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24 Sep, 2009

Sydney moved to Mars

Posted by: DJMatty In: Australia

Woke up yesterday morning after it being really windy all night, to the deep orange glow of a very dusty Sydney. Very eerie it was, sorta like you’d think a dust storm on Mars would be :) Took a couple of shots with my iPhone camera: It had mostly gone by lunch time and things [...]

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24 Sep, 2009

Some general Winforms coding info

Posted by: DJMatty In: Geek Post

The difference between Control.Invalidate, Control.Update and Control.Refresh: Control.Invalidate() Adds a region or a control to the update region of a window Control.Update() Sends WM_PAINT to the window if the windows update region is not empty (sends directly to wndproc bypassing the apps message queue) Control.Refresh() Calls invalidate and then update String format alignment enums The [...]

24 Sep, 2009

A compact framework tip

Posted by: DJMatty In: Geek Post

Thought I’d start posting tips and reminders here for things about coding I have found useful, mainly as a place where I can store them so I can find them again when I have forgotten them in the near future :) So this one is the location of the actual compact framework assemblies on your [...]


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