Recently I wanted to get a better understanding on what Entity Framework is all about. I looked for the blog posts dedicated to this topic and I found one such post with concrete example. I was eager to test the code, so I created a project in Visual Studio Express but to my surprise I was not able to successfully build the project as it gave me System.Data.Entity.DbContext Compilation Error.

It took me a while before I managed to get rid of this annoying error and I want to share the solution that worked for me so that it might also help others with the same issue.

Modifying a template in Blogger is very powerful feature. It allows you to make significant modifications to your blog which helps your blog to distinguish itself from millions of other blogs. It also gives you ability to add interactivity to your blog. This article will show how to achieve that for both Desktop and Mobile Template.

Some cases which require modifications of the template:

Adding Subscription Link Gadget / Widget to your template is a simple way for readers of your blog to subscribe to your blog's feed. But there is one thing I found annoying with that widget is that you can not customize even simple things like changing feed title. as it will always be the same as a title of your blog.

Most of the time, this is fine, but there are occasions where you want to change it to something else.

When developing projects in Winforms, there will come a time when you will have to deal with Browser Folder and Open File Dialogs. This article will show you how to accomplish common tasks using those two controls in Windows Forms using C#.

When you decide to use CheckedListBox Control, you might expect to use DisplayMember, ValueMember or DataSource property like you do for example with ListBox, but you will discover that the Intellisense is not showing those properties at all.

Visual Studio Express is a lightweight version of VS products and although it is very powerful, it is missing several features from paid editions and one of them is ability to add a Component Class using Add New Item dialog box.

But users of Express editions can still create Component Class by following the steps below: