With these useful plugins, you will be able to do source control with Subversion in Visual Studio.
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.NET How To Create Non Resizable Windows Forms Applications
Say you’re creating a .net windows form application and you don’t want your users to be able to resize it. All you need to do is:
1) Set your form’s property MaximizeBox to False
2) Set the form’s property FormBrderStyle to Fixed3D, FixedSingle or FixedDialog. The default is sizable and that’s exactly what we want to change.
That’s it. Short and easy.
How To Read And Write Excel Files In PHP & .NET
Reading and writing to excel is often a requirement or business need. There are basically 2 ways where you can do that, use an existing library or build your own solution. [Read more…]
Netbeans Includes Zend Framework Support
After Symphony, the great Netbeans PHP editors can now support another popular php framework, zend framework. You gotta get the latest build to try that out though but stable support should be implemented by 6.9. Zend framework got the heads-up even though the CakePHP framework has more votes than Zend’s. More details at netbeans php blog here.
Web Optimization: How To Speed Up Your Website
I’m sure most web developer (if not all) dream of developing a fast and useful website/web application that either pays them lots to get done or get lots of visitors or interaction for personal satisfaction/profit.
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SQL Server: How To Query Based On An Empty String Column
There are at least 2 ways which I know of.
Select column1, column2 from tableName where column1 <> ''
Remember, use single quotes, not double quotes!
Select column1, column2 from tableName where datalength(column1) > 0
How To Check If XML/SimpleXML Node Exist
Let’s say you have a xml file which looks like:
<keywords>
<keyword>
<title>Business Blogging</title>
<date>2009-12-31</date>
</keyword>
<keyword>
<title>Insurance Quotes</title>
</keyword>
</keywords>And you want apply some logic based on whether the xml node keywords->keyword->date exist. So how would you do it?
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No Word Wrap In Netbeans IDE?
I’ve been doing quite a lot of my php web development coding in netbeans lately and one of the thing that bugs me most is that there is no word wrap functionality in netbeans. I have a 24 inch lcd screen and configured screen resolution to 1920×1280. I wonder what will other developers do when they have a smaller screen and how do they work with an ide without word wrap such as Netbeans.
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Where To Submit & Ping Your XML Sitemaps?
Submitting XML Sitemaps to search engines is one of the most important activity that every webmaster should do to establish web presence and get more search engine traffic such as google, yahoo and msn (bing).
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PHP + SimpleXML: Creating XML File Using simplexml_load_string Error
Say you’re trying to create a xml file in PHP by using the SimpleXML library but getting this error:
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\dev\test\sitemapmine.php on line 4
Here’s how that happened and how it can be solved.
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