Favorite Gadgets: 2015

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C#

An interesting rant on C# in favor of VB.Net

10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C#

4 Ways to Text from a Computer to a Cell Phone - wikiHow

GitHub For Beginners: Don't Get Scared, Get Started - ReadWrite

Here is a good article about what GitHub is and how to use it!

GitHub For Beginners: Don't Get Scared, Get Started - ReadWrite

Silverlight 4.0 feature #1: Right click Mouse events [Context Menu]

Here is some code for get a right-click mouse event to work in silverlight!

Silverlight 4.0 feature #1: Right click Mouse events [Context Menu]

A C1 Visual Style aware Message Box - Our ComponentOne

Here ware two artcles about how to use the component one Message Box control for Silverlight. The message box the comes with Silverlight is really limiting. It only allows users to send "OK" and "Cancel" as responses. the Component One version gives a lot more options but the problem is it does not return any values so instead you have to do the following:

C1MessageBox.Show("Do you want to delete?", "The question", C1MessageBoxButton.YesNoCancel, C1MessageBoxIcon.Question,
                new System.Action<MessageBoxResult>((result) =>
                {
                    switch (result)
                    {
                        case MessageBoxResult.Yes:
                            MessageBox.Show("You Pressed Yes");
                            break;
                        case MessageBoxResult.No:
                            MessageBox.Show("You Pressed No");
                            break;
                        case MessageBoxResult.Cancel:
                            MessageBox.Show("Are you sure you want to cancel");
                            break;
                    }
                }));

A C1 Visual Style aware Message Box - Our ComponentOne

and

http://our.componentone.com/groups/topic/c1messageboxresult/

WCF Throttling – Part 1 | Anders Lybecker's Weblog!

This is a great article regarding how WCF web services can be better optimized when running on IIS. I have been running into this problem when two or more users are trying to use my web service at the same time. I will conduct a few more tests but I think this will solve the problem

WCF Throttling – Part 1 | Anders Lybecker's Weblog!

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Open Port Check Tool - Test Port Forwarding on Your Router

This tool will get you information on a port using the computer's IP Address. Super duper useful

Open Port Check Tool - Test Port Forwarding on Your Router

Hostname to IP address Lookup

You can use this tool to find the matching IP address to a hostname and vice versa

Hostname to IP address Lookup

Friday, August 21, 2015

PowerShell Scripts to Apply Configuration Transformations for App.Config or Web.Config Files - CodeProject

Handy article for Software developers

PowerShell Scripts to Apply Configuration Transformations for App.Config or Web.Config Files - CodeProject

Using Cortana to get Foo Due - CodeProject

Here is an article on how to make a universal app leveraging Cortana! in VB.Net

Using Cortana to get Foo Due - CodeProject

Remote Desktop Application - CodeProject

Here is an article about how to code a remote desktop program!

Remote Desktop Application - CodeProject

Monday, August 10, 2015

Install Microsoft Kinect on PC - CodeProject

Some practical steps to run Microsoft Kinect on a Windows PC

Install Microsoft Kinect on PC - CodeProject

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

FrequentlyAskedQuestions - selenium - WebDriver FAQs - Browser automation framework - Google Project Hosting

The following is an excerpt from an article about testing web apps by automating web browsers.

Q: What is WebDriver?
A: WebDriver is a tool for writing
automated tests of websites. It aims to mimic the behaviour of a real
user, and as such interacts with the HTML of the application.

FrequentlyAskedQuestions - selenium - WebDriver FAQs - Browser automation framework - Google Project Hosting

Thursday, May 14, 2015

How to: Delete a File in Visual Basic

Useful Article!!!

How to: Delete a File in Visual Basic

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Rudimentary PDF Generation in C# Using iTextSharp - CodeProject

Here is a great article about how to make your code generate PDF files

Rudimentary PDF Generation in C# Using iTextSharp - CodeProject

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Convert doc/docx documents to PDF with Foxit Reader - CodeProject

Here is another slick way to convert a word document into a pdf using

Convert doc/docx documents to PDF with Foxit Reader - CodeProject

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Watching Folder Activity in VB.NET - CodeProject

I just found out that the .Net framework allows you to watch files and folders from code. Here are two articles about how to use this function.

Watching Folder Activity in VB.NET - CodeProject

File System Watcher Class Demo (VB.NET)

.net - Strange -1.#IND error in VB.net - Stack Overflow

Ever raised a negative number to a fractional power in a VB.Net program? Don't do it!!! Here is an article on how VB.net handles that!

.net - Strange -1.#IND error in VB.net - Stack Overflow

Can you convert a PDF table with Row and Column structure retaining in Excel? [A-PDF.com]

Yes, y6u can. This tool actually works!

Can you convert a PDF table with Row and Column structure retaining in Excel? [A-PDF.com]

progressbar-2.3.tar.gz - python-progressbar - progressbar-2.3 - Text progressbar library for python. - Google Project Hosting

21 Borderline Genius Websites To Productively Procrastinate Everything

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Remote Debugging Using Visual Studio 2013

Eureka!!!!

I got the remote debugger to work on a web server ! This site helped me to connect Visual Studio 2013 to web server.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13563808/visual-studio-remote-debugging-cant-find-the-computer-in-the-same-domain

And here is the link for how to install the tools :

http://www.itworld.com/development/419916/how-set-remote-debugging-visual-studio-2013

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Converting DataTable Contents into a PDF Report

I came across the need to convert DataTable into a PDF report and I found a couple of articles to show exactly how to do it. I was able to edit it for my use. Both articles use iTextSharp. It worked great!

VB.Net version

C# version