Windows 7 Taskbar C# Quick Reference
When using the Windows API Code Pack library to add Taskbar features to your WinForms application you must add a references to the following WPF DLLs: Presentat
Lists Switch Animation_MVVM Meets Async-Ctp
In this article, I'll show items-switch between two lists with visual representation. I'll do it under MVVM pattern, performing View-ViewModel-View-ViewModel pa
How Well You Know About Mobile Sensors ?
Gone are those days, when people were using mobile devices only for calling and messaging purposes. The new era of technical innovations has carried these devic
A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox (Part 2)
An overview of the Autocomplete TextBox using different the WhistlerBlue, ExpressionDark, or no theme.This article is based on the excellent article "A Reusable
Using Reflection to Parse and Generate Content Feeds
A few days ago, I came up with an interesting concept to enable quick and easy parsing and generation of syndication content feeds. Rather than using the stand
The Non-Generic Generic Pattern
From time to time I've needed to use generic classes but haven't known what the generic arguments are until runtime - for example, because I'm iterating over
Mnemonic: assisting your (virtual) memory
Recently, I needed to investigate the way in which a Windows process was consuming Virtual Memory (VM). I wanted to get a picture in my head of the available V
AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor
Caliburn Micro library implements a screen conductor to handle multiple screen models with
only one active, typically used for tabbed views,So we have the con
No default IDs here. Move along.
I can hardly believe it has taken me this long, several few years in fact, to discover just how few ASP.NET Web Forms controls need an explicit ID attribute. I
File Server Viewer
File Audit Viewer solves the problem of viewing the output of File Server Audit. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/FileServerAudit.aspx uses Microsoft SQL to
Google Static Maps HTML Helper
One of the features that I like the most in ASP.NET MVC is HTML Helpers, I use them all the time, and I also use Google Maps very often, so it's natural to join
SSDL: Simple Self-Testing Data Layer
Like everyone else, I occasionally write utilities to consolidate the logic of database access and object population in my applications. For just calling stored
Collage Screensaver
This application is designed to surf through the photos you specify on your computer and present them with a collage/Polaroid type view. It's mostly finished. M
Change Shared folder location in an MVC 3 site
If you want to change the location of the shared folder in your MVC 3 App, then this is a must read.When you create a new MVC 3 Web Application Project, a defau
Creating a URL JLabel in Swing
So, you need a simple clickable URL JLabel in your Swing application? You can, of course, use third party libraries to do this, but why add another dependency f
Crystal Reports User Group Selections
The basis of this solution is to control which fields are grouped on within the report, this will in turn change the summary operations and change the entire co
Guide to Writing Custom Functions in Excel: Part III, C++ RTD add-in
Asynchronous XLLs (topic of a future post) are similar to RTDs in that they can pull data into Excel but the difference with RTD add-ins is that they can also
An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part VI (T-Sql Features in CTP 3)
In this article we have seen the new and the enhanced functions from TSql perspective that Denali CTP 3 has offered us.It is really a good list of functions whi
Run As - Preset
Points of Interest The nicest thing I've got from this application (other than its usefulness - at least in my opinion) is the knowledge of "messing around" :-)
Try not to implement Property with only set accessor TIP
Although if you think for a sec, it sounds good to have many times a writable property but not readable. In fact, even I had the same notion many a times while