.NET, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, WPF, XAML

A canonicalized, generic solution to the problem of parsing any kind of RSS or ATOM feed and returning a usable collection for databinding.

This quick tip demonstrates how to get the total rows as part of the paging query as well as how avoid a common coding error with joins that can harm performance.  It also provides a faster alternative to the SQL Server's paging syntax using TABLE variables.

Instead of using third-party drivers and losing control on file data imports from excel, we can write our own excel file importer class using JET OLDEDB drivers that are available from Microsoft.

As you may know SharePoint can be made to work with Forms Based Authentication. While this eases the task of creating custom registration, Target Audiences won’t work with Forms Based Authentication. In my case the client wanted to be able to use the Content Editor Web Part to manage their own content and then make it accessible by authentication. Since Forms Based Authentication will not work with Target Audiences I wrote a Custom Content Editor Web Part that will filter content by FBA Role.

Here are my top 10 thoughts on building line of business applications deployed both as a Silverlight and a WPF application.

This application monitors the database of any kinds like employee, patients, or any items via XML. The XML file has a very nice interface to store the data, retrieve and update with O(1) time and hence it will be much faster as all the nodes will be unique. The search operation also use Hashing mechanism on XML node. This is very useful interface for any kind of application.

Shows a non-complicated way to wire up a "sum of the numbers" Captcha field to prevent bot spam in your ASP.NET form input.

This application can be used to generate a piechart for the hard disk drive utilization. You can provide any drive as input and it will generate the output folder wise utilization. You can see the given output. The code is lengthy so I have provided individual pieces of the code functions.

Using PHP to access IIS hosted WCF services.  Discussion and example.

Finding Unmatched Records in Dataset Tables using MS Access as a prototype.

Get the usename from remote windows machine. It will just query the remote machine's registry key and thus admin privileges are not required but your machine has to be in same domain.

In a previous article, I presented an example of creating stock charts using the Silverlight Toolkit Charting control,  getting the price history data "on demand" from Yahoo Finance. At that time I mentioned that one of the nice features for enhancement would be to provide an autocomplete search box to provide the correct symbol for the stock you want to chart.  In this article, I show two different ways this can be done. I also provide a CSV format text file of over 20,000 current stock symbols

This article describes the simple method to filter the records of datagrid as per your searching crieteria regarding Name, City, State, Country etc fields. But this code is only for varchar datatypes.

Lot of us need logging as a necessary integral part of our Projects.  We use logging components from Microsoft, or any third party as and when we discuss them. But when we find that we have to switch between them we find it so tough, because they are so wildly integrated into our Module code which makes use of them.

When it comes to modelling objects, attributes often fail to get the consideration they deserve. The lazy option is to model attributes using fundamental datatypes like Longs or Strings.  This misses the opportunity to create far more meaningful and robust code.

This article takes the example of a Temperature attribute and works from a naive implementation towards a more object oriented approach.  Along the way we'll learn the benefits of Value Objects and how to implement them.

This article performs operations related to Images. Currently I have written it so that it can encrypt and decrypt image, can generate thumbnail image and can generate grayscal image. I have also given the main form and outputs. I will include much more operations as I got the time.

After so many questions on numeric to word conversion, finally I have decided to write the program for this. This application supports conversion of numeric of upto Tredecillion number to word format with interactive user interface. It is also flexible and can be enhanced to any number without having Tredecillion limit as I am treating numeric value as string in my program and all the coversation is being handled based on legnth and unit groups of numeric numbers.