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Website screenshot capture with ASP.NET and PHP

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:36:40 GMT

Capturing the thumbnail of a website is pretty useful when you are creating a web application like web 2.0 directory, site review, website preview, etc... So how do you implement it in your language? I did it in my asp.net application which was was very easy. And i searched for the way in PHP. Although, PHP doesn't support natively, there are tricks that you can use to capture screenshots of websites. Here is the code snippets;

Free Charting and Graph Components for .NET

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:55:26 GMT

Let me introduce three more charting components which are also free to use, and open source. You can use these libraries for drawing professional graphs and charts with different types for desktop applications as well as web based applications.

"Nothing has changed" - Determining when a procedure has been altered

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:01:01 GMT

Cool little script to determine when a stored procedure was last updated.

.NET web apps (and ProMesh.NET) on Linux (Mono)... "It just works"

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:31:03 GMT

I was a little curious about how ProMesh.NET (MVC Web Framework for .NET 2.0) would run on Mono (if at all)

Working with Date-Only and Time-Only data in SQL Server

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:01:02 GMT

It's all about using the right data types. Sure, there's no "date" or "time" only data type available, but that's no excuse to return VARCHAR strings formatted as dates or times instead of the correct data type: datetime.

Monorail #1 Reasons, Setup, and First output

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:16:02 GMT

Introduction to Castle MonoRail. More posts coming soon.

.Net Windows Forms ListView ColumnHeader width tip. Set it to -1 or -2

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

a little know width settings for ListView Column Headers.

Sharepoint Web Part Gallery Configuration Gotcha

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:26:21 GMT

Casing gotcha when editing the web.config file for Sharepoint to add SafeControls.

Behaviour Driven Unit Test Design Tool

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:31:03 GMT

A simple tool to help focus on functional behaviour while creating unit tests.

Windows Live ID Beta Support for Information Cards and Windows CardSpa

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:10:54 GMT

Using CardSpace with Windows Live means you don't use a password to sign-in to websites which accept Live ID credentials; Instead, just send your CardSpace card to Live ID to identify you

60+ template engines for .NET, JAVA and PHP

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:15:25 GMT

Template engines are designed to allow the separation of business logic from the presentation layer, which means allowing MVC architecture to the developers. With the aid of template engines, we are able to develop websites with different looks but the same logic or the core code. Template engines are lately known as not good ideas because recent platforms already have embedded template engines to separate views from logic, generate code etc... As you see there are very few template engines in .NET and Java comparing to the PHP. But they are still pretty useful tools for developers.

Phone Number Validation and Formatting with JavaScript

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:49:44 GMT

Yet another approach to validating phone number input with JavaScript. Unlike many of the other schemes, this validation function takes any valid 10 digit phone number in any format, validates it, then sets the value of the text field to the desired format of the programmer. Much more user friendly than those rigid validation schemes where the user is forced into a format.

New SharePoint 2007 SDK Released

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:40:09 GMT

Recently (on 8/22) Microsoft released their latest SharePoint 2007 SDK. This new SDK has a ton of new stuff along with more/better documentation.

Dragable columns in gridview

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:39:59 GMT

An Example application for implementing a gridview with drag and drop columns, paging and filtering support, would be nicer if it used viewstate to handle the callback variables, but a good example.

Essential MonoRail

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:01:03 GMT

Describes the bare minimum, essential code only, to get Caslte's MonoRail to render content. Visual Studio not needed.

ASP.NET Resource Refactoring

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:46:02 GMT

Easy macros to help i18n your ASPX pages

Is SharePoint really ready for prime time?

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:53:33 GMT

I am beginning to think, for once, that we jumped the gun a bit to early in the adoption cycle. While I will take part of the blame for being quick to roll out software, I think Microsoft needs to shoulder a bit of blame for this. When RTM was declared for the product, and for several months after that, the product documentation lacked content. A number of sections were marked TBD - that would mean that it's not really ready for release in my books. Support was also unable to handle the volume or types of questions being thrown at them....

Must have articles directory for developers

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:46:33 GMT

The best method to learn a new technology is to read articles, reviews and tutorials related to it. There are plenty of sites that provide many articles some of which are qualified while others are loss of time. I have been regularly visiting the websites listed below which i already bookmarked or subscribed to their RSS. These sites are valuable resources for me to learn something or to find the solutions, methods and way outs when i encounter a problem. I digg these sites and absolutely can find whatever i am looking for. So do not forget to bookmark the list of these sites. I will be very appreciated if you contribute to this list with a site that you think it should be listed here.

InfoQ: Promesh.NET - an MVC Web Framework for .NET

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:31:02 GMT

Philippe Leybaert recently released a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for creating .NET 2.0 web applications, named ProMesh.NET. The framework was released on Codeplex under an open source license. MVC frameworks have gained popularity lately with Ruby on Rails and most recently with the Castle Project and MonoRails, also an MVC framework.

C# Constants and Enumerations

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:34:24 GMT

The forty-eighth part of the C# Fundamentals tutorial examines the use of constants and enumerations. These provide two methods of describing non-changing values using descriptive words rather than 'magic numbers' to improve code readability.

ASP:HyperLink & MailTo

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:24:53 GMT

How to make a ASP:HyperLink control be used for a Mailto

Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Recently I gave two days worth of talks introducing an organization to agile management and development with Scrum and XP practices. I've made available the presentations and exercises for the betterment of mankind...or at least to get a few more people familiar with agile development. Included is also a discussion of the agile practices that I find effective.

Use UpdatePanelAnimationExtender to run script for the UpdatePanel

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:54:01 GMT

Use UpdatePanelAnimationExtender to run script for the UpdatePanel

Most Active Open Source Projects in Codeplex

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:46:02 GMT

It is nice to see the open source projects' progress in Microsoft world, especially it is been extremely fast growth after the Codeplex launched, and also GotDotNet suggests their hosted projects to move on to Codeplex. As you might remember, I have submitted a post about Codeplex a few weeks ago; Microsoft Open Source Projects. This time, it is proud to list most popular and active top 25 projects that has been hosted in Codeplex.

.NET Coding Guidelines - Commenting

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:16:02 GMT

Nice rant about developers who don't comment their code, I can sympathize.