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Passing Data From One Page To Another With Storyboard Using Corona

Introduction : Its a very common practice, where we need to pass data from one page to another page. Corona provides storyboard API, which gives access to page navigation functionality, along with it can also pass data variable with in pages. Description : Lets make a scenario where we have home page and menu page…

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Compress components in ASP.NET with Gzip

If the response time of your website is high, i.e if it is taking more time to display the content then the user might lose the interest in using the website. So it is important the response should be as fast as possible. Compression is one of the methods in which we can reduce the…

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Road To SQL Azure

With the release of DotNetNuke 6.0 DNN has also joined cloud bandwagon.Here is a short description to the process of shifting of SQLServer  2005/2008 to SQL Azure. The following steps deals with the simple preocedure to migrate your SQL Server 2005/2008 databases to SQL Azure. 1.In order to access SQL Azure, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio…

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Using JPEG image with CMYK format in Internet Explorer by converting it to RGB

Recently, I faced an unusual problem while working with JPEG images in a project. What I found is that some of the images with .jpg extension were not being displayed in Internet Explorer, instead a red mark displayed where the image should have been. Further research revealed that Internet Explorer was unable to display images…

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View Windows Command line history

During  working with  windows command prompt often happens that we need  to know that what  command we typed previously during that  session  there are followings  shortcuts: 1)Press the ” F7 key” to view a history of all the commands that have been entered in that window. All the typed commands will appear on the pop-up…

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How To Implement Filter On Controller Actions In Rails

What exactly filter is ? Filter is a simple method which is executed “before” / “after” / “around” a controller action. For example, one filter might check if the user has the credentials for accessing a particular action in a controller. Where can I place my  filter ? Filters are inherited so if you  a…

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Function listeners in Corona

Introduction : Listeners are generally used to do some job against any event associated with an object. There are different ways to define listeners. On  below I will describe about one of them. Description : In corona, repective listeners are being called, when an event get triggered. Basically there are two different ways to define…

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Filtering out the collection using Predicate argument in ASP.NET

MSDN Says : Predicate delegate Represents the method that defines a set of criteria and determines whether the specified object meets those criteria. We can use this functionality when filtering any collection object which satisfy certain condition. Here is an example how to use it in our application. In this example we will see different…

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10 tips on DotnetNuke Skins for smart phones and handheld devices.

Tip #4 keep it simple What are mobile visitors looking for? What information do they want/need? Do mobile visitors have time/interest in all of my tedious sidebar content? With a barebones stylesheet, which elements are clearly superfluous? Which navigational elements are absolutely necessary? Which are redundant? Are there entire regions of my page that would…

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How to customize Dashboard Ribbon in Dynamics CRM 2011

Goal: To create a Custom Button in a Dashboard Ribbon in MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Step 1 : Go to Settings >> Solutions. Create a New Solution Step 2 : Select Add Existing >> Application Ribbons to add into the solution. Step 3 : Export the newly created solution. It will be exported in a…

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