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  • Best Video Players for Developers

    This article covers some of the best video players on the web. Note that these are not standalone players, such as VLC, though some are offered on some of the sites below. These are mainly actual controls that can be… Continue reading

  • Run SWF Files from an EXE

    SWF/Flash files may be embedded into an executable a number of ways, using: Adobe Flash Platform Adobe Air MDM Zinc Northcode SWF Studio Adobe Flash and Air refer to the published executable as projectors, and both can be packaged using… Continue reading

  • C# and VB Equivalents

    VB: C#: Continue reading

  • Load SWF from Fla file CS5

    The title of this blog was my initial search in google upon looking for a way to load and play an external SWF file inside a new FLA project file. In AS2, I recalled this was easily achieved using MovieClip,… Continue reading

  • Quick Cisco IOS Reference

    As a general word of caution, if you have no experience with Cisco or other CLI based router admin (such as linux and red hat derivatives), I would not recommend diving in unless you have a lot of spare time… Continue reading

  • Silverlight Toolkit Default Path

    Quick google search turned up nothing for this, so did a little digging on my own. This path is useful/necessary if you want to manually utilize anything in the toolkit outside of Hilverlight, such as the themes, which are also… Continue reading

  • URL Decode in WPF

    Crossing from web to forms development you may notice System.Web is not available. You could extract it from the GAC, but would suffer from having to manually update it moving forward. One solution on the web suggested using Microsoft.XSS library… Continue reading

  • Missing MySQL References in PHP

    The following can be used for quick LAMP installation and/or if you are missing MySQL references in PHP. Debian: Redhat: Continue reading

  • Check If Active Directory User is in Group C# ASP .Net

    When searching initially for the above (title of my blog ^), I initially found no good apparent solutions. It was off to the drawing board! LDAP – lightweight directory access protocol. Defines a syntax and tools for querying and enumerating… Continue reading

  • PHP Quick Reference

    Escape sequences for print output: Max integer and float size (overflow): generate random number: Get Current Page Name: Came across the following on stackoverflow while looking for the PHP equivalent of string.format. Sprintf (similar to php printf, in c# string.format):… Continue reading