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The future of Windows Interfaces is probably the Zune-like ones, with a borderless form and some controls inside of it. The problem is: if you're using WindowsForm, creating that borderless form with shadows and resizing stuff's aren't as easy as it seems. This arcticle will show you how to create those forms using a bit of DWM and some oth
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I went looking for a class to do printing from a DataGridView, and none of them did all that I was looking for. I needed to print all pages, some pages, or the current selection; and I needed to not have objects, controls, or code from the printer object sprinkled through the rest of my code - i.e., it needed to be complet
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Introduction
I had the idea to design something in Expression Design that would spawn into a WPF project to simulate a 'super-fast', four wheeled (three in this case), sleek machine, and later WPF Speedster was born. The nice looking vehicle you see in the screenshot above functions more as a dragster and I shoul
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Hi everyone!
Again this article is the fruit of a need I had. I've been searching for a couple of days how to show social networks' updates (from twitter, youtube, facebook...) and after getting a terrible headache, I decided to do it myself. And I want to share how I did it.
Background
The truth is that all this Social Networks have APIs that allow developers to integrate our app
Introduction
FIR stands for Finite Impulse Response.
In the analogue world, if you wished to filter a signal, you would use capacitors, resistors and inductors wired together to create the filter of your choice. In the digital world, you can still apply a filter to a sampled signal being received by a method of multiplying the samples by as series of coefficients and summing to create a new (fi
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If you do a lot of manual input on database applications you probably appreciate the autocomplete function of combo boxes. As opposed to the standard first-letter response of the default windows combo box control, there is a myriad of combo box implementations out there. You can find some very impressive yet free implementations, ranging from plain JavaScript to AJAX controls; checkb
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In the context of .NET applications, settings are data that are not the main input or output of a program, but are nonetheless necessary for the program to function. Like business data, settings can change. An example of a setting is a folder path or a Web Service URI. Settings are often stored in application configuration files (app.config or web.config) to
Why do you need BindingHub?
Before diving into concrete use cases and implementation details, let’s see what is missing in the current WPF implementation.
WPF is supposed to be declarative programming, so all code must go into CodeBehind / ViewModel. Unfortunately, any non-trivial ViewModel quickly becomes Spaghetti with Meatballs (see Wikipedia if you don’t know what that means), littered with
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One of the features I wanted to add to Synergy toolkit was the
ability to quickly create custom theme windows with all the features of a
standard windows. In this article I am demonstrating how to create a custom
window theme visually using declarative XAML and apply it to windows in your
applications.
You can download Synergy SDK with full source code here. You may also wa
The static code analysis method is the method of searching for places in program text that are highly probable to contain errors. Programmers use special tools called static code analyzers for this purpose. Having got a list of suspicious code lines, a programmer reviews the corresponding code and fixes errors detected.
Static code analysis is used most often for controlling the quality of a proj
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Introduction
Window docking is a familiar functionality in multi-windows
applications. As a user interface developer this behavior has always charmed me
and so I thought of developing the same functionality in my own WPF toolkit. I
know there are many implementations of similar solutions out there, some even
open source, but my aim was to take this personal proj
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Overview The purpose of this tutorial is to discuss in detail how to create a NuSOAP/PHP/SOAP web service using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. This tutorial is ideal for beginners and experts alike.I wrote an article some time ago discussing how the development of SOAP/PHP web services using NuSOAP. This was a very general t
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This app started as a (very) quick and dirty port of Luc Pattyn's CPVanity app to the Windows Phone 7 platform. Once that was done it just seemed lacking a Rss reader of codeproject articles and forums. Why? Because if we don't have one already we definitely need one!
Background
To do the po
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Introduction If you are reading this article, you may already have gone through the demonstration of MyCache in the following article: MyCache : Distributed caching engine for Asp.net web farm. Part I : The Demonstration. Well,
if not, you are suggested to go through the above article to have a
look at the usage, capability and high level ar
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Introduction
Using C# code and Aforge library, we can easily detect and extract the pupil from an eye image.
Algorithm
Step 1 - First take the eye image.
Step 2 - Make it invert.
Step 3 - Convert it to gray scale.
Step 4 - Use binary filter taking threshold value 220.
Step 5 - Find the biggest object.
Step 6 - Find that objects center point and height.
Step
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Wikipedia defines an immutable object as "an object whose state cannot be modified after it is created". The most wildly used immutable object is certainly the String object: I think it's also the most wildly used object in general. Immutable objects are usefull when thread safety is a concern and/or when an instance of an object must be accces
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This article describes a simple method to resize a control at runtime. It includes ready-to-use source code and a complete sample demonstration application. We'll also talk about C# Extension Methods.
Introduction
In one of my applications I needed a control that could be resizable at run time. Just like the canvas in M
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Introduction
Information security on PC becomes more and more popular, so I want to cover some issues of this topic – in particular, the using of ciphers to prevent data stealing from a physically removed hard disk.
Cipher is the sequence of steps to transform original text (plain text) to cipher text, which completely can’t be read by unauthor
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Table of Contents
Introduction
System Requirements
The Interlagos Circuit
Visible Part Of The Circuit
Track Layers
The Race Car
The Starting Grid
PerformingCurves
Spotting Positions
Stats Panel
Finishing The Race
Final Considerations
History
Introduction
Making a racing game was