Sudhir Thanki

It's  been while I didn't write anything. This time I came with something in Xamarin.Forms. This article is intended to show the powerfulness of Xamarin.Forms and it's component to achieve the result with a common code base. This article demonstrate on how to fetch address book (Contacts) information from a platforms (Android/iOS) using Xamarin.Forms. It works in conjunction with Xamarin.Mobile components. Xamarin.Mobile components is an API for accessing common platform features, such as reading the user's address book and using the camera, across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Its truly a fantastic component to achieve the functionality of platform specific features. but sadly, it does not have any support for Xamarin.Forms and thats where this article comes in picture. What I did is,  used Dependency service of Xamarin to get platform specific features in Xamarin.Forms. For more information about Dependency service please visit: http://developer.xamar

Hello Fellow developers! This article describes some tricks about popular contest questions. 1. Write a program to print current Source code line number in c#:  public static void Main(string[] args)  {      Console.WriteLine("Hello World, from line {0}!", GetLineNumber());      Console.ReadLine();  } private static int GetLineNumber([CallerLineNumber] int sourceLineNumber = 0) {     return sourceLineNumber; } You need to use System.Runtime.CompilerServices for "CallerLineNumber" attributes which Allows you to obtain the line number in the source file at which the method is called. Simply easy. isn't it? There are other attributes like [CallerMemberName] - which obtains the method name from which it was called, [CallerFilePath]- returns the source file path.  2. Now next puzzle, is a popular equation "2+2 = 5". so how to do it in C#?. It also pretty simple. believe me! public static void Main(string[] args) {         var resul

Hello Folks, This time I came with some non-technical, funny things to share with you. Garba is a traditional dance of Gujarat - India. People play it on someone's marriage ceremony. It also played on a festival called "Navratri" (nine nights). Navratri is a longest dance festival in the world. It is celebrated nine nights by playing Garba (whole night) . You can find more information on Navratri here . The above video will show you how to play Garba in traditional style. So Enjoy the Garba... Have a nice playing :)

Many a times, in web development world, it is required to access certain page on https while others are on simple http. In ancient time, it can be achieve through configuring URL re-writing concepts in IIS. But if you specifically developing your web application in Asp.net MVC, it is lot easier to implement. Believe me! This article describe on how to develop functionality for accessing certain page on Https protocol while others are on simple http. Scenario: Let us take an example of web site where login page needs to be accessed over secure socket layer (SSL - https) while after loging in, rest of the site should be run on normal http. Assume that this web application is to be developed using asp.net MVC Solution: Many of you may already aware about attributes or custom attribute. Attributes provide a powerful method of associating declarative information with C# code (types, methods, properties, and so forth). Once associated with a program entity, the attribute can be

One of the great advantages of using MVC is the partial view. In real life projects, sooner or later you come across the situations where you need to reuse the already developed thing. For this, in asp.net web forms, Web user control is there. In MVC, It is Partial view.  Partial view can be used as a plug and play user control for reusability. For updating a part of the page, we can use AJAX Form. By using the combination of AJAX form and partial view, we can create ajaxify web application in MVC. It is important to think that where and how you use partial view in your project. The proper structure of folder is also important while designing partial view. In ASP.net MVC application, all views are stored inside the "View" folder. You can keep your partial views in a special folder called "Shared" which is by default provided by the MVC when  you create a new web project of MVC type. B