NetCF 3.5’s Finalizer Log
The .NET Compact Framework has had several loggers (error, interop, loader, networking, and security) in previous versions. NetCF 3.5 introduces the finalizer logger, which is useful for performance tuning your…
Platform detection III: How to detect a touch screen on Windows CE in .NET CF
Pocket PC’s have touch screens. Smartphones don’t. While it is straightforward to determine which of these a Windows Mobile device is, there are Windows CE devices that are neither. Some…
Platform detection II: Is your app running on Smartphone or Pocket PC?
While both Smartphones and Pocket PCs are based on Windows Mobile, there are some very important differences for developers who are targeting both platforms. Not the least of which are…
WSE3 and ASP.NET Membership Provider authentication
I am not an expert in WSE3 by anyone’s definition. So when I went looking for a way to add authentication requirements to my web service that tied into the…
Why I’m giving up Ayende’s NHibernate.Generics (for now)
Ayende’s NHibernate.Generics is truly an incredible advance in supporting generic collections with NHibernate, and solving the two-way relationship problem at the same time. I switched all my projects to use…
Generating non-pixelated thumbnail images in .NET
The .NET Framework comes with a large set of image manipulation libraries. Generating thumbnail images becomes very easy. But image pixelation, if it were a feature, is turned on by…
C# Dijkstra’s algorithm implementation
I implemented Dijkstra’s algorithm using C# for a Computer Science course. I implemented it in a generalized way, that still allows for optimization by the consuming code. I release the…
VB.NET web scripting client library goes open source
I’m working on a ward photo directory project, for which I needed a web client scripting library. The idea was to be able to programmatically masquerade as a web browser,…
SPSS .NET wrapper assembly goes open source
I wrote a managed C# wrapper for the spssio32.dll library that comes with SPSS. It exposes most of the functionality of spssio32.dll for .NET use. All the memory management required…
EMAR gets a new name, prepares for LGPL
The EMAR project that I have been working on for about four years is finally getting a (decent) new name. NAssess. This is in preparation for releasing EMAR with the…