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Allow Visual Studio to use more memory in 32bit windows

By Sameer On January 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Read this excellent guide on increasing the total memory Visual Studio can use, even in 32bit windows

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No source avaiable (VS2010)

By Sameer On January 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Did you ever try pausing your code in VS2010? Did you get this very annoying screen that says “no source available” ?

The solution is simple, install this extension

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Modifying open source code to overcome inbuilt limits

By Sameer On January 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This article applies to not just this particular piece of code but rather any open source tool you use. It may be possible for you to simply edit the source code and use it modified. Thats the beauty of open source!

I downloaded this tool SHNTool to use to try to split some lossless [...]

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Jquery Rich Array Documentation

By Sameer On April 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

If you want to use the JQuery Rich Array and you were hoping for some documentation, well its inside the .JS file but I am posting it here for reference purposes

/*************************************************************************** * Copyright (C) 2007 by Vladimir Kadalashvili * * Vladimir.Kadalashvili@gmail.com * * * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it [...]

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Serialize and Deserialize to JSON from ASP.NET

By Sameer On April 23, 2010 · 3 Comments

Its very easy to serialize an object to .NET
Simply create some object, normally a custom class with some attributes.
Normally you have a list of these and you want to serialize to JSON to use it from client side code.

If you do the following

var s = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer(); string resultJs [...]

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How to completely disable ViewState and ControlState

By Sameer On April 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Here is a code snippet that will COMPLETELY disable ViewState and ControlState.

Please note, if you want to disable viewstate, you can set “EnableViewState” to false for the page, however you will still see “VIEWSTATE” in the page. The reason for that is because the hidden ViewState HTML field also contains “Control State”, which is [...]

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Flesk Viewstate Optimizer Documentation

By Sameer On March 1, 2010 · 7 Comments

I came across this excellent looking tool Flesk ViewState Optimizer but was not able to find any details or documentation on it. Apparently the tool used to be commercial but now its free! I was able to dig up some history on it

Flesk.ViewStateOptimizer is a unique technology that overrides sending ViewState object to [...]

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Recursively extract files

By Sameer On February 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

i want to recursively unzip into proper folder
so i have
/home/abdullah/quran1/files.zip

/home/abdullah/quran2/files.zip
…
/home/abdullah/quranfolder/files.zip

best way to search inside php files for text yoursearchtexthere

find . -name '*.php' -exec grep –with-filename –line-number 'yoursearchtexthere' {} \;

i simply want to unzip all of them at once, here is the shell script [...]

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Improve SQL Server Plan Execution Speed With Foreign Keys and constraints

By Sameer On January 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Its been a while since I have posted, and I thought this was too amazing to NOT share

Apparently, using Check Constraints and adding Foreign Keys not only improves the quality of your database through ensuring referential integrity and data integrity in general, apparently it also helps the Query Analyzer design better plans!

Take a [...]

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