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Display a colored battery status in C#

Posted on July 28, 2021 by RodStephens

This is a minor update to the example Display battery status in a friendly way in C#. That example periodically checks the battery’s charge. It then draws textual and graphical indicators of the charge and plugged/unplugged status. That example was … Continue reading →

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How to tabulate ranked voting in C#

Posted on June 24, 2021 by RodStephens

New York City’s recent election used a ranked voting ballot. This example shows how you might find the winner in a ranked voting election. What Is Ranked Voting? In ranked voting (aka ranked-choice voting or preferential voting), each voter ranks … Continue reading →

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Select rectangular areas in an image in WPF and C#

Posted on June 13, 2021 by RodStephens

This is another fine example of WPF’s unofficial slogan: Twice as flexible and only five times as hard. Practically everything about this example is harder than it is in Windows forms: drawing the rectangle, selecting the area, saving the results … Continue reading →

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Use VBA code to add and remove a watermark on all pages in a Word document

Posted on March 10, 2021 by RodStephens

This post shows one way that you can add and remove a watermark in a Word document. To add a watermark in this way, you add a “building block” to the header of each of the document’s sections. If headers … Continue reading →

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Graph the gamma function in C#

Posted on March 5, 2021 by RodStephens

The post Calculate the gamma function in C# uses numerical integration to calculate the gamma function. (See my book Essential Algorithms, Second Edition for information on numerical integration.) That method works fairly well for calculating Γ(x) where x ≤ 1. … Continue reading →

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Calculate the gamma function in C#

Posted on February 28, 2021 by RodStephens

The gamma function, represented by the capital Greek letter gamma Γ, was derived by Daniel Bernoulli for complex numbers with a positive real part. The interesting thing about the gamma function is that &Gamma(n + 1) = n! for integers … Continue reading →

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Find rectangles defined by a side and aspect ratio in C#

Posted on February 23, 2021 by RodStephens

You probably haven’t needed to make your program draw rectangles that are defined by specifying one of its sides. I haven’t either, but I want this for another program that I plan to write. Of course a single side isn’t … Continue reading →

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Zip files with the ZipFile class in C#

Posted on February 12, 2021 by RodStephens

The static ZipFile class is relatively new (.NET Framework 4.5 and later), so this example uses Visual Studio 2019. The following section explains how to load the ZipFile class in a Visual Studio 2019 project. The rest of this post … Continue reading →

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Simulate a doubling betting strategy in C#

Posted on February 5, 2021 by RodStephens

Casinos love customers who have a betting strategy because those customers always end up losing. As long as the game’s events are independent of each other (for example, one roll of the dice does not depend on the previous rolls), … Continue reading →

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Book Drawing: C++ All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

Posted on February 3, 2021 by RodStephens

John Mueller has kindly donated five copies of his book C++ All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition for me to give away. The only catch is that you should post a review on Amazon when you’ve had a chance to look … Continue reading →

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