A short article on adding text to an empty ListBox control.
Blog Articles and information on C# and .NET development topics
The Cyotek Development Blog has moved - please find it at https://devblog.cyotek.com.
Although these pages remain accessible, some content may not display correctly in future as the new blog evolves.
A short post on getting the MantisBT REST API to work successfully in Internet Information Services on Windows.
A somewhat belated post which describes how you can use sed to automatically update version information in AssemblyInfo.cs files from a batch file.
The usual round up of the different software tools used by Cyotek over the past year.
18-bit RGB palettes are an old format used by VGA displays of yesteryear. These palettes use 6-bits for each of the red, green and blue channels and usually allowed a maximum of 256 colours from the 262,144 unique colours available. This article describes how to read and write 18-bit palette files.
A short article on using IIS URL rewriting to force insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS when behind a load balancer that is configured to terminate the secure connection, including support for excluding LetsEncrypt challenge requests.
A short article on installing the optional URL Rewrite module into Internet Information services.
How to store data sent to an Azure Function in blob storage.
Recently I was looking for a way of display hierarchical information in a more compact form than the previous horizontal/vertical trees I was using. One of the concepts I looked into during this was the idea of arranging children radially around a central node. This article describes an approach for doing this using circular nodes.
A short article on using the ImageAnimator class to allow animated GIF's to be properly painted using System.Drawing and C#.