Visual Studio 2010
A few days ago I received an email from Microsoft advertising the release of the new version of Visual Studio. Now I work as a .NET developer, so Visual Studio is the most used application for me -...
View ArticleString to an Input Stream
Recently I came across an issue in java where xml data retrieved from a database. The returned string needs to be converted into an input stream to be useful in the program.The following is a solution...
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Google background image
This morning I was surprised to find a fading background of flowers on my google home page. Its quite nice black and white picture, and I thought hmm that's nice; how to I get rid of it?I clicked the...
View ArticleNatural Sorting
Natural sorting of string values can be an issue that you as a developer will run into time from time. And if you haven't, you will. Recently I had to organise a list of filenames into their natural...
View ArticleAssigning key value pairs to a combo box
Assigning key value pairs to a combo box Recently someone asked me how to assign values to a combo box in .NET. The request seemed simple enough, but it can often confuse someone new to the .NET...
View ArticleSql Database Wrapper
I often find myself repeating same processes in .NET over the course of several projects. One of these repeating tasks in writing code to access database data. .NET goes a long way towards assisting...
View ArticleAny Colour you like, as long as its .NET
In .NET applications you can make any colour you like be supplying the R, G, and B values into the System.Drawing.Color structure structure. However, the color structure in .NET has a set of predefined...
View ArticleCode behind Color List
Some users have requested the code I used to generate the Any Colur you like as long as its .NET post last week. The following is the c# function I used to extract the list of colours. void...
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