Category Archives: WPF

Introduction to Code First development with Entity Framework

The Database First approach is interesting when the database already exists. You use Visual Studio and the Entity Framework Designer to generate the C# and VB.NET classes which reflect the existing database model. You may then change relations using the … Continue reading

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How to use TaskDialog API in C#

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 … Continue reading

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Developing a simple RSS Reader in C#.Net

Yesterday one of my ex-colleague asked me how RSS feeds works and how to parse it in .Net Framework. I think helped him to get an idea about how RSS works. For the second one I started searching and I … Continue reading

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Developing a Single Instance Application in C#

Sometimes you don’t want the user to run multiple instance of your application in the system. If you are using VB.Net, Visual Studio will give an option to do this in the Application Settings in Project properties. But this option … Continue reading

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Customize SpellCheck in WPF textbox

While working on a personal project (fleetIt). I worked on Textbox spell check option. I enabled it, it was working fine, until I added a context menu to to the textbox, for custom commands of my application. It was displaying … Continue reading

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