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Windows 8 File Explorer Tips | TechBubbles

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File Explorer is a great way to see the files and folders on your computer as well as libraries, folders and control panel.This post outlines some enhancements and tips in using File Explorer in Windows 8. (more)

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Microsoft Surface won’t Turn ON - Now what to do?

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 8 days, 22 hours, 40 minutes ago

I just faced an issue with my Surface RT device. I was unable to turn on the device though it was completely charged. Though I had no idea about the issue but I was guessing about the Power Switch issue. Did a lot of stuffs, searching online etc. but nothing help. Finally I tweeted about the issue and got a reply which helped me to turn on the device. If you came to this page just because your Surface is not turning on, this post will help you. (more)

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Thread-Safe Queues with ConcurrentQueue

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BlackWasp 2 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes ago

The standard .NET queue classes are not thread-safe so require additional locking to avoid errors when used in multithreaded or parallel scenarios. This additional complexity is not required with the generic ConcurrentQueue (more)

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Prevent JavaScript code blocking the UI thread with setTimeout + handy stopWatch to profile JS code

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leniel 1 day, 19 hours, 39 minutes ago

In early January of this year I was implementing some JavaScript code that does a lot of processing on the client side with the help of jQuery. It’s part of a project where my customer asked for the possibility of answering a questionnaire in two ways: using a Wizard (one question at a time) and Listing (all questions at once) in a single form. The client side code for the Listing was the culprit and is the subject of this post. (more)

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How to create custom XMLNS namespaces to keep your XAML clean?

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 3 days, 19 hours, 27 minutes ago

XAML namespace is an extension of XML namespace and conventionally written as “xmlns” in XAML pages. We use it on all XAML pages in Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows 8, WPF related technologies to better reference assemblies and namespaces. In this post we will learn more about this XMLNS namespace and the way to customize it for a cleaner XAML page. Interested to know it? Continue reading and share your feedback about the post. (more)

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Setting the Foreground Window

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BlackWasp 5 days, 17 hours, 43 minutes ago

Occasionally it is necessary for a .NET program to activate a window that belongs to a separate application. The facility to set the foreground window is not available through the .NET base class library but is possible using Platform Invocation Services. (more)

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.NET String Extensions: Split Qualified

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Split a string and take qualified and escaped values into account. For example, split on commas outside of quoted substrings. (more)

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How to Capture a Screenshot as File in Windows 8?

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 12 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes ago

In this small post we will learn how to capture a screenshot of your installed applications in Windows 8 RTM. Whether it is desktop app or a Windows 8 app, you will be able to take screenshot by just pressing a key combination without installing any other software. Not only that, the captured screenshot will be saved to your hard drive as an image file, so that you can directly access them. Continue to read more about it. (more)

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How to Capture a Screenshot as File in Microsoft Surface?

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Last year we discussed “How to Capture a Screenshot as File in Windows 8?” which you will find useful in your desktop PC or laptop. You will also find that post useful in a Surface if you have a keyboard attached to it, because “Win + Print Screen” key combination is needed to capture the screen. What about Microsoft Surface which does not have a keyboard attach to it? In that case, a touch keyboard will be require to press the keys but that will fill half of the screen. (more)

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Using SendKeys

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BlackWasp 13 days, 16 hours, 59 minutes ago

Some software that needs to be automated provides no application programming interface (API) to permit this and no direct access to data to control the program indirectly. In these cases, one solution to automation is the SendKeys class. (more)

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How to turn ON/OFF the Microsoft Two-Step Verification?

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 16 days, 22 hours, 12 minutes ago

In the last post “What is Two-Factor Authentication?” we discussed about various factors of authentication system including different examples. We also learnt about Knowledge Factor, Inherence Factor and Possession Factor. Microsoft recently added a second step authentication mechanism in all their accounts as an extra security layer. This post will guide you to turn ON/OFF this security layer. (more)

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Creating Fixed-Width Data Files

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BlackWasp 19 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes ago

Fixed-width data files are an alternative to comma-separated values (CSV) for storing and sharing tabular data. The information in a fixed-width data set tends to use more storage or bandwidth than CSV but is more readable to humans. (more)

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What is Two-Factor Authentication?

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 21 days, 9 hours, 1 minute ago

Two-factor authentication is a user authentication system where an user needs to provide two different factors to authorize the user’s identity. It is not a new concept and in many places we are knowingly or unknowingly using it for secure access. There could be multiple factors too and that known as Multi-factor authentication. Today in this post we will learn basics about this type of authentication system. (more)

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Async Controller in MVC4

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How to use Async Controller in MVC4 and .NET 4.5 (more)

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How to batch clean up the Visual Studio solution folder? (bin, obj etc.)

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 23 days, 9 hours, 36 minutes ago

Sometime the Visual Studio’s clean project command does not return as expected and maximum time people used to manually delete the bin, obj, Client Bin, Generated_Code directories to clean all the traces of previous build. Here I will share a small batch code which will help you to clean up those directories by just a single click. Tune it up if you want to add few more directories in the list. (more)

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Easy Form Validation using HTML5

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 23 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes ago

Writing validation logic using JavaScript in a HTML form is not an easy way. We all have seen it in HTML4 but what’s new in HTML5? Will it provide us easy way to validate the form with writing a small piece of code only? Today we will be talking about this validation stuffs in HTML5. But as usual, all the browsers don’t support all of them but a good start to think for future. (more)

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Midnight Programmer

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SkyDrive REST API wrapper overview. (more)

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Windows 8 Store App (#WinRT) Development Tutorial for #Win8Dev

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 26 days, 5 hours, 47 minutes ago

Windows 8 introduced a new type of application set named “Windows 8 Store app” which has a new look & feel (earlier named as “Metro UI”). Developers can host & sell these WinRT apps from Windows Store, a new digital platform from Microsoft. Windows Store will allow both free and paid applications where the ranges may vary from $1.49 to $999.99 in case of paid version. If you are a Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and/or JavaScript application developer, you can build applications for Windows ... (more)

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Debugging Code Efficiently in Visual Studio with the DebuggerDisplay Attribute

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 24 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes ago

It is sometime difficult when you have a bunch of properties exposed from a class and you just need few of them while debugging a code block. Sometimes it becomes even more complex when you have a collection of that class. Is there any easiest way to improve the code debugging in Visual Studio? Yes, there is. In this post we are going to learn this technique if you have never used it yet. (more)

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#Win8Dev Tutorial: Programmatically download a File in WinRT apps

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If you are a Win8Dev and building a Windows 8/WinRT application, you might want to download a file asynchronously from a web location. The job is very easy in Silverlight and in this case too but you just need to know the way, the APIs and the configuration settings. Many developers already faced the difficulty to download a file in their WinRT apps and hence I thought to share the code with the API details in this post. (more)

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How To

Windows 8 File Explorer Tips | TechBubbles

Microsoft Surface won’t Turn ON - Now what to do?

Thread-Safe Queues with ConcurrentQueue

Prevent JavaScript code blocking the UI thread with setTimeout + handy stopWatch to profile JS code

How to create custom XMLNS namespaces to keep your XAML clean?

Setting the Foreground Window

.NET String Extensions: Split Qualified

How to Capture a Screenshot as File in Windows 8?

How to Capture a Screenshot as File in Microsoft Surface?

Using SendKeys

How to turn ON/OFF the Microsoft Two-Step Verification?

Creating Fixed-Width Data Files

What is Two-Factor Authentication?

Async Controller in MVC4

How to batch clean up the Visual Studio solution folder? (bin, obj etc.)

Easy Form Validation using HTML5

Midnight Programmer

Windows 8 Store App (#WinRT) Development Tutorial for #Win8Dev

Debugging Code Efficiently in Visual Studio with the DebuggerDisplay Attribute

#Win8Dev Tutorial: Programmatically download a File in WinRT apps

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