C# ‘HTML to PDF’ Conversion Component

Today, I was tasked to look for a solution to generate some PDF file from aspx. I spent some time exploring any available projects on SourceForge. I found almost a dozen. Some well-known are PDFizer, PDFSharp, SharpPDF, and my choice - iTextSharp. We also have commercial solutions such as ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter and HTML to PDF Converter for .Net.

PDFizer could read just simple HTML tags. It could not even support HTML tables (yet). And, after reading some more forums, I found iSharpText quite appropriate to deploy. I have to structure my PDF much like we use HTMLTextWriter. I tested it. Not so bad. I managed to generate a PDF in which user input text was rendered.

Today, I would like to thank Chris for introducing Hide Menubar and Faviconize Tab Firefox extensions. I need some screen space! =)

Vista Basic & Domain

I had to set up a new Vista Home PC and join a domain, without realizing that I could not do so. Well, I first tried enabling ‘Ctrl+Alt+Del’ key combination for login. To do so:

Run : netplwiz

Under ‘Advanced’ tab, mark the checkbox ‘Require users to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete’. It did appear but it never requested me to provide username and password at the logon. So, I enabled it under Registry Editor.

Run : regedit

Under ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System‘, ‘dontdisplayusername‘ value was changed to 1 (which means ‘true’). Now, I can provide username and password. So, I entered ‘<domainname>\<username>‘ and ‘<password>‘. But, I later realized that I had not mentioned this PC as part of the domain.

So, I right-clicked on ‘My Computer‘ and just right to ‘Computer name‘, I clicked ‘Change settings‘. Again, I clicked ‘Change‘ button again to join a domain. Eek! I saw the following message on that dialog box.

A Crack

Early morning on one weekday in the last week, I got up, grabbed my spectacles and it dropped off! =’( I really like that spectacles. :sob:

OS Upgrade

Today, a veteran uncle at my work approached me and told me this:

I’ve got a Windows XP CD. My PC has got Windows 95 installed. Can I upgrade it to Windows XP?

I told him that minimum requirements for Windows XP are higher than Windows 95’s. He accepted the fact.

But, he asked me another question:

If I can install, can I just insert the disk and go!?

I shook my head. Sad… Uncle! It is probable in Leopard only.

Final Year Project

Back. These days, we are having sleepless nights (and sleeping days). =) Tight schedule. Many things to do.

• Must finish the product (Musikr Interactive Music Billboard) by coming thursday.
• After that comes final report for the project.
• Dance performance for Myanmar Tradition Show 2007 must all be ready by coming 28. (The event is on 5th of August. 28 is first full-rehearsal.)
• Arrange costume for those performers.

Hope everything just goes fine. Will be back soon. =)

Peace:
mgthantzin

What do we write?

Sometimes, many bloggers may probably find it hard to think of what to write. Nothing comes to our mind. It’s just stuck inside. It does happen to me time to time.

And, if it takes more than a couple of days, I don’t feel so good that I know some of my regular readers would have visited me and as nothing new was seen, they left. Now, I’m facing that ‘problem’. I don’t know how to tackle this. I’m quite free now but my brain is simply blank.

Yeah, it’s true. I’m an IT student. You would suggest that I write technical stuff. That’s what I refrain from. There are many tech blogs out there. And, there are many Burmese (social) bloggers who introduce new tech stuff to their Burmese readers. So, I believe that there are enough blogs for those who like such information.

More, I want to give my readers some unique stuff they would have never seen anywhere else. Authentic, yes! But, it’s neither my promise nor a critique of others’ works. =) I’m not that bad. =)

Well, frankly, sometimes, when I couldn’t find anything suitable to write, like some others, I uploaded some music and let my readers listen to that. I do that because I want my readers to enjoy something new after their several fruitless visits to my site. But, you may criticize me for failing to stick to my original writing trend.

Well, I may be not feeling very well.

A new blog is born every half seconds. I own a few.