Mix of Life

How to be successful

You may be smart, you may be talented, you may be handsome, but you aren’t successful. After all, the guy that never was that gifted or never had great ideas and he has less brains than you, is now your supervisor!

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People living today are extremely lucky. 50 years ago the internet never even existed, and cable TV was something you read about in sci-fi magazines. Now, thanks to the internet, you can find information on virtually anything you want, instantly. Something which was only a dream just 10 years ago.

Yet with all this information available to us, people still fail to become successful in life. Why…

Work And Life Balance :) http://www.mixoflife.com/work-and-life-balance

Its seems like work and life balance is an issue with growing importance these days, as more and more parents change the traditional family settings and move into different working patterns, new, unfamiliar problems in balancing work and life rise, and work life balance suddenly becomes an important subject.

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Disable IFrame Embeding For Your Site Using JavaScript http://www.mixoflife.com/disable-iframe-embeding-for-your-site-using-javascript

When you work hard in your website and found that another site just embed your site or one of your important page and get more traffic more than yours you should take an action !!

it’s easy to disable IFrame embedding for your site ( like what twitter do :) ) just use the following javascript line of code :

if (parent.frames.length > 0) {window.top.location.href = location.href;};

Simple & Solid Reporting in .NET using ABCpdf.NET #scharp , #pdf , #export , #reporting

one week I was involved in developing an internal windows application for my company and we wanted to print simple report and keep the application simple to deploy ( xcopy way ) and as we use Windows 7 in all our company computers which already have .NET framework  but nothing else ( not crystal reports or MS reporting tools )  , I decided to use ABCpdf.NETto create our simple report via creating…

A Journey With .NET Source Code Control ( SVN ) #dotnet #svn #csharp #visual_studio

Free + work out of the box + ease of use this is the hard equation that I always try to solve in my work and Subversion ( SVN ) solves it for me :)

I used to work alone in many projects I worked as analyst, developer, tester and some times the user :) , I always used to keep  copy of my work files in other location like flash drive , external HD or on my Email or my web hosting . I do this nearly…

Five Types of Food Should be Avoided Durin Menstration

1-Desearts most of ladies eat deserts during menstration but , it cause constaption and inflation , so it must be avoided durig this  peroid .

2-Salt salt must be avoided durig menstration , it cause water retention , which increase problem of inflation that most womean sufferig from durig this period

3-Caffiene and Alchol they also cause water retention , you can eat some chocolate insteade of…

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So What is Opinio ?

Opinio is one of the best surveys systems , it supports multiple users, multilingual surveys, survey collaboration, powerful features such as skip logic and piping, and a highly scalable architecture so it will cover the survey needs for everyone in your organization.

I found my self enforced to install and use it as my company already buy license for it , Opinio is a web…

C# , Read Command Line Parameters In Console Application

whenever you need to make a small application to test some library or a Peace of code or your application does not even need to have a GUI , you may need to deal with a parameters sent to your application . Command line parameters are sent to the application as an array of string ( string[] ) and there is 2 ways that you can use to access this array to get parameters values , assuming that your…

General Windows Application Exception Handling in C#

when you use C# to build Windows Forms Application you come to a point when you need a general Exception handing for both you UI and any thread in the application … its easy just add the following to your Main method in the Program class // Add the event handler for handling UI thread exceptions to the event. Application.ThreadException += new ThreadExceptionEventHandler(UIThreadException); // Set…

Use the following extension method to remove the extra spaces ( in the middle ) from a desired string , its easy right :) public static string RemoveWhiteSpace(thisstring mStr) {     string mRet = mStr.Trim().Replace(”  “, ” “);     while (mRet.Contains(”  “)) mRet = mRet.Replace(”  “, ” “);     return mRet.Trim();

} copied from my old blog ( blog.fayedcom.com )

C# , Convert Image to Byte Array

as the subject says … if you want to convert an Image to an array of bytes to save it in the database or in a file or send it to a web service or another application , just put the following extension method in a static class and call it from the Image object like : byte[] mImageBytes = img.ToBytes(ImageFormat.Png);

public static byte[] ToBytes(this Image image, ImageFormatformat) {     if (image…

C# , Fast Way To Repeat a String

there is may way to do it , but I this the following extension method will be that fast and efficient way to repeat a string for a specific number of times , just add this method to a static class and you can call it like : ” “.Repeat(10);

public static string Repeat(this string value, intcount) { return newStringBuilder().Insert(0, value, count).ToString();

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sometimes you want to allow the user to run only one instance of your application , so you will need to check if your application is already running at the start up by using the following method which will return null if there is no previous instance is already running otherwise it will return a Process object pointing to that instance   … enjoy public static Process PriorProcess() {    …

Whenever you want to convert the data in DataGridView you can use the following method , the process is very easy , put this method in any common class in your application an call it , it will return a string contain the HTML Table public static string ConvertToHtmlTable(DataGridViewtargetTable) {     string myHtmlFile = “”;     if (targetTable == null)     { throw…