Transaction is one of the common problems that we often use during database operation. While performing a batch data manipulation, the transaction is taken into account, such that if there is a problem in somewhere while executing a transaction, the process could be rolled back and finally when everything is complete, the Transaction gets committed […]
Well folks, even if you think that you know the answer and it is very common, I still think you should read this post to make your concept more clear, because strangely I found there are lot developer who still have some confusion with the concept even though they read tons of articles in the […]
Well, while being in touch with a number of developers, I always find people don’t understand the real meaning of disposing objects. Lets clear our basic understanding on why we need to dispose objects in .NET before understanding the usefulness of Using block. Why Disposing is necessary ? We all know, the code that we […]
Well, as I have already dealt with CameraCaptureTask or PhotoChooserTask before for simple scenarios, it is time to go a little further with dealing with continuous capture or even how to switch between FrontFacing Camera or Primary camera etc. To deal with such scenarios, we use the PhotoCamera class and show the stream from camera […]
Even though we have CameraCapture Task to deal with camera, there is another Chooser available as well, which can take Picture either from MediaLibrary or directly from Camera. The PhotoChooserTask helps in getting an image from the Picture / Media Library locations. The PhotoChooserTask, just like any other Tasks is listed under namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks and […]
Working with Camera in Windows Phone environment is a common requirement. Almost 25% of the apps in the store uses Camera capture on the app. CameraCaptureTask is a common Task available to the Windows Phone device which can capture camera from an app by launching the basic image capture tool present on the Windows Phone […]
As we saw in the previous post, that you can programmatically change the Lock screen of the Phone from an app which supports extension of Lock Screen defined in the Metadata file, we can also open various settings screen directly from within the app as well. To open an existing settings applet, you need to […]
It is sometimes important for an application to change lock screen of the project. The Lock Screen can be set from an app only if the App supports an Extension to change lock screen. Let us take a look on how to change lock screen from an application. First of all, Lock screen can be […]
It is a very common requirement to get the path of a file relative to the path of the current location which accesses the path. In .NET there are a number of ways which lets you determine the path of a file and there exists more than one valid ways to determine the current path […]
Zipping and Unzipping in a Client Application or a Website is very common requirement. Until the latest .NET version, there is no API that fully supports these things. We would have relied on J# specific JAVA APIs or there are superior 3rd party APIs available which could have done the trick. .NET 4.5 gives an […]
In my previous post, I mentioned about the capability of specifying a Timeout while executing a Regular expression. Sometimes, when your application is totally developed, and it would be a heck to change every single code which uses regular expression to specify a timeout. Sometimes the Regular expression is parsed inside an external assembly. In […]
Regular expressions are common forms of parsing a document and get meaning. It has been very popular and most of the people do use it regularly to solve their complex problems. Being a developer, I use them very often. But there is a catch on using a regular expression. Regular expression gives you a chance […]