Last year I started using Rake for my .NET build scripts and it has been a quite pleasant experience that I wanted to share with you. “Hmmm, isn’t Rake one of those scary Ruby tools from the other side of the fence?” you might ask. Yes, indeed, it is a Ruby tool! Many good things [...]
If you’ve used the System.Uri class in .NET you may have stumbled upon the need to extract the base part of the URL and found no obvious solution. You know, you have a URL that looks like this: http://www.mydomain.com/somepath/somepage.aspx?param=x And you want to get only this part: http://www.mydomain.com If you put the long URL in [...]
Recently I wanted to show shell icons in a custom control on a Windows form. The custom control only supported bitmaps so I needed to convert the icons into bitmaps. This is quite easy in .NET since there is a nice Bitmap.FromHIcon() method. The problem is that when you use this method the icon transparency [...]
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