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Twitter authentication using OAuth

by Farooq Kaiser 5. September 2010 04:02
As of August 31,2010, Twitter has stopped using basic authentication. applications will all use OAuth, an authentication method that lets you use apps without them storing your password. To learn more about OAuth, please visit @ http://oauth.net. Register your new application with Twitter ... [More]

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Building Twitter Application using TweetSharp

by Farooq Kaiser 8. July 2010 09:00
Update: As of August 31,2010, Twitter has stopped using basic authentication. applications will all use OAuth. To learn more about using OAuth, see my new article. In this article, i will examined how to build twitter app using TweetSharp. Tweetsharp library is available at codeplex he... [More]

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Putting a Bing Search on your Website

by Farooq Kaiser 25. March 2010 07:41
In this article, i will examined how to integrate Microsoft Bing Search engine on your site. First, you would have to get APPID from Microsoft site. Here is a link.  In next step, in your project add the following web reference. http://api.search.live.net/search.wsdl?AppID=... [More]

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Did you know.. How to generate Excel 2007 file in C#?

by Farooq Kaiser 24. February 2010 02:19
You can do it using ExcelPackagethat provides server-side generation of Excel 2007 spreadsheets. You can download it from codeplex.  Here is sample code to generate XLSX file using ExcelPackage. 1: FileInfo XLSXFile = new FileInfo(XLSXFileName); 2: using ... [More]

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Did you know.. How to create CSV or Text file in C#?

by Farooq Kaiser 23. February 2010 07:52
Here is our C# code to generate CSV file. 1: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); 2: string strDelimiter = ","; 3:  4: foreach (DataRow dr in table.Rows) 5: { 6: string[] arr = Array.ConvertAll(dr.I... [More]

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MS Chart Controls to PDF with iTextSharp using XML Template

by Farooq Kaiser 10. February 2010 05:45
In this article, i will examined how to build reports with ItextSharp PDF control and Ms Chart controls using XML template. The Xml template gives us freedom to change the contents without having to recompile and deploy the application again. Here is our sample report in XML template. ... [More]

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Email Template using C#

by Farooq Kaiser 27. January 2010 03:46
In this article, i will examined how to build template to store email data such as body and subject. The template is an XML file that will store the static text with dynamic Tags. The dynamic tags are just like variables that get replaced by the real data. Here is a sample template. ... [More]

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HTML based file upload/download to FTP server using HttpHandler in C#

by Farooq Kaiser 24. December 2009 05:18
In this article, i will examined how to upload/download file from HTML client to FTP server using HttpHandler in C#. This approach can be very handy for application integration. Here is our html code that will consume HttpHandlers. 1: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.... [More]

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Using ODBC driver to access XLS, XLSX, TXT or CSV files.

by Farooq Kaiser 18. December 2009 13:59
In this article, i will examined how to access XLS, XLSX, TXT or CSV files. It is very easy to access these files using ODBC drivers. Here are Connection Strings Excel Connection String "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; data source={0}; Extended Properties=\"Exc... [More]

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Creating and consuming your first WCF service

by Farooq Kaiser 24. September 2009 14:57
In this article, i will examine how to create and consume a WCF service. WCF is next-generation programming platform and runtime system for building, configuring and deploying service-oriented applications. For more details please see here. Creating a WCF service I will create a stock ... [More]

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Custom Sorting with Jquery UI

by Farooq Kaiser 19. September 2009 06:20
In this article, i will examine how to build custom sorting Using Jquery UI. The jQuery UI Sortable plugin makes selected elements sortable by dragging with the mouse. Please see here for more details. In my demo application i will create an XML file to store the custom settings that will hold the... [More]

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Localizing ASP.NET MVC

by Farooq Kaiser 6. September 2009 13:23
Localization is the process of customizing your application for a given culture and locale. The .NET framework offers the following namespaces and classes to facilitate the localization. System.Globalization (The System.Globalization namespace contains classes that define culture-related in... [More]

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How to improve the performance of ASP.NET MVC web application

by Farooq Kaiser 30. August 2009 06:07
In this article, i will examine how you can improve the performance of an ASP.NET MVC application by taking advantage of the following components. Implementing Caching Implementing HTTP Compression Implementing JQuery UI library with Google Hosted Ajax Libraries By combining script... [More]

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JQuery AJAX with ASP.Net MVC

by Farooq Kaiser 26. August 2009 15:15
The JQuery has following methods that can be used to perform Ajax requests: ajax() - Load a remote page using an HTTP request. This is jQuery's low-level AJAX implementation. load() - Load HTML from a remote file and inject it into the DOM. get()  - Load a remote page using a... [More]

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Displaying Jquery Progress using ASP.NET MVC with Ajax

by Farooq Kaiser 24. August 2009 15:57
JQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library and can be downloaded from http://www.jquery.com. The jQuery library is also included in the Scripts folder of the Visual Studio ASP.NET MVC template. You can increase the performance by using google hosted AJAX Libraries. Google hosted AJAX Libraries c... [More]

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Building currency convertor using ASP.NET MVC with Ajax

by Farooq Kaiser 20. August 2009 15:58
ASP.NET AJAX enables a Web application to retrieve data from the server asynchronously and to refresh parts of the existing page. This improves the user experience by making the Web application more responsive and you to create amazing Web 2.0 applications to delight your users. In this article, I... [More]

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Form validation with ASP.NET MVC using IDataErrorInfo Interface

by Farooq Kaiser 13. August 2009 01:36
As I already shown in my previous article Form validation with ASP.NET MVC. In this article, I will explore an alternative method of implementing validation logic. I will show you how to perform validation by using the IDataErrorInfo interface. public interface IDataErrorInfo { ... [More]

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Named and optional parameters in C# 4.0

by Farooq Kaiser 6. August 2009 05:14
In this article, I will explore named and optional parameters in C# 4.0 features. Named and optional parameters are really two distinct features, and allow us to either omit parameters which have a defined default value, and/or to pass parameters by name rather than position. Named parameters ar... [More]

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Dynamic Typing in C# 4.0

by Farooq Kaiser 5. August 2009 07:55
C# 4.0 introduces a new static type called dynamic. When an instance variable is defined with the type dynamic, the compiler ignores the call and won't complain. These actions are picked up at runtime. Here are comparison with C# 3.0 and C# 4.0 using Dynamic Types. Let's say I have t... [More]

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Handling Unknown Actions in ASP.NET MVC

by Farooq Kaiser 5. August 2009 03:57
In this article, I will explore Handling Unknown Actions. A Controller.HandleUnknownAction Method gets called when a controller cannot find an action method that matches a browser request. I will implement the following method in my previous article Implementing HTTP File Upload with ASP.NET MVC. ... [More]

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