Category Archives: Programming

Remove Characters in String T-SQL with No Loop Part 2

Posted on May 10, 2016 by

Okay, expanding on what I did yesterday. I Built a table, called ExclusionList with one field, ExcludedText E.g. Then created a function: You can then use like this: Advertisements

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Remove Characters in String T-SQL with No Loop

Posted on May 9, 2016 by

Ok, I’ve seen many ways to do this using loops, but nothing in plain T-SQL Let’s say we have a string that may contain illegal characters, in my case it was project identifiers that needed to be used as file … Continue reading →

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Dynamic CSS files in ASP.net Master Page using C#

Posted on November 19, 2014 by

I have a reporting portal that serves up SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) reports to users. The users are from different organisations, indicated by a user group. I needed to have the front end personalised for each different organisation. The … Continue reading →

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Showing Two Different Scales on Y Axis SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

Posted on July 26, 2013 by

Long time, no post… I was asked to create a graph showing throughput of bags on a conveyor grouped into 5 minute intervals.  One of the requirements was to show two scales on the Y axis, bags / 5 minute … Continue reading →

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Add child items to ToolStripMenuItem using C# – C Sharp

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

I wanted to be able to populate menu items from a database, i.e. I had a Print Document top level menu item and I wanted to be able to populate the children from the database dynamically with each available document. … Continue reading →

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Shuffle an Array in C#

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

As part of a basic guessing game I wanted to be able to shuffle an array of n chars into a random order. The method I decided to use was the following. Create a loop to iterate n times (where … Continue reading →

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Loading Data into a DataReader and Looping Through Records OLEDB / C#

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

Just a quick example of loading data into a data reader using C#. My data source is MS SQL Server in this case, although you would just need the correct OLEDB connection string to use any other data source. Couple … Continue reading →

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Changing Default Parameter Value SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) 2008

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

If you’re here you have probably found that if you’ve deployed a report to your server updating the default parameter values and redeploying has no effect on the server report. E.g. I had a report with an integer parameter with … Continue reading →

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Image Slideshow on Windows Form C# with Timer Control

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

Quick example of how to display an image control that loops through a folder of images. Firstly drop a timer control onto your form (name: tmrNextImage), set the Interval to 1000 milliseconds (1 second) and set enabled to true. Next … Continue reading →

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Find all Subdirectories from a given path using C# – With Error Handler

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

In my earlier post () I showed how you can iterate through folders and add the folder names to a list (lstDirs). The problem with this code was that if you encountered a folder you didn’t have access to it … Continue reading →

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