Software / Technology Tips

Have you ever wanted to get the number of Clients connected a specific Servoy Application Server? Have you ever wanted to alert a specific client from your Servoy Solution itself? Have you ever wanted to check whether a Client is alive or not or want to forcefully terminate the Client session? Further Details Previous Situation…

In the current situation it’s a challenging task for the web developers to build websites which is compatible with different and popular browsers available (like IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, Google Crome, Opera etc…) Different browsers have their different ways of serving the web page content and may create problem while using some CSS properties to…

In one of my projects, I was working on Google calendar, the tasks included creating an event, updating an existing event, deleting event etc. I did not face any problem while  creating and deleting an event, but while trying to update an event it gave me an error ‘Bad request/Invalid data’. After a long try…

If you are into web page development,  you are likely to have come across many tutorials and tips explaining how to create rectangles with rounded corners. Some of these tips, tutorials and techniques require you to use multiple images, one for each corner but the fact is you can also create rounded corners with just…

Creating a Stand alone version of your Servoy Solution is Easy & Fast. Create A Stand –Alone version of your Servoy Solution You can create a stand alone version of your Servoy Solution, which can be run on any platform (Windows, Mac or Linux) without requiring you to install Servoy or a relevant Database. In…

This tip investigates some of the ways in which the Android API may be used to implement NFC (Near Field Communication) “Near field communication is a set of standards for smart phones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more…

This tip demonstrates how to sort a user-defined collection class. Let us say we have a custom class as ClientCollection (collection of Client object) which Inherits System.Collections.CollectionBase. To sort the collection , order by LAST NAME , we can use the following steps. First create a class that implements [IComparer] interface and define the [Compare]…

When a user puts a find request, Servoy internally creates a resulting SQL query to fetch data from database. Let us check an example to know how this find request works. (Considering the currentController is based on the same table) Let us check an example to know how this find request works. (Considering the currentController…

Using XtraPrinting library, we can achieve the following at runtime while Printing/Exporting a Control: add additional information to the report; add a report header; specify a page header or footer; specify the paper size, margins, orientation, etc. For this we have to import two namespaces: Imports System.Drawing Imports DevExpress.XtraPrinting The code below demonstrates how to …

This tip is targeted for a specific task in vb.net. The problem, not actually a problem but the task is to edit the content in the RichTextBox of our Windows application through Wordpad and just update our control with that formatted text. Well, the simple way to do this job is 1. Open  the Editor…