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Operating Systems
Windows	How to Create Icon Files for Your Windows App using Visual Studio and Microsoft Paint. 6 Jan 2006 Updated: 6 Jan 2006 Rating: 4.12/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 6.46 Licence: CPOL Views: 598,622 Bookmarked: 63 Downloaded: 3,186 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article will show how to use Visual Studio and Microsoft Paint to convert an existing bitmap image into an icon file that your Windows application can use.
	Visual Studio Windows Application Setup Project 29 Dec 2005 Updated: 29 Dec 2005 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 88 Popularity: 8.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 1,752,861 Bookmarked: 167 Downloaded: 9,628 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article shows how to create and use the Windows Application Setup Project.
Programming Languages
C#	Converting RTF to TXT format 13 Aug 2005 Updated: 13 Aug 2005 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 256,685 Bookmarked: 46 Downloaded: 1,846 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Word Automation for converting files to XML, RTF, TXT, HTML, etc. formats.
	A Couple of Tricks for the Datagrid and Table Styles 1 May 2006 Updated: 1 May 2006 Rating: 3.24/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.09 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,562 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 461 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article talks about setting readonly on the datagrid along with swtiching between tableStyles and a generic method to access columns by name
	A little known trick to help with MS Office automation 2 Dec 2005 Updated: 2 Dec 2005 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.42 Licence: CPOL Views: 202,861 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article exposes a trick to help in creating apps with MS Office automation.
	Using XML CDATA nodes to send files via a Web Service 26 Jul 2005 Updated: 26 Jul 2005 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.82 Licence: CPOL Views: 108,535 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 414 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using XML CDATA nodes to send files via a web service.
	Using the VB.NET My Namespace in C# .NET 2.0 20 Jan 2006 Updated: 20 Jan 2006 Rating: 4.05/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 74,021 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 403 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In VB.NET 2.0, we have a new namespace, My, that exposes some nice classes. This article shows you how to access this namespace in C#
	Using Reflection to convert DataRows to objects or objects to DataRows 8 Oct 2005 Updated: 8 Oct 2005 Rating: 3.65/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 4.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 127,686 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 1,055 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Reflection to convert DataRows to objects or objects to DataRows.
	Notify Icon control in .NET 2.0 with balloon tips 13 Dec 2005 Updated: 13 Dec 2005 Rating: 4.37/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 5.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 286,408 Bookmarked: 85 Downloaded: 4,869 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article shows how to use the new notify icon control along with the new balloon tip properties.
	Minesweeper Solver is My Solution to Solving the Expert Level in the Minesweeper Game 15 Jun 2007 Updated: 15 Jun 2007 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 109,481 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 1,512 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I had trouble solving the expert Minesweeper level, so I wrote a program to do it for me.
Visual Basic	Using MSI or a strong name to store .NET apps on a network server (Part 1) 31 May 2005 Updated: 31 May 2005 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 86,615 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using MSI or a strong name to store .NET apps on a network server (Part 1).
	Using MSI or a Strong name to store .NET apps on a network server (Part 2) 7 Jun 2005 Updated: 7 Jun 2005 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 130,554 Bookmarked: 35 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using MSI or a Strong name to store .NET apps on a network server (Part 2).
	Allowing a Windows app to only have one instance and bring up a minimized or hidden window 13 Dec 2005 Updated: 13 Dec 2005 Rating: 4.42/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 104,502 Bookmarked: 58 Downloaded: 911 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article shows how to keep an app to one instance and how to bring up the existing app if it is minimized or hidden, like with a notify icon in the tray.
	An app to see who has files open on a network server 22 Jun 2005 Updated: 29 Jun 2005 Rating: 3.63/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 283,245 Bookmarked: 60 Downloaded: 4,812 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An app to see who has files open on a network server.
XML	Simple code to validate an XML file against a schema file (XSD) 20 May 2005 Updated: 26 May 2005 Rating: 3.66/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 5.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 426,062 Bookmarked: 60 Downloaded: 10,828 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is about XML and XSD validation.
Web Development
ASP.NET	Single web.config file across all environments (dev, test, prod) 15 Feb 2007 Updated: 15 Feb 2007 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 182,718 Bookmarked: 80 Downloaded: 1,132 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Have you ever had the issue where every time you release a website to a new environment, you have custom settings in the web.config that need to change for each environment? This article shows a solution where you set up your web.config once and then let the code do the rest of the work.
	How your web site can determine if the user is running their IE browser in compatibility mode. 19 Sep 2014 Updated: 19 Sep 2014 Rating: 1.86/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,781 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article show a quick way to determine if a user's IE browser is in compatibility mode.
	Capturing the Enter key to cause a button click 19 Jan 2007 Updated: 19 Jan 2007 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.65 Licence: CPOL Views: 536,900 Bookmarked: 49 Downloaded: 2,832 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Have you ever wanted to trap the Enter key press event in ASP.NET and have it click a button for you? This article describes two options for capturing the Enter key press event and then clicking a button. One solution uses JavaScript, the other uses a Panel control.
	Auto Refresh Web Page 10 Oct 2007 Updated: 10 Oct 2007 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 274,611 Bookmarked: 64 Downloaded: 2,348 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some simple ways to auto refresh your web page.
	Some Tips and Tricks for Using an ObjectDataSource With a GridView 4 Jul 2006 Updated: 4 Jul 2006 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 43 Popularity: 7.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 486,464 Bookmarked: 103 Downloaded: 1,052 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article uses a generic collection as the data source for a GridView. Some code is requried to get the sorting to work. There is an example of using the pager template along with a simple GridView printer.
	Using Visual Studio to Debug JavaScript in IE 24 May 2007 Updated: 24 May 2007 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 6.63 Licence: CPOL Views: 215,044 Bookmarked: 57 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Visual Studio to debug JavaScript in IE can really speed up your JavaScript development and save you some headaches

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kubben

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I started my programmer career over 26 years ago doing COBOL and SAS on a MVS mainframe. It didn't take long for me to move into windows programming. I started my windows programming in Delphi (Pascal) with a Microsoft SQL server back end. I started working with vb.net when the beta 2 came out in 2001. After spending most of my programming life as a windows programmer I started to check out asp.net in 2004. I achieved my MCSD.net in April 2005. I have done a lot of MS SQL database stuff. I have a lot of experience with Window Service and Web services as well. I spent three years as a consultant programing in C#. I really enjoyed it and found the switch between vb.net and C# to be mostly syntax. In my current position I am programming in C# working on WPF and MSSql database stuff. Lately I have been using VS2019.

On a personal note I am a born again Christian, if anyone has any questions about what it means to have a right relationship with God or if you have questions about who Jesus Christ is, send me an e-mail. ben.kubicek[at]netzero[dot]com You need to replace the [at] with @ and [dot] with . for the email to work. My relationship with God gives purpose and meaning to my life.