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Alpha-Blended Forms revisited
Previously I wrote about implementing a Alpha-blended form with VB.NET. In that implementation, I had an abstract class derive from Form and then the [...]
Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Long Path Names
I wrote previously, where I found that the Group Policy added to the insider build of Windows 10 did not have any observable effect. This is merely a quick [...]
The Long Saga of Long Path Names
Edit: 06/17/2016: I’ve gotten a few comments that for some reason mention “Long Path Tool”. I’m not clear why that is the case. Any [...]
Finding All the Data (Doom “WAD” File Format)
Occasionally, I like to fire up gzDoom and play through some of the old Doom and Doom II Games and megawads. I use a Random Level generator, Obhack, which [...]
Cue Banners In Windows Forms
Textboxes have been around since the invention of the GUI with the Xerox Star Workstation, and even before that in the form of text-based applications such [...]
Adding “Product Key” Validation
Many types of software use Product Keys in order to prevent casual piracy. This is a fairly straightforward method of at least curbing it. It doesn’t [...]
A Gotcha with IDisposable and Enumerator methods
I recently stumbled upon an interesting quirk related to handling classes implementing IDisposable within Enumerator methods. In my particular case, I had [...]
GDI+ DrawImage Performance
Just thought I would make a quick post on this. I’ve been tweaking BASeBlock a bit to try to get it to allow for a larger window size, since [...]
Technical Debt
When designing and implementing software, one can always imagine more complete abstractions, supported features, and the like. Technical debt is [...]
Adding buttons to a Windows Forms ListView
A Demo Project covering the content of this post can be downloaded Here. Sometimes, a standard Windows.Forms.ListView just doesn’t cut it. Sometimes [...]