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	A Coder Interview With Paul Griffin 21 Sep 2011 Updated: 30 Apr 2014 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 76 Popularity: 9.25 Licence: CPOL Views: 76,084 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we track down Code Project member Paul Griffin.
Database Development
	That's not a database, dude! 1 Dec 2022 Updated: 1 Dec 2022 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,963 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. There are many things you can use to store information, but not all of them are databases. And trying to use them as such is a really, really bad idea.
General Programming
Printing	Adventures in 3D Printing Part 2: Rise of the 3D Models 17 Sep 2019 Updated: 17 Sep 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,812 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. OK, OK. I had to set it up - Herself insisted - and I had to actually print to be sure. So I knocked up a quick box to print (just to show I could).
	Adventures in 3D Printing Part 3: Making Complex Apertures - Recovering from the Bends 25 Nov 2019 Updated: 25 Nov 2019 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,488 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 61 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. So ... you want to put that LCD display in there, huh? Pity it's not a rectangular frame, isn't it? How are you going to fit a neat frame round that, huh? It's complicated, but ... not that complicated when you get used to it.
	Adventures in 3D printing Part 1: Fusion, you CAD! 17 Sep 2019 Updated: 18 Jun 2021 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,343 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I'm getting a 3D printer for Christmas! So - I need to learn to use it. That means ... a CAD package. Gulp.
Mobile Apps
Android	Take three tablets and call me in the morning - the Chuwi Hi12 28 Feb 2017 Updated: 28 Feb 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,592 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 36 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Nexus 7, the Amazon Fire 7 inch, and the Chuwi Hi12. A personal review.
Programming Languages
C#	Instance Storage - A Simple Way to Share Configuration Data among Applications 4 Oct 2017 Updated: 4 Oct 2017 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.08 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,631 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 115 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. We all know database connection strings and suchlike should not be hard coded - but then there is the problem of getting the right string into the right PC when you release software.
	Double Clicking a File in Explorer and Adding It to Your App while it's Running 1 Oct 2019 Updated: 1 Oct 2019 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,288 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 243 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to double click a file in explorer and add it to your app while it's running
	A multi-selection Drop Down List using a generic Abstract PopUp class 10 Jun 2012 Updated: 10 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,912 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 776 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Generic Abstract class providing a true Pop-up control, implemented in a multiple selection drop down list.
	A Simple Code Snippet to Add an Event 8 Jun 2012 Updated: 8 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 7.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,186 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 322 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adding an event to your class is simple, but it needs a bit of typing. I'm lazy, so I'd rather Visual Studio did the work. This snippet works in the same way as the "prop" snippet.
	Using struct and class - what's that all about? 23 Feb 2014 Updated: 23 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 139 Popularity: 10.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 157,129 Bookmarked: 117 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What is the difference between a struct and a class? And which should I use?
	List<T> - Is it really as efficient as you probably think? 1 Feb 2015 Updated: 5 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 127 Popularity: 9.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 131,349 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A .NET List is a list you can use as an array. Isn't it? Yeah, I'm sure it is. And I can use it anytime, can't I? Well, "No". And "No". Sometimes it's not a good idea at all.
	DateTime Extensions to Make Some Simple Tasks a Little More Readable 9 Mar 2012 Updated: 6 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,535 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes, you want to insert a date into a database as the start of the day, or you need to work out when the last Tuesday of the month is. These aren't difficult tasks, but the code can be difficult to follow. These extensions provide an easy-to-read way to do it.
	Timestamping assemblies with Build date and time. 27 Apr 2012 Updated: 27 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,340 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 521 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It surprised me to find that there is no simple way to find out when a .NET assembly was built. You can work it out from the revision number (provided you only use the "standard" numbering scheme) but it's not obvious. This provides a simple way to timestamp individual assemblies at build time.
	How to Write Code to Solve a Problem, A Beginner's Guide 6 Oct 2020 Updated: 6 Oct 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,996 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. First steps in development: break it, break it again!
	Why Does x = ++x + x++ Give Me the Wrong Answer? 1 Oct 2017 Updated: 11 Nov 2021 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 63 Popularity: 8.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 110,226 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When they first meet them, developers are often tempted to play with pre- and post- increment operators. Then they get confused, because they don't do what is expected. Or ... do they?
SQL	SQL GROUP By and the "Column 'name' is invalid in the select list because..." error 2 Jul 2016 Updated: 2 Jul 2016 Rating: 4.49/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 236,138 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why do I get an error "Column 'name' is invalid in the select list because t is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause."? Well, it's pretty simple when you think about what GROUP BY does.
	How to Write Code to Solve a Problem, A Beginner's Guide Part 2: Syntax Errors 14 Feb 2022 Updated: 14 Feb 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,606 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. By the time you have read this, you will have no problem with compiling your programs ever again. Well, probably you won't. OK - maybe a little. Depends on the compiler.
Security
Encryption	Decrypting MD5 and SHA: Why You Can't Do It 20 Jun 2019 Updated: 20 Jun 2019 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,384 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I've seen quite a few questions asking how to decrypt SHA and MD5 to obtain the original input, mostly related to "encrypted passwords" and I thought I'd try to explain why the answer is "you can't".
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	Hardware Review: Logitech ERGO M575 Trackball and TESmart 4K 60Hz 4:4:4 KVM Switch 1 Mar 2023 Updated: 1 Mar 2023 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,813 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A new mouse and a new switch: this should be fun

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	A way for CP members to reduce RSI during spam wave events [Tip/Trick] 19 May 2022 Updated: 19 May 2022 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.64 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,102 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 10 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Unless you have sufficient permissions (i.e. you are a protector) you can't see the moderation queue, so this is useless to you. Sorry!Spam waves: A flood of spammers filling the moderation queue with new users all advertising the same thing.
.NET
	ErrorMessageBox: an improved MessageBox for error reports [Tip/Trick] 28 Jul 2013 Updated: 28 Jul 2013 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,840 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 213 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The MessageBox class works, but...why is it in the middle of the screen? Why does it expand to stupid sizes? Why can't the user copy and paste from it? So, I brewed my own.
	A safe way to get the user to check if the .NET framework is installed [Tip/Trick] 28 Apr 2011 Updated: 29 Apr 2011 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.96 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,284 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes, it is helpful to find out if the .NET framework is installed on a machine, or get a user to check over the phone. But, some people should not be allowed near Regedit or the windows folder, so here is a safe way to get them to check.
Database Development
	Using Visual Studio to find a database connection string [Tip/Trick] 14 Jan 2012 Updated: 14 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,290 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Visual Studio has a Server Explorer built in to handle database access - it can lalso generate database connection strings ready for saving in application config files.
SQL Server	Multiple SQL INSERT Operations with a Single Command [Tip/Trick] 23 Sep 2012 Updated: 23 Sep 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,220 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Inserting a number of rows in a database isn't difficult, but how do you do it in a single command without concatenating strings?
	Why do I get a "Parameter is not valid." exception when I read an image from my database? [Tip/Trick] 26 Sep 2012 Updated: 27 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 100,809 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why? Normally, it's because you stored it wrong...
	Backing up an SQL Database in C# [Tip/Trick] 18 Sep 2012 Updated: 18 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 136,224 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 9,048 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the things that it seems far to hard to find is a reliable way of backing up a database, and restoring it again later. Particularly for development, where the SQL server instance and the database are likely to be on your development machine, and very likely to be damaged by code.
	Converting comma separated data in a column to rows for selection [Tip/Trick] 24 Feb 2014 Updated: 24 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 66,446 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you have an SQL column which contains a comma separated list of names, you may have wondered how to return it as individual rows in a SELECT statement. It's not too bad, really!
	Extracting the filename from a full path in SQL Server [Tip/Trick] 18 Jan 2015 Updated: 19 Jan 2015 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 83,701 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 223 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes, you want to extract the filename (with or without the extension) from the full path of a file. It's easy in C# and so forth - just use the Path.GetFileName method. But what if you want it in SQL?
	Simple SQL Connection String Creation [Tip/Trick] 26 Jul 2017 Updated: 26 Jul 2017 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,738 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Did you know that Windows provides a built in way to build SQL connection strings for you? Neither did I ... until I found UDL files.
	How to Use a Stored Procedure Inside an SQL Query [Tip/Trick] 28 Oct 2017 Updated: 28 Oct 2017 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,916 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How do you call a Stored Procedure inside a query and use the SELECT results? Tricky...or is it?
	Passing DbNull.Value to an SQL Image column [Tip/Trick] 20 Sep 2018 Updated: 20 Sep 2018 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,612 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you try to pass a DbNull.Value to an SQL Image column, you get an exception: "Operand type clash: nvarchar is incompatible with image" - not sure why it's throwing that, but it can be done.
DateTime
	DateTime Extension Method to Give Week Number [Tip/Trick] 14 Jul 2011 Updated: 14 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,302 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Strangely, the .NET DateTime does not provide a Week Number. This extension rectifies this.
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms	Adding a File Open dialog to a PropertyGrid control [Tip/Trick] 8 May 2011 Updated: 8 May 2011 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.79 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,112 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Visual Studio Property pane is a control, which can be used in WinForms like any other, and it provides a simple, easy to use property editor for your classes. However, it is not obvious how to get it to open a browse dialog for a file path property.
	Adding Images to a Winforms Project so They are Accessible as Resources [Tip/Trick] 17 Apr 2023 Updated: 17 Apr 2023 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,659 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to add images to a Winforms Project so they are accessible as resources
WPF	List Only Files Created or Modified Yesterday in C# [Tip/Trick] 27 Apr 2019 Updated: 27 Apr 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,087 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative for "List Only Files Created or Modified Yesterday in C#"
DevOps
Git	Getting started with GIT, Visual Studio, and BitBucket [Tip/Trick] 25 Apr 2015 Updated: 25 Apr 2015 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 119,062 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Getting started with GIT, Visual Studio, and BitBucket isn't difficult - but it can take a bit of working out. Here is a simple explanation of what to do to get a new project under source control.
General Programming
	Visual Studio Tasks List [Tip/Trick] 5 Jul 2010 Updated: 5 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,886 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Marking code you need to return to later
Exceptions	Eclipse Protocol Error when Updating, or Installing ADT [Tip/Trick] 10 Oct 2012 Updated: 10 Oct 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,991 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you are trying to follow the instructions on how to get your system up and running with Eclipse, you may get an error when installing ADT
Printing	Printing Labels in Word [Tip/Trick] 15 Dec 2022 Updated: 15 Dec 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,211 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to print labels in Word
Mobile Apps
Android	Installing Android 5.1 directly on your Nexus 7 2012 Wifi [Tip/Trick] 13 Mar 2015 Updated: 13 Mar 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,111 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If (like me) you have a Nexus7 that was converted into a door-stop by Lollipop 5.0 or 5.0.2, this is a guide in how to skip the wait for Google to realise you might want 5.1!
Operating Systems
Windows	Finding my Network Shares on SMB1 Drives after the Windows 10 2004 Update [Tip/Trick] 23 Aug 2020 Updated: 23 Aug 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,858 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Windows 10 and the ongoing "I can't find your mapped drives anymore" problem. A fix, hopefully!
	Automatic Copying of Release Executables to a Specific Folder on a Successful Build [Tip/Trick] 7 Sep 2020 Updated: 7 Sep 2020 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,285 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to automatically copy release executables to a specific folder on a successful build
	Disabling Fast Startup in Windows 10 [Tip/Trick] 20 Aug 2016 Updated: 20 Aug 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,700 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Fast startup in Win10 seems to conflict with some apps, on some machines: I've seen it affect Chrome and Live Mail for example, as well as making shutdown a very long process on some laptops. But it's not obvious where the control for this is, hence this tip.
Productivity Apps and Services
Microsoft Office	Reading an Excel Sheet into a DataTable, generic method [Tip/Trick] 8 Feb 2014 Updated: 8 Feb 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,343 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Reading a sheet into a database isn't difficult - it's just I keep forgetting how... :sigh: So I abstracted this from my working code so I wouldn't lose it again.
Programming Languages
ASP	Getting the last error in a custom error page [Tip/Trick] 3 Jan 2011 Updated: 5 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,234 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you provide a custom error handler page, it is useful to be able to log what caused the problem, so that you can fix it. Server.GetLastError() will not return anything in the page, though...
C#	Save and restore your form size and location [Tip/Trick] 10 Feb 2013 Updated: 11 Feb 2013 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,328 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It's one of those things that annoys me - and probably you - you set up five or so windows so they are in the right place on your desktop, and it lovely. Then you open them again tomorrow...and one of them always opens too big, and in the middle of the screen...
	Where Should I Store My Data? [Tip/Trick] 20 Apr 2012 Updated: 20 Apr 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.72 Licence: CPOL Views: 135,464 Bookmarked: 46 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. There is a common theme in development: storing data files in the application folder. This is bad, and wrong, and should be stamped on!
	Finding a free file name and number combination [Tip/Trick] 29 Jun 2013 Updated: 30 Jun 2013 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,811 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the tasks we often have to do is rename a file before creating a new version. But when we want to keep multiple versions, how do we find out which ones already exist?
	Allowing Explorer to Drop Files on a WinForms App, and Doing Something with Them [Tip/Trick] 20 Jan 2020 Updated: 20 Jan 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,355 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It's pretty easy to let Windows Explorer drop files on a WinForms app, but I can never remember how. So since I needed a "file touch" app, I thought I'd document the process here.
	Colouring DataGridView Cells According to their Content in WinForms [Tip/Trick] 23 Apr 2018 Updated: 23 Apr 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,221 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to colour the individual cells of a DataGridView according to their content. For example, negative values can be Red, positive values Green to show "Up"s and "Down"s more easily.
	Using a Chart With Multiple Lines From A Collection [Tip/Trick] 2 Sep 2015 Updated: 2 Sep 2015 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,138 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 1,274 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes, a chart can make data a lot easier to understand - but why does the Chart control make it so difficult to display multiple lines from a collection of objects?
	Winforms BindingSource Does Not Support Parameterized Queries - So Your App Crashes When Your User Types "doesn't" [Tip/Trick] 31 Jul 2018 Updated: 31 Jul 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,163 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Winforms BindingSource does not support Parameterized Queries - so your app crashes when your user types "doesn't"
	Creating a Simple "scratch card" Control in WinForms [Tip/Trick] 21 Oct 2015 Updated: 21 Oct 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,862 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 677 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple "scratch card" like control for Winforms, where the user can reveal the image by "scratching off" a cover
	On-demand loading of images from a database [Tip/Trick] 16 May 2012 Updated: 16 May 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,700 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Loading an image from a database isn't difficult, but it can waste time. If you are loading a large list of Images (or even thumbnails) from a DB but not using them immediately, then it can take some considerable time. Why not load them on demand instead?
	Opening a File Specifically in the Default Browser [Tip/Trick] 9 Jan 2019 Updated: 9 Jan 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,326 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to open a file specifically in the default browser, instead of the default app for the file type
	Transferring information between two forms, Part 1: Parent to Child [Tip/Trick] 19 Feb 2013 Updated: 3 Apr 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 63,701 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 1,037 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Questions here quite often ask "how do I send data from one form to another?" and I must have answered this a dozen times. So, a series of three tips to cover the process.
	Transferring information between two forms, Part 2: Child to Parent [Tip/Trick] 18 Feb 2013 Updated: 3 Apr 2013 Rating: 3.82/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 5.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 75,735 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 1,714 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Questions here quite often ask "how do I send data from one form to another?" and I must have answered this a dozen times. So, a series of three tips to cover the process.
	Transferring information between two forms, Part 3: Child to Child [Tip/Trick] 18 Feb 2013 Updated: 3 Apr 2013 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,328 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 883 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Questions here quite often ask "how do I send data from one form to another?" and I must have answered this a dozen times. So, a series of three tips to cover the process.
	Upgrading Settings files when changing application version [Tip/Trick] 8 Aug 2013 Updated: 8 Aug 2013 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,712 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If (like me) you use the Assembly version of your EXE to handle versioning, and you (like me) use the Settings.Settings for configuration items, then you've probably noticed the config is lost when the version is changed.
	Passing Parameters to a PrintDocument.PrintPage Event [Tip/Trick] 3 Sep 2017 Updated: 3 Sep 2017 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,748 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to pass parameters to a PrintDocument.PrintPage event
	Combining DataTables with Different Schema [Tip/Trick] 21 Nov 2017 Updated: 21 Nov 2017 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,626 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 189 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. There is a problem with accessing Excel files via OleDb which contain more than 255 columns: they are truncated and need to be fetched using ranges. But what do you do with DataTables after that?
	Removing Diacritics from Strings [Tip/Trick] 25 Jun 2012 Updated: 25 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.98 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,467 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 240 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you search for matching substrings, you may have noticed that Google matches accented characters to unaccented. If you are searching strings which may contain accented characters, you should consider doing the same.
	Preventing Classes Derived from PrintDocument (and Other Components) from Opening in the Designer by Default [Tip/Trick] 23 Dec 2017 Updated: 23 Dec 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,460 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Does your derived class open in the Visual Studio Designer while having no UI? Annoying, isn't it? This is simple to fix.
	Using Linq with Regular Expression results [Tip/Trick] 28 Mar 2014 Updated: 28 Mar 2014 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,931 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Want to use Linq, or Linq methods with the results from your Regex? Yes, so did I...annoying isn't it? So...a solution.
	A C# implementation of AI MEMO 239, Item 169- Count the one bits in a number [Tip/Trick] 12 Apr 2012 Updated: 12 Apr 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,802 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you haven't heard of AI Memo 239, then you need to have a look at it. It is an MIT memo from 1972 containing "clever code" and such like. Some of it is absolutely beautiful!
	Extension methods for finding centers of a rectangle [Tip/Trick] 13 Jun 2012 Updated: 13 Jun 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,572 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 99 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It's very easy to work out the center of a rectangle, but it's messy as inline code. Hence these simple extension methods to provide the five centers.
	Deriving a concrete class from an abstract UserControl [Tip/Trick] 29 Oct 2013 Updated: 29 Oct 2013 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,543 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Abstract base classes are a very good idea - but when that base class is a UserControl, Visual studio gets very unfriendly. It is possible, and it's not difficult: you just have to know how to do it.
	Removing characters which are not allowed in Windows filenames [Tip/Trick] 13 Apr 2014 Updated: 13 Apr 2014 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 95,017 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes, I need to create files or folders directly, and use existing data to provide the file name - and then my app throws an exception because there are "illegal characters in the file name" - so this is a simple way to remove them.
	Hiding Inherited Properties and Tasks in Derived Classes [Tip/Trick] 1 Feb 2010 Updated: 5 Dec 2015 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 68,085 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Hiding inherited properties and tasks in derived classes
	A simple "human scale" number to string converter [Tip/Trick] 25 May 2014 Updated: 25 May 2014 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,603 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I needed to show file sizes in a "human friendly format" recently, so I thought I'd knock up a simple method to do it. So the file sizes such as 10123456789 bytes would display as 10.1Gb and so forth.
	Merging rows from two DataTables into a new table with more columns if there is no common information. [Tip/Trick] 6 Jun 2015 Updated: 6 Jun 2015 Rating: 3.63/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,730 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you have two DataTables and you want to join the "matching" rows together in a new table, this provides a simple way to do it.
	Converting a value to an SI unit string [Tip/Trick] 2 Jul 2012 Updated: 2 Jul 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,338 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 72 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Converting a value to an SI unit string.
	Making an overridden Text property visible in the Visual Studio designer for a UserControl [Tip/Trick] 14 Jun 2012 Updated: 14 Jun 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,385 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Having the property "Text" be available for almost everything in .NET that interacts with the user makes life very simple. But when you create a new UserControl, the Text property doesn't appear in the Properties pane.
	Processing Double Click on a TabPage Tab in WinForms [Tip/Trick] 22 Nov 2015 Updated: 22 Nov 2015 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,091 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 189 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you perform a mouse action on a TabControl tab, it isn't passed to the relevant TabPage. This shows how to do that.
	Converting a List to a DataTable [Tip/Trick] 15 Jul 2011 Updated: 18 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 7.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 99,042 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I wrote this because I was interested in a Q&A question which asked for exactly that. Since I quite often use DataTables to transfer data, and to display it for debugging I knocked up an extension method to do it.
	Counting Lines in a String [Tip/Trick] 9 Jan 2012 Updated: 18 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 175,231 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 273 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It seems like an obvious requirement, but the .NET framework will not count occurrences of a character in a string. It's easy to do, but which way is the quickest?
	Working with Age: it's not the same as a TimeSpan! [Tip/Trick] 30 Mar 2013 Updated: 30 Mar 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,295 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 144 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Working with an Age (as in a persons age) is not the same as a Timespan, and there is no simple way to return an age. This provides a class to solve this.
	Read a Resource File from an assembly [Tip/Trick] 13 Feb 2017 Updated: 13 Feb 2017 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,861 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I embed a ToDo.txt and a RevisionHistory.txt file in every assembly - it helps me keep track of what has changed - and it normally gets read out and displayed in the "Help...About" dialog. But what if you want to read an embedded file from a different Assembly?
	ByteArrayBuilder - A StringBuilder for Bytes [Tip/Trick] 26 Oct 2013 Updated: 26 Oct 2013 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,031 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 652 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. StringBuilder is a very useful and memory efficient way to concatenate strings, but there is no obvious similar class for byte arrays. This class adds that, and provides a flexible binary data storage medium at the same time.
	Scoring the FOSW of the Day for People Who Find It Difficult. [Tip/Trick] 21 Jul 2016 Updated: 21 Jul 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,261 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 33 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Scoring the FOSW of the day for people who find it difficult
	Retrieving IP and MAC addresses for a LAN [Tip/Trick] 2 Apr 2012 Updated: 2 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 155,254 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Getting the IP and MAC for your PC is pretty simple, but what if you need those on your local network? It's not as simple as it sounds...
	Following object inheritance [Tip/Trick] 20 Jul 2010 Updated: 23 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,080 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes, it helps to know the complete inheritance of an object or type in order to understand what can be done with it. This Tip presents a simple C# class to access the information
	Human readable strings for enum elements [Tip/Trick] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,372 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using enum really helps readability, but the values within the enum must understandably conform to the rules for variables names. This is fine until you need to display enum values to the user. This tip shows you how to associate and access a human readable string with each enum element.
	Converting dates to the Roman equivalent [Tip/Trick] 26 Aug 2010 Updated: 26 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,101 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If your tutor asks you to convert years to the Roman equivalent, (e.g. 2010 to MMX) then you are not alone! Here is the simplest, most foolproof way to do it!
	Sending an Email in C# with or without attachments: generic routine. [Tip/Trick] 2 Mar 2011 Updated: 3 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 54 Popularity: 8.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 189,773 Bookmarked: 52 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sending an email is not a real problem, but I am fed up with answering the question "How do I do it?" in Q&A . So, here is the generic routine I use to send an email, with or without attachments, so I can just point people at it!
	Password Storage: How to do it. [Tip/Trick] 25 Apr 2011 Updated: 29 Apr 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 94 Popularity: 9.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 169,440 Bookmarked: 116 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A lot of people are asking how to encrypt passwords, and I have answered "Don't do it" too many times. This Tip describes how to store a password in your database, and why.
	A simple way to ensure only one instance is running. [Tip/Trick] 31 Jul 2011 Updated: 31 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,456 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes, you want to only run a single instance of an application - this makes it very simple to do. An Extension method that checks, switches and kills as necessary.
	A FileDialog.Filter generator for all supported images [Tip/Trick] 16 Sep 2011 Updated: 18 Sep 2011 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 61,290 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Recently, I had to write a quick app to load images into a database, and wanted to restrict the file type to just images. You can do this with the OpenFileDialog.Filter property, but it is a pain working out what file extensions to permit.
	How to get a basic WCF service working on a web hosting service [Tip/Trick] 10 Oct 2011 Updated: 10 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,101 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Originally, I was going to create a simple Web Service using an ASMX file, but that appears to have been removed from Visual Studio 2010 - or at least I couldn't find it easily. So, WCF it is! I love the way technology lasts, don't you? Right, so I know nothing about WCF, tutorials here I come...
	Setting a default value for C# Auto-implemented properties [Tip/Trick] 4 Jan 2012 Updated: 7 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.22 Licence: CPOL Views: 133,279 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the things missing from C# is the ability to set a default value of auto-implemented properties. You can set a default for variable backed properties, and you can set them for the designer. This does it for you.
	XmlSerializer doesn't work with Dictionaries. Oh, and it has problems with KeyValuePairs too. [Tip/Trick] 12 Jan 2012 Updated: 13 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,795 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. XmlSerializer complains if you try to serialize anything which implements IDictionary. This provides a way of serialising them which (if not capable of restoring the exact dictionary content) restores the actual field contents in a new dictionary.
	Using human readable enum values in a ComboBox [Tip/Trick] 24 Jan 2012 Updated: 31 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,821 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes, all I want is a control which allows the user to select one of several options, and tell me which one - ideally as a handy enum value. This shows a simple method which allows this.
	Converting numbers to the word equivalent. [Tip/Trick] 19 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 May 2013 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 77 Popularity: 9.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 152,639 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If your tutor asks you to convert numbers to words (i.e. 565 to a string "Five hundred and sixty-five") then you are not alone! Here is the simplest, most foolproof way to do it.
	Switching From a BackgroundWorker To a Task - It's a Neater Solution, Particularly When Reporting Progress [Tip/Trick] 17 Jan 2024 Updated: 17 Jan 2024 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,900 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why switch from the "traditional" BackgroundWorker to a Task? The old way works OK, but the new way generates "tidier" code which keeps stuff together (and needs less code)
	Getting round Visual Studio when it decides a class isn't the same as itself... [Tip/Trick] 31 Oct 2013 Updated: 31 Oct 2013 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,820 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Sometimes (far too often, I find) you will try to open a form in the Visual Studio designer, and it won't open it because "the type X declared in Project X is not the same as the type X declared in Project X". This is annoying, as well as being blatantly untrue. Stop laughing at the back there!
	Using the Article Editor (without losing your hair in handfuls) [Tip/Trick] 17 Jun 2014 Updated: 17 Jun 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,911 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 12 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Article editor does work - but sometimes it does do things the hard way, and tries to frustrate you on purpose, I'm sure...
C# 3.5	Using Linq to create a Dictionary of sub-Lists by grouping from a collection. [Tip/Trick] 27 May 2014 Updated: 27 May 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 67,282 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is really easy - but it's hard to work out for the first time. For example, get a list of files, and group them by the date which is in the 2nd to 10th characters of the name, ignoring extensions. Easy!
C# 5.0	Using IP based Geolocation - and why it's pretty much useless. [Tip/Trick] 3 Jul 2014 Updated: 3 Jul 2014 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,574 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 618 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I've answered quite a few questions in the last couple of months about how to get the physical location of a client from a website. And people seem to get annoyed when I say: "Don't. It's no real use". But that's the truth: you can get it, but it won't be accurate. Let's have a look and see why.
C# 8.0	Visual Studio Project Templates - How to Get Parameter Substitutions to Work Inside Strings [Tip/Trick] 16 Jul 2023 Updated: 16 Jul 2023 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.98 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,341 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I am switching to C# 8 / .NET 7 so I'm recreating my project templates to create suitable versions. And it's not trivial as some things are very different.
SQL	SQL Totals for this week and other useful time periods [Tip/Trick] 18 Dec 2013 Updated: 18 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,040 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Getting totals for a specific period: this week, this month, this year. And last week, last month, and last year.
	Using comma separated value parameter strings in SQL IN clauses [Tip/Trick] 27 Apr 2013 Updated: 7 May 2013 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 354,773 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 273 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Passing a comma separated list of values to an SQL query is all very well, but you can't just use them in an "IN" clause. This helps.
	Updating records selected using information from another table [Tip/Trick] 14 Jul 2013 Updated: 14 Jul 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,390 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you have two (or more) tables which are interrelated, you sometimes need to update the rows of one table, selected from information in a different table. This isn't difficult, but is can take a little think about.
	Removing the minutes and seconds from a DATETIME [Tip/Trick] 24 Mar 2020 Updated: 24 Mar 2020 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.56 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,029 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A basic user defined function to remove minute and second from a DATETIME
	Select users with birthdate in the next 10 days [Tip/Trick] 26 Dec 2019 Updated: 26 Dec 2019 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,223 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Select users with a birthday in the next "n" days is pretty easy, if you use the day of year. The only slight complication is the need to "wrap" round the year end.
	Fetching Data from a Specific Week Relative to a Date in SQL [Tip/Trick] 14 Sep 2021 Updated: 14 Sep 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,224 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How do you get last weeks data only? It's a little more complex than you might have thought
Visual Basic	Formatting a DateTime for display - format string description [Tip/Trick] 26 Jan 2010 Updated: 26 Jan 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 57,077 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Normally I keep information like this in a text file, in a folder called "How To Do It", as it is handy to have around, and too much work to search for each time I need it, but too much detail for me to remember if I don't use it often. Formatting a DateTime for display:DateTime.ToString()...
	Disable the Close box on a form [Tip/Trick] 26 Jan 2010 Updated: 18 Feb 2012 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 7.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 86,557 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Disable the Close box on a form
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	Making F1 do something useful in Visual Studio [Tip/Trick] 10 Feb 2011 Updated: 12 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 49 Popularity: 8.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 68,027 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. F1 in Visual Studio takes forever, and rarely comes up with anything useful. Replace it with a Google MSDN search!
	Adding your items to Visual Studio default files [Tip/Trick] 17 Jul 2010 Updated: 9 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,052 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adding your items to Visual Studio default files
	Adding a Snippet to Visual Studio [Tip/Trick] 16 Nov 2011 Updated: 20 Nov 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,601 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It is really easy to do once you get the idea how, but the Microsoft documentation could be a lot clearer - so here is a simple sample with full instructions.
	Create Visual Studio forms for items you frequently use [Tip/Trick] 8 Jan 2012 Updated: 8 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,340 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Quite often, when I create a new form, the first thing I need to add is an OK and a Cancel button. Recently, I realized that I could create templates for these in Visual Studio and save some time.
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ASP.NET	Supporting Development and Release web.config in ASP.NET [Tip/Trick] 5 Jan 2011 Updated: 7 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,482 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Supporting Development and Release web.config in ASP.NET
	Showing a page of information at a time in a GridView [Tip/Trick] 7 Feb 2011 Updated: 8 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,204 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When I add a log reader, the size of the log can be huge, and get very slow to view. This makes the GridView do all the work of paging the data for you.
	A generic Image-From-DB class for ASP.NET [Tip/Trick] 14 Aug 2011 Updated: 14 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,013 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Getting an image from a database and displaying it in an ASP.NET page is something we have to do quite often. Here is a generic class which does the job for you.

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