OOPs.. I Don't have to do it again

The washing machine we have has the habit of sending out an irritating beep after it finishes the wash cycle. Ok enough; but these intermittent beeps go on and on and on till it is sure everyone came back home after your attending your funeral. One awful engineer who programmed the chip. Anyway, been looking around the net if there is a work around. Found this written by some Russian. I didn’t have patience to correct the grammar entirely. If the below does  not work, there is always the option of an Axe and ‘hey Siemens,..Heeeere is Johnyyy!) -- text You can change the volume of the buzzer according to your requirement. The operation procedure: 1. Switch on the machine,turn the program selector to Off . 2. Turn the program selector to cold Easy-care , press the additional function button Intensive stains and dont let go. You can hear the volume of the buzzer from minimum to maximum to off cycled (I didnt hear this!). If you decide the volume that yo...

Do not try to make sense of it as an English word. Use of Case, Case of Use.. no no. Use Case title is the statement of the actor's goal in a verb phrase. e.g. “Admit Patient” Actor : Someone who has a goal in using the system. “Nurse”

Sometimes you need to validate your ASP.net web form user input for numeric values.. The following works for me Any integer, positive or negative ^[-+]?[0-9]*$ Validates -9 9 12 1352345234 –3434134 +34 Does not validate -9.6 +89.9 Any decimal/float value Being: positive or negative, specified maximum length, limited number of decimals ^[-+]?\d{0,12}(\.\d{1,2})?$ Validates 123456789012.34 -123456789012.34 +123.45 D0es not validate 1234567890123 1234.123

USE tmssmall GO DBCC SHRINKFILE(tmssmall_log, 1) BACKUP LOG tmssmall WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY DBCC SHRINKFILE(tmssmall_log, 1) GO   tmssmall is name of database So… copy the above text entirely to Notepad Ctr+H Find what is ‘tmssmall’ Replace with is ‘yourdatabasename’ OK. Copy the new text and execute query Save space!!

This functionality is missing in the GridView control. There are various ways to go about it. I thought I will do it without Ajax or other overheads. The following code takes in a Datatable as input and returns the grouped Datatable as output. Make the output datatable the source of any gridview! The parameters allow multi column grouping and sorting becomes -----------------------------------------------------------------------   Public Shared Function GroupDataTable(ByVal T1 As DataTable, ByVal GroupByColumns As String(), _     Optional ByVal SortOrder As Boolean() = Nothing, _     Optional ByVal SumColumns As String() = Nothing, _     Optional ByVal HeaderCell As Integer = 0 _     ) As DataTable         Dim T2 As New DataTable         Dim sortStr As String = ""       ...

Bloody syntax.. keep forgetting DBCC CHECKIDENT (budgcodes, RESEED, 0) DBCC CHECKIDENT (tablename1, RESEED, 0) DBCC CHECKIDENT (tablename2, RESEED, 0)   phew.. like learning multiplication tables in primary school