Content Size Adjustment for Localization in ASP.NET
I recently had a situation where many of the controls on my ASP.NET form (with a mixture of ASP.NET, custom & Coolite controls) needed size adjustment depending upon the language in which the form was rendered. Translation of content itself was not that such big a...
Serializing DateTime for client-side Coolite/ExtJs consumption
If you are trying to figure out why Coolite/ExtJs is giving an error while loading DateTime you serialized to Json manually (including serialization to json of records which contain Datetime fields), here is the answer.Well, as far as I have seen, Coolite/ExtJs...
Local Variables in a T-Sql loop are not really local
I found this the hard way out. Local variables in a T-Sql loop in Sql Server are not really local in the strict terms of a block-oriented programming language like C/C++.e.g. In C++, if you have the following:{syntaxhighlighter brush: cpp;fontsize: 100; first-line: 1;...
Limiting rows in Sql Server
One problem I have always faced with Sql Server (more so, after I used MySql, and saw that MySql allows this) is to find a way to limit the number of rows being fetched in a SELECT query.Although Sql Server provides a ROWCOUNT statement & TOP clause for the SELECT...
“∩╗┐” is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Almost all of us must have encountered the following message in the Output window while getting a batch (.bat) file executed in Visual Studio as part of the build process for some project."" is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or...
Coolite Control Validation
I have been a big fan of Coolite/ExtJs frameworks. ExtJs provides the client-side framework for Web 2.0 applications that I did not believe was possible, until I actually saw & used the ExtJs library. Simultaneously, the Coolite team has done an excellent task of...
Insert Html in MS Word documents
One of my clients recently asked me to generate dynamic reports from content in the database, where the content contained Html entered by him through a WYSIWYG editor from a web application. I already had a library, that allowed considerable flexibility in generating...
SMS Application – a JME application for sending SMSes
I recently finished work on my first Java ME application. It was basically a prototyping application for my client based in Italy, to see how fast can we send SMSes from his service provider.The application (whose jad & jar files are attached below), basically...
Token Replacement in Office documents
A common situation is to prepare invoices, etc. from information in a database. Clients usually have extremely customized invoice formats, but the data to be filled in is basically the same. This article and its related code present a new (I have searched, but could...
ASP.NET Content Scroller Control
Content scrolling is a very common task on the web. This ASP.NET server-side control enables you to embed any HTML or ASP controls as its template that it can scroll vertically or horizontally in any direction with configurable scroll speed.Due to a larger...
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