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I have been using Andrea09 word press theme for a while (almost two years) and finally, I have decided to change look & feel to more contemporary theme “Twenty Ten” with lots of white background & large fonts in the spirit … Continue reading →

Recently I have been working on the Social Media integration for the one of our Office 365 clients and One of the key tasks was to derive RSS feeds for all their Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter accounts. As many of … Continue reading →

Although it’s not necessary to have the content controls on the Word document to manipulate the documents using the Open XML SDK, it is always one of the best practices to have the documents with the content controls processed by … Continue reading →

ASP.NET has a very sophisticated methods to navigate from one page to another page but there isn’t any method which allow programmers to wire the page to return to the previous page you came from. Think of the situation of … Continue reading →

Recently I had a previledge to architect ASP.NET web application and we leveraged many third-party tools to improve the code clarity and to apply the consistent coding conventions to manage development chaos. I would highly recommand these tools to any … Continue reading →

LINQ-to-SQL is a Microsoft Object Relational Mapper tool released part of Microsoft.NET 3.5 Framework, C# 3.0, and Visual Studio 2008. There are rumors that ADO.NET Entity Framework will destroy LINQ-to-SQL but I think otherwise. I am sure Microsoft will try … Continue reading →

First thing first, why would you reference the JavaScript file from the master page? Well, the best reason for this is whenever you have a application wide javascript, you would like to refer it from one code base instead of … Continue reading →

The .NET Framework 1.x had a System.Web.Mail class to send an email from the ASP.NET framework. While this namespace and these classes still exist in the .NET Framework version 2.0 and later, they have been deprecated and replaced by the … Continue reading →

Please note that this article applies to the ASP.NET 2.0 framework and later. With the ASP.NET 2.0 configuration API, there is a new way to retrieve AppSettings and ConnectionString sections from web.config in the ASP.NET applications. New ConfigurationManager class allows … Continue reading →

I have been in the situations where I end up having lots of unwanted project items in the “Recent Projects” pan in Visual Studio startup page. If you ever wanted to clear the list, read further and follow following steps. … Continue reading →