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Resolution Independent UI

dotnetfunda — 2010-03-18T03:46:41Z

It is a common problem to fix resolution related issues. Here I will demonstrate, how your UI will fix itself automatically using few tricks.

Build Your Talking Application

dotnetfunda — 2010-03-18T03:43:31Z

In this application it is discussed how you can use Windows Narrator to create talking application.

Find duplicate files using VB.Net

pons_saravanan — 2010-03-18T03:02:39Z

*MD5 hash to find Duplicate files * When you are receiving files from different sources but the content is same, there is a possibility of having a different filename for the same content. Hence finding a duplicate file just by file name may not be sufficien...

Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating - Stephen.Walther

Khaled — 2010-03-18T12:27:55Z

About two months ago, John Resig and I met at Café Algiers in Harvard square to discuss how Microsoft can contribute to the jQuery project. Today, Scott Guthrie announced in his second-day MIX keynote that Microsoft is throwing its weight behind jQuery and making it the primary way to develop client-side Ajax applications using Microsoft technologies.

C# Bits: A Slightly Improved Password Field Template

Khaled — 2010-03-18T12:23:08Z

I know my previous password field template was just about functional, so I have improved it slightly now you will have to enter the password twice in password mode and they will have to match. And in Read-Only mode it just displays ** or as many ‘*’ as you like. Listing 1 - Password.ascx page and the code behind is even less interesting.<%@ Control Language="C#" CodeFile="PasswordEdit.ascx.cs" Inherits="PasswordEditField" %> Listing 2 – Password_Edit.ascx Fig...

Architecture Analysis Practices with VS2010 Direct Graphs and Layer Diagrams

ClemensReijnen — 2010-03-17T10:44:42Z

Been using the direct graph [DGML] and layer diagram capabilities from VS2010 for a while now. Used them on many different projects with a wide spread of architectures, different quality levels and with many questions to answer about it. And I recognized a common way of working when using the tools… It looks something like this: Zoom Out – Recognize - Zoom In – Analyze - Zoom Out or Zoom In – Group – Zoom Out and can been done in a different order…

HighOnCoding: Get high on ASP.NET articles, videos, podcasts and more!

Khaled — 2010-03-17T09:24:30Z

Uploading files to a server is a common operation of many websites. In this article we will focus on how to upload image files using ASP.NET MVC Framework and display the images using our custom Image HtmlHelper.

Using CLR 4.0 Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) along with application ETW

reshmi — 2010-03-17T09:23:39Z

At last CLR 4.0 has started showing some love towards ETW. Like I mentioned before ETW is very useful in understanding what is happening on the entire system, along with your application. Today I am going to be demonstrating a simple application, which is going to allocate large arrays 100 times. Along with the allocation, it is also going to log via ETW each time it allocated. The reason is to see the object allocation within our code and GC collection from CLR in the same trace file. How cool it is to ...

Let it ring - WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Phone

http://kodierer.blogspot.com/ — 2010-03-17T08:47:06Z

Rene Schulte introduces the open source Silverlight WriteableBitmapEx library version for the Windows Phone. Furthermore he provides a sample application that is demoed in a video and shares his excitement about the new platform for Silverlight.

Experience Space using Microsoft WorldWide Telescope | TechArtifact

ankygoyal — 2010-03-17T07:17:08Z

We already have been visualizing the earth on our desktops for quite a long time now. Thanks Google Earth and Bind maps. Ever wondered if we could visualize space this way as well? Imagine taking a close look at a stars or galaxies like Milky way right from your desktop? Or even taking a view of Moon or Mars? Well Microsoft Research has come up with a solution to this. Read on...

MVVM: Going it alone

developmentalmadness — 2010-03-17T06:49:50Z

Just watched Rob Eisenburg's presentation from MIX10. Here's a bit of a recap, links to source code and my own thoughts after watching it.

Some Notes On SQL Saturday #44

MarlonRibunal — 2010-03-17T06:37:22Z

Some Notes On SQL Saturday #44March 16, 2010tags: attendee, dba, developer, free classes, free training, speaker, sql server session, sqlsaturday, SSAS, SSIS 2008, SSRSby MarlonRibunal Few weeks after we officially announced SQLSaturday#44, a couple of event sponsors have signed up so far. 2 or 3 have signed up as swag sponsors (books and software). There are only 5 weeks to go before the event. This means we need an aggressive campaign to attract more event sponsors. In order for us to attract more sp...

Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework - Day 2 Part 2 of MIX 2010

http://www.adronbhall.com/ — 2010-03-17T04:42:20Z

3/15/2010Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework - Day 2 Part 2 of MIX 2010 I went to the session on Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (MSAF) today while here at MIX 2010. It was a great walk through the features, ideas, and what the end goal is. Michael Scherotter did a great job of lining up the ideas, intentions, and the functional ideas behind the framework. The framework is built around the Silverlight Behaviors. If you aren't sure what behaviors are, check out these entries from Nikh...

ASP.NET4 - Working with URL Routing | syntaxhelp.com

himanet — 2010-03-17T03:35:44Z

SQL ServerASP.NETSQL Azure with ASP Dot NetASP.NET - Working with Request ObjectASP.NET - Working with Response ObjectASP.NET - Working with Page Attributes ASP.NET - Send Email in C#.NETASP.NET - Configuration SettingsASP.NET - Encryption using Forms Authentication ASP.NET - Working with CacheASP.NET - Working with Connection String Encryption and Decryption in Web.Config ASP.NET - Working with Controls -Resetting Form ControlsASP.NET - Working with GridView ASP.NET4 SEO FeaturesASP.NET4 - Working wit...

SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE « Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

pinaldave — 2010-03-17T12:00:40Z

Today, we are going to discuss about something very simple, but quite commonly confused two options of ALTER DATABASE. The first one is ALTER DATABASE …ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and the second one is WITH NO_WAIT. Many people think they are the same or are not sure of the difference between these two options. Before we continue our explaination, let us go through the explanation given by Book On Line. ROLLBACK AFTER integer [SECONDS] | ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE Specifies whether to roll back after a specified numb...

Tips on Google Buzz

kirank — 2010-03-17T10:16:18Z

on my previous post i was discuss on what is Google buzz , how you can add Google Buzz button on your Blogger / Wordpress. now on this article i am just discussing tips on Google Buzz , hope u enjoy this 1.Quick open Google Buzz yes there are some keyboards shortkuts on gmail for opening google Buzz quickly, type g b from gmail view and Google Buzz will get open. here are few more shortcuts. m - mute r- add comments p/n - Go to new conversation o -expand conversation and so on. Hide buz...

Windows server 2008 and SharePoint server

Praveen — 2010-03-17T02:53:07Z

This is the best article that covers complete information about the requirements for installing SharePoint server on Windows Server 2008. This is important article because this is the starting point for the people who like SharePoint 2010. Because SharePoint 2010 install only on Windows Server 2008. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/01/16/windows-server-2008-and-sharepoint-resources.aspx

Innovation Showcase : Get your Daily Dose of the Huffington Post with IE8

jbarnes — 2010-03-16T10:42:36Z

16 March 2010 Get your Daily Dose of the Huffington Post with IE8 Want to get your daily news delivered right to your browsers doorstep? IE8 Web slices allow you to subscribe to various forms of website content (RSS feeds, Twitter updates, etc.) and have it delivered right to your Internet Explorer favorites toolbar. Even better, it’s always visible and you can get visual clues when there’s new data to see – the font turns bold whenever new updates arrive. The new Accelerators in Internet Explorer...

Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Tools

secrets — 2010-03-16T01:04:12Z

March 16Microsoft Windows Phone Developer ToolsToday in Mix010 Microsoft has announced Windows Phone Developer Tools and the great thing which is new for me atleast (but i must say i suspected it ) is that it's purely Silverlight... Scott Guthrie announced that development plateforms for Windows Phone are Silverlight and XNA..The most amazing thing is that unlike it's predecessor Windows Mobile or so... it's not a compact framework of Original, it's not Silverlight Compact or Silverlight for Windows Phon...

A POP 3 Class

mikeuk — 2010-03-16T10:38:50Z

How pop 3 works with an example in C#

GridView Alphabetical Paging

pons_saravanan — 2010-03-16T07:40:59Z

GridView Alphabetical Paging in BottomPagerRow Sometimes the data will be more helpful if presented in a nice and user friendly manner. I have noticed this in the hierarchical GridView which I had explained earlier in previous ...

Fix for Not able to connect to SharePoint 2010 server web sites

Praveen — 2010-03-16T05:17:31Z

Today, I started working on SharePoint 2010 server side object model to delete all the files from the document library using batch command. I have written all the code but, I failed to connect to the web site using SPSite class. I tried all combination like with server name, ip address and many more. Always I am getting the exception that "not able to connect to SharePoint site". This is the actual exception : "The Web application at http://nb16 could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL c...

Beginners Guide’s to ASP.NET MVC Framework – Part 1 of n

dotnetfunda — 2010-03-16T05:15:05Z

This article describes overview of ASP.NET MVC Framework , MVC Control Flow etc.

How to analyze and speed up content rich web sites likes www.utah.travel in minutes

grabnerandi — 2010-03-16T02:17:29Z

One of my daily activities is checking interesting blog posts on various performance related topics. Today I stumbled across the blog 10 Cool Websites with Amazing jQuery Effects. I started looking at these pages which really have nice UI features implemented with jQuery. What many of these pages have in common is that they contain a huge number of images that are all hosted on the same domain. Depending on which browser you have this can result in long loading times of all images or other embedded objec...

What's new in Silverlight 4 RC?

dotnetspark — 2010-03-15T08:32:41Z

Microsoft has just released the Silverlight 4 RC with several changes in the Silverlight runtime & in the Silverlight tools