Articles by George Mamaladze (Articles: 10, Technical Blogs: 7)

This article answers a simple question: What to do when custom error page for error 401 in web.config is not working? How to replace the default ASP.NET "Access denied" page?

A workaround to maintain focus between postbacks in ASP.NET 2.0, also in ASP.NET AJAX without SmartNavigation.

This workaround allows you to show HTML elements on top of ActiveX elements (an tag).

Pocket PC .NET Compact Framework version of Minesweeper and MinsweeperFlags (multiplayer) game in one

A library to simplify access to image metadata.

This class allows you to tap keyboard and mouse and/or to detect their activity even when an application runs in the background or does not have any user interface at all.

A C# implementation of Reversi (Othello) Game for PocketPC and Windows.

This article describes how to use Windows 7 new taskbar features, progress indication and overlay icon, from unmanaged .NET code. The second part shows you how to manage progress indication and overlay icons in case of multiple views (windows) and provides appropriate missing classes for Windows API

Provides a read-only access to Windows Firewall status, settings and rules on Windows Vista.

Generate a word cloud form some input text. A word cloud is a randomly arranged set of words used in your text. The size and the color of each word expresses its usage frequency. Rarely used words are small and pale. The control is clickable and allows to identify a word under mouse.

I hate overdocumented software components and frameworks. There are top 3 reasons for that: Only the code tells the truth (programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Only_the_Code_Tells_the_Truth) The good component expresses it’s intended way of usage through good structure, expressive na

Download binaries and application – 32K Source code – 99K Background Recently I was looking for a .NET implementation of QR code generator. Most of components either use online services to generate and/or recognize QR code or the implementation was not “good enough” for my pu

Parallel Programing, PLINQ and Globalization

Back to the roots: .NET binary search and the meaning of the negative number of the Array.BinarySearch() return value

Why to use the sealed keyword on classes?

Why .NET LinkedList does not support Concat and Split operations?

PLINQ cancelability & responsiveness in WinForms