Geekosaurus Tedd
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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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, … Read more
ScriptEngine supports both LSL and C# within the same script. Mainly this means that you can write LSL, but when you want you can use C# code. For example instead of using llToLower(mystring) you can use mystring.ToLower(), instead of llStringLength(mystring) you can use mystring.Length(). But to make sure that we support pure C# code, I’ve … Read more