Fri 2 Dec 2016

 

Just in case if Arabic characters appearing as ????? in your column and if you are using MySql DB along with .NET Provider, 

Check below properties of schema, table and column and connectionstring that use to connect to DB

  1. DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME = utf8
  2. DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME = utf8_general_ci
  3. TABLE_COLLATION = utf8_general_ci
  4. COLLATION_NAME = utf8_general_ci
  5. CHARACTER_SET_NAME = utf8
  6. .NET Connection string set to have = 'charset=utf8'

 

Connection string example

'datasource=<server>;port=3306;username=<userid>;password=<password>;sslmode=none;database=<dbname>;charset=utf8'

 

Queries that may help to find above information are 

SELECT * FROM information_schema.SCHEMATA S

WHERE schema_name = "<database-name>";

 

SELECT * FROM information_schema.`TABLES` T,

information_schema.`COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY` CCSA

WHERE CCSA.collation_name = T.table_collation

AND T.table_schema = "<database-name>"

AND T.table_name = "<table-name>";

  

SELECT * FROM information_schema.`COLUMNS` C

WHERE table_schema = "<database-name>"

AND table_name = "<table-name>"

AND column_name = "<column-name>";

 

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Wed 19 Feb 2014

I have came through below wiki article on Microsoft technet, which have a nice collection of eBooks and articles on Microsoft Technologies.

Download content for SharePoint, Lync, MS Office, SQL Server, System Center, Visual Studio, Web Development (asp.net), Windows Server, Window Azure, Windows Phone and other Microsoft technologies in e-book formats (references, guide, and step-by-step).

 

E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies

 

Source: social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11608.e-book-gallery-for-microsoft-technologies.aspx (Monica Rush)
Source: mstechtalk.com/collection-of-e-book-and-articles-on-microsoft-technologies/ (Adnan Amin)

 

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Wed 26 Jan 2011

Get-SPSite | where {$_.url -like "http://a *"}

Get-SPFarm | Format-List Id, BuildVersion, Servers, Solutions

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

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ExecuteHelloWorldScript from batchfile

powershell -Command "& {.\Hello.ps1}" -NoExit
pause


powershell -Command "& {Set-ExecutionPolicy bypass}" -NoExit


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CreateContosoSite

if($args) {
  $SiteName = $args[0]
  $SiteUrl = "http://a:3811/sites/ " + $SiteName
  Write-Host "Begin creating Contoso site at" $SiteUrl
  Write-Host
  $NewSite = New-SPSite -URL $SiteUrl -OwnerAlias Administrator -Template STS#1 -Name $SiteName
  $RootWeb = $NewSite.RootWeb
  $RootWeb.Title = "Contoso Site: " + $SiteName
  $RootWeb.Update()
  Write-Host "New Contoso site successfully created"
  Write-Host "-------------------------------------"
  Write-Host "Title:" $RootWeb.Title -foregroundcolor Yellow
  Write-Host "URL:" $RootWeb.Url -foregroundcolor Yellow
  Write-Host "ID:" $RootWeb.Id.ToString() -foregroundcolor Yellow
}
Else {
  Write-Host "ERROR: You must supply Name as parameter when calling CreateContosoSite.ps1"
}


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GetSharePointDlls

$path = "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14"

Get-ChildItem $path -recurse |
  Where-Object {$_.name -like "*SharePoint*.dll"} |
  Sort-Object -Property Name -unique |
  Format-Table Name


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GetSharePointPublishingFeatures

Get-SPFeature -Limit ALL |
  Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like "*Publishing*"} |
  Sort-Object -Property Scope
  Format-Table DisplayName, Id, Scope

 

===========

.\GetSharePointPublishingFeatures.ps1
Get-SPFarm | Format-List
Get-SPSite | where {$_.url -like "http://a *"}
.\CreateContosoSite.ps1 lab01test


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Mon 15 Mar 2010

This post posted by Vladimir Kuzin on 15th Oct 2009. For Quick reference posted here.

Few weeks ago I was working on project which required data to be encrypted using C# and then decrypted using JavaScript. In my case JavaScript was an internal scripting language, which wasn’t exposed to public so I didn’t have to worry about people accessing encryption keys. Project objective was to encode parameter in URL preventing users from substituting it with sequential numbers.

Research:

At first I’ve decided to use symmetric algorithm and looked online for available JavaScript libraries. In my search I’ve found few AES libraries to choose form. After further analysis it was determined that most people had good luck with slowAES, and I’ve attempted to implement it. After spending some time I was unable to decrypt any data encoded with RijndaelManaged class in C#. Since I had to find solution fast I’ve moved on.

Next I’ve decided to try asymmetric encryption algorithm, and after quick research I went with RSA. After downloading most popular RSA library for JavaScript I’ve run into several issues with its implementation. I was able to use C# to decode everything what was encoded in JavaScript, but it didn’t work when data was flowing in opposite direction. After looking into the issue it appeared that JavaScript library was missing padding, however using patched versionof the library didn’t help.

Solution:

Due to lack of time I’ve decided to use simpler encryption algorithm and went with RC4. After downloading RC4 JavaScriptlibrary I’ve got it to work within minutes. Since there is no such thing as RC4 cryptographic provider in the Security.Cryptography namespace I had to use open source RC4 library.

After encrypting data I’ve also converted it to hex (base 16) in the same way as it was done on the JavaScript RC4 demo page.

Encrypting URL parameter with RC4 didn’t completely meet the objective, since it still was possible for users to use sequential numbers. Take a look at example of encrypted data below:

Input Output
10001 49845da1c0
10002  49845da1c3

Notice that only last digit of the encrypted data has changed, therefore substituting it with sequential numbers will cause an issue. To solve this I’ve added random prefix and suffix blocks to data before encrypting. Prefix and suffix blocks consisted from random letters and were anywhere between 10 and 25 characters in length. Now data looked like this:

Input:
JQNLAZXAHHSHMIL;10001;GURUOTCBBNHDCZUNFXIGKP
Output:
32e523ddb00fbf2465002bc1b4251dd12876677d47d6a 6a3101a68517dfb6a86fa525139300d65225e365a38

Every time encrypted value is changing, since it’s generated from new random data. After transferring and decrypting this data on the JavaScript side I’ve spited string by semicolon to get the actual parameter value.

I am sure there are different and possibly better solutions somewhere out there, but this one worked for my client and was implemented within a small project budget.

This is post is from original Post @ vkuzin.com/post/Passing-encrypted-data-between-C-and-JavaScript.aspx

 

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Fri 12 Feb 2010

SPWeb has two sharepoint cross-site group collection, SPWeb.Groups and SPWeb.SiteGroups.

SPWeb.Groups returns collection of cross-site groups which has some permission on the site. So if you add group from a site without any permission on the site, then this group wont appear in SPWeb.Groups collection, but it will appear in SPWeb.SiteGroups collection.

You can not use SPWeb.Groups.Add method to add new cross-site group, you need to use SPWeb.SiteGroup.Add method for this purpose.

In addition to this SPWeb has a property AssociatedOwnerGroup, which will return the required SPGroup. You can iterate the SPGroup users to get the list of all owners of the site.

 foreach (SPUser user in web.AssociatedOwnerGroup.Users)
 {
      // .. list all the users                        
 }

 

Finding and adding group

SPGroup  group = GetSiteGroup(web, "groupName");
if (null == group)
{
 web.SiteGroups.Add("groupName", web.AssociatedOwnerGroup, null, "Test Group description");
}

 


private static SPGroup GetSiteGroup(SPWeb web, string name)
{
    foreach (SPGroup group in web.SiteGroups)
    {
 if (group.Name.ToLower() == name.ToLower())
 {
     return group;
 }
    }
 return null;
}

 

 

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Tue 27 Jan 2009

Today I was required to implement detecting the idle time or user inactivity in windows form. Here it is how it works
The theme behind is the usage of MessageFiler that will be intercepting calls (Keyboard / Mouse activities) and usage of System.Windows.Forms.Timer

Step 1.

Create MessageFilter class as

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

 public class MessageFilter : IMessageFilter
    {
       //Following are the Windows API hex values. You can find more at http://faisal.azmza.com/post/2009/01/Values-of-Windows-API.aspx
       // Here we are only interested in only Keyboard and Mouse activities
        private int WM_LBUTTONDOWN = 0x0201;
        private int WM_KEYDOWN = 0x0100;
        private int WM_RBUTTONDOWN = 0x0204;
        private int WM_MBUTTONDOWN = 0x0207;
        private int WM_MOUSEWHEEL = 0x020A;
        private int WM_MOUSEMOVE = 0x0200;

        public bool PreFilterMessage(ref Message m)
        {
            if (m.Msg == WM_MOUSEMOVE || m.Msg == WM_KEYDOWN || m.Msg == WM_LBUTTONDOWN || m.Msg == WM_MOUSEWHEEL || m.Msg == WM_RBUTTONDOWN || m.Msg == WM_MBUTTONDOWN)
            {
                //Reset the timer of form1
                Form1.timerIdle.Stop();
                Form1.timerIdle.Start();
            }
            return false;
        }
    }

Step 2:

In the form where you actually want to implement what to do if user is inactive for particular period, like redirecting to Login page, performing Session / objects cleanup, hiding or locking touchy form etc etc, put following peace of code,

a) Declare static timer as

//Reason for taking this timer as static becasue we need to reset timer in MessageFilter class.
//If don't want to use static then you can implement your own logic. The theme is to reset the timer in MessageFilter on any Keyboard or Mouse activity

internal static Timer timerIdle;

b) Put following initializing code after InitializeComponent or on Form_Load. Note to set Interval of timer to your requirement. Here it is set for 5 minutes.

            timerIdle = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();
            timerIdle.Enabled = true;
            timerIdle.Interval = 50000; // Idle time period. Here after 5 minutes perform task in  timerIdle_Tick
            timerIdle.Tick += new EventHandler(timerIdle_Tick);

 c) Put following inside your form

        private void timerIdle_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Here perform your action by first validating that idle task is not already running.
           // If you want to redirect user to login page, then first check weather login page is already displayed or not
           // if not then show loign page. Same logic for other task or Implement your own.
           // Remember after every five minutes or period you defined above this timerIdle_Tick will be called
           //so first check weather idle task is already running or not. If not then perform
            //if (Login.Visible == false)
            //{
                   //PerformNecessoryActions();
                  //ShowLoginForm();
            //}
        }

 

Step 3.

So far we have created MessageFilter class (On keyboard or mouse activity it will reset the timer of form). In form we have declared and initialize timer. On timer_Tick event we have implement the task which we need to do when user become inactive for particular period of time. Now in last step, Add our MessageFilter class in Application to intercept calls as

static void Main(string[] args)
{
            Application.AddMessageFilter(new MessageFilter());
            Application.Run(new Form1());
}


Hope it helps.

 

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Fri 23 Jan 2009

In first sight you will not see  PasswordChar property in ToolStripTextBox.
If you want Password char in ToolStripTextBox and To allow ToolStripTextBox to act as Password textbox like * do following

ToolStripTextBox1.TextBox.PasswordChar = '*';


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Usually ToolStripTextBox.Focus() doesn't focus to ToolStripTextBox when opening form or on form load.
To set focus on ToolStripTextBox when opening form or form load, do following

In FOrm1_Activated event

        private void Form1_Activated(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ToolStripTextBox1.Focus();
        }

Or

on Form1_Load event

this.ActiveControl = ToolStripTextBox1.Control;

 

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