Articles by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan (Articles: 47, Technical Blogs: 47, Tip/Tricks: 4)

Articles: 47, Technical Blogs: 47, Tip/Tricks: 4

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	Where do my images go when I publish the post? 7 Sep 2015 Updated: 7 Sep 2015 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,950 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post explains the "broken image" problem with post editor and the post talks about why it happens, how does it gets neglected by an author, how to solve it.
.NET
	Selection of .NET Edition for Your Projects 13 Dec 2016 Updated: 13 Dec 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,552 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Overview of selecting a .NET edition over other, based on services and features provided
Artificial Intelligence
	What is Internet of Things, what are wearables and how do they interact to make things better 19 Oct 2014 Updated: 19 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 6.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,806 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What are the wearable devices and what is the role of Internet of Things in them and how do they interact to make things better and easy.
	Facial biometric authentication on your connected devices 22 Jul 2016 Updated: 22 Jul 2016 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.45 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,682 Bookmarked: 30 Downloaded: 1,509 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I am going to walk you through creating your own central hub to allow your connected devices to authenticate people using facial recognition system.
Machine Learning	Real-time Emotion Detection with Azure Cognitive Services 15 Apr 2019 Updated: 15 Apr 2019 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,216 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Integrate Cognitive Services SDKs in .NET Core based app
	Real-time Emotion Detection with Azure Cognitive Services 15 Apr 2019 Updated: 15 Apr 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,173 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Integrating Cognitive Services SDKs in a .NET Core based application and exploring how real-world scenarios can be tackled using ML services offered by Microsoft
	Building a prediction model using SaaS-based AutoML tool R2 Learn 26 Apr 2019 Updated: 26 Apr 2019 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,530 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. R2 Learn, a SaaS-based end-to-end automated machine learning (AutoML) tool, makes it easy for data scientists or data engineers to get from importing a dataset, to training models and getting predictions in just a few steps.
Containers
Docker	DockerOps: Getting Started with Docker 16 Oct 2018 Updated: 16 Oct 2018 Rating: 4.23/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.55 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,591 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 36 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we lay the foundation of the concepts needed to understand Docker engine.
	Efficiently Dockerize Platform-Agnostic Apps with Node.js 29 Jun 2018 Updated: 20 Jan 2023 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,998 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 41 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to efficiently create Docker images using Node.js web app
Database Development
SQL Server	How to Connect SQL Database to your C# Program - Beginner's Tutorial 30 Sep 2014 Updated: 30 Sep 2014 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 51 Popularity: 8.08 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,006,251 Bookmarked: 69 Downloaded: 13,918 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article tells the beginners the basic concepts about connecting to the SQL Server database using C#.
Desktop Programming
	Understanding DateTime struct in .NET Framework (using C#) 13 Aug 2014 Updated: 13 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,377 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 315 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Understanding the DateTime struct and using it inside your software to display Date and Time and to do the DateTime mathematics
QT	Developing Apps for Ubuntu using Ubuntu SDK 19 Dec 2015 Updated: 19 Dec 2015 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,262 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post discusses the Ubuntu SDK and Qt IDE used in Ubuntu SDK for developing different types of Ubuntu applications and software services.
WPF	Creating a custom Web Browser using .NET's WebBrowser Control 16 Aug 2014 Updated: 16 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.66/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 87,472 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 5,474 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use the .NET's WebBrowser control in your application to create a custom Web Browser for Windows OS
	Working with Files (Using C# and .NET Framework) 16 Sep 2014 Updated: 16 Sep 2014 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.93 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,596 Bookmarked: 35 Downloaded: 652 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article explains the basic knowledge about the File class in .NET Framework that comes handy when working with the file system, to create, edit, modify or delete the files or directories.
	An app that reads out text for you 17 Jun 2015 Updated: 17 Jun 2015 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,438 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 539 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I would explain the steps to create a simple WPF application that can read out text for you; using .NET framework's Speech API and Installed voices.
DevOps
	DevOps on Azure with ASP.NET Core 1 Jul 2018 Updated: 1 Jul 2018 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,021 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Overview of what DevOps has to offer and how you can kickstart your DevOps chains on Microsoft Azure
Hosted Services
Azure	Automating deployment of ASP.NET Core to Azure App Service from Linux 8 Nov 2016 Updated: 8 Nov 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,150 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I will show you how to create a small script to automate the deployment of your ASP.NET Core applications to Microsoft Azure using local git deployment.
	Utilizing Azure Redis Cache as Backend for Chat App 28 Mar 2018 Updated: 28 Mar 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,842 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 60 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to build an app with chat capability using Azure Redis cache
Internet of Things
Wearables	Creating the watch faces for Android Wear 24 Sep 2015 Updated: 24 Sep 2015 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,245 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 179 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article covers how to create new faces for your Android Wear and explains the how-to procedure with a few personal experience notes.
Mobile Apps
Android	App for consuming Android flashlight with a widget 5 Dec 2015 Updated: 5 Dec 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,491 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 404 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article discusses Android programming and aims at teaching you about Android programming for Camera and Widgets.
	Ok Android, Broadcast my location! 1 Nov 2015 Updated: 1 Nov 2015 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.22 Licence: CPOL Views: 73,601 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 1,931 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is the explanation of a real-world solution that I found for myself, in notifying the family about my current location, periodically.
	The ABC of Android Wear applications 20 Sep 2015 Updated: 12 Oct 2015 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.76 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,675 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 228 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article covers the topics required to understand for building and deploying Android Wear applications.
	The "not-do"s in your smartwatch application 16 Oct 2015 Updated: 16 Oct 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,092 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article enlists a few of the things that you must consider while writing the applications for smartwatches.
Programming Languages
C#	A Quick Startup using .NET Core on Linux 14 Sep 2016 Updated: 14 Sep 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,525 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A comprehensive guide to .NET Core for beginners
	Building custom email client in WPF using C# 5 Mar 2016 Updated: 5 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,779 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 7 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post I have talked about building an IMAP client using WPF framework and ImapX library.
	Tackling text-to-speech and generating audio file in Windows Store Apps 26 Dec 2015 Updated: 26 Dec 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,181 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, you will learn how to perform text-to-speech actions in Windows Runtime for Windows Store applications, also how to store the speech stream in a waveform file format on your machine.
C# 5.0	Sending emails over .NET framework, and general problems – using C# code 5 Feb 2015 Updated: 6 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.93 Licence: MIT Views: 92,223 Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article explains the core concepts about sending the emails over .NET framework and the problems that new .NET developers face in using them also some tips for removing very basic errors.
	Creating a server/client application using native .NET TCP library 13 Jul 2015 Updated: 13 Jul 2015 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 66,682 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 3,306 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I will go through different stages of programming a server/client application framework in native .NET framework using TCP protocol library of System.Net.Sockets namespace.
	Hello Windows 10; a pre-release guide for developers 1 Jul 2015 Updated: 9 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,162 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 287 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I would talk about Windows 10 from a developer's perspective. Windows 10 has not yet been released, but it is better to know the tool to get your hands ready to develop applications.
	Building camera app with library in Windows 10 24 Aug 2015 Updated: 25 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,704 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 3,428 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article I will explain Windows.Media.Capture namespace's MediaCapture element and how it can be used in Windows Runtime to create applications that make use of camera, for capturing photos and videos. Plus, the article shows how to capture the list of photos or videos that are recorded for p
Go	Exploring Go as a C-Family Developer 28 Nov 2018 Updated: 28 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,021 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Go language and discuss of it as a C-family developer
Java	Why to Use C# and When to Prefer Other Languages?! 23 Mar 2016 Updated: 23 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.46 Licence: CPOL Views: 59,293 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the way many programming languages can be selected to find that one best language for your projects!
	Programming in Java using the MVC Architecture 24 Feb 2015 Updated: 24 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 266,084 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 2,666 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article uses the MVC framework for building Java-based applications for desktop or for enterprise solutions.
	Scanning File for a Particular String or Character (Searching) 14 Oct 2014 Updated: 14 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: MIT Views: 11,222 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Scanning file for particular string or character (Searching)
PowerShell	Universal SMTP Code to Send Emails in .NET Apps 8 Aug 2017 Updated: 8 Aug 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,863 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 1,088 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Since I wrote an article previously, I had been asked on various occasions to share the code on Yahoo! or Bing, etc. I wanted to write an article, with the code, which covers all of those vendors as well.
Web Development
	Sending Emails Easily Using ASP.NET Helpers 10 Aug 2014 Updated: 10 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 74,177 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 1,708 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article explains how you can send emails using ASP.NET Web Helpers without having to work with connections.
ASP.NET	Novice to MVC? Read this… 12 May 2015 Updated: 12 May 2015 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.63 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,944 Bookmarked: 30 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post is meant for beginners in MVC pattern. If you’re novice to this framework then read this post of mine.
	Mission Impossible: Migrating .NET Core 1.x to 2.0 19 Aug 2017 Updated: 19 Aug 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,241 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. .NET Core 2.0 brings a lot of improvements to the system, and it brings a lot of pain to the developers as well. I had a lot of problems upgrading .NET Core 1.x apps to .NET Core 2.0; I yet have to feel the promise it makes about performance and so, but let us see how to upgrade our existing applica
HTML	How to search for related query inside the Database using ASP.NET 11 Aug 2014 Updated: 11 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 4.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 63,147 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 701 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article explains how you can use ASP.NET (C#) and search for related queries in your Database.
	Hashing Passwords using ASP.NET's Crypto Class 20 Nov 2014 Updated: 20 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 6.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 133,668 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 2,984 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides an overview of the hashing process of passwords in ASP.NET's Crypto class.
	Creating a shop website in ASP.NET 9 Aug 2014 Updated: 9 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 279,142 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 26,809 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This articles describes how to kick start a shop website using ASP.NET and the software Microsft WebMatrix
	Understanding the Random URLs and Creating them in ASP.NET 27 Nov 2014 Updated: 7 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.78 Licence: CPOL Views: 80,214 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 317 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is for the concept of Random URLs and how they can be generated in ASP.NET for creating Random URLs for your application.
	Unboxing the ASP.NET 5 15 Nov 2014 Updated: 15 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,613 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides an overview for the ASP.NET 5 a.k.a vNext, its features and the new stuff for the developers and audience.
	Reading and writing Unicode data in .NET 12 Mar 2015 Updated: 11 Apr 2015 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 53 Popularity: 8.32 Licence: CPOL Views: 131,514 Bookmarked: 74 Downloaded: 2,713 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is for beginners about writing and reading Unicode data from different data sources; including text files, user input, databases. It also demonstrates how to display that data in .NET applications, including ASP.NET web applications.
	ASP.NET 5 Web API RESTful CRUDs and Windows 10 native application 13 Aug 2015 Updated: 26 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 96,962 Bookmarked: 44 Downloaded: 1,689 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article I will explain the steps to create a full featured standalone ASP.NET 5's Web API that can be used by Windows 10's native Universal Windows Runtime application.
	Building Display Ads With Transparent Video 19 Apr 2021 Updated: 19 Apr 2021 Rating: 1.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,980 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the benefits of embellishing web advertisements with compelling, transparent video content, and also explains why interactive content is useful.
	Creating a Web Service to be consumed by connected Devices via Internet 12 Nov 2014 Updated: 12 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 61,237 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 1,104 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides an overview for creating a .NET WCF Web Service project that can be used by web applications or devices connected to it through the internet connection.
IIS	Complex numbers library in multiple languages 5 Mar 2015 Updated: 8 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 42 Popularity: 7.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 85,335 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 1,113 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article contains a basic overview of the complex numbers, and their creation and functions most specifically the operator overloading for arithmetic functions. Programming languages include Java, C++, C# and VB.NET at the moment.
Node.js	Building a Questionnaire Site with Node.js 13 Nov 2017 Updated: 13 Nov 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,608 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 157 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Develop questionnaire site with Node.js, SQLite and Pug

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	Downsides of Learning {programming-language} in {x} Days! [Technical Blog] 2 May 2015 Updated: 2 May 2015 Rating: 2.91/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 2.63 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,701 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post discusses the downsides of learning programming language in x days.
	What Is A Null Error in Code Execution [Technical Blog] 4 Nov 2014 Updated: 4 Nov 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: MIT Views: 31,572 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. null error in code execution
Database Development
SQL Server	Considerations for SQL Server on Linux [Technical Blog] 18 Dec 2016 Updated: 18 Dec 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,215 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Overview of SQL Server on Linux
Desktop Programming
MFC	How to Get Started in Computer Programming? [Technical Blog] 8 Dec 2015 Updated: 8 Dec 2015 Rating: 4.49/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,351 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I was compiling a few things I would recommend to every beginner in computer programming. Here it is.
Windows Forms	Guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu: Graphical applications using Windows Forms [Technical Blog] 20 Mar 2016 Updated: 20 Mar 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,297 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this episode I am going to talk about using graphical applications in Mono. The graphical framework to use would be Windows Forms.
DevOps
	Serverless Computing with Azure Functions [Technical Blog] 7 Feb 2017 Updated: 7 Feb 2017 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,231 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article primarily focuses on the basics of serverless computing and how they emerged. It also talks about other changes such as NoOps. Finally, a sample Azure Function is shown as an example. This is just the introduction post. In future posts, I will give more explanation for Functions.
	Experimenting with C# 7’s New Features [Technical Blog] 21 May 2017 Updated: 21 May 2017 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,711 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post talks about the most important improvements to the C# language in its 7th version, provides some IL overview, as well as my own personal opinions on the features and improvements.
	Installing and setting up R environment on Windows [Technical Blog] 19 Mar 2016 Updated: 19 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,431 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post I am going to walk you through installing and setting up the R environment on your Windows operating system; because Visual Studio is only available on Windows.
Continuous Delivery	Continuous Delivery to Azure App Services with VSTS [Technical Blog] 5 Mar 2017 Updated: 5 Mar 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,340 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I provide an overview of using Visual Studio Team Services to automatically deploy the ASP.NET Core web application to Azure App Services.
Hosted Services
Azure	Top 5 Pieces of Advice for Users of Microsoft Cognitive Services [Technical Blog] 12 Mar 2017 Updated: 12 Mar 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,860 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 39 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is a small post, containing a few suggestions for users of Microsoft Cognitive Services.
	Top 5 advices for users of Microsoft Cognitive Services [Technical Blog] 10 Jan 2022 Updated: 10 Jan 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,600 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introduction and Background As the title suggests, this post is a personal recommendation for the users of Microsoft Cognitive Services, the services that provide a cloud-based subscription-based solution for artificially intelligent software applications, with an any team, any purpose and any scale
jQuery
	Some Basics of jQuery [Technical Blog] 14 Oct 2014 Updated: 14 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: MIT Views: 8,381 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some basics of jQuery
Mobile Apps
	Using C# for Cross-platform Development [Technical Blog] 8 Dec 2015 Updated: 8 Dec 2015 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 61,404 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you are a C# fan and want to build applications that reuse the code base for multiple frameworks and platforms, read this post, it would help you "get started".
Android	My Review of Official Kotlin Shift for Android [Technical Blog] 21 May 2017 Updated: 21 May 2017 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,051 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here is my review of official Kotlin shift for Android
Xamarin	Learning SQLite databases in Xamarin for Android [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2017 Updated: 19 Feb 2017 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,135 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 515 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article I will give you a complete overview of SQLite databases in Android and how to consume them using Xamarin APIs.
	Common Problems in Xamarin.Android and their Solutions [Technical Blog] 20 Feb 2017 Updated: 20 Feb 2017 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,403 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I cover the most widely faced problems in Xamarin installation and setup for Android application development.
	Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: MonoProject Introduction [Technical Blog] 15 Jan 2016 Updated: 15 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,786 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the first part in the series of posts about Ubuntu programming using C# language. In this post, I have discussed a few features of MonoProject IDE, which is used for C# programming on Ubuntu environment.
OpenCV
	Highlighting the Faces in Uploaded Image in ASP.NET Web Applications [Technical Blog] 16 Aug 2016 Updated: 16 Aug 2016 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,670 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to highlight the faces in uploaded image in ASP.NET web applications
Productivity Apps and Services
Sharepoint	Dynamic Content on a Website [Technical Blog] 14 Oct 2014 Updated: 14 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: MIT Views: 5,662 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dynamic content on a website
Programming Languages
C	New Developers and the Importance of C [Technical Blog] 20 Nov 2014 Updated: 12 Apr 2015 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 6.40 Licence: MIT Views: 40,491 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. New developers and the importance of C; this blog post is about my opinion and views about C programming language's importance for beginners in programming. Yours might be different!
C#	How to interact with File; File System [Technical Blog] 23 Oct 2014 Updated: 23 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.36 Licence: MIT Views: 9,681 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to interact with file; file system
	Hashing Passwords in .NET Core with Tips [Technical Blog] 3 Jun 2016 Updated: 3 Jun 2016 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,013 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I talk about hashing the passwords in .NET Core.
	Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: Language Quickies [Technical Blog] 15 Jan 2016 Updated: 15 Jan 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,281 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the second part of the series of articles for Ubuntu programming using C#. In this, I am talking about the quick tools and helpful features provided by MonoDevelop for C# programmers.
	Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: Project Files and Output [Technical Blog] 19 Jan 2016 Updated: 19 Jan 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,712 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This short post is about the project files that are created when a new project is created using a template provided in MonoDevelop.
	Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: Cryptographic Helpers [Technical Blog] 21 Jan 2016 Updated: 21 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,680 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post is intended to demonstrate the cryptographic functions in Mono environment. Hashing the passwords and encryption decryption has been talked here.
	Guide For Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: NuGet Packages [Technical Blog] 21 Jan 2016 Updated: 21 Jan 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,360 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post version, I have talked about NuGet packages and their management in Mono environment.
	Programming C# on Mac — One post guide [Technical Blog] 24 Jan 2016 Updated: 24 Jan 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,852 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an introductory post for Mac developers to get started using C# programming language on Mac environments using Mono Project!
	What Windows Runtime Can Teach .NET Developers? [Technical Blog] 6 Mar 2016 Updated: 6 Mar 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,021 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What Windows runtime can teach .NET developers
	From Zero to Hero in JSON with C# [Technical Blog] 21 Jun 2016 Updated: 21 Jun 2016 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 8.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,858 Bookmarked: 68 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. JSON format of data interchange and its use with C#
C# 5.0	Still Don’t Get the Difference of “Overloading and Overriding”? [Technical Blog] 4 Sep 2015 Updated: 4 Sep 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,652 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post attempts to describe the general difference between overloading and overriding in Object-oriented programming languages.
Java	What is Debugging, How to Debug… A Beginners Guide [Technical Blog] 14 May 2015 Updated: 14 May 2015 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,123 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post focuses on debugging concept. It is meant for novice people who want to learn what is debugging and how to debug an application.
MSIL	Experimenting with C# 6’s New Features [Technical Blog] 23 Jan 2016 Updated: 23 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,650 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. C# 6 has been available for a long time, by now! Many developers have written many guides to "list" the features. I have written this post to explain those features, and to explain whether they are actually new or are they just sugar coating to the compiler.
R	Understanding the Visual Studio IDE for R language [Technical Blog] 21 Mar 2016 Updated: 21 Mar 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,030 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post I am talking about the "R Tools for Visual Studio" plugin, and how it can be used to make Visual Studio your default IDE for R programming.
SEO
	Notes For Better SEO and Better Ranking [Technical Blog] 2 Nov 2014 Updated: 2 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.41 Licence: MIT Views: 9,450 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Notes for better SEO and better ranking
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	A simple guide to setting up home server using IIS and ASP.NET [Technical Blog] 22 May 2016 Updated: 22 May 2016 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.42 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,821 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I am writing about the procedure to set up a home server using IIS and ASP.NET; IIS as the web server, ASP.NET as web scripting framework.
ASP.NET	Why Use ASP.NET for Web Development [Technical Blog] 14 Oct 2014 Updated: 14 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.00 Licence: MIT Views: 32,331 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why use ASP.NET for web development
	Using C# 6 in ASP.NET 5 [Technical Blog] 26 Jan 2016 Updated: 26 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,533 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post is about C# 6 usage in ASP.NET 5 web applications to fine tune applications for more readability and better performance.
	Building a Custom Documentation Tool [Technical Blog] 14 Feb 2016 Updated: 14 Feb 2016 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.16 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,653 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I am talking about methods used to build custom documentation builders for .NET projects using Reflection APIs.
HTML	Uploading and Saving Files [Technical Blog] 14 Oct 2014 Updated: 14 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: MIT Views: 9,481 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to upload and save files
	Uploading the Files – HTML5 and jQuery Way! [Technical Blog] 28 Nov 2014 Updated: 28 Nov 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: MIT Views: 35,851 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Uploading the files - HTML5 and jQuery way
	How To Share Data Among Different Web Pages Using ASP.NET [Technical Blog] 29 Dec 2014 Updated: 29 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.34 Licence: MIT Views: 19,083 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to share data among different web pages using ASP.NET
	Overview of DateTime Object Usage in ASP.NET Websites and Web Applications [Technical Blog] 12 Feb 2015 Updated: 12 Feb 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: MIT Views: 15,350 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides an overview of the DateTime object in ASP.NET website, and a source code and example of a few scenarios in which using DateTime would be easy and simple, but tricky.
	How to Connect ASP.NET Website to Remote Database for CRUD Operations [Technical Blog] 10 Jan 2015 Updated: 10 Jan 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: MIT Views: 25,670 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An overview for connecting an ASP.NET website or a web application to a remote SQL Server database
	A Tip for Ajax Developers in ASP.NET MVC Framework [Technical Blog] 13 Feb 2015 Updated: 13 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.36/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.40 Licence: MIT Views: 14,114 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This blog post shares a tip for Ajax developers in ASP.NET MVC framework.
	Understanding ASP.NET MVC using Real World Example, for Beginners and Intermediate Programmers [Technical Blog] 30 Jan 2015 Updated: 30 Jan 2015 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.30 Licence: MIT Views: 377,159 Bookmarked: 69 Downloaded: 18,769 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article provides a brief description and overview of ASP.NET's MVC framework, and how developers can covert their real-world objects into MVC framework, to create web applications.
IIS	Creating a “customizable” personal blog using ASP.NET [Technical Blog] 15 Dec 2015 Updated: 15 Dec 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,995 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is part 1 of the articles that I want to write for ASP.NET beginners, who want to build their own personal web sites, that mimic characteristics of blog. It covers the ASP.NET web application part.
Kestrel	Creating and hosting ASP.NET Core application on Linux — Nothing Third-Party [Technical Blog] 14 Sep 2016 Updated: 14 Sep 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,583 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post I share a complete overview and explanation of creating and hosting ASP.NET Core applications on Linux environment -- without using any third-party plugins or libraries.

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WPF	Handling Events in WPF in an Easy and Short Hand Way [Tip/Trick] 9 Jun 2015 Updated: 9 Jun 2015 Rating: 3.54/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 3.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,924 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This tip is for WPF developers, understanding the usage of lambda expressions for handling the events instead of markup based or function based event handlers.
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C#	Saving a Screenshot Using C#, A.K.A "Console Monitor" [Tip/Trick] 9 Sep 2014 Updated: 9 Sep 2014 Rating: 3.73/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,452 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 327 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "Console Monitor"
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HTML	Why Use ASP.NET for Web Development [Tip/Trick] 13 Sep 2014 Updated: 13 Sep 2014 Rating: 4.52/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.32 Licence: CPOL Views: 74,897 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A slight comparison of ASP.NET upon other (web) programming languages in the market and a discussion of me and some other (web) programming language developers.
	A Few Points to Consider While Working with Literal String in ASP.NET [Tip/Trick] 28 Feb 2015 Updated: 28 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,660 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This tip is to provide an overview of writing strings in ASP.NET web applications to avoid concatenations.
	Working with Keyboard Events and their Codes in JavaScript [Tip/Trick] 14 Sep 2014 Updated: 14 Sep 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,240 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 104 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use the keyboard events of the user and use them to dynamically change the User Interface or to perform some actions

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a computer programmer from Rabwah, Pakistan, currently living in The Netherlands, likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. Afzaal Ahmad works at Adyen as a Developer Advocate.

He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, four times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field.

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