partitions

28 Jun 2018 by hasan bozkurt

Determining all bootable partitions using PInvoke

Differences in XML Serialization when [XmlElement] and [XmlText] are Combined

14 Feb 2015 by Ifat Chitin Morrison

This tip shows the differences in XML serialization when a serializable class has a combination of [XmlElement] and [XmlText].

XML

VS2013

XmlSerializer

Displaying XML Files with CSS/XSLT

5 Apr 2019 by Matias Lopez

Displaying XML Files with CSS/XSLT

CSS

XSLT

XML

Do Smart coding using Code Snippets in .NET

19 Apr 2011 by Joshi, Rushikesh

You learn how to create your own Code Snippets and publish them to your Team to use them.

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Visual-Studio

style

Drawing Medical Waveforms using a Windows Mobile 5.0 Device

14 Feb 2022 by Radhakrishna Banavalikar

How to develop patient monitoring systems based on a WinMobile device

Encryption Decryption Connection String for the App.Config File

14 Jun 2013 by Preetam U Ramdhave

How to develop connection string encryption on the application config file.

Error Summary Email with XSLT and XML in a SSIS Package

23 Sep 2015 by Carlos Bocanegra

This tip describes a useful way to create and send an email with a summary of the exceptions from a file validation process in a SSIS package using a XML and a XSLT template.

Excel Google Maps Add-In

8 Oct 2015 by Sotirios Diamantis

You have latitude and longitude coordinates in Excel and you want to display them in Google maps; this simple Excel add-in will let you do just that.

EXE to MSI -- MSI Wrapper using WIX Toolset v4

3 Sep 2018 by JakeG

WIX template for wrapping EXE with a MSI installer for easier deployment with group policy

ExpandoObject: Serialization OOP and Processing XML Files without Heads Taken

19 Feb 2016 by mbruchet

It is often requested by the customer to import a data file in XML format. It is therefore easier to work in object mode, however, the XML transformation into a pure object might take time to be developed. ExpandoObject provides an answer to this problem ...

XML

WebAPI

Export data from SQL Server as XML

10 Aug 2011 by seankk

Export GridView Using OpenXML Part 2

28 Aug 2015 by Mohammed Ibrahim.L

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C#5.0

.NET

External Description Data Structure

26 Aug 2011 by Ion_tichy

Xsd2Struct is a software for the creation and run-time processing of an external description data structure.

XML

C++

Extract Tables from PDFs

15 Oct 2018 by moneema14

A parser event listener for PDF tables to .NET Dataset object

XML

VS2013

Visual-Studio

Faster than STL

22 Apr 2023 by Ben McNamara

Container classes much faster than STL.

Floating Point and Integer Arithmetic Benchmark

5 Jun 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

Performance of Floating Point and Integer Arithmetic has closed gap in modern CPU

Formatting an XML string in Silverlight

7 Jan 2011 by Paul Schwartzberg

If you have unformatted XML in a string and need to format it for visual presentation, e.g. for sending it to your UI, here's how to do it for Silverlight 4.0.

XML

Silverlight

Formatting an Xml string in Silverlight

12 Jul 2011 by Paul Schwartzberg

Formatting XML in a string for visual presentation.

Formatting unformatted XML string in LINQ – Code snippets

18 Oct 2011 by CodingLover

How to format unformatted XML string easily with LINQ.

XML

LINQ

Formify - Forms Made Fast

27 Dec 2018 by Alessio Aronica

Generate forms from MVC models in one simple line of code

Framework for Performing Aggregation and Plain MongoDB Queries in myBatis Style

12 Sep 2013 by dmgcodevil

Framework for performing aggregation and plain MongoDB queries in myBatis style

Freehand Drawing using Google Map and Spatial Search

15 Mar 2021 by Pablo A Martinez

How to use Google map and Spatial search to do freehand drawing

General string parsing techniques

30 Oct 2011 by rj45

General string parsing techniques

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HTML

General string parsing techniques

28 Oct 2011 by Andrew Rissing

I would have actually opted to remove the start index being passed in. Then, you can spruce up the calls with extension methods (albeit not necessary).Usage:removeList.AddRange(html.ToString().GetBetween("");Code:public static class StringUtilities{ ///...

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HTML

General string parsing techniques

1 Nov 2011 by ChunkyStool

namespace ParseTests{ using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public static class ExtensionMethods { /// /// Extracts text from a source string that is between two specified tags. ...

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HTML

Generate Sample XML from XSD

7 Jun 2012 by Joshi, Rushikesh

How to Generate Sample XML from XSD