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BC’s Software listing
I thought I’d take the oppurtunity to shill mention several pieces of software that I use on a regular basis that I’ve found invaluable for a [...]
Zebra-Striping your Windows Forms ListView
“Zebra-Striping” is the name for a common technique for reports or long lists of items where each row is given a colour distinct from those [...]
Registry Cleaner Experiment: Synopsis
The Registry Cleaner Experiment Registry Cleaners are purported as curing all sorts of computer problems. People swear by them; people adamantly defend [...]
Analysis: Advanced SystemCare Free
I’ll be honest. I hate most tune-up utilities. As far as my experience is concerned, they are designed for no other purpose than to separate people [...]
News Flash: 3-D Programming is hard
Recently I took the plunge and dove whole-heartedly into the complex world of 3-D. My only foray into 3-D Programming was with an unreleased Graphing Tool [...]
Emulating the VB.NET Like Operator in C#
C# is a very powerful language; it provides a copious number of language features. Even so, Visual Basic often excels when it comes to certain capabilities [...]
Asynchronous, Queue-based File Iterators
Embarassingly, I have come back to the FileIterator for other reasons only to discover, much to my horror, that it doesn’t work! It seems as if the [...]
Why is it called Windows 8.1, and not Windows 8 SP1?
I’ve seen this question a few times. With Microsoft’s pending release of A preview version of Windows 8.1 today/tomorrow (June 26th in [...]
Iterator Methods and System.IO
One of the more interesting omissions from .NET so far has been that the System.IO namespace has not been updated to take advantage of new Language and CLR [...]
DeletionHelper: Queue Files for deletion when your app exits.
Sometimes you need to create temporary files. Usually, you can discard those temporary files by opening them in a fashion so they are deleted when they are [...]