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Take the Pain Out of Deployments with ClickOnce

ne of the most challenging tasks faced by Windows application developers is the deployment of their applications on the client machines. Once an application is deployed, any changes or maintenance

Retrieving a Domain Name

This VB function returns the DNS domain name (westcoast.mycorp.com) from the passed LDAP distinguishedName (CN=Administrator,DN=Users,DC=westcoast,DC=mycorp,DC=com). Function DN2DomainName(ByVal strDN As String) On Error Resume Next Dim strDomainName As String Dim strDNParts()

Implementing the GetFreePhysicalMemory API in Linux

Because everything in Linux is composed of files, you can get any required information from the /proc/meminfo file. Here’s the code: int getFreePhysicalMemory(){ ifstream meminfo(“/proc/meminfo”); if ( ! meminfo.is_open() )

Overloading a Constructor or Method

Overloading a constructor or a method so it takes an extra argument based upon some specific requirement can result in duplicate code. For instance, a project that contains a lot

Retrieving Custom Objects Added to the Clipboard

You may have found that sometimes, copying a custom .NET object to the clipboard doesn’t work. That’s because retrieving a custom object from the clipboard returns nothing if the object

The Less SQL Server Sorts, the Faster It Responds

ometimes we developers put unnecessary burden on the server, having it perform too many sorts or sort more data than necessary. By applying the techniques described in the following sections

In the Eolas Patent Lawsuit, Users Lose

bout two years ago, I wrote an editorial explaining (and excoriating) the Eolas lawsuit?or more pointedly, the patent itself. Given Microsoft’s recent announcement that it’s planning to change Internet Explorer

A Very Brief Peek at LINQ

t PDC, Microsoft announced the Language Integrated Query framework (the LINQ Project). The LINQ Project is a set of language extensions to C# and Visual Basic and a unified programming

Use sun.misc Classes for Base64 Image Conversion

The following code demonstrates how to use sun.misc classes for Base64 image conversion: import java.io.*;import java.awt.*;import java.awt.event.*;class Base64Example extends Frame implements ActionListener{Image IMG=null; //image1Image IMGdecode=null; //image2-resultTextArea TA=new TextArea(); //printing the

Implement GetTickCount in Linux

To implement the GetTickCount API when porting code from Windows to Linux, use the following code: long getTickCount(){ tms tm; return times(&tm);}

How to Hide a ContextMenu

To display the shortcut menu, you call ContextMenu.Show() method. Typically, you call this method if the right mouse button on a control or area of the form is clicked. The

Handling Null Values in Oracle

Oftentimes, a query will return null values for some of the columns in a query. However, to display “null” as the value in the generated report isn’t a very effective

Analyze Your IIS6 Web Logs with AWStats

eb server logs are a powerful resource for extracting information about your Web sites and applications. When logging is enabled, Web servers log information about each request. By analyzing these

Statistics Made Easier with STL

rogrammers developing financial, scientific, and numerical analysis applications often need to reinvent the wheel, implementing statistical functions for calculate mean, median, percentiles, and similar statistical data. This solution will show

.Finalize(): What Does That Beep Mean?

pparently, only a fraction of the people who live in Florida actually live in Florida. At least, that’s what the tax collector thinks, because if you actually do suffer through

Heard on .NET Rocks!: Pobar and Abrams on the CLR

am the host of “.NET Rocks!”, an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at www.dotnetrocks.com and msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks. Together with my co-host Richard Campbell, we interview the movers and

Tragedy and a Call to Action

his last month has been quite tragic on a number of levels. Early September brought Hurricane Katrina which wreaked havoc on the citizens of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Literally thousands