How to transfer Facebook contacts to Google Plus

At first there was Facebook. But now there’s Google Plus. And yeah, I like it. But what is a social network without contacts? Probably nothing. But who thinks, Facebook contacts can be easily transfered to Google, is on the wrong way.
For a short time there was this plugin for the Chrome browser, named Friend Exporter, which has taken over the job very well. However, this was quickly blocked by Facebook. But there is another way that I want to show you below.
How to export your Facebook friends and import them in Google Plus
The workaround to import the contacts works with the help of Yahoo mail. If you have no account there, then you can just create one here. It’s free and takes less than 2 minutes.
You have a Yahoo mail account? Then you can just go on with […]

How to add DLL to Visual Studio projects

Posted by Raffael on 01/11/2013 Posted in C#.Net Tagged C#, dlls, how to add dll to visual studio project, how to embed dll c#, how to embed dll in visual studio

Some days ago I received an email, in which I was asked, how to embed/include .dll-files to into Visual Studio projects. So here comes the answer to the question: How to add dlls to an ongoing Visual Studio project?
The solution to the problem is closer than some of you might think. First you right-click on the “references”-label in the Solution Explorer and click in the context menu on “Add reference” . (Fig. 1)
Now click on the “Browse” button, select the desired (. NET compatible) DLL and confirm your selection by clicking on the “Ok” button. (Fig. 2)
In the last step you can add the appropriate using directives in your source code for an easier access to the methods of the obtaining DLL. (Fig. 3)

How to save user input in C#

Posted by Raffael on 01/09/2013 Posted in C#.Net, Tutorials Tagged C#, how to save user input c#, how to save user settings c#

On request of a reader, I’ll show you today some C# basics. After I had posted a little snippet for dealing with the AppSettings, I was asked how we could now actually save user input on a GUI with help of this snippet. Here comes the solution.
For clarification, I have a created a little C# WinForms project in Visual Studio. The WinForm got a label and a textbox on it. Also the above mentioned functions for loading and storing values in the AppSettings will be used.
If you have created the project and added to the controls, your Application should look similar to the left-hand picture.
Next, you two need to add event handlers. The easiest way is via the “Events” window. (This is the one that is marked red in […]

Why Whatsapp is boon and bane at the same time

Posted by Raffael on 01/09/201305/13/2013 Posted in News & Apps, Personal stuff, Web Tips Tagged Whatsapp, whatsapp charge, whatsapp payment, whatsapp removed paypal, whatsapp security

Whatsapp, one of the most widely used messengers for mobile devices, should be known to the most people. I myself use Whatsapp since one and a half years and I have always been satisfied. I never had problems with messages send too late or something similar. Even money I had to pay not yet. And as my smartphone phone contract brings an internet flatrate with it, Whatsapp is a free alternative to SMS for me, which I don’t want to miss anymore.
Well now the payment model of whatsapp should indeed be known. iOS users pay once for the app – users of other systems, so as Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, get the app for free, but will be prompted after one year to pay for the service. The annual fee is then close to 1$. Even so […]

How to save configuration settings in C#

Posted by Raffael on 01/08/2013 Posted in C#.Net Tagged appsetting, C#, c# appsettings, c# save config file, c# save configuration settings, how to save settings in c#, save appdata in c#, save c# settings, System.Configuration.Appsettings

How to save settings really quick and easy in C # applications? I’m sure this question has been asked certainly by everyone once during his career as C# programmer. And did you know? The answer is quite simple. The easiest way to answer this question is to use the AppSettings from ConfigurationManager class of the .Net-Framework.
The. Net Framework brings its own managers to save and load settings with it. The properties are stored in the common XML format. And so you can see that dealing with the AppSettings is really a no-brainer , I have written two small functions for saving, changing and reading preferences.

public string getAppSetting(string key)
{
//Load the appsettings
Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
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