How to integrate InkFilePicker library in Web App

I heard many developers across the forum asking about how to integrate InkFilePicker library into their application and hence thought to give it a try. I’m sharing here the steps to get started with the library. Formerly known as FilePicker.io, InkFilePicker is a library that allows user to connect to popular Cloud Services like Dropbox, … Read more

How to use RailPNRAPI to get PNR Status?

Here I’m sharing the sample code on How to consume API provided by railpnrapi.com to query Indian Railway PNR status: Register yourself on http://www.railpnrapi.com/ and get/generate API Key & API Secret. using Newtonsoft.Json;using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.IO;using System.Linq;using System.Net;using System.Security.Cryptography;using System.Text; namespace RailPnrAPI_SampleCode{    class Program    {        static void Main(string[] args)    … Read more

Getting Started With MongoDB and ASP.Net MVC4: Day 2

This article takes you a step further in getting started with MongoDB and ASP.NET series. Today, we will learn how to perform basic CRUD operations in MongoDB using Mongo Shell and a little about MongoDB C# Driver organization. The first two articles in this series are basically focused on MongoDB installation and how to use … Read more

What is BSON?

BSON (or Binary JSON) is a binary encoding of JSON-like documents that MongoDB uses to store information in documents. It adds support for Date and binary (BinData) data type that aren’t supported in JSON.BSON was designed to have the following three characteristics: Lightweight: Keeping spatial overhead to a minimum is important for any data representation … Read more

A new guard page for stack cannot be created- ASP.NET MVC4 Error

An hour back I was working with ASP.NET and encountered with this pretty error. I kept wandering for about ten minutes what really has happened. My iisexpress.exe was automatically shut down and it didn’t work when I kept hitting CTRL+F5. How I solved it:Later i the process I came to know that I had the … Read more