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Virtually every website nowadays follows a God-awful trend in UI that generally replaces hyperlinked text with illustration-heavy art work arranged in a grid layout, making it not easier but HARDER for people to find a specific page. You cannot search for text on the page as it’s all now pictures; and, each page shows less links as …
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As I work to enhance Campy, a C# library for GPU programming I wrote, I’m trying to capitalize on some new code from the NET Foundation Projects. These include LLILC, a MS IL compiler based on LLVM. I want to be able to use some of the APIs in LLVM to perform SSA analysis rather …
If you’ve been working with Cygwin or MinGW, you may want to step over to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to take advantage of building and running tools in that environment. While the goal of Cygwin and MinGW has been to provide a Linux command-line tool set to Windows, it’s too easy to run the wrong tool …
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Honestly, is there any better way to spend a day (or two) on Pi Day (March 14 = “3.14”) than to write some code to compute the value of Pi?!
Years ago, I bought a MacIntosh–the original 128K 68000 Motorola CPU Â box. Like the Apple 2 before that, I upgraded it as best I could, and tried to develop programs for it. But, it was all not easy. And, it was exceedingly expensive–from the computer, to the upgrades, to the software, to the books detailing …
More brain twisters. From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/241134/what-is-the-worst-gotcha-in-c-sharp-or-net, http://www.softwire.com/blog/2012/08/13/dont-be-too-lazy-linqs-lazy-evaluation-gotchas/, and others. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.
There are several Visual Studio extensions for Antlr: Antlr4Code, ANTLR Language Support, Actipro SyntaxEditor for WPF, and Syntax Highlighting Pack. However, each has problems (works on Antlr3, has advertisements, does not offer a “go to definition” right-click context menu command, etc). So, over the last few days, I implemented a simple VS 2015/2017 extension for …
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For those who have free time on their hands, and who would like to work through some brain twisters, here is a list of C# code snippets for your perusal. See https://www.toptal.com/c-sharp/top-10-mistakes-that-c-sharp-programmers-make for more details. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Recently, I was trying to write a Xamarin.Forms app that uses Roslyn, Microsoft’s NET languages compiler framework. But, no matter what I did, it seemed as though it wasn’t possible. But, I tried a few things, and noticed that the Roslyn library could link with Android and iOS applications. That’s when I realized it might …
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Visual Studio “15” Preview 4 was recently released, so I decided to take it for a spin. In the upcoming C# 7.0, of the features being implemented, pattern matching is probably the most interesting. Consider how often we’ve designed code that uses a switch statement with complex cases, but then when we go to implement the design, …