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December 2003 - Posts

Delegate Adapter: map any method to a ThreadStart, WaitCallback or TimerCallback

I posted a new sample (hopefully interesting) to GotDotNet.com user samples. It's a class that allows you to map any delegate (and therefore any method) to the ThreadStart, WaitCallback or TimerCallback delegates.  I got the idea from seeing a bunch of Read More
posted Friday, December 19, 2003 5:00 PM by richard | 1 Comments
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C# Arrays: Covariant Arrays

I am reading the annotated CLI standard currently and I recently read an interesting part about how Java influenced the decision to allow covariant arrays in C# / .NET.  The example given was simiar to this: using System; class Program { static Read More
posted Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:30 AM by richard | 2 Comments
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Area man cheats at Vice City with C#

Every once in a while you see a really cool, quirky sample or piece of code: GotDotNet User Sample: Vice City Cheat (Hey there's some practical stuff in there, as well.) Read More
posted Monday, December 15, 2003 6:09 PM by richard | 2 Comments
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NTFS Alternate Data Stream download

Here's my alternate data stream utlity and sample download Read More
posted Friday, December 12, 2003 11:20 AM by richard | 0 Comments
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Use the Caching Application Block to write Alternate Data Streams in NTFS

The Microsoft Caching Application Block contains a useful internal class that can be used to write/read meta-data to file on NTFS files, as I had to do recently.  Part of the app block is the MemoryMappedFileHelper.cs file which contains a ton of P/Invoke Read More
posted Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:34 PM by richard | 0 Comments
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Use an AppDomain to run code (and Replace GC.Collect calls)

Most .NET developers, at some point, get the urge to call GC.Collect() - maybe we just think our app is taking up too much memory (even though we know calling GC.Collect and WaitForPendingFinalizers will not automatically reduce the WorkingSet Read More
posted Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:10 PM by richard | 15 Comments
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The Fellowship of the Blog

“9 blogs were gifted to the race of men, who above all desire Google juice“. 9 Bloggers on Geekdojo.NET  Wow, very nice. Congrats Dojo! Richard Read More
posted Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:22 PM by richard | 2 Comments

What my binary string meant

Okay: take the 'natural log' which is approximately 2.718281828.  Use this code to convert that to binary: Convert.ToString(BitConverter.ToInt64(BitConverter.GetBytes(2.718281828d), 0), 2) Now, what does this mean?  natural log turned into binary. Read More
posted Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:53 AM by richard | 1 Comments
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Complex Adaptive... Gnats?

I was looking through a journal I keep of ideas for a particular project I'm working on and I saw an observation I wrote about while on vacation last year that was particularly relevant at the time, since I was thinking of how to implement my Particle Read More
posted Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:31 AM by richard | 0 Comments
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