July 21, 2010
There is no GetComputerName API on Windows CE and I could not find any Compact Framework class to obtain this functionality.
On these devices you can find the computer (pda) name in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Ident\Name
If you want to take a look at the registry on your devices/emulators...
May 24, 2010
Questo è il materiale della sessione che ho tenuto in Microsoft Italia per il workshop UGIdotNET.
Note:Per far funzionare l'esempio con Twitter è necessario leggere attentamente il file readme.txt Per far funzionare gli esempi di WCF in console è necessario dare il permesso all'endpoint http. Mag...
October 22, 2009
Last year I wrote two libraries to generate OOXML (Office OpenXML) ECMA-376 compliant files: wordprocessing (docx) and spreadsheet (xlsx).
Although I needed it, I always thought that was a useless work since Microsoft is working on the OOXML SDK that is currently in CTP for version 2. As a member...
October 21, 2009
Some months ago, I talked with Diego Cattaruzza about the chance to read the file properties.
It happens that "depends" on the file type. A couple of years ago, if I remember well, I used some PInvoke code to read file properties via COM Structured Storage.
In these days OPC files have propertie...
October 20, 2009
There are tons of options for custom formatting a number, but not enough :)
Let's take a series of double/decimal numbers: 1:double[] doubles = { 2: -1234.56789, 3: 1234.56789, 4: 1234.5678, 5: 1234.56, 6: 1234.5, 7: 1234.56789, 8: 123.56789, 9: 1...
September 23, 2009
The powerpoint attachment contains only italian slides.Download Italian pptx
Demos are international :) and you will need Microsoft API CodePack that is a managed wrapper over the native Win32 API that are new in Windows 7. Demos were created with a beta release of CodePack, so there could be som...
September 09, 2009
In Vista the Firewall API changed a lot in comparison to the previous versions.
You can drive the Windows Firewall using a COM API, a layer over the Windows Filtering Platform. If you are thinking to develop directly the WFP, it's better to change your idea. WFP is a low level API to build Firewa...
September 09, 2009
This is a simple class to convert a decimal number to italian characters. For example 1234.5 to "milleduecentotrentaquattro/50". This is often required in financial applications.
Questa semplice classe permette di convertire un numero decimal in lettere italiane. Per esempio 1234.5 in "milleduece...
