When building a tile‑mapping engine for Windows Phone, one of the first challenges is reading binary data from the device. Unlike full .NET Framework applications, Windows Phone does not support the System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary namespace, which means traditional binary serialization is not available.
Before modern client-side frameworks became the norm, jQuery Templates offered a simple way to render dynamic HTML using JSON data returned from the server. Although the plugin is now deprecated, many legacy applications still rely on it for lightweight templating.
Before Twitter retired its XML timeline endpoints, applications could pull tweets directly using a simple URL and parse the results. The LoadTweets() function below demonstrates how legacy ASP.NET applications retrieved tweets, converted URLs into clickable links, and displayed them on a page.
When you need SQL-style LIKE '%keyword%' behavior in LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, the simplest approach is to use Contains(). It automatically translates to a SQL LIKE query.