Thursday, October 30, 2008

Windows Workflow Foundation

Workflow:

Workflow is nothing but a Business Process also start with a need end with a fulfilled need.

now lets talk about Business Process.

Business Process.

Business process is a collection of activities.it will describe the start to end activity. The Business process is categrozied in to three types. The types are

1)Management Business process(Ex:Governence and Strategic Management)
2)Operation Business process(Ex:Manufactoring,Supply chain).
3)supporting Business Process(Ex:Accounting Recuriting).

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Visual studio 2008 has a new style builder dialog

Visual studio 2008 has a new style builder dialog. For creating new style sheet, viewing the style sheet with design.Please follow the below steps to create the style sheet throgh VS tools.
step1:

step2:


step3:

Monday, August 11, 2008

Reading and writing file in Table using binary

Just follow up my steps,so that you will get clear idea.

step 1:

Create table with the folowing column, The columns are content type, filename and filedata. if you want also create some additional columns.

for "filedata" column choose datatype called "image" in the datatype list.

Note:if you choose binary datatype instead of image. unable to insert large data in to the table.

writing file in to the table

step 2:

just convert your data file to binary format, After that do insert in to table.

step 3:

how to run exe file through javascript

<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

function runApp()
{s
var shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell");
shell.run("notepad.exe ", 1, true);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<input type="button" name="button1" value="Run Notepad" onClick="runApp()" />
</body>
</html>

Monday, July 7, 2008

Dropdown validation using Javascript

The below code is for validating the dropdown when click on the submit button. I have described below step by step process.

Step 1:

function getcheckdrp()
{
var drp=document.getElementById("drpcheck");
if(drp=='[object]')
{
if(drp.selectedIndex==0)
{
alert("please select state");
return false;
}
}
}

step 2:

<asp:ListItem>----Select State----</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem>Karnataka</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem>Bangalore</asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>

<asp:Button ID="btncheckdrp" runat="server" />

step 3:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
btncheckdrp.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:return getcheckdrp()");
}

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

How to Register User Controls and Custom Controls in Web.config

Asp.net 2.0 makes control declarations much easier to manage.Instead of duplicating them on all your pages.just declare them once within the new pages-->controls section with in the web.config file of your application.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

<system.web>

<pages>
<controls>
<add tagPrefix="bala" src="~/Controls/Header.ascx" tagName="header"/>
<add tagPrefix="bala" src="~/Controls/Footer.ascx" tagName="footer"/>
<add tagPrefix="ControlVendor" assembly="ControlVendorAssembly"/>
</controls>
</pages>

</system.web>

</configuration>




<strong>Output:</strong>

<html>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<bala:header ID="MyHeader" runat="server" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

Monday, June 9, 2008

Accordin Control using Dotnet

<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" EnablePartialRendering="true">
</asp:ScriptManager>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="updatepanel1" runat="Server">
<ContentTemplate>
<table>
<tr>
<td>dsfsd</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<cc1:Accordion ID="accordin1" runat="server" RequireOpenedPane="false">
<Panes>
<cc1:AccordionPane id="accordinpane1" runat="server">
<Header>
<asp:Label ID="lbltext" runat="server" Text="bala"></asp:Label>
</Header>
<Content>
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="bala1"></asp:Label>
<cc1:Accordion ID="accordin2" runat="server" RequireOpenedPane="false">
<Panes>
<cc1:AccordionPane ID="test" runat="server">
<header>
<asp:Label ID="lbltest1" runat="server" Text="testsdfsd"></asp:Label>
</header>
<Content>
<asp:Label ID="lbltest" runat="server" Text="test"></asp:Label>
</Content>
</cc1:AccordionPane>
</Panes>
</cc1:Accordion>
</Content>

</cc1:AccordionPane>
</Panes>
</cc1:Accordion>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

How to select all checkbox when i select header checkbox in datagrid.

<script language="javascript">
function checkall(obj)
{
var check=obj.checked;
var len=document.form1.elements.length;
for(i=0;i<len;i++)
{
if(document.form1.elements.item(i).type=="checkbox")
{
document.form1.elements.item(i).checked=check;
}
}
}
</script>
In .Aspx grid control..
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateColumn>
<HeaderTemplate>
<input type="checkbox" id="head" onclick="checkall(this)"/>
</HeaderTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>
</Columns>
<Columns>

number validatuion in textbox using Javascript

function typecheck(obj)
{
var check=false;
var val=obj.value;
var s=new Array("0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9");
var len=val.length;
for(i=0;i<len;i++)
{
for(j=0;j<s.length;j++)
{
if(obj.value.charAt(i)==s[j])
{
check=false
break;
}
else
{
check=true
}
}
}
if(check==true)
{
obj.value="";
obj.focus();
alert("Please type valid number");
return false;
}
}

Note:Call using onkey up event in html..

<asp:TextBox ID="txtbox" runat="server" onkeyup="javascript:return typecheck(this)" ></asp:TextBox>

how to search textbox value in dropdownlist Using Javascript

<asp:TextBox ID="txtbox" runat="server" onkeyup="getValue(this)"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:DropDownList ID="drpt" runat="server">
<asp:ListItem Text="text">ss</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Text="text">ss1</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Text="text">ss2</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Text="text">ss3</asp:ListItem>
<script language="javascript">

function getValue(obj)
{
var d=obj.value;
var dro=document.getElementById("drpt");
var drplen=document.getElementById("drpt").options.length
var i;
for(i=0;i<drplen;i++)
{
if(document.getElementById("drpt").options[i].value==d)
{
document.getElementById("drpt").selectedIndex=i;
}
}
}
</asp:DropDownList>

</script>

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Adding rows in DataGrid

DataTable dtg = (DataTable) DataGrid1.DataSource;

DataRow dr = dtg.NewRow();

dr["Item_ID"]="ItemID";
dr["Item_Name"]="Item Name";
dr["Item_Desc"]="Item Description";
dr["Item_Amount"]="$15.65";

dtg.Rows.Add(dr);

DataGrid1.DataSource = dtg;

It will work for windows.

If you use DataGrid in ASP then you will have to keep DataTable in Session:

DataTable dtg = new DataTable();

if (Session["SampleDataTable"]==null)
{

DataColumn dc;
dc = new DataColumn("Item_ID",System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
dtg.Columns.Add(dc);
dc = new DataColumn("Item_Name",System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
dtg.Columns.Add(dc);
dc = new DataColumn("Item_Desc",System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
dtg.Columns.Add(dc);
dc = new DataColumn("Item_Amount",System.Type.GetType("System.String"));
dtg.Columns.Add(dc);

}
else {dtg = (DataTable) Session["SampleDataTable"];}

DataRow dr = dtg.NewRow();
dr["Item_ID"]="ItemID";
dr["Item_Name"]="Item Name";
dr["Item_Desc"]="Item Description";
dr["Item_Amount"]="$15.35;
dtg.Rows.Add(dr);

DataGrid1.DataSource=dtg;
DataGrid1.PageSize+=1;
DataGrid1.DataBind();
Session["SampleDataTable"]=dtg;

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) features

Security Features
• Facilitates interoperability through WS-* standards
• WS-Trust. Uses the secure messaging mechanisms of WS-Security
• WS-SecureConversation
• WS-Federation
• WS-SecurityPolicy
• Confidentiality – keeping messages private
• Authentication – verifying claimed identity
• Uses transport-level protocol (like HTTPS); only point-to-point secure
• Uses WS-Security; less efficient but secure from end to end
• SOAP Message Security (OASIS)

Reliable Messaging

• Provides for SOAP messages what TCP provides for IP packets
• Ensures messages are exactly once
• Handles lost messages and duplicates
• End-to-end reliability (vs. transport reliability of TCP)

Queues

• Leverages Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) as a transport
• Enables loosely coupled applications and disconnected operations

Transactions

• Takes advantage of System.Transactions in .NET 2.0
• Supports WS-AtomicTransaction

Compatibility

COM+

• Extend COM+ components as Web services
• Service derived from COM+ interface

COM

• Moniker support (GetObject) for usage of WCF services from COM-based applications

Debugging the wcf Service in client side

In web.config/App.config of WCF Service have to do two changes,The details are described below

step1:
<compilation debug=true>

step2:
<servicedebug includeExceptionDetailInfaults="true"/>

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Syndication on WCF

In dotnet 3.5 has added several new things. one of those syndication. The System.ServiceModel.web has several class that you can use to expose the ATOM and RSS feed.

Restart Http Service using Command prompt

Step1: open run commmand in windows
step2: type "net start http"
step3: end

Monday, April 21, 2008

Disable Copy and Paste for greater website security

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false">

Removing Xml element in two ways

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><bookstore> <books> <book genre="reference"> <title>World Atlas</title> </book> <book genre="reference"> <title>World Atlas</title> </book> </books></bookstore>


XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
xmldoc.Load(Server.MapPath("test.xml"));
XmlElement root = xmldoc.DocumentElement;


root.RemoveChild(root.SelectNodes("books/book"));
root.RemoveChild(root.RemoveChild(root.FirstChild));

Replacing xml attribute in two ways

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><bookstore> <books> <book genre="reference"> <title>World Atlas</title> </book> <book genre="reference"> <title>World Atlas</title> </book> </books></bookstore>

XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
xmldoc.Load(Server.MapPath("test.xml"));
XmlElement root = xmldoc.DocumentElement;
XmlNodeList nodes = root.SelectNodes("books/book");
////////////////////////////////Replaceing Attribute value using xml///////////////////////////////
foreach (XmlNode xn in nodes)
{
xn.Attributes[0].Value = "NA";
}
////////////////////////////////Replaceing Attribute value using xml///////////////////////////////
foreach (XmlNode xn1 in nodes)
{
XmlNode dd = xn1.SelectSingleNode("@genre");
}

How to get the path for "My Documents" and other system folders?

Response.write( Environment.GetFolderPath( Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal ) );

Sunday, April 20, 2008

JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate
JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.
JSON is built on two structures:
1) A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array.
2) An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence.
Installation for Dotnet
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205597

An easy way to build connection string.

Though this in not related to .NET directly but it is useful while working with ADO.NET
1) Open a New notepad and save it with "udl" extension, suppose "New.udl".
2) Now you will see that it's icon is changed.
3) Open it, you will find Data Link properties dialog box.
4) For SQl Server connection string select Microsoft OLE DB Provider For SQL Server in Provider Tab.
5) Click button "Next" or select Connection Tab
6) Here you can select all connection details and press button
Test Connection. If it is successful close this dialog box.
7) Now open this file using "Notepad", you will find the connection string. Though it is built for OLE DB
type of connection, you can use for SQL Server connection by removing Provider attribute.
NOTE: If you are using SQL Authentication with password, then check the checkbox Allow Saving Password.
This is necessary so that password appears in connection string.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Paging In Sqlserver 2005

SELECT *
FROM (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY person) AS
rownum, person, income FROM Salaries) AS Salaries1
WHERE rownum >= 5 AND rownum <= 9
ORDER BY income

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

How to show Modal and Modeless dialog windows in Javascript

How to show Modal and Modeless dialog windows in Javascript

When you show a modal dialog the window remains on top of other windows until the user explicitly closes it.


window.showModalDialog("Test.html","dialogWidth:400px; dialogHeight:225px; status:no; center:yes");

When you show a modeless dialog the window remains on top of other windows, but you can still access the other windows.


window.showModalessDialog("Test.html","dialogWidth:400px; dialogHeight:225px; status:no; center:yes");

How do we get ipaddress or hostaddress using c#

How do we get ipaddress or hostaddress using c#

HttpContext.Current.Server.MachineName

HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["local_addr"]

Changing Connection string dynamically using Application_BeginRequest

You developed webapplication, you hosted in two different server.One server name is
"Production" and another server name is "Testing". The below code connection string will change dynamically based on server host information.

Example:
<appsettings>
<add key="production" value="http://www.production.com">
<add key="ProductionconnectionString" value="server=localhost;...." >
<add key="testconnectionString" value="server=localhost;...." >
</appsettings>

Public Application_BeginRequest()
{
bool production=false;
if(Request.URL.Host==ConfiqurationManager.Appsettings("production"))
{
Production=true;
}
}

if(Production==true)
{
context.items.add("connectionStrings",ConfiqurationManager.Appsettings("production"))
}
else
{
context.items.add("connectionStrings",ConfiqurationManager.Appsettings("test"))
}
}

Support Multiple Browser Image control

You are developing a web application that must support a variety of browser. Your analysis indicates that the majority of users that will access Internet explorer 6.0 and packet internet explorer 4.0 you are creating the header for the webapplication. you want to display variety of brower. The below example you can see image display with different browser.

Example:


<asp:image id="cklogo" runat="server" ImageUrl="Images/ck_logo.jpg" PIE4.0:imageurl="Images/small/ck_logo.jpg">

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Cross Joins Using sqlserver

Using Cross Joins
A cross join that does not have a WHERE clause produces the Cartesian product of the tables involved in the join. The size of a Cartesian product result set is the number of rows in the first table multiplied by the number of rows in the second table. This is an example of a Transact-SQL cross join:

USE pubs
SELECT au_fname, au_lname, pub_name
FROM authors CROSS JOIN publishers
ORDER BY au_lname DESC

The result set contains 184 rows (authors has 23 rows and publishers has 8; 23 multiplied by 8 equals 184).

However, if a WHERE clause is added, the cross join behaves as an inner join. For example, these Transact-SQL queries produce the same result set:

USE pubs
SELECT au_fname, au_lname, pub_name
FROM authors CROSS JOIN publishers
WHERE authors.city = publishers.city
ORDER BY au_lname DESC

-- Or
USE pubs
SELECT au_fname, au_lname, pub_name
FROM authors INNER JOIN publishers
ON authors.city = publishers.city
ORDER BY au_lname DESC

Accessing server event using Ajax

Step:1

Install system.web.extension and ajax tools
Install ajax.dll in your system all add in reference of the project.

step:2
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="POST,GET" path="ajax/*.ashx" type="Ajax.PageHandlerFactory, Ajax" />
</httpHandlers>

step:3
Write javascript

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function Getconfirm()
{
var con=confirm("Are sure want to delete this");
var test;
if(con==false)
{
alert(Bala.Getvalue().value);
}
else
{
alert(Bala.Getvalue1().value);
}
}
</script>

step 4:
in c# page


public partial class Bala : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Ajax.Utility.RegisterTypeForAjax(typeof(Bala));
//btnsubmit.Attributes.Add("onclick", "Getconfirm();");
}
[Ajax.AjaxMethod()]
public string Getvalue()
{
return "bala";

}
[Ajax.AjaxMethod()]
public string Getvalue1()
{
return "bala1";

}
}

Monday, April 7, 2008

Importan queries using Sqlserver

http://www.dotnetspider.com/kb/Article4097.aspx

Check if a date is a valid date in Sql Server 2005

Use the ISDATE() function

The ISDATE() function determines whether the variable or the expression contains a valid date. It returns 1(true) if the input expression is a valid date;

otherwise, it returns 0 (false).

For eg:

DECLARE @dt varchar(10)

SET @dt = '02/21/08'

SELECT ISDATE(@dt)-- Returns 1

DECLARE @dt varchar(10)

SET @dt = '13/21/08'

SELECT ISDATE(@dt)-- Returns 0 as 13 is not a valid month

Reset all control values in .NET Web pages.

private void ResetFields()
{

foreach (Control ctrl in this.Controls)

{if (ctrl is TextBox)

{

TextBox tb = (TextBox)ctrl;

if (tb != null)

{ tb.Text = string.Empty;

}

} else

if (ctrl is DropDownList)

{ DropDownList dd = (DropDownList)ctrl;

if (dd != null)

{

dd.SelectedIndex = 0;

}

}

}

How to Show Binary Files in the Browser using ASP.NET and VB.NET

This article explains how to show binary files as well as .doc .xls files in browser. We have seen in many sites that user can open .gif, .jpg, .doc and .xls files by clicking a link. The binary format file as well as .doc .xls is displayed in the browser
1)Create an asp.net web project. Name the project as ShowBinary
2) Add a file of type (.gif,.jpg,.doc,.xls) to the project
3) Specify a Start page for the application4) Use following code snippet in the form load event handler

Private Sub Page_Load(sender as object, e as System.EventArgs)
Response.ContentType = “Application/pdf” ‘ Specify Content Type
Dim fpath as string = Mappath(“Mypdf.pdf”) ‘ Specify Physical Path of the file
Response.writefile(fpath)
End Sub

ASP.NET 2.0 MultiView Control

ASP.NET 2.0 Provies a wonderful solution by means of MultiView Control. The MultiView Control combined with the View Control can provide different UI on different scenarios as and when required.

<asp:MultiView ID="MultiView1" runat="server" >
<asp:View ID="View1" runat="server">This is one section where you can have a set of controls / contents<asp:View>
<asp:View ID="View2" runat="server">This is another section where you can have a different set of controls / contents<asp:View>
</asp:MultiView>

Now, to show the different tabs based on different events, we just need to set the following code:-

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MultiView1.SetActiveView(View1);
}
protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MultiView1.SetActiveView(View2);
}

Multiview control using

"goto" Using Dotnet framework 2.0

for (int k = 0; k < 2; k++)
{
Response.Write("Testing Goto");
goto Testing;
Testing:
Response.Write("Testing Goto in for loop");
}

output
Testing GotoTesting Goto in for loop

COALESCE using Sqlserver

I want get employeelist in one single string.
now in new pl/sql version having the COALESCE function,
The magic of function is, it will automatically add "," seprator of employeelist.

///////////////////////////Before COALESCE ///
DECLARE @Emp_UniqueID int,
@EmployeeList varchar(100)

SET @EmployeeList = ''

DECLARE crs_Employees CURSOR
FOR SELECT Emp_UniqueID
FROM SalesCallsEmployees
WHERE SalCal_UniqueID = 1

OPEN crs_Employees
FETCH NEXT FROM crs_Employees INTO @Emp_UniqueID

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
SELECT @EmployeeList = @EmployeeList+CAST(@Emp_UniqueID AS varchar(5))+ ', '
FETCH NEXT FROM crs_Employees INTO @Emp_UniqueID
END

SET @EmployeeList = SUBSTRING(@EmployeeList,1,DATALENGTH(@EmployeeList)-2)

CLOSE crs_Employees
DEALLOCATE crs_Employees

SELECT @EmployeeLis

Output:
1, 2, 4

///////////////////////////After COALESCE/////////////

DECLARE @EmployeeList varchar(100)

SELECT @EmployeeList = COALESCE(@EmployeeList + ', ', '') +
CAST(Emp_UniqueID AS varchar(5))
FROM SalesCallsEmployees
WHERE SalCal_UniqueID = 1

SELECT @EmployeeList

Output:1,2,4

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Anonymous delegate using Dotnet framework 2.0

System.Threading.Thread Th = new System.Threading.Thread(delegate()
{
System.Console.Write("hi");
});
Th.Start();

Breaking out a loop in two ways

The two ways described below.
1) firstway is using "break" keyword
2) Second way is using variable declaration.

//First way
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
Response.Write("bala");
break;
}
//Second Way
bool br = false;
for (int j = 0; j < 2&& br == false; j++)
{
Response.Write("testingbala");
br = true;
}

Nullable DataType in Dotnet Framework 2.0

Nullable Data Type
If you dont have the value for nullable datatype, it will return automatically null as a value.
Example 1:
int? var1 = null;
int var2 = 5;
var1 = var2;
if (var1.HasValue == true) //Using HasValue properties will will findout "var1" variable having value or null.
{
Response.Write("bala");
}
else
{
Response.Write("bala1");
}
Output:
bala

Example 2:

float? a = 436;
float? b = null;
if (a.HasValue) Response.Write("testing");
if (b.HasValue) Response.Write("testi"); else Response.Write("test");

Output:
testingtest

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Calling Javascript in Dotnet based on Button id

In aspx Page

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

function Getconfirm()
{
var con=confirm("Are sure want to delete this");
var test;
if(con==false)
{
alert("test");
}
else
{
alert("test1");
}
}
</script>


<asp:Button ID="btnsubmit" runat="server" OnClick="btnsubmit_Click" />
In C# Page
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(btnsubmit, typeof(string), "bala", "Getconfirm();", true);
}
Note:btnsubmit is control id.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Windows Communication Foundation

WCF-Windows Communication Foundation


WCF is nothing but a Distributed system. Combination of Object Oriented Architechtre and Service Oriented Architecture.


NET 3.0 comes with three main technologies in core: Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), codenamed Indigo in Microsoft, is the last generation of service oriented technologies for development. It provides all the latest means to help developers build service oriented applications. The result of service oriented design is a distributed system which runs between services and clients. Windows Communication Foundation is Microsoft infrastructure for Service Oriented architecture

Advantages

Windows Communication Foundation has some important enhancements in comparison with preceding technologies·
. It merges all older separate technologies in one place and allows you to do things easier.
· It has rich communication capabilities.
· It comes with many powerful and ready to use enterprise features.
· It can be integrated with other technologies and has great interoperability.

Fundamental Concepts

Windows Communication Foundation consists of three main concepts.
· Services: Programs that respond to clients. They can send or receive messages.
· Clients: Programs that ask for a service. They can send or receive messages.
· Intermediaries: Programs that sit between services and clients (Figure 2). They can work as a firewall or can rout messages. In all cases neither services nor clients need to be aware of intermediaries.

Architecture
Architecture of Windows Communication Foundation consists of five layers. These layers from top to down are:
· Application: In this level application is located.
· Contracts: In the second layer service, data and message contracts as well as bindings and policies are present. In this level services describe themselves to clients.
· Runtime: Behaviors are located in this layer. Runtime layer loads all services.
· Messaging: Different types of channels as well as encoders are here. This layer enables communications for services.
· Hosting: This layer is where host services in different manners, but there are two common ways to host a service. You can host a service in Internet Information Services (IIS) which is easier than the second approach and starts and stops your services automatically. The second approach is to create executable files (.EXE) for services and start and stop them manually by writing more codes.

Programming Model

Windows Communication Foundation has simple and easy to write/understand codes. It has many APIs, but beside this only a small amount of these API's is common.
There are three programming approaches in Windows Communication Foundation:
· Imperative: You use programming codes in different languages to accomplish a task.
· Configuration Based: You use configuration files to do things.
· Declarative: You use attributes to declare something.

On the other hand, you can use typed services and untyped services. In typed services you pass normal objects and data types and/or get normal objects and data types, but in untyped services you pass and get messages to work directly with messages at a lower level..

Installation
Installation of Windows Communication Foundation and its development tool is easy and consists of these steps:
· Download and install .NET Framework 3.0 RTM. I also strongly recommend you to download and install WinFX SDK as well. After this step you have all necessary API's to run Windows Communication Foundation.
· Download and install Visual Studio 2005xtensions for .NET Framework 3.0 WCF and WPF). After installing this package, you will have new project templates in your Visual Studio to start developing for Windows Communication Foundation

Sunday, March 16, 2008

verbatim literal

Another useful feature of C# strings is the verbatim literal

which is a string with a @ symbol prefix, as in @"Some string". Verbatim literals make escape sequences translate as normal characters to enhance readability. To appreciate the value of verbatim literals, consider a path statement such as "c:\\topdir\\subdir\\subdir\\myapp.exe". As you can see, the backslashes are escaped, causing the string to be less readable. You can improve the string with a verbatim literal, like this: @"c:\topdir\subdir\subdir\myapp.exe".

Cracking .NET Assemblies

Cracking .NET Assemblies

This is nice articale for cracking the .net assemblies
http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/workshops/fusionWSCrackThree.htm#Cracking_Whidbey_Assemblies

Monday, February 25, 2008

Encrypt and Decrypt configuration files using Code

How to encrypt connection string in asp.net stored in web.config.
Using System.web.configuration;
Protected void button_click(object sender,eventargs e)
{
string webconfigpath="~";
configuration config=webconfigurationmanager.openwebconfiguration(webconfigpath);
configurationsection configsection=config.Getsection("connectionstrings");
configsection.sectionInformation.protectsection("Dataprotectionconfigurationprovider");
config.save();
}

How to decrypt connection string in asp.net stored in web.config.
Using System.web.configuration;
Protected void button_click(object sender,eventargs e)
{
string webconfigpath="~";
configuration config=webconfigurationmanager.openwebconfiguration(webconfigpath);
configurationsection configsection=config.Getsection("connectionstrings");
configsection.sectionInformation.Unprotectsection();
config.save();
}

Encryption connectionstring .NET Framework 2.0 using Tool

Configuration File Encryption

In the .NET Framework 2.0, developers will be able to encrypt sensitive parts of the web.config file (if containing password or keys, for instance) using the aspnet_regiis utility. The decryption is done transparently.

The DPAPI protected configuration provider supports machine-level and user-level stores for key storage. The choice of store depends largely on whether or not the application shares state with other applications and whether or not sensitive data must be kept private for each application.

If the application is deployed in the Web farm scenario, developers should use RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider to leverage the ease with which RSA keys can be exported on multiple systems. It uses RSA public key cryptography to provide data confidentiality.


The following example encrypts the connection string section using the tool aspnet_regiis:

try out this...

aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "connectionStrings" C:\VirtualDirectory\Path

URL Mapping in asp.net 2.0

URL Mapping is a mechanism by which you can change the displayed url in address bar.

Example

Step1: Add Mapping URL in web.config file.
<system.web>
<urlMappings enabled="true">
<add url="~/Department.aspx" mappedUrl=" oldforms/frmDept.aspx"/>
<add url="~/Employee.aspx" mappedUrl=" oldforms/frmEmployee.aspx"/>
<add url="~/Product.aspx" mappedUrl="& gt;
</urlMappings></system.web>

Step2: Change the URL in .aspx file
<a href="Department.aspx">Department</a><br />
<a href="Product.aspx">Product</a><br />
<a href="Employee.aspx">Employee</a>

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Tips & Tricks for Dotnet

1) Incremental search in Visual Studio.
1. Press Ctrl+I.
2. Start typing the text you are searching for. Note: you'll see the cursor jump to the first match, highlighting the current search string.
3. Press Ctrl+I again to jump to the next occurrence of the search string.
4. To stop search, press Esc. Advanced tip: Press Ctrl+Shift+I to search backwards.
2) Make Window Fit any Resolution
Create function definition
<script language="Javascript">
function resolution()
{
UserWidth = window.screen.availWidth
UserHeight = window.screen.availheight
window.resizeTo(UserWidth, UserHeight)
window.moveTo(0,0)
}
</script>
</head>
2) Call the function on load event of body.
<body OnLoad=”resolution();”>

3) Adding a Print Button with Javascript
Add this line to the Page_Load event

btnPrint.Attributes("onClick") ="javascript:window.print();"

*Add a button to the page called 'btnPrint' Technically, that's it, but, let's say you want to do something a little fancier, using DotNet.
Then, add a subroutine (let's call it 'DoPrint'):

Sub doPrint(Source as Object, E as EventArgs)
lblResults.visible="True"
lblResults.text="Page has successfully been sent to the printer!"
End Sub
Then, add a direction to this sub, in the button's tag: onServerclick="doPrint"

4) *To print certain areas of a page
Create a style sheet for printing purpose, normally by removing/hiding background colors, images.... After that include it with media="print",
so that this style sheet will be applied while printing.
<LINK media="print" href="styles/printStyle.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
5) Fade Effect on Page Exit
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(duration=.9)">

6)Disabling a Button Until Processing is Complete
Here's the scenario - let's say you have an Insert subroutine,
called 'doInsert'.
You want to immediately disable the Submit button, so that the end-user won't click it multiple times, therefore, submitting the same data multiple times. For this,

use a regular HTML button, including a Runat="server" and an 'OnServerClick' event designation - like this:
<INPUT id="Button1" onclick="document.form1.Button1.disabled=true;" type="button" value="Submit - Insert Data" name="Button1" runat="server" onserverclick="doInsert">
Then, in the very last line of the 'doInsert' subroutine, add this line: Button1.enabled="True"

Javascript Debugger Enabling

Step 1. Disable Script Debugger - Make this option unchecked in the IE.
function someFunct()
{
Javascript:debugger;alert(window.name)
alert("Mahesh");
}

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

What's new in C# 3.0

1)Implicit typed local variables
Local variables can be declared as type var, whose actual type of the variable is determined by the compiler based on the data schema (see Listing 1). It's mainly used to store anonymous types in LINQ.

// This is an integer
var nId = 1234567;
//This is a string
var strFullname = "John Charles Olamendy Turruellas";