Δεκέμβριος 2006 - Δημοσιεύσεις

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις Κυριακή, 17 Δεκεμβρίου 2006 10:32 μμ από Development Blog :: 0 σχόλια

Write dataset contents to zip file

Assume that you want to write the contents of a dataset to xml, in order to send that data via e-mail or any other means. Have you noticed how verbose xml files are? However, if you try to compress one, you will notice that size of the compressed file is only a small fragment of the original! Just for testing, I compressed an 200MB XML file into a zip file, to see that the resulting file was 9MB only! So, is it possible to write the contents of a dataset into an xml but include that xml directly into a zip file,

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Δημοσιεύτηκε στις Παρασκευή, 8 Δεκεμβρίου 2006 10:33 μμ από Development Blog :: 0 σχόλια

Clean up IIS and SQL Server and make your websites portable

Do the following mean anything to you? Is your IIS full of test web projects that you once created and you keep them... just in case? Do you have old projects that you want to look once in a while but you don't have the time to create virtual directories for them? Do you have dozens of databases on your SQL Server for all that projects? Do you find the procedure of copying files, IIS settings and SQL Server database to create a copy of a web site tedious? Would you like your web sites to be easily portable by

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Δημοσιεύτηκε στις Παρασκευή, 8 Δεκεμβρίου 2006 9:29 μμ από Development Blog :: 0 σχόλια

Hello World from my Development Blog

I decided to create a separate blog for my development activities. I will post development tips & tricks and other useful stuff. In the past there was several things I wanted to post but didn't exactly fit in with the rest of my blog posts, on the home page of this site. For instance, a piece of code that handles wait cursors in windows forms doesn't exactly fit with my sister's wedding! So... my development-oriented blog is here to host all my ...geek anxieties!

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