Articles by Mohammad Elsheimy (Articles: 21, Technical Blogs: 28, Tip/Tricks: 2)

Articles: 21, Technical Blogs: 28, Tip/Tricks: 2

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Containers
Docker	Challenges in Migrating ASP.NET Apps to Containers #2 – Windows Fonts 4 Mar 2024 Updated: 4 Mar 2024 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,320 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Porting Windows Fonts to Linux
Database Development
SQL Server	Working with SQL Server Logins 15 Jun 2009 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 7.65 Licence: CPL Views: 195,395 Bookmarked: 120 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn the details of how to work with SQL Server logins.
Desktop Programming
Win32	Programmatically Turning on the Screen Saver 20 May 2009 Updated: 20 May 2009 Rating: 4.24/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.83 Licence: CPL Views: 35,333 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to programmatically turn on the screen saver with API via .NET and C#
	Clearing the Console Screen using API 12 May 2009 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.35 Licence: CPL Views: 40,565 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 1 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to clear the console screen via API calls. In addition, learn some console techniques such as moving the text around the screen.
	Creating a Sound Recorder in C and C# 23 Mar 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.50 Licence: CPL Views: 138,710 Bookmarked: 59 Downloaded: 465 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to record audio and play sound files in C and C#.
Windows Forms	Programming Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms 26 Apr 2009 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.81/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.55 Licence: CPOL Views: 96,222 Bookmarked: 92 Downloaded: 4 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to program with Microsoft Agent in Windows Forms applications
	Changing Display Settings Programmatically 22 May 2009 Updated: 18 Jun 2009 Rating: 3.76/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 5.38 Licence: CPL Views: 213,712 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 11,308 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to change display settings programmatically via an API and the .NET Framework.
General Programming
Threads	Understanding Synchronization Context; Task.ConfigureAwait in Action 28 Aug 2021 Updated: 28 Aug 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,195 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. SynchronizationContext class and how it affects code behavior in action, and a look at Task.ConfigureAwait()
Programming Languages
C#	Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight 22 May 2011 Updated: 22 May 2011 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.93 Licence: CPOL Views: 60,942 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we’ll see a brief introduction to Microsoft Silverlight, see how it fits with other technologies today, and watch it in action. Get ready!
	What’s New in Silverlight 5? 23 May 2011 Updated: 24 May 2011 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 58,260 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 848 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article we'll have a full discussion of the new features of the Beta version of Silverlight 5.
	Reducing Complexity using Entity Framework Core Owned Types 21 Mar 2021 Updated: 21 Mar 2021 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,912 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Group fields that you do not want to appear as a reference, in a separate type using EF Core owned typed
	C# Implementation of Basic Linear Algebra Concepts 12 Mar 2020 Updated: 12 Mar 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,934 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My C# implementation of linear algebra concepts (matrix elimination, multiplication, inverses, determinants, etc.)
	Matrix Multiplication in C# - Applying Transformations to Images 30 Mar 2021 Updated: 30 Mar 2021 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.96 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,161 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Matrix multiplication in C# and its usage for basic image transformations.
Javascript	Dynamically Loading a JavaScript File 13 Aug 2021 Updated: 13 Aug 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,772 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A look at different ways to dynamically load JavaScript files after the page is fully loaded
Visual Basic	Consuming URL Shortening Services – is.gd 19 Sep 2010 Updated: 21 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.70 Licence: CC (Attr 3U) Views: 25,130 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Another article of our series that talks about accessing URL shortening services programmatically. This article is talking about is.gd shortening service, how you can use it, and how to access it via your C#/VB.NET application.
	Consuming URL Shortening Services – Tweetburner (twurl) 21 Sep 2010 Updated: 21 Sep 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CC (Attr 3U) Views: 17,300 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Just another article of the URL shortening services series. Today, we are going to talk about another hot and easy-to-use service, it's Tweetburner. If you haven't used it before, then it's the time to. We're going to discuss how to use Tweetburner first. After that, we'll inspect its API and learn
	Consuming URL Shortening Services – Cligs 21 Sep 2010 Updated: 21 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CC (Attr 3U) Views: 26,212 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is another article that talks about URL shortening services. Today we are going to talk about Cligs, one of the popular shortening services on the web.
Web Development
ASP.NET	Capturing Payments Using Mastercard MIGS Service and ASP.NET Core 3 Feb 2021 Updated: 3 Feb 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,171 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mastercard MIGS payment service and how to capture payments from clients
	Consuming URL Shortening Services - Introduction 19 Sep 2010 Updated: 21 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.78 Licence: CC (Attr 3U) Views: 77,234 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the first article of our series that talks about accessing URL shortening services programmatically. Here we introduce new concepts like the REST API. We also have a brief discussion of URL shortening services APIs and how you can access them. In addition, we are going to talk about .NET sup
	Consuming URL Shortening Services – X.co 26 Sep 2010 Updated: 26 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CC (Attr 3U) Views: 27,060 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A complete discussion of the WCF services offered by X.co, and the RESTful interfaces provided
	Preventing CSRF Attacks using ASP.NET Core, JavaScript and Angular 21 Mar 2021 Updated: 21 Mar 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,813 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks in ASP.NET Core, JavaScript and Angular

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Database Development
SQL Server	Working with SQL Server BLOB Data in .NET [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 11 May 2010 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.70 Licence: CPL Views: 47,846 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 542 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) are pieces of data that have -usually- exceptionally large size (such as pictures or audio tracks).
	Programmatically Enumerating, Attaching, and Detaching SQL Server Databases [Technical Blog] 13 Apr 2010 Updated: 2 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.62/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 69,857 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Programmatically Enumerating, Attaching, and Detaching SQL Server Databases via SQL statements and stored procedures
Desktop Programming
MFC	Simulating CWinApp::OnIdle in C [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPL Views: 14,541 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to create your CWinApp::OnIdle in C
	Converting Colors to Gray Shades [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.19 Licence: CPL Views: 27,643 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Convert colors to gray shades, detect Print Preview mode, and detect Black-and-White printers
Win32	BeginPaint/EndPaint or GetDC/ReleaseDC? [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.03 Licence: CPL Views: 37,806 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Which is better, to use BeginPaint/EndPaint, or to use GetDC/ReleaseDC?
	Creating Transacted Files in Windows Vista [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPL Views: 17,412 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to create transactional vista using C# and Windows Vista (and higher) SDK.
	Hard Links vs. Soft Links [Technical Blog] 6 Apr 2010 Updated: 6 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.27/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,889 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Symbolic links: a) Hard Links. b) Soft (Junction) Links
	Programmatically Swapping Mouse Buttons [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 11 May 2010 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.90 Licence: CPL Views: 17,271 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Swap mouse button using C# and Windows API.
	Marshaling with C# – Chapter 1: Introducing Marshaling [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.05 Licence: CPL Views: 217,535 Bookmarked: 98 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introduction to marshaling
	Marshaling with C# – Chapter 3: Marshaling Compound Types [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.27 Licence: CPL Views: 109,745 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to marshal compound types (structures, unions, etc.) in C#.
	Marshaling with C# – Chapter 2: Marshaling Simple Types [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.38 Licence: CPL Views: 232,539 Bookmarked: 107 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to marshal simple types (integers, strings, etc.) in C#.
Windows Forms	Moving a Form without the Title Bar [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 May 2010 Rating: 4.09/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 3.90 Licence: CPL Views: 30,943 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to allow your form to be draggable from its body
	Creating a Simple Twitter Client Application [Technical Blog] 22 Apr 2010 Updated: 21 May 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.50 Licence: CC (Attr 3U) Views: 101,194 Bookmarked: 44 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. VB.NET and C# + twitto; a simple desktop Twitter
	Creating a Simple Sheet Designer in C# [Technical Blog] 11 Apr 2010 Updated: 11 Apr 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,751 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Give the user the flexibility to design his sheet, report, bill, invoice, whatever.
	Introducing RSS; Developing a Simple RSS Reader [Technical Blog] 4 Apr 2010 Updated: 4 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,981 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A brief discussion of RSS. Incorporating RSS into a simple RSS bar control written in VB.NET.
Multimedia
DirectX	Changing Screen Resolution Programmatically via DirectX [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 11 May 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.03 Licence: CPL Views: 25,250 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to change display settings (resolution, bit count, etc.) using C# and DirectX SDK
Operating Systems
Windows	Advanced Control of UAC [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPL Views: 16,121 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to have advanced control over UAC
	Removing Hidden System Shares [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPL Views: 15,751 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Remove hidden system shares on your Windows
Programming Languages
C#	Programmatically Compress and Decompress Files [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.33 Licence: CPL Views: 67,965 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to compress and decompress files programmatically using C#
	9 Rules about Constructors, Destructors, and Finalizers [Technical Blog] 29 Apr 2010 Updated: 27 May 2010 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.25 Licence: CC (Attr 3U) Views: 56,162 Bookmarked: 51 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. in C#, C++/CLI, and ISO/ANSI C++
	Retrieving Motherboard Serial Number using WMI [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 11 May 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.94 Licence: CPL Views: 50,613 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Access WMI via C# and retrieve motherboard information
	Creating a Stack-Based Array [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPL Views: 24,534 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create high-performance, short-lived, and stack-based arrays in C#
	Requesting Admin Approval at Application Start [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.09/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.90 Licence: CPL Views: 86,963 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to request UAC elevation at application start
	Windows Vista File and Registry Virtualization [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 20 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.33 Licence: CPL Views: 23,661 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. See in action how Windows Vista and higher versions (where UAC is enabled) virtualizes file and registry access.
	Creating/Extending a Culture [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 18 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPL Views: 25,250 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to create/extend a culture and register it for future use (even by Windows)
	Working with Strings with Combining Characters [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 30 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.06 Licence: CPL Views: 25,152 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Like diacritics in Arabic, Hebrew, etc.
Visual Basic	Sending Mails in .NET Framework [Technical Blog] 17 Mar 2010 Updated: 28 Dec 2010 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.30 Licence: CPL Views: 204,075 Bookmarked: 86 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Learn how to send mail messages from your C# application via SMTP.
	Assembly Spy; A Reflection Sample [Technical Blog] 30 Mar 2010 Updated: 30 Mar 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,800 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A .NET reflection sample written in VB.NET

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Containers
Docker	Challenges in Migrating ASP.NET Apps to Containers #1 – Multiple Active Result Sets [Tip/Trick] 23 Feb 2024 Updated: 23 Feb 2024 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,900 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the major issues encountered when connecting to databases after porting ASP.NET app to Docker Linux containers.
	Challenges in Migrating ASP.NET Apps to Containers #3 – OpenSSL Issues [Tip/Trick] 22 Mar 2024 Updated: 22 Mar 2024 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 2,290 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Configuring OpenSSL minimum version and legacy renogetiation

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Mohammad Elsheimy

Technical Lead

Egypt

Mohammad Elsheimy is a developer, trainer, and technical writer currently hired by one of the leading fintech companies in Middle East, as a technical lead.

Mohammad is a MCP, MCTS, MCPD, MCSA, MCSE, and MCT expertized in Microsoft technologies, data management, analytics, Azure and DevOps solutions. He is also a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Quranic Readings college (Al-Azhar) graduate specialized in Quranic readings, Islamic legislation, and the Arabic language.

Mohammad was born in Egypt. He loves his machine and his code more than anything else!

Currently, Mohammad runs two blogs: "Just Like [a] Magic" (http://JustLikeAMagic.com) and "مع الدوت نت" (http://WithdDotNet.net), both dedicated for programming and Microsoft technologies.

You can reach Mohammad at elsheimy[at]live[dot]com

Articles by Mohammad Elsheimy (Articles: 21, Technical Blogs: 28, Tip/Tricks: 2)

Articles: 21, Technical Blogs: 28, Tip/Tricks: 2

Average article rating: 4.71

Containers

Database Development

Desktop Programming

General Programming

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