Category Archives: .Net
Cedric’s Coding challenge
I noticed Cedric’s Coding challenge while reading Robert Fisher’s blog. Here is an interesting coding challenge: write a counter function that counts from 1 to max but only returns numbers whose digits don’t repeat. For example, part of the output … Continue reading
Finding reference .dll’s
I am currently upgrading our build process from .bat files to CruiseControl.Net projects. Mostly C++ projects but a few VB and one C#. The C# project has a reference to NUnit.Framework.dll, and every thing worked well on the developer machines … Continue reading
Missed the Summer Road Trip
I was planning to attend the 2008 Summer Road Trip today, but the work meeting I was just in overran. The presentation has started, I’d have to find parking in town, and it’s raining. So I’ll miss becoming edu-mi-cated about … Continue reading
WPF: Making a Expander look like a GroupBox
This may be long, but at the end of the post, you should be able to change the look of any WPF control. I have a Win32/WFC application that I’m porting to .Net/WPF. It is a simulator, so has lots … Continue reading
Pascal 6-byte real to IEEE 8-byte double
A while ago I mentioned that System.BitConverter.Int64BitsToDouble would be useful for converting Pascal 6-byte real’s to IEEE 8-byte double’s. Here is my C# .Net code to do just that. My original code was based on Richard Biffl’s BPREAL.C. My original … Continue reading
