Oggi è stato pubblicato il libro di Enrico Rossini Creare App per Windows Phone 8 Concetti di base. Nel mercato degli smartphone è arrivato da qualche tempo il nuovo sistema…
Month: May 2014
Display list of files from Server folder in ASP.Net GridView
In this article I will explain how we can save and retrieve files from Windows Folder and Directory and display them in ASP.Net GridView control with download and delete option.…
How to create simple Background Agent in Windows Phone
This article provides a minimal example on how to create Background Agents (Tasks) in Windows Phone. There is a more comprehensive example on Dev Center How to implement background agents…
Checking the Internet connection type on Windows Phone
All Windows Phone applications that use Internet data should always check if there is a valid Internet connection; if there is no connection, a proper message should be displayed to…
Checking network availability in Windows Phone
Many applications utilize network connection for various purposes like feeds, sending & receiving data to/from server, etc. The following article explains how one can detect if the network connection is…
Enabling quick resume for Windows Phone apps
This article explains how to quickly resume the Windows Phone 8 application which is put in the background. Introduction Whenever your app loses focus (is put in the background),…
Make the application loosely coupled
In this series of tutorials, we build an entire Contact Management application from start to finish. The Contact Manager application enables you to store contact information – names, phone numbers…
Add form validation ASP.NET MVC
Building a Contact Management ASP.NET MVC Application (C#) In this series of tutorials, we build an entire Contact Management application from start to finish. The Contact Manager application enables you…
Dynamic Pivot Linq C#
I have the following collection / table Category Type Detail CostAuto Hybrid AC 80Auto Hybrid Sunroof 100Auto Standard AC 120Motorcycle Standard Radio 60 Is there a way with linq to…
Pro ASP.NET MVC 5
The ASP.NET MVC 5 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility,…
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Windows Phone 8 Battery API
The Battery API makes a nice addition to the WP8 SDK. I can see in the near future that some applications will display the battery metrics on a Live Tile…
Privacy policy generator for websites and apps
This post mainly answers the question how and why you should add a privacy policy to your Windows Phone app. If you want to read a more general overview of…
How to get the server IP Address?
string myHost = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName(); // Show the hostname MessageBox.Show(myHost); // Get the IP from the host name string myIP = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(myHost).AddressList[index].ToString(); // Show the IP MessageBox.Show(myIP);
Add Rows to a DataTable
To add new records into a dataset, a new data row must be created and added to the DataRow collection (Rows) of a DataTable in the dataset. The following procedures…
Getting error "The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machineâ€
While I was trying to connect to an Access Database from Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows 7 x64 server, I got the following error message, SOLUTION After a detailed…
Accessing SMTP Mail Settings defined in Web.Config File Programmatically
I needed to read my SMTP email settings defined under system.net section in my web.config file. In order to use eNewsLetter and other SiteAdmin CMS modules that sending email notifications;…
Proper MIME types for Embedded @font-face Fonts
After some exhaustive research, I managed to find the best server settings for serving web fonts. There are a number of font formats that one can set MIME types for,…
Create DataTable
Data is read from a database. It is generated in memory from input. DataTable is ideal for storing data from any source. With it we take objects from memory and…
Parse HTML page and capture contents
Here I show a simple class that receives the HTML string and then extracts all the links and their text into structs. It is fairly fast, but I offer some…
DateDiff() function in C#
I have written the following DateDiff() function in C#. VB.NET users already had it using the Micrsoft.VisualBasic.dll assembly. Now you can use it without referencing this ‘ugly’ extra assembly. using…
Log record changes in SQL server in an audit table
How to implement a log record changes in SQL server in an audit table and Entity Framework. This is the easy explanation and the code
Create a File or Folder
// Specify a name for your top-level folder. string folderName = @”c:\Top-Level Folder”; // To create a string that specifies the path to a subfolder under your …
Populate DropDownList with Selected Value in EditItemTemplate of GridView in ASP.Net
In this article I will explain with an example how to use ASP.Net DropDownList control in the EditItemTemplate of ASP.Net GridView control. I created this GridView with EditItemTemplate. <asp:GridView ID="GridView1"…
ASP.NET Menu and SiteMap Security Trimming
With ASP.NET 2005 Microsoft introduced a pretty solid menu which is integrated with a configuration driven sitemap. The cool part is that the menu can be hooked in with your…