I’m finally back home after a crazy and wonderful week visiting MIX10 in Las Vegas. It was a great conference and I really had a good time watching the sessions and meeting people. I got the chance to talk to Brad Abrams, Nikhil Khotari and Colin Blair about WCF RIA Services, chatted with the devs [...]
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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