Topics by Diamonddrake

A friend of mine programs in php and ruby. But we were talking about our projects and I brought up how I don't do much database type applications because I find it boring. And we somehow got on the subject of SQL. This is more of a discussion question, as …

does anyone know anything about oAuth? I can't find a dot net example that works. and the very little documentation on it is way over my head. I'm just trying to add a secure way to update twitter in the client I'm messing around with. But I can't seem to …

I have written a flashy custom context menu using a new form with layeredwindows for my application, I want the context menu form to close when the mouse leaves the form, or when its deactivated. But I can't seem to get it to happen. I have tried the Close() method …

I have a transparent panel control, I don't use double buffering because they clash, and it also interferes with some other controls that I am using. On my panel I have 9 buttons, I have written code to remove a button on its click event, and then move the to …

I have written (mostly) with some take from a simple tutorial a calculator control for a program I am working on, the control works fine, except i would like the control to accept key input, like the windows calculator does, i.e. asterisk activates multiplication, enter evaluates and the numbers are …

I am working on a quick launch style application. I am storing file paths, and icon captions in arrays. I am trying to keep the feel of a standalone application. So any method for saving the data should be able to be located some where relatively hidden from the user, …

Does anyone remember how ms dos had a [B]sort[/B] program that you could sort the rows in a huge text document based on just one character by its position from the left margin? I am trying to recreate that effect in a notepad clone. I am sort of new to …

I have written a text editor that sorts lines, I plan to use it with some large files. say about a million lines, ranging between 10 and 75 MB. I am currently testing my app using about a 50mb file with about 900,000 lines. the program adds all the lines …

The title is confusing, I know. What I mean is, I created a note pad (like) program with line sorting functions. I want to be able to associate .txt files in explorer with the program. Currently I modified the Main function to accept command like arguments. and I modified my …