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Hi friends! In this post, which is actually a 30-min video guide, we will see together, step-by-step, how you can easily build a simple image viewer with .NET WinForms and C# in Visual Studio. Our Simple Image Viewer App’s Functionality The functionality of the simple image viewer app we will be developing in Visual Studio, … Read more…
Check our Tip of the Week, which this week discusses about the available Visual Studio editions and discuss about their main differences. Tip of the Week #16 There are 3 Visual Studio editions. There are: Community Edition (free) In comparison with the other editions, the Community Edition of Visual Studio lacks some features, mainly about: … Read more…
Check our Tip of the Week, which this week discusses about the main data structures in C#. Tip of the Week #15 Data Structures, are data organization and storage formats, that are used in different programming languages for storing data, define attributes between data, and apply different operations on this data. The main data structures … Read more…
This article, provides useful troubleshooting tips, for the following error which you might get, under certain circumstances, when trying to connect to SQL Server from Python, using pyodbc: [IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified (0) (SQLDriverConnect). Prior to sharing our tips for troubleshooting the issue, let’s discuss … Read more…
In this post, I will be regularly posting useful Python programming tips. These tips will be organized in different categories, in order to make it easier to read it. Hello World in Python The below command, prints a “Hello World” message from within a Python script: print(“Hello World from Python”) Code Indentation in … Read more…
In this post, we are announcing the general availability of our online course: “Working with Python on Windows and SQL Server Databases“. Note that the course is currently available on Udemy. What is this course all About? Python is a very popular programming language. Due to its simplified syntax, Programmers can develop a wide … Read more…
This article and video, helps you learn how you can use the ClickOnce Visual Studio component, for deploying your .NET Windows Forms apps (WinForms apps). The video presented in this article, is part of my online course “.NET Programming for Beginners: Windows Forms (C#)“. The Need for a Deployment Method for your .NET App … Read more…
In this article, we are going to see, step by step, how we can connect to SQL Server from a Visual C++ program using an ODBC connection. Prior to start reading, if you are really interested in learning Programming, then you should definitely check my 6-hour online course, “Introduction to Computer Programming for Beginners“. My … Read more…
When working with Inheritance in C#, under certain circumstances, you might get an error message similar to this: There is no argument given that corresponds to the required formal parameter. Don’t worry, the above error can be easily resolved. Let’s see a full example, by first reproducing the error. Reproducing the Error Message Consider … Read more…
Writing to a text file from a C++ Program is very easy. In this example, which is part of my online course on Udemy titled “The Philosophy and Fundamentals of Computer Programming“, I will show you step by step, how to write to a text file from a sample C++ program that generates an array … Read more…
C# SqlParameter is a handy feature allows you to safely pass a parameter to a SqlCommand object in .NET. A security best practice when writing .NET data access code, is to always use parameters in SqlCommand objects (whenever parameters are required of course). The reason for this, is that parameters help prevent SQL injection attacks. … Read more…
This article, provides a basic example, on how to establish a connection to SQL Server from a C# program with the use of the “using” statement in C# which help you better managing your database connections. Using the System.Data.SqlClient Use the System.Data.SqlClient namespace in the top section of your code as below: using System.Data.SqlClient; … Read more…
When developing a .NET application (i.e. in C#), under certain circumstances, you might get the error message: Cannot implicitly convert type ‘string’ to ‘System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewTextBoxColumn Why you got the implicit conversion error If you get the above error, then you have most probably set as a column name for one of your datagridview column the reserved … Read more…
If you are working with .NET applications, at some time you might get the below (or similar) error message: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached. Why you get the connection … Read more…
In this article, we will be discussing about the proper way for closing a C# application (including hidden forms). C# Applications with Multiple Forms There are many times when we develop C# applications, where we make use of several forms. To this end, there are times that we are using the Hide() method for … Read more…
