First Blog Post
Howdy, Since everyone seems to be doing it 1, I decided to start my own blog to write about my day to day experiences with web development and programming. 1. yes, I realize that I’m starting way too...
View ArticleHow does SharpSpell work?
Many people are wondering how SharpSpell is able to provide wavy underline spell checking for regular HTML TEXTAREA elements. Other competitors replace TEXTAREAs with editable IFRAMEs to provide the...
View ArticleGenerating a transparent GIF image using C#
Problem: There is apparently no easy way to generate a transparent GIF image using the .NET framework. Microsoft provided a method in the Bitmap class called MakeTransparent() but it doesn’t work for...
View ArticleGreen Marinee Wide WordPress Theme
While looking around trying to find a theme for this blog I came across the great Green Marinee Theme theme by Ian Main . The theme has one flaw: While I’m pretty sure that back in 2005 screen...
View ArticleGoogle Web Toolkit and ASP.NET?
Now that Google’s Web Toolkit is out of beta, I’m looking at ways of integrating it somehow with C# and ASP.NET. First of all, if you don’t know what Google Web Toolkit is, here’s a quickie: it is a...
View ArticleCalling a Windows Service from ASP.NET via Remoting & IpcChannel
I recently had to design a Windows Service that connects to several game servers via UDP, gathers stats, and then updates a MSSQL database. These stats were then made available in real-time on a...
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Owner-drawing a Windows.Forms TextBox
This article describes how SharpSpell is able to modify existing TextBox controls to display wavy red underlines below misspelled words. Here’s an image to demonstrate what I mean: (This image is...
View ArticleHow to auto zoom and auto center Google Maps
This post discusses how to auto center and auto zoom a Google Map to display all of the markers optimally. In order to get accomplish this, you have to calculate the center point and zoom level...
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Automatically adding ValidatorCalloutExtenders to your validators
I recently had to work on a pretty big ASP.NET page with lots of fields that needed to be validated. We thought it would be cool if we used the AJAX Toolkit ValidatorCalloutExtender control on the...
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