Browse images and media files in Asp.Net like in a photo gallery

Browse images and media...

Two or three years ago i needed a way to show my users the content i published on my web community. Due to hosting problems (i had no database) i needed something to list the files into the directories and show the content. I decided to write a little custom control that permits the...
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Summer vacation in Croa...

Wow it’s time to leave, 5 hours and we’ll be travelling towards Croatia. It’s a 1200 Km travel by car but it’s our much wanted summer vacation. See you all on August 28 for something new about .Net Have a nice summer holiday
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Custom ListBox with icons in .Net

Custom ListBox with ico...

Having a nice interface is a must for professional software, it’s why the Custom Controls market is growing so fast. Programmers can have a nice interface without writing a single line of code, all that they have to do is to buy a Control Library. If you’re planning to...
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Get Hard Disk Serial and CPUID in .Net

Get Hard Disk Serial an...

When we sell a software we may decide to make it work only on a specific computer generating a license key that works only for that PC. When the customer changes his hardware he has to ask for a new license key. We can identify a computer retrieving it’s CPU ID and it’s...
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Using a class as ListItem in a ListBox in .Net

Using a class as ListIt...

Sometimes it could be useful to use classes as listitems in a listbox. This way you can have extra item info directly into the listbox control so when you click on the item you can easily access the full class data. I always use this solution when i work with databases so i don’t...
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Using MySQL database in .Net

Using MySQL database in...

Last year i had to choose a Database Server for a new application i had to develop for my customer. The options was Access, SQL Server, Oracle. As you can imagine i decided to exclude Access from the list due to it’s slow performances. I had to decide between SQL Server and...
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Download a file from web in .Net

Download a file from we...

This article is just written to help people with this task if they don’t know how to do. As you will see there’s not so much code to write to do this, it’s just provided by the .Net Framework All that you have to do is: add a reference to System.Net namespace create...
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Protect your site photos with a signature

Protect your site photo...

Four years ago i started my web programming experience. The first site i made is www.irclove.com a social networking site. After two years i noticed that someone stoled my users photo and posted it on other sites or blogs so i decided to add a signature on the photos to easily identify...
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Transparent Splash screen in .Net

Transparent Splash scre...

To give a nice look at your applications there are a lot of little thing that makes the difference. One of that is a nice Splash screen like the one of Photoshop or other famous software. Making it in VB.Net is really simple, all that you need is: A nice image to use as splash screen In...
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