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Recently I need to migrate my blog (http://weblogs.com.pk/aziz)  which was running on Community Server 2.1 to my new blog here which is running on BlogEngine.Net.  I did not have access to code or database as the blog was hosted on a free blogging site. I was unable to find any direct and easy way in the control panel of ...

Few days back, I have informed about my article, SumColumn published on codeproject. Now It has been updated incorporating the users comments. You can visit it here. Your comments are welcomed.

Few days back, there was a task that I have to get/parse data from html pages on a site. I first tried to use System.Net.HttpWebRequest class to make the request, get the data. <code> Dim objRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(Url) Dim result As String objRequest.Method = "GET" Dim ...

A Saudi Arabia based e-news/stock company wants to outsource an application dealing with SMS/MMS. The bird's eye view of the application is like.   1) User can subscribe to the SMS/MMS service through the website or by sending SMS with a given code to a given number           E.g. SMS 195 BN ...

The Microsoft Products 2005 Launch Event in Riyadh was on 5th of this month i.e. last Monday. The banner says Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio and BizTalk but there was not a single event for BizTalk. The quality of presentations was poor (as far as technical point of view). I actually slept in two sessions, 10 min each. First the presentation ...

Found these two good links on integration of Exchange with SharePoint. Display an Exchange Public Folder in a SharePoint Web Part Integrating Exchange Server 2003 with SharePoint Products and Technologies  

Like many of you out there, I have also used #ZipLib (pronounced as SharpZipLib) to do compression programmatically. For those who do not know about #ZipLib, it is an open source compression library for zip formats, written in C#. The code is available at their website. I was thinking that how it is possible that Microsoft did not ...

Just find this blog on weblogs.asp.net. Posting it here so that who missed it there get it from here .Scott Hanselman collection of useful tools.

Ahhhhhh. After seven hours of doing just one thing i am tired and frustated. Doing developemt on a virtual PC is a headache, so slow. My be I should upgrade my PC. I have started learning sharepoint nowadays and today I made my first web part. I tried to upload the web part following the same steps in the MSDN article but alas. As soon as i try ...

What will be your condition if you are not able to find the bug using debugging? Same happen to me and I spent nearly 2 hours in just catching the bug. Actually my task was to generate a random time table based upon certian business rules. I used System.Random for this but after some time i come to know that it is not so random :) . When i ...

Finally GDC 2005 is over. It was a 3 days seminar from 9 to 6 covering different areas of Microsoft Technology. Microsoft put a lot of stress of smart client technology. There were sessions on Servers like CMS, Sharepoint, BizTalk etc. Speakers were from different countries including Pakistan as well. I was really shocked to see the number of ...

We, in our software house, use a custom build code generator (thanx to my friend Syed Umar Anis).  It generates stored procedures, and (some what intelligent) business classes using the database schema. I want to extend this generator and want it to generate web forms as well. I was thinking about some way so that i have to do minimal work ...

Reports that use stored procedures as their data source are no different than reports that use any other data source. When you open the report, it automatically calls the stored procedure, retrieves the data, and populates the report with this data. The difference between using a stored procedure and using a table is that stored procedures accept ...

Dim myReport As New crDB()myReport.SetDatabaseLogon(Me.txtUserId.Text, Me.txtPass.Text, Me.txtServer.Text, Me.txtDB.Text)Dim myLogonInfo As CrystalDecisions.Shared.TableLogOnInfoDim myTable As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.TableFor Each myTable In myReport.Database.Tables   myLogonInfo = myTable.LogOnInfo   With ...

Once there was a requirement in our project that user should be able to create his own website on our server by just clicking using our web application. Creating such type of wizard was not a hard task but i was thinking that if it is possible to create virtual directories in IIS “programmitically. Then i opened my favorite webpage ...