With all the DBMSs out there, text files are still widely used when developing applications. They are small, fast and do not require any library or application to be installed in the client machine. The …
Before the .NET Framework application settings were saved in INI files and the Windows Registry. But the .NET Framework introduced a much easier way using an XML file. The file has the name of the …
The easiest way to shutdown, restart, or hibernate a computer programmatically using C# is to use the shutdown command-line tool that comes with Windows.
Sometimes a smart client application needs to do a lengthy operation that can slow down the performance of the whole application and make it unresponsive.
This is a piece of code I used for an application that needed to be displayed in 2 screens setup as extended view. I used a simple calculation to know the selected screen's coordinates and …
Travian the well known browser game has a downloadable file for developers in each of its servers that provides details of all the players of the server.
The Microsoft Office Document Imaging library that is provided with Office 2003 and Office 2007, has Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that can extract text and layout from image files.