Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Web API - Some basics

Web API - Some basics

What is ASP.Net Web API

API means Application Programming Interface.
This is a framework for building 
HTTP based services on top of .Net Framework

These services can be consumed by mobile devices, tablets, browsers and desktop applications

REST means Representational State Transfer, is an architectural pattern 
for creating services.

A client sends a request to server and server responds

Standard HTTP methods 

GET - To retrieve data from resource

POST - Creates a new entry for data and send to server

PUT - Updates data

DELETE - Delete specific data from server



Sunday, May 27, 2018

Linked Server


What is a Linked Server?

Linked servers are configured to enable the Database Engine to execute a SQL statement
that includes tables in another instance of SQL Server, or another database product such as Oracle or ACCESS.

Many types OLE DB data sources can be configured as linked servers, including Microsoft Access and Excel.

Linked servers offer the following advantages:

The ability to access data from outside of SQL Server.

The ability to issue distributed queries, updates, commands, and transactions on
other data sources .


How to create a Linked Server in SQL

1. Connect to sql server through SSMS
2. Right click Linked Server under Server Objects and Select New Linked Server option
3. Give it a name, choose Server Type as SQL server
4. Give instance name of Linked Server
5. Select Security option and Be made using this security option, add Remote login and Password
6. Select OK
7. Under the Catalog, you can see the databases created


You can also create a linked server definition by running sp_addlinkedserver.

We can get details of linked servers by these procedures
exec sp_linkedservers

or

select * from sys.servers

Thursday, October 10, 2013

The Visual Studio language support for VB has not been installed.

The Visual Studio language support for VB has not been installed.

I tried creating a new VB.Net Windows project and received the following error: Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 compiler could not be created. Please re-install Visual Studio.

To fix this issue, we can try to run the following command:

1.       Start->All programs->Visual Studio 2005->Visual Studio tools->open Visual Studio 2005 command prompt.

2.       Type devenv /resetskippkgs

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Creating HTML Editor in C#.net Windows Application

Creating HTML Editor in C#.net Windows Application

1. Create a Windows Application Project and add a form

2. Add the Web Browser control to the Form

3.  Add a reference to mshtml
      using mshtml;

4. On Form Load add this code

           Editor.DocumentText = "<html><body><div></div></body></html>";
                doc = Editor.Document.DomDocument as IHTMLDocument2;
                doc.designMode = "On";

5. Basic editing operations can be performed using execCommand

eg: webBrowser.Document.ExecCommand("Bold", false, null);

6. To eanble editing use this code
 private void Editor_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (Editor.Version.Major >= 9)
            {
                Editor.Document.Write(Editor.DocumentText);
                doc.designMode = "On";
            }
        }

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Oracle versus Sql Server


Description
Oracle
SQL Server
Format Date
to_date(dtt_CreatedDate,'DD-MON-YYYY') as dtt_CreatedDate,
Convert(varchar,dtt_CreatedDate,106) as dtt_CreatedDate,
Null to number
NVL(int_UserId,0) as int_UserId,
isnull(int_UserId,0) as int_UserId,
Current date
SYSDATE
GETDATE
Get substring from string
SUBSTR
SUBSTRING
Find string in string
INSTR
CHARINDEX
Concatenate string
CONCAT(str1,str2)
Str1 + str2

if intID=0 then
if @intID=0