.NET Tips and Tricks

Nothing would describe better the SDLC…

I’m pretty sure all of you know the WebRequest and it’s derived class HttpWebRequest.
And what a marvelous property both of them have – the TimeOut.

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Let’s say you have to parse some HTML, find all images or some other DOM elements make some changes/optimizations and save the result. What can you do ?

Well, i needed something like that a few days ago and after Googling for couple of hours I ran across this this great library called HtmlAgilityPack.

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I just can’t help it and must post this one… It’s hilarious !!!

Episode 1 :

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Another great interview question.

Will the following code compile and if yes what will be the result of it ?
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I suppose all of you have suffered all those terrible memory leaks in Internet Explorer.
Sometimes it’s bearable, but most of the time it’s not. I say enough is enough !

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This one is a great c# interview question – short and simple, but tricky.

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A couple of days ago i found a great framework called AForge.NET.

AForge.NET is a C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence – image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, robotics, etc.

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Sometimes, you’re faced with the problem to cramp as many smaller textures as possible onto a larger texture. Typical cases are lightmaps, which are very small textures with dimensions that usually are not powers of two, or bitmap fonts where you want to try and fit the entire ascii character set onto a texture without wasting much space.

What you need then, is a rectangle packer, an algorithm that arranges as many smaller rectangles on a larger rectangle as can possibly fit.

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