Articles

Asynchronous Programming using C# 4.5 and Visual Studio 2011

Mahesh Sabnis — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 05:03:00 GMT

The new keywords async and await introduced in C# 4.5 helps developers to make their asynchronous programming logic less complex and more manageable. In this article, we will see a simple demonstration of the async programming in C# 4.5

Generating Random Pronounceable Passwords

Richard Carr — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:49:00 GMT

The use of passwords as a security measure is increasingly common for technical and non-technical users alike. Generating passwords that are both strong and memorable can be difficult. This article describes one method to alleviate this problem.

Using Microsoft WebAPI from a WinForm and WinRT Client Application

Sumit Maitra — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:12:00 GMT

In this post, we will see how we can create a Windows and WinRT application that connects to WebAPIs released with ASP.NET MVC 4 and can retrieve and submit information.

Cancelling Parallel Loops

Richard Carr — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:25:00 GMT

The Task Parallel Library includes static methods that provide parallel equivalents of the for and foreach loops. As with parallel tasks, these loops can be cancelled by other processes using a system of cancellation tokens.

Sort a Multicolumn ListView in C#

darwin150 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:11:00 GMT

When you are working with the ListView control, you may want to sort its contents based on a specific column. We will see how to do that.

Reading and Writing INI Files

Richard Carr — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:05:00 GMT

Initialization files known as INI files provide a standard means for storing configuration information for software in a text file. Although rarely used by .NET applications, there are situations where these files must be read and written to using C#.

WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.0 released!

jbe — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:20:00 GMT

The open-source framework WAF has been released in the second version. It helps you to create well-structured WPF applications. This is achieved by applying a Layered Architecture and the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. After a year work the new version comes with a lot new features: * The sample applications Email Client, Writer and Book Library show more realistic scenarios. But they are still easy to understand which is supported by the new documentation as well. * Support for the DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern. * It comes with an adapter that allows using the .NET DataAnnotations validation framework with WPF bindings. * A recent file list implementation that can be loaded and stored in the application settings. * and a lot more...

DataGrid with integrated field (column) chooser

shemesh — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:29:00 GMT

Right click on a DataGrid column header to open the field (columns) chooser and show/hide columns.

WPF 4: Using Input Bindings to Go Mouseless

Mahesh Sabnis — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:13:00 GMT

While creating the UI of an application, we need to adopt techniques that makes the user comfortable with the app. If the existing user is habitual of using shortcut keys for various operations, then while developing the new user interface, it is necessary for the UI developer to provide a similar functionality. In WPF, we have such a facility using ‘InputBindings’. Using this feature, operational shortcut facility can be provided. InputBindings in WPF can be provided on any element.

WPF 4 DataGrid: Delete Multiple Rows

Suprotim Agarwal — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:36:00 GMT

This article demonstrates how to delete multiple rows from the WPF DataGrid.

.NET String Resources

Jani Giannoudis — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:57:00 GMT

The .NET framework offers the ResourceManager as a basis for dealing with externalized strings and their translations. This article extends these capabilities of standard .NET string handling by the following functionality: controlled access to strings, type safe formatting of variable string elements, strings for enumerations (optionally with image), XAML strings, and user-defined string resource files in ASP.NET.

Checking Password Strength

Richard Carr — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:53:00 GMT

Many computer systems require that a password is provided before permitting access to sensitive data. As some passwords are easy to crack using brute force techniques, it is common to give the user feedback to show the strength of their selected password.

Asynchronous Tasks and Synchronization on UI TPL .NET 4.0

Amit Chaudhary — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:30:00 GMT

Using TPL for parallel programming is now a pieces of cake. It makes life easier for those who are new to multithreaded programming.

DLR : Expressions and a ‘Hello World’ application

Amin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:31:00 GMT

An introduction to Dynamic Language Runtime features. Linq Expressions can be very helpful in dynamic programming.

Auto scaling strategies for Windows Azure, Amazon's EC2 and Other Cloud Platforms

igorek — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:56:00 GMT

Implementing a cloud-based application without auto scaling is like installing an air-conditioner without a thermostat: one either needs to constantly monitor and manually adjust the needed temperature or pray that outside temperature never changes