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How to get the IP Address and redirect users by country

Download the following dll to get the country by passing IP address. This is a .NET 3.5 library that retrieves the country information for an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Address, by extending the System.Net.IPAddress class.

http://www.codeplex.com/IPAddressExtensions

 

Then simply add the code in page load method.

if (!IsPostBack) {
            IPAddress ip = IPAddress.Parse(HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress);
            string country = ip.Country();
            if (country.ToLower() == "india") {
                Response.Redirect("~/indiahomepage.htm");
            }
        }

Fusion Charts

Recently I worked on a Dashboard Project which shows Sales, Invoices, ATB and DSO info. Initially I started with Dundas Charts but later we changed to a nice 3D looking charts called "Fusion Charts". Of course Dundas Charts was good enough but I was looking for a better 3D look, therefore I had to switch to Fusion charts. It was very simple but powerful and we use XML as Data Source. If you are looking for a nice 3D graphs for your project you better have look at this.

MVC

ASP.NET MVC Framework, all I can say is are we going back to where we started ? "Spaghetti code". The main idea was to separate server code from HTML in ASP.NET back in 2001. But all I can see in MVC now is code and HTML both mixed each other which reminds me of a classic asp page. Well, I still haven't got time to get into MVC but this is what I can say from the initial look. Of course there could be some reasons ... I guess I will write this in more details once I really get into MVC....

Life is so easy with Google and Apple products

Life is so easy with Google and Apple products. Almost all of my official and personal activities in daily life supports by a google or an apple product. I use gmail as my primary emailing software from last 4 years, the experience was amazing. I use Google Gmail, Tasks, Calendar, Reader, Notebook, Doc, Google sites, Chrome and Google News, almost everyday. And Apple on the other hand with IPod and ITunes. I recently bought a IPod nano and the experience was so amazing compare to the earlier IPod version.

Large File Uploading in ASP.NET

http://weblogs.asp.net/mhawley/archive/2004/05/11/129824.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/mhawley/archive/2004/05/11/129824.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/mhawley/archive/2004/05/11/129824.aspx

Productivity Tips

As we are moving to a new year, we tend to look for productivity tips which help to improve our productivity. But how many people actually keep continuing? Well, it’s easy to start but hard to continue. I have tried different kind of GTD (Getting things done).

There are plenty of ways where you can manage your Things to do list. A good start would be GTD. But for me I would like to keep things simple. Some of the simple but effective productivity tips which may help you in new year :

· Maintain a simple todo list ( Gmail Tasks)

· Break tasks into small workable items.

· If a task takes 2 min to complete, do it at the same time and do not procrastinating

· Have a weekly review and clear up all the tasks.

Even If its sound so simple, it’s hard to continue. Good luck and have a productive new year!!

Some useful readings :

http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/05/09/top-5-productivity-tips-most-people-know-but-do-not-do/

http://www.davidco.com/

Merry X'mas and Happy New year

Well, its been a hectic past two months but slowly settling down. Due to the fact that me and my wife was struggling to settle down in a foreign country and its harder than we initially thought. Hopefully things will settle down in a few weeks, if not in months :-) . I wish all of you a wonderful and prosperous new year 2009 and Merry Christmas.

Download Java Applet support for google chrome

http://techie-buzz.com/tips-and-tricks/how-to-run-java-applets-including-yahoo-games-and-yahoo-chat-in-google-chrome.html

Intergrate IDM with google chrome

http://fich.web.id/2008/09/06/how-to-integrate-internet-download-manager-into-google-chrome/

ASP.NET Charts

Recently I've worked with some cool charts for a dashboard project. Dundas and Fusion charts are the best I've seen so far. But guess what, Microsoft has released a FREE chart control for ASP.NET 3.5 I which has similir look and feel to Dundas charts ;-) Havn't tried it yet but I'm excited, mostly becoz its FREE... :-)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&DisplayLang=en

Generic List removing duplicates

static List removeDuplicates(List inputList)
{
   Dictionary uniqueStore = new Dictionary();
   List finalList = new List();
    foreach (string currValue in inputList)
   {
       if (!uniqueStore.ContainsKey(currValue))
       {
           uniqueStore.Add(currValue, 0);
           finalList.Add(currValue);
       }
   }
   return finalList;
}

Url Rewriting in IIS 7

One thing I like in IIS 7 is the way it supports Url rewriting. Earlier versions of IIS (6,5) does not support ASP.NET HttpModules for urls without a file extenstion. i.e. http://localhost/Products. Even if its doesn't we can hackaround and use it with IIS Error pages.

When there is no file extension in the url, IIS directly processing it with its own ISAPI filter rather than processing it through the ASP.NET handler. But with IIS 7, all we have to do is to add the HttpModule into the IIS web app. All the requests are process through the HttpModule. So if we request http://localhost/Products, it will go through the HttpModule, which we can easily integrate our url rewriting.

Coding Styles

Recently our team prepared a coding guideline document to follow in our day to day coding. As always it leads to loads of debates, things like variable naming, method naming and so forth. What I personally like is to keep things very simple. i.e. string name vs string strName, I prefer string name. Consistency in coding is very important, what it mean is we have to follow the same coding style until the project end. Have look at Microsoft's StyleCop

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Url Rewriting for SEO

This is useful, check this out from Rob Howard http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/archive/2008/04/24/seo-amp-asp-net-put-keywords-in-the-url.aspx

Use your computer to print, scan, and fax

This might be very simple, but sometimes useful.. just thought to have it as a link, so that we could use when ever needed.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/hwandprograms/printfaxscan.mspx

OpenSocial

Google's common API for Social Web Sites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds. Read More >>