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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The TFS Upgrade Guide gets... well... upgraded. v3, the TFS 2013 Upgrade Edition

Willy's Reflections - TFS Upgrade Guide comes out of silent BETA release and ships v3 for TFS 2013 We are please to announce the release of TFS Upgrade Guide, v3 for practical guidance for an upgrade to TFS 2013. This guide is intended as a supplement to the Upgrade information found in the Team Foundation Server Installation and Administration guides. It is recommended to begin with the Team Foundation Server Installation and Administration...

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Windows 2012 Server Edition Comparison Matrix and more...

Firewall.cx - Windows 2012 Server Foundation, Essential, Standard & Datacenter Edition Differences, Licensing & Supported Features. Windows Server 2012 Editions On the 1st of August, 2012 Microsoft released Windows Server 2012– the sixth release of the Windows Server product family. On May 21st 2013, Windows Server 2012 R2 was introduced and is now the latest version of Windows Server in the market.  Microsoft has released...

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RegEx'ing - The RefCardz

DZone - Refcardz - 196: Regular Expressions The Essential Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet A regular expression, also known as a regex or regexp, is a way of defining a search pattern. This Refcard assumes no prior knowledge of regular expressions covers basic features of regular expressions, including normal and special characters, quantifiers, capturing and non-capturing groups, and more. About Regular Expressions A regular expression,...

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200 C# Video Tutorials? 200 VB? JavaScript? PHP? C++? Python? All that and more on 'thenewboston'

thenewboston - Videos & Tutorials Videos & Tutorials - C# About thenewboston How it all began... My name is Bucky Roberts. I grew up in northern New York until I was 21 and then I moved down to Raleigh, North Carolina, where I live now. I began going to college down here but soon dropped out once I realized it wasn’t for me. Sure, I was interested in computers and web design, but most of the courses I was taking...

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What's the [table]diff? Diff'ing SQL Server tables with the Microsoft provided tablediff command line utility

simple talk - SQL Tools - SQL Server tablediff utility Rob Sheldon continues on his quest to explain all those command-line tools such as SQLCMD, Logparser, SQLIO and tablediff that are part of SQL Server. TableDiff is great for comparing tables, as when you run automated tests that check a result against a table of expected values. The best way to learn TableDiff is to see it in action and Rob talks you through several examples. Among the...

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