Month: May 2014

In this article we will learn about the Share Link Task. This task enables the user to share a link from the app itself on various social media and other sharing platforms. It can be a very useful feature for promoting your app on various platforms. Let’s see how to use it. Share Link Task This is a kind of launcher provided by Windows Phone to launch the share screen from an app so that the user can share the link. The task can be customized with various properties for…

Nearly every application deals with data and resources that need to be protected. Implementing secure authentication and authorization is therefore an essential requirement in most cases. While historically the solution to that problem has been either Windows authentication or username/password, this might not hold true anymore. In the distributed and mobile application landscape, passwords have become an anti-pattern, and single sign-on, security token services and federation are the prevalent technologies to achieve a seamless security experience for your users. We have worked in this space for several years, and our…

Documentation is a necessary evil for software developers. While C# and VB.NET have basic facilities for commenting code and embedding XML documentation into code, turning that into a more useful form is outside the realm of Visual Studio. These five applications can help you turn your comments and notes into proper documentation.   1: Sandcastle Sandcastle is probably one of the best known documentation generators for .NET, and it has the benefit of being open source. Unfortunately, Sandcastle is difficult to use on its own, prompting a small cottage industry…

Today I installed Clean Windows Web Server 2008 R2 64-bit with IIS 7.5. To my surprise opening .NET 4.0 application I received the following error: IIS 7.5 Detailed Error – 500.21 – Internal Server ErrorServer Error in Application “DEFAULT WEB SITE”Internet Information Services 7.5[Error Summary]HTTP Error 500.21 – Internal Server ErrorHandler “PageHandlerFactory-Integrated” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list[Detailed Error Information]Module IIS Web CoreNotification ExecuteRequestHandlerHandler PageHandlerFactory-IntegratedError Code 0x8007000dRequested URL https://localhost:80/default.aspxPhysical Path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\default.aspxLogon Method AnonymousLogon User Anonymous[Most likely causes:]•Managed handler is used; however, ASP.NET is not installed or is…

Same link to convert you code from C# to VB or viceversa. https://converter.telerik.com/ https://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/ https://www.dotnetspider.com/convert/CSharp-To-Vb.aspx

Linqer is a SQL to LINQ conversion tool. It helps learning LINQ and convert existing SQL statements. Not every SQL statement can be converted to LINQ, but Linqer covers many different types of SQL expressions. Linqer supports both .NET languages – C# and Visual Basic. Because LINQ is a part of the C# and VB languages, it is sensitive to data type conversion. Linqer performs required type castings in the produced LINQ statements. It can convert the most usable SQL Server functions. The full list of supported MSSQL functions can…

Is there a tool out there that can turn a C# string of unformatted HTML (no indentions, no new lines, etc) into a Formatted HTML string?I am in a situation where I am generating an HTML string, and I am outputting it into a multiline textbox. Write now, it is wrapping, but is showing up similar to a paragraph. I would like it to be shown as formatted HTML? It wouldn’t even have to be very nice formatting, but at least not show a paragraph of HTML.For having a good…

Simple method for give the name of month System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo mfi = new System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo();string strMonthName = mfi.GetMonthName(8).ToString();