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TDP Robot version 0.70.1.0

Good morning my friends! I’m happy to announce the release of a new version of TDP Robot, specifically 0.70.1.0. There are no new tasks or events, but only some improvements and bug fixes. Configuration files are compatible with the previous version 0.70.0.0, so you shouldn’t have problems installing this new version. As usual, source code…

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The Goldbach’s conjecture

Sometimes I like reading about (simple) mathematical problems and today I want to talk to you about a problem I encountered while reading a math book: the Goldbach’s conjecture. I admit that this is a topic that probably won’t be very useful in our life as programmers, but I find it fascinating and curious and…

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Mathematics

TDP Robot version 0.70.0.0

I’m happy to announce that you can download version 0.70.0.0 of TDP Robot. This version, like the previous, may not be compatible with jobs data created with previous versions of TDP Robot, so in that case you will be forced to create the jobs from scratch. Whats new in this version? Here is the list:…

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C# async / await behind the scenes

Good morning to everyone! I’m sure you already know C#’s async / await keywords and the benefit of asynchronous programming in real world. In my blog we already talked about them in these posts: Working with C# async / await keywords (part 1 of 3) Working with C# async / await keywords (part 2 of…

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C#

Telerik RadGrid’s pagination hangs

Today I want to talk you about a problem I faced in these last days working on a ASP.NET web form project. In this project I used the library “UI for ASP.NET AJAX” from Telerik, and in particular the problem occurred using the RadGrid control. What was the problem? In a nutshell, without an explanation,…

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ASP.NET

TDP Robot version 0.60.0.0

Hi everyone, a new version of TDP Robot has been released. Unfortunately this is a breaking change, so if you created some jobs with the previous version, you cannot use with this one. You can find download links and installation instructions at TDP Robot page. What’s new in this version? Following the list of changes:…

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The Dummy Programmer Robot at last!

Today I published my latest work: The Dummy Programmer Robot, a Windows software to monitor and automate your PCs and servers in an easy way. You can download the installation package and source code at this page. I hope you like TDP Robot and find it useful. Let me know your opinions!

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Could not load file or assembly ‘DocumentFormat.OpenXml, Version=2.7.2.0

I’m developing a C# application which uses the library ClosedXML in order to generate XLSX files, and I ran into this error: “Could not load file or assembly ‘DocumentFormat.OpenXml, Version=2.7.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8fb06cb64d019a17’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.File name: ‘DocumentFormat.OpenXml, Version=2.7.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8fb06cb64d019a17′”. It’s weird, because in my development…

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C#

Multi-tenant database in SQL Server

Before talking about a multi-tenant database, let’s explain in a nutshell what a multi-tenant system is. Multitenancy is a software architecture that allows a single instance of software to be used by multiple organizations or groups of users. Database side, one possible implementation is that you use a single database instance which will contain data…

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Sql Server 2016

Getting SQL Server sample databases

Good morning my friends! It’s been exactly a month since we last spoke! I’m very busy with a new project, which I hope to share with you soon. Apart from that, I want to share with you a link which I think will be useful: https://github.com/microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/databases/northwind-pubs What does it contain? From the link above you…

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Sql Server

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