Articles by Pascal Ganaye (Articles: 17, Tip/Tricks: 12)

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Virtual Machine	Writing a Parental Control Software for Windows 7 Jul 2010 Updated: 8 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.56 Licence: GPL3 Views: 56,983 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 2,725 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Writing a parental control software: The beginning of the adventure
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms	Display Any Usercontrol as a Popup Menu 6 Feb 2005 Updated: 1 May 2005 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 51 Popularity: 7.70 Licence: Custom Views: 232,214 Bookmarked: 131 Downloaded: 5,899 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article introduces a little class which lets you show any usercontrol in XP style popup menu.
	Solving Paint-by-numbers puzzles in C# 11 Aug 2005 Updated: 11 Aug 2005 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.57 Licence: Not specified Views: 131,600 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 2,731 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A small program which solves the paint-by-numbers puzzles in virtually time. It is a spoiler if you're a player. If you're a programmer however I think it shows how this problem can be solved.
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	Simple and Fast CSV Library in C# 20 Nov 2013 Updated: 21 Mar 2014 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 199,442 Bookmarked: 182 Downloaded: 7,268 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This library allow serialization and deserialization of objects to CSV with very little code.
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Windows	The expression evaluator revisited (Eval function in 100% managed .NET) 13 Apr 2006 Updated: 18 May 2007 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 166 Popularity: 11.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 624,829 Bookmarked: 204 Downloaded: 6,929 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This second article about evaluation in .NET introduces a parser which pre-compiles the expressions
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C#	Delete Undeletable Folders under Vista or Windows 7 28 Jun 2011 Updated: 28 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,152 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 2,093 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A small utility that will help you get rid of the hard to remove protected or system folders
	Building an embedded database engine in C# 1 Jun 2009 Updated: 10 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 110 Popularity: 10.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 317,289 Bookmarked: 347 Downloaded: 10,046 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. DbfDotNet is a very fast and compact fully managed standalone database/entity framework, for the .Net Framework.
	Coco Custom Tool for Visual Studio.NET 29 Oct 2005 Updated: 29 Oct 2005 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 34 Popularity: 6.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 130,740 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 698 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use the award winning Coco compiler's compiler directly from within Visual Studio
	Quick and Dirty HexDump of a Byte Array 26 May 2009 Updated: 25 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 4.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 96,085 Bookmarked: 33 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple function to transform a Byte[] into an Hex Dump formatted string
	BinaryReader.ReadLine extension 31 May 2015 Updated: 31 May 2015 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,320 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This helper add a ReadLine method to the BinaryReader. This allows programs to read both binary and text from the same stream.
Visual Basic	Utility to backup your folders fast 31 Jul 2005 Updated: 31 Jul 2005 Rating: 4.59/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.07 Licence: Not specified Views: 160,315 Bookmarked: 70 Downloaded: 2,357 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I use a procedure based on batch files to copy various versions of my project. I was a bit fed up to wait for the batch file to copy hundreads of files and wrote this small utility to speed up the process. I hope some of you will find it useful.
	An expression evaluator written in VB.NET 7 Feb 2005 Updated: 14 Oct 2012 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 56 Popularity: 8.32 Licence: CPOL Views: 250,380 Bookmarked: 82 Downloaded: 6,067 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An expression evaluator written in VB.NET.
	ArrayLists, Generic Lists, Is There A Way To Insert Items Faster? 11 Dec 2007 Updated: 26 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 7.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 111,348 Bookmarked: 101 Downloaded: 588 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I try to highlight some issues in the .NET Framework generic list and how to circumvent them
	C# vs. VB contest - Resolving Mac Mahon problem using .NET 14 Mar 2005 Updated: 14 Mar 2005 Rating: 3.40/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 4.09 Licence: Custom Views: 114,675 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 409 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Rather than discussing forever whether C# is better than VB or vice-versa, let's see which programmers are best.
	Implementing the .NET IComparer interface to get a more natural sort order 17 Jan 2008 Updated: 4 Jul 2008 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 95,950 Bookmarked: 54 Downloaded: 2,091 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The IComparer available in .NET lets you sort numbers or strings. This little class available in both C# and VB shows how to implement an IComparer which will work with mixed characters and numbers.
	Another Sudoku Solver and Generator 9 Dec 2005 Updated: 9 Dec 2005 Rating: 4.44/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 6.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 272,611 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 2,433 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A program to help you to solve Sudoku problems or check if a Sudoku problem has only one solution.
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HTML	Fixing "Microsoft JScript runtime error: '__pendingCallbacks[...].async' is null or not an object" 2 Jul 2008 Updated: 1 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.32/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 66,053 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article explains how to fix a bug in the ASP.NET Framework when using callback panels.

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SQL Server	The SQL Server Rand Function [Tip/Trick] 1 Feb 2012 Updated: 8 Feb 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,231 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Reproducing the SQL RAND() function in C#
	Create a Sample SQL Database in Less Than 2 Minutes [Tip/Trick] 7 Feb 2012 Updated: 18 Feb 2013 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 190,534 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This SQL stored procedure creates a database from scratch with some meaningful content.
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String	A custom string to handle UTF8 natively in C# [Tip/Trick] 15 Dec 2011 Updated: 16 Dec 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,980 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A custom C# string implementation that stores its data in a UTF8 byte array.
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Video	Compressing my videos [Tip/Trick] 30 Oct 2012 Updated: 30 Oct 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,332 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Very simple program for in-situ video compression.
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Microsoft Office	Deleting protected folders in Windows 7 [Tip/Trick] 22 Mar 2011 Updated: 25 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.37 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,492 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Deleting protected folders in Windows 7
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C	Quicker Prime Number Test [Tip/Trick] 4 Nov 2011 Updated: 6 Nov 2011 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,271 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 33 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you search manually, you can search for every odd number that is a step of 2. If you're a bit more clever (as you are), you can use steps of 6 (2 * 3). Testing (testno+1)%6==0 is very similar to (testno % 6) = 5.You can speed up big time by having a loop that increments per steps of...
C#	Duck Copy in C# [Tip/Trick] 17 Nov 2012 Updated: 24 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,832 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A super simple and fast methods to copy objects
	Simple Variable Dump [Tip/Trick] 18 May 2012 Updated: 25 Jun 2013 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,613 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This class dumps any .NET object properties to your output window.
	Iranian system encoding standard [Tip/Trick] 23 Oct 2011 Updated: 24 Oct 2011 Rating: 1.92/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 1.16 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,123 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. There doesn't seem to be any encoding for the 'Iranian system encoding standard' in .NET
PHP	ShortGUID [Tip/Trick] 26 Apr 2012 Updated: 30 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,448 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A set of functions to get slightly shorter unique Guids
SQL	Increment the string value letter by letter for every row using SQL server [Tip/Trick] 4 Oct 2011 Updated: 4 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,250 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WITH tempTable(Column1)AS( SELECT 'chaitanya' [Column1] UNION ALL SELEC`T SUBSTRING(Column1,1,LEN(Column1)-1) FROM tempTable WHERE LEN(Column1)>0)SELECT * FROM tempTable ORDER BY LEN(Column1)Result:cchchachaichaitchaitachaitanchaitanychaitanya
T-SQL	Consistent Hash function for SQL Server and .NET [Tip/Trick] 26 Oct 2011 Updated: 26 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,470 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Provides a couple of hash functions (string to int) that will return the same value in C# and T-SQL

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Pascal Ganaye

Software Developer (Senior)

France

I am a French programmer.
These days I spend most of my time with the .NET framework, JavaScript and html.

Articles by Pascal Ganaye (Articles: 17, Tip/Tricks: 12)

Articles: 17, Tip/Tricks: 12

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