Monthly : August 2005

30 Aug

Opera 10 year anniversary – free gift!

by Marco Mastropaolo

Opera is celebrating its 10th anniversary. And for its celebration they are giving registration codes for free.. just go to http://my.opera.com/community/party/ to get one for free Oh.. and congratulations to the Opera team for their survival in what is probably the most difficult software market

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23 Aug

DevIL.NET 1.1 !

by Marco Mastropaolo

I’ve released DevIL.NET 1.1. It’s a small update for a small library Included in this version : Fixed a bad bug when loading non true color images (above all GIFs) Implemented a new LoadBitmapAndScale which allows for the bitmap to be scaled directly in DevIL.NET Started to implement some error handling… note: From version 1.1, [...]

Filed Under: .NET, Programming, Uncategorized

22 Aug

Code Snippet I : Wrapper for CLR string to native string marshalling

by Marco Mastropaolo

A frequent (too much frequent) need in Managed C++ is going from System::String objects to char* or wchar_t* strings. The boring side of the marshalling is that the memory allocated with the StringToHGlobalxxx functions should be freed with a matching call to FreeHGlobal. The solution is simple : using the power of C++ destructors we [...]

18 Aug

Comments on pages!

by Marco Mastropaolo

I’ve added comments on pages Also I’ve moved comments about pages which were in the announcements to the proper pages

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