About code. Mostly on C++
Throughout January I have published on codeguru.com a series of articles about developing Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7. Here is the list of articles: Windows Phone 7 Quick Tutorials: Part 1 – Hello World Windows Phone 7 Quick Tutorials: Part 2 – The Application Bar Windows Phone 7 Quick Tutorials: Part 3 – Page … Read more
I’m using Red Gate’s .NET Reflector for decompiling .NET assemblies. It’s a great tool but it lacks, at least in the free version I’m using, information about the platform architecture of an assembly. Sometimes I want to know whether an assembly was built for Any CPU, x86 or x64. The tool that help you find … Read more
Alchemy 1.3 is the latest update of Alchemy for Windows that brings 50 new exciting elements (taking the total to 350) and new features such as hints. The new elements in this release are focused on games; they include games such as Starcraft, Warcraft, Need For Speed, Tomb Rider, Resident Evil, characters such as Mario, … Read more
I have played recently a great game on Android, called Alchemy, created by Andrey Zaikin. You start with four basic elements, Fire, Water, Air and Earth and you can combine them to get more and more elements. The game was so catching that after finishing it I decided to write my own version for Windows. … Read more
For those that attended my last evening presentation about F# at Ronua Roadshow in Timisoara (but not only), here is the demo I’ve shown, and one that I planned to show but didn’t due to lack of time. The purpose of these demos was to shown simple Windows Forms applications written in F#. Mandelbrot Fractal … Read more
In the book The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins explains how evolution happens through accumulated small random variations (or mutations) filtered by the natural selection, as opposed to the mainstream misinterpretation that evolution happens in big leaps. He proposes a computer program, called weasel, to demonstrate how the accumulated small improvements (mutations that bring a benefit … Read more
I recently found a piece of code that can be summarized by the following sample: interface I { void F1(); void F2(); } class X { public void F2() { Console.WriteLine(“F2”); } } class A : X, I { public void F1() { Console.WriteLine(“F1”); } } As you can see there is an interface I … Read more
In this post I want to show how you can implement common list operations: union, intersection, difference and concatenation. Concatenation is the simplest of them all, because type List already has a function call append that does everything for you. let concat left right = List.append left right The union of two lists is a … Read more
.NET provides two classes for image transformations: Matrix, used for geometric transformations, and ColorMatrix, used for color transformations. One of such color transformations is inverting or negating. This means subtracting each color component from 255. Black (0,0,0) becomes White (255, 255, 255), and Green (0, 255, 0) becomes Magenta (255, 0, 255). You can find … Read more
If you are still using Visual Studio 2005 and need to develop WCF services you need the following: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package (SP2) The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for.NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP 3 The problem with the later is that Microsoft no longer supports it. Visual Studio 2008 … Read more