Yesterday I bought a Kinect and hooked it up to my PC. After a couple of hours of compiling drivers and finally realizing I had to switch USB ports for the camera to work I could start writing code. I used the CLNUIDeviceTest as a base since it already had the lines of code required to pull the… Read More »
Found an article from May 2007 that haven’t been posted. About time I guess. :) Every now and then I get a bright idea about a new compression algorithm I have to test. Here are results from my latest idea: Debug checksum: 418 Original data: Tedd! Original data length: 5 Compressed data length: 7 Result (non-binary): 418,5,295700136 Time… Read More »
For the past couple of weeks I have been playing Age of Conan with Sara. I am Weathor, Aquilonian Priest of Mitra. MWAHAHA. :) As always I’m looking for something to tinker with. Just playing the game is not that fun. I’ve been searching for addons for AoC, but I can’t find anything useful. Basically they don’t support… Read More »
Many of us are upgrading our projects to Visual Studio 2010 nowadays. You start Visual Studio 2010, load the project and the conversion wizard pops up. You click finish, try to compile and get a bunch of errors. Oh no! The fact is that what Visual Studio version you are using is totally irrelevant to the code. If… Read More »
In WinForms one of the annoyances is that any GUI operation requires invoking GUI thread to do it. I wrote a blog article on a quick hack to bypass it. I was really hoping this limitation was gone in WPF, but alas… Lately I’ve been refactoring my IRC client to use a MVVM-like architecture. In MVVM ViewModel should… Read More »
This post is a bit of a personal rant on whether or not to use MVVM. I’m comparing MVVM with my current architecture and try to look at a few pros and cons. Clearly MVVM is not optimal, but there might be parts to borrow. At the moment I’m doing some heavy refactoring of the IRC client I’m… Read More »
In .Net WinForms (and WPF for that matter) only the main GUI thread is allowed to make any change to GUI. If you attempt to do so from another thread then Visual Studio MDA will let you know that you made a mistake. This is actually an improvement from VS2003 where nobody said anything, so your application would… Read More »
Embedding YouTube into your C# WPF application can be done by wrapping embedded YouTube in a WebBrowser object (Internet Explorer). There are a couple of things you need to do to make it work. Tested on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit in .Net 3.5 (VS 2010). Sample code can be found at the bottom. Add Mark of the Web… Read More »
http://nini.sourceforge.net/ Nini Description An uncommonly powerful .NET configuration library. Use this for reading web.config (instead of .Net built-in System.Configuration…) and any other .ini-file or .xml-file containing configuration. Difficulty 2 lines to read (usually called at page_load or similar). Sample usage: [sourcecode language=”csharp”] // Set up our config source as web.config or app.config internal static IConfigSource ConfigRoot =… Read More »
Helped out a guy on IRC making a method that replaces text in a file/stream, thought I’d share it. Basically it reads from one file line by line and writes to another while executing a custom replacement method on every line. Note: This code is not optimized for speed. Although it will perform very well, it CAN be… Read More »