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Welcome to Microsoft Web Platform
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 Read More...
NotifyIcon : Display Windows Form in System Tray
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 Read More...
LINQ to CSV : Getting data the way you want
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] Read More...
Setup and Deployment : Custom Action to Capture User Input
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 Read More...
LINQ to XML : Understanding Annotations
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 Read More...
ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data – First Look Video
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!!! Read More...
LINQ – Uniformity All Over
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 Read More...
Immediate Window is missing in Visual Studio Menu
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 Read More...
ADO.NET Entity Framework : Working with Stored Procedure – The Video
In my previous text based blog I had promised to share the recording. Here it is and I am using Silverlight Streaming Namoskar!!! Read More...
ASP.NET 3.5 ListView and DataPager : Making RSS Reader
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 Read More...
Improving LINQ to SQL Application Performance
Must read http://www.sidarok.com/web/blog/content/2008/05/02/10-tips-to-improve-your-linq-to-sql-application-performance.html Namoskar!!! Read More...
LINQ to SQL : Returning Scalar Value from Stored Procedure
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 Read More...
LINQ to SQL : Using ChangeSet for Audit Trail
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 Read More...
Choosing between ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL
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 Read More...
ADO.NET Data Services : Accessing Non-Relational Data
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 Read More...
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