Class is defined in System.Windows namespace as below,

You can set text as below,

In above snippet txtSource is a text box. You can check whether clipboard has some data or not as below,

One very important point you need to keep in mind that you cannot use GetText() method in Windows Phone. If you try to do that you will get security exception as below,

For security reason access to clipboard data is prohibited in Windows Phone. In this way you can use Windows Phone Clipboard API. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading .

You can perform many refactoring using Teleirk Just Code. Few of the refactoring can be performed are as below,

• Convert Abstract class to Interface
• Convert Interface to Abstract class
• Convert Anonymous method to Lambda
• Convert Anonymous method to Named Method
• Convert Class selector to ID selector in CSS
• Convert ID selector to Class selector in CSS
• Convert Constructor to Factory method
• Convert Extension method to Static method
• Convert Method to Property
• Convert Lambda to Named Method
• Convert Lambda to Anonymous method and many more

Let us see few of the refactoring; we can perform using Telerik JustCode

Convert Abstract class to Interface

Let us s you have abstract class as below,

This class can be refactored to interface using Telerik Just Code.

• Select class and press Alt+Insert
• Choose R option
• From R option choose convert to Interface

After converting resultant interface would be as below,

Convert Anonymous method to Lambda Expression

I have created a delegate as below,

And using delegate with anonymous function as below,

Above anonymous function can be converted to Lambda Expression as below,

• Select anonymous function and press Alt+Insert
• Choose R option
• From R option choose convert to Interface

Resultant lambda expression would be as below,

Convert Anonymous method to Named Method

If you want to convert above anonymous method to named method, you can very much do that as below,

• Select anonymous function and press Alt+Insert
• Choose R option
• From R option choose To Named Method

Resultant named method would be as below,

Convert Constructor to Factor Method

I have a class with constructor as below,

If you want to convert constructor to factory method, you can do that as below,

• Select constructor and press Alt+Insert
• Choose R option
• From R option choose Convert Constructor to Factor method

Resultant factor method would be as below,

In similar way you can perform other refactoring operations using Telerik Just Code. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading

Start MongoDB server

If you would have gone through MongoDB on Windows quick start in 5 minute then you know how to start MongoDB server. However just for quick recap you need to start MongoDB server as below,

You can connect to MongoDB server as below by executing mongod exe

By default MongoDB stores data inside data folder of C Drive. You need to explicitly create this folder as well.

Add required library in solution

You will get a solution when you download MongoDB for CSharp from here . Open the solution in Visual Studio and build it.

Take MongoDB.dll and add this reference to your project.

Create Project and perform operations

For purpose of this blog post, I am going to create a console application. I have added MongoDB.dll as reference in console application project.

Create DataBase

If you want to create a database, you can create as below,

Above code will connect to MongoDB and create a database called Bloggers, if it does not exist.

Add Record in DataBase

You can add record as below,

Where blogger is collection you get over database as below,

Delete Record from DataBase

You can delete a record by just providing one key value as well like below,

Fetch a Record

To fetch a particular document or record you need to create document and provide key value as below.

FindOne() function returns a document . You need to call Get function with key value as input to fetch the value.

For your reference full source code is as below,

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using MongoDB;

namespace ConsoleApplication34
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{

//Create Database
Mongo mongoDBdataBase = new Mongo();
mongoDBdataBase.Connect();
var dataBaseToWork = mongoDBdataBase.GetDatabase("Bloggers");
//Create Collection
var blogger = dataBaseToWork.GetCollection("blogger");

//Insert Records
var b = new Document();
b["Name"] = "Dhananjay";
b["Country"] = "India";
blogger.Insert(b);
b["Name"] = "G Block";
b["Country"] = "USA";
blogger.Insert(b);

//Fetch Record
var searchBlogger = new Document();
searchBlogger["Name"] = "Dhananjay";
var result = blogger.FindOne(searchBlogger);
Console.WriteLine(result.Get("Country").ToString());

Console.ReadKey(true);

}
}
}

In this way you can perform operations on MongoDB using CSharp. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading.

In this 5 minute post, we will do quick start for MongoDB on Windows. I will show you the way to connect to MongoDB Server and to start the administrative shell.

Very first you need to download 64 bit binaries for Windows 64 bit from here . After downloading unzip downloaded ZIP file at any location of your choice. After extracting rename folder to mongodB

Next navigate to folder in which you unzipped the downloaded binaries. You will get below executable file downloaded.

Most important exe are, Mongod.exe to connect to mongo database server and Mongo.exe to start administrative shell.

By default MongoDB creates database and store data in Data folder inside C Drive. You need to create this folder manually. You need to create them as below,

You can connect to MongoDB server as below by executing mongod exe

Once server is started, you can start administrative shell as below by executing mongo command.

From administrative shell if you want to add two numbers, you can do that as below,

By default, It connects to database test

If you want to insert data you can do that as below, below command will create a database called debugmode [only when first row is inserting] and then add name as dj.

You can explore Help option to know more about the executable and commands. In further article we will go deeper on same and explore working with MongoDB and CSharp.

I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading

Node.js is enjoying much popularity and Glenn Block is helping us to bring it on Windows Azure. In this tutorial, I will walkthrough step by step to create your first Windows Azure Node.js Web Application. I have divided this tutorial in three parts as installing required SDK, creating Web Application and then publishing to Windows Azure portal. Purpose of this tutorial is to help you in setting up environment and publishing. In further tutorials we will dig deeper.

Install Windows Azure SDK for Node.JS

To start with Node.JS on Windows Azure you need to install Windows Azure SDK for Node.JS. You can Get Windows Azure SDK for Node.JS from here. You need to install it from Web Installer. You will get below dialog box to install Windows Azure SDK for Node.JS

After successful installation, you should get below confirmation dialog .

By this  step SDK has been installed on your machine.

Create Node Application

To create Node application, click on Start and then select Windows Azure PowerShell for Node.JS. Run this as administrator

On command prompt create a Node directory in C drive as below,

After creating Node directory you need to create a solution. You can create solution as below,

I have created a solution called MyApplication. You can see files created inside the solution is as below,

There are four files created. If you are coming from Windows Azure background, you must be aware of other three files than deploymentSettings.json file. deploymentSettings.json file stores local setting for Windows Azure PowerShell deployment cmdlets.

Next you need to add a WebRole to the solution. To add WebRole execute below PowerShell command. If you don’t provide any name then by default WebRole name would be WebRole1. However I am providing name as WebRoleForNodeJS

Now if you list files created inside WebRoleForNodeJS , you will find configuration files and a JS file.

Most important file is server.js. This file contains starter code for Node.JS. You need to add codes in this file. Go ahead and open this file in NotePad. As of now, I am leaving default code created by the tool.

Server.js

var http = require('http');
var port = process.env.port || 1337;
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
res.end('Hello NodeJS from Debugmode\n');
}).listen(port);

Run Locally on Windows Azure Emulator

To run it locally, go ahead and execute below PS command to start Windows Azure Emulator.

You can see is running in emulator as below,

Publish to Windows Azure Portal

To publish it to Windows Azure portal, first you need to take Publish Setting. You can take that as below,

You will be redirected to live login page. Sign in to download Publish Setting file. After login you should able to download PublishSetting file. Download file inside Node folder you created in previous steps.

Next you need to import PublishSetting file as below,

Note : Publishsettings file only needs to be imported once on the machine to set it up. You do not need to do that each time you create a service.

After importing PublishSetting file, you can publish to Windows Azure portal as below,

In above command name is the unique name and location is one of the Windows Azure Data center. After successfully publish operation , you should able to see Node.js running on Windows Azure portal.

This is what all required to create first application. In further post I will discuss much deeper on the same. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading

What a morning it is! I am super excited to share that; I have been awarded as Telerik MVP

I got a mail from Holly Bertoncini community Relation Manager that I have been awarded as Telerik MVP. I am very excited to add one more MVP Title along with my name. This was never possible without unconditional support from you my readers.

My Telerik MVP Profile here

Thanks Note

This award was never possible without guidance and support of my dear friend Chris Eargle. Chris is Telerik Developer Evangelist, C#MVP, INETA Community champion and President of Columbia Enterprise Developer Guild.

I would also take this opportunity to thank Emily Jayne Hall for her continuous support. She is kind and great motivator. Emily is Community Program Manager at Telerik.

From community I would like to Thanks three wonderful people for their never ended support. Pinal Dave ,ShivPrasad Koirala and Abhishek Kant

About Telerik MVP Program

The Telerik MVP Program aims to recognize and reward the amazing people who are highly successful at their own jobs and yet find the time and energy to share their extensive knowledge and passion about Telerik products with fellow developers. The Telerik MVPs have been actively contributing to the evolution of our organization and spreading the word about our products to the community.

Read more about Telerik MVP Program

Benefit Of being Telerik MVP

• Free licenses for Telerik products.
• Involvement in product development.
• First-hand look at Beta programs – you will be able to get the alphas, betas and pre-release builds of all Telerik products before anyone else.
• Access to our internal MVP roadmap.
• Direct communication channel with our product teams, you will have a chance to get to know the people that stand behind Telerik products and communicate directly with them.
• Active community contributors will be invited to attend major conferences at our expense and be with us at the company booth.
• Personal blog and spotlight posted on our website.
• Exclusive discounts that can be passed on to colleagues including the ability to transfer available Telerik points to friends.
• MVP SWAG packages sent to you twice a year with all kinds of awesome goodies.

Read more about benifits here

Last but not least I thank each one of your and hope to keep writing and helping you.

ShareStatus Task Launcher allows an application to launch a dialog that allows user to share status message on social network site.

A status message can be shared as below,

ShareStatusTask shareStatusTask = new ShareStatusTask();
shareStatusTask.Status = "Hey I am Shared By DebugMode";
shareStatusTask.Show();

You may come across other scenario where you may need to share HyperLink across Social Media sites from your application. You can do that using launcher ShareLinkTask.

ShareLinkTask class is defined as below,

ShareLink Task Launcher allows an application to launch a dialog that allows user to share links on social network site.

A link can be shared as below,

ShareLinkTask shareLinkTask = new ShareLinkTask();
shareLinkTask.Title = "DebugMode";
shareLinkTask.LinkUri = new Uri("http://debugmode.net", UriKind.Absolute);
shareLinkTask.Message = "Post of DebugMode.";
shareLinkTask.Show();

These launchers will be launched only if user has configured social media sites on their device. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading.
Follow @debug_mode

User can set device network setting to any of the following

If you want to set Network connection setting to WiFi, you can set it as below,

ConnectionSettingsTask connectionSettingsTask = new ConnectionSettingsTask();
connectionSettingsTask.ConnectionSettingsType = ConnectionSettingsType.WiFi;
connectionSettingsTask.Show();

If you want to set Network connection setting to Bluetooth, you can set it as below,

ConnectionSettingsTask connectionSettingsTask = new ConnectionSettingsTask();
connectionSettingsTask.ConnectionSettingsType = ConnectionSettingsType.Bluetooth;
connectionSettingsTask.Show();

If you want to set Network connection setting to Cellular, you can set it as below,

ConnectionSettingsTask connectionSettingsTask = new ConnectionSettingsTask();
connectionSettingsTask.ConnectionSettingsType = ConnectionSettingsType.Cellular;
connectionSettingsTask.Show();

If you want to set Network connection setting to Airplane mode, you can set it as below,

ConnectionSettingsTask connectionSettingsTask = new ConnectionSettingsTask();
connectionSettingsTask.ConnectionSettingsType = ConnectionSettingsType.AirplaneMode;
connectionSettingsTask.Show();

In this way you can set the network setting of device using ConnectionSettings task. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading

Pune user group along with Microsoft I unlock joy program brings a Learn and Win Windows Phone event in Pune.

Read about Pune User Group here and I Unlock Joy Program here

This is a great opportunity for developers to learn development of Windows Phone from veterans like Mayur Tendulkar and Amol Vaidya. This program will run on four consecutive Saturday starting from 28^th January 2012.

You can register for program here

You can find important information at below given links,

I hope to see you there and wish very good luck for Windows Phone.

Creating Alarm

• Alarm can be created using the Alarm class.
• Alarm class is part of Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler namespace.
• Alarm class takes name of the alarm as the input parameter of the constructor.
• Name of the alarm must be unique within the application.
• Other properties of Alarm class are as below,

You can find explanations of properties are as below. Alarm class is inherited from ScheduleNotification class. Some of the properties are of base class.

Alarm can be created as below,

var newAlaram = new Alarm("myalarm")
{
Content="Hey Office Time",
BeginTime= DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(2),
RecurrenceType = RecurrenceInterval.Daily,
ExpirationTime = DateTime.Today.AddDays(30),
// sound= new Uri("music1.wav",UriKind.Relative)
};


ScheduledActionService.Add(newAlaram);

In above code, last line is adding alarm to the phone. ScheduledActionService class add method is used to add alarm to the phone. On running you should be getting alarm after 2 minute of current time as below,

Best practice to give name of alarm as a GUID. Since name of the alarm must be unique in the application and it is not visible to the user so it should be given the name as GUID.

Creating Reminder

• Reminder can be created using Reminder class.
• Reminder class is part of Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler namespace
• It is inherited from ScehduleNotification class.
• Name of the Reminder must be unique in the application
• Title of the reminder can be set.
• Custom sound is not supported in reminder. All reminder plays same sound.
• Reminder can be navigated to a specific page on tapping by the user. This was not supported in Alarm.
• Other properties are as below,

Various properties of Reminder is explained below,

Reminder can be created as below,

Reminder reminder = new Reminder("myreminder")
{
Title = "Debugmode app reminder",
Content = "Hey Go to party",
BeginTime = DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(2),
RecurrenceType = RecurrenceInterval.Daily,
ExpirationTime = DateTime.Today.AddDays(30),
NavigationUri = new Uri("Page1.xaml", UriKind.Relative)

};

ScheduledActionService.Add(reminder);

In above code, last line is adding reminder to the phone. ScheduledActionService class add method is used to add reminder to the phone. On running you should be getting reminder after 2 minute of current time as below,

On tapping user will be navigated to Page1.xaml.

This is how you can create and schedule Alarm and Reminder in Windows Phone. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading.

 
Follow @debug_mode

“You may have gone from this world; not from our heart; you will be remembered always as an inspiration “

She was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. Read about her on Wikipedia

On 14^th January 2012, she has started journey to newer and better world leaving all of us behind. This world will remember us always.

Source of Images : various sites on web

May her soul rest in peace

RadDatePicker control provides all the functionality of standard DatePicker control of Windows Phone 7 along with below added functionality

1. Runtime validation
2. Smoother animation
3. Formatting of different special date in different style

To work with RadDatePicker control below references need to be added,

Working with RadDatePicker

To work with RadDatePicker, you need to add Telerik.Windows.Controls namespace on the xaml as below,

And you can create a Date Picker as below,

If you want to change look, display and selector of control, you can very much do that using the formatter properties. You can apply two different types of formatting on the RadDatePicker.

DisplayValueFormat property of RadDatePicker controls allows you to format the selection of the date. It takes string input to format the display of the date. You can apply DisplayValueFormat as below,

After applying formatting you should get output as below,

SelectorFormat property of RadDatePicker control allows you to remove any of the date components from selection. For example, if you only want to show day and month only you need to remove Y from the selectorformat . You can do remove year as below,

You should get expected date selection as below,

If you want to set maximum and minimum date for the selection, you can do that by setting value for MaxValue and MinValue property of RadDatePicker control.

You can fetch selected value either as DateTime type or as String.

RadDatePicker control comes with two buttons Ok and Cancel. By default images used in these buttons are taken from location

• /Images/DateTimePickerOK.png
• /Images/DateTimePickerCancel.png

There are three events exposed on RadDatePicker control.

By putting all together , you can use RadDatePicker control as below,

using System;
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage
x:Class="RadControlsWindowsPhoneApp3.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:telerikcontrols="clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Controls;assembly=Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"
FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
SupportedOrientations="Portrait"  Orientation="Portrait"
shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

<!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>

<!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->
<StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">
<TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="MY APPLICATION" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="page name" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>
</StackPanel>

<!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->
<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
<telerikcontrols:RadDatePicker  x:Name="datepicker"
DisplayValueFormat="{}{0:dd, MMMM, yyyy}"
SelectorFormat="d/m"
MaxValue="01/01/2020"
MinValue="11/11/2000"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

In this way you can work with RadDatePicker control. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading

JustCode do on the fly analysis of the code. It does code analysis when you type the code and reports you and error or warning without any further delay.

You can download Telerik JustCode 60 days-trial version with dedicated support here

To have high lever perspective on Telerik JustCode, I have just console application and put no code so far.

JustCode does the analysis along with the visual studio inspection. It performs analysis using some custom inspection.

On the fly you can fix any error reported by pressing Alt+Enter. For example below Method2 is trying to pass parameter to Method1 whereas Method1 is defines without any input parameter. At the time of calling of Method1, on pressing Alt+Enter ,JustCode will suggest you the possible fixes.

JustCode performs below inspection on the Code,

For C#

• Identical if and else clauses
• Obsolete casts
• Empty statements
• Assignments with no effect
• Unused private members
• Unused parameters
• Unused variables
• Unused namespaces
• Unreachable statements

For XAML

• Missing object element type
• Missing type of an attached property
• Missing property that an attached property is referring to
• Not found event handlers
• Ambiguous property that an attached property is referring to

By default JustCode reports error in color red and warning in green.

Error in Red

If you want to change default color of reporting you can do it by navigating to

Tools->Options->Environment

I have changed error reporting color to blue and now error is reported in blue color as below,

Inspection of the code can be done in fours ways

Via a tooltip over a highlighted expression

Via a info popup

Via a tooltip in the Marker Bar

In the Error list Window

In this way you can perform analysis of code and fixing of any error reported using Telerik JustCode. I hope this post is useful. Thanks for reading