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Programmatically convert MS Word DOC and DOCX files to PDF in ASP.NET C# How to convert one or more MS Word DOC and DOCX files into a PDF using Microsoft Office primary interop assemblies (PIAs), also known as Microsoft Office Interop

April 27, 2017January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

Who never had the urge to convert one or more MS Word DOC and DOCX files into a PDF at least once? Truth to be told, it wasn't that trivial back in …

Applications / Cyber Security / Operating Systems / Software / Web

Chrome Extensions redirects to App Page? Use Chrome Cleanup Tool (and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware)

April 24, 2017August 27, 2017 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

The endless fight (or should we say race?) between malware and anti-malware software is ready for another chapter: this time we'll be talking about some very annoying malicious code that often …

Applications / Software

ERR_BLOCKED_BY_XSS_AUDITOR error in Google Chome - How to fix it

April 7, 2017October 29, 2017 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

With the recent Chrome 57 build, the XSS auditor detection (and blocking capabilities) has been improved to the point that many web-based services suddendly stopped working giving this rather obscure HTTP …

Applications / ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Servers & Services

FTP Publish Error in Visual Studio - An unknown WinINet error has occurred (code 12113) - How to fix it

January 24, 2017October 29, 2017 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

A rather common issue that you can experience while working with Visual Studio - be it 2010, 2013, 2015 and even 2017 - is the following error appearing on your …

Visual Studio 2013 e 2015: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging - Come risolvere

Applications / ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Software

Visual Studio Build Numbers, Version IDs and Default Paths - All Releases from VS6 to VS2017

January 24, 2017October 19, 2020 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

In this post I'll try to create a comprehensive list of all the Visual Studio build numbers/version IDs and default paths, including any available/released/known RTMs and Update. If you see something …

Applications / ASP.NET / C# / Coding

Process with an ID #### is not running on Visual Studio 2015 - How to fix it

January 12, 2017December 15, 2017 - by Ryan - 27 Comments.

If you're working with Visual Studio on recent Windows versions, such as Windows 10, you might stumble upon the following error when trying to open an ASP.NET Core or MVC …

Applications / Coding / Software / Windows

Using DAO from Excel VBA VBS Without MS Access installed

January 12, 2017January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Despite having been shutdown for good some years ago, the Microsoft Jet Data Access Objects interface (better known as DAO) is still up and running, as it's still being used …

Applications / Design / Graphics / Software

Text Masking in Adobe Photoshop: How to dig through a Layer with Text

October 30, 2016August 29, 2017 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

Any decent After Effects user most certainly know how to create masks from text or add silhouette alpha to make a text layer (or any other layer) "dig" into another layer. This …

Usare Mercurial HG Source Code Control Manager con Visual Studio 2015

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Using Mercurial HG in Visual Studio 2015 with VisualHG or HgSccPackage

August 1, 2016January 8, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

This is not the first time we're talking about Mercurial, one of the best Distribuited Source Code Control Manager for Windows, also known as HG. In the unlikely chance you never heard about it, …

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Visual Studio 2015 - How to update NodeJS and/or NPM to their latest version

July 28, 2016October 29, 2017 - by Ryan - 8 Comments.

Among the things I love the most in Visual Studio 2015 is the seamless integrations of some of the most advanced community-driven, modern development tools such as Node.js, NPM and Bower. …