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Compare and update XML File with the changes

Recently I had a requirement to compare 2 XML Files, which has the existing and new settings of an application stored in them. what I wanted to do is when a new XML file of settings is arrived, I had to compare and retain the existing settings, and add any new ones if there are [...]

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The FILESTREAM Data Type in SQL Server 2008

Seriously, i’ve no time these days for blogging, busy with work as well as personal activities. but just wanted to share this valuable information for those who might have missed. Well the current project which im working on is the ASSETTE Presentations. for more information on the project you can see the above link. but the [...]

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44 Silverlight 2.0 Videos

Are you searching  for webcasts to learn about Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 ? well then, here is a good news for you all.Mike Taulty recently uploaded and amazing collection of Silverlight 2.0 screencasts on how Silverlight works, controls, File IO, networking, UI design,  data-binding, interacting with HTML pages, and more.if you want to have a good [...]

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Create Excel Sheets Programmatically with C# without Installing Excel.

Here goes one more needy component for developers. a lot of developers always had a problem of exporting data to excel programmatically. if you Google this topic you will get many results regarding this. here are some which caught my eyes. How To Use ADO.NET to Retrieve and Modify Records in an Excel Workbook With Visual [...]

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Create PDF Files on the fly with C# and PDFSharp

Recently one of my colleague asked me is there anyway to programmatically merge huge number of PDF  files in to a single file, without using Adobe Acrobat libraries, well the answer is yeah. and there are a lot of off the shelve and open source libraries available for this. the best one I found is [...]

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IIS and Skype : IIS: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070020)

  I just came back from work few hours ago. and i received a call from my PM about some issue, and it was on a web application running on  HTTPS (SSL).  so I tried to create a local application with SSL in my local IIS for testing purpose. ( to know how to create SSL [...]

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FREE - Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition & Expression Studio For Students

Well Last February Microsoft Announced Dreamspark. which provides free downloads of professional developer tools for students. but it seems a lot of students doesnt know about it. so i thought i could inform you all, in case if you had missed it. DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools [...]

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MSDN Reader!! A Must Have Application!

www.windowsclient.net have released a new "Syndicated Client Starter Kit" designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content experiences which engage the user, from documents and photos to videos and podcasts.you can read the story here. And this Starter Kit Show case includes an awsum MSDN Reader. The MSDN Reader allows you to [...]

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