Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
This code will check through a list of installed Windows Services for a specific service name in C# (returns boolean). The function allows you to pass a service name as a string and the function will check the Windows Service list for that name. It will also look for partial service names in case you [...]
Some of you .NET programmers may some day find some sample code written in Visual Basic, or C#, but need it in another .NET language. SharpDevelop, a free .NET IDE, has a tool built in that will convert C# into Visual Basic and Python, or Visual Basic into C#, Python and any variation. This video [...]
“RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it’s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the “recent changes” page of a [...]
Radlib is a C language library developed to abstract details of interprocess communications and common Linux/Unix system facilities so that application developers can concentrate on application solutions. It encourages developers to use a proven paradigm of event-driven, asynchronous design.
Simple Sockets is a cross platform socket library. It is different from other socket libraries which mix the application protocol and transport protocol layer (i.e. TCP sockets, UDP sockets, HTTP sockets, etc). This library focuses specifically on the transport protocols. Its features include blocking/non-blocking sockets, polling, thread safety, and signal safety.
This example [...]
For those of you that deal with bytes on a protocol level, I’ve discovered an easy solution for dealing with those endian issues. Some of you may know that when dumping data directly from memory as byte[] arrays will give you different results depending on the source’s computer architecture. As an example, a Motorola ColdFire [...]
If you’re looking for RSS support in your .NET application head over to RSSdotnet.com and download the latest RSS.NET library. They provide all the source code and API documents you need to add RSS into your program. I haven’t thoroughly reviewed the code but it does work pretty code and seems stable. I’m currently using [...]
Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
Read More »Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]
Read More »This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]
Read More »Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]
Read More »This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
Read More »The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
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