It’s always been a pain point to not have the UI freeze, when some long running background task is going on in Windows Forms or WPF applications. We’ve been used to using the infamous BackgroundWorker to achieve this, however with Task Parallel Library it’s so much succinct to manage this. …
Recently I’ve been using and reading about the following interesting libraries for .Net, Javascript, Json and CSS. There are tons of those these days out there. But this will be a list of ones I value most. OpenWebKitSharp – http://code.google.com/p/open-webkit-sharp/ – check this too – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/790542/replacing-net-webbrowser-control-with-a-better-browser-like-chrome/10097480#10097480 JsonFx.Net – great library …
By now the world has pretty much agreed upon the future of HTML5 and CSS3 – This is how new apps will be built, for the web and for multitude of other devices. There is no question native experience on a platform serves the best for the user, slowly but …
Error messages are an important part of an application. Generally each application/system has a collection of error messages stored somewhere (I would …
For any LOB (Line of Business) Application, User Interface Design can make or break the success of the application. In the recent …
What is TDD? From Wikipedia, quoting, Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development processthat relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: …
Javascript: The Good Parts, is the name of the one of the greatest book written on modern Javascript. Author Douglas Crockford who …
After I recently started using KnockoutJS, the awesome MV-VM Javascript library, I came across several samples which serve as a great reference …
There are several in-built keyboard shortcuts available in Visual Studio. However, there are some actions that developers need shortcuts for, that are …
I used “Metal Scroll” for VS2008 to get a full code map on the right hand scrollbar to quickly identify and reach …