So I told you guys a couple weeks ago about the Ice Cream Truck episode of Pimp My Ride. It went over pretty good. All the touch screen software solutions, including the POS, and the cash drawer was all me. It came out nice. It was written in C# using Direct X for graphics and video stuff. It is all...

So I told you guys a couple weeks ago about the Ice Cream Truck episode of Pimp My Ride. It went over pretty good. All the touch screen software solutions, including the POS, and the cash drawer was all me. It came out nice. It was written in C# using Direct X for graphics and video stuff. It is all...

Today CSharpFeeds officially goes live. This is a pet project of mine and Gregg Stark’s based on Serge’s VBFeeds.com site and its source code (thanks to Serge for letting me see the source!). VBFeeds is a great place to find just VB information from the top VB people, moderated so that it...

When you are trying to use DrawString and MeasureString for example to print something it seems that there is a little offset to the right and the left of the text, using MeasureString doesn’t seems to do its job. This is how it will look: And this is how you want it to look: In order to solve...

When you are trying to use DrawString and MeasureString for example to print something it seems that there is a little offset to the right and the left of the text, using MeasureString doesn’t seems to do its job. This is how it will look: And this is how you want it to look: In order to solve...

When you don’t have topics to blog about them you can write about usual questions you face with everyday. This post is an answer to a question that Rick asked me yesterday for one of his clients on ASPnix forums : How can we format our currency values for special languages? There are two solutions...

This will be the last DNN Daily Tip for the week. I'm headed to Denver tomorrow for a race this weekend and meetings with a client on Monday, so I'll likely not post again until I return. What's today's tip? It's a special one ;) Upgrade to the latest version of DotNetNuke, 4.3.3...

This will be the last DNN Daily Tip for the week. I'm headed to Denver tomorrow for a race this weekend and meetings with a client on Monday, so I'll likely not post again until I return. What's today's tip? It's a special one ;) Upgrade to the latest version of DotNetNuke, 4.3.3...

I wrote the code below to monitor a website that was running on a local web server. The goal was to reset the web server whenever the WebRequest object recieved a 404 error from the web server. If a 404 error is recieved, the service runs the command specified in the web.config file. The service operates...

Murach’s C# 2005 is one of many books I’ve picked up since .NET 2.0/VS2005 went gold last November. I have to say, I really love the layout of Murach’s line of books. The book would make an ideal textbook for a training class, but outside of a training environment it is still a great...