How to get cursor position in C#

In future if you are working on any Game Development project or any project where you need to find the current cursor position, this simple program might help you.

Code(.cs file) : 

namespace CursorPosition
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();

this.MouseMove+=Form1_MouseMove;
}

void Form1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
cursorPositionLabel.Text = e.Location.ToString();
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

}
}

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IPL season is started and we people always stay connected to IPL news like What is happening around?, How a team is performing?, Who will be the part of Playing Eleven?, What is the score? etc, etc.. The best part of it is for android users we have got lots of options to fulfill our demands but, we need to find the perfect to accomplish it.

Here i list some applications which will allow you stay connected to IPL easily and most importantly in a SMARTER way. 

* Click on Name of the application to download it from PlayStore.

1. nexGtv

Imagine how nice it will if you can watch IPL live on the go!!.

nexGTV helps you to watch IPL live. With addition to it you can watch highlights, 6’s and 4’s, best innings etc. It works on almost every android device.

And this application amazingly stream videos with less buffer even at 2G network. You can also watch other television channels for free.

Since it offers Live IPL streaming it charges Rs.14 for 7 days in which you can watch digital channels as well for free.

2. Cricbuzz

Another best application for IPL News, Scores, Updates, Reviews . And not only IPL it gives you score updates for matches happening around the globe. With the new update you can use this application in form of Widget. Refreshes scores faster and gives you live commentary along with it.

3. IPL

An official android app for IPL by BCCI. Its simple, fast, provides commentary and provide fixtures. Gives best way to support your favorite IPL team. Represents stats, standings in better way.  Also gives you IPL news and Videos.

4. Yahoo! Cricket

Another best application for Live Scores and this time from Yahoo!. Best user friendly application.

– A quick look at all the live scores of matches currently happening.

– A very interactive scorecard. Browse through the batting line-up to know about partnerships, who got out when, and who is coming up next.

– Instant real time updates of a live match, be it a wicket, 4, 6 or an important milestone so that you don’t missing anything important for you.

– Install the widget and enjoy a live match right on your homescreen.

– Provides users with various ways of enjoying a cricket match – from the basic scores, all the way up to a detailed ball-by-ball commentary

– View specially created photo galleries showing the latest from the world of cricket.

– Read all the latest news articles on the game.

– A simple way to browse through results of completed matches, and to know schedules of upcoming matches.

– Browse through all international teams and players

5. inditv.Live Cricket

It is an application to watch IPL matches with 2G or 3G network. The best part of it is, it works smoothly without flash player. Gives you access to some nice channels such as Sony Six for free. So don’t miss IPL action keep yourself updated.

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While developing web projects we generally keep our Connection String under the Web.config, which get stored in plain text format which anybody can read. Connection String contains database connections, username, password etc. which is threat to your secured data.

The best idea is to keep our connection string in encrypted format which is not easily readable and which makes your connection string safe.

HOW TO ENCRYPT CONNECTION STRING

1. First Create web project in asp.net, then add connection details to web.config file.

2. Go to Start >  All Programs >> Microsoft visual studio 2008 >> Visual Studio Tools >> Visual Studio 2012 Command Prompt

After Opening Command prompt type following command aspnet_regiis.exe -pef “connectionStrings” “C:\VisualStudio2008\Authorization”

After that you will get a message stating “Encrypting configuration section… Succeeded!”.

Now when you will open your web.config file you will find encrypted connection string.

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While developing a project you might come across a situation where you need to upload multiple files at a time. If you working on Asp.net project and you come across similar situation no need to worry you have nice options to accomplish this task.

We can make use of AjaxFileUpload Control. It offers several features.

1. Upload multiple files at a time.

2. Progress bar to display file upload status.

3. Drag and drop facility.

In order to use AjaxFileUpload control first you need to add AjaxControlToolkit to your application, wanted to learn how to do it? Please refer my previous post on How to add AjaxControlToolkit to Visual Studio 2012.

The best part of this control is you can control which file types you want to upload. You can make use of AllowedFileTypes property. You can simply allow different file types separated by commas in AllowedFileTypes control.

Using this Control is very simple you just need  to drag this control from ToolBox and drop it on your .aspx page, add directive to register assembly and add script manager and you are all set to use AjaxFileUpload control. Registering assembly and adding script manager shown in code given below.

// Register Assembly
< %@ Register assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" tagprefix="asp" %>

// AjaxFileUpload Control


AjaxFileUpload Control Properties :

• ThrobberID – The ID of a control that is shown while the file is uploading. The throbber image is displayed for browsers that do not support the HTML5 File API.
• ContextKeys – A dictionary that can be used to pass information to the server when a file is uploaded.
• MaximumNumberOfFiles – This property enables you to limit the number of files that a user can add to the upload queue.
• AllowedFileTypes – This property enables you to restrict the types of files that can be uploaded. You can assign a comma delimited list of file extensions to this property.
• IsInFileUploadPostBack – This property has the value true when a page is created in response to an AjaxFileUpload asynchronous postback.
• OnClientUploadComplete – The name of a JavaScript function executed in the client-side after a file is uploaded successfully.
• OnClientUploadError – The name of a JavaScript function executed in the client-side if the file upload failed.

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Ajax control toolkit contains rich set of controls which are used build highly responsive and interactive web applications. Ajax Control toolkit contains more than 40 controls to choose from which includes ColorPicker, AutoComplete, Calender, Accordion, Watermark, etc. Ajax Control Toolkit’s recently updated version came in September 2012. 

Now if you want to add Ajax Control toolkit to your asp.net project in Visual Studio 2012, you have two options.

1. Using NuGet Package Manager

This is very simple way to add AjaxControlToolkit to your asp.net project. Just right click on your project under Solution Explorer > Manage NuGet Packages > Online and then select AjaxControlToolkit and then install it.

2. Add Manually 

Step 1 : Download

Go to http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com > Downloads > Click on Ajax Control Toolkit 4 > Download.

Step 2 : Extract

Right Click Zip file > Properties > Unblock > And then Extract file

Step 3 : Add toolkit to Visual Studio

Right Click on your Toolbox Menus > Click on add tab > Name it as “AjaxControlToolkit” > Right Click on newly added tab > Choose Items > Browse > Select extracted AjaxControlToolkit.dll > Hit ok and there you go.

Select the way which suits you add AjaxControlToolkit to your toolbox and enjoy making a responsive, interactive web applications.

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Click the images for the link.

	Reduce the file size of your photos by up to 5x, while keeping their original quality intact.
	Easy way to send large files up to 2 GB. Fast, Easy and Secure.
	Option for everyone who wanted to keep a diary or journal with different journal types publish instantly.
	An online image editor.
	Want to know font in image file?Just upload the image and app will try to find font from database.
	Screenr is the best screen recording app. It allows you to record your screen along with your voice.
	ScreenLeap is the online screen sharing tool. The best part of it is, there is no need of registering.
	SoundCloud is the app which allow you to upload audios and share it with others.
	With pingdom you can check load time of any website. It also give statistics about the page loading.
	Wanted to write without blog and publish it within seconds then Pen.io is the best solution.
	Getting bored wanted to spend some time with strangers, Omegle gives you the platform.
	Online convert converts Sound, Video, Image, etc. into different formats online.
	CSS3 generator help you out to generate code for several css3 effects online.
	With About.me you can create your own portfolio.
	DuckDuckGo is very clean search engine with no spam and search result suggestions.
	CodeRun is browser based IDE which help us to develop Asp.net, Php, Ajax, JQuery and run them online.
	net2ftp is Free, Simple and Browser based ftp client.
	droplr.com is the place where you can upload your picture and share on social network.
	Pixlr is an online image editor with lots of editing effects. Android, iphone and windows app available.
	Not able to access popular blogs powered by wordpress and blogspots in your office paste your code here.
	Create your own Rage comics,Memes,Troll pics.
	Create rich images with music, video, sound, text and more.Share and discover deeper stories through images
	Annotary helps you bookmark pages, make highlights, take notes, and share with others.
	Snippic: Photobooth In Your Browser.If your webcam is sitting idle then snippic might help you.
	@bubbles is a new kind of mail service. scribble your thoughts, stick photos, put handwritten signatures and more …
	Turn your blog post into Audible mp3 with just a click.Share or Download available
	Turn your blog post into interactive video with just a click.
	whichloadsfaster is one of my favorite web app where I can compete with my rival with respect to speed.
	Responsinator is one of my favorite apps. It checks your website responsiveness on all popular devices
	Save and Search allows you to save anything quickly, that you want to remember for tomorrow. (Must Try)

You are welcome to share if you know about any free web based application which our readers may like.

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Description : 

Whenever we wanted to develop Log In and register page we think of Text Box to enter required details and then a button to submit that data to database.  Asp.Net came with few controls they gives a ready Log In and Create New User control, by making use of these controls we can easily develop Log In page.

All you need to do is just drag and drop Log In and Create New User Control on your webpage and THAT’S IT, rest work is done by Asp.Net controls. AMAZING RIGHT?

Both controls comes with predefined templates, even you can style them as per your need, by making use of LayoutTemplate.

After adding those controls it automatically adds a database in your back end, add columns to it and whenever you add new user it  fires query and add that user data into database. The best part of it is it Stores password in ENCRYPTED as well as HASHED format.

There are few other controls which are add on to these controls.

Log In Name, Log In View, Log In Status, Password Recovery, Change Password which gives power to these two controls.

You just need to add few elements into your web.config file. 

Demo : 

.aspx Code

LogIn.aspx

Register.aspx

< %@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Register.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

Home.aspx

< %@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Home.aspx.cs" Inherits="Home" %>

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

Web.Config

< ?xml version="1.0"?>


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Android offers you live wallpapers which gives a charming look to your home screen. And now think of  live wallpaper which respond to your actions and offers 3D look then certainly you would like to go for it right?

Here i will list some live wallpapers which will give you above mentioned features.

Excited to see them? Here we go!!

Note : Download link at the bottom of the page.

3D Effect Live Wallpaper

I have just one word for this wallpaper AWESOME! It changes look of your home screen and make it 3D. You can feel 3D effect in android cellphone. It is similar IOS app “Deepend”. You can decide depth of screen, you can choose sensitivity, image. So its fully customizable and beautiful. So go for it guys and 

My Beach HD Live Wallpaper

Getting bore at office ?? Wanted to enjoy summer at your own Beach,then this live wallpaper will offer you that. Spend a warm summer day relaxing at your own private beach. You can make custom banners, custom airplane banners, automatic time of day based on location and so on.

Notification Bubbles Live Wallpaper

Pop bubbles to read and reply to messages and calls!

Features:

* Easy access to text messages and missed calls

* Get Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail notifications as bubbles on the screen

* Simply pop the bubble to read and reply

* Choose between different bubble styles

* Customize bubble colors

* Select one contact to show up as a heart, with super quick calling and texting

Sun Rise Live Wallpaper

A fresh and spectacular animated scene of the sky at dawn for your wallpaper!

Planet Scapes Live wallpaper

Amazing….! Guys please do not miss this one true beauty. Turns your home screen into a Alien land and you will love it for sure. I must appreciate developer for his great work. Generally we find android live wallpapers where it just shows random line and patterns. This live wallpaper offers three different landscapes to try and all of them are beautiful.

aCircuit Board Live Wallpaper

It offers insight to your mobile phone. Tried nature and galaxy live wallpapers. Then give a try to this live wallpaper which is amazing and it brings a new look to your screen. It shows Binary Clock, Moving fan ans so on.!

Autumn Live Wallpaper

Red, yellow and green leaves fall slowly to the ground in autumn landscapes. Red, yellow and green leaves fall slowly to the ground in the most beautiful, colorful autumn landscapes. The 3D effects are just awesome. Gives a cool look to your screen.

Passage Live Wallpaper

A quiet lantern-lit scene on your home screen. Stars twinkle in the background and clouds lazily drift past.

Celtic Garden HD

A serene, calming garden scene with a Celtic flare.Now with new themes, weather effects, butterflies, and more – your favorite Live Wallpaper is now even better!

Photo wall Live wallpaper

Photo wall is such a live wallpaper which brings your photos on home screen. It also show your instagram feed on your home screen. Choose from a bunch of effects to make the photos feel more like a background wallpaper, or to make them really pop.

Season Zen HD Live Wallpaper

Enjoy every season in a peaceful park surrounded by the blossoming of new life. Season Zen came with 3D wallpaper. Sunlight filters through swaying trees in a peaceful park, as cherry blossoms float past. A birds nest perched in a branch overlooks a park bench, gently flowing brook, and blooming flowers. Decent presentation!

Panda Chub Live Wallpaper

A curious panda on your home screen! He’ll follow your touch and look about when idle. With five different backgrounds to choose from, you’ll have no trouble fitting him in any environment.

Thunderstorm Live Wallpaper

Thunderstorm Live Wallpaper: A spectacular show of storm clouds and lightning. A spectacular live wallpaper of storm clouds and lightning, Thunderstorm uses Open GL to render a constantly moving scene of clouds. You can customize ambient light color, bolt color, wind speed, bolt frequency, number of clouds, and more!

Panda Lite Live Wallpaper

Panda within magical atmoshpere featuring 3 dynamic themes – Snowy, Sakura and Firefly Night!

Choose from 3 magical themes where each one has an unique atmosphere and features! Touch sensitive Panda and particles ( snow, sakuras, fireflies ) maks it all more alive and responding; also fully customizable

Galactic core Live Wallpaper

Fantastic Live wall paper. Galactic Core: A beautiful live wallpaper featuring a rotating spiral galaxy! A stunning live wallpaper featuring a spinning spiral galaxy, Galactic Core is a beautiful and serene backdrop for your home screen, with many layers of depth apparent when switching home screens. Recently updated. Support both portait and landscape mode.

Vortex Galaxy Live Wallpaper

Simply awesome….! Developers did a very good job great effects. Great color mix. Gets a chance to see unknown part of galaxy. YOU CAN FLY in the galactic nebula ! This is the third of the four Galaxies.

3D Tulip Live Wallpaper

Gives a decent and cool look to your home screen. Screen moves smoothly which makes it more beautiful. Tulip flower in the middle of tulip field. Live wallpaper reacts to touch gestures, rotating the scene in the direction of your swipes and homepage changes.

Bubble Live Wallpaper

Gives fancy look to your home screen. A fun bubble live wallpaper where you can tap bubbles to burst. Now you can customize bubble image from your gallery, choose your lucky color theme and poke your friends to improve affection. You can change theme, colors and number of bubbles.

Galaxy Pack Live Wallpaper

Discover Galaxies and Nebulas in 3D, realtime and OpenGL. fter the discovery of a series of four galaxies: Inferno Galaxy, Ice Galaxy, Shadow Galaxy and Galaxy Vortex. You have number of options to choose from. You can select from diffrent 11 galaxies. Great isn’t it??

Asteroid Belt Live Wallpaper

Asteroid Belt Live Wallpaper – A planetary system on your Android home screen!. A beautiful 3D live wallpaper featuring a planetary system and tumbling asteroids!. Asteroid Belt fills your home screen with a moving solar system, as asteroids tumble past in the foreground! Preferences let you control the display of the solar system, the asteroids, their speed, the speed of the camera, and more!

Exodus Live Wallpaper

A mass of blocks flips and fades across your home screen! Swipe the screen and watch as the mass changes direction and more blocks fade in!. You can change color of the boxes. You can size of the boxes. With help of theme manager you can apply some predefined themes. Great !!

Photile Live Wallpaper

Best of its kind. Imagine a live wallpaper allows you to take a picture and covert it into live tiles!!. Amazing!!!. People will love to watch your home screen. Photile turns any picture you choose into a grid of floating, fading, sliding tiles! Touch the tiles and watch as a shock wave ripples across your screen!. Most important it allows you to changer shape and size of tile.

Oceans HD Live Wallpaper

Explore exotic sealife at the depths of the ocean – in true 3D.Dive down and immerse yourself in your own underwater world every time you use your device.

Please note that we do not own copyright to any LWP. Please let us know and we will remove it within 24 hrs.

Download 44mb

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Description :

I am going to design contact us page where you will fill up necessary fields and click button to submit it.

I will make use of few textboxes to enter some necessary fields and then at the end there will be a button called submit which will send data in form of an email notification.

Demo :

Email Notification : 

.aspx Code :

Code Behind Button :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace AmazingThingsDemoOG
{
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

//This function will be called on button click to send email
protected void SendEMail()
{
try
{
//url of your website
String url = “YourURL”;

//Email id and Password of that Email id which you will be using to send email
NetworkCredential loginInfo = new NetworkCredential(“EmailId”, “Password”);

//Declare new MailMessage object and initialize with values such as from address, to address, bcc address, subject etc
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.From = new MailAddress(“FromAddress”);
msg.To.Add(new MailAddress(emailTextBox.Text));
msg.Bcc.Add(new MailAddress(“BccAddress”));
msg.Subject = “Notification from:Your Website Name”;
msg.Body = “Hi,” + nameTextBox.Text + ”
Thanks for contacting us. We will contact you soon.
” + “Our System has recorded a message
” + messageTextBox.Text + ”
Thanks and Regards
” + url;
msg.IsBodyHtml = true;

//Name the client which you will be using to send email.
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(“smtp.gmail.com”);

client.EnableSsl = true;
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
client.Credentials = loginInfo;
client.Send(msg);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
confirmationLabel.Text = ex.Message;
}

}

protected void submit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
//It Will call function SendEmail and confirms that message sent succesfully.
SendEMail();
confirmationLabel.Text = “Thanks for contacting us. We will get back to you in 24Hrs.”;
confirmationLabel.Visible = true;
subjectTextBox.Text = “”;
emailTextBox.Text = “”;
nameTextBox.Text = “”;
messageTextBox.Text = “”;
}
catch (Exception) { }
}
}

}

 I have used CSS to make contact us page attractive.

CSS Code :

.TextBox
{
padding: 9px;
border: solid 1px #E5E5E5;
outline: 0;
font: normal 13px/100% Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
width: 200px;
background: #FFFFFF url('bg_form.png') left top repeat-x;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left 25, from(#FFFFFF), color-stop(4%, #EEEEEE), to(#FFFFFF));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #EEEEEE 1px, #FFFFFF 25px);
box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
-moz-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
}

.TextBox:hover, textarea:hover,
.TextBox:focus, textarea:focus
{
border-color: #C9C9C9;
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 0px 8px;
}

.Button
{
width: auto;
padding: 9px 15px;
background: #617798;
border: 0;
font-size: 14px;
color: #FFFFFF;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
cursor: pointer;
}

[box type=”success” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″ ]This project was successfully compiled using  Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 [/box]

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I found few android action games which are very interesting and you will fall in love with them once you start playing.

1. Contract Killer 2

Nice one from Glu Mobile sequel to first game. You play as Jack Griffin, the Contract Killer. To survive  you have to sneak your way in, shoot your way out!. The best part of it is free to play, you can choose how to play it.  You will experience best story line, long range shots and many more.. Many of you will find it enjoyable.

2. ShadowGun

One of the most popular shooters on Android went multiplayer this past month and released a public beta of the game.

There are two game modes, Death match and Zone Control, it’s basically multiplayer Shadowgun which is AWESOME. Takes mobile gaming to new era its an approach to turn mobile gaming into Console and PC cousins.

3. Real Steel

An approach to bring movie to game. I must say nice attempt, nice graphics. It is an underworld fighting game set in the near-future, where 2,000 pound robots fight in a no-holds barred battle to the death. Featuring two play modes, you can either fight a roster of Robots (Tournament Mode), each more challenging than the last, or fight in a quick sparring match against your favorite opponents (Free Sparring Mode). Your primary objective: defeat Midas and unlock all 8 unique Robots.

4. Traffic Panic

Nice Game.. . Lots of explosion. Try to avoid explosion to score more points. It’s rush hour, but don’t panic! Keep the traffic flowing to avoid crashes, pile-ups and blowing up the entire street!. This game will make you gawp at the most awesome explosions, crashes and damage you’ve ever seen!

5. Moon Chaser

The best action/racing game!. Make your ninja fly before eclipse of the moon. Jump and collect points. All of the magic is GRAVITY.The gravity increases when screen is touched, and it restores to normal when released. The game rule is very simple, but how far ninja runs will completely depend on your skill.

6. Frontline Commando

Its one man army!. You are the front-line commando. Nice locations. As the sole surviving Commando of a renegade attack against a ruthless dictator, you are stranded on the frontline and hell-bent on payback. You must use all of your specialized skills to survive the onslaught of the enemy forces and avenge your fallen soldiers. ULTIMATE 3D GAME

7. Death Moto

Reminds me of Road Rash. Fantastic, MindBlowing, Addictive. Reminds me of Road Rash. Experience Unlimited Pleasure. Amazing graphics and bike models. Race and Kill….. Ultimate road rage. Download and have fun.

8. Critical Strike Portable

You guys miss Counter Strike when you do not have system with you. Wanna have it on your android cellphone here comes Critical Strike Portable which allow you to play with multiple locations similar to counter strike. It is Cross-platform 3D FPS MMO for Android, iOS and Web!. The gameplay and graphics are absolutely incredible – it just doesn’t feel like a mobile game.

9.Death Dome

Death Dome — Amazing Amazing Fighting Game for Android Devices. Game by Glu Mobile again. Battle behemoths in a virus ravaged city!. Nice game the action sequences looks good. You guys will certainly love to play this.

10. Angry Birds Star Wars

Here comes angry birds with new adventure. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… a group of desperate rebel birds faced off against a galactic menace: the Empire’s evil Pig troopers . New set of birds loved playing go for it!!.

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