Category : Programming

08 Feb

Wow! P/INVOKE made easy

by Marco Mastropaolo

While wasting tim^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ahem While reading important and interesting stuff around, I stumbled upon http://www.pinvoke.net/. It is a great site for those who want to P/INVOKE from .NET languages on native APIs. Heck, it’s so great sometimes I check it even when coding in native C++

Filed Under: .NET, Uncategorized, Win32

21 Oct

Unbelievable Optimization X

by Marco Mastropaolo

This is something which happened some years ago. There was some-project I won’t name(*) (let’s just say it was a server emulator of some popular MMORPG), with their development forum. I found a post suggesting an optimization they were going to implement. Basically the file saving phase was something like this : if (someplayer->hp != [...]

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