Archived articles
Archive for February 2015
24
Feb
2015
Transform comma seperated string to rows in SQL Server
SQL/T-SQL
7 titles
Use comma separated string in TSQL
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Passing complex data to and from stored procedures has always been a tricky one. The most elegant way to pass values to a stored procedure is to use predefined data types in SQL Server...
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18
Feb
2015
Migrate stored procedures across databases
SQL/T-SQL
7 titles
Copy stored procedure from one database to another with T-SQL
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When working on an app you create all your stored procedures, functions, tables, view and other objects in a development database (or t least it should be like that). A small but annoying problem occurs when you have to migrate your stored procedures to test or production database.
Imagine during development you had let's say 20 stored procedures...
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09
Feb
2015
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) quick start
.NET
126 titles
Introducing MEF with simple code example application
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Managed Extensibility Framework or MEF is a library introduced in .NET Framework 4 which allows developers to easily create plugin based applications. It lives in System.ComponentModel.Composition namespace and before start working with MEF reference to this assembly needs to be added in a project.It is basically an implementation of IoC (Inversion of Control) pattern with few core functionalities such as assembly loading...
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06
Feb
2015
Random element of IEnumerable/Array
.NET
126 titles
Random element extension method for IEnumerable/Array
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I don't work with random values very often but recently I had to write some small function that returns random value from an array. It sounded like a good idea to write it as an extension method to make it reusable for other projects...
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05
Feb
2015
ConcurrentDictionary vs Hashtable.Synchronized
.NET
126 titles
Comparison of collections in multithread environment
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Basically all Dictionary collections in .NET internally implement Hashtable wrapped, so in terms of mechanism they are pretty much the same. The difference is that Dictionary exposes strong types while Hashtable uses object-object keyvalue pair which is much harder to work with because you need to know what is the actual type of the object stored in a key or value. Often casting will probably be required.
In multithread code environment locking is considered by default when accessing any shared resource...
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02
Feb
2015
Convert string to any type that implements TryParse method
.NET
126 titles
String extension method for converting to other value types
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In many cases serialized data is returned in a form of string although the actual type of data is different. The problem begings when you want to use data in it's original type becaus direct cast is not allowed in C# as it is in VB.net.
This is why you have to use TryParse and safely parse the value to it's original type...
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01
Feb
2015
Creating Visual Studio ProjectTemplate VSIX package
.NET
126 titles
How to create VSIX package for ProjectTemplate
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If you often have projects which setup is pretty much the same you might consider creating ProjectTemplate for Visual Studio.It speeds up development for the project setup, adding references, default configuration .config, content files... Before you start make sure that you have installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 SDK (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40758) and Nuget Package Explorer (http://npe.codeplex.com/)I also attached a small dummy project just to help understanding what is written in this article.Skipping to hands on code is always more helpful and faster for me to, so if you are bored by reading, download the attached .7zfile and explore it...
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.NET
7
Apr
2018
Simple implementation of ASP.NET Web API Basic authentication security
Securing Web API with simple basic authentication and consuming it from the client code
28
Mar
2018
Getting GIF image information using C#
Extracting GIF image data in .NET using C#
25
Mar
2018
How to avoid Thread.Sleep in your production code in .NET
Avoiding Thread.Sleep in production code in .NET using C#
23
Mar
2018
Reduce traffic by serializing JSON with different alias with Json.NET and C#
Reducing speed and increasing performance by reducing traffic with JSON size
JavaScript
9
May
2017
Non blocking CSS load on the page
Load external CSS files in an async manner
16
Mar
2017
Serialize html form to JSON without using JQuery
Transform user input from HTML form fields to JSON
17
Jan
2016
Copy text value to clipboard using jQuery
Simple sample of using jQuery to copy value to clipboard
11
Jan
2016
Resize image on the client side with JQuery
Reducing the upload sie by resizing image on the client side
SQL/T-SQL
28
Apr
2016
Create XML/HTML with T-SQL
Generating XML/HTML output in SQL Server
24
Nov
2015
IP address to octets split in TSQL
Split IP addresse into octets in SQL Server
20
Jul
2015
Getting first and last second of the current year, month and day
Using minimum and maximum date time in SQL query
13
Apr
2015
Dealing with duplicate rows in SQL Server
Finding and cleaning up duplicate rows in SQL Server tables
Umbraco CMS
2
Mar
2018
Minify HTML output of your pages
Minification of HTML output using ASP.NET IHttpModule
18
Apr
2015
Generate sitemap.xml on the fly in Umbraco CMS
Simple sitemap.xml Umbraco handler
2
Mar
2015
Accessing UmbracoHelper in HttpHandler request
Working with UmbracoHelper and IPublishedContent in HttpHandler
14
Sep
2014
Same page language switching in Umbraco
Land on the same page in different language in Umbraco using Relations