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Book Review: The Ray Tracer Challenge

A review of the book "The Ray Tracer Challenge", by Jamis Buck.

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Error VSP1048 when trying to instrument assembly created using Visual Studio 2019

A brief note on assemblies compiled with Visual Studio 2019 and their compatibility with older Visual Studio tooling.

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Creating a custom type converter part 3: Types to string

How to use a TypeConverter to provide editing of immutable structs that are properties of containing objects via a PropertyGrid.

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Setting tab stops in a Windows Forms TextBox control

The Windows Forms `TextBox` control doesn't offer an out of the box method for setting tabstops within the control, this article describes how to achieve this via p/invoke.

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Changes to CrashPlan for Small Business that may affect developer backups

A note on changes that Code42 on enforcing on users of their CrashPlan for Small Business service

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Creating an ndrules file for use with NDepend

A quick article on configuring NDepend projects to use external rule files.

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Migrating from Azure translation API version 2 to 3

Almost two years ago I wrote a post describing how to translate text using Azure cognitive services, however the API it uses is to be switched off and so I needed to migrate from the version 2 API to version 3. This post describes how I migrated my existing `TranslationClient` class.

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Handling the orientation EXIF tag in images using C#

A brief article on Exif orientation attributes and how to handle them in your .NET applications.

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Frustrations of third party software

No detailed blog post, just a screenshot that neatly echo's my ongoing frustration with Resharper

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New option in Visual Studio 2019 keeps console window open after debugging

A brief note on a small change made to Visual Studio 2019 that may be helpful for debugging .NET Core console applications.

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Reading cookies from Internet Explorer

A quick article on pulling cookies from Internet Explorer or the WebBrowser control, useful for if you want to make custom HTTP requests reusing cookies from existing sessions

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Using message filters in Windows Forms applications

An overview of how to use the `IMessageFilter` interface to intercept Windows Messages within your application.

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