WebIntoApp.com V2 is now online!

Version 2 of the WebIntoApp.com is now online! From now on you can also convert your HTML files (with JS and CSS) into a mobile App for Android & iOS.

Here are some of the new features we have added to WebIntoApp Version 2:

  • Convert WEB / HTML / JS / CSS Into Mobile App.
  • Get know who, when & where your App was installed.
  • Set the Splash Screen / Firebase / AdMob and the Settings in the App Maker.
  • Fresh new Dashboard that allows you to manage all of your Apps, online and easily.
  • Android SDK V30 + iOS SDK V12.2
  • FREE & Dedicated Plans.

Screen shots:

Feel free to visit us at:
https://www.webintoapp.com

Free Convert Website To App for Android (WebView)

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A new tutorial to convert your website into a mobile app, online, for Android and iOS is now available and open for all.

The WebIntoApp Creator
The WebIntoApp Creator

Webintoapp.com is a website that allows you to convert your website to a mobile app for Android and iOS (called also WebView App), online and within a minute.

All you need to do is to set the URL of the website that you want to convert to a mobile app, give it a name, set some features around and click on the Convert button, the system will generate APK file for you with all the details about the Ownership and Certification, so you can not only share your app with your friends, you can even publish it to the Google Play Store.

https://www.facebook.com/WebToAppOnline/posts/292755358763454
Tutorial to convert your website into a mobile app, online, for Android and for free.

You can follow us on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/WebToAppOnline

And on twitter at:
https://twitter.com/webintoapp

Also, feel free to leave a replay above 🙂

Download Alexa Top 1 Million – 05/2020

Here are the top 100 websites in the world according to the Alexa ranking:

1,google.com
2,youtube.com
3,tmall.com
4,baidu.com
5,qq.com
6,sohu.com
7,facebook.com
8,login.tmall.com
9,taobao.com
10,360.cn
11,jd.com
12,yahoo.com
13,wikipedia.org
14,amazon.com
15,zoom.us
16,sina.com.cn
17,pages.tmall.com
18,weibo.com
19,live.com
20,reddit.com
21,netflix.com
22,xinhuanet.com
23,microsoft.com
24,vk.com
25,office.com
26,okezone.com
27,csdn.net
28,blogspot.com
29,alipay.com
30,yahoo.co.jp
31,instagram.com
32,microsoftonline.com
33,github.com
34,google.com.hk
35,tribunnews.com
36,babytree.com
37,stackoverflow.com
38,twitch.tv
39,myshopify.com
40,bing.com
41,bongacams.com
42,naver.com
43,aliexpress.com
44,panda.tv
45,zhanqi.tv
46,amazon.co.jp
47,livejasmin.com
48,tianya.cn
49,google.co.in
50,ebay.com
51,force.com
52,adobe.com
53,mail.ru
54,chaturbate.com
55,china.com.cn
56,aparat.com
57,apple.com
58,twitter.com
59,salesforce.com
60,sogou.com
61,wordpress.com
62,msn.com
63,yandex.ru
64,mama.cn
65,huanqiu.com
66,linkedin.com
67,ok.ru
68,dropbox.com
69,google.co.jp
70,pornhub.com
71,whatsapp.com
72,imgur.com
73,google.com.br
74,yy.com
75,grid.id
76,medium.com
77,trello.com
78,imdb.com
79,amazonaws.com
80,epicgames.com
81,udemy.com
82,amazon.in
83,google.cn
84,detail.tmall.com
85,17ok.com
86,alibaba.com
87,gosuslugi.ru
88,spotify.com
89,detik.com
90,rakuten.co.jp
91,sindonews.com
92,amazon.de
93,kompas.com
94,worldometers.info
95,bilibili.com
96,bbc.com
97,instructure.com
98,padlet.com
99,ettoday.net
100,jrj.com.cn

Here is the Alexa top 1 million domain names list in a csv file. This list was generated by Alexa at the 05/2020.

The struct of the file is:
[RANK],[DOMAIN.EXT]

You will need 7-Zip in order to extruct this file.


🙂

C#/VB.NET Play System Sound

In order to play one of the system sounds from your C#/VB .NET you can use the ready to use system sounds the Windows uses for common tasks. Basically, there are 5 sounds that Windows presents:

  1. Asterisk
  2. Beep
  3. Exclamation
  4. Hand
  5. Question

Here is a snap example of filling the system sounds to a combo box and play one of them when an item is selected:


        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            comboBox1.DisplayMember = "Text";
            comboBox1.ValueMember = "Value";

            var systemSounds = new[]
            {
                new { Text = "Asterisk", Value = System.Media.SystemSounds.Asterisk },
                new { Text = "Beep", Value = System.Media.SystemSounds.Beep },
                new { Text = "Exclamation", Value = System.Media.SystemSounds.Exclamation },
                new { Text = "Hand", Value = System.Media.SystemSounds.Hand },
                new { Text = "Question", Value = System.Media.SystemSounds.Question }
            };

            comboBox1.DataSource = systemSounds;
        }

        private void comboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ((System.Media.SystemSound)comboBox1.SelectedValue).Play();
        }

That’s it 🙂

Please note, by default most of the sounds are the same, and you can change them in the System Sounds Properties in the Control Panel.

Relevant Links:

SystemSounds Class
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.media.systemsounds?view=dotnet-plat-ext-3.1

More advanced example of using the Windows System Sounds
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2740/Play-Windows-sound-events-defined-in-system-Contro

Microncode Components and Libraries:
https://microncode.com/developers/

VS/C#/VB “The type exists in both versions” Error

Some .NET libraries or components may use the same type / enum name which can make the Visual Studio compiler generate an error with the message:

“the type exists in both versions”

Visual Studio compiler error

In order to fix that issue, you can do as follow:

  1. Goto References and select one of the libraries that generated this error.
  2. In the Properties change the Alias property to ‘MyAlias’.
  3. Add to the top of the class that used the library:
//Declear the alias name of the library
extern alias MyAlias;

//------------------------------
//The rest of your code...
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

That’s it 🙂

From now on you can create a reference to the library like:

MyAlias.TheLibrary.ClassName xyz;

Microsoft GIF Animator for Windows 7/8/10

The Microsoft GIF Animator is another great software from the nineties, this small and useful tool allows you to make animation GIF files from frames (images), easily.

GIF Animator
GIF Animator

Just add the images to the frames work, set the options, width, height, repeat count the loop and much more, then save the results to a GIF animation file.

GIF Animator Example 1
GIF Animator Example 1
GIF Animator Example 2
GIF Animator Example 2
GIF Animator Example 3
GIF Animator Example 3


Here’s what Wikipedia says about this software:

Microsoft GIF Animator is a historical computer software program for Microsoft Windows to create simple animated GIF files based on the GIF89a file format. It was freely downloadable from the Microsoft Download Center but is now only available through MSDN and on third party download sites. It was also bundled with Microsoft Image Composer and Microsoft FrontPage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_GIF_Animator

This software was an add-on of the Microsoft Image Composer which is not available anymore, if you still need it you can download it from here.

Image Composer 1.5 for Windows 7/8/10

Microsoft Image Composer 1.5 was released in the nineties and it was my favorite image editor for a long time. Well, today i’m using GIMP in order to edit large and complex images, but for small editing tasks i’m still using this fast and easy to use image editor.

Image Composer 1.5
Microsoft Image Composer 1.5

This desktop image editor software is very easy to use, you can add images to the workspace, set filters and designs, save the results to images (png / jpg / gif etc ..) and much more, with a few mouse clicks only.

Effects
Effects
Arrange
Arrange
Paint
Paint
Cutout
Cutout

Microsoft stopped supporting and offering this software a long time ago, it’s understandable, today we are in 2020 and there are plenty of Image Editing solutions around. But still, if anyone still needs to use this great software, I’ve uploaded it here. You can download and install it on Windows 7/8/10, just download the zip file, extract it and hit the setup.exe file.

Display the post excerpt in WP Twenty Fifteen theme

WP post excerpt not working on the WordPress Twenty Fifteen theme?

The post excerpt of wordpress is very useful to display the highlight or the summary of a post, this can help us to turn our WP blogs and our websites to be more readable and convenient to the end users.

Unfortunately I’ve found that the post excerpt is not working on my Twenty Fifteen theme of my WordPress websites, searching around about this issue shows me this might be a bug with the Twenty Sixteen, Twenty Seventeen, Twenty Nineteen and all other versions of the great Twenty X themes.

In order to solve this and to add the excerpt section of your WP posts in the home page, categories, tags etc .. I had to get into the source code of the theme. Basically I don’t like to change the source code of my theme, but if i have to do so I usually change the functions.php by adding a filter.

If the excerpt section of the post is empty, the code above can also display a number of chars from the original post, in order to do so just set the num_of_chars variant to the number of chars you want to display (default is 100).

Here are the stages to add the post excerpt section to your WP Twenty X themes:

1) Go to Appearance->Theme Editor.

Appearance->Theme Editor.
Appearance->Theme Editor.

2) Open the function.php file by clicking on the ‘Theme Functions (functions.php)’.

Theme Functions (functions.php).
Theme Functions (functions.php).

3) Add this code to the end of the functions.php file:

Now the functions.php should look like:

excerpt-filter-code
Show the excerpts of posts in the home page, caegories, tags etc..

That’s it 🙂
That’s it, from now on the excerpts of your posts will be displayed in the home page, categories and in the tags of your wordpress website / blog.

Microncode .NET Libraries on Nuget.org

We have just added our popular libraries from the microncode.com/developers to the Nuget.org community, that means that .NET developers can import and use our libraries from inside Visual Studio, easily, using the Nuget command line.

Here is the profile page of Microncodee
https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Microncode

The list of the .NET libraries in the nuget.org

CSAudioCDBurner
.NET component to burn an Audio CD from standard WAV files
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSAudioCDBurner/

CSAudioCDRipper
.NET component to rip Audio CDs tracks with FreeDB and ID3 tags support.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSAudioCDRipper/

CSAudioConverter
.NET component to convert, join and cut many types of audio files.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSAudioConverter/

CSAudioPlayer
.NET component to play any type of audio file with a specific format.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSAudioPlayer/

CSAudioRecorder
.NET component to record audio from any source to many types of audio files.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSAudioRecorder/

CSDVDCDBurner
.NET component to burn DVDs and CDs from files and directories.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSDVDCDBurner/

CSFFmpeg
Pure FFmpeg Wrapper for C# and VB .NET Framework (WinForm and WPF) and .NET Core.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSFFmpeg/

CSPhantomJS
.NET library to capture a full webpage to JPEG, BMP, GIF and PDF with PhantomJS.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSPhantomJS/

CSScreenRecorder
.NET library to record the screen activities to AVI video with sound using C# VB.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSScreenRecorder/

CSVideoConverter
.NET library to convert many type of video files, such as AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSVideoConverter/

CSVideoPlayer
.NET library to play many types of video files, such as AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSVideoPlayer/

CSWebCam
.NET library to Capture WebCam to Video Files with C# VB .NET.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/CSWebCam/

All the libraries which served us to develop all of our end users products are available for free for free or learning purposes, for commercial or any other use you can order a licence (at reasonable prices). Also the source code of the libraries are also available in a different distribution under the relax ms-pl license.

For any kind of support feel free to e-mail to:
support@microncode.com

https://www.microncode.com/developers/

The correct way to display Favicon on Edge browser

I found that it was a problem to display the Favicon of my website in the MS Edge while in Chrome and FireFox there was not any problem.

After playing around it a while I’ve found that the MS Edge does not love relative paths but only absolute global http(s) addresses.

So this is the correct way to display the Favicon in the MS Edge:

<html>
  <head>

    <!-- IE -->
    <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" />

    <!-- Edge -->
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

    <!-- other browsers -->
    <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" />

  </head>
  ... rest of your page...
</html>