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Checking if your Windows Forms applications are ready for .NET Core 3.0

A quick note on using the .NET Core 3.0 Desktop API Analyzer to determine how easy it will be to migrate existing Windows Forms or WPF applications to .NET Core 3.0

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Upgrading a SVN repository using VisualSVN Server

Although I use Git for anything open source we produce, all other code is still in a SVN repository. When upgrading VisualSVN Server to the latest version, it mentioned that Apache SVN 1.10 had new compression options and it occurred to me that while I've upgraded working copy formats before, my SVN databases are probably still using whatever format they were created at. This article covers how to upgrade SVN repositories using the VisualSVN Server software.

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Working with CorelDRAW Palettes part 2, writing .pal files

Continuing my investigation into CorelDRAW palettes, this brief article describes how to write .pal files for use with CorelDRAW! 3.0.

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Working with CorelDRAW Palettes part 1, reading .pal files

I recently picked up a copy of CorelDRAW! 3.0 from eBay. This article covers how to read text-based .PAL colour palettes created by this application.

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Converting colours between RGB and CMYK in C#

In my previous articles on reading and writing colours from various palette/swatch formats, I left CMYK conversion as an exercise for the reader and only demonstrated RGB aspects. This article demonstrates how to convert colours in CMYK format to RGB and vice versa.

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Using the MantisBT REST API when hosted on IIS

A short post on getting the MantisBT REST API to work successfully in Internet Information Services on Windows.

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Updating AssemblyInfo.cs version information via batch file

A somewhat belated post which describes how you can use sed to automatically update version information in `AssemblyInfo.cs` files from a batch file.

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Tools we use - 2017 edition

The usual round up of the different software tools used by Cyotek over the past year.

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