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Sample code snippets taken from else where or written by me

MSDN code examples could be incorrect as well

September 8, 2008 – 11:45 pm

It was really odd for me to find an error in MSDN code example which took almost a couple of hours to figure out what is wrong. I am working in VSTO (Visual Studio Tool for Office). I am developing a plugin which is suppose to override some of the specific Office 2007 functionalities and [...]

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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Source Code Released

August 31, 2008 – 2:42 pm

I would have never known that this takes up these many calls to perform a simple Console.WriteLine operation unless Microsoft had released the source code of the .net framework. I am delighted that the source code for 3.5 sp1 is out. It is time to dive deep in the framework itself.
Find the link below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/rscc/archive/2008/08/28/net-framework-3-5-sp1-sources-are-available.aspx

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Generate Random GUID by script

August 13, 2008 – 12:16 am

I had a task in hand to read and update a few registry settings. Since the registry keys might change in future and some more changes might be required on the fly, I decided to go with script instead of a config driven executable. Also, one compelling reason was that it has been some time [...]

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SharpZipLib Decompression

August 8, 2008 – 8:43 pm

Very often I require to perform (de)compression of archives programmatically. I use SharpZipLib for this purpose. After fiddling with several algorithms I found this simple piece of code that performs an elegant task of quick decompression of a zip archive.
internal void Decompress(string fileName,string extractPath)
{
FastZip fZip = new FastZip();
fZip.ExtractZip(fileName, extractPath, “”);
}
Link: http://dotnet.org.za/thea/archive/2006/01/17/Unzip-files-programmatically-in-C_2300_-_2D00_-_2300_ZipLib.aspx

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