Exception : "A Graphics object cannot be created from an image that has an indexed pixel format". this exception happed in my application while trying to draw string on a .gif image, I read about this problem and found in MSDN that: If the image has an indexed pixel format, this method throws...

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I created a sub domain called http://demo.amrelgarhy.com , under this domain i will samples to solves many technical problems i find useful to share with readers. I will try to add as many different examples as i can, also will try to describe as much as i can how i implemented these examples. Also i...

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I wanted to make a small image resize function in my asp.net website, and everything worked fine, but i faced a problem resizing transparent .png and .gif images. After resizing done, i find that the output resized images transparent parts become white color and not transparent anymore. This was my code...

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2 day ago i suffered from launching a testing website version on my shared hosting account, what i suffered from is that the website had a wcf ajax service which i was using in ajax calls from jquery to server. I faced a lot of small problem in configuring the website to work the same as it works local...

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Testing your website on all web browses in market is not something interesting, there are a lot of webbrowsers and different users use different browsers , and the most common website goal is to reach as many users as possible. Some times its not possible to have all browsers on the same machine such...

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Finally KIGG 2.5 released with a very good new features, will make it better and widely used. Features Upgrade to Moq 3 Migrate to DotNetOpenAuth 3.2 Partial Trust support Entity Framework based Repositories implemented Multi Database support through Entity Framework (SQL Server & MySQL) Implementation...

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During development, you might prefer just to write mails to a local directory, so you can see what’s happening without having to set up an actual mail server. To do that open web.config and add these few lines “instead of real SMTP configurations, which you will need to activate on the real...

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Just got this mail from sun, i think this will be very helpful for Solaris fans. Free Solaris Courses Access 12 New Training Modules Dear Amr Elgarhy, Check out these new Solaris course offerings now available at the Sun Open Learning Center: New! Free Solaris training for System Adminstrators Designed...

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SimilarSites , A new service to get similar sites for a website you want. Also you can make a site suggestion....

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Google anounced today on their blog that they introduce to developers an enterly tool, google developer were using on google websites to test its speed. The new tool is an Add-on to FireBug , and sure on just Firefox . From the first look we can say its a tool the same as YSlow from Yahoo. More details...

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