Using DrawingBrush to handle transparent backgrounds
With images it is sometimes difficult to see the difference between a white and transparent background. Using a DrawingBush in Tile mode can create the known checker background used in applications as Photoshop.
<DrawingBrush> <DrawingBrush.Drawing>...WPF Image Buttons
For my Resizer application I wanted a toolbar with image buttons, everything was perfect until I tried to disable the buttons. The first idea was to add a greyscale effect to the button if it was disabled. For a...
Updated Getting Started for Vidyano 2.0
We have updated the Getting Started tutorial and placed it on our Wiki.
Resizing images with WPF 4.0
Microsoft changed the default behaviour for scaling images with WPF 4.0/.NET 4.0.
They opted for a faster but less accurate scaling algorithm named Linear instead of the default Fant that was used in WPF 3.0.
You can change this...
Resizer
I’ve been working on a little project to demo the features of Vidyano.
It’s used internally to generate the thumbnails for our Wiki. The source code is available...
iRail.be is back online
iRail.be is a website to find train information here in Belgium, it scraped the original complicated website of the NMBS and provided a clean/simple interface to access the information.
More info on the blogpost.
Vidyano 2.0 released
I’m proud to announce that our team has finished our next major version of Vidyano.
Build from scratch to optimize everything for the latest .NET 4.0 release and using all latest features of it (MEF, Rx, …).
The...
.NET 4.0
Some updated download links for the latest .NET version:
Rails dynamic finders for .NET 4.0
Ruby on Rails allows you to use ‘dynamic’ finders to query the database. This is actually a feature from ActiveRecord to dynamicly use methods which will represent where clauses on the database.
Some examples:
User.find(:first, :conditions => ["name...
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