Why database should be taught before programming in universities?
Learn Database before Coding Often students from the initial semester ask me how do we store our data in our programming projects? When students join university to learn about computer science and technology they are usually taught programming fi ...
Visual Studio 2017 is coming in March
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2017 will be available for download on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Microsoft is also celebrating a launch event. You can join at 8:00 AM PST on March 7th and 8th for a two-day online event celebrating the launch ...
Deploy your first ASP.Net MVC App to AppHarbor
Our focus is to deploy our ASP.Net MVC app built using new Visual Studio 2015 MVC template to AppHarbor via GitHub.
One reason why you should refactor your code often
Once upon a time, a consultant made a visit to a development project. The consultant looked at some of the code that had been written; there was a class hierarchy at the center of the system. As he wandered through the hierarchy, the consultant saw t ...
How to check if DLL is compiled as 32-bit or 64-bit?
Open visual studio command prompt. Use this command: dumpbin /headers C:\path\name.dll At the very beginning, you will find “FILE HEADER VALUES”, the first value will have a “(x86) ” for 32 bit and “(x64)” for 64 bit.
Xdebug in WebMatrix
Xdebug is a very popular PHP extension that helps with debugging and profiling of PHP scripts by providing a lot of valuable debug information. Microsoft WebMatrix is a development tool for building web applications. When WebMatrix is ...
Using Response.Redirect in try…catch block
Use overload Response.Redirect(String url, bool endResponse) if using in try catch block.
REST Web Services calls with C#
It's really easy to call REST based web services from C#.Net. Let's see how to do it. We'll be calling Yahoo Web Services as an example here. Make REST Calls With C# The .NET Framework provides classes for performing HTTP requests. This HOWTO descr ...
XML with C#
The .NET Framework provides excellent support for XML. Combined with the databinding support of WinForms and ASP.NET applications you have an easy and powerful set of tools. ASP.NET 2.0 takes databinding another step further by providing the DataSource control which lets you declaratively provide data access to data-bound UI controls.
How to kill your time by hardcoding?
Spend some time to make things configurable in start of a project to save hours of troubleshooting later in the project.
Threads in Perl without using thread module
Perl threads are not good. If you need threads in Perl, try coding your multi-threaded part in C/C++, and wrap that in Perl.
XMS.Net Consumer Application for IBM WebSphere MQ
If you are also trying to run XMS.Net application and want to subscribe to some topic with selector string to filter messages, remember to run the application in ‘unmanaged’ mode.