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How to handle hardware back button in Windows Phone

August 28, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net Windows Phone

If you want to display an exit confirmation from your Windows Phone app, if user press the hardware back button, here is the code snippet. (It is not a recommended practice, as per Windows Phone market place certification requirements, if user pressing the back button from the application’s first page, application should exit)

Error Unable to locate package source while installing Visual Studio 2012 Update 3

August 22, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net Visual Studio

Recently I tried to update VS 2012, with Update 3. I was not using the offline installer. In the middle of the installation I got a screen like this.

How to reverse engineer .NET applications - A quick guide

August 16, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 Windows Forms

In .NET world, all the assemblies are compilied in to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language). The MSIL is converted to machine code by a just-in-time (JIT) compiler when it is executed. MSIL includes metadata that provides a wealth of information on the code. .NET Framework comes with various tools which will help you to view / modify MSIL code. But problem with this approach is you need to be a guru in MSIL.

Skype plugin for updating Skype online status based on outlook appointments

July 30, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 4.0 Windows Forms

In our organization, we are using both MS Lync and Skype for communications. One of the main problem I faced with Skype, unlike other IMs like Lync or WebEx, Skype will not change the online status, based on outlook appointments, we need to do it manually. So here is an Skype plugin, which helps to change the online status based on your outlook appointments.

How to upload a file without page refresh

July 25, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net ASP.Net

This is an old ASP.Net hack to upload file without page refresh in ASP.Net web pages.

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