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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Sorting a Dictionary via a list

Sample of sorting a dictionary

Dictionary dictionary = new Dictionary();
dictionary.Add(0,"cat");
dictionary.Add(1,"dog");
dictionary.Add(2,"Tiger");
dictionary.Add(3,"Rat");

//// Sort the dictionary
List> result = new List>(dictionary);
result.Sort(delegate(KeyValuePair first, KeyValuePair second)
{
return first.Value.CompareTo(second.Value);
});

Monday, March 19, 2012

History vs Aliens

There are wonderful and curios couple of videos on history channel. It is all about the unimaginable creations of history.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

ASP.NET Inline coding

http://weblogs.asp.net/ahmedmoosa/archive/2010/10/06/embedded-code-and-inline-server-tags.aspx

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Entrypting SQL server database 2005

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/applisec/archive/2008/06/15/microsoft-sql-server-2005-database-encryption-step-by-step.aspx

Friday, December 10, 2010

Send html page directly to the default printer without showing print dialog box

[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>title>
<object classid="CLSID:8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2" height="0" id="WB" width="0">
object>

<script language="JavaScript">
DA = (document.all) ? 1 : 0
script>

<script language="VBScript">

'sub print()
'OLECMDID_PRINT = 6
'OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER '= 2
'OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER '= 1
'on error resume next
'IE4 object has different command structure
'if DA then
'call 'WB.ExecWB(OLECMDID_PRINT, 'OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER,1)
'else
'call 'WB.IOleCommandTarget.Exec(OLECMDID_PRINT ',OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER,"","")
'end if

'end sub

'This will be interpreted during loading.
'It will write out the correct webbrowser object depending
'on the browser version. To be sure it works, make sure you
'include this script block in between the body tags.

if DA then
'this must be IE4 or greater
wbvers="8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2"
else
'this must be IE3.x
wbvers="EAB22AC3-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B"
end if

document.write ""

script>

<style type="text/css">
#form1
{
height: 275px;
}
style>
head>
<%----%>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" onclientclick="window.print();"
Text="Button" />
<br />
<iframe src="Test.pdf" width="500px" height="500px">
this is test
iframe>
form>
body>
html>

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Callback vs Postback

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/365100/difference-between-a-postback-and-a-callback

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Async File Upload control - Close file problem

Add this under section <system.web> section

<httpruntime maxrequestlength="51200" requestLengthDiskThreshold="4096" />