High Performance Queries: GPU vs. PLINQ vs. LINQ
We hear increasingly about the power of graphics processing units for non-graphics purposes. NVIDIA's CUDA brought super computing ability within the reaches of
Microsecond and Millisecond C# Timer
Anyone who has used the .NET System.Timers.Timer class for low interval times will realise that it does not offer a very high resolution. The resolution will be
Generic WPF/Silverlight Value Converter
One of the things I do not believe one should do is passing WPF/Silverlight enumerations (i.e., Visibility) directly from the ViewModel to the View. All binding
How Well You Know About Mobile Sensors ?
Gone are those days, when people were using mobile devices only for calling and messaging purposes. The new era of technical innovations has carried these devic
A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox (Part 2)
An overview of the Autocomplete TextBox using different the WhistlerBlue, ExpressionDark, or no theme.This article is based on the excellent article "A Reusable
Using Reflection to Parse and Generate Content Feeds
A few days ago, I came up with an interesting concept to enable quick and easy parsing and generation of syndication content feeds. Rather than using the stand
The Non-Generic Generic Pattern
From time to time I've needed to use generic classes but haven't known what the generic arguments are until runtime - for example, because I'm iterating over
No default IDs here. Move along.
I can hardly believe it has taken me this long, several few years in fact, to discover just how few ASP.NET Web Forms controls need an explicit ID attribute. I
File Server Viewer
File Audit Viewer solves the problem of viewing the output of File Server Audit. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/FileServerAudit.aspx uses Microsoft SQL to
Google Static Maps HTML Helper
One of the features that I like the most in ASP.NET MVC is HTML Helpers, I use them all the time, and I also use Google Maps very often, so it's natural to join
SSDL: Simple Self-Testing Data Layer
Like everyone else, I occasionally write utilities to consolidate the logic of database access and object population in my applications. For just calling stored
Change Shared folder location in an MVC 3 site
If you want to change the location of the shared folder in your MVC 3 App, then this is a must read.When you create a new MVC 3 Web Application Project, a defau
Creating a URL JLabel in Swing
So, you need a simple clickable URL JLabel in your Swing application? You can, of course, use third party libraries to do this, but why add another dependency f
Crystal Reports User Group Selections
The basis of this solution is to control which fields are grouped on within the report, this will in turn change the summary operations and change the entire co
Guide to Writing Custom Functions in Excel: Part III, C++ RTD add-in
Asynchronous XLLs (topic of a future post) are similar to RTDs in that they can pull data into Excel but the difference with RTD add-ins is that they can also
An Introduction to Sql 11 (Code Name Denali) –Part VI (T-Sql Features in CTP 3)
In this article we have seen the new and the enhanced functions from TSql perspective that Denali CTP 3 has offered us.It is really a good list of functions whi
Run As - Preset
Points of Interest The nicest thing I've got from this application (other than its usefulness - at least in my opinion) is the knowledge of "messing around" :-)
Try not to implement Property with only set accessor TIP
Although if you think for a sec, it sounds good to have many times a writable property but not readable. In fact, even I had the same notion many a times while
Delegates internals
I was just digging inside the delegates, action and anonymous delegates via lambda expression. I started to ask a few curious questions to myself
and thus set
Collections for WPF and NHibernate
The "CoreHelpers" project includes a OneToManyAssocSync helper class that makes it easy to maintain in-memory the semantics of a one-to-many bidirectional assoc