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How to Enable the New Facebook Timeline Now

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:28:49 +0530

You’ve been hearing about all the wonderful new Facebook features, and like most of us, you’re probably eager to get started with them.

If you’re willing to go through a series of eight steps, you can get into the brand-new Facebook Timeline right now.

Just follow the instructions below, and suddenly you’ll be basking in a new world of Facebook goodness, just like the developers are. Follow carefully, and good luck.

jQuery Notification After Postback in ASP.NET

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:33:17 +0530

Hi all,

I read in several forums that developers were struggling to show a jQuery notification message on a page after a postback. This matters a lot for making a website’s UI attractive nowadays.

Here’s a simple tutorial to solve that.

I’m using the jQuery showMessage notification plugin for displaying the message.

Here’s the code for the ASPX page, Default.aspx:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
 <title>Jquery Postback demo</title>
 <script src="JS/jquery.showMessage.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <script src="JS/jquery.showMessage.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <link href="CSS/style_msg.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
 <script type="text/javascript"
 src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"
 charset="utf-8"></script>
</head>
<body>
 <form id="form1" runat="server">
 <div>
 <asp:TextBox ID="txtFirstname" runat="server" />
 <asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" style="height: 26px" />
 </div>
 </form>
</body>
</html>

I’ve just added one textbox and one button to the page — here’s the code for the button click event:

Angry Birds Hack for Chrome Browser

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Sun, 15 May 2011 10:30:31 +0530

Hello,

A few days ago Angry Birds launched their browser game, first released for Chrome — originally it was only on iOS and Android.

They did a fantastic job — it plays just like the mobile version, and they used HTML5 and CSS3 extensively.

I was playing and trying to three-star every level, but no luck. 😛

Auto Generate Data Dictionary from SQL Database

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:31:43 +0530

Data Dictionary Creator is a simple, free tool that helped me immensely with SQL Server database documentation.

It stores all the information in Extended Properties, so it’s easier to keep the documentation in sync with the database as it changes. I was able to generate a data dictionary with just a couple of mouse clicks after entering the connection string. The dictionary can be exported to various formats: Excel, XML, Word, and HTML. Check the reference for a step-by-step tutorial on using this utility (the current version supports SQL Server 2008 too). You can download it from CodePlex.

Stuck Configuring IIS-7 Express in Visual Studio

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:58:59 +0530

Hello,

I was trying to configure IIS7.5 Express with Visual Studio 2010, which shipped with the first release of WebMatrix.

Somehow I ran into an error, like the following screenshot:

I finally found a solution — just follow these steps.

First, open Control Panel from the start menu, then go to Add/Remove Programs.

Then just check the following option:

And you’re done.

Thank you. Hope this helps.

Get File Size Information Before You Download

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:03:15 +0530

Hello,

I was browsing ASP.NET resources and found an interesting code snippet for getting a file’s size over HTTP before the download actually starts.

So you can find out the size of a file before you download it. Here’s the simple code:

string completeUrl = "TypeYourDownloadableURL";

WebClient obj = new WebClient();
Stream s = obj.OpenRead(completeUrl);
Response.Write(obj.ResponseHeaders["Content-Length"].ToString());
s.Close();
obj = null;

ASP.NET MVC

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:57:16 +0530

Hello,

Since I started my internship in January, I wanted to learn the ASP.NET MVC architecture, so I made time to learn it during my internship training.

ASP.NET provides a great framework called ASP.NET MVC for building MVC applications. It’s not totally different from a plain ASP.NET website, but it’s not compulsory either — it’s up to you whether you want to build your site using the MVC framework or the traditional way.

PHP GridView

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:30:32 +0000

Hello friends,

Once I was developing an auction website in PHP, and I was worried about a gridview. I searched a lot online and couldn’t find anything I wanted.

Suddenly one day I found PHP GridView. I downloaded it and tried integrating it with my website, and it’s awesome. You have to pass the parameters, and just about every function is there — sorting, editing, exporting.

You can also make an edit form directly, and it’s developed in PHP with MVC, so for download just click here.

Anthem Toolkit

mihirsoni.123@gmail.com (Mihir Soni) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:28:56 +0000

Hello friends,

Today I’m describing the use of the Anthem toolkit.

Anthem is a very powerful toolkit that’s popular for GridView and some other ASP.NET controls.

Anthem Toolkit is completely based on AJAX, and performs all actions using AJAX techniques, so there’s no need for a postback every single time.

You can use the Anthem GridView easily, and this control toolkit is open source.

You can download the DLL here.