You have two choices

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood.

When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply:

Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs,

Why？

If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling him how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him：

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood.

I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I always choose the positive side of life."

"But it's not always that easy,” I protested.

"Yes it is," Jerry said.

You choose how you react to situations.

You choose how people will affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.

It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later,

And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed men.

While Jerry trying to open the safe box,

Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.…

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident.

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.

 "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied.

"Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die.
I chose to live."

Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine.

But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared.

I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

'Yes,' to bullets, I replied.

Over their laughter, I told them: “I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”

"Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.

I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it.

The only thing that is truly yours - that no one can control or take from you – is your attitude.

• In the title text box give your web server a name (in this case I have called it webserver 1919).
• In the command text box enter your .net web server address (in my computer it is C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\WebDev.WebServer.EXE)
• In the Arguments text box enter /port:{port number} /path:$(ProjectDir) where {port number} is your desired static port number (in this case I have chosen port 1919 and the value is “/port:1919 /path:$(ProjectDir)”).
• Tick use output window check box
• Click on the Ok button

• Right click on your asp.net project file and click on the Property Pages menu.
• On the left side of the property window click on Start Options.
• In the Server section choose Use custom server
• In the base URL text box enter http://localhost:1919 where 1919 should be the port number you have chosen in step 2
• Click on the Ok button

• Click on the Tool menu. Now a new menu item having the name you have assigned to the customer web server in step 2 should be displayed in the tool menu.
• Click on the new menu item (in this case webserver 1919)

 اگر کريستوفر کلمب ازدواج کرده بود،شايد هرگز قاره امريکا را کشف نمي کرد، چون بجای برنامه ريزی و تمرکز در مورد چنين سفر ماجراجويانه ای، بايد وقتش را به پاسخ دادن به همسرش، درباره پرسشهای زير مي گذراند :

·         کجا داری ميری؟

·         با کی؟

·         واسه چی؟

·         چطوری دارين می رين؟

·         کشف چی؟

·         چرا فقط تو؟

·         تا تو برگردی من چيکار کنم؟!

·         می تونم منم باهات بيام؟!

·         کِی برمی گردی؟

·         برای شام خونه ای ديگه؟!

·         واسم چی مياری؟

·         تو عمدا اين برنامه رو بدون من ريختی،

·         اينطور نيست؟!

·         جواب منو بده؟

·         من می خوام برم خونه مامانم!

·         من می خوام تو منو اونجا برسونی!

·         ديگه هيچوقت به اين خونه برنمی گردم!

·         منظورت  چيه "اوکی"؟!

·         چرا  جلوم رو نمی گيری؟!

·         من اصلا نمی فهمم اين کشف درباره چی هست؟

·         تو هميشه اينجوری رفتار می کنی!

·         آخرين بار هم همين کار رو کردی!

·         می بينم اين روزها داری يه کارهايی می کنی!

·         من هنوز نمی فهمم، مگه چيز ديگه ايی هم برای کشف کردن مونده!

ظاهرا در مورد اين يک موضوع، تمام فرهنگها به طرز وحشتناکی با هم وجه مشترک دارند.

حالا فکر مي کنيد اون انقدر نابغه بود که مي تونست پاسخ اينهمه پرسشها رو بده و بدون برانگيختن سوظن بره آمريکا رو کشف کنه؟

تازه مي دونيم که اصلا قرار نبود بره آمريکا رو کشف کنه.. قرار بود بره هندوستان.. حالا فکر مي کنيد اگر از آمريکا بر مي گشت و ساری هندی برای زنش نمي اورد و مي گفت من به جای هندوستان رفتم آمريکا رو کشف کردم چه قشقرقي راه مي افتاد.. من که اون موقع اصلا دلم نمي خواست جای اون باشم!!!ا

(به نقل از ایمیل یکی از دوستان)

 it has been always a question for me that  what the maximum number of table in a sql server database is. searching for an answer to this question, i came across the following table in msdn. i found it very usefull and thought of sharing it with you.

here is the long waiting service for windows mobile phones. it helps you backup you phone data including contacts, text messages, pictuers ect  online and access them from anywhere in the world where you are connected to internet. best of all, the service is for free.

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recently in our project we had a requirement to export html to PDF in asp.net. there are so many components around which we can use to do this but the restriction for us was that we had to do it without spending money means we had to go for an open source component. doing so much I&D on this, we came to know about itextSharp which is a powerful open source component to create PDF files in .net. first it seemed good to us but spending sometimes on it we came to know it was not what we were looking for. two reason for that:

1. it requires a big learning curve
2. it’s not at all easy to work with

then the idea of using crystal report came to our mind. we could build the report in crystal report, load it through code without showing anything to user and through it’s API calling the export to pdf function. but it did not work since we had to run some setup components on the live server which we are not allowed to do.

meantime i just remembered we have rdlc reports in .net framework and also Microsoft report viewer. since these are .net component we don't have to install anything on the production server and Xcopy of the required assemblies will work for us. normally you can deploy the .net report files (.rdlc) using xcopy but in order to be able to use the reports you need to install Microsoft report viewer redistributable package which is freely available to download and distribute. this is fine when you have the rights to install components on the server. anyways spending sometime on this technology i found the files required to make the functionality up and running. if you don't want to install report viewer component you need to put these four dll in your bin folder:

Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll
Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel.dll
Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll
Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms.dll

you can download the files from here:
http://cid-c1dc0bf06aa2e3a6.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/BlogFiles/ReportViewerFiles.zip

then you need the following lines of code to export:

string[] streamids;
string mimeType;
string encoding;
string extension;
string fileFormat = "PDF";//can also be "Excel" or "Image";
Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.LocalReport localReport = 
new Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.LocalReport();
localReport.ReportPath = Server.MapPath("Report1.rdlc");
Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.Warning[] warnings;
byte[] bytes = localReport.Render(
fileFormat, null, out mimeType, out encoding,
out extension,
out streamids, out warnings);
System.IO.FileStream fs = 
new System.IO.FileStream(Server.MapPath("output.pdf"),
System.IO.FileMode.Create);
fs.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
fs.Close();
Response.Redirect("output.pdf");

remember you can export to PDF, Excel and Image

you can use this method both for asp.net applications and windows application.

hope this comes handy for you.

ever wanted to connect to an oracle database in your .net application (asp.net, windows client ect) but tnsnames.ora file was missing? ok,i just found a solution for this in connectionstrings.com. you can use the following connection strings to connect to an oracle database using both microsoft .net provider for oracle database and odp.net:

SERVER=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=yourHost)(PORT=yourPort))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=yourOracleSID)));uid=yourUsername;pwd=yourPassword;

All of us have already dealt with the problem of promoting configuration files in different application life cycles. this problem can be as simple as managing different connection strings for different databases in each environment to managing the other complicated settings in each environment.

so many times it happens that we forget to update the configuration file (web.config or app.config) before promotes. what we had already done was to keep one configuration file for each environment (development, testing, staging …) and after promote before build overwrite the the existing configuration file. but even in this case we used to miss to update the configuration file with the latest information. anyway i came across the very good solution in Scott Hanselman's blog. ok here is the solution.

1. In your project Click the configuration management dropdown and select "Configuration Manager."

You'll probably have Debug and Release configurations, but you can also make custom ones and base them on existing configuration. In this dialog I've made a new "Deploy" and I'll base it on the "Release" configuration.

Make sure to create a Solution Configuration AND a Project Configuration, as they are different. Here I've made one called Deploy for the Project also. If you get an error message, be aware of the "Create new project configurations" checkbox. You might get a warning if you are making a new configuration and the dialog tries to make another configuration with the same name; uncheck the checkbox if that happens. Of course, you can have as many Configurations as you'd like.

2. Add some custom configuration stuff in web.config, like connectionStrings:

	   1: <connectionStrings>
	

	   2:     <add name="Foo"
	

	   3:          connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=DatabaseName;
	
	   4:                            User Id=sa;Password=debug;"
	
	
	

	   5:          providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
	

	   6: </connectionStrings>
	

See now I've made the password in my nonsense connectionString = "debug"? Now, create three new web.config's by CTRL-dragging the web.config on top of the project. Name them web.config.debug, web.config.deploy, and web.config.release. Make the password equal to "deploy" and "release" respectively.

3. Ok,  now we've got different configuration and different configuration files. Let's create a batch file called "copyifnewer.bat" and here's the contents:

	   1: @echo off
	

	   2: echo Comparing two files: %1 with %2
	

	   3:  
	

	   4: if not exist %1 goto File1NotFound
	

	   5: if not exist %2 goto File2NotFound
	

	   6:  
	

	   7: fc %1 %2 
	

	   8: if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 GOTO NoCopy
	

	   9:  
	

	  10: echo Files are not the same.  Copying %1 over %2
	

	  11: copy %1 %2 /y & goto END
	

	  12:  
	

	  13: :NoCopy
	

	  14: echo Files are the same.  Did nothing
	

	  15: goto END
	

	  16:  
	

	  17: :File1NotFound
	

	  18: echo %1 not found.
	

	  19: goto END
	

	  20:  
	

	  21: :File2NotFound
	

	  22: copy %1 %2 /y
	

	  23: goto END
	

	  24:  
	

	  25: :END
	

	  26: echo Done.
	

Basically this batch file will copy a file over another if the files don't match. It's not strictly "copyifnewer" (like, not at all) but it does the job.

Why bother with a batch file to check for changes and not just copy over the file every time? Well, each time you copy over a web.config it restarts all the designers and running AppDomains that are watching that file. No need to copy over a file if it hasn't changed...everything will churn less.

Put this copyifnewer.bat file in the root of your project.

4. Create a Pre-build Event. Right-click on your Project and select Properties. Click Build Events and in the "Pre-build event command line" and enter this value:

	"$(ProjectDir)copyifnewer.bat" "$(ProjectDir)web.config.$(ConfigurationName)" "$(ProjectDir)web.config"
	

Notice the magic dust, the $(ConfigurationName) project variable, that contains "Debug" or "Release" or "Deploy."

5. Build. Now if you build, you'll see in the Build Output the batch file being run and the files being copied. Because it's a Pre-Build Event it'll be seen in both the Build Output in Visual Studio .NET.

When you build within Visual Studio the currently selected item in the drop-down list is the current configuration.  now you have different configuration file for each build

there is catch here and that is we have to remember that we've got to keep web.config's in sync if there's lots of settings, but we could totally break it apart via "include files."

Here are some key differences between JavaScript Object Notation (or JSON), an open and text-based data exchange format, that provides a standardized data exchange format better suited for Ajax-style web applications and XML.

Although Both JSON and XML can be used to represent native, in-memory objects in a text-based, human-readable, data exchange format, but the two data exchange formats are isomorphic—given text in one format, an equivalent one is conceivable in the other.

following tables is a high level comparision between JSON and XML.

Key Characteristic Differences between XML and JSON

JSON is a relatively new data exchange format and does not have the years of adoption or vendor support that XML enjoys today (although JSON is catching up quickly). The following table highlights the current state of affairs in the XML and JSON spaces.

Support Differences between XML and JSON