Archive for September, 2009

Winforms Calendar code – C#

Here is a quick windows forms calendar code.
I used a TableLayoutPanel with Dock=Fill.

private void FillDays()
{
DateTime FirstDay = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year,
DateTime.Now.Month, 1);
 
int [...]

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New OS from Microsoft Research – Barrelfish

Barrelfish is a new research operating system being built from scratch in a collaboration between ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research, Cambridge.. This OS is written specifically for multi-core environments. It hopes to improve the performance of boxes with such chips by creating a network bus, if you will, between cores.

Home page: http://www.barrelfish.org/
Read more here
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Get currently logged in user from a service running under LocalSystem account

Here goes the sample code:

using System.IO;
using System.Management;
using System.ServiceProcess;
 
namespace MyTestService
{
public partial class MyTestService : ServiceBase
{
public MyTestService()
{
InitializeComponent();
[...]

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MS SQL Tables Viewer

This is one of my hobby tool which simply connects to a MS SQL Server database and shows all the available tables and its column names. This tool is programmed with Visual C# 2008 Express Edition.
Download from here: http://kidoos.net/media/p/588.aspx
Let me know if somebody needs source code. I have no plans to extend this app [...]

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Free sample chapter from Book: Windows Internals, Fifth Edition

Chapter 5, “Processes, Threads, and Jobs,” from Windows Internals, Fifth Edition (Microsoft Press, 2009), by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon with Alex Ionescu, is available, all 116 gloriously detailed pages of it, here:
http://cid-5a051e94bda12163.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/9780735625303%7C_CH05.pdf?ccr=3352
This sample chapter also includes the book’s complete Table of Contents.
Source: Microsoft Press blog
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Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP

Read the whitepaper here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc793139(SQL.90).aspx
extension=php_sqlsrv.dll

The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is a Microsoft-supported extension of PHP 5 that provides data access to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The extension provides a procedural interface for accessing data in all editions of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server [...]

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ReSharper – Reduces coding time

Even though there are some debates in rules in ReSharp with tech-gurus, I personally like the way ReSharper works. For me these are the quick found benefits

It codes for me
It corrects!
It suggests!
It teaches!

Only annoying part is it creates a _ReSharper.blah folder in the solution folder. But anyway we have to compromise for the positives and [...]

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Productivity Hub

The Productivity Hub is a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that offers training materials for end-users. Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts.
Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts. The Hub is a SharePoint [...]

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iPhone Development with .NET

Happy news
Novell technology lets developers use .Net and C# instead of C or Objective-C to build applications for Apple’s handheld. Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications using Microsoft’s .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages.
Read more here.
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Free eBook: Engineering Software for Accessibility from MS Press

Download this book here.

The book addresses three basic questions:

How do you plan for accessibility?
How do you design your software for accessibility?
How can you implement and test to your software to confirm it meets the accessible design?

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