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Category Archives: miscellany
Useful tools and links
This page lists some useful tools and links that I visit regularly. If you want to recommend others, please post them in the comments. Tools Programming Sites Forums Tools @icon sushi Image to icon converter that supports the mask editor … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, links, miscellany, tools, utilities, Windows Forms programming
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Why Twitter recently wanted you to change your password
A few days ago, Twitter asked all of its users to change their passwords. The reason they did that was that they found a bug in their system that made an internal log file store passwords in an unencrypted form. … Continue reading
Posted in cryptography, internet, miscellany
Tagged C#, C# programming, cryprography, encryption, example, example program, internet, miscellany, password manager, passwords, Twitter, Windows Forms programming
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Disable the charms gesture in Windows 8 (and learn a bit about user interface design)
I still really like my new laptop (see my post Quick review of a new laptop), but one thing I really hate about Windows 8 is the way the charms bar kept popping up at seemingly random times. I would … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, charms, charms gesture, example, example program, gesture, miscellany, user interface, Windows, Windows 8, Windows Forms programming
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Make a Shakespeare insult generator in C#
This example shows how to build a Shakespeare insult generator by selecting one word from each of three arrays and combining the results. The following code shows the arrays (with many values omitted to save space). // The insult pieces … Continue reading
The most popular posts at C# Helper over the last 12 months
Just for fun, here’s a list of the C# Helper web site’s most popular posts over the last 12 months. This isn’t “fair” to the most recent posts because they haven’t been posted for as long. I still think it’s … Continue reading
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Copy a directory hierarchy into the executable directory in C#
The example Copy files into the executable directory in C# explains how to make Visual Studio copy a file into the executable directory when it builds a project. That makes it easy for the executable to find the file when … Continue reading
How to use the examples at C# Helper
First, read over the text and the code shown on the web page. If you only need a small piece of code, that may be all you need. For example, if you don’t remember how to draw lines with custom … Continue reading
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