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Tag Archives: VB.Net

Application development using Gtk# in .Net

17-Oct-09

When I started my software development career, I got introduced to some cool tools for GUI application development in Linux. I was using Glade and the library was Gtk. Then later I become a MS fan and started working on ASP, VB and .Net. Yesterday I got a chance to download Mono and Monodevelop. And [...]

Color Picker Dropdown using C#

15-Oct-09

While playing around one of hobby project, I found there is a nice color picker dropdown available in WordPad, for setting the font color. I was using Windows
Color Dialog. So I thought of implementing a WordPad like color picker. And I think I almost readed my goal. I need to try this in the [...]

How to check remote file exists using C#

14-Oct-09

Sometime you require to display remote images in the Web Pages, like Ads, Banner etc, it may be from different domain or a different application. This code will help you to check the existence of a Remote file using C#.

using System.Net;

///
/// Checks the file exists or not.
///
/// The URL of the remote file.
/// True : [...]

Adding and Reading files from SQL Server 2008 Filestream

22-Sep-09

Few days back I wrote a Post about FileStream feature in SQL 2008.(Filestream in SQL Server 2008). In this post I am trying to write the how to manage or use the FileStream feature from .Net managed code.
For adding a File to FileStream enabled table, we are using a new Data Type, SqlFileStream, which comes [...]

Using background worker in C#

19-Aug-09

Background worker is a component introduced by Microsoft in .Net 2.0 which will help developers to do background operations without the knowledge of threading and deadlocks. In the current application I am working we used to copy some files from hard drive to specified USB drive, based on some criteria. For the IO operation we [...]