Articles by Dragos Sbirlea (8 articles found)

Most Sidebar Gadgets are simple scripts. The Sidebar, though, the has potential to host any application, even if it uses the native API. This demo gadget allows you to preview any window using the Sidebar.

A sidebar gadget that allows you to do what you usually did in the Command Prompt Window.

The proposed gadget allows compression of files and folders dragged on the sidebar using almost any format.

A birds eye view of the programming model for the new Playstation 3 console and an interesting example of useful concurrency

WPF allows users to create rich 3D interfaces, but it cripples productivity by not allowing a standard way of using the 2D controls in such an interface. Let's see if it can be done manually.

Have you ever imagined having 3D objects float on your desktop? Lets see how we can achieve such a result using only C# and WPF.

Designing your windows from code has suffered from the introduction of WPF and its XAML. Nevertheless it is possible not to use the descriptive language at all. Lets see how.

The Quine McKluskey algorithm is the most widely used algorithm for logical function minimisation. This article proposes a learning-oriented implementation using visual Karnaugh maps to simplify data input but also with increased usability in professional applications.