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 [...]
Continue reading...25. July 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...18. February 2008
these days I’m just playing around with Visual studio 2008 and its new features, C# 3.0 LINQ, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, ASP.Net 3.5 and much more. And trust me last few months, I have received a lot of emails regarding How to’s of these and requesting resources to learn these language improvements. well may be [...]
Continue reading...26. December 2007
W. Kevin Hazzard had blogged a good post about how to make windows services to install them selves without using installutil.exe command which comes with the .NET framework. you can read the full article here.
Continue reading...23. December 2007
Last two weeks I have been working on developing bulk data manipulations. And even before that I always wondered “What’s the best way to pass an array of values into a SQL Server stored procedure.” One option I found was OPENXML, which I blogged here. And I was trying out visual studio 2008 and SQL [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2007
Last week at my work I had to write a tool to process few hundreds of thousand email files and insert their details to the MS SQL Server 2005 database. Doing it in traditional way might require much connectivity to the database and will consume many resources. I was wondering what if I could insert [...]
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30. October 2008
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