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Math Quickie: Adding demo code for Circular and Wavy Text postings

Keeping track of all of this stuff is getting confusing, but Project Distributor is helping out a bit by providing a great tool-box where I can upload my code and samples. I'll try and use it as often as possible, that way people can just jump over and...
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Whidbey CopyFromScreen compatible method for V1.1 operation.

A newsgroup user was using GDI to do some image copying from the screen. Now, just about everyone working with GDI always asks the question of whether or not there is a better alternative in .NET and GDI+. Normally there is, and they just don't know about...
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Feedback on a custom input control and the Rumors .NET feedback system.

I'm starting to get all excited now. Before I go too much into Rumors .NET, the idea isn't entirely mine. During one of my projects working at Microsoft I had some chats with an excellent engineer on the concepts of messaging and rumor systems within...
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Math Installment #4: Bounding Regions

There may already be a few entries on bounding regions that I posted many months ago. At one point I think I described some different types of bounding region scenarios including strict and relaxed fit scenarios. To add some math to this a strict region...

Math Installment #3: A quick look at wavy text

[ Sample Download on Project Distributor ] I previously covered laying out text along a linear path and a circular path. You can view that code here Math Installment #2: I needed some circular oriented text . I'll be referencing the code so you really...
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Math Installment #2: I needed some circular oriented text

[ Sample Download on Project Distributor ] Okay, back with math installment #2... This time I needed some circular oriented text, or rather I needed some path oriented text, but that code is much harder so I'm starting with something a bit easier. There...

Math Installment #1: Image layout logic

Turns out most of the code I write that does deal with math is layout code in order to manage how a number of assets, whether it be controls or graphics, is rendered to the screen. Over the past couple of days the kind of code I have been writing is in...
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Recent Whidbey releases and still no fast GDI+ image loading...

I'm waiting, waiting, waiting, oh wait, it isn't there yet. As the releases go passing by I'm just not seeing the option to disable image data verification. This verification process is a huge detriment to various types of image management applications...
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Watch out for "Power Toys", sometimes you get more than you bargained for.

Okay, so I was checking out the VB PowerToys, and I have to say they are kind of nice. I can always appreciate a free download especially if it saves me some time. However, you don't reinvent the wheel when creating a new component and then append the...
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BlogShares has changed their graphing, but is still using PHP...

BlogShares is a project that I'd love to tackle in switching over to an ASP .NET site. They are racked constantly with visitors, they have some fairly detailed view screens, they are constantly aggregating and changing data, and constantly pulling from...
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