Launching your EC2 instances with AWS Management Console
How easy this can get, when I was starting with Amazon Web Services the things were looking kind of scary but right now we have bunch of tools to help us using the amazon EC2 instances so easy that I just cannot belive that. I knew that AWS Management console existed for quite a bit […]
Read More →Windows Forms application with Splash Screen
Today I will describe how to add simple yet effective splash screen functionality using Visual Basic assembly goodness. To show exactly how to do that I will create a simple project describing step by step what you have to do to create splash screen for your win forms application. First of all, lets create a […]
Read More →Reading XML from the web using C#
Today I will describe quick and dirty way to read xml data received as a web response. This can get very usefull if you want to send some information in a quck way without creating whole bunch of web service references etc. Lets say I want to get some data from the server in the […]
Read More →Free file sharing service based on Amazon S3
A short note about a brand new rapidshare competition based on Amazon S3 called Storage For Free (www.storage43.com). Without registration you can share here your project files or basically anything you want to share quickly (up to 200 MB no registration required and the file is alive on the server for 30 days), if you […]
Read More →Launch your application automatically when the system starts with C#
In this article I will describe automatic startup of your c# application on windows machine using the registry settings. This article is somehow opposite to the one posted earlier about automatic shutdown. To set the registry for your application to start up automatically you need to find the key responsible for automatic startup and set […]
Read More →Shutting down Windows with C#
This article describes how to shut down your machine using C# code. There are a few approaches to do that in C# but I will describe the easiest one, which works on both Win XP and Vista. All you have to do is just to make sure that you don’t have any additonal threads running, […]
Read More →Continuous Integration with CruiseControll.NET
Today I will try to bite quite a big topic which is continuous integration setup for .NET application build using Visual Studio 2008, Vistual Studio Unit Tests and Cruise Control.NET. Continuous integration, in a few simple words works the following way: there are a number of developers working on a project, developers use subversion or […]
Read More →Backup your MS SQL Server with C#
Today I will describe some code snippets on how to backup your MS SQL Server database to a ‘.bak’ file using C#. Later on we will zip our .bak file using open source C# zip library as bak files seems to have high compression ratio. Backing up files require us to connect to the database […]
Read More →How to backup your entire server from EC2 to S3
Today I will describe in short how to create an AMI instance of EC2 and than upload it to S3 server. All you need to have is running instance of EC2 server (I’m using Debian) with EC2 tools preinstalled. First of all, make sure that you don’t have any unnecessary files on your server filesystem […]
Read More →Affirma S3 library for C#
Finally I have found S3 library that works in C#. The library was written by Joel Wetzel from Affirma Consulting and I just wanted to spread the word about it. Once downloaded you are presented with the whole C# Visual Studio solution which contains the library project as well as some example on how to […]
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