Quick how to: Reduce number of colors programmatically
My colleague just asked me about how to reduce a number of colors in image programmatically. This is very simple task and contains of 43 steps: First of all, you have to read a source image using (var...
View ArticleHow to calculate CRC in C#?
First of all, I want to beg your pardon about the frequency of posts last time. I’m completely understaffed and have a ton of things to do for my job. This why, today I’ll just write a quick post about...
View ArticleVisual Studio debugger related attributes cheat sheet
There are some debugger-oriented attributes in .Net, however 70% of developers not even know that they exist and 95% of them has no idea what they doing and how to use it. Today we’ll try to lid light...
View ArticleINotifyPropertyChanged auto wiring or how to get rid of redundant code
For the last week most of WPF disciples are discussing how to get rid of hardcoded property name string inside INotifyPropertyChanged implementation and how to keep using automatic properties...
View ArticleReal singleton approach in WPF application
One of the most common problems in WPF is memory/processor time consumption. Yes, WPF is rather greedy framework. It become even greedier when using unmanaged resources, such as memory files or interop...
View ArticleRSA private key import from PEM format in C#
First of all, I want to apologies for not writing. From one hand, this is not a good think for me to disappeared from development community horizons, from other hand, I am investing all my time into...
View ArticleVideo encoder and metadata reading by using Windows Media Foundation
At 1996-1997, together with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft released API to work with media content (for example movies). They used to call it Quartz. This was very convenience set of interfaces and...
View ArticleSelf installable and runnable service or how to make generic service and...
Frankly, I thought that one of basic things in windows development, such as “debagability” and “installability” of services, were changed for the last 10 years in development environments. However I...
View ArticleHow to build self descriptive web API [part I]
Some time ago I spoke on Microsoft user group about subject oriented programming and web services which speaking natural language. Now, when I have some time, I can explain how to build your web front...
View ArticleRecursive delete from IsolatedStorage and other time savers for Windows Phone...
As you, probably, notice, I returned to the consulting field. So I started to publish here again. Today, we’ll speak about some quick extension methods which help me to work with Windows Phone. We’ll...
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