Wes' Puzzling Blog

TinyUrl is a service that allows you to turn those huge wrapping urls like this:

I'm been trying to find the best completely online email client such as oddPost and fastmail.  I like oddPost's GUI but it doesn't have all the features, I like fastmail's features but it doesn't have a very good GUI.  Does anyone else use a completely browser based email client online that has a nice GUI and has a nice set of feature, especially the ability to check other pop/imap accounts?

Article about the release of Windows .NET Server http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/2171601, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/mar03/03-28WNS2003RTMPR.asp

Today I had a need to display a counter on a Console application and I was trying to think of a way to over write the existing number with the new number in the console window, using C#.  So after thinking about it for a minute it came to me, just write backspace characters.  Well anyways just incase anyone would ever need this here is a simple example: 

FREE .NET webhosting for ASP.NET at .net playground it is not a commerical hosting site but it is good for testing asp.net web applications.

I stumbled upon this pretty cool online news reader a while ago and I just happened to stumble upon it again and I figured that I would pass it along.  NiftyPortal

I just learned that CodeProject has a web service that will allow you to get the lastest article headlines http://www.codeproject.com/webservices/latest.asmx.  I once tried to see if they had an RSS feed but I never found one.  I guess someone could very easily use the webservice and create an RSS feed from it.

Thanks to Yves and Peter for the advise I utilized your advise to create a new version my embedded Image example. I did switch to an ashx file, I didn't even know about this file type until now. I'm no longer passing in the assembly as a parameter but I didn't want to put the assembly in the config file either, so I figured that I would just test for the image by the passed in name in all the assemblies loaded into that AppDomain. There shouldn't be to many right? But you do have to make sure that embedded image has a unique name, that shouldn't be to hard though because you can prefix it by your namespace.

<% @ webhandler language="C#" class="ImageHandler" %> 

public class ImageHandler : System.Web.IHttpHandler 
{ 
  public void ProcessRequest(System.Web.HttpContext context) 
  { 
    string image = string.Empty;
    System.IO.Stream stream = null;
      
    try
    {
      context.Response.Clear();

      // Get Image Name from request
      image = context.Request["img"].Replace("/", ".");   
  
      // Find image in loaded assemblies
      foreach(System.Reflection.Assembly asm in System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies())
      {
        stream = asm.GetManifestResourceStream(image);
        if(stream != null)
          break;
      }
      
      // Throw exception if image is not found
      if(stream == null)
        throw new System.Exception("Image not found in loaded assemblies");
            
      // Create an Image object from the stream
      System.Drawing.Image img = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(stream);
      
      // Save the Image stream to the output stream
      img.Save(context.Response.OutputStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);
    }
    catch(System.Exception ex)
    {
      context.Response.Write("Exception: <BR>image = " + image + "<BR>" +
        ex.Message + "<BR>" + ex.StackTrace.Replace("\n", "<BR>"));  
    }
    finally
    {     
      context.Response.End(); 
    }; 
  } 
   
  public bool IsReusable 
  { 
    get { return true; } 
  } 
}