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I recently needed to copy some value from the web UI to clients clipboard. Since this is not something you often need to use, I googled a little bit and found that this is easy to do with document.execCommand... read more

In case you are working on a small project where you just store some files and access them, you do not really need a database to achieve accessibility and additional info to files or folders. Filesystem itself is providing some stuff which can be useful for this... read more

Image resizing is considered as a server side operation as JavaScript and HTML were not so sophisticated and HTML5 support was not widely adopted for quite some time. even now, some features are not equally supported by all major browsers. Anyhow, HTML5 is here to stay and over time we will get more and more features supported by all browsers. ... read more

So far (based on my experience) the fastest way to insert big number of records from application to database is to use SqlBulkCopy. The downsize of this is that SqlBulkCopy uses DataTable instace as an input parameter which is not so convenient when dealing with models which are strongly typed and a lot more easy to use than iterating through the DataTable. Since SqlBulkCopy accepts DataTable for insert you can not use models directly to insert your data... read more