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• C# and SQL Server cool links

  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

  Every good link that I found about C# or SQL Server I post it into this page, I think there are several intertings things.

• Pat Index is not RegEx but I like it

  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

  SQL Server 2005 it’s quite cool and allows us to mix CLR code to avoid making complicated and heavy T-SQL strange stored procs, … One of the best things is string pattern comparision just using RegEx from C# makes development quite easier… For these persons that have to stick to SQL Server 2000 ver

• Setup Project - Custom Actions

  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

  So… we have finished developing our application and we won’t to pack it in an MSI file, first thing that comes to your head is… “Do I need to buy some install tool or is just enough to use VStudio built in features?”, … At first sight it seems that the 2003 installer is a bit limited… We are going

• Pagination with SQL Server 2000

  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

  Pagination in SQL Server 2005 works like heaven, ... but all the poor souls that have to stick to SQL Server 2000, ... will have some headache to find an efficient pagination method. In this article you will find a method to perform pagination on an SQL Server stored proc.

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  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

• C# Scale an Image Keeping the aspect ratio

  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

  Nowdays everybody owns a digital camera with a high resolution, so when our application has to handle photos (e.g.: we want to keep an small identity card photo), the user use to send a 3 mega pixels high quality one, ... and most of the times users don't know how to make them smaller or they don't

• Efficient String concatenation

  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

  The “+” operator is easy to use but quite slow when we have to perform massive string concat operations, in this article you will see why this happens a solution for this problem (using String Builder).

• Check Network Status

  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

  Check if the network is available (or let the system notify our application if the network status changes), save us showing nasty messages or timeout waits to the user of our applications. In this article we are going to see how to implement this using C# and the System.net.NetworkInformation names

• ASP .net 2.0 GridView, adding formatting, combo’s, images, sorting. I – Number and Date Formatting

  Posted: 28 May 2006 at 22:28

  ASP .net 2.0 ships a full replacement for the old DataGrid control, that’s good news, but… if you just link a datasource to the grid and see the results at first sight it seems that nothing new is going on, … in this article we are going to cover some of the new stuff that the GridView control ship