Recently Microsoft released Update 2 for Visual Studio 2012. If you installed the Update 2, you will get a new project template, under Windows Phone, Windows Phone Unit Test App. This will help you to create unit test project for Windows Phone 8 applications. Once you create the project, necessary references will be added to [...]
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How to use existing Database in Windows Phone
Normally in Windows Phone apps, we used to create Database in the Application Launch event, like the following And if there is any master tables you can write code to insert after database creation, like this. This approach is not feasible if you have lot of data, for example a Dictionary database. In such scenarios [...]
Retrieving the COM class factory for component failed due to the following error: 800702e4.
While working on some outlook C# application I got a COM exception like this. Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80080005. My code was simply straight forward, I was just creating the instance of the outlook application. And this code was used in a different [...]
Assembly Binding Redirection in .Net
Today I come across an application crash due to version mismatch. The application executable was compiled using version 1.0.x.x, and we were using 6.2.x.x. Due to this version mismatch application was crashing. Unfortunately we don’t have the source code of this application with us. Later I got one solution using bindingRedirect. This configuration element will [...]
How to apply border color for TableLayoutPanel
The TableLayoutPanel control arranges its contents in a grid. TableLayoutPanel doesn’t have border color property, but you can write custom code in CellPaint event to create border. Here is the code snippet which will help you to create border and apply color for TableLayoutPanel Here is the screen shot of the Form in Design Time [...]
How to send email messages with embedded images
While creating email messages with HTML content, normally the images are displayed with IMG tag, where the SRC attribute pointing to an image, which is hosted in the web server. Most email clients will not display the images, which is downloading from the web. Instead of pointing to web URL, you can embed image in [...]
