Tools we use - 2017 edition
The usual round up of the different software tools used by Cyotek over the past year.
Cyotek Development Blog
Reading and writing 18-bit RGB VGA Palette (pal) files with C#
18-bit RGB palettes are an old format used by VGA displays of yesteryear. These palettes use 6-bits for each of the red, green and blue channels and usually allowed a maximum of 256 colours from the 262,144 unique colours available. This article describes how to read and write 18-bit palette files.
Richard Moss
Redirecting to HTTPS when using IIS behind a load balancer
A short article on using IIS URL rewriting to force insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS when behind a load balancer that is configured to terminate the secure connection, including support for excluding LetsEncrypt challenge requests.
Richard Moss
Installing the URL Rewrite module into Internet Information Services
A short article on installing the optional URL Rewrite module into Internet Information services.
Richard Moss
Upload data to blob storage with Azure Functions
How to store data sent to an Azure Function in blob storage.
Richard Moss
Arranging items radially around a central point using C#
Recently I was looking for a way of display hierarchical information in a more compact form than the previous horizontal/vertical trees I was using. One of the concepts I looked into during this was the idea of arranging children radially around a central node. This article describes an approach for doing this using circular nodes.
Richard Moss
Painting animated images using C#
A short article on using the ImageAnimator class to allow animated GIF's to be properly painted using System.Drawing and C#.
Richard Moss
Book Review: The C# Helper Top 100
A review of the book "The C# Helper Top 100" by Rod Stephens
Richard Moss
Getting a window rectangle without the drop shadow
A short article which describes how to get a window rectangle without including offsets for drop shadows
Richard Moss
Capturing screenshots using C# and p/invoke
I was recently updating some documentation and wanted to programmatically capture some screenshots of the application in different states. This article describes how you can easily capture screenshots in your own applications using the `BitBlt` Win32 API call.
Richard Moss
Writing custom Markdig extensions
Markdig is an extensible Markdown processor built with performance in mind. This article details how to create a simple Markdig extension to extend the parsing functionality to create inline links for MantisBT issue numbers (or GitHub or similar).
Richard Moss
Announcing MantisSharp, a .NET client for using the MantisBT REST API
I've released a new open source project named MantisSharp, a simple .NET client for working with the recently introduced REST API for Mantis Bug Tracker.