Simple file based exception logger for windows 8 app

Proper exception handling is the key factor to any good application development. But what if we want to log the exception details or additional information to a log file which users can send us for review. If you really want to pin point what exactly went wrong after an application crash you should have a

Introduction to Entity Framework 5.0 – Part 1

EF 5.0 is the latest version of Microsoft ADO.NET entity framework which is the Microsoft ORM (Object Relational Mapping) which enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects. It eliminates the need for most of the data access code that developers usually need to write. (Read more here). Entity framework can be

How to Get Started with ASP.NET MVC 4

What is ASP.NET MVC? MVC design pattern is an architectural pattern that divides the application into three components, Model, View and Controller. Models: the components used to implement the logic for your application domain, often they used to retrieve or save data from/to the database depending on the user inputs. Views: used to accept user

JQuery Best Practices for Beginners

jQuery heavily relies on JavaScript (and is JavaScript) and CSS – so this article will also include some information and best-practices related to those as well. The “var” keyword: JavaScript is naturally a dynamic/weak-typed language, there is no notion of compile-time data types. Instead, JavaScript figures out the type at run-time and throws an exception

PHP Best Practices for Beginners

If you are new to PHP coding, then you should read this article about few important php best practices. It will surely help you be a better developer.

Naming and Casing standards in .NET

Hungarian Notation: Hungarian notation is the methodology of using typically a 3-character prefix on a variable name to signify something about the data type. For example: Dim strUserName As String Dim intCount As Integer Dim lngNumOfRecords As Long Dim arrItems As Array This worked well when there weren’t that many data types. In .NET, using

ASP.NET Interview Questions

Here is a collection of professional ASP.NET Interview Questions. You can download the entire collection in word format.

SSIS: Various Editions of SQL Server 2005

This article highlights the different versions of SQL Server Editions available and the different features supported by each.

Migrating DTS to SSIS Part 1

This article is good for starters who want to learn about SSIS, Migrating SSIS and what to expect.

DOM, XML and an XML Parser

Much discussed and much used concept of XML DOM revisited, as it is still very much used in all the new generation technologies. It describes the Document Object Model conversion of an XML file