Discoveries / Experiences in .Net Application development

Discoveries during Web Application development using Asp.Net, C# etc

Windows 8 Start Menu Back again

Windows 8 Start Menu Bring it back...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 07/04/2012

.Net Code Comment Analyzer.

Counts the code comments for a c#.Net Code .This is a plug in which embeds into Vs2010 IDE and on...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 06/05/2012

Undo other users checkout

  1. Log in as Tfs Admin 2. Launch Visual studio command prompt 3. use the below Undo workspace...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 03/18/2012

Wurfl 51degrees Mobile Capabilities Viewer

I have created a simple codeplex project to view all the mobile capabilities given by...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 02/04/2011

Mini Memory Dump Diagnosis using Asp.Net

To Enable developers to generate mini memory dumps in case of unhandled exceptions or for specific...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 01/04/2011

Network Adapter/ Interface Analyzer, viewer, Speed Calculator

I have written a simple .net 3.5 based winforms solution, which shows all information about the...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 12/16/2010

Windows Forms GUI based Trace Listener

Many times we find it difficult to view Trace information written from our Win Forms Application....

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 12/06/2010

Override SaveViewState Custom Controls - Cautious

Be cautious when you Override SaveViewState during Custom Control development. The SaveViewState is...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 07/19/2010

Optimize Viewstate and Enum

In Asp.Net , When we use custom enumerations , and store them in the ViewState as Enum Text (Single...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 07/19/2010

.Net 1.1 to 2.0 Migration Guidelines

Look at the attached file thanks to https://blogs.msdn.com/b/peterlau/archive/2006/05/11/595294.aspx...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 06/24/2010

Performance testing WCF web services using VSTS unit Tests

  1. Create a Performance session using the performance wizard 2. Add the website hosting the WCF...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 06/01/2010

Automate Creating certificates for WCF

Creating certificates for Wcf Testing open visual studio 2008 command prompt and run as...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 05/26/2010

Creating Custom WCF Proxy files

I wanted to have my proxy files created using svcutil to have my custom base class instead of...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 03/31/2010

Diagnostics SharedListeners vs Listeners

Shared Listener as the name suggests can be used by 2 or more trace sources(eg. Say one logs...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 01/26/2010

WCF ServiceHost Custom Config from AppSettings

hi All the code snippet below would create a simple service host loaded from a normal app.config...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 12/17/2009

Override Default Xml Serialization

This is some hidden fact about xml serializers in .Net. There is an option is to use a special...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 12/03/2009

WCF .NET 4.0 RoadMap

.NET 4.0 brings several improvements in the areas of WCF and WF, including improved REST...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 12/03/2009

Find all references, go to definition do not work across VB/C# projects in same solution

While using Visual Studio today I noticed an anomaly. When I bring up a file in VS2008 Solution...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 10/30/2009

Find all references, go to definition do not work across VB/C# projects in same sln

While using Visual Studio today I noticed an anomaly. When I bring up a file in VS2008 Solution...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 10/28/2009

Linq Select Distinct Records based on a field or Property

Have a look at the sample below, Is there a simpler way of achieving this ? I needed the results 1...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 09/02/2009

asp.net 3.5 checkboxlist AddAttributesToRender Not called in Override

I recently came across this issue where in if we override the AddAttributesToRender method in our...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 08/11/2009

VSTS Tester Edition : Webtest with Code Coverage Error :No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:80

VSTS Tester Edition 2008 : When i ran a Webtest with Code Coverage I got this Error :No connection...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 08/11/2009

Get Public Key Token from Snk File using Msbuild

I have written a small msbuild script which can be used to get the public key and the public key...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 06/23/2009

VSTS Tester Edition 2008, Code Coverage for WebTest works : do this

Many of us try to get code coverage using webtests, we configure for code coverage etc but end of...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 05/21/2009

Vsts 2008 WebTest Asp.Net UnitTest Profiling

How to Enable Code Coverage for a machine hosting the WebSite 1. The webapp's bin folder should have...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 05/15/2009

Msbuild Dll Probing Search Path Custom

How do we make the Msbuild look in the current directory for the dlls before looking into Gac and...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 04/02/2009

Vs 2008 Multi Target Framework and App.config behavior

The Vs 2008 , when changing the Target framework from x to y exhibits the following behavior....

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 02/24/2009

GAC Post build event - Machine path independent script

Add the following 2 lines as post build event.. with this.. this is totally machine independent...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 02/24/2009

Silverlight 2.0 Globalization / Localization

I have created a simple Silverlight application and a doc detailing the same, on how to develop...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 02/13/2009

ASSERTION FAILED FAILED TO FIND PARENT ELEMENT

ASSERTION FAILED FAILED TO FIND PARENT ELEMENT (name of the dropdown control) I got this error after...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 09/19/2008

document.getElementbyId returns null

I had a strange issue today. document.getElementbyId returns null, but the object was present in the...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 09/19/2008

Word to SQL Table

I have written a Simple Word Macro to convert Word(.docx) Table to Sql Table. DDL statement....

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 06/13/2008

Outlook 2007 Very slow startup -solved

Hi My outlook used to take 1 minute to startup. If you are facing similar issues, Do this In Vista,...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 06/12/2008

SQL DB Helper

this is a helper dll which helps to talk to sql databases during development. the developer doesnt...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 05/23/2008

Auto Search ListBox

hi check this sample auto search list box when this htc is attached as a behavior to the list box....

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 05/22/2008

Clear Client TFS Cache

Visual Studio and Team Explorer provide a caching mechanism which can get out of sync. If I have...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 05/15/2008

XmlTypeAttribute Anonymoustype=true deserialization fails 'System.InvalidOperationException'

An exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred and was caught....

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 03/06/2008

Html Export to Excel

Html Export to Excel for exporting to excel just call the function below in sample code and pass the...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 10/25/2007

Popup dialog opens new window on postback hi all, many times we use popup dialogues opened with...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 10/25/2007

Html Export to word

Html Export to word just call this function in the code sample from any aspx page say on export to...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 10/25/2007

Delete an Email / Appt WebDAV

Delete an Email / Appt WebDAV use this piece of code to delete an appt from an exchange server using...

Author: Y2KPRABU Date: 10/25/2007