venerdì 25 settembre 2009
C'è di che ridere (e sto ridendo parecchio), ma la cosa è MOLTO seria.
SmashingMagazine spiega per filo e per segno quale è il problema che affligge SVN e come questo generi non pochi grattacapi a coloro i quali non hanno pensato a come proteggersi.
Della serie: cerchi di blindare tutta la casa, ma hai dimenticato che la porta principale va SEMPRE chiusa a chiave.
venerdì 8 maggio 2009
Interessante articolo su come editare il formato OPENXML di Excel 2007 utilizzando il buon vecchio VBA o, per estensione, il sempre valido Visual basic 6.
http://www.jkp-ads.com/articles/Excel2007FileFormat02.asp
venerdì 27 marzo 2009
When it was a matter of zipping a file, I always choosed the easy way: find a thirdy part activex or dll which could do the job for me.
This time, I wanted to find my away to zip a file using Visual Basic 6 (or Visual Basic for Application - aka VBA) and the windows shell. The consderation came from the fact that, since Windows XP, the support of zipping-unizzping files is a native feature of the OS.
After a long search and multiple fixes, I finally came up with a stable solution which I'm going to quickly explain and post right here. The source code is a mix of pieces of code collected here and there. the only att
Attached to the post it's a zip file containing a working example. It zips the files contained in the testFolder directory.
Click here to download the zip.
I'm going to post just the clsZip class I used to support my zipping project.
clsZip.cls
Option Explicit
Private objShell As Object
Private mvarZipFileName As String
Const FOF_NOCONFIRMATION = &H14
Private Sub Class_Initialize()
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
End Sub
Private Sub Class_Terminate()
Set objShell = Nothing
End Sub
Public Property Let ZipFileName(ByVal vData As String)
mvarZipFileName = vData
End Property
Public Property Get ZipFileName() As String
ZipFileName = mvarZipFileName
End Property
Private Sub CreateEmptyZip(sPath)
Dim strZIPHeader As String
Dim fso As Object
strZIPHeader = Chr$(80) & Chr$(75) & Chr$(5) & Chr$(6) & String(18, vbNullChar)
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
With fso
.CreateTextFile(sPath).Write strZIPHeader
End With
Set fso = Nothing
End Sub
Public Function AddFilesToZip(sFileNames() As String) As Boolean
Dim i As Long
Dim iCount As Long
On Error GoTo AddFilesToZip_Error
CreateEmptyZip mvarZipFileName
On Error Resume Next
For i = LBound(sFileNames) To UBound(sFileNames)
objShell.Namespace("" & mvarZipFileName).CopyHere "" & sFileNames(i), FOF_NOCONFIRMATION
iCount = objShell.Namespace("" & mvarZipFileName).items.Count
Do Until iCount = i + 1
Sleep 100
iCount = objShell.Namespace("" & mvarZipFileName).items.Count
Loop
Next
On Error GoTo 0
Exit Function
AddFilesToZip_Error:
MsgBox "Error " & Err.Number & " (" & Err.Description & ") in procedure AddFilesToZip of Modulo di classe clsZip"
End Function
Public Function UnzipToFolder(sFolderName As String) As Boolean
objShell.Namespace("" & sFolderName).CopyHere objShell.Namespace("" & mvarZipFileName).items
End Function
Technorati tags:
zip,
Visual basic 6,
vba,
windows shell
lunedì 10 novembre 2008
Una mattina persa a cercare di capire quale potessere essere il mistero legato alla convenzione di chiamata dll non valida.
La soluzione, come spesso accade, sta nel cercare di arrivare all'unica verità possibile, ovvero che il cucchiaio non esiste... Esportare tutti i moduli bas dal progetto vba, eliminarli e reinserirli. Eseguire l compilazione del progetto dall'interno dell'ambiente di sviluppo et voilà... Les jeux sont fait!
lunedì 20 ottobre 2008
Semplice funzione per Excel che consente di contrarre di n righe una selection (per intenderci, un range di celle) .
Risulta utile anche per spostarsi in su od in giù di n righe se la selection corrente è una singola cella.
Function CropSelection(Rows As Long) As Boolean
Dim sSelection As String
Dim iDollarPosition As Long
Dim sRow As String
Dim lRow As Long
On Error GoTo CropSelection_Error
sSelection = Selection.Address()
iDollarPosition = InStrRev(sSelection, "$")
sRow = Mid(sSelection, iDollarPosition + 1)
lRow = CLng(sRow) - Rows
sRow = Mid(sSelection, 1, iDollarPosition - 1) & CStr(lRow)
Range(sRow).Select
On Error GoTo 0
CropSelection = True
Exit Function
CropSelection_Error:
MsgBox "Error " & Err.Number & " (" & Err.Description & ") in procedure CropSelection of Modulo Modulo1"
End Function
mercoledì 23 aprile 2008
SQL Server:
SELECT TOP 10 product, descr, email
FROM products
ORACLE:
SELECT product, descr, email
FROM products
WHERE ROWNUM <= 10
MySQL:
SELECT product, descr, email
FROM products
LIMIT 10
giovedì 15 novembre 2007
SQL server has no built-in format functions. Here is a user defined function which left-pad a varchar value with a variable length string.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[PadString]
(@Seq varchar(16),
@PadWith char(1),
@PadLength int
)
RETURNS varchar(16) AS
BEGIN
declare @curSeq varchar(16)
SELECT @curSeq = ISNULL(REPLICATE(@PadWith, @PadLength - len(ISNULL(@Seq ,0))), '') + @Seq
RETURN @curSeq
END
Testing the function:
SELECT dbo.PadString ('8', '0', 5)
SELECT dbo.PadString ('abc', '*', 12)
SELECT dbo.PadString ('abc', '0', 7)
Here are the results:
----------------
00008
(1 row(s) affected)
----------------
*********abc
(1 row(s) affected)
----------------
0000abc
(1 row(s) affected)
---------------------------------------------------------
TAGS: sql server format string pad left
martedì 16 ottobre 2007
While writing your new post to your blog, you need to highlight a piece of source code. Now, what? Here is a list of 10 online services which could save you.
ToHtml.com by Oleg Parashchenko
The most "usable" online code highlighter service, supports a LOT of different languages including SQL, scripts, ancient language (*asm) and newest (.NET)
Quick HighLighter by Veign
A very easy to use website, supports a lot of languages, including PHP, ASP, VB.NET, C#, Ruby and "robots.txt" <--LOL
CodeColor by Asp.NET Resources
It has not many languages to work with and I don't like the idea to have a popoup window with the final highlighted code. It works pretty good though.
GeSHi by Nigel McNie
As written there... "Support for a wide range of popular languages, Easy to add a new language for highlighting, Highly customisable output formats". Excellent idea the option to setup your own highlighiting rules. A must have if you are the owner of a phpbb forum or a Mambo website.
ColorCode by Thomas Johansen hosted @ CsharpFriends by Salman Ahmed
Another very easy interface, altough with no options at all. It just supports C#, VB.NET, J# and T-SQL.
Pygments by Pocoo
Sntax highlighting engine written in Python. It supports many different languages. You can store your pieces of highlighted code for later use. Nice and clean interface. Does not support Visual Basic (which is like incredible)
Code Colorizer by Chami.com
"It can convert your ASP, C/C++, Clipper, Delphi/Pascal, HTML, Java, JavaScript and Visual Basic source code to colorized (syntax highlighted) HTML documents". Very simple interface with few languages supported.
Code Format by manoli.net
Another simple interface. It supports just C#, vb, aspx, html, xml, t.-sql and msh. The output conforms to the HTML 4.01 specification
ActiPro CodeHighlighter by ActiPro Software
This is the one I like more, not because it has something better than the others, but just because, in my eyes, is the easyer one use.
Syntax Highlighter for Microsoft Live Writer by xKnown
This is very very very cool! It's a plugin for Windows Live Writer which allow us to write highlighted source code directly within Windows Live Writer! The plugin can be downloaded @codeplex and Windows Live Writer can be downloaded here.
What's so cool about that? WLW allows you to post new articles directly to your blog (even Subtext!) and there is no need to use your blog platform interface. The plugin allows you to quickly insert an highlighted piece of code of your choice.
domenica 7 ottobre 2007
This is a very quick example about OLEDB and read a text (.txt) file using Visual Basic 6.
The text file must be formatted as a simple CSV file with a field separator. Something like this
Test.txt
a;1;Test
b;2;Test
c;3;Test
d;4;Test
Supposing "Test.Txt" is stored in the root of the C: harddrive, the code will look like
----------------------------------------
Dim cn As ADODB.Connection
Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset
Set cn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
cn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\;Extended Properties=""text;HDR=No;FMT=Delimited'"""
Set rs = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.Open "SELECT * FROM Test.txt", cn, 0, 1, 1
While Not rs.EOF
Debug.Print rs.Fields(0).Value, rs.Fields(1).Value, rs.Fields(2).Value
rs.MoveNext
Wend
rs.Close
Set rs = Nothing
cn.Close
Set cn = Nothing
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Take a look to the connection string
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\;Extended Properties=""text;HDR=No;FMT=Delimited'"""
the Data Source=c:\; is the key. If you plan to store your text file in a different folde, let's say "c:\documents and settings\Auser\Documents\myTestFiles\", you are required to change the connection string this way:
"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\documents and settings\Auser\Documents\myTestFiles\;Extended Properties=""text;HDR=No;FMT=Delimited'"""
domenica 2 settembre 2007
Here is a simple working example explaining how to use ShowModalDialog and asp.net with Visual Studio 2005.
Start with default.aspx, which has a single button. Once clicked, it will popup a modal window which will show a single button labeled "Close me!".
The postback will redirect the user to a new page, whose purpose is to close the modal window and return the string value '1' which will be evalueted by the parent window using the returnValue property.
If returnValue is '1' then the form will be submitted to itself, just to show how to reuse local values and force a timer label to refresh
Download the example from here