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Markdown Preprocessor

I recently added a feature to my application to serve arbitrary markdown documents from a directory. This is designed to allow authors to populate a folder full of help documents, and be able to view them without any code changes. However, because this is an MVC application, I needed a

Creating an OpenId Relying Party and Provider In .NET

Preamble/Motivation I'm working on an MVC web app that will soon be moving to Azure. The big roadblock to moving the application is that it uses LDAP to communicate accross our local intranet to our Active Directory domain controller to authenticate users. The de facto method of

Asynchronous Data Calls in Windows Store Apps

Below is the way that I’ve written my (MVVM, C#, XAML) Windows store app to make asynchronous data calls. This is necessary so that the UI doesn’t lock up while some network action or request is being performed. Make a function that gets your data synchronously. This makes

Uploading a Photo as Multipart Form Data in C#

I recently posted about adding a feature to a Windows 8 app I’m working on wherein the user can select a photo from their pictures library. After they select the photo, I need to upload it to the API I’m using in order to post the picture. The

Choosing a photo from the Photos library in Windows 8

I’m working on a Windows 8/RT app, and one of the pieces of functionality I needed was the ability for users to select a photo from their library and upload it (more on the uploading [http://xdumaine.com/2013/03/24/uploading-a-photo-as-multipart-form-data-in-c/] ). I wanted to use the built

Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar in WPF

This post is dedicated to features of the Windows 7 Taskbar in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. Everything that I will show can be done in the code behind, but it can also be done within the xaml. Because the project in which I implemented these changes is written in