Author Archives: Pravesh Soni

Jan
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Recently I came across the requirement for displaying thumbnails of XPS document in SharePoint document library. As a hardcore developer, I’m not in favor of readymade third -party components unless and until you really need them. Hence, I’ve decided to create an image generator myself. I explored the native .net methods for reading the XPS [...]
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Jan
01
20
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Some time ago, I came across a wonderful theme for BE called Arthemia. Arthemia is combining a magazine and a weblog into one; it is not too magazine-ish nor too blog-ish. This is originally developed by  Michael Jubel for wordpress, which is ported to BE by onesoft and Antonio Chagoury. I’ve came across of the [...]
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Dec
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In past, I’ve started developing asp.net applications with the default settings of asp.net. Sometimes I found that the application is not responding quickly as it should be. I’ve digged in to this matter and figured out that the entire page is heavily loaded with the hidden page viewstate. Due to this length, the application is [...]
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Dec
12
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I’ve started the customization of Blogengine.net for my upcoming site. I’ve considered this blog engine as my blog platform due to its highly customizable nature and good customizable theme support. My main goal is to customize this platform in such a way that it can handle simple blog to full fledged  content management system. In [...]
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