Blog for .net Architects & Developers looking to learn WPF, Silverlight, WCF and ASP.net MVC.

Enhance your memory

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

Everyone wants to have photographic memory. Inside brain everything is linked with something. For example, you can still recall the color of your shirt when you received your college degree. The only reason you are able to remember it because it’s linked with one of the greatest event in your life. Long time ago, I [...]

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Software Engineer should manage UI design process?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

A user interface (UI) design is the design of software application or website which focuses on user experience and interaction. The main objective is to keep software application or website as simple as possible so that user can easily use it. Typically, design process involves requirements gathering, prototyping, information architecture and graphical design. Successful CTO’s [...]

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Do you know what speed of dark is?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

Scientists were able to measure speed of light that light travels at 186,000 miles per second. But, did you ever thought about the speed of dark? Well, I am not talking about the famous novel by Elizabeth Moon rather I want to find out why scientists have not been able to determine speed of dark [...]

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World Water Day 2011 – Water for cities

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

In urban cities 3.3 billion human beings are living with the growth rate of 38% which is much faster than expected. The United Nations (UN) sponsor’s World Water Day once a year and the main objective is to draw human beings attention about growing problem of fresh water shortage. This year’s theme is “Water for [...]

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Inspirational Quotes

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

The strong man is not the good wrestler; the strong man is only the one who controls himself when he is angry. — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. — Elbert Hubbard If you want to increase your success rate, double your [...]

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C# is versus as operators

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

In programming, most common scenario is to check if object is of given type, object is not null and then type cast it to given type. C# provides “is” and “as” operators to ease programming and an efficient way to implement this common scenario. Many developers get confuse about when to use “is” operator and [...]

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WCF with Entity Framework Tutorial

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

Microsoft always provides efficient, flexible and faster tools for developers. Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) for instance, can be developed using Entity Framework in 2 minutes. You’re a skeptic? Take a look at following simple tutorial and you will see how quickly you can build ready to use WCF with Entity Framework. In following tutorial, I [...]

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Client Side Programming in SharePoint 2010

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

Client side programming in SharePoint has been a hassle and was not fully supported. Although, there were solutions to deploy Silverlight and Ajax based pages in SharePoint 2007 or older versions but still there was no native support by SharePoint. But now, SharePoint 2010 provides client side object model similar to server side object model [...]

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WPF Books and Blogs

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

Here is the list of some best books and blogs for learning WPF. Blogs & Websites: http://www.windowsclient.net http://www.codeplex.com/wpf http://wpfdisciples.wordpress.com/ http://blogs.msdn.com/tims http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer Books: Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4 This book is designed for developers encountering WPF for the first time in their professional lives. A working knowledge of C# and [...]

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Introduction to WPF 4

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Ishraq Ahmad

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is Microsoft’s amazing technology for creating windows applications with stunning user interfaces, 3D, videos animations and much more. WPF was first introduced sometime in 2006 and WPF 4 was released in April 2010. You might have heard that “WPF has a steep learning curve” but you will notice it’s not that [...]

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