It is less visible that Sri Lanka has a history of more than 25 years in computing. University of Colombo and UCSC (University of Colombo School of Computing) holds the pride of being the pioneer in Computer Science/ICT education in the country - a legacy bestowed upon us by the father of Sri Lankan Information Technology and the founder of ...
Ribbon interface is the command bar that organizes a program's features into a series of tabs at the top of a window. In this post we will see how to create a Office add-in project in Visual Studio and create your own custom tab in the ribbon of Microsoft Word. Actually, by following the same routine you can create your ...
For a software developer, keeping a track of the projects and its versions is critical. So, people use to get the support of a version controlling system. Visual Studio 2008 doesn’t have an built-in version controlling system or mechanism. But still it provides you the Source Control Integration facility; which enables two options: source control solution based on the Source ...
Sri Lanka’s largest and ever growing undergraduate student technical community, “Microsoft Student Champs” has broaden it’s horizons over the last few months. Since been commenced in 2005, it has been an active community. But from the number of community members, it didn’t had large quantities in the beginning. No worries! we do only count on quality more than the quantity. ...
This is the second article to discuss about how to use Subversion version controlling system in Visual Studio. First part of this article discussed about how to install and configure subversion to work with Visual Studio. Also we discussed how to add a solution to the subversion repository. Now, the next step is to learn how to use this version ...
You already know this November is the Microsoft Student Champs Networking Month. So lot’s of things happening behind. New faces, new universities, loads of events at unis… We have done our last monthly meeting at Open University and reached IIT for an introductory session and several other activities are happening in other universities right now. Of course! this was a ...
Hey folks! I thought of putting a quick post about changing the Windows 7 login interface. This is not one of the type of posts which I was thinking to put in the blog, but this feature looks really cool to me as it relived me from looking at the same screen every time when I start my computer. Getting ...
Installing Windows 7 from a DVD is the most common way and anyone won’t need any advices on that. Absolutely it is a very straightforward process and what you just need do is following the instructions. But there may be some situations where you need to use a USB as the installation media. For example, some notebook computers doesn’t have ...
It has already been a month after “IFO++”; the ICT exhibition held by University of Colombo School of Computing. As I told in one of my previous posts, this was planned and organized with the purpose of celebrating the 25th anniversary of Computer Science higher education in University of Colombo. I’m happy and proud to say, the exhibition was a ...
Your database servers are MySQL and yet you need to build an application in .Net; is that possible? Yes. MySQL Connector/NET enables developers to easily create .NET applications using C#/Visual Basic with connecting to MySQL databases. MySQL connector is responsible for creating necessary ADO.NET interfaces and integrations to ADO.NET tools. Therefore developers can build applications using MySQL just as they ...
Debugging is the process of finding and fixing the bugs/defects of a software program. And it’s a essential and a critical part of the software development life cycle. Sometime it may take more time than writing the code. So how to debug? Well, literally you have to go through the code and find where, and what went wrong. Then you ...
Like any other computer program, a program written in C# should have a default entry point. his entry point is where your code start executing. Similar to many high level programming languages C# entry point is the “Main” method. (Libraries and services do not require a Main method as an entry point.) Main is also a member of a C# ...
End of a journey, But still couldn’t believe it! Though it was already expected, I never realized that end of my undergraduate life would make me this much sad. Even though we (my batch mates, UCSC 6th batch, 2008/2009) are not graduated yet, yesterday was the final remarkable day at university for most of us except our friends who’ll be ...
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a flexible business application development tool that can be used with Visual Studio 2010 IDE. It gives you a simplified development environment which give the capability to create CRUD based business applications within few minutes. Typical business application manage data through user interfaces, provide search facilities and provide data validations. Usually, if you want ...
While working with your computer, no doubt that you wish you could schedule running some application or make the computer do a specific job without you have to stay at computer for hours. For me, I want to shut down the computer automatically at a scheduled time, so that I can sleep without waiting till the computer finish the job. ...