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Windows Phone Series – Incremental Loading Members Public

Some time back we had a look on doing Incremental Loading with a Windows 8 store app. This same scenario is something that one would come across quite frequently while developing a Windows Phone application too. We have a couple of options in dealing with this while on a Windows

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Windows 8 Series – Drop Down Button Members Public

While working on my Windows 8 Store application, Picfinity I came across a need for a drop-down button(which I thought was the correct term for this). A similar control is there on the start screen of Windows 8 that gives us options on clicking the logged in user’s

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Windows 8 Series - Incremental Loading Members Public

Fast and fluid experience is one of the most important characteristics of a Windows 8 application. As the data becomes larger , it might not be always possible to get the entire data loaded before hand.We might want to have a incremental or sequential data loading so that the user

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Windows 8 Series - Exploring OAuth: c# and 500px Members Public

The days when we ourselves developed sites and application for our own services are long gone. Now it’s about building api’s, sharing data and going social that's the buzz. No more is it a feasible solution to build applications for the numerous devices, that varies in

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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Getting Started with ASP.NET Web Api Members Public

A web api is to expose your application’s programming interface over the web,using the HTTP interface.This makes the api accessible from any device that can make HTTP calls.With the wide range of devices that’s available nowadays,Web Api would be the best way to reach

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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WCF to ASP.NET Web API Members Public

Windows Communication Foundation(WCF) brought around a unified programming model for building service oriented application.All the previous technologies that was used to build services like MSMQ, remoting, ASMX Web Services,all came under one umbrella. WCF had embraced SOAP,moving away from the restful web giving all sorts of

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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WPF Expander trigger on IsExpanded to change the header Members Public

Just a quick tip on how you could change the Expander header content when Expander is in expanded state.I have also modified the expander HeaderTemplate so that the text gets center aligned. <Expander Height="100" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="129,192,0,0"

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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WCF Simplified Members Public

Windows Communication Foundation(WCF) is basically a framework that assists in building  service oriented applications.I really felt it to be complicated in the early days that I got exposed to it,and always tried to keep away from it.But the more I tried to keep away,the more

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
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