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Compare and update XML File with the changes

30. October 2008

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Recently I had a requirement to compare 2 XML Files, which has the existing and new settings of an application stored in them. what I wanted to do is when a new XML file of settings is arrived, I had to compare and retain the existing settings, and add any new ones if there are [...]

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44 Silverlight 2.0 Videos

2. August 2008

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Are you searching  for webcasts to learn about Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 ? well then, here is a good news for you all.Mike Taulty recently uploaded and amazing collection of Silverlight 2.0 screencasts on how Silverlight works, controls, File IO, networking, UI design,  data-binding, interacting with HTML pages, and more.if you want to have a good [...]

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Create Excel Sheets Programmatically with C# without Installing Excel.

25. July 2008

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Here goes one more needy component for developers. a lot of developers always had a problem of exporting data to excel programmatically. if you Google this topic you will get many results regarding this. here are some which caught my eyes. How To Use ADO.NET to Retrieve and Modify Records in an Excel Workbook With Visual [...]

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Create PDF Files on the fly with C# and PDFSharp

24. July 2008

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Recently one of my colleague asked me is there anyway to programmatically merge huge number of PDF  files in to a single file, without using Adobe Acrobat libraries, well the answer is yeah. and there are a lot of off the shelve and open source libraries available for this. the best one I found is [...]

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MSDN Reader!! A Must Have Application!

26. February 2008

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www.windowsclient.net have released a new "Syndicated Client Starter Kit" designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content experiences which engage the user, from documents and photos to videos and podcasts.you can read the story here. And this Starter Kit Show case includes an awsum MSDN Reader. The MSDN Reader allows you to [...]

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Visual Studio 2008, C# 3.0, LINQ, ASP.Net 3.5 Getting Started

18. February 2008

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these days I’m just playing around with Visual studio 2008 and its new features, C# 3.0 LINQ, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, ASP.Net 3.5 and much more. And trust me last few months, I have received a lot of emails regarding How to’s of these and requesting resources to learn these language improvements. well may be [...]

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Show Site Map Description on ASP.Net 2.0 Menu Control

13. February 2008

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Recently one of my Friend Asked me, how do I display both the title and the description of the SiteMapNode in the ASP.Net menu control ? well unfortunately by default ASP.Net Menu doesn’t support this.because the menu binds directly to a MenuItem object. and the MenuItem does expose a DataItem Property,but when it is added [...]

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Windows Services Self Installation

26. December 2007

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W. Kevin Hazzard had blogged a good post about how to make windows services to install them selves without using installutil.exe command which comes with the .NET framework. you can read the full article here.

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