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CSS Mirror to convert free templates for RTL Web sites

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:41:31 GMT

A quick tool to convert free CSS templates from Left-To-Right into Right-To-Left , very usefull when developing sites with Right-To-Left Design

Applying column formulas in Excel

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:18:35 GMT

How to copy a formula to the whole column values in Excel

RegEx to extract __VIEWSTATE from the Login page HttpWebRequest

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:10:23 GMT

Here is a quick one line code to extract __VIEWSTATE hidden form field from the ASP.NET Login page. This comes in handy during web automation of the ASP.NET form authentication.

A better way to string.split using RegEx

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:38:50 GMT

An example to use RegEx to split a string in C#

Algorithm #105

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:03:42 GMT

What's the best way to cut small pieces of paper out of a larger piece while keeping paper scrape to a minimum?

Hide automatically generated columns in GridView

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:17:24 GMT

Here is how to hide an automatically generated column in GridView

DateTime.ToString() Patterns

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:16:01 GMT

Handy list of DateTime.ToString() patterns. Bookmark it ;-)

Using HttpRuntime to get the web application absolute path

Wed, 30 May 2007 10:16:02 GMT

We all know in ASP.NET, to get the absolute path from the relative path, you can prefix your relative path with the Tilde character as follows: MyHyperLink.NavigateUrl = "~/Catalog/ASP/Products";

Wild card % does not work in MS Access for LIKE SQL statement

Fri, 18 May 2007 09:42:09 GMT

Using LIKE statement in an SQL query requires specifying wild cards in the search pattern. In C# .NET, the wild card is %, however if you are building your SQL query directly from MS Access, I found out you need to use ...

Free C# & ASP.NET Utilities from www.mycsharpcorner.com

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:56:27 GMT

Here is a digest of all free utilities & user controls for the month of Arpil developed on www.mycsharpcorner.com site. Enjoy! ...

301 Moved Permanently Redirect in ASP.NET

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:31:01 GMT

If you have done SEO work, you know that Search Engines would penalize my site if both http://www.mycsharpcorner.com and http://mycsharpcorner.com/ requests returned a 200 OK code in the HTTP header. Why? Because from a Search Engine's spider point of view...

A managed code C# alternative for the Native FindWindow

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:16:56 GMT

A cleaner C# alternative to loading Native Win 32 DLL and invoking FindWindow to get to another process's window handle, is to use the Process class in C#. You can also use it to close another window, and even get the window's text...

Socialize your ASP.NET Pages - A Free Social Links User Control

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:46:01 GMT

In today's Internet blog, you almost never miss seeing a "Digg It", a "Kick it", a "Ridd It" a Furl it, burl it...or squirrel it... link or icon at the end of each article you read in someones blog. Well, regardless of the opinions people might have about this phenomenon, if you are an ASP.NET ...

Fun with C# Timers.. Flash a Windows Control to draw attention to it

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:47:42 GMT

The most common GUI technique is to display the error using a MessageBox.Show popup after validating the control, with something like "First Name field is empty! Please enter your First Name". I find these popup boxes in a Windows Application to be annoying... especially when combined with the "bump" wav sound associated with them! So to give my users a friendly app

Displaying a "Please Wait..." Dialog

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:13:48 GMT

I was writing this application for a client of mine, and I needed to dsiplay a "Please Wait..." message while disabling access to the the rest of the application controls during a lengthy background process, but at the same time, wanted to show that the application is alive and well.... not frozen, maybe even put a cancel or a stop button to terminate the lengthy process.

How to insert text at a specified line number in a file using C#?

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:17:40 GMT

System.IO.StreamWriter allows you to write text to a file easily if you are creating the file and know the order of the lines. However, what if you are trying to edit a file? For example, you need to insert a text at a specified line number in an existing text file. Say you have a text file that contains: 1. Orange 2. Banana <---- Want to Insert: 3. Apple 4. Grapefruit 5. Kiwi And say you want to insert the text "3. Apple" between line 2 & 4, how do you do that in C#?

Writing a simple Windows Process Logger in C#

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:46:13 GMT

Here is a quick C# script to log the start and end times of running processes on your machine. The idea is query the currently running processes every x number of seconds utilizing the Process.GetProcesses function in .NET, while maintaining a book for currently running processes each cycle, then if a new process appears (or disappears), you log the result as start and end respectively.

How to track visitors to your site in ASP.NET & C#

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:21:37 GMT

In my previous article, "How to track visitors to your site in ASP.NET & C#", I discussed how you can log the Host Info for each page visitor on your site using Dns.GetHostByAddress function. One thing I did not stress out was the need to catch all exceptions from that method call. There are cases when this call:

Ray Tracing in C# 3.0

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:31:02 GMT

C# PM Luke Hoban has a wonderful post on Ray Tracing in C#.

How to track visitors to your site in ASP.NET & C#

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:55:29 GMT

Once you have published a site in ASP.NET, you'd like to know who are your visitors. One way is to check your event log on the host server. Another option is to write your own code. You'd basically like to log the IP address, and DNS name for the visitor, and it would be nice to know which page they are visiting.

How long would it take to learn Object Oriented Programming?

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:18:04 GMT

Someone asked how long will it take them to learn C++, then how long will it take to learn OOP concepts, so I thought I share my answer here. OOP is a different concept of programming where you look at pieces of code as objects that have properties & behavior, rather than lines of code that execute one after the other (like in structured programming). There are many concepts to Object Oriented programming, but you might want to just keep in mind that

A Clock User Control for your Windows Form in C#

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 08:57:50 GMT

Making your own Clock control to display on your Windows Form to display and update the current time up to the second is an easy deal using C# Timers. Creating The Clock User Control Step By Step Here is one way to do it:

FindWindow Alternative in C# .NET

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:03:51 GMT

Back in the good (or bad :) ) days of Win32 programming, there was a nice little function named FindWindow. It enabled you to find any window belonging to any process on your system These days are gone with C# .NET, well... not quite!

Monitor programs start/stop times with Process Logger 1.0 freeware

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:00:55 GMT

Monitor processes as they start and end on your computer, good for catching viruses, spyware, or just simple system diagnoses. This utility is written in C#

Ever wanted to know when Google bot visits your site?

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:19:11 GMT

If you are monetizing your site with AdSense, one important piece of traffic you want to monitor, is when Google spider visits your site to crawl it. Or maybe you want to know if the Google robot ever comes to visit or not, and if it does, when, and how often does it crawl your site? Doing this in ASP.NET is very simple.