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15/02/2013 by Nitesh

How to Start-Stop MySQL Server on CentOS Server

Friends, Working with Linux Servers and you often need to start/stop/restart services. Many a times we just restart the complete server to restart services. However, restarting the server for restarting services is not recommended and we can restart the services manually via commands as well. This small post is to explain how you can start/stop/restart…

14/02/2013 by Nitesh

HTML Equivalent of Special Characters

Hello Firends, A post after long time. While working with non-English sites (Spanish, French, Slovak etc..), we often need to handle special characters. There are hundreds and hundreds of special characters available to use. This post lists down the commonly used special characters relevant mostly to Spanish sites and their equivalent HTML codes. Character HTML…

15/12/2012 by Nitesh

How to Retrieve the File Size used by a SQL Server Database on Hard Disk

Friends, We all work with databases and while working with databases, we all have most probably SQL Server one version or the another. Today, in this post we will see how to retrieve the size of data files of all databases present in SQL Server and the actual amount used in these files. As you…

27/11/2012 by Nitesh

How to transform text from one case to another using javascript

Friends, This post will describe converting text from one case to another using javascript. In general programming, we need to convert a text to the following cases – Lower Case Upper Case Title Case We will see the conversion one by one below – To convert a text into lowercase using Javascript function toLowerCase(str) {…

26/10/2012 by Nitesh

AutoComplete Textbox in Windows Form

Friends, We use AutoComplete feature in our websites many times. Wonder, how we can achieve the same in windows forms. Let us build it today. We will do it step by step as mentioned below- Open Visual Studio and create a new Windows Form Application Project and name it “AutoCompleter” Drag and Add a TextBox…