Month: October 2015

Using iTextSharp to generate pdf file in asp.net

Enrico

One of the common requirement of web applications is to provide users a way to download some contents. In case of a report, almost all of the reporting tools have the export to pdf kind of function available. But sometime, it is not a report that needs to be generated in pdf. But it could be simple web page or content of a page or sometimes a plain text needs to be generated in pdf format. There are many third party tools are available for this task. We can import…

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Happy 60th Birthday Bill Gates

Enrico

The founder of Microsoft and wealthiest man in the world turns 60 years old today. William Henry Gates III was born October 28th, 1955 in Seattle, Washington where he still resides in his post Microsoft years. He has much to celebrate as he turns 60. After leading Microsoft for decades it must be quite rewarding to see the company he founded grow in such a bold direction this year with a booming commercial cloud computing division, new category defining hardware that is leading the competition, and an incredibly fast adoption…

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Microsoft’s new Windows 10 build allows you to text from your PC, but it’s the bug fixes that impress

Enrico

Unfortunately, it requires an upgrade from Windows Phone 8.1 – again. Microsoft launched build 10572 of Windows 10 Mobile to its insiders, together with a few nifty improvements on the messaging fronts. But, as before, you’ll still need to first downgrade to Windows Phone 8.1 to take advantage. Microsoft did say, however, that this two-steps-back, one-step-ahead approach will soon stop, and users in the Windows Insider program will once again be able to upgrade from Windows 10 preview builds without having to downgrade first. But the new build offers several…

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Write C#. Run JavaScript.

Enrico

Open Source C# to JavaScript Compiler and Frameworks. Run Your App On Any Device Using JavaScript. Use Bridge.NET to build platform independent applications for mobile, web and desktop. Run on iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux and billions of other devices with JavaScript support. Compile your C# code into native JavaScript and deploy on Billions of devices. Try it on bridge.net or fork it on GitHub

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How do I get a Unique Identifier for a Device within Windows 10 Universal?

Enrico

If you google a bit about this problem, you can’t find a right solution because all people are speaking about Hardware Token. Unfortunately this functionality doesn’t exists for Universal Windows Application. There are at the moment only a way. You have to add the Extension reference “Windows Desktop Extensions for the UWP” or “Windows Mobile Extensions for the UWP“, then you can use the following code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Windows.Security.ExchangeActiveSyncProvisioning; using Windows.System.Profile; namespace PSC.Code { public sealed class DeviceInfo { private static…

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How can I know when SQL Full Text Index Population is finished?

Enrico

When you execute some queries on your SQL Server, are you sure the catalog is being imported? With this simple script you can know which is the Index status. DECLARE @CatalogName VARCHAR(MAX) SET @CatalogName = ‘TEST_FullIndex’ SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(@CatalogName,’ItemCount’) as NumberOfItems, FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(@CatalogName,’ImportStatus’) as ImportStatus, DATEADD(ss, FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(@CatalogName, ‘PopulateCompletionAge’), ‘1/1/1990′) AS LastPopulated, (SELECT CASE FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(@CatalogName,’PopulateStatus’) WHEN 0 THEN ‘Idle’ WHEN 1 THEN ‘Full Population In Progress’ WHEN 2 THEN ‘Paused’ WHEN 3 THEN ‘Throttled’ WHEN 4 THEN ‘Recovering’ WHEN 5 THEN ‘Shutdown’ WHEN 6 THEN ‘Incremental Population In Progress’ WHEN 7 THEN ‘Building…

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