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Quick Overview of C# Attribute Programming

By Tom R Smith

Programming with attributes refines and solves some of the difficult development problems we face every day.

How to configure and use Entity Framework

By Libish.Jacob

Configuring and using Entity Framework 4.1 for my Open Source project.

UserControl populating ItemsControl – Manipulation of ItemsControl collection from inner UserControl

By Jorge J. Martins

UserControl populating ItemsControl \u2013 manipulation of ItemsControl collection from inner UserControl

Using custom fonts in your web pages

By sreejukg

From the start of web, people were restricted to use standard fonts(those are globally available in all platforms) such as Arial, Times etc, for displaying content in web pages. The main issue was that the browser did not have the capability to read the...

A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification

By octavioloyola, Miguel Angel Medina Pérez, Andre

In this article, we introduce a framework in C# for fingerprint verification, we briefly explain how to perform fingerprint verification experiments and how to integrate your algorithms to the framework.

Custom strongly-typed HtmlHelpers in ASP.NET MVC

By Daniel Lo Nigro

Why C# interface inheritance makes sense: see LINQ...

By Andreas Gieriet

How Linq extension methods benefit from interfaces inheriting from interfaces

Infobright/MySQL Statistics Utility

By Ryan Krage

Display Infobright/MySQL Database Statistics in Java

Windows Azure for Amazon AWS Users

By MarcLaFleur

One hurdle I run across while talking to AWS users about Azure\xa0comes down to terminology. Every cloud vendor has their own vernacular and this can be a source of endless frustration when one starts to compare the two services. Developers that have already...

Using async and await in Silverlight 5 and .NET 4 in Visual Studio 11 with the async targeting pack

By Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0) for tag WindowsCl

Last September, I introduced the idea of Tasks in Silverlight . One of the things I really like about .NET 4.5, and the C# compiler that comes with it, is the ability to simplify asynchronous code by using the async modifier and await operator. Just yesterday...