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It is amazing to see so many Web Platform utilities are clubbed together in one single place. What you may need to develop website, are available here. http://www.microsoft.com/web/default.aspx If you go to downloads section http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/default.aspx
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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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Getting data from CSV is one of the mostly used business in applications/tools development. Here how we can do it in LINQ, You have a table called Emp with the below details, CREATE TABLE [dbo] . [Emp] ( [Id] [int] IDENTITY ( 1 , 1 ) NOT NULL, [FirstName]
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Purpose Users are allowed to pass Product Key while installing in .msi. During that we want to capture it for registration to avoid piracy. Challenges When we use “Customer Information” dialog in “Start” action, it has “SerialNumberTemplate”. But capturing
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Annotations are used for private use. It does not directly associated and known as Black Box in XML world. This can also be considered as meta tag. Below is an example on how it can be handled. I have created a sample Windows Applications and will try
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ASP.Net 3.5 Dynamic Data is a cool thing. I really like the effectiveness of the data driven approach. Here is a video I have recorded, Namoskar!!!
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I have spent a while with LINQ and still feel very new whenever I explore some new power. Here I am going to describe you how LINQ uniformly allows you write for the various types of data. In-memory data source ++++++++++++++++ List < int > arrInt
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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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In my previous text based blog I had promised to share the recording. Here it is and I am using Silverlight Streaming Namoskar!!!
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ASP.NET 3.5 comes with bundle of new data bound controls. Among them ListView and DataPager are the ones I am going talk here. To me ListView is the enhanced from of DataRepeater. It has got everything you might need to create an app with your HTML/CSS
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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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Most of the transactional scenario, you may need to add the transaction to some table for ref. many apps does it for admin perspective. Problem You can do it in LINQ to SQL with ChangeSet but the problem is with Inserts. It does not give you the Identity
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As part of my day to job I come across a very common question from the developer community that one should be using LINQ to SQL (L2S) or ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF). Earlier I have posted a blog containing the features http://blogs.msdn.com/wriju/archive/2009/01/05/choosing-between-linq-to-sql-and-entity-framework.aspx
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As you all know Astoria (Data Services) supports anything as backend. Not necessarily you need to have a Relational database to access data. So if you talk about offline data like collection of an Object which may or may not come from an external entity
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