/blog Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:15:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A fellow Microsoft MVP has assembled a large list (> 6MB) of domain names/IP addresses mainly used to serve advertisements, tracking cookies, and sometimes even malware. You can find the full instructions  at http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. I personally have been using this list for almost two years now (it is frequently updated). Because I ... /blog/2011/01/18/blocking-advertisements-malware-hosts-file/ What are threads? A thread executes code synchronously—a set of instructions processed by the CPU “first in first out”. This can include virtually any kind of code, be it updating of the GUI, processing calculations, or waiting for user input. Windows Forms is arguably one of the most used aspects of .NET ... /blog/2010/12/29/multithreading-with-windows-forms-in-c/ Честита Коледа, и приятно посрещане на Новата година на всички читатели на блога! Също така поздравления на Miguel Hernandez (@migue333) и Kim Nilsson (@no_substitute), които бяха избрани посредством случаен жребий от Bryant Zadegan и мен, за да получат по един подарък-карта за абонамент MSDN Ultimate. Честито!Благодарности на Microsoft ... /blog/2010/12/26/merry-xmas-congrats-msdn/ Previous readers of my blog might already know that I am a big fan of ImageX, a tool that has been supplied by Microsoft in the Windows Automated Installation Kit since the release of Windows Vista. A quick introduction ImageX is a command-line tool that ... /blog/2010/09/18/a-simple-backup-solution-using-imagex-a-windows-imaging-tool/ Just wanted to post a quick update: Thanks to the MVP Program I have received two MSDN Ultimate Subscription gift cards, worth $11,899 each. These are going to be given away soon as I am working with Bryant on the giveaway details. Stay tuned. /blog/2010/09/18/soon-two-msdn-ultimate-subscriptions-giveaway/ FlacReader + WavWriter As a follow-up to my previous article on FLAC and encoding uncompressed audio, I have further developed the Wav2Flac library and added FLAC decoding to the WAVE container. Some key points of this aspect of the WavFlacTest library are: Support for 16- ... /blog/2010/07/26/decoding-flac-audio-files-in-c/ One thing that popped in my mind yesterday after having a conversation over twitter (admittedly, a service I had rarely used until recently), is that the more followers you have, the higher the odds you would have to use other languages in addition to ... /blog/2010/07/25/inline-tweet-translator/ Resizing a form while keeping aspect ratio is useful in many cases, like video playback or vector graphics. This way, the window can be resized while retaining the original ratio and avoiding the use of letterboxing or pillarboxing. What’s needed is for the window function to be overriden (WndProc) ... /blog/2010/06/27/resizing-forms-while-keeping-aspect-ratio/ Why lossless? Lossless audio is used on various media, including studio masters, CD, DVD-Audio (via MLP) and Blu-ray (via Dolby TrueHD, which is technically a rebrand of and an extension to MLP, and DTS-HD Master Audio). All of these, when decoded, will result in a pulse-code modulated signal identical to ... /blog/2010/01/08/encoding-uncompressed-audio-with-flac-in-c/ Command-line interface tools. We usually prefer to write these when we need a lightweight application to get work done. Some operations can be lengthy, or we simply want to present the a visual indicator of progress to the user. For this purpose I usually update Console.Title for simplicity’s sake. ... /blog/2010/01/05/cmd-progress-bar/