AJAX Progress

Looks at creating a general use, multipurpose progress indicator that automatically informs visitors that an AJAX request in progress.

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Xml Color

This is a wrapper class for System.Drawing.Color, that enables a color to be Serialized and Deserialized

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Timed Dictionary

The TimedDictionary provides functionality that is similar to a normal Dictionary except the items within it can expire and be cleaned up

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Generic Name Value Pair

This is a simple class that is used to associate a Name with a corresponding Generic Value and to add Items to ComboBoxes, ListBoxes etc

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Downloading Webpage Data into an Application

This article looks at how we can enable our website visitors to download data from our webpages to view or manipulate it in their favorite applications. In particular, we are going to look at how we can export individual tables and complete pages to Excel and how we can generate PDF versions of our webpages on the fly.

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Xml Collection

Creates a collection of name value pair items that can be converted into an XML Document or transformed using XSLT. It is also possible to add groups of name value pair items.

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Grouped Hashtable

The GroupedHashtable is a class that looks very similar to a standard Hashtable except the string key is used to group the corresponding items together rather than identify a single, specific item.

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Name Value Pair

This is a simple class that is used to associate a Name with a corresponding Value and to add Items to ComboBoxes, ListBoxes etc

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High Performance Timers

There is no easy way to get very precise timings within the .NET Framework to see exactly how long code takes to execute or how long it takes to access a database. However, the Windows Platform does expose such functionality through performance counters and we can use interop to access it directly from within our .NET code

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Convert a DataSet into a String

Sample code that shows how to how to convert an in memory DataSet into a String using a MemoryStream

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Embedding Resources into an Assembly

Sample code that shows how to embed resources such as XML Files and Images into a Resource file

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Active Directory Authentication

Sample code that shows how to authenticate against Active Directory

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Triple DES File Cryptography

Sample code that shows how to encrypt and decrypt a File on disk using the Triple DES cyptography provider

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Triple DES String Cryptography

Sample code that shows how to encrypt and decrypt a string using the Triple DES cyptography provider

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