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Is your computer running slow, battery running out quickly?

If your computer is running hot or battery running out quickly then it is most likely due to some application or process consuming high CPU or memory. If you keep running applications for a long time, for example, Outlook, then it continues to grow in...
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Make a surveillance application which captures desktop and emails you as attachment

Some time back I needed to capture a certain computers desktop in order to find out what that user is doing every day. So, I made a .NET 2.0 Winforms Application which stays on system tray (optional) and capture the desktop in given time interval (say...
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Stickout - .NET 2.0, Outlook Word Excel Add-in, VSTO, Remoting, you name it

StickOut is a desktop sticky note application with multi-user support and Outlook integration. It is a .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Forms application that uses .NET Remoting to communicate with other StickOut users and exchange sticky notes with them. It...
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Top questions asked about data grid

This paper addresses some of the questions about customizing grid display that are commonly asked in newsgroups, on Web sites, and in other developer forums. The techniques described here are sometimes quite simple and at other times somewhat involved...
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Simulate Windows Service using ASP.NET

How to run scheduled jobs from ASP.NET without requiring a Windows Service to be installed on the server? Very often we need to run some maintenance tasks or scheduled tasks like sending reminder emails to users from our websites. This can only be achieved...
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.NET 2.0 Process Impersonation feature not working in Windows App

.NET 2.0 introduced an interesting feature in the "Process" class where you can specify UserName, Password and it runs the process as the specified user. However, it only works inside Console Application. It does not run if the application is...
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