Ok, so I needed to convert .docx files to .pdf files on the fly, but none of the free php libraries that were available let me do it on my server (a webservice was not good enough).

Build Explorer version 1.1 for Visual Studio Team Explorer is released

A very intriguing issue came to me to debug .Net code called from X++ code in AX 2012. This was indeed a challenge to be nailed down. Luckily the tools and some concepts helped me to achieve this t…

Performance testing is almost always conducted to address one or more risks related to expense, opportunity costs, continuity, and/or corporate reputation. But not everyone thinks their application…

Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration

So you have started using DevExpress XPO/XAF and now you would like to see how to use the EDMX (Entity Data Model XML) visual designer within Visual Studio to draw your entities and relationships. …

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

public class ValidationBehaviour<T\> : BasicBehavior where T : class { private readonly IContinuationDirector continuationDirector; private readonly BehaviorGraph behaviorGraph; private readonly IF…

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Although the collections classes introduced in .NET 2, 3.5 and 4 cover most scenarios, there are still some .NET 1 collections that don't have generic counterparts. In this post, I'll be examining …

You must have heard about it. Windows 8 will all about Metro. Sure, you can run ‘old-school’ applications on the platform, but most attention these days is about the new user interface. The UI is b…

HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers is my attempt to learn HTML5 myself being an ASP.NET Developer. I am planning to post a series of posts on how ASP.NET Developers can leverage some of the HTML5 feature…

<table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>Sorry for the tardiness of this post, but I was out of state on family business.<br><br><b>If you are looking for Silverlight Devel…

When you are going to join any computer from domain controller the following error will be appeared on your computer screen. Full Error Message

Yes, all unhandled exceptions will kill the IIS worker process, but in WCF you can tag an IErrorHandler onto your service behavior and all unhandled exceptions will be neatly taken care of. Unless …

Here is the interesting problem of the week... finally figured it out!

Last week, Microsoft held their long awaited Build Windows (or simply "Build") conference in Anaheim CA. About 5000 people packed the convention center to discover the latest version of the Windows…

Following the previous post, here is a second bit of wisdom. In the Load method of a custom pipeline component, only assign values retrieved from the property bag to your custom properties if the r…

Excited to come speak at JaxCodeCamp this coming weekend, there are many amazing session and speakers!

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 14 - 21, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: