Problem Definition: If anyhow you'd like to access google web services (like Geocoding, Directions api etc.) inside a Silverlight browser application, when you use a webclient do the http request to the service you are going to get a security exception.  This is caused by the cross-domain-pol... [More]

Using nolock select queries with entity framework [More]

[code:c#]                  AssemblyName assemblyName = new AssemblyName();                assemblyName.Name = "newAssemblyname";                AssemblyBuilder assemblyBui... [More]

Some pointers and unsafe code should be used (sorry there is no other way for processing pixels). Function takes file path as parameter "path" and returns a Bitmap instance of the raw formatted image.  As raw image format does not provide height and width info of the image contained, you shoul... [More]

Beside parsing all other object types, DateTime parsing from JSON had been a great headache. As I did not need it for the current project I've just ignored DateTime typed attributes of JSON [pi.PropertyType != typeof(DateTime) :)] [code:c#] using System;using System.Net;using System.Windows;using ... [More]

The following code gives you the ability to use images and different colored text together inside a textblock-like control.   XAML: [code:xml] <StackPanel x:Class="SilverlightUI.ChatText"    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"   ... [More]

[code:c#]      public static double MeasureString(string s, FontFamily fontFamily, int fontSize)     {            TextBlock t = new TextBlock();          ... [More]

Compressing strings using c# [More]

Writing an asp.net web service function which handles file upload. [More]

Using GDI To Draw Outlined Text [More]

For sorting IQueryable's [code:c#] public enum SortDirection { Ascending, Descending } public static IQueryable<T> DynamicSort<T>(this IQueryable<T> data , string columnName, SortDirection direction)        {      ... [More]

Problem In a page you need to list items and their photos but those photos are all in different sizes. So you have a standart photo area and you have to fit those images into it. And not only fit them, but also you have to preserve their width to height ratio. So here is how we deal with this probl... [More]

A listview that creates it's column structure and populates it's rows directly from a generic list. [More]

Briefing: In this article I'm going to implement a simple plug in structured calculator. Calculator will take two numeric inputs from the user and user will select which calculator plug in to use. After that user will hit calculate button and our little program will ask the plug in to calculate tho... [More]

Mvc framework has an html helper for giving ajax links (Ajax.ActionLink), but it does not provide one  like Ajax.ImageActionLink. But ofcourse there is a simple, tricky workaround . <%= Ajax.ActionLink("[imglnk]", "IndexContent", new { id = "main" }, new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "Righ... [More]

Briefing As mentioned in the title, our data provider is going to be very simple. Aim of this article is giving the main idea behind a Linq to Sql like data structure. So what we are going to do now is as simple as this; Create a new database and a new table inside it. (I'll use Sql Server 2008... [More]