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How to Write a Visualizer in C#

May 28, 2014 by Anuraj

.Net Visual Studio Windows Forms

Visualizers are components of the Visual Studio debugger user interface. A visualizer creates a dialog box or another interface to display a variable or object in a manner that is appropriate to its data type. For example, an HTML visualizer interprets an HTML string and displays the result as it would appear in a browser window; a bitmap visualizer interprets a bitmap structure and displays the graphic it represents. Some visualizers enable you to modify as well as view the data. The Visual Studio debugger includes five standard visualizers. These are the text, HTML, and XML visualizers, all of which work on string objects; the WPF Tree visualizer, for displaying the properties of a WPF object visual tree; and the dataset visualizer, which works for DataSet, DataView, and DataTable objects. Visualizers are represented in the debugger by a magnifying glass icon. When you see the magnifying glass icon in a DataTip, in a debugger variables window, or in the QuickWatch dialog box, you can click the magnifying glass to select a visualizer appropriate to the data type of the corresponding object. Visualizers are not supported on the Compact Framework.

CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database ‘master’ - SQL EXPRESS

May 13, 2014 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 4.0 ASP.Net MVC EF Code First Entity Framework SQL Server

Long back I wrote a post about Entity Framework Error – The underlying provider failed on Open. Yesterday some one told me, he is getting this error - CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database ‘master’, he is using an application pool with NETWORK SERVICE identity. Here is the solution, you require SysAdmin Role for “NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE” to resolve this issue.

How to set Bing wallpaper as your desktop wallpaper

May 08, 2014 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 4.0 CodeProject Win 32 API Windows Forms Windows Phone

This post is about setting Bing wallpaper as your desktop wallpaper using C# and Windows Forms. Bing.com is famous for having some nice pictures as wallpaper, updated on daily basis. The Bing Desktop application comes with same feature. Here is the code snippet, which has two parts one, download the wallpaper image from bing.com and set it as wallpaper using WIN32 APIs.

How to upload file in ASP.Net MVC

May 06, 2014 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 4.0 ASP.Net MVC

This post is about upload file to server using ASP.Net MVC 4. First you need to modify the controller to accept the posted file along with the model. So you can modify it like this.

Problem with Internet Explorer and JSONResult in MVC

May 05, 2014 by Anuraj

.Net ASP.Net ASP.Net MVC

While working with the ASP.Net MVC project, one of my QA team member reported a strange issue, while uploading a file, Internet Explorer 9, showing a download file dialog like this.

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