Articles by Yvan Rodrigues (Articles: 12, Tip/Tricks: 16, Reference: 1)

Articles: 12, Tip/Tricks: 16, Reference: 1

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Desktop Programming
MFC	QueryDef: a dynamic replacement for CRecordset 14 Oct 2014 Updated: 14 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,931 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 609 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A complete implementation of a dynamic MFC recordset
Windows Forms	PixelBox: A PictureBox with configurable InterpolationMode 28 Jan 2014 Updated: 28 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.82 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,681 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 977 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The standard Windows Forms PictureBox is missing one very useful line of code.
WPF	PDF Page Counter 24 Oct 2014 Updated: 24 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,900 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 1,970 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Quickly count the number of pages in a collection of PDF documents
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	The Design Brief or Specification Document 1 Jan 2014 Updated: 1 Jan 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,510 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Design professionals are susceptible to the same assumptions and biases as the rest of us.
Multimedia
GDI+	Drag-and-Drop Tool to Reduce JPEG Quality (and file size) 24 Jan 2015 Updated: 14 Apr 2015 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.25 Licence: BSD Views: 26,261 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Today's high-resolution cameras produce huge files, with quality you may be willing to sacrifice.
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C#	The right-angle triangle: Meet your new best friend 27 Nov 2011 Updated: 5 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 94 Popularity: 9.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 119,767 Bookmarked: 90 Downloaded: 885 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Did you skip class the day trigonometry was taught? This article will explain what you’ve been missing all these years.
	FETCH! Retrieve data from a remote web server with one line of code (with MVC reCAPTCHA example) 13 Aug 2015 Updated: 20 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 7.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,814 Bookmarked: 71 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Often an application needs data from an HTTP server, such as web services, or to scrape content. .NET provides HttpWebRequest, but it requires a lot of code to perform trivial operations. This class simplifies the task dramatically by abstracting the HTTP protocol, streams, and exceptions.
C# 4.0	Reading Ultrabook Sensor Data with the Windows 8 Sensor API 6 Nov 2012 Updated: 6 Nov 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,251 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 1,117 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A head start for App Innovation contestants
XML	Simple Auto-Update: Let your application update itself using 2 lines of code 22 Feb 2014 Updated: 22 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 47 Popularity: 7.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 208,291 Bookmarked: 146 Downloaded: 22,573 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Giving your application the ability to update itself from a remote source couldn't be much easier.
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ASP.NET	Public SMS Message Repository 3 Jun 2015 Updated: 3 Jun 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,832 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 201 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Store and retrieve messages in a central repository with SMS using Twilio and ASP.NET.
HTML	Keyword Highlighting with One Line of Code: Applied Use of HttpResponse.Filter in ASP.NET to Modify the Output Stream 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 3 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,567 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 2,173 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. HttpResponse.Filter post-processes the output of an ASP.NET page in order to modify the HTML document before it is sent to the client, similar to output buffering in PHP. The example wraps instances of a keyword on the page in an HTML element to have a highlighting style applied to it.
	Make your Page Social with the Open Graph Protocol 27 Oct 2011 Updated: 28 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,063 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 1,371 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Open Graph protocol specifies additional meta tags that can be added to the page to supplement social networking sites with more information about your page.

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Windows Forms	UserControls as SDI Windows [Tip/Trick] 15 Jan 2014 Updated: 15 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,271 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 194 Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
	Extend RichTextBox for Easy Formatted Appending [Tip/Trick] 11 May 2015 Updated: 11 May 2015 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,914 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A few lines of code to make using the Windows Forms RichTextBox easier to use as a logging window.
WTL	Installing the WTL Wizard for Visual Studio 2010 [Tip/Trick] 19 Sep 2011 Updated: 19 Sep 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,872 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to install the WTL Wizard for Visual Studio 2010.
XAML	A StringFormat Replacement for Windows RT [Tip/Trick] 17 Apr 2013 Updated: 18 Apr 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,580 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple but effective way for format bound data in XAML with the Windows Runtime
Hosted Services
Web Hosting	Recycling application pools on shared hosting [Tip/Trick] 5 Oct 2011 Updated: 5 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,170 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You may find that when you upload new code or assemblies, your content doesn't refresh.
Mobile Apps
Xamarin	AutoLayout and UILabel Don't Get Along [Tip/Trick] 9 Dec 2013 Updated: 12 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.96 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,761 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This handy tip is an easy workaround for a shortcoming in iOS 6 and 7.
	Reconsider Overriding UIView.Draw or UIView.DrawRect [Tip/Trick] 7 Apr 2014 Updated: 31 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,321 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. There is a very high virtual memory penalty if you do.
Operating Systems
Windows	Sniffing out the case of the hearing-impaired DHCP client [Tip/Trick] 23 Nov 2011 Updated: 25 Dec 2011 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,420 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How I discovered that Windows Vista doesn't always play nice with DHCP servers. Google is great for finding answers if you know the right question.
Programming Languages
C#	How to use reserved words as member names. [Tip/Trick] 21 Jun 2011 Updated: 25 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,751 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This tip shows one way to use reserved words as member names using verbatim identifiers.
	Beware: The null-coalescing (??) operator is low in the order of operator precedence. [Tip/Trick] 4 Feb 2014 Updated: 4 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,590 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Maybe writing a tip will mean the last time I fall for this.
	Let's randomize IEnumerable [Tip/Trick] 9 Oct 2011 Updated: 9 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,713 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I needed to randomize a collection. Here's my solution.
	A Simple Calculator in Windows Forms [Tip/Trick] 14 Dec 2014 Updated: 14 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.78 Licence: CPOL Views: 127,474 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 6,297 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A demonstation of accumulators and operators
Javascript	Checking if jQuery is loaded vs. ready [Tip/Trick] 3 Oct 2011 Updated: 3 Oct 2011 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.98 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,501 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This tip helps you to check if jQuery will be available to your script.
Shell	Open A Command Prompt Anywhere [Tip/Trick] 7 Jun 2011 Updated: 8 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 127 Popularity: 10.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 170,799 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This hidden key-click combination adds the ability to open a command prompt window from a Windows Explorer view.
Web Development
	The .ws TLD for web services… pass it on [Tip/Trick] 11 Sep 2012 Updated: 11 Sep 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,560 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An alternate (more practical?) use for the .ws top-level domain.
XHTML	Viewing SVG and other HTML5 content when debugging in Visual Studio [Tip/Trick] 12 Aug 2012 Updated: 13 Aug 2012 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,193 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The web server that is built into Visual Studio 2010 can't serve all MIME types.

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C#	List of Visual Studio Project Type GUIDs [Reference] 3 Feb 2014 Updated: 28 Mar 2023 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 134 Popularity: 10.44 Licence: Public Domain Views: 537,292 Bookmarked: 173 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Complete list of GUIDs found in .csproj files and their descriptions

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Yvan Rodrigues

Engineer Robotic Assistance Devices / AITX

Canada

Yvan Rodrigues has 30 years of experience in information systems and software development for the industry. He is Senior Concept Designer at Robotic Assistance Devices

He is a Certified Technician (C.Tech.), a professional designation granted by the Institute of Engineering Technology of Ontario (IETO).

Yvan draws on experience as owner of Red Cell Innovation Inc., Mabel's Labels Inc. as Manager of Systems and Development, the University of Waterloo as Information Systems Manager, and OTTO Motors as Senior Systems Engineer and Senior Concept Designer.

Yvan is currently focused on design of embedded systems.

Articles by Yvan Rodrigues (Articles: 12, Tip/Tricks: 16, Reference: 1)

Articles: 12, Tip/Tricks: 16, Reference: 1

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