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- Installing and debugging a .NET service built in Visual Studio 2008 by Bell End on Aug 28, 2009
There seem to be several tutorials on the web on how to create a Windows service using .NET in Visual Studio 2005 and before but I was unable to find one for Visual Studio 2008, so thought I’d write my own since I got tripped up a couple of times w...
- More on string.Concat vs the + operator in C# by Bell End on Jul 9, 2009
A post of mine from 3 years ago about the performance differences between using string.Concat and the string class’s + operator got its first comment yesterday so I thought I’d flesh out what I said there to clarify what happens. First, here’s...
- Improving the Local Search .NET call by Bell End on Jun 30, 2009
Following on from my post about using Google Local Search from C#, I thought I’d try to improve it. Deserializing the JSON data ended up with some ugly typecasts and manipulation of Dictionarys. The first thing to notice is that the JavaScriptSeria...
- Local Search web service by Bell End on Jun 29, 2009
All these cool pieces of AJAX code are great but what if you want to use them from some server-side code? Local Search doesn’t provide any kind of web service API as far as I’m aware, but all AJAX calls eventually have to resolve down to simple H...
- Postcode geocoding in ASP.NET with live update by Bell End on Jun 24, 2009
I put up an example of postcode geocoding using the Google Local Search AJAX API and somebody asked if it was possible to populate an ASP.NET GridView with the data in real-time. So since I currently have some spare time, I thought I’d give it a go...
- Day 11 – where I wonder how List<T> is implemented by Bell End on Jun 23, 2009
Just over 5 years ago I had an interview at APT and after a mammoth interview (the longest I’ve ever experienced) the interviewer told me he thought I’d done well but he was a little disappointed that I didn’t know how the TList class in Delphi...
- Saving a control’s image to a file by Bell End on May 28, 2009
Saving a WinForms control’s image to a file, should be pretty straightforward. After all, there is a DrawToBitmap method that should do the trick, right? Well, not quite. Unfortunately DrawToBitmap draws the controls in reverse order, i.e. the top...
