Welcome back from Part 1 or from anywhere... Here we will see how to install your first skin for the DotNetNuke engine. You will find a lot of tutorial on the internet about implementing your own skin for DotNetNuke. The problem is that only few of them have in mind that most os us are the &qu... [More]

Ok. I have finally managed to write down the steps needed in order to install a local copy of the very useful DotNetNuke engine and apply a skin to it. For those out there wondering what is so special about the DotNetNuke engine in site development I briefly state the following: As a web developper,... [More]

Suppose you have a picture control in your form (WinForms) / window (WPF) and want to display the following picture in it (logo.png): In a Window Forms application you create a PictureBox control in your form, and in the code file you want to do something like the following: ... [More]

DownLoad in .pdf (145,97 kb) This post provides the basic key points in order to understand the WPF XAML syntax and what is going on behind the scenes in the XAML Processor. Although you may be the kind of guy/girl who prefers to learn through writing/reading code, I recommend reading this art... [More]

I have been searching for some time for a neat html code generator from C# code that supports syntaxt highlighting, in order to use it in BlogEngine.Net. The previous posts in this article have been written by applying the usual _[_code:cs]...[_/code] tags. Unfortunately this approach does not alway... [More]

I always dreaded the "unrecognized characters" problems encountered in windows applications when dealing with old data. They appeared and still appear usually when data from an old MSDOS application are ported to current database management applications (MS Access, Microsoft SQL, .NET Data... [More]

You have a Paradox DB deployed in C:\PARADOXDB\ and you want to connect through C#. Here are the steps that you need to follow: Dowload BDEInfo.exe which contains the Borland Database Engine (BDE 5.0.2) and a configuration utility. Install BDEInfo.exe. If no error occurs proceed to step 4. ... [More]

Let's say you have created a nice Custom Control named "LimitedListTextBox". This control should now appear on the Toolbox with a "gear" icon. If you want to supply your own icon you must do the following: Create or add a new item to the project. The item should be a... [More]

There are some cases where we want to call the same method from the getters/setters of the properties of a business object. Within that method we want to differentiate behaviour according to the property that called the metthod. The most straightforward solution is to pass with the method a string p... [More]