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Simple way for converting "Rijksdriehoek" coordinates to lat and long (WGS84) in C#

21 November, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 4 Comments 1 category

In the Netherlands "Rijksdriehoek" coordinates are used to show the exact position of an object on a chart. To convert "Rijksdriehoek" coordinates to lat and long coordinates in C# use the following class: Note

How to start a process / application on an other computer from C#, by using PowerShell remoting

19 November, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 3 Comments 1 category

You van execute a process on an other machine from C#, by using the code below: Example for calling the function var rc = new RemotingComponent(null); rc.RunRemoteProcess ( @"MyMachine1", "MyMachine1\Administrator", "MyPassword1", @"C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe", string.Empty

How to redirect Console.Writeline() from a WPF or Windows Forms C# application to the launching Command Prompt / Console.

16 November, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I used the following blog post to redirect the output generated by my WPF application to the command prompt from which it was launched: http://www.csharp411.com/console-output-from-winforms-application/

How to make Entity Framework 5.0 use an in-memory persistence DbContext instead of accessing the database.

23 August, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 5 Comments 1 category

If you want to switch between in-memory stub data and a database during runtime with Entity Framework 5.0, you have several options, some of them are: – Using a second level cache mechanism like http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/435142/Entity-Framework-Second-Level-Caching-with-DbConte

Convert string to bytes and bytes to string without encoding

10 July, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I wanted to save information found in a file to a database without having to deal with encodings, well I found my solution at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/472906/net-string-to-byte-array-c-sharp [TestClass] public class RliResearchTester { [TestMethod] public void

How to create a generic property mapper, that maps properties from one object to an other, without relying on inheritance, composition or reflection in C#

21 June, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Lets say you want to generate a generic [PropertyMapper] class, that can map the properties of a TypeX instance to a TypeY instance without introducing inheritance, composition or reflection in C#. Well you can use

How to do JavaScript unit testing from C# with MSTest and JSTest

11 May, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 2 Comments 1 category

I wanted to run regular MSTest unit test written in C# to assert JavaScript code. There are several ways to accomplish this, but in this case I use JSTest. Just add JSTest to your C#

How to redirect the standard console output, to assert logmessages written by log4net.

11 May, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

By using a log4net ConsoleAppender, you can write all log messages in your application to the console. These message will show up in the Microsoft Visual Studio output window. I needed a way to redirect

How to validate a XML file against a XSD file, including the referenced schemas by the XSD file in C#.

30 March, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 3 Comments 1 category

If you want to validate an XML file against a XSD file and use the XSD schemas referenced by the XSD file in the validation, you can use the following C# code: using System;

How to convert a bitmap into a 1bpp monochrome TIFF in C#

9 March, 2012 Roel van Lisdonk 3 Comments 1 category

If you want to convert a bitmap into a TIFF, than then you can use the code: using (System.Drawing.Bitmap sourceBitmap = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(@"C:\Temp\Source.bmp")) { string outputFileName = @"C:\Temp\Destination.tiff"; if (System.IO.File.Exists(outputFileName)) { System.IO.File.Delete(outputFileName); } sourceBitmap.Save(outputFileName, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Tiff);

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