Installing the URL Rewrite module into Internet Information Services
A short article on installing the optional URL Rewrite module into Internet Information services.
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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.
Richard Moss
Restoring missing Authorization header when using PHP with Apache
A short post which describes how to adjust .htaccess to enable the REST API in Mantis Bug Tracker to work.
Richard Moss
Translating text with Azure cognitive services
Some time ago, I used the Bing Translator API to help create localization for some of our products. As Microsoft recently retired the Data Market used to provide this service it was high time to migrate to the replacement Cognitive Services API hosted on Azure. This article covers using the basics of Azure cognitive services to translate text using simple HTTP requests.
Richard Moss
Using custom type converters with C# and YamlDotNet, part 2
Recently I discussed using type converters to perform custom serialization of types in YamlDotNet. In this post I'll concentrate on expanding the type converter to support deserialization as well.