Defeating Antivirus System Pro
Antivirus System Pro is an irksome piece of malware that holds your computer hostage until you pay a ransom. It is nothing short of extortion. I just spent a few evenings removing it from a friend's computer, and the dozens of articles on the web (and even YouTube videos) were …
Transparent WinForms Label
Easy control transparency isn't exactly a hallmark of Windows Forms. If you have a form with a background image or a gradient, the stock controls paint with a solid background to give a criminally egregious aesthetic.
If you search the web for a solution, you might come up with a …
Rounded Rectangluar Regions
There are lots of examples that demonstrate how to draw a rectangle with rounded corners using GDI+ in .NET. Converting such a rectangle to a Region so that it can be filled or be used for the geometry of a window can have less than perfect results, though.
For example …
Photo Drag 'n Shrink - Quick photo resizer for Windows
Photo Drag 'n Shrink makes it easy to resize images so that they take up less space and can be transferred quicker.
DragShrink.exe
Version 1.0
11 Nov 2009
Around 49 KB
This application depends on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, which can be obtained through Windows …
Self-Referential Segues
If you say "segue" while attempting one, you've already blown it.
Silverlight Localization
The official Silverlight documentation about localization gives lots of information about working with resource files, but it is kind of scant on how to actually get localized strings to show up in the UI in a reasonable way. For example, an unreasonable way would be to set the text/content …
Unit Testing Silverlight View Models
Being relatively new to Silverlight development, I've not had the good sense to accept conventional wisdom that the Visual Studio unit test framework can't be used to test Silverlight code. For testing view models at least, I've been successfully using Mstest and Rhino Mocks for a few months now.
One …
Cell Phone Service for the Non-Garrulous
I'm a man of few words. Well, vocally anyway. My wife has teased that I must have a fixed daily allotment of spoken words, and on evenings when I'm particularly quiet, I must have used them up already. I'm not sure if she buys the "still waters run deep" explanation …
The Best of PDC 2008
For those of us poor folk who didn't make it to PDC this past fall, Microsoft has been taking the show to us in the form of its MSDN Unleashed series. Rob Bagby, developer evangelist, came to Salt Lake City to present and give updates about new and upcoming technologies …
A Billion Mice
On December 3, 2008, Logitech (my employer) announced that it had shipped its billionth mouse. While I didn't contribute much to that as an employee (I work in a non-mouse division), I have helped as a consumer: I think I personally own four Logitech mice.
As part of the company …