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Creating a PDF with ByteScout is quite a simple task. It needs to add ByteScout PDF SDK in your project at first, and include its namespace in your .cs extension file where you are looking to create a PDF file. i.e. using Bytescout.PDF. Go through the short tutorial which will create a sample PDF and adding a password to it. The PDF file can be created by creating the object of the Document class and calling [...]

Definition of a Keylogger A Keylogger is a program that logs the user’s keystrokes without the user being aware of it. Generally, it is a type of vulnerability attack used to compromise the security of the victim’s accounts. The keylogger consists of a client-side and a server-side. The client-side is responsible for logging the keystrokes and sending them to the server-side, which they would use this info to compromise the victim’s security. Hardware-based keyloggers When [...]

  Well, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are hot topics these days. But how do we know which term is more proper for use? Let's have a quick cheat sheet: Machine Learning is... It is known and actually used for years by programmers. One day programmers thought: oh, maybe there is a way to allow the program to learn from a set of values instead of hard coding all the rules in the code (if value [...]

  We went through multiple stages with our website. And here is our hands-on experience with various ways to host a website online. Static HTML website We've started our website (www.bytescout.com) many years ago as a set of simple HTML pages. It was easy to maintain, easy, and cheap to host, compact, and worked great. Advantages of static HTML website: Managing pages is as easy as managing files in a folder; You may add new [...]

WooCommerce is the best WordPress plugin (and the most popular) for e-commerce. WooCommerce is a very powerful plugin and has wide functionality and a large set of settings. There are four types of products in WooCommerce. Simple Product Grouped Product External/Affiliate Product Variable Product In many cases, these types of products are enough when using the plug-in for the online store. But sometimes they are not enough. WooCommerce allows you to create custom types of [...]

At ByteScout, we deliberately asking our customers to use our secure online customer support desk for technical support. And sometimes customers ask us: why you don't provide technical support over the phone? Actually, in the past, we were providing technical support for our SDK products (which are used by programmers, software developers) and here are the advantages and disadvantages we saw: Advantages of technical support over the phone: Fun. Talking to a fellow developer is always [...]

Suppose we would like to add some information to our website at the top of the page or post, above the main content. This may be for example advertising, links, appeals, whatever you want, all that is enough fantasy. Functional blocks in Wordpress are called widgets. Widgets are placed on sidebars. Widgets and sidebars can be managed and configured in the WordPress administration panel. Administration panel - Appearance - Widgets Let's add a sidebar to [...]

One evening, after updating WordPress, I couldn’t find my usual text editor, but I saw a completely different modern editor. I tried to understand how to open the article in the classic editor. Found! I began to study and see how to work with this new editor, it turned out he was good enough! With the release of a new version of WordPress 5.0, the text editor has been completely updated, and in general the very [...]

Both C++ and Java are great object-oriented programming languages that have broad utility in the computer world, however the two languages bare several differences. Portability Java was initially developed to help developers build cross-platform software with the same code and hence it was designed to run on top of a Java virtual machine as opposed to C++ which is compiled directly into machine executed code. Java by the fact that runs on top of a [...]

Data is the new oil and data security is the most crucial part of any software programming. If data is lost, everything is lost. Programmers always make sure that the data is properly encrypted and secured before launching or releasing any web application. If you want to create any robust application then the security of your data is very important. This post will explain how to secure your data in 2023 by using various programming [...]