Tag Archives: C#

Any.links

Posted on December 23, 2007 by Arthur

An assortment of links: I was reading this article at More Intelligent Life written by Enid Stubin (who appears to be an assistant-professor of English) and the first comment in the comment section literally says: Brilliant. This chick can actually … Continue reading →

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Word

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Arthur

I was looking for dictionaries the other day after finding myself impressed by Ubuntu’s Dictionary program. I found out that it actually uses the gdict set of XML files, and you can find around the freedict site (you probably need … Continue reading →

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4,4something

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Arthur

Alfons mentioned the ‘4400’ show, a series I’ve never heard of before. Apparently, it just started on its 4th season on USA Networks (I think it may be carried by NBC, not sure about this). There’s an extensive Wikipedia entry … Continue reading →

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Hey, hey.

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Arthur

Today, I discovered that the StringReaders/Writers in .Net only support UTF-16 encoding, which may lead to some breakage if you’re using it in combination with the XMLSerializer object. If you really need to maintain UTF-8 compatibility, you should use a … Continue reading →

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Visual

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Arthur

While working on billing software, I was planning to write something on visual inheritance in Visual Studio Express (C#): this feature is ‘amiss’ in the lower end versions of that programming environment. I decided not to because the concept is … Continue reading →

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That, SerialPort stuff

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Arthur

The log files reveal that a lot of people are looking for help using the Serialport component of the .Net Framework. Once again, lets summarize: There are two ways to access data from a serialport: 1. Using the DataReceived event … Continue reading →

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More cards

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Arthur

Since the weather was bad yesterday and (it appears) it’s going to be same-o-same-o today, I decided to check into (this last month’s) Card objects project. All earlier created objects were ‘non-visual’ objects and since we’re playing cards, it probably … Continue reading →

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SerialPort and C#

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Arthur

What you need to know before you plan to work on Serial port communication: 0. Create a good test environment. You may need com0com (earlier) which can simulate a loopback between 2 ports. 1. Carefully choose between non-blocking and blocking. … Continue reading →

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Minor-Finer

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Arthur

I added a minor project to the ‘Current Project’ section (Right here), a program in C# that generates classes based on table meta-data. It’s simple and it works: there are a couple of tricks how to collect metadata from ODBC … Continue reading →

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Cards

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Arthur

For something completely unrelated, I decided to check into my older Delphi code and noticed the ‘remnants’ of the code that actually started as a framework for a (basic) Spades1 card game. So hey: the code was actually so readable … Continue reading →

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Lazy.

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Arthur

I read that John Backus died at age of 82 (Slashdot discussion), who happened to be the person who apparently led the team of developers that brought us FORTRAN. I recalled his name because I was studying some BNF notations … Continue reading →

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The Tech, The Science and Space

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Arthur

For no reason I was earlier up than normal, today: with the extra time I had I looked into several compiler-compilers (or parsers/scanners) targetting C#. I ran into a couple of ones: First of all there’s ANTLER (Public Domain, needs … Continue reading →

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Owner-draw

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

One point with which I want to close off for today: Ownerdraw stuff in C#. Yesterday, I was comparing code to create owner-draw listboxes and comboboxes in both Delphi and C# and noticed how remarkably easy it’s to switch from … Continue reading →

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