October 2004 - Posts

• DrawToDC

  I’m trying to take this code http://www.codeproject.com/internet/htmlimagecapture.asp?msg=783507 and convert it to C#. I can’t seem cast from IHTMLElement down to IHTMLElementRender. Trying through late binding also fails. IHTMLDocument2 doc = (IHTMLDocument2)Browser.Document; Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 12, 2004 9:06 AM by rfarber | 10 Comments

• Screen capture when machine is locked?

  Does anybody out there know how to get a screen capture (specifically of the WebControls web browser) when the screen is locked. When I move the window to the top left outside the monitor bounds it captures with a screen saver on but not when the machine Read More... Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:45 PM by rfarber | 7 Comments

• Fable

  If you haven't picked up a copy yet go and get Fable for the XBOX. This is a fun game. I think its the first adventure game I've played all the way through since Oddworld. It successfully put together game play fluidly with the story movies much like Read More... Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:56 AM by rfarber | 0 Comments

• Speaking of Uri’s

  Changing my code to convert string Url’s to Uri objects (because FxCop said it was a good idea) really helped solidify my testing. I never really thought about picking up Url’s that may not be http. I can see where a user may have done this with my code. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:30 AM by rfarber | 1 Comments

• FxCop is your friend

  If you haven’t used FxCop and you are writing code in C# go get it at http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/fxcop/ . This program rocks and will make your code better. The hard part is that on first run you’re going to get a surprising amount of issues and start Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:02 AM by rfarber | 5 Comments

• Two simple file tricks

  1. How do I know if a file path string has valid characters without resorting to catching an exception? bool IsFileNameValid(string fileName) { if (filename != null && fileName.IndexOfAny(Path.InvalidPathChars) != -1) { return false; } else { Read More... Posted Sunday, October 03, 2004 4:17 AM by rfarber | 3 Comments

• Teaching C# to newbie testers

  I keep looking for simple books for programming C# but even the learn in 21 days books are trying to teach too much. I’d hazard to say 99% of any code needed to be written by testers is simple file manipulation. You need to know about int, string, building Read More... Posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 3:54 AM by rfarber | 2 Comments

• I love C#

  I love C#. It’s everything VB/VBS promised but didn’t quite give us. I was a hard core VB junky following the maxim “get it done today!” VB allowed me to do that. OK so every once in a while I needed code in C++ to keep my stuff reasonably speedy but Read More... Posted Friday, October 01, 2004 8:40 AM by rfarber | 0 Comments