Threads and a Bicycle-built-for-two
Building a bicycle-built-for-two isn’t a great metaphor for designing multi-threaded software, but I needed a catchy title, so there you have it.
Few companies and few developers like to talk about t
Image Filters using CPU and GPU
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Introduction
In this article, we are going to investigate a simple common framework for single input, single output image
Comparing the performance of AppFabric against Sql Server
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately implementing distributed caching systems for various clients. During my initial scoping, I found a lot of information out there comparing the performance between c
Fun with Google TTS eBook reader using minimalistic approach
Download GoogleTTS.zip - 17.12 KB IntroductionIt's interesting to see how much free tools Google started to provide to people thanks to it's massive cloud computing capability.I was so blown away by
Fluent Functors
I've been learning about BOOST Spirit, a C++ expression based compiler generator. One of the examples is for a Roman Numeral parser. This contained the following interesting code for pre-loading a sym
Automatic JavaScript, CSS versioning to refresh browser cache
When you update JavaScript or CSS files that are already cached in users’ browsers, most likely many users won’t get that for some time because of the caching at the browser or intermediate proxy(s).
Simple .NET MVC 3 web application with integrated Facebook OAuth API
1. Before creating a .Net MVC application we have to register domain name that will be used for web site at the Facebook development site http://developers.facebook.com/setup/. After successful regist
Few important tips that you should know while using ASP.NET Session
While working with ASP.NET web applications, you must be familiar with one of most important state management techniques “Session”. If you want to do a quick refresh or want to know something more, pl
jqGrid Quick Tips
I'll use this post as a repository of quick tips so I'll be updating it on a regular basis... keep posted!
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A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys
In this post, I will share you some important Shortcut keys of Microsoft Expression Blend 4. If you are working with Expression Blend 4, this will definitely help you to improve your daily productivit
Introducing DirectX to WPF
CodeProject
I started to learn DirectX. I wanted, of course, to use it in a WPF environment. I don’t hope to write a game (yet?) but I thought it would be a good API for high performance data visual
Various Clients and Forms Authentication
Scenarios
In each of the below scenarios, forms authentication is used to secure access to the ASP.NET MVC endpoints and WCF services.
WPF accessing WCF services
WPF accessing MVC endpoints
Win
Word To PDF Converter
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Introduction
This article explains a way to convert a Microsoft Word Document to PDF Format. The operation is very simple.
Steps
Choose Website -> Add Referenc
YouGrade - Asp.NET MVC Multimedia Exam Suite
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Table of Contents
Introduction
System Requirements
The Concept Behind YouGrade
The Model View Controller Pattern
The Model
The View
The Controller
Usi
Making a jQuery UI DatePicker Read Only
To make this post clear, by ReadOnly I mean really read only, no input allowed whatsoever.
DatePicker default behavior
This one seemed easy at first but it isn't just because by design, setting the
Geolocation API and Client-Side Maps Frameworks
During the wrap up of the HTML5 course that I’m currently co-authoring, I’ve created two examples of using Geolocation API with Google Maps and with Bing Maps (I didn’t want to deprive any of them ).
How to Use CMFCToolTipCtrl Tooltips in a View for Dynamic Context Sensitive Tips
Introduction
CMFCToolTipCtrl provides a very nice looking, multi-line tooltip for use on controls such as buttons, sliders, etc.
I also wanted to use the same class to display dynamic tooltips base
Spreading Inheritance Tree Mapping Across Assemblies in Code First
Today I helped a client to solve a problem regarding EF4.1 Code First. The issue that they banged their heads with was an inheritance tree mapping in their model which is spread across two different a
LeakMon: Part 3 - Opening a file in Visual Studio through automation
This is the 3rd post related to the LeakMon tool. In this post, we will see how the DumpViewer (DumpViewer is an application used to analyze the leak dump created by LeakMon) is able to open a particu
ASP.NET ResolveUrl Without Page
The quick answer
System.Web.VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/default.aspx");
Don't forget the ~/ (tilde) before the page name.
The lengthy explanation
Assume that we want to redirect to default.as