Articles by Pascal Ganaye (Articles: 15, Tip/Tricks: 10)

I use a procedure based on batch files to copy various versions of my project. I was a bit fed up to wait for the batch file to copy hundreads of files and wrote this small utility to speed up the process. I hope some of you will find it useful.

A small utility that will help you get rid of the hard to remove protected or system folders

This article introduces a little class which lets you show any usercontrol in XP style popup menu.

This article explains how to fix a bug in the ASP.NET Framework when using callback panels.

DbfDotNet is a very fast and compact fully managed standalone database/entity framework, for the .Net Framework.

A small program which solves the paint-by-numbers puzzles in virtually time. It is a spoiler if you're a player. If you're a programmer however I think it shows how this problem can be solved.

Use the award winning Coco compiler's compiler directly from within Visual Studio

A simple function to transform a Byte[] into an Hex Dump formatted string

An expression evaluator written in VB.NET.

In this article, I try to highlight some issues in the .NET Framework generic list and how to circumvent them

Rather than discussing for ever wether C# is better than VB or vice-versa, let's see which programmers are best.

A program to help you to solve Sudoku problems or check if a Sudoku problem has only one solution.

This second article about evaluation in .NET introduces a parser which pre-compiles the expressions

The IComparer available in .NET lets you sort numbers or strings. This little class available in both C# and VB shows how to implement an IComparer which will work with mixed characters and numbers.

Writing a parental control software: The beginning of the adventure

This class dump any .Net object properties to your output window.

Deleting protected folders in Windows 7

When you search manually, you can search for every odd number that is a step of 2. If you're a bit more clever (as you are), you can use steps of 6 (2 * 3). Testing (testno+1)%6==0 is very similar to (testno % 6) = 5.You can speed up big time by having a loop that increments per steps of...

Reproducing the SQL RAND() function in C#

A set of functions to get Slightly shorter unique Guids

WITH tempTable(Column1)AS( SELECT 'chaitanya' [Column1] UNION ALL SELEC`T SUBSTRING(Column1,1,LEN(Column1)-1) FROM tempTable WHERE LEN(Column1)>0)SELECT * FROM tempTable ORDER BY LEN(Column1)Result:cchchachaichaitchaitachaitanchaitanychaitanya

There doesn't seem to be any encoding for the 'Iranian system encoding standard' in .NET

Provides a couple of hash functions (string to int) that will return the same value in C# and T-SQL

A custom C# string implementation that stores its data in a UTF8 byte array.

This SQL stored procedure creates a database from scratch with some meaningful content.