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05/06/2014 by Nitesh

How To Check If a Column Exists in DataRow

Friends, This is a very small post to explain how can you check whether a column exists in a DataRow. This is a very handy tip when you are working with a set of data and you’re not sure everytime the query will return a specific column. Let us assume we have a DataRow named…

14/12/2013 by Nitesh

How To Set DateTimePicker controls value blank in C#

Friends, We all have been using the default DateTimePicker control in C# Winforms and in certain scenarios, we need to display a blank value in the DateTimePicker control. By default you can set the control’s value to null or DBNUll.Value. However, this can be done by using a small trick. This post will explain how…

28/08/2013 by Nitesh

Why does Gmail Inbox stores 2 copies of Sent Emails from Outlook

Friends, After configuring Gmail in Outlook, I noticed that there are 2 copies of email saved in my Gmail Inbox for any email sent from Outlook. This is not an issue for many of us as we normally look for mails received, but becomes a very cluttered inbox if you are reading a conversation that…

01/07/2013 by Nitesh

How to Show Your Yahoo Messenger Availability Status on your Website

In my last post, I discussed how to get the status of a Yahoo user using a simple URL. Though this was just for fun and I discovered it accidentally. This made me think if we can display the LIVE status of a Yahoo user account on my website pictorially. We could have done it…

12/06/2013 by Nitesh

How to Authenticate a Twitter User for Twitter using OAuth API V1.1

Friends, Yesterday, 11th June 2013, Twitter officially closed its V1.0 API and have migrated to v1.1 API now. This means that we need to authenticate users before being able to display tweets from a user’s profile, even it is a public profile. Yes, you read it correct even if the user’s profile is a public…