Month: January 2014

How to convert Visual FoxPro DBF file to Excel in C#

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The very first thing as you go start doing this stuff, make sure you’ve downloaded and installed Visual FoxPro Driver on your host machine. Here the link for download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=14839 Use OleDbConnection to get the records into DataTable and later export/write the DataTable to Excel. Here are the complete codes: using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.OleDb; using System.IO; using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel; … Read more

Platforms of Java Programming Language

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There are four platforms of Java Programming Language: 1. Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) : Java Platform, Standard Edition or Java SE is a widely used platform for development and deployment of portable applications for desktop and server environments. Java SE uses the object-oriented Java programming language. Strictly speaking, Java SE is a platform specification. … Read more

Positioning in CSS

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If you don’t specify an element’s positioning type, it defaults to static. This just means “where the element would normally go.” If you don’t tell an element how to position itself, it just plunks itself down in the document.Absolute positioningThe first type of positioning is absolute positioning. When an element is set to position: absolute, it’s then positioned in … Read more

“display” property in CSS

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In this post we will learn four possible values of “display” property in CSS.1. block: This makes the element a block box. It won’t let anything sit next to it on the page! It takes up the full width.2. inline-block: This makes the element a block box, but will allow other elements to sit next … Read more

“Pixel” vs “em” in CSS

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A pixel is a dot on your computer screen. Specifying font sizes in pixels is great when you want the user to see exactly on their screen what you designed on yours, though it assumes your screens are of similar size. What if the user is using a screen that’s a very different size from … Read more