Silverlight 4 Security Overview White Paper
I came through a wonderful link that focuses on Security with Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications. Kudos to Nick, who has explained this wonderfull...
RichTextBox in Silverlight 4
I was trying my hands on Silverlight 4 Beta version and found this is wonderful control - RichTextBox.. This was much needed on Web Platform and Microsoft ha...
WCF Binding - which and when?
A question that boggles our mind and makes us think many times. Which binding should be used when? Let's throw some light on this. Case 1: Interaction with ...
Dynamic Theme in Silverlight 3
One of the features of WPF that we might be keen in implementing in Silverlight is changing the themes dynamically at runtime. So let us understand how to a...
Floating Container in Silverlight
This is an implementation of a container that can be moved, dragged within the scope of a Silverlight Application. Currently, the FloatingContainer is deriv...
Call me hell!
Call me hell!</p> by Puneet Ghanshani Here I stood, cries the mountain, Here the birds chirped, Leaves talked about the breeze, Heaven envied the earth...
VectorLight and Silverlight
Lots of tutorials (using OpenSource VectorLight) covering most of the new Silverlight 4 features including the new COM interop functionality allowing your Si...
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Hosting Silverlight as Desktop Applications - II
Enabling Silverlight Installation on Desktop To enable installation of Silverlight applications on Desktop, we need to add some custom code in Property > ...
Silverlight & WPF: MVVM
MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) is the new mantra for designing XAML based applications. This is brought out to address the emerging change in the approach of s...
List vs ObservableCollection
The difference between a generic list List<T> and an observable collection ObservableCollection<T> is that observable collection includes an inte...
WPF vs WPF XBAP vs Silverlight
Many have answered this question and many have asked me the same... So after research from various sites including http://silverlight.net and http://blogs.ms...
Hosting Silverlight as Desktop Applications - I
How often you have seen Silverlight applications getting hosted as Destkop Applications? Not many times! Yes, like Flex getting hosted on AIR platform - Sil...
ControlStoryboardAction in Silverlight 3
Microsoft.Expression.Interactions namespace ships with an interesting control - ControlStoryBoardAction. This control can be applied on any Silverlight UI C...
Installation failed with error code: (0x80091007), The hash value is not correct.
Installation failed with error code: (0x80091007), The hash value is not correct. Silverlight 3 Tools fails with this error only when there is NO internet co...
Visifire Charting in Silverlight
Visifire is one of my favourite charting tools in Silverlight. I love playing with it in my free-time at home on my Windows 2003 server machine :) This post ...
Designing a PopUp in Silverlight
Designing a PopUp in Silverlight is one of the common tasks in Silverlight Application Development. Let's see a code snippet that can help you do that in fe...
Zoom-in and out in Silverlight
I've been asked this ample times at my work place - how to implement a zoom in/out effect on any Silverlight Control. So let us take an example:- You have yo...
InitializeError #2103 - Invalid or malformed application
Code# 2103 Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest Now what does that mean? This is not easy to interpret, but is very easy to fix :) This error pop...
Installing IIS and ASP.NET on Vista
By default the IIS on Vista would not be configured. And while publishing using VS 2008, you might face error such as "IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 Configuration...
Winform Tip#10: Getting File Properties
Instantiate a FileInfo object with the full path as constructor arg. Then simply call FileInfo.Extension and you will get just the extension of the file. F...
Ten Traps in C# for C++ Programmers
Though this boils down to basics, these are most often missed out in projects and hence are performance issues. http://ondotnet.com/pub/a/oreilly/dotnet/ne...
Winform Tip#9: ColorPicker
Choose a textbox over which we will test this experiment: [sourcecode language='csharp'] ColorDialog colorDialog1 = new ColorDialog(); //fontDialog1.ShowColo...
Datagrid, datalist or repeater
Developers often make a decision blindly - they choose a datagrid over datalist and repeater. But that should not be a case. Datagrid provides ability to all...
Silverlight Toolkit
While the community comes up with the new version of Silverlight Toolkit for Silverlight 3. Let us see how it is installed. When installing, ensure that foll...
Development Tips to increase SQL Performance
These are few tips to increase SQL Performance: An index increases time to perform INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE operations. So minimal uses of indexes should b...
WCF “k__BackingField” Property Naming
While I was working on a project that involved designing WCF services as Backend layer, I ended up defining a class [Serializable] public class ProgramDetail...
Winform Tip#8: Clearing cache Webbrowser
Check out: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q326/2/01.asp It is indeed a good read.
Retrieving GAC Assemblies and Information
Retrieving GAC assemblies and their information. This was a question posed by one of my colleagues while he was developing a product. Now the answer to this...
Silverlight Host for Sharepoint
The solution attached with the post is a very easiest way to host a Silverlight Application in any Sharepoint site. Ready-to-use component is just 9 KB. You...
Winform Tip#7:Browser within Winform
WebBrowser control can be used inside a form to display HTML contents and listen to events such as NavigateComplete or BeforeNavigate Use of ActiveX wrappers...
GC - Static Class Issues!
Understanding the scenario We were working on a Windows Service for a large US bank when we discovered that there are potential issues while using Static Cla...
Winform tip#6:DataGrid vs DataGridView
DataGridView is an enhanced version of DataGrid. Some of the features lacking in DataGrid are: Multiple column types Multiple ways to display data Multiple...
Interface vs Object vs Aspect Oriented Programming
Interface oriented is something like having contract-based approach, means whatsoever be there under the Contract you have to implement all of it. A good exa...
Winform Tip#5: Programmatically maximize or minimize a form
Use the form's WindowState property. To minimize: this.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Minimized; To maximize: this.WindowState = S...
Winform Tip#4: Deployment in Winform
Best way to deploy is by using ClickOnce deployment. This allows user to get regular updates, patches to the product while conforming to the security standar...
Winform Tip#3:Avoiding multiple instances of child forms
Use Singleton pattern on Child Form and change the method of invocation in Parent form. Child form: //Used for singleton pattern static frmChildForm childFor...
JIT vs NGEN
Being a hardcore C developer, I always doubted whether JIT is actually performance centric or not. But guys! It is awesome. Kudos to Microsoft for this wonde...
Winform Tip#2:Managing Properties of multiple controls
An easier way to control properties of multiple controls is to place all the controls into a single GroupBox and then use the GroupBox properties property to...
Finding currently focused control
Good question! Now, this was a question in one of my sessions at Microsoft Community at Cognizant. We need to use User32 API's to do this stuff. It isn't t...
Winform Tip#1: Transparent Form
The opacity property enables you to specify a level of transparency for the form and its controls. See the .NET documentation for Form.Opacity for difference...
ASP.NET Best Practices (for Webforms)
This has been pending since long. People have been requesting this information and I've not been able to find time to write on Best Practices. And this fine ...
ComboBox Sorting Defect!
Oops! Never expected this behavior from such a standard control: Winforms ComboBox. One of the common things our applications require is bind a data source w...
Exception Message Box in C#
Its time to forget the old traditional message box with limited functionalities. buttons, icons, text area and what not! Microsoft has unleashed a new mess...
myTracker on LinkedIn
We are growing and are now moving to LinkedIn - the professional network. Carry out discussions, meet members on: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1809655 ...
myTracker crosses 150!
Wow! What a great response from you all! 157 downloads in less than 17 days is a great response.. Thanks to all! But this also brings an additional responsi...