My Essential Developer’s Toolbox – Part III

November 26th, 2008 | Posted in Programming, Software
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This is Part III of the My Essential Developer’s Toolbox post reviewing some of the tools I use on a regular basis. Part I of the My Essential Developer’s Toolbox listed IDEs for ASP.NET, PHP, other open source technologies as well as Database Management applications for Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL. Click here to read ...

Great MySQL mysqldump Split Utility

November 26th, 2008 | Posted in MySQL, Software
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If you are in a situation where you don’t have access to mysql via command line to import your mysqldump file and need to use phpMyAdmin but limited to the size that you can import SQL Dump Splitter will help you keep your sanity. It will split the files into smaller split files from the ...

My Essential Developer’s Toolbox – Part II

November 25th, 2008 | Posted in Programming, Software
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This is Part II of the My Essential Developer’s Toolbox post reviewing some of the tools I use on a regular basis. If you missed Part I of the My Essential Developer’s Toolbox I listed some IDEs for ASP.NET, PHP, other open source technologies as well as Database Management applications for Microsoft SQL Server and ...

My Essential Developer's Toolbox – Part I

November 23rd, 2008 | Posted in ASP.NET, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SQL Server, Software
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This is a multi-part post that lists all of the tools that I use on a regular basis as a web developer. The list is Microsoft Windows centric but I will point out the applications that are cross-platform (as best as I can). IDEs (Integrated Development Environment)* Microsoft ASP.NET Both of the IDEs below are ...

PHP implode() Function with C#

November 23rd, 2008 | Posted in ASP.NET
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The following snippet will join values in an array with a specified separator. string[] items = new string[] { "one", "two", "three" }; string.Join(", ", items);...

Missing ASP.NET Tab in inetmgr

November 23rd, 2008 | Posted in ASP.NET, IIS
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If your ASP.NET tab has disappeared (mine was caused by installing ISAPI_Rewrite) then the following MSDN blog article has a tool you can use to fix it. http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/04/17/asp-net-tab-missing.aspx...

Awesome Outlook Search Plugin

November 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Software
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I’ve been using the Xobni (inbox spelled backwards) plugin for almost a year without issue. It will help you save a lot of time searching for your messages and attachments much faster than the built in Find utility. I suggest you install it and give it a spin. It’s free so what do you have ...

mysqldump Similar Utility for SQL Server

November 21st, 2008 | Posted in SQL Server
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If you are using SQL Server (specifically Express 2005) and you are looking for a quick way to export your entire database into a single file, the following tool will do the trick. Export Your Database Grab a fresh copy of the free tool. http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20040913.zip Once you have downloaded the zip file you can open ...

Create a Custom WordPress Page

November 20th, 2008 | Posted in Wordpress
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Here is how you can add a custom page to WordPress. This is useful if you want to create a page that uses your own code for a custom function and you want to use the template you have installed on your WordPress blog. So let’s get to it… Create your custom page For this ...

Find a Nested Web Control within a Web Control with C#

November 20th, 2008 | Posted in ASP.NET
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I was having issues accessing a web control directly within a user control and used the following to access the web control within a LoginView in the User Control. The same syntax below can be used if you are looking for a nested control within a control. System.Web.UI.WebControls.Literal name_literal = (System.Web.UI.WebControls.Literal)this.LoginView1.FindControl("name"); name_literal.Text = "Text goes ...