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Yesterday I was trying to investigate through an odd size increment affecting one of our MySQL databases. Since I didn't knew about the table(s) affected by the issue, the first …
How to get the size of all MySQL Tables in all Databases (and other size-related queries) Read More
It's been six months from the first release of my ASP.NET Core and Angular 2 book and I'm very happy about the positive comments & reviews it received worldwide: however, in …
ASP.NET Core and Angular 2: understanding the differences between "broken code" and "compatibility issues" Read More
Within the past two weeks I received a lot of feedbacks from the readers who bought my ASP.NET Core and Angular 2 book for a rather nasty issue which is also …
Error TS2693 Build:'Map' only refers to a type and other Typescript compilation errors - How to Fix Read More
Yesterday I released a small project I was working on to merge multiple image files into a single, multi-page PDF (one image per page). It wasn't too difficult, yet I had …
Merge multiple GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF and PDF files into a single PDF file with ASP.NET C# using the iTextSharp library A short, yet useful guide explaining how to convert one or more GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF and/or PDF files into a single PDF file in ASP.NET C# using iTextSharp Read More If you're into image processing using ASP.NET you're probably well aware of what GDI+ is: in case you're not, here it is in few words: a class-based API to handle graphics …
How to handle multipage TIFF files with ASP.NET C# (GDI+ alternative) Read More
When working in ASP.NET, we often make use of the powerful Dictionary class, which is one of the most awesome ways - although not always the most efficient one - …
Case-Insensitive Dictionary in ASP.NET C# Read More
Among the many great features introduced with HTML5 there are the new types added for the <input> elements: these are color, date, datetime-local, email, month, number, range, search, tel, time, url, …
HTML input type number with (localized) decimal values using JQuery How to overcome the annoying browser and localization compatibility issues of the HTML5's input type number with few JavaScript lines Read More
Yesterday I wrote something about stripping out P7M data from a XML P7M file or string, as long as it was encoded using CAdES format. It was quite ugly, yet it …
How to strip invalid characters from an UTF-8 XML file or string in PHP Read More Some days ago I had to write some PHP code to extract the contents from some XML files (italian electronic invoices for Public Administrations, also known in Italy as FatturaPA): the …
PHP - How to strip P7M data from a XML.P7M file or string (CAdES, FatturaPA) Read More
Visual Basic 6 (VB6) is like a mythical creature: no matter how hard you try to get rid of it, it always comes back haunting you sooner or later: most of the times …
How to URLEncode in UTF8 with Visual Basic 6 Read More