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ASP.NET

Using Multiple Programming Languages in ASP.NET Website


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 02 Mar 2012 - Views Count: 3872


ASP.NET websites do not allow you to use multiple programming languages such as C# and Visual Basic in the App_Code folder of the website project. If you are creating a C# web site and you have copied a Visual Basic source file in App_Code folder, you won’t be able to compile your ASP.NET website. Off course, if it is a small source file, then you can convert it into C# source code either yourself or by using any code converter but it is time wasting practice if you have a large file or you want to use multiple source files. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can use multiple programming languages source files in a single website project by just doing some simple modifications in the configuration settings of the website.




ASP.NET

Creating Custom Configuration Sections in ASP.NET


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 16 Jan 2011 - Views Count: 5729


Almost all ASP.NET Web Applications require some sort of configuration settings to be stored in the web.config files. These settings can be application settings, database connection strings, user authentication settings, page specific settings and so on. ASP.NET also provides very powerful Configuration API to work with configuration settings defined in web.config files. The Configuration API not only allows us to read/write settings in configuration files with ease but also allow us to define our own custom configuration sections in web.config. These custom sections are very useful in large web applications where you have a lot of application settings to store in the configuration file. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create and use custom configuration sections in ASP.NET.


Add Conversations to Any Site with Moot Forums


Post Date: May 20, 2013 - Tags: JQuery


Moot is a radically different discussion platform, unencumbered by the weight of unnecessary features and distractions. It places the conversation back to the forefront. Clean user interface, persistent content and deep integration into the site will allow a more natural and meaningful discussion to take place. People will focus on topics they care about. You can add conversations to any site with a few lines of HTML. Gorgeous discussions, yours for free.




Android

Customizing Android ListView Items with Custom ArrayAdapter


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 16 Aug 2011 - Views Count: 166936


For real-world commercial mobile applications, the default look and feel of the Android ListView is not very attractive. It only renders a simple String in every ListView row using the internal TextView control. For most applications, you want to create an interface that is more graphically rich and visually pleasing to the user. Luckily, ListView is very powerful control and with the help of custom item layouts, it can be customized to suit your needs easily. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can create custom ListView items with icons, custom header layout and how you can use custom ArrayAdapter to glue everything together. I will also show you some performance improvement tips you can use to optimize the memory usage of your ListView control.


Android

Overview of Android Linear Layout


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 14 Aug 2011 - Views Count: 4699


LinearLayout is one of the easiest and commonly used layouts available to Android developers to arrange different views on the device screen. LinearLayout arranges its child views in a single row (horizontally) or a single column (vertically). In this tutorial, I will show you how you can use LinearLayout and how the views can be arranged inside LinearLayout.


AJAX

Calling Web Services in Client Script using ASP.NET AJAX


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 25 Sep 2009 - Views Count: 7735


Web Services play an important role in data transport and communication between the client the server. Web services reside on the server and wait to be called by any client and most of the time these clients are written in server side technologies such as ASP.NET, PHP or JSP etc. ASP.NET AJAX provides web developers ability to call web services from the client side language such as JavaScript asynchronously to improve the user experience and to avoid full page refresh and postback. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can call an ASP.NET web service with the help of ASP.NET AJAX.


Create Free Responsive Portfolio Websites with Dunked


Post Date: May 16, 2013 - Tags: General


Dunked is one of the simplest, easiest, and most versatile portfolio simple-to-use solution to allow creative folk to showcase their work. It’s Responsive, Retina & Ready to go. you can choose from a growing collection of professionally designed templates to reinvent your portfolio. Their pixel-perfect templates are customizable, easy to use, and focus on one thing only – your content. Each template is fully responsive and will adapt itself to any mobile device. iPad, iPhone, Android, it doesn’t matter. Your work will always looks its absolute best. Upload images from your computer, embed your latest videos from YouTube or Vimeo, and add your mixes from SoundCloud. When you’re done, manage your content through a simple to use drag and drop admin interface




AJAX

Using ASP.NET AJAX ModelPopupExtender from Server Side


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 08 Sep 2009 - Views Count: 13898


In my first tutorial on ASP.NET AJAJX ModelPopupExtender control I have shown you how you can display model dialog boxes in ASP.NET with client side JavaScript behavior. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can use ModelPopupExtender control with server side post backs so that when user performs any action in the dialog box such as button click you can execute code in code behind file on the server.


WCF

Programming WCF Services


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 29 Sep 2012 - Views Count: 1967


Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. In one of my other tutorial Introducing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), I have presented detailed overview of WCF key features, important concepts and architecture.  In this tutorial, I will give you exposure to the WCF programming experience by giving you basic understanding of the steps required to create WCF service and client application.


WCF

Introducing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 29 Sep 2012 - Views Count: 1678


Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework designed for software and web developers who want to develop distributed service-oriented applications. WCF allows developers to create, host, consume and secure services using Microsoft platform in a most productive way so that developers can focus on their implementation rather than communication protocols and low level messaging details. In this tutorial, I will cover the basic concepts needed to work with WCF services. You will be able to create and consume services using the most commonly used features of WCF technology.


JQuery

Select Deselect GridView Rows using a Checkbox in JQuery


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 22 Jan 2011 - Views Count: 14874


Many websites require functionality for letting their site visitors to select and deselect all the rows in GridView using a single checkbox normally available in the header row. You may have seen the examples of such functionality in Yahoo Mail or Hotmail inbox where you can select all the emails by clicking the single Checkbox on top of the email's grid. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can provide this functionality in ASP.NET GridView control using few lines of JQuery code.


Ghost: A Revolutionary Open Source Blogging Platform


Post Date: May 16, 2013 - Tags: General


Ghost is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. It’s simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work – and more time blogging. Ghost has an incredibly simple concept for writing. You write in Markdown on the left, and you see an immediate preview of exactly what your post will look like in rendered HTML on the right. Ghost has a Revolutionary Dashboard, which grabs all the important data about your blog and pulls it into one place. No more clicking through tens of browser tabs to view your traffic, social media subscriptions, content performance or news feeds.




JQuery

Accessing ASP.NET CheckBoxList Control at Client Side using JQuery


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 11 Jan 2011 - Views Count: 13996


JQuery is truly a fantastic technology introduced for web developers in last few years. If you have been using it in your ASP.NET projects for some time, you may have already been playing many cool tricks on your web pages by combining it with powerful ASP.NET server side controls. It’s fairly straight forward to use JQuery with controls such as buttons, textboxes etc.. However, some of the ASP.NET controls make life very difficult due to the HTML they render on the page. One such control is ASP.NET CheckBoxList control and in this tutorial I will show you how you can use JQuery to get the selected checkbox item's labels as well as their values.


Visual C#

Overview of C# 3.0 Anonymous Types


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 10 Jul 2009 - Views Count: 4874


Microsoft introduced some great new features in C# 3.0 to make developers more productive. Most of those features are introduced to support Language Integrated Query (LINQ) but they can also be used in many other scenarios. One such feature is Anonymous Types that allows you to define a class with some simple encapsulated fields without any associated methods, events or functionality. In this tutorial I will give you overview of C# 3.0 Anonymous Types.


ADO.NET

Navigate Master/Details Tables in DataSet using DataRelation


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 16 Jun 2009 - Views Count: 7655


The ADO.NET DataSet object allows you to load multiple DataTable objects in Tables Collection. These tables may or may not have any relation between them and you can use them without worrying about their relations. Most development scenarios require you to load two related database tables in DataSet and you not only have to create relations between the tables but sometimes you may also have to display them as Master/Details hierarchy. In this tutorial I will show you how you can navigate related parent and child table rows with the help of DataRelation object.


LINQ

Introduction to LINQ to SQL


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 03 Sep 2009 - Views Count: 12060


LINQ to SQL is one of the most widely used implementation of LINQ. It is so common that many developers completely overlooked other implementations of LINQ such as LINQ to DataSet or LINQ to Objects. Although LINQ to SQL is only available for SQL Server databases but it is still using all the features available in the other LINQ implementations. In this tutorial, I will give you brief introduction of LINQ to SQL, DataContext object, Entity classes and Object Relational Designer along with some simple LINQ to SQL queries.


.NET Framework

Overview of .NET Framework Specialized Collections


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 29 May 2009 - Views Count: 4803


Collections are classes that programmers use to group and manage related objects just like Arrays. However unlike Arrays collections are dynamically resizable objects which means they automatically grow and shrink as you add, insert or remove objects and you don’t need to worry about its size. In this Tutorial I will give you overview of some of the specialized collections available in System.Collections.Specialized namespace.


Visual Basic

Implement Globalization in VB.NET using CultureInfo class


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 06 Apr 2008 - Views Count: 19505


CultureInfo class provides culture-specific information in .NET applications. This information includes language, sublanguage, country or region, day names, month names, calendar etc. It also provides culture specific conversions of numbers, currencies, dates or strings. In the following tutorial, I will show you how you can retrieve this information from different cultures available in .NET Framework.


Java

Singleton Design Pattern in Java


Posted by Waqas Anwar on 25 Apr 2008 - Views Count: 3604


When we write java applications, sometimes it is appropriate to have only one instance of a class. Windows Managers, Login and Dialog boxes etc are few examples of such classes. The Singleton design pattern solves this common problem and ensures that the class has only one instance. This also provides global point of access to the object.