Full guide to create Installer class in VS.Net 2005

6 pages of amazing guide by devCity.net explains all point of deployment project and include follow parts:

• Requirements 
• Terminology
• How to create an Installer Class
• Un-written rules
• Unpleasent features
• Using these events (about Installer Class events)
• Using the Commit event to change the target directory permissions.
• Using the Uninstall event to clean the target directory
• Where is the "NT AUTHORITY\SERVICE" account coming from?
• Exceptions and Exception handling in your installer class.
• Adding user interfaces (forms) to your installer class.
• Launching your application after installation.
• Conclusions.
• References.

To read "Visual Studio 2005 Setup and Deployment Installer Classes and Custom Actions" CLICK HERE

Listas - new feature from Microsoft

At Live Labs, we are always experimenting with new ideas that we think will be useful.  Today we are releasing our latest technology preview:

Listas (http://listas.labs.live.com)

Listas is a tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites, and more. It allows you to quickly and easily edit lists, share them with others for reading or wiki-style editing, and discover the public lists of other users.  We encourage you to try using it for meeting notes, bookmarks, shopping lists, to plan a night out, or whatever other creative ways you can think of....

Creating Custom Configuration Sections In ASP.NET

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Sharp Cache Session Manager

The SharpCacheSessionManager is a HttpHandler that allows to display the entries stored in the Cache, Session and Application object. You can view the data stored inside the objects and you can also remove the objects from the corresponding storage. To download the SharpCacheSessionManager click HERE

via Christopher Steen

 

43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications

43 extremely useful AJAX applications for use on any website.

Click here

via DotNetKicks.com

Find and get list of controls on page

If you want to find list of controls on Page you can use this method:

private List<T> GetControls<T>() where T:Control
{
 List<T> list = new List<T>();        
 foreach (Control rootControl in Controls)
 {
    foreach (Control control in rootControl.Controls)
    {
        if (control as T != null)
        {
            list.Add(control as T);
        }
    }
 }
 return list;
}

And a using is very simple. In example you can see how to change background to all labels:

List<Label> list = 
        GetControls<Label>();
list.ForEach(
    delegate (Label lab)
   {
     lab.BackColor = 
       System.Drawing.Color.Pink;
   }
);

 

A Visual Guide to Version Control

A beautiful, "highly visual" overview of Version Control, (a.k.a. Source Control). It also references Subversion command line examples, but the overview applies to most version control systems by BetterExplained.

To read a full article click HERE.

How to Use Windows Authentication to Access SQL Server Through a ASP.NET Web Application

Click here to full article

What is a Fluent Interface?

Full article "How to design a Fluent Interface", compares and examples see HERE

Get last day of the month

DateTime GetLastDayOfMonth(DateTime date) 

{
return
     new DateTime(date.Year, 
                  date.Month, 
                  DateTime.DaysInMonth(
                         date.Year,
                         date.Month));
}

Accordion 2.0 by Kevin Miller

Kevin Miller has updated  to version 2.0 his extraordinary  AJAX  control ACCORDION

New futures:

• Open/Close functionality added (Click on an active accordion).
• Nested Vertical Accordions
• Accordions will dynamically resize on content added REAL TIME!
• ...lots of bug fixes!

 Very simple using:

Include 3 JavaScript files to HTML page

<script type="text/javascript" 
src="javascript/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="javascript/effects.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="javascript/accordion.js"></script>

and...

<h2 class="accordion_toggle">Title Bar</h2>
<div class="accordion_content">...</div>
...
...
...
<h2 class="accordion_toggle">Title Bar</h2>
<div class="accordion_content">...</div>

More option see here (In toggle "How to use")

SQLQueryStress - T-SQL server query performance testing tool

Small,  effective and free tool for  testing performance of the sql query.

 

Homepage

Download

Labels: Tools

One Shell Command to delete all SVN hidden folders

Full article

 

Labels: Programming

Determining when a procedure has been changed

SELECT 
    [StoredProcedure name]
    ,Modify_date
    ,Create_date
    ,*
FROM
    sys.procedures

Labels: SQL

CSS Table Gallery

Candy style


Red and Black style


The OC style


To more styles click here

10 SQL Server Functions That You Hardly Use But Should

A using and explanation next SQL functions:

BINARY_CHECKSUM
SIGN
COLUMNPROPERTY
DATALENGTH
ASCII, UNICODE
NULLIF
PARSENAME
STUFF
REVERSE
GETUTCDATE

Labels: SQL

Clear cache and buffers in MSSQL

Use this to clear the cache and buffers to ensure comparison are accurate.

dbcc freeproccache
go
dbcc dropcleanbuffers
go

Labels: SQL

Labels: SQL

20 Tips to Improve ASP.net Application Performance

Read full article

by Real World Software Development

Labels: ASP.NET, Programming

ASP.NET AJAX Shorthand Syntax

Command	Shortcut to
$get('YourControlName')	Sys.UI.DomElement.getElementById - gets a reference to the DOM element, same as document.getElementById
$find()	Sys.Application.findComponent
$create()	Sys.Application.Component.create
$addHandler(FormElement, EventName, HandlerMethod)	Sys.UI.DomEvent.addHandler
$clearHandlers(FormElement)	Sys.UI.DomEvent.clearHandlers
$removeHandler(FormElement)	Sys.UI.DomEvent.removeHandler

.NET tips and tricks to every day

Online collection of tips and tricks to .NET developer.