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While talking to different people I get this question. And in Visual Studio it is very easy to do, You need Windows Forms Application, then drag and drop NotifyIcon there. Set one icon with that control so that it is visible, public partial class Form1
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When you do not see “Immediate” window under Debug menu of Visual Studio you may get frustrated. But there is a quick way to get it when required, Go to View > Other Windows > Command Window or press Ctrl+W, A Then type immed . It will bring the
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Must read http://www.sidarok.com/web/blog/content/2008/05/02/10-tips-to-improve-your-linq-to-sql-application-performance.html Namoskar!!!
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In LINQ to SQL it is not that easy thing to achieve as compared to other features. Let us assume you have a Stored Procedure like, Case 1: With Output Parameter CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo] . [GetEmployeeCount] @OutVal DateTime OUTPUT AS BEGIN SELECT @OutVal
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There are many more books available. Go and grab them · Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance · Application Architecture Guidance · Common Service Locator · Composite Application Guidance for WPF · Design for Operations · Enterprise Library · ESB Guidance
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http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx is a must to have site if you are a frequent user of Windows API and need to create a call for them. Namoskar!!!
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Windows Application and shortcut key are synonyms. People prefer to use shortcut keys for faster activity. Assume you are in a text box and you want to hit F5 to reload the form. You do not want to move your mouse cursor. So what you will be doing is
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Live.com you need to automate that in your Windows application. You will use the WebBrowser control. This is a very powerful control and allows us to control things through DOM. Here is a small code which insert values to the live.com’s seach text box
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When I show demo using my desktop I often come across to the scenarios where things are very small. I was using Windows Magnifier. I found this tool later and this is very helpful. This tool was created by Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich.
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During my demos I have noticed that Class Diagram in Visual Studio gives a very detailed view with lot of information. Now this is hard for people sitting at the back of the room to see what is there. It’s very easy, if you press “CTRL” then scroll the
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You can create your application use LINQ to SQL and make it N-Tier. Go ahead and watch out the MSDN Documents N-Tier and Remote Applications with LINQ to SQL LINQ to SQL N-Tier with ASP.NET LINQ to SQL N-Tier with Web Services LINQ to SQL with Tightly-Coupled
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I found an article at http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/12/09/got-tech-posters.aspx for Tech Posters. Namoskar!!!
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LINQ to SQL is object relational model and .dbml file generates the class file for all kind of Create, read, update and delete ( CRUD ) through the mapping mechanism. Ideally this should allow us to enable it for WCF Service. But for that we have to manually
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As usual Express editions are free but this time you can take this and sit in a remote location and install Visual Studio with no Internet connections. Yes we can download offline .iso to avoid download & install pain. Please visit, http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/offline.aspx
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LINQ to SQL designer in Visual Studio allows us to create mapped class using the drag and drop feature from Server Explorer. Now that is business object which ideally you could use as your datasource and from Visual Studio 2008. So let us have this step
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