strong-named assembly

strong-named assembly

1. Strong-Named Assemblies – Why and How

In this short post, I will discuss strong-named assemblies in .NET and cover why and how you should use strong naming within your .NET projects.

2. How to Find the Public Key Token for a Strongly-Named Assembly

In another post, we discussed why you should strongly name assemblies and how to do it via the Strong Name Tool (sn.exe). In this quick post we will consider another scenario – how to get the public key token string value of a strongly named assembly (dll).

3. How to: Create a public-private key pair

To sign an assembly with a strong name, you must have a public/private key pair. This public and private cryptographic key pair is used during compilation to create a strong-named assembly. You can create a key pair using the Strong Name tool (Sn.exe). Key pair files usually have an .snk extension.

4. How to: Sign an assembly with a strong name

Although .NET Core supports strong-named assemblies, and all assemblies in the .NET Core library are signed, the majority of third-party assemblies do not need strong names. For more information, see Strong Name Signing on GitHub.

5. Create and use strong-named assemblies

A strong name consists of the assembly's identity—its simple text name, version number, and culture information (if provided)—plus a public key and a digital signature. It is generated from an assembly file using the corresponding private key. (The assembly file contains the assembly manifest, which contains the names and hashes of all the files that make up the assembly.)

6. How to generate strong name key file or which command is used to generated strong name key file?

How to generate strong name key file or which command is used to generated strong name key file?

7. Signing

Assigning an assembly a Strong Name ensures that an assembly is unique at the system level. This is essential if you are deploying shared assemblies in the GAC as two publishers might create an assembly with the same name. Therefore being able to distinguish between the different assemblies is essential. A strong name can be thought of as a combination of the name, version number and a unique public key. Private assemblies do not need to have Strong Names but including one is often a good idea.

8. .NET - How to Sign an Assembly in Visual Studio 2019

Signing an assembly ensures that the consumer knows its origin and uniquely identifies the component. It makes the physical DLL file tamper-proof. This tutorial will step you through signing an assembly with a strong name key (SNK) in .NET. It is straight forward in Visual Studio 2019, but there are some pitfalls to consider. This tutorial will target .NET Standard, but the concept is the same for other target platforms. This tutorial is is backward compatible with some Visual Studio versions.

datagridview clear up

tricks to clear up datagridview

1. DataGridView.Clear()

in debug i see that dataGridVIew1.Rows.Count=0, but on form, grid doesnt become clear. what a point? on each selection in tree, i want to see new rows in table.

Graph Engine / Graphic Engine/Custom Control

Graph Engine

graphic engine

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2. Advanced Shape Control

Advanced Shape Control

3. Ruler Control

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6. A Simple User Control

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7. Writing Your Custom Control: Step by Step

Making a cute button of two semi-transparent user-changeable colors

8. C# Custom User Controls and Events - Part 1

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9. C# User Controls and Events - Part 2

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11. Creating Custom Controls In C#

Well Custom Controls are nothing but just graphics. It is used to improve performance of your created application. Look Visual Studio, you can see MenuStrip different from basic controls in system. It looks better than just simple controls in .NET or any language.

12. Canvas implementation for C#

Design and implementation of canvas in C#

Graphic Engine

13. Age: The Scripted Graphic Item

An introduction to ScriptedItem and ScriptAge for the AGE engine

14. AGE: write your custom Graphic library

How to write a custom GraphicItem library for the AGE engine

15. AGE, Another Graphic Engine in .NET

A library that allows some GDI+ manipulation at runtime in an easy way

Graph Engine

16. High Speed, Feature Rich, and Easy-To-Use Graphs and Charts

High speed graphs and charts that are also very easy to configure and use. As easy as inserting a simple chart in MS Excel!

17. Building a Graph control in 7 easy steps.

This article shows you how to build a simple user control by creating a graph control in 7 easy steps.

18. Graph Library

This article addresses the construction of a simple graph library using C#.

19. WPF: A graph control

A WPF graph control with autoscaling and historical data support.

20. A simple C# library for graph plotting

An easy to use C# library for quick and simple graph plotting.

21. Plotter Control (a-la Task Manager Performance History Graphs)

Plotter Control with Scrolling (.NET 2.0)

22. A Simple Graph Control

A simple control to draw graphs of points as a function of time

23. Graph of Function

The program builds graphs of mathematical functions

24. Autoscaling Graph Control

Learn how to create a graph that can automatically scale itself!

MouseEventArgs and Mouse Wheel

MouseEventArgs

1. Draw with Mouse

An article showing how to draw on screen

2. Detecting Mouse Wheel Movement

The mouse wheel can often provide a handy alternative to slower mouse operations, such as scrolling areas without positioning the cursor within a scroll bar. Many Windows Forms controls have built-in wheel support but custom wheel actions are possible.

3. MouseEventArgs.Delta Property

Gets a signed count of the number of detents the mouse wheel has rotated, multiplied by the WHEEL_DELTA constant. A detent is one notch of the mouse wheel.

4. MouseEventArgs Class

Provides data for the MouseUp, MouseDown, and MouseMove events.

5. MouseEventHandler Delegate

Represents the method that will handle the MouseDown, MouseUp, or MouseMove event of a form, control, or other component.

6. Control.MouseWheel Event

Occurs when the mouse wheel moves while the control has focus.

When handling the MouseWheel event it is important to follow the user interface (UI) standards associated with the mouse wheel. The MouseEventArgs.Delta property value indicates the amount the mouse wheel has been moved. The UI should scroll when the accumulated delta is plus or minus 120. The UI should scroll the number of logical lines returned by the SystemInformation.MouseWheelScrollLines property for every delta value reached. You can also scroll more smoothly in smaller that 120 unit increments, however the ratio should remain constant, that is SystemInformation.MouseWheelScrollLines lines scrolled per 120 delta units of wheel movement.

7. Demonstration of e.Delta Property of MouseWheel

This is a simple demonstration of e.Delta property of MouseWheel event , On scroll Up and Down of Mouse wheel. (MouseEventHandler).

8. How to code these rules for mousewheel up/down to control timed value decrease/increase?

have a value int -can be retrieved as intopacitylevel- that controls opacity of an element on a Form. When I run my application, the value is set to a number of the random range 1 - 255. How could I put the following together as a mousewheel solution in c#?: What I want is, moving the mwheel up or down will constantly change the opacity value to the minimum or maximum value depending on mwheel movement direction by adding/subtracting 1 to the current value every 1ms. This behaviour precisely:

For up direction, stop value increase only when the mwheel was moved to the next spot upwards or when the value is at the maximum 255. For down direction, stop value decrease only when the mwheel was moved to the next spot downwards or when the value is at the minimum 1. This .gif shows the result I want: at this place was a picture in the past

9. #677 – Why the Standard Mouse Wheel Delta is 120

For a standard Microsoft mouse, you’ll notice that the value of the MouseWheelEventArgs.Delta parameter is always either 120 when you turn the mouse wheel forward one click or -120 when you turn the mouse wheel backwards one click. You might wonder why the value of 120 is used, rather than just 1 and -1 values.

10. UIElement.PreviewMouseWheel Event

Occurs when the user rotates the mouse wheel while the mouse pointer is over this element.

11. Mousewheel Delta value always 120

The problem is that the Delta value is always 120, as explained in MSDN. So, even if I turn the wheel 1 notch or 5 notches it will always be 120. Do you know a way around this?

12. C# Mouse Events

Bear in mind that the mouse is hardware and not software. Windows will detect what happens with the mouse and generate events as appropriate. It sends an object of type MouseEventArgs (or in some cases EventArgs, the base class) to each handler as its second argument.

13. Zooming and panning in Windows Forms with fixed focus

How to do zooming and panning in Windows Forms with fixed focus.

14. Improve Zooming with Enhanced Mouse Wheels

How to give your users a better zooming experience with High Resolution Mouse Wheels.

region class

region class

1. Region Constructors

Initializes a new Region.

2. Region Class

Describes the interior of a graphics shape composed of rectangles and paths. This class cannot be inherited.

3. RegionData Class

Encapsulates the data that makes up a Region object. This class cannot be inherited.

5. VB .Net to C# Conversion – RadioButton.CheckedChanged Event Not Firing

In your Winforms application you have a radio button. If the user changes the value, you want to get notified. You will use RadioButton.CheckedChanged event. Your code works fine but here is a problem.

Windows Styles

Windows Styles

very good tricks

Create Graphics from handle

1. Graphics.FromHwnd(IntPtr) Method

Creates a new Graphics from the specified handle to a window.

CreateParams

2. What are the possible values for CreateParams.Style?

So, I've been playing with trying to create an AppBar program I'm making. Now, the program itself is actually quite simple but I had to borrow some code from a CodeProject project to make it an AppBar.

3. Use parameter passed to form constructor in CreateParams in WinForms.NET
4. How to get rid of flicker on Windows Forms applications
5. Flickering in a Windows Forms app
6. How to set minimum Size of Custom Control with "CreateParams"

I am trying to make a draggable, resizable panel with a minimum size. I have used CreateParams for the Resize and now the Minimum size property doesn't work.

7. CreateParams occurs - Window handle exception

I am using CreateParams on my own Tabcontrol to get rid of its flickering meanwhile resizing and loading. It's just an empty class where I implemented CreateParams.

8. Painting the borders of a custom control using WM_NCPAINT

Over the years I've created a number of controls that require borders. Sometimes, I'll draw the borders manually as part of the normal user paint sequence. Other times I'll apply the WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE or WS_BORDER styles and let Windows handle it for me.

trend line

trend

1. Simple trend calculation

Simple linear trend calculation with different types for X values implemented in C#, VB, and F#

rectangle examples and DrawReversibleFrame method

rectangle examples

rectangle

1. A Resizable Graphical Rectangle

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3. Drawing Lines And Rectangles Using the Mouse

Simple program utilizing the mouse to draw lines and rectangles.

4. Extended Graphics - An implementation of Rounded Rectangle in C

An implementation of Rounded Rectangle in C# which could be used to create XP-like buttons and rounded border.

5. Extended Graphics - Rounded rectangles, Font metrics and more for C# 3.0

Adding missing functionality to the Graphics class with the use of Extension Methods in C# 3.0.

6. Using Trigonometry and Pythagoras to WaterMark an Image

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7. Office 2003 Line Control

A GroupBox-like single line similar to that found in Office 2003.

8. Drawing Round-Edged Rectangle Using VB.NET

This code can be used to draw Round Edged Rectangles using VB.NET

9. A thermometer control

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10. Pulse Button

How to create a button that radiates pulses

11. Design WinForms Controls using Photoshop

Use your skills as a designer to create gorgeous control

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13. CircleControl - A Circular Motion Control

A circular motion control

14. Perspective Projection of a Rectangle (Homography)

Short study of the perspective projection of a rectangle in space; homography opposed to bilinear transform

15. Running this C# project - `Resource file "Properties\Resources.resx" cannot be found`

I just downloaded this project and I get the following error 1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: ChromeSample, Configuration: Debug x86 ------ 1>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(2318,5): error MSB3552: Resource file "Properties\Resources.resx" cannot be found. ========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ========== I am using VS2012 - Windows 7 for building it. Any suggestions on how I could fix it. I havent used C# in a long time and need to see if this works immediately.

DrawReversibleDrame function

16. How to highlight a given color in C#

How could I highlight a given color in C#. The user selects an arbitrary color for the objects I'm displaying. When I select the objects I would like to highlight them.

17. System Colors in GDI+

The SystemColors class represents the Windows system colors; it provides 26 read-only properties, each of which returns a Color object. Table 5.1 lists the properties of the SystemColors class.

18. ControlPaint.DrawReversibleFrame(Rectangle, Color, FrameStyle) Method

Draws a reversible frame on the screen within the specified bounds, with the specified background color, and in the specified state.

Good Demos

19. Draw with Mouse

An article showing how to draw on screen

20. A scrollable, zoomable, and scalable picture box

A scrollable, zoomable, and scalable picture box with context menu.

21. Resizable, Moveable & Customizable Borderless Form

An article on customizable user forms

22. Resizable, Moveable & Customizable Borderless Form

An article on customizable user forms

23. Working With Absolute Positions in .NET Graphics

An absolute set of coordinates to simplify graphics in .NET.

24. OpenS-CAD, a simple 2D CAD application

A simple 2D CAD application.

25. Equation Calculator with Graphing

Equation Calculator with Graphing

bitfield

bitfield

Microsoft Site

1. C Bit Fields

In addition to declarators for members of a structure or union, a structure declarator can also be a specified number of bits, called a "bit field." Its length is set off from the declarator for the field name by a colon. A bit field is interpreted as an integral type.

2. Bit-field

Declares a class data member with explicit size, in bits. Adjacent bit-field members may (or may not) be packed to share and straddle the individual bytes.

Example

3. C - Bit Fields

Suppose your C program contains a number of TRUE/FALSE variables grouped in a structure called status, as follows −

4. Bit Fields in C

In C, we can specify size (in bits) of structure and union members. The idea is to use memory efficiently when we know that the value of a field or group of fields will never exceed a limit or is within a small range.

5. What direction does the compiler define bitfields? Is it LSB to MSB or the reverse.

What direction does the compiler define bitfields? Is it LSB to MSB or the reverse.

6. Bit field

A bit field is a data structure that consists of one or more adjacent bits which have been allocated for specific purposes, so that any single bit or group of bits within the structure can be set or inspected.[1][2] A bit field is most commonly used to represent integral types of known, fixed bit-width, such as single-bit Booleans.

7. Storage and Alignment of Structures

Structure members are stored sequentially in the order in which they are declared: the first member has the lowest memory address and the last member the highest.

8. How Endianness Effects Bitfield Packing

Hints for porting drivers. Big endian machines pack bitfields from most significant byte to least. Little endian machines pack bitfields from least significant byte to most.

9. 6.4. Bitfields

While we're on the subject of structures, we might as well look at bitfields. They can only be declared inside a structure or a union, and allow you to specify some very small objects of a given number of bits in length. Their usefulness is limited and they aren't seen in many programs, but we'll deal with them anyway. This example should help to make things clear:

10. Don'ts for bit-fields

Don'ts for bit-fields

11. Bitfield storage in memory

Bit field are structures in c that hold bit fields. A typical definition is:

12. Can I safely assume that Windows installations will always be little-endian?

I'm writing a userspace filesystem driver on Windows and endianness conversions are something I've been dealing with, as this particular filesystem always stores values in little-endian format and the driver is expected to convert them (if necessary) for the CPU it's running on. However, I find myself wondering if I even need to worry about endianness conversions, since as far as I can tell, desktop Windows only supports little-endian architectures (IA32, x86-84, etc.), and therefore, the on-disk little-endian values are perfectly fine sans conversion. Is this observation accurate, and if so, is it generally acceptable to make the assumption that Windows will always be running on little-endian hardware? Additionally, is it even possible (in 2011) to run Windows on a big-endian emulator or something, such that one could even test for endianness issues?

13. Endianness

"Big-endian" and "Little-endian" redirect here. For the conflicting ideologies in Gulliver’s Travels, see Lilliput and Blefuscu § History and politics.