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Jul 7 2008

MySQL backup,compress and FTP from WinForms app

What is this? From your Windows Forms application, implement two menu commandsa) backup entire MySQL database, compress it and send it with FTP to a ftp serverb) reverse = fetch from FTP server, uncompress, restore to MySQL Kind of open/save functionali...

Jan 1 2008

ASP.NET, MySQL and paging

In this article we will create a simple one page ASP.NET web application, implementing paging using the cool MySQL feature LIMIT and SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS. One of the coolest things about MySQL is some of its non standard features. It might sound like a we...

Oct 23 2007

Create OPML links with C#

This example will use the fetch html title example we created earlier and make it possible to input multiple urls for fetching. The specific use I needed to achieve was to create  OPML file for Wordpress import - which turned out to not as eas...

Oct 23 2007

Fetching title from HTML page with C#

This article shows you how to retrieve the text inside <title></title>  HTML tags from a remote web page. Here's how the GUI looks like: You jnust enter the web address in the Url textbox, presses the button and the webpage title come...

Sep 26 2007

Reading DBF files in C#

I was recently assigned a task of converting an old DOS system (using dbase or Visual foxpro files or whatever - fileextention was *.dbf) to  Windows Forms and SQL Server. I have quite a bit of experience of these type of projects - I...