Monthly Archives:: June 2011

How to use TaskDialog API in C#

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The TaskDialog API replaces MessageBox. A message box is useful for prompting users for an acknowledgment, confirmation, or an answer to a yes or no question. Message boxes are popular because of the MessageBox function is convenient for developers to use. TaskDialog is the preferred API to use because it is similar to MessageBox but [...]

WCF Callbacks – A quick introduction

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WCF callbacks are an old topic, but recently I got a chance to play around it. WCF callback means instead of normal request – response pattern, it will be a bidirectional communication between client and server. First need to create the service interface If you notice the Service contract attribute, there is parameter, Callback contract, [...]

Silverlight 5 Beta Is Available For Download

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Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful tool for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media experiences on the Web. Silverlight 5 builds on the foundation of Silverlight 4 for building business applications and premium media experiences. Among other capabilities, the Silverlight 5 beta highlights dramatic video quality and performance improvements, and features that improve developer [...]

User Group Meeting – 11th June 2011 – Kochi

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Venu Orion India Systems Pvt Ltd, 103, 2nd floor, Tejomaya, Info park SEZ, Kakkanad, Kochin-682030 Agenda 09:30 – 09:40 Community updates 09:40 – 10:30 Scaffolding with EF 4.1 and ASP.NET MVC 3 10:30 – 11:15 Debugging Techniques in Visual Studio 11:15 – 11:30 Tea Break (15 min) 11:30 – 12:30 Introducing Parallel programming in .net [...]

How to integrate FxCop to Visual Studio 2010 Professional

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VS 2010 Professional doesn’t support Static code analysis. Here is a simple way to integrate FxCop to Visual Studio. (It was also using External tools option from Visual Studio tools menu.) In the Title text box, type FxCop. . To set the value of the Command text box, browse to the location where FxCop is [...]