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• WebClient Object

  Posted: 29 May 2009 at 19:28 by Berdon

  Long time since the last post... I've been working on a project that interfaces with numerous HTTP servers to update the firmware on the hosting machine. I opted to use the WebClient object, mostly because I wasn't sure what the best method would be but figured using WebBrowsers would just be wasteful, and ran into a few problems that were tedious enough to make me want to post them on here.

• Stripping HTML from text in SQL Server 2005

  Posted: 27 Jun 2007 at 15:29 by Saikou

  Today I came across a problem where a field in a SQL server 2005 database contained encoded HTML (for example, it looked like "<div>Blah blah"). However, as this field was required in a SQL server report, this HTML needed to either be removed or formatted. Since SQL reports don't have

• SQL Reports: Execution '' cannot be found.

  Posted: 26 Jun 2007 at 14:58 by Saikou

  While developing a page to generate a weekly report using SQL server reporting services, I came across a bit of a funny error. The ReportViewer control was giving an error of "Execution '' cannot be found.", though this error was appearing as part of the report itself, and not being thrown back to t

• Variable arguments in C#

  Posted: 04 Jun 2007 at 21:28 by Berdon

  Ever used variable arguments in C++ and wanted to use them in C# but you could never figure out how? I certainly did a few weeks ago, I was working on a function similar to some of the old standard C IO libraries (though I can't recall what it's purpose was to be) and I spent quite a bit of time try

• Submitting forms on the enter key

  Posted: 04 Jun 2007 at 18:07 by Berdon

  Quite a while ago I was working on a form with a few textboxes and a submit button. I was nearly complete with the application but it didn't do one thing that I wanted, I had to either tab to the submit button and hit enter or click on it with the mouse. I'm fairly lazy and I know most people are to

• Posting form content with the WebBrowser control

  Posted: 04 Jun 2007 at 06:42 by Berdon

  A while ago I was working on one of my many side projects and needed to be able to login to a website using a WebBrowser control. The form used Post rather then Get, so I wasn't able to simply append the appropriate form elements onto the URL.I did some searching online and ended up with a nice litt

• MSHTML, Dom, and copying objects from a WebBrowser Control

  Posted: 04 Jun 2007 at 05:52 by Berdon

  While working on grabbing an image from a WebBrowser (talked about in my last post), I stumbled upon this method. It does work; however, it has one draw back: It only works for single framed images (ie. No animated images). Though, to be honest, I didn't play around all that much to see if I could f

• Grabbing secure data from the web.

  Posted: 04 Jun 2007 at 04:58 by Berdon

  Recently, I was working on a little image recognition for some anti-bot type image. No no, I wasn't working on any spamming type of application, just a little side project of mine.Regardless, I needed to load the image from a website while being logged into the website. I did a bit of research and l