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C# Set method timeout using Generics

July 15th, 2009 Xander 18 comments

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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Javascript pseudo protocol (is EVIL)

July 12th, 2009 Maxim 1 comment

This post is somehow related to my previous post about javascript function context.  Recently I helped one of my friends to debug a very funny problem. He told me that his inline event handler doen’t work, because he could not pass this object to his function.
You probably wonder what did I find? :-)
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C# Rectangle Packing

July 9th, 2009 Xander 2 comments

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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SpeedTrace – .NET Profiler and Tracer

July 9th, 2009 Xander No comments

It is very important to be able to dynamically control the behavior of .NET applications and to keep track of some of the aspects of the application (i.e. how the application is performing, what errors are produced during runtime, how the application performs at peak times, how to dynamically alter the behavior of the application, etc).

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C# The “double” trouble

July 7th, 2009 Xander No comments

This is a very simple question with a not so simple answer…

Forget for a second about .NET.
If someone asks you how much is 1.000025 – 0.000025 your answer will probably be “1″ and correct. An easy question, right ?

Now, let’s go back to .NET and check if our calculations are correct.

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C# string.Empty vs “”

June 29th, 2009 Xander 2 comments

As we know we have two ways to set a variable value to an empty string.
We can just set it to empty quotes “” or set it to string.Empty, but what is the difference and is there one at all ?

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CSS Sprite Generator

June 15th, 2009 Xander 2 comments

CSS sprites group multiple images into one composite image and display them using CSS background positioning.

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