This is a simple class/demo application that shows how to check whether the account that is being used to run the application has administrative rights.

Autos - Immediate Access to Resources Without Clicking

by tc99

Immediate access to resources without clicking

Basic SQL Auto-Purging for Document Management

by Dan Steuer

This article will help manage automatic database purges according to basic Document Management principles.

Batch file caveat when running as administrator

by Indivara

Are you sure your batch file will actually do what you intended?

Batch file caveat when running as administrator

by Br.Bill

First command of the file should be:PUSHD directory_you_want_to_be_inThat solves it always. No testing for anything. No need to error out, because your expected file's gonna be in the expected directory.

Batch file caveat when running as administrator

by Reto70

if you want to run the script in the folder where the script is store you can add the following code@ECHO %0 %*@pushd@cd /D "%~dp0"@cd....@pause@popdin most case %0 is the name of the script including the full path%~dp0 is only the drive and the path of the scriptcd...

Certificate Not Issued by a Trusted Certificate Authority

by Danny Prager

Solution fixing SSL certificate error

Check Digit Vertical and Horizontal

by Hernán Hegykozi

This tip explains how to calculate the Check Digit Vertical (CDV) and Horizontal (CDH) by SQL Server.

Clear Text On Windows Aero Glass

by Rixterz123

How to get text to show perfectly clearly on Aero glass

Communication between the Controllers in AngularJS

by Member 10771162

AngularJS: Communication between Controllers

Convert Arabic Number To Alphabet (التفقيط) تحويل الأرقام إلى حروف

by ahmed_alashrafy

تفقيط الأرقام العربيه

Convert doc/docx Documents to PDF with Foxit Reader

by El_Codero

Convert doc/docx documents to pdf with Foxit Reader Printer. Works without use of Word Interop/SharePoint.

Copy Paste and Insert in Datagridview (Winforms)

by Thava Rajan

Copy and insert data at any postion in your datagridview

Custom disk clean up using WSH VBScript

by Gautham Prabhu K

Perform custom disk clean up when hard disk free space goes low

Days Left Timer VBS

by crackruckles

Days Left Timer VBS self deleting

Display number or amount with commas but no decimal places or extension displayed

by Silver Lightning

Display number or amount with commas but no decimal places or extension displayed

Drop all Triggers belonging to any schema in MS SQL Server

by Matthew Taylor

How to remove Microsoft SQL Server triggers associated with a custom schema.

Facebook blocker

by pavan1361

adding require blocking site in hosts file

Find All Windows Operating Systems

by Not Active

Plagiarized from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724429(VS.85).aspx[^]

Fixing Daylight Saving Time of Windows for Next 100 years

by Vahid_N

Microsoft has not updated Iran's daylight saving time information since 2009. Let's find out how it works and then fix it for the next 100 years!

Get a list of physical disks and the partitions on them in VB.NET the easy way

by pdoxtader

Use DeviceIoControl, QueryDosDevice and WNetOpenEnum to get information about your system.

Get Better Performance in Dotnetnuke Framework

by Trung Nguyen Son

How to analyse and tune your dotnetnuke site to get best performance.

Get date from weeknumber and weekday in VBScript

by NightWizzard

Explained step by step

Get Windows Win32 Error Text - Simplified

by Thomas B Dignan

Getting the text of Win32 Error codes for 99% of cases.

GetLastError as std::string

by Orjan Westin

Simple function to get the text message corresponding to a system error.

Handling Application Settings

by Michael_Davies

Handling large numbers of application settings

Hello World, Basic Server/Client Example of WCF

by Hasan Habib Surzo

Basic Server/Client Example using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) programming

High Resolution Time For Windows 7

by Phil Hamer

Provides high-resolution estimate of time for Windows 7 and other OS versions that don't support GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime

How to disable the Sleep button while your code is running

by PJ Arends

I needed to disable the Sleep button on my keyboard, here's how.

How to get EXE associated with a File Extension in the Registry

by Mike Meinz

Function returns exe name and command line for the provided filename and extension.

How to Get Words Separated in a String Concatenated by Delimiter

by Ankur .K. Vishwakarma

This tip shows you a T/SQL function to split a string concatenated by a delimiter.

How to Protect from SQL Injection in PhP based website

by chetan dudhagara

How to Protect from SQL Injection in PhP based website

How to Sign Device Drivers with WDK 7.1

by maratoni

This is a brief tutorial on how to sign a Windows device driver with WDK 7.1

How-To: Use Wget to Automate the Karamasoft UltimateSearch Indexing Process for Your Website

by Christian Mattix

How-To: Use Wget to Automate the Karamasoft UltimateSearch Indexing Process for Your Website

IIS Express (8.0) x Handler Mappings!

by @donis2014

How to configure IIS Express "applicationhost.config" for handler mappings

JavaScript Arabic Alert Message

by Rajendra Kumar Sahu

Easy way to show JavaScript Alert Message having Arabic Text

Live Log Viewer

by Alex Wiese

Monitors log files and displays text as it is appended to the file

LodePngWin32 Class for Rendering PNG Files in Raw WinAPI

by Derell Licht

C++ class that provides a convenient wrapper for lodepng library

Logging in C++

by Pankaj Choudhary - C++ Devepoler

Logging in C++

Mirror keys for multiboxing MMORPG games like WOW/LOTRO

by joejames111

Raw input 64-bit .NET classes.

Peer Process and its Significance in Improving Robustness of Software Application

by Anant Beriwal

How to counter crash issue in applications

Powershell script to monitor windows servers and populate it into a sharepoint list

by LalithGallage

This powershell script is you to monitor windows servers’ free hard disk and populate it to sharepoint custom list.

Print Direct To Windows Printer (EPOS Receipt)

by Michael_Davies

Printing To Line Printers (EPOS) Using Windows

Quickest Way to Create a .NET Database Application

by Subha.N

Tip to create a database application using C# .NET in the shortest time possible.

Receiving response from POP3 mail server

by evry1falls

Receiving response correctly from pop mail server is the first step on receiving emails to your own email client.

Reduce System Load and Speed Up Your Computer

by IPI Paul

Reduce system load and increase performance

Reset file ownership based off parent folder name

by Jesse Fatherree

Reset file ownership based off parent folder name

R-tree:Space Search Algorithm

by HateCoding

This tip will show you an example for using R-tree.

Save/Load Image between buffer

by kanbang

Save/Load Image between buffer

Section Handles Enumeration. Extending File Unlocking

by Yohamnes Hernandez

How to free blocked files, inclusive if they are mapped in memory. Something that many tools are missing.

SEH vs C++ exceptions

by Adamanteus

Intercepting SEH exceptions in C++ program

Self Hosted Web API Wrapper Class

by Craig Baruffol

A wrapper class to simplify the implementation of a Self Hosted Web API Service

Sending and receiving strings from COM-port via jSSC in Java

by Emiliarge

How to send data to device and receive data from device through COM-port

ServicePredicateBuilder for creating Serializable Expressions

by Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari

A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services

Show Forms Current Monitor on Dual (or more) Monitors

by Tantum

How to show your forms in the current active display on dual (or more) monitors

SolidWidgets Grid

by Jake Franta

SolidWidgets Grid tutorial.

Some Advanced ATL Development Skills for Visual C++ Developers

by sunhui

In this paper, we will discuss some advanced skills for ATL COM development.

Start/Stop Windows Services from XML Lists

by Mark Oliver

Stop unneeded Windows services to free memory

Using Integer Instead of Enum in XAML

by Piyush Manharlal

Using integer instead of Enum for ComboBox and Radio Button in XAML

WPF C# / VB.NET Additional (fourth) button on window titlebar (Aero only!)

by Emiliarge

Using WindowChrome from Microsoft.Windows.Shell.dll

WPF Gradient Control

by Tanna

This is WPF Gradient Control. I didn't find a suitable gradient control which will generate a linear gradient or radial gradient brush. This is a gradient control which has a color selector and gradient generator. It can generate radial or linear gradient brush.

WPF/MVVM Application for showing SystemColors list

by Igor Sorokin

In this article I would like to describe simple WPF application for showing System.Windows.SystemColors list.

XSLT to transform Excel XML worksheet to "named" nodes

by Anamera

This XSLT will output an Excel worksheet containing a CSV type of record collection in a more usable XML format.