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Are You Throwing Exceptions Correctly? - DailyCoding

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:56:00 +0000

We generally use exception and stack trace for tracking down to the problem in our code. But a lots of the time, in case you are not using proper way to throw exceptions then it might make difficult to narrow down the problem. Whenever we throw an exception; it is recorded into the exception stack trace..

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Announcing launch of DailyCoding.com

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:19:00 +0000

I had recently (May 18, 2008) launched a new source code web site for daily coding related tips and tricks. I given it the name DailyCoding.com. It is all about:

DailyCoding.com is aiming to point useful coding tips and tricks which one may use while doing day-today coding. This site basically includes daily coding in C#, .net, asp.net, sql, html..

The reason I decided to launch was I was not able to produce too much articles on my windows forms and controls web site OpenWinForms because of time constraints. On DailyCoding I will be publishing at least 15 posts a month. However I will still be continue to write articles on OpenWinForms.

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Vista style Progress bar - Update

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:07:00 +0000

There has been a recent update by Fernando Datorre in the Vista style Progress bar control.

Latest code can be downloaded from here.

Fernando Datorre:

I made some improvements in control VistaProgressBar:
- Minimum Property
- Maximum property
- Percent (calculed)
- ShowPercent (show label with percent value)
and More features.
The project was converted to. Net Framework 3.5 and uses the resources of C # 3.0.
I hope this helps other developers.

Thanks Fernando Datorre.

Concatenate colums's data in sql query

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:31:00 +0000

May time we need column’s data into a single row from a database table. This is
to do if we are doing this at application level. However this could also be
in a sql query..

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Gradient Panel for VS 2003 (.NET 1.1)

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:14:00 +0000

I received request for VS 2003 version of the gradient panel. I created one and uploaded to the web sites. In case anyone else need that just download from link http://www.openwinforms.com/A1PanelVS2003.zip

Vista style Progress bar (Vista Controls - I)

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:16:00 +0000

This is first article under the section of Windows Vista Control. Vista is very cool in its look and feel. So, using vista style controls can improve the visual appearance of our application.
This article is about creating a vista style progress bar in .net winforms...

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Extended header panel control - Outlook style

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:02:00 +0000

This is another control under the section of office controls. This will explain how you can create outlook style header panel control in .net. Outlook uses this control for all major region displayed in its windows.

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Drawing line patterns in GDI+

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:35:00 +0000

GDI+ has made the windows graphics programming really easy. You can easily draw and control the graphical interface of you application. This section will explain how can you draw pattern lines in GDI+.

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Adding Row Number to SQL SELECT result

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:42:00 +0000

This article will explain how we can add sequence row number to a SQL select query starting from 1 onwards. This can be achieved by using built in SQL function ROW_NUMBER(). This function simply generates row number for each row in the result. You can specify the partition and order by criteria. This is how it works..
..
Use of ROW_NUMBER() will assign sequence number to rows as:

SELECT ROW_NUMBER()
    OVER (ORDER BY EmployeeName) AS Row,
EmployeeId, EmployeeName, Salary
FROM Employees

Row   EmployeeId   EmployeeName     Salary
-------------------------------------------
1     1002         Alden            4000
2     2343         Lawson           4500
3     2004         Barbra           4800
4     1105         Marsden          4500
5     3116         Mac              5000

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Digital display control in C#.Net using GDI+

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:20:00 +0000

In any business app, visual representation of data has an important role. Sometimes playing with the visual representations can increase the usability of the application. This article explains how can you create a digital display control for numeric value and use in software to enhance user experience.

This control can be used for any numeric or time display. You can use this control in conjunction with the Gradient Panel. This is how it looks like.

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Add designer support to Label for a better UI designer

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:24:00 +0000

While designing a windows form in Visual Studio .NET I always find the standard Label control difficult to manage and creating ultra high fine layout/UI. The Label control does not show the border in Visual Studio designer. Its difficult to guess the size and placement of all labels in a single look...

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True Single instance application - WinForms.NET

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:53:00 +0000

This article simply explains how you can create a windows application with control on the number of its instances or run only single instance. This is very typical need of a business application. There are already lots of other possible solutions to control this.

e.g. Checking the process list with the name of our application. But this methods don’t seems to be a good approach to follow as everything is decided just on the basis on the application name which may or may not be unique all across.

Another way to use remoting to communicate the application together in order to control the instance but this one is not simple and straight forward approach to solve this problem.

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Run exe from Html - using custom URL Protocol

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:27:00 +0000

Sometimes there is a business need of integrating you windows application with your web application in a manner that you can directly invoke your windows application from the web application with custom parameters.

e.g. in yahoo, you can directly open the message windows of a user from web site by clicking on "Send IM".

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A simple implementation of outlook style groupbox control with transparency support

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:49:00 +0000

This article explains very simple implementation of a outlook style groupbox. This control also supports transparent background...

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Office 2007 style Color Picker control - Using .NET WinForms

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:00:00 +0000

Office 2007 has introduced lots of new features with new stylish and cool looking user interface which makes user richer experience. Office 2007 has a new style color picker which is really cool. You may want same kind of color picker in our application. This article explains how you can make one for your use or just directly use this one...

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Infinite progress bar with transparency support - Stylish progess bar control

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:58:00 +0000

Lots of time we need to show infinite progress in our application where we are not sure of total time to be taken by the process for which we are showing the progress. For this we need infinite progress bar control. There are very few available on internet so I made one. This is really very stylish and cool...

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Creating cool gradient Panel in Winform - .NET (Using GDI+)

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:56:00 +0000

This article will explain how we can create cool looking gradient panel with round corner in .net winforms using GDI+. This panel supports various customizable properties. Below are some cool samples...

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OpenWinForms - Open source website for windows forms and controls

noreply@blogger.com (Ramesh Soni) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:53:00 +0000

OpenWinForms is a open source website for windows forms and controls. Here you can find windows controls and libraries for free. This is a non-commercial open source web site. This site mainly focuses on Microsoft technologies e.g. Microsoft .net, VB.net, C#.net etc. The articles and controls published here are not copied from other resources. You may use these for any commercial or non-commercial purpose for free, however you cannot sell them directly or by modifying.

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