Sometimes we want to display some text on the console in some specified color (e.g. error in red, warning in yellow, etc). The procedure is often virtually identical, that is, it consists of three steps: Save the current color. Write the text on the console. Restore saved color. As we can know, the duplication of code is not a good practice, therefore we should extract the first and the [...]

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Sometimes you want to wait until some specified file is available for reading/writing. For example, you wait until other process finishes packing into a zip file, or wait until some file is fully uploaded to the server so you can compress it at server side, or something like that. There are some solutions in which checking whether the file can be opened mainly looks like this: public static bool [...]

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ClipboardTranslator allows you quickly translate any text using Google Translation API without constant opening Google Translation webpage. You can also use the application like a simple dictionary…

Changes and new features

• Copying translation to the clipboard using system-wide hotkey (Win+C by default).
• Checking at startup for the application’s new version is now enabled by default.
• Minor bugs fixed.

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Protector Lite is a free application which allows you to protect any 100% managed assembly using various techniques to inhibit decompilation and other forms of reverse engineering…

Changes and new features

• Notifying of the availability of the application new version.
• Minor bugs fixed.

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ClipboardTranslator allows you quickly translate any text using Google Translation API without constant opening Google Translation webpage. You can also use the application like a simple dictionary…

Changes and new features

• Minor bugs fixed.

Go to the ClipboardTranslator’s page

ClipboardTranslator allows you quickly translate any text using Google Translation API without constant opening Google Translation webpage. You can also use the application like a simple dictionary…

Changes and new features

• Minimizing to the notification area.
• Displaying translation in the balloon tooltip.
• Notifying of the availability of the application new version.
• Saving the translation log.
• Changing the size of the font using Ctrl+scroll wheel.
• Minor bugs fixed.

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Protector Lite is a free application which allows you to protect any 100% managed assembly using various techniques to inhibit decompilation and other forms of reverse engineering…

Changes

• Added a console version of the tool.
• Minor bugs fixed.

Go to the Protector Lite’s page

Protector Lite is a free application which allows you to protect any 100% managed assembly using various techniques to inhibit decompilation and other forms of reverse engineering…

Go to the Protector Lite’s page

ClipboardTranslator allows you quickly translate any text using Google Translation API without constant opening Google Translation webpage. You can also use the application like a simple dictionary…

Go to the ClipboardTranslator’s page

I have updated “Simple Popup Control” article and posted a new version of the control (v1.4).

Changes

• Added DroppedDown property, and DropDown, DropDownClosed events to the PopupComboBox class.
• Fixed resizing of a popup when MaximumSize property of the content control is not set.

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I have updated “Creating a glass button using GDI+” article and posted a new version of the control (v1.3.2).

Changes

• Fixed a bug that caused the button's image to be disposed in certain situations.

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I have updated “Creating a glass button using GDI+” article and posted a new version of the control (v1.3.1).

Changes

• The source code is now available both in C# and VB.NET.
• Minor bugs fixed.

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I have updated “VDialog (Vista TaskDialog for Windows XP)” article and posted a new version of the control (v1.5).

Changes

• Parent window no longer looses focus in certain situations on Windows Vista.
• Added HotForeColor property to the CommandLink control.
• Added German localization.
• Fixed some bugs.

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I have updated “Simple Pop-up Control” article and posted a new version of the control (v1.3.1).

Changes

• Tab-key properly transfers the focus between controls contained in a pop-up window.
• Minor bugs fixed.

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Recently, I heavily updated my website. I copied here all my articles from The Code Project. From now on, when I update some article on my website, I will also post the newer version to The Code Project, but only if the article is marked as “an unedited reader contribution”, which means it can be easily edited. In case it is not marked so, I will probably update only the article’s “History” section.

The other news are that there is Contact Form, News page and Atom feeds, so you can be instantly notified about updating some article or about other changes on the site.