Free Export DataSet/DataTable/List<t> to Excel (without using or even having Excel installed)

Code Project - A free "Export to Excel" C# class, using OpenXML It's amazing that even now, in 2013, there are so many developers still asking for help on how to write C# and VB.Net code, to export their data to Excel. Even worse, a lot of them will stumble on articles suggesting that they should write their data to a comma-separated file, but to give the file an .xls extension. So, today, I'm going to walkthrough how to use my C# "Export...

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wxHexEditor, your new large, 16EBs (exabytes) large, file editor?

beta news - Open files of any size with wxHexEditor The PC world has plenty of hex editors; does it really need another? Our first thought was probably not, but that was before we’d spent a little time with the fast, feature-packed and extremely capable wxHexEditor. Some hex editors have annoying limits on file sizes, for instance. But not this one. WxHexEditor can handle files up to 2^64 in size, that’s 16 billion gigabytes, which will probably...

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Think your passwords rock? Check out Telepathwords from Microsoft Research (which might have you thinking again about those passwords)

Microsoft Research - Avoiding Vulnerable Passwords—and Rules, Too You could think of it as a brainteaser: Create a sequence of eight or more characters that includes at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, a digit, and a symbol, that doesn’t contain any words in English, and that is memorable enough that you can recall it. For most of us, unfortunately, the challenge posed by these rules isn’t fun—it’s a painful chore forced upon...

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Rad Gate Post... Get your Red Gate Post here...

simple talk - Melanie Townsend - Get a copy of the Red Gate Post We recently put together a newspaper of some of the best articles from Simple-Talk and SQL Server Central, complete with a dash of advice, playful ads, and letters to the editor. It only seems fair to allow the newspaper to be downloadable in PDF form so here it is in all it’s glory (the PDF is about 6mb). If you take advantage of the lovely crossword puzzle and quiz questions,...

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[Humor] A familiar looking Project Team?

agile scout - Every Software Project You’ve Ever Worked On Let's I'm.... um... err... um.... yeah.  :P...

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Slicing .NET - NSlice, the Python like Slice for .Net

Works on my machine - Slicing for .NET ... First odd thing I read about Python was that a developer can use negative array indices. My reaction was: Why would I even want to get an IndexOutOfRangeException? That is just silly. But then I read what they actually do. They are just like the normal ones. The only difference is that they index the array backwards, for example: -1 means last, -2 means one before last, and so on. That is really handy....

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WiX'ing in VS 2013. WiX 3.8 adds VS 2013 support, bootstrapper and more

InfoQ - Wix 3.8 Adds VS 2013 Support in Votive and WiX Native Library and Bootstrapper Application Functions Wix, Windows installer package tool, has released version 3.8 with support for Visual Studio 2013 in Votive and WiX native libraries. It includes bootstrapper application functions which extends WixStandardBootstrapperApplication. The release provides an ability to detect Windows 8.1 in Burn in addition to detecting properties in WixVSExtension...

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