Bootstrap custom themes – Introduction

Bootstrap is a front-end framework which is freely available but developed by Twitter. Using Bootstrap custom themes, we can change the look and feel of our applications very easily. It provides you the Grid System which is very powerful when it comes to the front-end development. It makes your web application responsive, means that application…

Excel file download in ASP.NET

In this article we are going to learn how we can download data as an excel file. For Excel file download in ASP.NET, we have several methods and here I’m going to explain a very easy method using a nuget package called EPPlus. EPPlus is  sophisticate enough to perform simple to complex excel operations. Lets…

Modal popup for MVC applications

Modal popup is a good way to interact with the end user. In a way we can show notifications or any UI components to the end users using popups. However its very simple to implement a modal popup for MVC applications. First we will create a MVC solution in Visual Studio and run the project.…

Job Scheduler for web applications with Quartz.Net

Creating a Job Scheduler for .NET application Sometimes we need to create Job Scheduler for web applications. For an example we might need to send automated emails to end users based on some conditions. This task is bit challenging but don’t worry. We have some fully featured Nuget packages we can use for this task.…

Custom log writer in C#

Custom logging using C# in .NET application Target Audience : Beginner Log writing is considered as an essential function in any software application. You can monitor how your software is behaving and also you can identify errors and performance issues using logs. A good log writer can save a lot of time for investigations when…

Visual Studio Error On Publish : The target “GatherAllFilesToPublish” does not exist in the project

How to fix The target “GatherAllFilesToPublish” does not exist in the project error When we upgrade the visual studio and try to publish a project which created from an old visual studio version, we get an error something like “The target “GatherAllFilesToPublish” does not exist in the project”. The reason seems to be the project files…

Azure Blob Storage with ASP.NET MVC

How to work with Azure Blob Storage and ASP.NET MVC Blob Storage is a part of Microsoft Azure platform. We can use Azure Blob Storage to store our unstructured data in the cloud as objects. We can store files like text files, media files, documents etc. In this article we are discussing about how to…

Logging Application Block

How to use Logging Application Block in Enterprise Library to log the information Logging the errors, exceptions and other information is a common thing in software development. In .NET environment we can easily use Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Application Block to log any information in web applications or desktop applications. This application component is very…

Jquery Autocomplete text box in MVC

How to implement Jquery autocomplete in MVC Autocomplete texts boxes are very useful when a user searches on the website. Jquery autocomplete function suggests the already available data to the user and minimize the time for the search. I have created a new controller for this and added a view. In the controller we have two…

Date Time formatting and conversions in ASP.NET

Sometimes we have to do some calculations with date time objects in our applications. In that case we have to use Date Time formatting and conversions to accomplish the tasks. In this example we can see some commonly used methods to do the conversions and manipulations. This covers the formatting including : Convert string into…