Software / Technology Tips

As you know we can visualize and customize Splash screen for a silverlight application. When the loading of silverlight application takes more than 500 millisecond, by default silverlight shows a splash screen of blinking circles and progress percentage. But have you ever seen a splash screen for small application(taking less than 500 milliseconds)? Do you…

Objectname – A string expression that is a valid name for the object type selected in the Object Type argument. To output the current active object then leave this argument blank. Outputformat – Choose on of the following constants: acFormatActiveXServer acFormatHTML acFormatIIS acFormatRTF acFormatTXT acFormatXLS Leave the outputformat argument blank to select the output format…

The first four bytes of a file contain the file signatures or the magic numbersthat uniquely identify the file. For instance, a  JPEG image file is always found to hold the value FF D8 FF E0 (Hex) in the first four bytes, GIF image file is identified by its first three bytes as 47 49…

During the developement of the silverlight application we should conscious about the .xap file size because silverlight we used to create Rich internet application. So if the .xap file size is more then it takes more time to download the .xap file to the users local machine ,which is not good for the user experience.…

“Command out of Sync. We can’t run this command now“,  This error made my last few days extremely frustrating. After numerous search and hit and trial, I found the exact cause of this. So I thought it is worthy to share with you all. How MySQL Works: First of all, I want to little describe…

We may have requirement to display the other database(SQL Server, ) data in our MSAccess database. For this we have the functionality in MS Access to access/view the data from the SQL Server database. We can create Link Table whose source will be the particular table from SQL Server database. The below example explains how…

As  most of you must be aware, since a few days the Internet has been buzzing with Google Buzz, the search engine’s first real Social Media tool.  The opinion among the Social Media experts is sharply divided- While most have been very critical, there are some who have declared it as a winner. Anyway, whether…

Consider a dictionary containing list of mobile phone price and rating as below. data_list = [ {“product_name”: “Sony xperia C3”, “price”: 23500, “ratings”: 3}, {“product_name”: “HTC mini”, “price”: 35000, “ratings”: 1}, {“product_name”: “BlackBerry Z10”, “price”: 19500, “ratings”: 4}, {“product_name”: “Samsung note 4”, “price”: 50000, “ratings”: 5}, {“product_name”: “Iphone 6”, “price”: 65000, “ratings”: 2} ] Let…

Goal: In many situations we need to display the items of different sizes in WinJs listView, but by default, the ListView allocates the same size cell for each  item  it contains. The size of the cell is determined by the size of the first item in the ListView. When the ListView contains items of different…

Windows form has its default blue color form border style.We can customize its look and feel. Following are the steps : 1.In form’s property window set ‘FormBorderStyle’ to None.. 2.Now we need to paint the form border using any color we want. (a) Declare some variables 'The color and the width of the border. Private…