Nice utilities for Web Developer

Hello friends,

Today I come up with some useful list which help you in web development and good news is that its all free.
1) “FIREBUG” :-
Basically “FIREBUG” is add in for FireFox. It’s a great utility helps a lot to design web pages. As a developer I am mostly intrested in programming not designing.But this utility help me in solving designing issues. With the help of it you can manage designing ,CSS issues.
You can download this from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
2) Web Development Helper:-
This one is another useful utitly for web developer to improve performance. Its basically help you to determine which page taking how much time to response.It also help other area also like script finding. It has dom Inspector also. You can take help of this tool in various way.
You can download this from http://projects.nikhilk.net/WebDevHelper
3) Deep Zoom composer:- If you are working on Silverlight also then you can use Deep Zoom composer.it has very nice feature for images.
You can dowload this from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=457b17b7-52bf-4bda-87a3-fa8a4673f8bf&displaylang=en

So just dowload & use this tools and improve your code.

Happy programming!

Thanks …
Your host
Rajat

How to change VS.NET 2008 IDE colorful and make it attractive in 5 minutes?

Hello friends,
I know you are some time bored by same IDE. So here I am helping you out to make your IDE environment colorful as shown below fig.

Microsoft gives you full hands on IDE Environment to make your IDE attractive and enjoy dot net programming.
So for this you have to follow below steps.
1) Go to tool –> import and export Setting

2) Select the option as shown below.

3) In next step you can save your existing IDE Settings as shown below fig.

4)in next step just browse your require IDE settings (all the IDE settings has extension “VSSettings”) Like “rajat.vsSettings” just browse the file and click on finish button and what you will see is amazed cool coloful VS IDE.

I have attached some of the files just rename them with .vsSettings.

1) Colourful black

2) IndianTouch

3)RajatSpecial

Remember to rename this doc file to “.VsSettings”

Just use the wizard and you will get attractive IDE.
So enjoy colorful programming and IDE.
Make your coding colorful.

Thanks & regards
Rajat Jaiswal

Basic Threading with dotnet

Hello friends,
Some time I really scared when I listen threading, but when I dive in threading pool its really fun and interesting also.
As per my knowledge what ever I got by learning from different books and web sites I will give you some basic knowledge which you will use and enjoy.
So first thing is what is threading? So here we go. When we talk about multi tasking, multi processing then threading word comes in action. Suppose you have a agile code which will run on a button click but the problem is when user click the button its hang up user screen for a while but you want user screen to be free and allow user to do some other task which he wants. Or similar thing in code also.
In this situation you require threading. It will improve user interaction and performance of your code also.

So start with basic the base class in dot net for threading is System.Threading

I will just write a code how to start a thread so it will much better to understand.

Suppose on button click we want to create a thread which will count number
Private Sub btnStartThread_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnStartThread.Click

Dim myThread As Threading.Thread = New System.Threading.Thread(New Threading.ThreadStart(AddressOf Me.pvt_NumberCounter))
myThread.Start()
MsgBox(“Next statement after thread!!!!”, MsgBoxStyle.Critical, “Rajat”)

End Sub

In the above lines what we are doing we are creating a delegate for a method which pvt_NumberCounter which count the number and assign it to mythread object.
Then to start thread or to activate thread we wrote mythread.start()
Which make thread active. Method pvt_NumberCounter() get in action.
While after mythread.start() statement message box also execute.
Means controls remain in start thread button.

In this way the thread can start.
There are some states of thread which will call thread state by which we can know what is the current position or state of a thread. For understanding thread you must understand thread state. Go through below fig and table.

Action	ThreadState
A thread is created within the common language runtime.	Unstarted
A thread calls Start	Running
The thread starts running.	Running
The thread calls Sleep	WaitSleepJoin
The thread calls Wait on another object.	WaitSleepJoin
The thread calls Join on another thread.	WaitSleepJoin
Another thread calls Interrupt	Running
Another thread calls Suspend	SuspendRequested
The thread responds to a Suspend request.	Suspended
Another thread calls Resume	Running
Another thread calls Abort	AbortRequested
The thread responds to a Abort request.	Stopped
A thread is terminated.	Stopped

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now your mind has one question we started Thread, we have seen thread state but how to kill a thread explicitly I know you are very destructive mind : D but it was also in my mind so here is simple property which we have to use.
Which is Abort(). Sounds interesting.
You can kill a thread explicitly by thread.abort() statement.
So friends its over for me for this article i will bring some more stuff later on.
till then keep programming, keep visiting.
Thanks
Rajat

How to Start and kill a process (exe) From dot net

Hello friends,
First of all sorry for such a late post bit busy in some other stuff but come back with bang.
Today I will show you some simple but very interesting topic. So first topic is how to call a process from your code. And how to kill a particular process from your code.
Its code is very simple just needs to understand once then you are perfect in this.
The first thing you need to know there is base class for process which is System.Diagnostics
I am showing you code right here so please with me for few moments.
I am opening a Microsoft word application here.

Imports System
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.Diagnostics.Process

Private Sub btnStartProcess_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnStartProcess.Click
Try
Dim oProcess As Process
Dim startInfo As New ProcessStartInfo
startInfo.FileName = “winword.exe”
oProcess = Process.Start(startInfo)
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try
End Sub

In this way you can open a new Microsoft word application in similar manner you can open different other process. And also pass. Command line arguments to them.

Now if you want to close this application then its also easy. Just see below code and you will be master in that.

Private Sub btncloseProcess_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btncloseProcess.Click
Try
Dim oProcess As Process
Process.GetProcessesByName(“winword.exe”)
oProcess.Kill()
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try
End Sub

If you know the id of process then it could be more specific. To kill particular instance.
In this way you can create and kill a process.
In next session I will come up with some more interesting topics till than do your best enjoy programming, enjoy dot net.
Thanks & regards
Rajat