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Creating a Tag Cloud for Your Blog
13 January 12 03:47 AM | bipinjoshi
Most of the blogs display a set of tags or keywords in the form of a Tag Cloud. A tag cloud presents the keywords in font sizes proportional to the number of blog posts having that tag. If you are using some blogging website or using some open source...
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Introduction to Entity Framework Code First
20 September 11 12:44 AM | bipinjoshi
Entity Framework (EF) allows you to program against a model instead of dealing with a database directly. In EF 4.0 (that ships with .NET 4.0) you typically design a model from an existing database visually, using a designer provided for that purpose....
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Generating Code Using Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4)
10 August 11 11:37 PM | bipinjoshi
Many times developers come across situations where they need to write similar code over and over again. Automating the generation of such boilerplate code not only reduces the time spent but also reduces the chances of errors while doing such monotonous...
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Using Visual Studio Debugger Attributes
23 July 11 12:38 AM | bipinjoshi
Visual Studio provides a rich debugging experience to developers, helping them write robust and bug free code. In simple projects, the inbuilt facilities of Visual Studio debugger may be sufficient for your purpose, however, while debugging complex projects...
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Using DynamicObject and ExpandoObject
11 July 11 06:44 PM | bipinjoshi
C# is primarily a statically typed language. That means the compiler needs to know in advance about the data type of a variable. In the absence of this information, the compiler will throw a compilation error and will refuse to compile the code. In spite...
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Zip and Unzip files programmatically
08 February 07 04:32 AM | bipinjoshi
Recently one of the reader of DotNetBips.com posted a question on the discussion forums about compressing and decompressing files via code. There is no obvious answer to this question because C# and VB.NET lack this functionality. However, J# does have...
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