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Dynamically Resize an IFrame According to its contents

amir.magdy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:30:49 GMT

problem with iframe is that you can't always predict the size of the content and eventually you'd end up with a scrollbar or even less convenient: a hidden part of the Iframe content this is a straight forward, easy way to make sure that the IFrame...(read more)

Google Browser Chrome

amir.magdy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:12:58 GMT

Google have disclosed that they're going to release a new browser called Chrome. this is big news here is the link ,these are comics that google released to explain about the browser....(read more)

Most Used Javascript Date functions

amir.magdy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:16:32 GMT

var OneDay = 1000*60*60*24; function subtractDates (firstDate,secondDate){ return Math.ceil(( new Date(firstDate).getTime() - new Date(secondDate).getTime())/(OneDay)); } function addDays (dateToAdd,amountInDays){ return new Date(dateToAdd.valueOf() ...(read more)

Android 0.9

amir.magdy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:17:55 GMT

Android 0.9 has just launched it has major UI updates Download it here http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html...(read more)

Windows Fake URL test [hosts file]

amir.magdy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:33:42 GMT

you can make your application respond with a different behavior based on requested URL, This can be as simple as showing a different logo or as sophisticated as filtering data by that requested domain this is not such a big implementation problem, but...(read more)

2008 Launch Event in Egypt [heroes happen here]

amir.magdy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:31:35 GMT

on the 24th of march in Egypt register here...(read more)

Internet Explorer Beta1 available for Download Now

amir.magdy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:28:40 GMT

here is the link download it if u need to do testing on ur web applications, be ready....(read more)

Measurement of Code Quality

amir.magdy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:11:43 GMT

there's a lot of ways to measure size of code, and Complexity of code, but up till this post there's nothing to measure the qualit of the code it was always subjective to meaure the quality of code but after this. sorry i had to post it, immediately...(read more)

Yield in c#

amir.magdy — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:47:36 GMT

i've been trying to explain the keyword yield to a friend of mine for more than an hour and he did not get it. but finally when i typed in this example he finally did 1: class enu :IEnumerable 2: { 3: public IEnumerator GetEnumerator() 4: { 5: yield...(read more)

Delegates to LINQ [passing logic as a parameter] (part I)

amir.magdy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:03:22 GMT

it's normal to pass data to a function just thow in a parameter of the type of data you want to pass and ur set public int add ( int i, int u ){ return i+u; } now think in a different way, u now want to build a set of operations that the user can...(read more)

DotnetKicks on CommunityServer.org [in 24 seconds]

amir.magdy — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:10:54 GMT

i didn't do this the right way i didn't go through documentation or consult with forums, i just wanted to do this the quick and easy way, what i do is i keep a sepparate theme for my blog sepparate from other bloggers so i can change whatever...(read more)

Have u ever needed to extend a string? [Extension Methods]

amir.magdy — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:34:00 GMT

well it's not inheritable by default so you can not extend it. that used to be the case before c# 3.0 now you can specify all the functionality that you need in an Extension Method. problem lies in that the extension method needs to access the instance...(read more)

Terminal server has exceeded maximum number of allowed connection [override maximum]

amir.magdy — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:55:06 GMT

well there's an easy solution if need something urgently and u need to kick someone (close his session) mstsc -v:[UrServerNameOrIP] /console...(read more)

Object and Collection Initializers

amir.magdy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:03:00 GMT

well also one of the nicest features in c# 3.0 is the object initializers well we used to do this 1: Employee emp = new Employee(); 2: emp.FirstName= "Amir" ; 3: emp.LastName= "Magdy" ; 4: emp.Title = "Mr." ; i actually hated...(read more)

Auto Implemented Properties

amir.magdy — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:23:00 GMT

C# 3 comes with a very nice feature (not undermining the power of lambda expressions and Linq), just this one shows how nice the language has evolved into 1: class Employee 2: { 3: public string firstName { get; set; } 4: } you see the previous code will...(read more)