Archive for April, 2009

WPF ContextMenu and MenuItem Control: It explains how to create ContextMenu and MenuItem at design time and run time, their properties such as adding image and event handling   ContextMenu is attached to a control and displayed at the right mouse click. ContextMenu contains a list of MenuItem, which represent the command or option on which user initiate an action or command. In this article I would discus how ... Full story

    Winform application accessing database using WCF application     Introduction This article will give you a good start with using WCF for making database calls from windows application. Database Table Create table Designation using following create script: --Table create script CREATE TABLE .( primary key IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, (20) NOT NULL, (100) NOT NULL ) --Add few rows to the table insert into designation (designationname, details) values ('Computer Tech','who works in computer dept') insert into designation (designationname, details) values ('Electrical ... Full story

  Sometime application has to perform long-running tasks. In a typical application, tasks are processed synchronously. When one task completes, the next begins execution, and this continues in a sequential fashion. So, what would happen to the UI while waiting for a long-running task to finish? Often the UI becomes unresponsive and may even freeze temporarily until a long-running task completes. This is referred to as blocking on ... Full story