Importing Namespaces

First we need to import the Namespaces which allow us to use GDI Classes.

using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;

Writing Image to Response

Next, we will write the code which will read the image and trigger it to Response.

Bitmap imgNew;  

imgNew = new Bitmap(Server.MapPath("~/Goldentemple.jpg"));
imgNew.Save(Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
imgNew.Dispose();

First, we create an instance of the class Bitmap. Bitmap class is very flexible, we can do many different operation on image like rotating, flipping etc. Then we create a new object of Bitmap class and specifying file path. Using Server.MapPath is always preferred. Next, we Save the image to our OutputStream i.e. the HTML output that will be send back to browser on a request. Last, we free all memory of object.

Here we Go!

That’s all. We’re done now. Just specify the file name in the source property of tag. In my case, it’s Image.aspx.

<img src="Image.aspx" />

Download Source Code

Code we have used so far in bundled in a Project, which can be downloaded here. It’s in C#.

What’s Next?

As I said, scope of this article is to keep it very simple. There are immense possibilities, that can happen. For further advancement in this, I prefer you to read following articles.

• Bitmap Class (System.Drawing)
• Graphics Class (System.Drawing)
• Drawing an Image
• Graphics.DrawImage Method (System.Drawing)

When I was new in Web Technology, it seems like PHP is only giant available to develop Dynamic Web Applications. I really work hard on learning and practicing it. It was really fun. But when I try to build larger Applications. I got stucked every-time. There was so many ideas, which I was unable to implement fully, I always got stuck in between the Projects. The reason is, PHP is a scripting language, which is not targeted for developing a specific kind of Web Applications. In scripting languages, you have to write each and every logic for your application on your own, like business logic, data logic, presentation logic etc. So, it was hard for the beginner like me to write all these logics, and keep the safe balanced bridge between them. At that time, I was not aware of Frameworks used in PHP like Zend, cakePHP etc. Later on, I started exploring Wordpress. I must say, wordpress is most greatest Opensource application, I have ever seen. Whenever I mess with it, I was like “Hey man, I can do anything with this!”. And I still love it!.

So, it was last year of my graduation. I was supposed to do a Project. Though it was a formality kind of thing. But still I want it to be Good, and I want to put all my dedication into it. Lecturers at college suggest us to use only Visual Basic or ASP.NET for our Projects. Those were the only two choices available. When I asked them, why can’t we use other platform/languages like PHP or anything else? they told Teachers which are going to take your test on Projects are not qualified enough. So, with this confusion and in hurry, I forcibly decided to go with ASP.NET. At that time, I didn’t know anything about ASP.NET or .NET except that it is rival of PHP. So I started presuming that ASP.NET would be similar like PHP. We were a team of three. Now we need someone who will guide us in the project. We got this awesome teacher, whom through out guide us very well. I learn alot from them. While my learning, I started feeling like it is totally different from PHP. The main thing is it is all based on Framework, which have everything we need to create a complete Web Application. And the development is so quick. I started feeling that now I can implement my previous ideas/thoughts into real-time Applications, that I was not able to do in PHP. So, I hope that switching to ASP.NET from PHP, will be one of my good decisions.

Installation

1. Get a Firefox browser (if you don’t have it)
2. Install Greasemonkey in your Firefox.
3. Then, Click here to install this script. (That’s All)

Note: If you’re on a low bandwidth internet, you must wait for few seconds so all emoticons loaded, and then toolbar will be inserted into edit section.

Original script is written by Sharath(http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12946), I just added a new option which has list of deviantART emoticons.

If you find problem installing, feel free to ask me anything. Will be waiting for your reviews and comments on it.

My Orkut Profile is here, add me and tell me I’m cool.

Cheers!

Update: Updated with a “Promote This” Button and new links. You can use it to promote this script. Take the cursor at the end and click it!.

Isn’t that true?

Found this here.

(click on the photo to see it in fullsize)

Well, As you know!… Singh is King

My 1st Birthday!!!

This is my Favorite!!!

Mom said I used to make faces like this to copy “rambo” character of some TV serial…

Close Up

Bro and sis’s

With My Bro, Roopi

Drunk

Twins

Hello! Mr. Johnny!

hmmm…well, not title for this

*Blushing*

hehe… forcing my sis for a photo…

Attention!!!

At Work!

So, I guess you enjoyed it. Leave a comment.

Screenshots

Comment on Deviation

Comment on Profile Page

Writing a New Journal Entry

Installation

1. Get a Firefox browser (if you don’t have it)
2. Install Greasemonkey in your Firefox.
3. Then, Click here to install this script. (That’s All)

For more information about the script like reviews and discussion, see the entry of this script of userscripts.org.

Currently, It is not working in “reply” section. Hope Will find the fix soon and will update the script accordingly.

This is a warning message to Australian Government. Immediately take all measures to stop racist attacks against Indian students in Australia else I will pawn all your cyber properties like this one.

Many of Indian students have migrated to Australia and other countries, to seek Higher Education and to fulfill there dream of going foreign. But seems like this isn’t that easy to do. But in my views this is not the best way to doing protest. Well, I would not like to discuss much about this issue here, because this is quite controversial.

Now, I hope government should now take some major steps related to the security of Indian Student studying in Australia.

Well title of the post sounds so cool, right?, I know you will figure out later. So, I try myself on photography, just for the sake I take some photos of my college which can be seen on my photos page or on flickr. After that, I take some macro of flowers etc. But something which really catch my attention is Photomanipulation. I just love to make photo a creative look. Well, honestly saying I don’t really know Photoshop that much before. Now I am letting you know my secret, so don’t reveal this to anyone else. Check this out Photoshoptopsecret, just go through the site. There are really cool tutorials which helps you give a kickstart in photomanipulation. Whatever I learn about photoshop is from these tutorials. Later on after you have basics of photoshop, there is many resources available on internet(through search) to get master in Photomanipulation.

There are some photo manipulations, I’ve done yet. (Click on the image to enlarge)

(Stocks taken from deviantart(mnoo, jinxywinxy, wala, madamgrief-stock) and sxu.hu)

They are not really that great, but I am trying to do my best. Hope will get some more manipulations *soon*. And maybe will write some tutorials too in future. For updates of my photo work, add me on Flickr or watch me on deviantART.

PHPExcelReader comes with two files oleread.inc and reader.php. We will need to include reader.php in order to use the package. For the sake of “simplicity”, I have made some changes in example file and data. Grab it here:

Dowload PHPExcelReader.zip

Sample Excel Spreadsheet

Take a look at example.php, code is pretty much straight forward. As I said before, in order to use the package we need to include reader.php into our code.
require_once('excel/reader.php');
Next, create a new object from the class Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader and give the excel file which you like to read.

$xls = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader();
$xls->read('indiastamps_yearsets.xls');

All the rows and columns can be accessed through array variable sheets. We use two for loops to access each and every element of the sheet0.
$xls->sheets[0]['cells'][$row][$column]

Result

If you are Microsoft Excel 2007 user, be sure about saving file in 1997-2003 .xls format else it will not work. Thanks for reading.