Keith Rull

How To: Teach Your Apps To Speak With System.Speech.SpeechSynthesizer Part 2

In part 1 of this series i showed you how to specify the voice, gender, rate and volume of the our SpeechSynthesizer object. This time i'm going to show you how to use predefined Voices in your machine and utilize it as hints to your SpeechSynthesizer...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 1:20 PM by keithrull

Filed under: LINQ, SpeechSynthesizer, VoiceInfo, Text-To-Speech, Speech, InstalledVoice

Goosh: The Unofficial Google Command Line

Ever wondered how google would look like if it was on terminal mode (a la *Nix shell)? Then checkout Goosh ! Goosh is a project that Stefhan Grothkopp started. The application behaves similar to a unix-shell wherein you type commands and it returns results...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 4:29 PM by keithrull

Filed under: command line, unix shell, Goosh

How To: Teach Your Apps To Speak With System.Speech.SpeechSynthesizer

One of the cool things that came out with .NET 3.x is the addition of System.Speech library. This library is a collection of classes that enables you to do alot of speech related things like speech recognition and text-to-speech conversion. It's a...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 11:45 AM by keithrull

Filed under: System.Speech.SpeechSynthesizer, System.Speech, Voice Recognition, SpeechSynthesizer, VoiceInfo, Text-To-Speech

How To: Detemine The Groups For A Windows User

Below is a code snippet that allows you to determine what groups a Windows user is part of. [C#] using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Security.Principal; using System.Text; namespace KeithRull.ActiveDirectory...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 1:19 PM by keithrull

Filed under: WindowsIndetity, Active Directory, IdentityReference, IdentityReferenceCollection

This will be funny if it happened in real life

Would you agree? ;)

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 12:01 PM by keithrull

Filed under: Geek Fun, Cartoon, Geek Joke

Keith's Free eBook Recommendations Of The Month

Speaking of free books ... Below are the list of free ebooks that I recommend reading/downloading for this month. I personally love Karl Seguin's book and giving it 5 out 5 stars is actually an understatement if you ask me. :) Karl Seguin 's Foundation...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 4:10 PM by keithrull

Filed under: E-books, Free book

Free Professional Visual Studio 2008 book? Count me IN!!!

Nick! David! Can I get a copy of your book for free? :) http://www.professionalvisualstudio.com/blog/2008/09/11/win-a-free-copy-of-professional-visual-studio-2008/

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 3:47 PM by keithrull

Filed under: Free book

How To: Color Conversion in .NET

Ever heard of ColorTranslator? It's a really cool class that you can use to convert colors in .NET. One of the things that it can do is that enables you to convert HTML colors to Windows colors and vice versa. One particular scenario wherein you might...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 10:33 AM by keithrull

Filed under: Color Conversion, ColorTranslator

Refreshing views with sp_refreshview

One of the common problems that you would encounter when you are building applications that utilize views is that sometimes there are cases wherein a view gets out of date. This happens when you add a new column to a table a view is refrencing. To fix...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 12:00 PM by keithrull

Filed under: SQL, SQL Tricks, SQL Helpers, SQL Tips, sp_refreshview

sp_recompile is your friend

I've been doing a lot of code deployments lately and I've come across several occasions wherein my stored procedures wouldn't run as fast as expected compared to it's previously known execution time. The problem lies on the statistics...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 11:47 AM by keithrull

Filed under: SQL, sp_recompile, SQL utilities, SQL Tricks, SQL Helpers

How To: Capitalize the first letter of every word in a string

Ever thought of how to capitalize the first letter of every word in a string? Here's how: [C#] using System; using System.Globalization; namespace KeithRull.CapitalizingLetters { internal class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { string...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 10:59 AM by keithrull

Filed under: C#, Tutorial, VB.NET, TextInfo, Tips and Tricks, CultureInfo, Globalization, Localization

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 out now!!!

Wooohooo!! Get 'em here! Combined Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 The update for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 in a single install. .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 The update...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 10:39 AM by keithrull

Filed under: .NET 3.5, Service Pack

How To: Create dynamic input rows in a GridView with ASP.NET

Sorry for not being able to post anything interesting the past few months. Anyway, I saw this old thread at DevPinoy.org the other day and I realized that nobody has posted a complete sample solution that would solve and show how to accomplish dynamic...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 1:15 PM by keithrull

Filed under: ASP.NET, GridView, Dynamic GridViewRows

Some useful date processing SQL Snippets

Here's an update to my blog entry 3 years ago regarding the same topic: ---Calculates the first day of the previous month SELECT DATEADD (mm, DATEDIFF (m, 0, GETDATE ()) - 1, 0) AS [First day of the previous month ] ---Calculates the first day of...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 11:44 AM by keithrull

Filed under: SQL, SQL Server, Date Processing, Snippets, Useful SQL Scripts

Ten Questions with Melvin Dave Vivas

In part 3 of our series " Ten Questions - Filipino Developer Edition ", I was able to talk to Melvin Dave Vivas , founder of PinoyJUG , developer, technopreneur and part-time fashion photojounalist(Heheh! I bet he wants me to include this on...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 11:41 AM by keithrull

Filed under: Interview, Ten Questions, PinoyJug, donvito, Melvin Dave Vivas, Usapang Developer, Pilipinas, IdeyaTech

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