"Whooooo areeeee youuuuu?" No really, who are you and what are you doing on my blog? Oh you are here to read my blog entry on C# serialization to file writing? Fabulous! There may be times where you want to store an object's data from C# to a file for reading later. You can essentially "freeze" the object in time and leave it in a file which later your program ...
In a long standing tradition here on the Programming Underground we are going to add another entry to the definitive series. For those of you who are still relatively new to my blog, the definitive series is a series of blog entries where we take an algorithm and run it through the paces of five different languages: C++/C#/Java/VB.NET/PHP. With the code side by side we can see the similarities as ...
The year is 2056 and governments have fallen. Anarchy reigns across the land and humanity has plunged into eternal darkness. People have turned on one another to survive and the streets are owned by the ruthless warlords with their armies of n00bs. No one is safe from the plaguing questions of "How do I read a textfile in VB.NET?", "Why won't clrscr work?", or even the dreaded "Anyone know why ...
You may have heard of an iterator. You might have even used one and hadn't even known it. Iterators are a common tool in all sorts of languages from C++ and the STL to .NET to java and beyond. When you use an array and loop through it or manipulate its "internal pointer" from subscript 1 to subscript 2 you are manipulating the most basic of iterators. In the later ...
Once in a great while I stumble across a supposedly "professional" article that makes little to no sense. This is usually due to some over evangelical developer who just loves a language. I think it is part of our job as developers to hold back the love and always approach language comparisons with an open mind. In this entry I will talk about an article that gives 10 reasons why ...
Have you ever wanted to watermark your images in a C# application? Write your own little copyright on the photo and prevent those lamahs from actually ripping it off your site and using it for their own dastardly deeds? Ever wonder why I talk with questions and sound like I am an infommercial? Neither do I but after seeing a great question on the boards about watermarking, I thought I ...