Ordering Collections with enum properties using LINQ
Interesting find today. To order a collection based on an enum alphabetically, you can use LINQ as per the example below: var collection = new…
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Processing payments on your site using Stripe and C#
Update: The current example of processing payments is NOT PCI-compliant as the card details are posted to the server. A better approach is to…
Fixing TextChanged event firing twice in Windows Phone 7 (WP7)
I’m currently playing around with WP7 and WP8 development trying to get to grips with the framework. I don’t have a specific…
An Object with the same key already exists in the ObjectStateManager, Entity Frawework
I have a generic repository which I use in my application to manage a large number of objects. I wrote the necessary unit tests…
XML Validation Failure Due To Invincible White Space
After spending 3 hours of my life trying to resolve the following error message: The element cannot contain white space. Content model is empty…
Checking if a generic collection is empty with Linq and C#
This is a common issue for many developers. How do you quickly and efficiently determine whether a given non-null collection contains any valid non-empty…
HTML5 Drag and Drop file upload with preview using jQuery and MVC 4
With the advent of HTML5 and its wide adoption by all major browsers, web developers now have a new arsenal in their hands for…
NLog with SQL Server and MVC 4
NLog is a great open-source logging tool that allows developers to easily and efficiently implement custom logging. Nlog can be configured to log to…
jQuery UI Autocomplete with jSON in MVC 4
jQueryUi has an autocomplete plugin that allows developers to turn any standard text box to turn any standard textbox to an autocomplete search box.…
Mutliple object definition files with Spring.Net
Spring.Net is a great IoC (Inversion of Control) framework that allows developers to implement Dependency Injection using an xml configuration. In most cases,…
Using an Smtp client in ASP.NET MVC 4 and C#
If you need to send emails from your website, the .NET framework provides a very handy library for this: System.Net.Mail. The configuration…
Editing xml files with Advanced Installer
As part of my #learn365 today I will post a new feature I've learned about the Advanced Installer application. Advanced Installer, for…