G-Zip compression using C#
12 August 2018
G-Zip Compression and decompression using C# and the .Net framework. This article will teach you how to compress and decompress data in the G-Zip format.
Convert a color image to grayscale with C#
20 July 2018
This article will teach you how to convert a color image to grayscale using C# and the .NET framework. For an in-depth explanation of grayscale conversion please visit the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayscale.
Resize and crop an image keeping its aspect ratio with C#
20 December 2017
When we have to resize an image to exact new dimensions while keeping it's aspect ratio (thus avoiding distortion of the image) with C# we can take advantage of the Graphics class. The Graphics class exposes method DrawImage which allows us to resize an existing source image and draw it onto the image referenced by the Graphics instance.
IIS: How to setup a web site
06 November 2017
This article will help you set up of a web site on a Windows server. We will accomplish this by performing these operations: create a folder to storethe website files, add the website to IIS, bind the website to one or more domains.
IIS: How to setup an FTP account to access a generic folder on a Windows server
03 November 2017
This article will walk you through the creations of an FTP account on a Windows server. We will accomplish this by performing these operations: create an FTP user on Windows, add an FTP site on IIS that points to a physical folder on the server, link the FTP site to the FTP user.
IIS: How to set folder rights for a web application
17 August 2017
In order to allow an IIS website to read/write to a given folder, you need to configure access rights to the folder for the website's application pool (the one you set in IIS).
SPAN: the HTML container that does not alter your document
29 July 2017
The span tag is the only HTML inline container tag: unless you apply CSS to it, it's simply an inline tag that doesn't alter the way your document is displayed.
Generating large reports without freezing the browser window
28 July 2017
One of our teams recently faced the following problem: website users needed to generate large reports that froze the browser window and eventually timed out. How do we solve this?
File Comparison within Visual Studio
28 July 2017
I've seen many colleagues install all sorts of fancy software and plug-ins to be able to compare two files, but you can do that easily from within Visual Studio.