Richard McCutchen | June 29, 2010
Recently on Dream.In.Code there was a discussion on people stealing code in school, and I thought it would be a good thing to discuss here. There’s a new generation of coders coming into the industry, what has been coined the Copy & Paste Programmer (good writeup on this here as well). These are the people [...]
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Richard McCutchen | June 28, 2010
In yesterday’s entry we looked at using the System.IO.Compression Namespace for compressing & decompressing files in C#. As mentioned the major drawback of this is that GZip contains no header information so unless you want to take the time to write your own file format to track what’s in your article (can be very time [...]
Category: C#, SharpZipLib, Software Development |
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Tags: C# 4.0, SharpZipLib
Richard McCutchen | June 28, 2010
I received notification from Microsoft today that I have been added to the Microsoft Partner Network as a Certified Partner. Now that I’m in the network I’m going to be working on getting my Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft MVP. I know short entry, but more programming stuff coming later, I just wanted to share [...]
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Richard McCutchen | June 26, 2010
Recently on Dream.In.Code, the best programming community on the internet by the way, there have been many questions on zipping & unzipping files and folders in C#, so I thought that would be a good topic for today’s discussion. When it comes to performing tasks like this you have several options are your disposal. .Net [...]
Category: C# |
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Tags: C#, System.IO.Compression
Richard McCutchen | June 25, 2010
Not too long ago someone asked how they would go about compressing an image from ASP.NET, and I found this to be an interesting (and intriguing topic). So much so that I spent some time playing (and researching) to see what kind of solution I could come up with, so let’s talk about that: First [...]
Category: ASP.NET, C# |
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Tags: ASP.NET, C#, Image compression, System.Drawing