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How can I disable a plugin in Google Chrome?

alesp — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:14:05 +0000

To disable a plugin in Google Chrome type chrome://plugins/ in the address bar (sometimes also called omnibox). A page with all plugins will be displayed and you can disable them easily by just clicking the “Disable” link.

Spell Checker in Axosoft OnTime

alesp — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:51:52 +0000

It seems that Axosoft does not intend to implement spell checker in the Windows client for OnTime Scrum Project Management Software. There is however a solution for the problem: AutoHotkey and "AutoCorrect for English" script.

Download AutoHotkey from http://www.autohotkey.com/
Download "AutoCorrect for English" script for AutoHotkey from http://www.autohotkey.com/download/OtherDownloads.htm.
Install AutoHotkey.
Double click AutoCorrect.ahk file in the file manager of your choice to run the script.
You will get a small H icon in the Windows Tray area. If you right click it you will get a popup menu that allows you to edit or reload the script, suspend hotkeys, etc.
Open OnTime if it is not running yet and start typing. If you make a mistake the AutoCorrect script will automatically fix it for you.

The "AutoCorrect for English" script corrects about 4700 common English misspellings on-the-fly (wherever you type them) via hotstrings. It also includes a Win+H hotkey to make it easy to add more corrections for misspellings (see the screenshot below). Of course you can also edit the script manually with a regular text editor. The good thing is that the script will also work in other applications (Notepad, etc.).

I cannot recommend using AutoHotKey enough for other purposes also because it is truly very powerful and useful tool that can save you lots of keystrokes and mouse clicks.

How can I get information about digital signatures of all files in the folder?

alesp — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:55:18 +0000

The following PowerShell code snippet allows you to get information about digital signatures of all files in a specific folder:

Get-ChildItem *.* | foreach-object {Get-AuthenticodeSignature $_}

All you have to do is start PowerShell, go to the folder you want to check and run the command.

How can I delete records from MS SQL Server database using Python?

alesp — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:38:44 +0000

The following code will delete all records from table in database on server.

import win32com.client

connectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Initial Catalog=database;Data Source=server;"
query = "delete from table;"
con = win32com.client.Dispatch('ADODB.Connection')
con.Open(connectionString)
con.Execute(query)
con.Close( )

Note: This code works on Windows only. You will also need to install excellent Python for Windows extensions (pywin32) by Mark Hammond from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/.

How can I restart Windows service with Python?

alesp — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:52:49 +0000

First you need to install excellent Python for Windows extensions (pywin32) by Mark Hammond from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/.

Then you can use the following code (that will restart the Print Spooler service).

import win32serviceutil

serviceName = "spooler"

win32serviceutil.RestartService(serviceName)

Note: this code was tested with Python 2.7 and version 216 of the pywin32 extensions.

How can I get application’s directory in a WPF application?

alesp — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:13:34 +0000

string appPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;

Cannot convert lambda expression to type ‘string’ because it is not a delegate type

alesp — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:58:31 +0000

When you get the “Cannot convert lambda expression to type ‘string’ because it is not a delegate type” error in Visual Studio 2010, all you have to do is add

using System.Linq;

to the top of the source file.

Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application 2104

alesp — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:26:24 +0000

When you get the error Message: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Code: 2104 Category: InitializeError Message: Could not download the Silverlight application. Check web server settings when you try to deploy your Silverlight application you have to register MIME type in your IIS 7: Extension: .xap MIME Type: application/octet-stream At least that is what it …

Look What I Found #5

alesp — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:42:26 +0000

PDFsharp: .NET library for creating and processing PDF documents on the fly.
SSH.NET: .NET 4.0 library for SSH client protocol.
MailSystem.NET: suite of .NET components with support for SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP, MIME, S/MIME, OpenPGP, DNS, vCard, vCalendar, Anti-Spam (Bayesian , RBL, DomainKeys), Queueing, Mail Merge and WhoIs.
Json.NET: makes working with JSON formatted data in .NET simple.

PunyPNG: Free website optimization tool that dramatically reduces the file size of images without loss of quality.
Smush.it: Remove unnecessary bytes from image files.

Free books from Microsoft Press

alesp — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:05:12 +0000

Microsoft Press offers several e-books free of charge.