Continuing Page Numbering when combining Word documents with Open Xml Power Tools
So we have this Template Engine in ItNet which can generate beautifully formatted Reports for our customers by processing template Office documents, including Word, Excel and Powerpoint files stuffing data into them to produce the final report. We use combination of...
WHM – Need to disable SMTP Restrictions for using external SMTP servers for sending emails
So, this is the part of my job/work which I love, but sometimes not so dearly: unsuspecting items cropping up from no-where when you are working on something really important or having an off-time :'( Yesterday, post lunch, I was excited-ingly working on the...
Interoperable public/private key cryptography between PHP and .NET
Hello everyone, I am back 🙂 .In my last blog post, I promised I would be sharing my thoughts here more often, but it still took me almost an entire year to come back and write again on my blog. Anyways, I did something recently which was intriguing and exciting...
Date Time Field for ExtJs Modern toolkit
Feels so good to be back here. Last time I blogged on my site, it was what, like 2015 :-oHave written intermittently on Imbibe's blog since but really looking forward to writing and sharing more here again. Meanwhile if you noticed, this site got a face-lift. A big...

Using your Gmail account for sending automated SMTP emails
Blogging just tad short of a full year, oh well...Anyways, I today came back to the admin section of my website after a loooong time and noticed automated email alerts from the site (for example comment notification emails) have been failing for sometime. The site...

Crystal Reports – Accessing default value for a parameter using .NET SDK
We have been using Crystal Reports for our Travel CRM with good results for a few years now. We use a completely custom ExtJs based experience for Report viewing which includes a custom user interface for entering report parameters (see screenshot below for an...
DNN – Implementing IUpgradeable for a module’s business controller class
I have to acknowledge, it has probably been more than a couple of years since I have done any real DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) development. Quite a few things seem to have changed in this time, especially with DNN 7.x.One of those changes I got stumped on recently...

A deployment strategy for Drupal sites
Oh well, what do you call a system log that has no entries; a malfunctioning system, right. So what would you call a supposedly web log (blog) that has no entries for almost a year and a handful in a couple years ?Despite deeply wanting to keep writing, I...
MEF – Ordering multiple parts imported using ImportMany attribute of Managed Extensibility Framework
Hello World :)It's been so long since I last blogged, it essentially feels to be blogging like first time. A lot has happened all this time, and I hope I would be able to share some of my learnings more frequently going forward.Switching to the topic of the current...
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