Taskbaricon mouseover highlight
First things first: Happy new year! I am sure 2016 will be a great year! Next up: DominantColor. It’s a project for calculating the dominant (hue) color in an image.This is something that took some research as I was building JeS Multi-Monitor Suite. The taskbar in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 implemented a similar feature showing the dominant color as a highlight when you mouseover the taskbar icon. Continue reading
During the development of a Windows 10 Universal Windows App today I ran into a weird issue with Entity Framework 7, beta 6. I was using a Sqlite database for local storage within the app and everything seemed to work fine until I hit against a bug in the EF (Entity Framework). Continue reading
Today I publish Yara.NET – A C++/CLI .NET wrapper around the Yara 3.4.0 library. It enables you to use all the Yara functionality that the native C lib exposes in .NET! Yara.NET API was inspired by the Python API and has thus a somewhat similar API. Why is it built in C++/CLI and not C#? Because building a wrapper library in C# around a native library is a pain compared to using C++/CLI. Using C++/CLI you can link directly against the native lib and use all of the existing header files without the need to redefine every function using PInvoke..
Figure 1, .NET Pinvoke memory corruption
Today I ran into some old screenshots of a problem I was having in 2013. Interesting problem! I was trying retrieve a piece of data that was located in another process memory space using the ReadProcessMemory API. I defined the API using PInvoke(Platform Invoke), a technique used to call native functions from .NET. The issue I was having was that only under Windows 8 I was getting a NullReferenceException and initially I had no clue why. Continue reading