Andrei’s Blog

This is a small network profile manager that I’ve developed at the request of a friend of mine. He’s pleased with it and encouraged me to publish it.

The application is called netProfileManager and it is written in C#.

netProfileManager Screenshot

The main goal of the software is to allow you to create profiles that store your network configurations. It supports IPv4 both static and DHCP configurations. It uses the netsh and ipconfig command line utilities.

Profiles can be launched by right clicking the application icon in the tray bar or from the main interface. The software is provided as is with no warranty whatsoever.

Don’t hesitate to contact me if you wish to report a bug or make a suggestion.

You can download it here: http://ameya.ro/downloads.php

I would love to hear some feedback from those who’ve already tested it.

I’ve recently worked on a project that required my application to move the mouse and left click on some items.

Here’s a simple working solution that will handle mouse movement and left clicking.

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

private const UInt32 MouseEventLeftDown = 0x0002;

private const UInt32 MouseEventLeftUp = 0x0004;

 [DllImport("user32.dll")]
 private static extern void mouse_event(UInt32 dwFlags, UInt32 dx, UInt32 dy, UInt32 dwData, IntPtr dwExtraInfo);

private void leftClick()
 {
 mouse_event(MouseEventLeftDown, 0, 0, 0, new System.IntPtr());
 mouse_event(MouseEventLeftUp, 0, 0, 0, new System.IntPtr());
 }

private void mouseMove()
 {
 Cursor.Position = new Point(Cursor.Position.X - 200, Cursor.Position.Y - 200);
 }

The Microsoft Developer Network has released a new site aimed at teaching kids and beginners how to program.

You can find more information here: http://msdn.com/beginner .

You can download it here but keep in mind that it requires the Windows Mobile 6 SDK which you can get here. It includes API’s for “touch gestures” and “physics”.

More details here.

This is an interesting article. I won’t spoil the results.

Read all about it here: http://softscenario.blogspot.com/2009/05/performance-testing-of-dictionary-list.html

// Populate the row
string[] row = new string[] {"Item 1","Item 2","Item 3"};

//Add the row to the DataGridView
dataGridView.Rows.Add(row[0]);

You can, of course, create an object array with multiple row arrays and use a foreach to add them all to the DataGridView.

The Observer pattern allows you to define a one-to-many relationship inside your application where the parent object (the one) has the ability to notify the child objects (the many) of any state change. You can utilize this pattern to make sure that a set of objects are keep in order when there behavior needs to change based on the state of your application.

http://www.dimecasts.net/Casts/CastDetails/108

A real-time online Silverlight regular expression testing & benchmarking tool utilizing the .NET regular expression engine.

Check it out here: Regex Hero

Microsoft has just released the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1): Release Candidate (RC).

You can get it here Windows SDK

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace cpFolder
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main( string[] args )
		{
			copyFolder( @"C:\source", @"C:\destination" );
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        static public void copyFolder( string sourceFolder, string destFolder )
        {
            if (!Directory.Exists( destFolder ))
            Directory.CreateDirectory( destFolder );
            string[] files = Directory.GetFiles( sourceFolder );
            foreach (string file in files)
            {
                string name = Path.GetFileName( file );
                string dest = Path.Combine( destFolder, name );
                File.Copy( file, dest );
            }
            string[] folders = Directory.GetDirectories( sourceFolder );
            foreach (string folder in folders)
            {
                string name = Path.GetFileName( folder );
                string dest = Path.Combine( destFolder, name );
                copyFolder( folder, dest );
            }
        }
    }
}