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Q Is there any means to copy the excel data to Gridview in ASP.net? It is obvious that you should use the native .net controls without borrowing any plugins / custom controls from a third party. A If you are .net 2.0+, then there is defenitely an easy...

Have an early look at the highlights and improvements on the features of the upcoming Silverlight showcased at Silverlight Firestarter here. http://www.jebarson.info/1/post/2010/12/highlighted-features-improvements-in-silverlight-5.html

My review on the latest Live 2010 Essentials beta. http://microsoftlovers.blogspot.com/2010/07/windows-live-essentials-2010-beta-one.html

Calendar control is as important as a normal text box control in any application. Most of any application which needs data entry will definitely need a calendar control at some part. ASP.net has a very good calendar control which we often ignore...

Below is the converter which I wrote which can help you convert the byte array of the file content to a Bitmap so that the Silverlight can bind it. Read More Share Email Earn Facebook Twitter...

Metro don’t support the same converter which I wrote earlier for the reason that BitmapImage can no more read from Stream but only from IRandomAccessStream. Well since I have to anyway come up with a solution, I wrote my own class. To start with...

Most the people who were in the TechEd 2012 India would have witnessed the cool demo by me and Abhijit Jana made on the opening Keynotes of the event. And now we would like to share how this solution was developed so that you can also build your own....

Windows Phone as of today doesn’t provide a property or direct API call which will help you identify whether the user has chosen to accept cookies or not. However, we can identify this pretty neatly by trying to get the cookie collection. So to...

I was looking for a template which will help put a pin / unpin button using toggle button. Antoni Dol who has already shared a fantastic template and I had to make few changes with respective to the pinned style as I didn’t like the original one...

Over the period of time lot of asks and solutions were made for selectall selector for DataGrid. However, I failed to see a solution which is completely built on XAML. When my friend approached me, I thought that I will write my own. The idea is to...

There are quite a lot of instance where you need to do a primary sort and you need a secondary sort on the same collection and sometimes even multiple sort. With LINQ we can achieve it pretty straight forward. Read More

I once stuck on a requirement where I needed to write a code which is flexible and generic enough to sort any type of collection and also the property based on which it has to be sorted will be dynamic. After trying many options I discovered myself how...

Today I will share a tip through which you can customize the way your RadioButtonList control will look. Below is a simple code which will enable to add me icons for the radio buttons in the list. Read More

There is a easy way you could specify the default value i.e., the default value to be used in case the nullable type has a null value in it. Read More.

Localization for a multilingual application is every developer's nightmare. With .net it is not a tough programming as most of the algorithm is already available. Well in this article we will discuss on how we can achieve localization using resource files...

ASP.net by default calls the function window.scrollTo(0,0) after the validation failure from ASP.net validators but not always we have the validation summary control placed at the top. There are instances where we need to place validation summary at some...

We most the time run into the issue where we need to release a patch which requires a change in one or multiple code behind files and since your site is compiled, you are put into the state that you have to do a deployment instead of releasing those files...

Well it's almost 2 months since I've been using different mango versions and now the RTM. Well for the people who are still waiting for it, I am pleased to announce that "You gonna love it!". Read More

It has been always a challenge when you have to suggest the right solution to the customer. A right & apt solution given to the customer is more than a business. On the contrast a wrong solution can ruin your career and so as your organization's....

In this article we will see how to sort on complex properties. In our scenario, we have “Employee” entity, where we have a property “Department” which is a complex type. Now let us assume that we are binding the list of employees...

On a Windows Phone application and if you are using a two way binding along with Application Bar Button or Menu, you might be having a nightmare that the binding for the last focused control is not happening when you click the application bar button or...

Over this article we are going to discuss on building a RadioButton ListBox using a Control Template and also how to have the flexibility of still specifying the group name for every list control. The solution is not to write a custom dependency property...

Nullable types and ternary operators are around for many years now and may be not everybody know that ternary operator doesn't support assigning null values to nullable types. To understand the real reason for the design, I got in touch with Mads Torgersen...

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