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Processes in .NET Part 3 – Interfacing With Simple Console Programs by Example, Tesseract OCR

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:00 AM by RickM
Did you know that .NET provides an easy way to interact and control console programs?  In this article I will walk you through this process by creating a wrapper class for Google’s Tesseract OCR application.  At the end of this post, I will Read More...
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Processes in .NET Part 2 – Performing Actions on Files with Verbs

Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:15 PM by RickM
In my last post in this series I walked through the basics of launching and managing an external process.  In this post I’ll be discussing simple process interactions via ShellExecute API Verbs.  Using Verbs will allow you to perform simple Read More...
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How to set up your own free VSLab-based Matlab/Mathematica replacement

Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 10:48 AM by RickM
VSLab has just been updated with full support for Visual Studio 2008 Shell and the F# CTP release. It has been a rough couple of weeks for the VSLab team as F# CTP changed a number of things and they have been working hard to put together a compatible Read More...
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Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages into the Visual Studio Fold

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:29 PM by RickM
Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for most developers as few packages had yet been written for it. Now eight months have gone by and quite a Read More...
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Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly (.NET Memory Management: Part 5)

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:39 PM by RickM
It has come to my attention via a recent DZone article that .NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you manipulate the way your garbage collector acts programmatically. This can be done through changing the value of a new property Read More...
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A Safe and Asynchronous One to Many Stream Copy Through IL and Inheritance

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:32 PM by RickM
Because .NET Streams have state, they are difficult to use in multithreaded environments. In this post I discuss ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams. I explain how this is possible both through traditional Read More...
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Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application (.NET Memory Management: Part 4)

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:11 PM by RickM
Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications. In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow Read More...
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Custom Serializing Objects for Use in a Debugger Visualizer

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:02 PM by RickM
I have a new CodeProject article up which details how to make a Debugger Visualizer in the case where you need to custom serialize the object. The actual classes I build in the tutorial are only useful with our DotImage project line. However, the process Read More...
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Using PNG Predictors to Enhance GZIP/PKZIP/FLATE Compression

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:25 PM by RickM
I’ve been doing a lot of work in the PDF space lately. While implementing Binary Cross Reference Streams I was surprised to see that they could be encoded with PNG Predictors. This was surprising to me because binary cross reference streams aren’t images, Read More...
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Increasing the Size of your Stack (.NET Memory Management: Part 3)

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:45 PM by RickM
In the previous article I discussed a few of the benefits of stack allocation as well as a couple of C# keywords which help you to leverage those benefits. However, the one megabyte default stack size is too small for stack allocation to be used with Read More...
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Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation (.NET Memory Management: Part 2)

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:06 AM by RickM
Articles in This Series Part 1 – Basic Housekeeping Part 2 – Improving Performance Through Stack Allocation Part 3 – Increasing the Size of your Stack Part 4 – Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings Part 5 – Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings Read More...
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Basic Memory Housekeeping (.NET Memory Management: Part 1)

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:25 PM by RickM
This is the first in a series of posts I will be writing about managing memory in .NET. Before I move on to more complex techniques, I thought it would be good to cover the basics. Articles in This Series Part 1 - Basic Housekeeping Part 2 - Improving Read More...
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