UK Hosting Directory » C#

Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:24:00 +0000

SIMPLEST WAY TO BUILD BUSINESS APPLICATIONS FOR THE DESKTOP, WEB AND CLOUD Micrososft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create professional-quality business applications for the desktop, the web, and the cloud. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family.

Continue reading here:
Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch

My first Razor (ASP.NET WebPages) based app in WebMatrix

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:02:41 +0000

If you are following Scott Gu’s Blog or simply the ASP.NET Community, you would have definitely heard about WebMatrix and the Razor view engine. More specifically you must have heard of something known as “ASP.NET WebPages” The ASP.NET WebPages, Razor Engine as well as WebMatrix can definitely be confusing for many who have been into ASP.NET Development for sometime now. Clearly, this is not for you, if you are hard core ASP.NET Web Developer and are happy with either Webforms or MVC based development.

Excerpt from:
My first Razor (ASP.NET WebPages) based app in WebMatrix

New Two-Part Tutorial On AIR 2.0 NativeProcess

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:38:37 +0000

I recently uploaded a two-part tutorial that explains how to use the new NativeProcess API in Adobe AIR 2.0. With this API you can communicate with native code to get deeper access to the host operating system. In the first part , I create a command-line screenshot application using Visual Studio and C#

Read this article:
New Two-Part Tutorial On AIR 2.0 NativeProcess

Building a component that works with different versions of a library–STATIC METHODS

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:10:00 +0000

In my previous blog post , I discussed how to build a .NET component that works with different versions of a particular library. In that post, I demonstrated a technique for accessing instance methods that get added in a later version of a library. In this post, I’ll modify the technique some to make it work reasonably well for static methods that get added in a later version of a library

Here is the original post:
Building a component that works with different versions of a library–STATIC METHODS

Building a component that works with different versions of a library

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:14:41 +0000

It’s common to want to build a .NET component that works with different versions of a particular library. It is also common for newer versions of the library to introduce new methods that your component might want to call. However, if you build your component against the oldest version of the library you support, then your component cannot access the new methods unless you add code to your component that uses reflection to look for the new methods at runtime

Here is the original post:
Building a component that works with different versions of a library

How to Use Optional Parameters in C# 4.0

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:15:50 +0000

Optional parameters are default values used when a function or method is called without specific arguments. They can be used in PHP… // PHP optional parameters function DoSomething($num = 1, $str = “optional”) { // code } as well as VisualBasic.NET: ‘ VB.NET optional parameters Public Sub DoSomething( Optional ByVal num As Integer = 1, Optional ByVal str As String = “optional” ) ‘ code End Sub and similar functionality can be written in JavaScript: // JavaScript optional parameters function DoSomething(num, str) { num = (typeof(num) != “undefined”

Read the original post:
How to Use Optional Parameters in C# 4.0

jQuery and Windows Azure

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:29:38 +0000

The goal of this blog entry is to describe how you can host a simple Ajax application created with jQuery in the Windows Azure cloud. In this blog entry, I make no assumptions. I assume that you have never used Windows Azure and I am going to walk through the steps required to host the application in the cloud in agonizing detail.

Link:
jQuery and Windows Azure

AsyncEnumerator Survey for Microsoft

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:10:00 +0000

If you have never used my AsyncEnumerator class (which is part of my free Power Threading library) to simplify writing code that performs asynchronous operations, then you can ignore the rest of this blog posting. I have been working with Microsoft in an attempt to add my AsyncEnumerator (or something like it) into a future version of the .NET Framework.

More:
AsyncEnumerator Survey for Microsoft

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:14:00 +0000

Crystal Reports has been a part of Visual Basic since 1993, and a part of Visual Studio since its first release in 2002. Crystal Reports has been a very successful component of these products. With the release of Visual Studio 2010, SAP and Microsoft have mutually decided to change how we deliver this important component to the .NET developer community going forward

View original post here:
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010

Named & optional parameters in Silverlight 4

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:27:43 +0000

Named & optional parameters are a new C# language feature coming up with .NET FX 4.0 and guess what… it’s in Silverlight 4 as well! Optional parameters will come very useful when defining complex APIs where you would usually have to provide several Read More……( read more )

See the rest here:
Named & optional parameters in Silverlight 4