Speeding up your windows startup
skchandon When the windows starts it loads all sorts of programs (msn messenger, skype etc.) Sometimes it loads a certain program that you dont always need. I had that same trouble…
VB.Net – Passing Multiple Parameters to a thread call without creating a class object
Ok, so in most cases when we need to make a threaded call we need to pass multiple parameters to the worker function. In VB.net by default it supports one…
What is WordPress and Why do I care?
Often small to Mid size companies spend a lot of resources behind designing a website. Spending money behind a web developer, web designer etc. They would have to spend time…
BMP to ICO converter source code
The following vb application has a form called “form1”. The form has one “OpenFileDialog” called “OpenFileDialog1” and a file menu item called: “ChooseBMPToolStripMenuItem”. The user clicks on the menu item,…
Running a dos command from a VB.net application without a window
The following code demonstrates how to run an external command line program an not show an window:
Running an External program from a c# application
To pipe the command line output when running an external program, we can do the following in a c# program:
C# .Net Thread Join Example
If we want multiple threads to finish their work and then proceed to the next phase of processing then we might want to use thread join. Below is an example…
PHP Tricks: A great way to get all the post/get variables. Beware: may have security issues:
While I was digging up some old code samples that I once prepared to write an article I found this little interesting piece. Often in PHP web app development we…
A small VB.net Forms application to view Crystal Reports
If you wish to create an application that allows the user to view an existing crystal report then this is what you do: Make sure you have crystal report designer…
Welcome to new skchandon.com wordpress blog
I just switched to wordpress blog. I resisted for far too long but now it is time to join the wp-revolution :) So far I am quite happy with the…