Category : .NET

23 Nov

3D in managed mode (WPF, and not only)

by Marco Mastropaolo

In this week I had the chance to do a little work with WPF 3D capabilities. I wanted to implement a user control implementing a visualizer of “something” in 2D for a Windows.Forms application. I decided to add a 3D view capability. Language used was C#. I started with Managed DirectX. It’s crap. Simply put, [...]

Filed Under: .NET, Programming, Rants

08 Nov

Shell extensions in C# and/or VB.NET

by Marco Mastropaolo

Update: .NET 4.x and later should allow different .NET versions to be loaded side-by-side in the same process, so the argument below probably does not stand anymore (if your extensions use .NET 4.x or later). It’s still dangerous waters in my opinion. —   Please, repeat with me. I WILL NEVER WRITE SHELL EXTENSIONS IN [...]

26 Oct

IE7, Javascript, the WebBrowser control and bugs

by Marco Mastropaolo

Problem Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has been released. Applications around the world are breaking. … Well at least mine failed. If you use the WebBrowser control in .NET applications or shdocwv ActiveX control you may hit this issue. If you load the html by navigating to “about:blank” and then using DocumentText, AND you are including [...]