Although its rare but at times while building desktop based applications, we might come across situation wherein we are asked to handle “Screen Saver” operation i.e. perform some logic based on whether the “Screen Saver” is on of off. I found the following code snippet on internet almost two years back. I would like to thank the original author of the code. It’s been long time and its not possible for me to search for the original author of the code.

In one of my recent WPF project, we made extensive use of async-await pattern. Async-await pattern greatly simplified the call-back and continuation based code required for keeping the UI responsive. In WPF, the pattern for implementing async-await is to invoke the IO/CPU intensive code in a background thread and attach the continuation logic on the main UI thread. In WPF, since we have a dedicated UI thread that controls all of the UI elements, using async-await is really helpful in keeping the UI responsive without having to write complicated call-back based code.

Consider the following generic method :

Podcasts are a great way of utilizing your time while you are on the move i.e. driving car or riding in a bus/train. If you are unlucky like me, who has to spend couple of hours each day travelling between office & home and vice versa, then listening to podcasts while you are stuck in traffic can be of great help. Not only are you learning something new but it also helps you in keeping calm and makes the journey appear comparatively shorter.

Every time I change my laptop, I had to remember all the steps that are required for configuring windows live writer. Given that live writer is not being maintained anymore, finding its genuine download link itself becomes a challenge. In thins blog post, I am going to bookmark for myself, what are all the steps required for configuring windows live writer for blogging.

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In this blog post, I am going to talk about the Key Indexed Counting Sort algorithm. Unlike other generalized sorting algorithms like quicksort, merge sort etc. key indexed counting sort algorithm is a specialized sorting algorithm which works best when the following conditions are met:

If you have worked with MVVMLight toolkit framework, then you must be familiar with the RelayCommand pattern for processing control commands. For example, if you have to handle the button click event using MVVMLight framework i.e. to not have the code-behind button click event handler but instead call some method in your ModelView class, then you can do it easily using the RelayCommand pattern. Below is a sample example :

In this blog post, I will explain on how to properly rename a file with difference in casing using git mv command. Before that first let us understand, why difference in casing is such a big thing when it comes to version control systems.

Problem : Given the following binary tree, print all the paths from root node to all the leave nodes.

In a binary tree, node level is defined as the number of nodes which are in between the node in context & the root node. If we consider root node is at level 0, then immediate child nodes of root are at level 1 and the subsequent child nodes are level 2 and so on. Thus level order traversal of a binary tre involves processing nodes on the basis of their levels i.e. level 0 nodes are to be processed before nodes at level 1 which are to be processed before nodes which are at level 2 etc. The screenshot below shows a tree and its corresponding level order traversal :

In the first part, we implemented our first F# function towards building a recommendation system, which could tell us relative closeness of two users based on their ratings given to the various music bands. During implementation, I highlighted some of the core F# programming concepts like pattern matching, options, modules etc.. In this part, we are going to concentrate on following three things:

In this blog post, using F# language, we will try to build a simple recommendation system. The true intent of this post is to learn F# language by implementing a recommendation system. If you are truly interested in learning what it takes to build a true recommendation system, then I would encourage you to read the following text : A Programmers Guide to data mining. I too have used this text as a source of reference for the content of this post. In this post, I am going to port the original python based code to F# and while doing that I will try to highlight various functional programming concepts.