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Smart Thinker http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever !! Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:27:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png Smart Thinker http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com ASP.NET/ AJAX Page Loader Progress Bar/ Splash Screen http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/aspnet-ajax-page-loader-progress-bar-splash-screen/ http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/aspnet-ajax-page-loader-progress-bar-splash-screen/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:47:57 +0000 mubashirahmed http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/aspnet-ajax-page-loader-progress-bar-splash-screen/ ]]> This is what happens when you have an idea and you’re not that fast

Thanks to this article, I saved a lot of time writing something similar!

Introduction:
Today, complex server controls and extensive Javascript libraries (e.g. AJAX ) are very common . They can considerably increase the size and accordingly the loading time of your page. Unfortunately it is very hard to catch how slow your page is while you are in a development environment. You will be surprised to see how long some users have to wait until your page is completely downloaded. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could communicate to the users to stay patient until the page and scripts are downloaded? Even in some cases you would rather hide your page until it is fully downloaded to avoid premature events when your scripts are still loading. This article shows how you can display the loading process of your page with a progress bar. Additionally you can use this as a splash window to show messages, news or ads that you want the user to see first.
See Demo

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Thanks,
Mubashir

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I have experienced most of the people in development have very less idea about how the HTTP requests are being transfered to the server and how are they processed before getting the reponse back. It is very useful information when it comes to web development probably mendatory and very helpful while solving problems.
A brilliant artical I found that explains this concept thoroughly. See here

—Happy Coding—
Thanks,
Mubashir

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Mubashir

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A very interesting and useful content I found on the internet that describes how can we improve the reponse time of Visual Studio.Net 2005 while development. It is a much needed as there has been a problem with VS.NET 2005 eating loads of resources unwantedly. See Details

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Mubashir

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A very welcome and useful tool I found while surfing the other day. There are times when you need to monitor your IIS for various reasons related to performance. Have a go at it, it is a
simple (free) tool to show the bandwidth consumption of websites, both bytes sent and received. See Details

—Happy Coding—
Thanks,
Mubashir

]]> http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/iis-traffic-monitor/feed/ 0 mubashirahmed obout controls for ASP.NET http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/obout-controls-for-aspnet/ http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/obout-controls-for-aspnet/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:10:58 +0000 mubashirahmed http://mubashirahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/obout-controls-for-aspnet/ ]]> Hi,

Follow the link http://obout.com and find yourself some useful and eye catching controls that will power up your applications. They have a very cool Grid, Calendar, Tree view, Combos etc that are available all free.

Keep up the good work..

—Happy Coding—

Thanks,
Mubashir

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Private Sub ZipFiles(ByVal SrcFolder As String, ByVal DestZipFile As String)

Dim emptyzip() As Byte = New Byte() {80, 75, 5, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}

Dim fs As FileStream = File.Create(DestZipFile)

fs.Write(emptyzip, 0, emptyzip.Length)

fs.Flush()

fs.Close()

fs = Nothing

Dim sc As Shell32.ShellClass = New Shell32.ShellClass

Dim SrcFlder As Shell32.Folder = sc.NameSpace(SrcFolder)

Dim DestFlder As Shell32.Folder = sc.NameSpace(DestZipFile)

Dim items As Shell32.FolderItems = SrcFlder.Items()

DestFlder.CopyHere(items, 20)

End Sub

Now use the function call,

ZipFiles("c:\myFolder\","c:\theZipFile.zip")

Thats it! it will zip and put all the contents of c:\myFolder into a zip file theZipFile.zip that will be created at c:\
Hope that helps..

—Happy Coding—

Thanks,
Mubashir

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