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Image preview in solution explorer Visual Studio 2011 beta

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:04:21 PDT

This post will be part of Visual Studio 2011 beta feature series. Everyday I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 beta and everyday I learn some cool feature of it. In today’s post I am going to explain one cool features of Visual Studio 2011 beta solution explorer. As a web developer we all want to see the image preview in solution explorer and visual studio 2011 beta is now having it. We can see image preview in solution explorer just like following. Isn’t that cool? Hope you like...

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Css Enhancement in Visual Studio 2011 beta

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:32:35 PDT

This blog post will be part of Visual Studio 2011 Beta feature series. In this post we are going to look at some of CSS enhancement features in Visual Studio 2011 beta. First thing you notice in Visual Studio 2011 is better intellisense for the CSS. Now same kind of intellisense are available which we are using for C# and other languages. Another enhancement is color selection Visual Studio 2011 beta. Now it’s provides a Great Color picker to choose CSS colors as you want. You don’t...

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Go to definition in JavaScript feature of Visual Studio 2011 beta

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:39:34 PDT

This blog post will be a part of Visual Studio 2011 Beta feature series. In recent days I am exploring the Visual studio features and this blog post is also part of that. I am loving visual studio 2011 beta more and more after exploring features that make developer’s life easy. Today I am going to talk about one of the features that is going to make developer’s life easy. JavaScript is a client scripting language which is an integral part of any web application now days. So if you...

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Project Dialog in Visual Studio 2011 beta

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:31:23 PDT

This post will be a part of the Visual Studio 2011 Beta feature series. Today we are going to look at the New project dialog and some other improvements in visual studio 2011 beta. New project dialog comes with streamlined metro style icons of the project and looks beautiful. You can see some new project templates like portable class library which is a project template for creating dlls which can run on the windows,Silverlight and windows phone 7 and Xbox 360 just like...

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Visual Studio 2011 Beta First Review.

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:39:24 PDT

Before some days Microsoft has release visual studio 2011 beta and I have started playing with it. Have you played with it yet? If not then this series of post is for your. I am going to start a series for few post here and this post also will be part this Visual Studio 20111 beta features series. I am basically a developer by heart. So out of latest offering from Microsoft I am concentrating more on Visual studio 2011,ASP.NET 4.5,C# new features and ASP.NET MVC 4. So here we got let’s...

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DotNetJalps 500th blog post- A milestone achieved.

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:40:07 PDT

This is my 500th blog post on this blog and I feel very proud writing this blog post. I am very passionate about blogging and I have been doing more than 5 years. 500th blog post a great achievement and on this occasion first all I would like to thank my family for continuous support they are providing support to maintain blog at regular interval. I also like to thanks all the reader and visitors of this blog without your love and support this blog would not be what it is right...

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Review of 70-562exam preparation kit from uCertify

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:51:00 PDT

Before some time I got an offer from uCertify to review their examination kit. I was lot busy this days so was able to do early but now I have completed review of it. So the first things to do is to download preparation kit from their website. Here is the link from where I have downloaded this. http://www.ucertify.com/exams/Microsoft/70-562-CSHARP.html After downloading and installing it will load following screen. On the home page you got links for various test...

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File Upload in ASP.NET MVC3

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:51:25 PDT

If you are a web developer you often need to upload file on the web server or database. In today’s post I am going explain how we can upload file in ASP.NET MVC 3 with razor syntax. So, first thing we need to create a view that will contain the file upload control. I am going to use an existing asp.net mvc template for this demo. So I have just modified the default Index view like following. @{ ViewBag.Title = "Home Page"; } <h2>@ViewBag.Message</h2> <p> To learn...

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Difference between SkipWhile and Where in linq

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:38:40 PDT

Before some time I have written a blog post about the SkipWhile operator and a reader of my blog asked me that we can do the same thing with Where also but there is a difference between this two. So In this post I am going to explain you difference between those two. Where operator filters a list of collection based on condition. It will filter whole collection while SkipWhile will only skip those elements in list until condition is true and after that it will stop filtering of...

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Tuple in C# 4.0

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:41:17 PDT

C# 4.0 language includes a new feature called Tuple. Tuple provides us a way of grouping elements of different data type. That enables us to use it a lots places at practical world like we can store a coordinates of graphs etc. In C# 4.0 we can create Tuple with Create method. This Create method offer 8 overload like following. So you can group maximum 8 data types with a Tuple. Followings are overloads of a data type. Create(T1)- Which represents a tuple of size 1 Create(T1,T2)- Which...

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TakeWhile operator in linq

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:40:45 PDT

In this post I am going to explain TakeWhile Operator in details. TakeWhile is one of partitioning operator available in Linq. It will take sequence until condition becomes false. Here is the example for that. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; namespace Linq { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int[] numbers ={10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1}; foreach(var number in numbers.TakeWhile(n=>n>5)) { ...

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SkipWhile Method in Linq

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:41:38 PDT

I have been playing around linq and I have found great method call SkipWhile method. SkipWhile methods skips particular element which matches condition in predicate this can be use full in condition where we need to skip elements on particular condition. So let’s take some example. I have written following console application code. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; namespace Linq { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { ...

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Full screen in Visual studio 2010

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:43:05 PDT

Visual studio is a great IDE and I am learning everyday something new and I have found one great feature today which is available from the Visual studio 2008. So I thought it would great to be share with all you guys. We all like to have most portion of screen to cover code part so we can view all the lines and we don’t have to use page and page down keys to navigate through code. You can have visual studio in full screen mode with View->Full Screen or via pressing Shift + Alter + Enter...

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Multicast delegates in c#

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:44:16 PDT

In yesterday’s post We learn about Delegates and how we can use delegates in C#. In today’s blog post we are going to learn about Multicast delegates. What is Multicast Delegates? As we all know we can assign methods as object to delegate and later on we can call that method with the help delegates. We can also assign more then methods to delegates that is called Multicast delegates. It’s provide functionality to execute more then method at a time. It’s maintain delegates as invocation list...

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Delegates in c#

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:45:44 PDT

I have used delegates in my programming since C# 2.0. But I have seen there are lots of confusion going on with delegates so I have decided to blog about it. In this blog I will explain about delegate basics and use of delegates in C#. What is delegate? We can say a delegate is a type safe function pointer which holds methods reference in object. As per MSDN it's a type that references to a method. So you can assign more than one methods to delegates with same parameter and same return type....

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Dynamically creating meta tags in asp.net mvc

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:47:36 PDT

As we all know that Meta tag has very important roles in Search engine optimization and if we want to have out site listed with good ranking on search engines then we have to put meta tags. Before some time I have blogged about dynamically creating meta tags in asp.net 2.0/3.5 sites, in this blog post I am going to explain how we can create a meta tag dynamically very easily. To have meta tag dynamically we have to create a meta tag on server-side. So I have created a method like...

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Creating dynamic breadcrumb in asp.net mvc with mvcsitemap provider

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:50:08 PDT

I have done lots breadcrumb kind of things in normal asp.net web forms I was looking for same for asp.net mvc. After searching on internet I have found one great nuget package for mvpsite map provider which can be easily implemented via site map provider. So let’s check how its works. I have create a new MVC 3 web application called breadcrumb and now I am adding a reference of site map provider via nuget package like following. You can find more information about MVC sitemap provider...

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Execute TSQL statement with ExecuteStoreQuery in entity framework 4.0

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:53:12 PDT

I was playing with entity framework in recent days and I was searching something that how we can execute TSQL statement in entity framework. And I have found one great way to do that with entity framework ‘ExecuteStoreQuery’ method. It’s executes a TSQL statement against data source given enity framework context and returns strongly typed result. You can find more information about ExcuteStoreQuery from following link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd487208.aspx So let’s...

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Ternary operator in VB.NET

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:54:59 PDT

We all know about Ternary operator in C#.NET. I am a big fan of ternary operator and I like to use it instead of using IF..Else. Those who don’t know about ternary operator please go through below link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ty67wk28(v=vs.80).aspx Here you can see ternary operator returns one of the two values based on the condition. See following example. bool value = false; string output=string.Empty; //using If condition if (value==true) output ="True"; else ...

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How to pad number with leading zero with C#

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:56:24 PDT

Recently I was working with a project where I was in need to format a number in such a way which can apply leading zero for particular format. So after doing such R and D I have found a great way to apply this leading zero format. I was having need that I need to pad number in 5 digit format. So following is a table in which format I need my leading zero format. 1-> 00001 20->00020 300->00300 4000->04000 50000->5000 So in the above example you can see that 1 will...

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Important Mile stone achieved–I got 4,00,000 visitors for my blog

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:58:46 PDT

I have written this blog more than 5 years now and today I got one great news from sitemeter.com that I have achieved 4,00,000 visitors milestone. I would like to take this opportunity to thanks all the my readers for everything. I got nice appreciations from people around me and that’s encourage me to write more blogs. Following is a screenshot of my blog statistics from sitemeter.com. . As per sitmeter statistics I have 4,01,580 visitors till now and I am having 4,90,599 page views...

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Number- New HTML5 Input type

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:59:43 PDT

I have been writing few series of new HTML5 input types and this is another post on same series. In this post I am going to explain Number input types. The number type is for numeric values. When you use number input type it will have spinner with up and down arrow and with the help of this you can increase or decrease of value. Attributes of Number Input type: There are four attributes of Number input types. Value : This attribute is used to specify the default value of the input type once...

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URL–New HTML5 input element

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:01:49 PDT

In earlier post we have seen how the email input tag work in the browser. HTML5 comes with lots of new goodies and today we are going to see one of another new html5 input types URL. In most of the sites once you fill your contact and personal information it will ask for your URL. Till now there is no specific type for URL and we have to manually validate the URL with the Java Script but now with the HTML5 you don’t have do that. It will automatically validate the URL. For the browsers that...

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Email-New Html5 input element

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:04:21 PDT

In most of the websites we have contact forms and other forms where we have some standard inputs like Phone,Email and Website URL and those are widely used in any site and has specific features. Email is one of the most standard used input elements which are used in our forms. Till HTML 4.1 we have standard input type text and that’s for we were doing input validation with java script and other technologies. While we all know HTML5 is there and it’s contains lots of goodies, One of them is...

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My first video for code refactoring in visual studio 2010

noreply@blogger.com (jalpesh vadgama) — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:06:04 PDT

I have been planning this since long but now Its happened. I have created a video for visual studio 2010 code refactoring features. I have made this video public. Following is a link for that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC63rE7tB4&feature=share Here is the video.. Please see the video and let me know your feedback. I am not a trained professional in this but I have tried to create it. Hope fully I will master this technique in some time. Stay tuned for more. Till then...

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