An easy way to install the Microsoft Expression Encoder (in case you need to process multimedia streams (via C#, etc.) is to simply follow the link http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx from where you install the Web Platform Installer - were you select the Microsoft Expression Encoder and it will automatically install the dependencies - Azure, .NET Web Express, etc. And all of it is free and easy.

A simple way to execute C# code, without using the Visual Studio is shown in RunCS.cs. Steps:

1. Compile the code as RunCS.exe;
2. Create a CS file;
3. Execute RunCS.exe "my_file.cs" param1 param2

The CS file must contain the following lines, as in Program.cscript.

//@main MyNameSpace.MyClassName
//@assembly %programfiles%\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0\System.dll
using System;
//@title This is optional, and it will be the window title
//@include ..\\my_dependency_file.cs
using System;
namespace MyNameSpace{
 public class MyClassName{
  public static void Main(string[]args){
    Console.WriteLine(args[0]+" "+args[1]);
  }
 }
}

Recently I needed to start a program on a remote machine, so I used the following C# code (after adding the System.Management assembly).

Using the utility class from the previous post I wrote a small utility that is running through all the Outlook accounts and counts all the unread messages from inbox. Once a change is detected, the icon starts blinking, that will stop once you click once with the mouse on it.
Right now it is working for me with two Exchange accounts configured on my Outlook.
Very important note: before importing, you must add the reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop in order to access the Outlook interoperability automation engine.
The code is attached.

Below is a small class I wrote in order to put a small tray icon with a custom background color, foreground color, and a text.
The particularity of this application is that it does not use any form.

It seems that recently Microsoft rolled out some new updates, among which one of them is related to a vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.OCX related to the RTF file handling. It might seem minor, but as a consequence the OCX file got fixed and it is not registered anymore.

• regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\mscomctl.ocx
• regsvr32 c:\windows\syswow64\mscomctl.ocx

depending on the operating system's bitness (either 32 or 64 bits).

I saw many people using lots of complex methods in attempt to move data between databases and file systems.

One of the most frequent methods is storing sequential data records in CSV, TSV, XML, or other formats. Obviously, each syntax requires specific escaping algorithms, a fact that most of times is omitted or forgotten by developer.

The last time I had to move data between two different instances of MySQL from two different sites I followed the approach:

1. Select the database records and put them in an object (array);
2. serialize the array;
3. encode the array in base64 to ensure the text needs no escaping algorithm;
4. copy the text on a support (file, ftp, mail, etc.);
5. decode the array from base64 to native format;
6. deserialize the array;
7. take each record and save it to the database.

Some of the advantages are:

1. you don't transfer database records, but business objects;
2. if you have complex relations or fields, they just get wrapped, irrelevant on the database representation.

And the result will be similar to sample.txt.

To use at best the screen estate it is indicated sometimes to implement right-click handlers that trigger menus or other activities.The issue seems to be in the original code that every time the  rightMouseDown   occurs, a new  rightMouseUp handler is added. 

I am happy to anounce that I passed another certification test, this time in Java. The overall results are: Results per section are as below:

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