Photoshop Express - Free and Online
Posted on March 30, 2008 | 3 Comments
Adobe, creator of the desktop graphic editor called Photoshop, launched a new online and free edition of Photoshop Express (Beta). Here is a quote from a post Create your Logos, Buttons and Icons for Free that was published a few weeks ago in this blog: “There are many graphic editor programs in the market. Whether those products are commercial or free, their users are… Continue reading...
What to do When Lotus Notes Crashes
Posted on March 25, 2008 | 2 Comments
Lotus Notes is an integrated desktop client option for accessing business e-mail, calendars and applications on [an] IBM Lotus Domino server. The Notes client is mainly used as an email client in large organizations, so some of us have to work with it. I, personally don’t like it because it is not user friendly (see Lotus Hall of Shame) and it tends to crash a lot. Continue reading...
Customize SpellCheck on WPF Text Controls
Posted on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
WPF has a great feature for spell checking called SpellCheck, which is applied on TextBox and RichTextBox controls. In this post I will explain about it and how can it be customized. Lets go back to the start, to activate the spell checker just set SpellCheck.IsEnabled property to True. Easy, right?. Take a look at the Continue reading...
Create your Logos, Buttons and Icons for Free
Posted on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There are many graphic editor programs in the market. Whether those products are commercial or free, their users are required to gain high skills in a specific tool, in order to achieve satisfying results. There are several sites in the web which makes it possible to create logos, button images and icons for free and with very little effort. I will focus on 2 web sites I like most.
CoolText… Continue reading...
How to reset Identity Increment value in MS SQL
Posted on March 22, 2008 | 8 Comments
An Identity column in SQL Server is used to auto number the rows. See this great post on Autonumbering & Identity Columns. When you delete rows from the table, the identity will not reset but you have few options of doing it yourself. The SQL Server Management Studio GUI doesn’t support this option…
1. DBCC CHECKIDENT
This is the most easy way, just set it yourself… Continue reading...
3 Ways to Run NUnit From Visual Studio
Posted on March 22, 2008 | 4 Comments
Like it or not, whoever wants to have a stable code, need to write unit tests. There are 2 main unit testing frameworks for .Net Environment: MBUnit and NUnit. During this post, I am going to focus on NUnit and its integration with Visual Studio in particular. 
Once we wrote our unit tests and compiled them, an assembly file is Continue reading...
How to Use HttpWebRequest over SSL
Posted on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
If you try to use HttpWebRequest for calling secured sites, and you are getting the following exception: “The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship with remote server” here is what’s happening and how you can (hopefully) solve it:
When browsing to a secured site with your web browser, you get a dialog asking if you trust the certificate provided by the server. If you invoke a web service or scrapping… Continue reading...
Why Convert.ToInt32 Might be Dangerous
Posted on March 19, 2008 | 6 Comments
Casting float to int is interesting. Not only it causes the value to get truncated, but it also changes binary representation. When you want to cast float to int you have two options:
1) If you came from c/c++, there are several ways to do cast operations but the natural thing would be to use (int).
2) You can also use the Convert class to do the job (C#).
Check this Continue reading...