If you’re like me, you may once in a while have something to write about that isn’t necessarily related to your overall blog topic. Take me for example. My blog is mainly about internet and application development (programming) however sometimes I find a really cool tip or trick that isn’t necessarily related, such as a [...]
“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 [...]
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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