Articles by Qwertie (Articles: 33, Project: 1, Technical Blogs: 9, Tip/Tricks: 5)

Articles: 33, Project: 1, Technical Blogs: 9, Tip/Tricks: 5

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	Blogging on GitHub 20 Aug 2014 Updated: 21 Aug 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 15,823 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. GitHub has a "built-in" simple content management system called Jekyll. It's unobtrusive; you can put ordinary HTML files in your webspace and they will be served unchanged, or you can create Jekyll files, which are text files that start with a header block that the Jekyll documentation calls "front
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Windows Forms	Using ICSharpCode.TextEditor 12 Nov 2008 Updated: 12 Nov 2008 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.49 Licence: MIT Views: 391,434 Bookmarked: 194 Downloaded: 23,418 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use TextEditorControl to put a syntax-highlighting editor in your application.
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Parser	LLLPG, Loyc trees, and LES, oh my! 14 Jun 2013 Updated: 27 Jun 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,620 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. LLLPG is a recursive-decent parser generator, with a feature set (and syntax) comparable to ANTLR version 2.
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C#	A Detailed Data Binding Tutorial 25 Mar 2008 Updated: 25 Mar 2008 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 145 Popularity: 10.73 Licence: MIT Views: 1,032,681 Bookmarked: 480 Downloaded: 14,463 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Demonstrates a variety of Windows Forms data binding features through several simple examples.
	Symbols as extensible enums 1 Apr 2009 Updated: 25 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: MIT Views: 101,353 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 305 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use the Symbol class for enum-like values that can be extended by other classes.
	Using LeMP as a C# Code Generator 1 Mar 2016 Updated: 1 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.99 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 15,580 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to write a program to generate C# code
	C# Gets Pattern Matching, Disjoint Unions, Tuples and Ranges 8 Mar 2016 Updated: 8 Mar 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 24,441 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Well, not literally. Enhanced C# supports pattern matching, ADTs, and tuples, so Plain C# gets all that by transitivity.
	Dynamic interfaces in any .NET language 15 Jun 2010 Updated: 13 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.31/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.49 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 62,542 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 374 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A library inspired by the Go language that lets you adapt any object to an interface if it has the methods of that interface.
	Protobuf-net: the unofficial manual 24 Aug 2013 Updated: 25 Aug 2013 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.02 Licence: CC (ASA 3U) Views: 173,313 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Protobuf-net is a fast and complete .NET library for serialization based on Google's Protocol Buffers. And this is a really short manual.
	LINQ-to-Lists 10 Jan 2017 Updated: 13 Jan 2017 Rating: 3.46/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 2.93 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,390 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With this library,"from x in list select x.Property" returns another list.
	Message Sinks! 15 Jan 2017 Updated: 15 Jan 2017 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,100 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A very small logging library
	Prepare all your apps for localization 13 Jan 2017 Updated: 2 Feb 2019 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,702 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. No matter how lazy you are
	Arithmetic in generic code 10 Jan 2017 Updated: 10 Jan 2017 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,041 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Want to square-root an arbitrary type T in your generic code and multiply it by its natural logarithm? No problem.
	Poor Man's LINQ in Visual Studio 2005 19 May 2008 Updated: 28 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.58 Licence: MIT Views: 81,064 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 619 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A way to use LINQ to Objects in C# 2.0 with .NET Framework 2.0
	CPTrie: A sorted data structure for .NET 24 Feb 2010 Updated: 31 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 54 Popularity: 8.58 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 66,077 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 813 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A memory-efficient Patricia trie that implements IDictionary and supports the "find nearest key" operation.
	Pervasive Services and the Ambient Service Pattern 7 Dec 2016 Updated: 7 Dec 2016 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.02 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,511 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using dependency injection with frequently-used background services can be a hassle. The Ambient Service Pattern is an easier alternative.
	The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 5 20 Jun 2015 Updated: 24 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.83 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 22,361 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 1,041 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Concerned about regular expressions being unintelligible, repetitive, hard to get right and non-recursive? Read part 5, possibly the most useful part yet!
	The List Trifecta, Part 1 26 Mar 2013 Updated: 20 May 2016 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.58 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 37,011 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 161 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The A-list is an all-purpose list, a data structure that can support most standard list operation in O(log n) time and does lots of other stuff, too
	Writing a Single-File Generator 22 Nov 2013 Updated: 22 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.95 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 46,786 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 835 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A technique for installing "Custom Tools" in all VS versions from 2008 to 2013
	Make the debugger show the contents of your custom IList class 6 Aug 2008 Updated: 6 Aug 2008 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.49 Licence: MIT Views: 44,764 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to make the debugger give the same special treatment to your custom IList as it gives to List.
	The Root of All Evil is Optimization? Or Apathy? 15 Jun 2013 Updated: 15 Jun 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,560 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The root of all evil is optimization... or apathy
C# 4.0	Avoid tedious coding with LeMP 26 May 2015 Updated: 10 Dec 2016 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.65 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 28,584 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 208 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Lexical Macro Processor transforms your C# code with a LISP-inspired macro system. Nice substitute for T4 templates, with Visual Studio integration and a Linux-compatible editor.
	The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 4 25 Feb 2014 Updated: 25 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.96 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 14,610 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The ambivalent world of ambiguity, the slash, greedy and nongreedy. At the end, in lieu of refreshments, there will be an API reference.
	The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 3 23 Feb 2014 Updated: 25 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.77 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 25,110 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 1,191 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Lots of new stuff this time, including an (almost) complete C# parser demo
	The Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: Part 2 26 Nov 2013 Updated: 13 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.37 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 52,643 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 306 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The new parser generator for C#: now with syntax highlighting.
	A New Parser Generator for C# 7 Oct 2013 Updated: 5 Mar 2016 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 68 Popularity: 9.08 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 315,053 Bookmarked: 167 Downloaded: 1,360 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. LLLPG, the Loyc LL(k) Parser Generator: now parsing C# itself!
	The List Trifecta, Part 2 7 Sep 2013 Updated: 7 Sep 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 28,573 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 315 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The BDictionary is like a Dictionary mashed up with List. BList and BMultiMap also say hello.
	The List Trifecta, Part 3 12 Aug 2014 Updated: 12 Aug 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 11,552 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. SparseAList and some AList benchmarks
	InternalList<T>: the low-level List<T> 13 Aug 2014 Updated: 13 Aug 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,001 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In the netherworld between T[] and List
	DList<T>: The Circular List<T> 13 Aug 2014 Updated: 13 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.56 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 22,743 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating the AList data structures for my "list trifecta" series must have taken hundreds of hours. The DList is a vastly simpler beast, but in certain cases will boost your insert/remove speed a lot.
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Blockchain	VList data structures in C# 2 Apr 2009 Updated: 14 Dec 2009 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.24 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 72,512 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 339 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A family of array-like list structures that let you take fast snapshots at any instant in time.
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HTML	Head-to-head benchmark: C++ vs .NET 17 Jun 2011 Updated: 4 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 338 Popularity: 11.73 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 1,129,118 Bookmarked: 202 Downloaded: 2,346 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How fast is C++ compared to C#? Let's compare code ported directly between the two languages.
HTML5	How to export a blogspot blog to HTML/GitHub with C# 18 Aug 2014 Updated: 25 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.20 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 20,082 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A LINQ-to-XML example

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	Grammars: theory vs. practice [Technical Blog] 23 Nov 2013 Updated: 23 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,191 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I decided to write this post to help people understand the theoretical representation of grammars.
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	D-style ranges in C# (.NET) [Technical Blog] 9 Jun 2013 Updated: 9 Jun 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,730 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Ranges are the most important concept in the design of modern D collection code, and I want them to be included under the Loyc umbrella (but for now, don't worry what Loyc is.) As I wrote in an as-yet unpublished article on about the design of my new language, Enhanced C#:
	.NET Just Keeps Getting More Annoying [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2014 Updated: 12 Sep 2014 Rating: 4.62/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.41 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 19,922 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. .NET just keeps getting more annoying
	Open Letter to Whom It May Concern [Technical Blog] 22 Apr 2014 Updated: 22 Apr 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,610 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is a letter that I would like to send to relevant leaders at Google and Mozilla, but I'm not sure to whom I should send it.
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms	Update Controls [Technical Blog] 6 Apr 2011 Updated: 9 Apr 2011 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,031 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. UpdateControls not only keeps your GUI up-to-date, but it also separates the GUI from the rest of the code better than any framework I have seen before.
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C#	DI and Pervasive services [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,680 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dependency Injection aids loose coupling. But there are some services that are pervasive, services that you would have to pass to a hundred different constructors if you want to use DI "properly". Is there an alternative?
	I Want A Conditional Dot Operator [Technical Blog] 27 Jul 2011 Updated: 27 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,481 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I want a conditional dot operator
Go	New features the .NET framework should have [Technical Blog] 25 May 2010 Updated: 25 May 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,741 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I recently wrote a class called CPTrie that stores a sorted collection of strings or integers in less space than a Dictionary or SortedDictionary. It took a long time to develop this data structure in .NET while minimizing memory and CPU usage. I am fairly convinced that without some of .NET's restr
Javascript	Building a Table of Contents in JavaScript [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2014 Updated: 13 Jan 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: LGPL3 Views: 16,331 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building a table of contents in JavaScript

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C#	StringBuilder Extensions [Tip/Trick] 9 Nov 2016 Updated: 9 Nov 2016 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,762 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An alternative set of StringBuilder Extension methods that is closer to the methods of System.String.
	Converting Files to C# Source Code [Tip/Trick] 15 Mar 2017 Updated: 15 Mar 2017 Rating: 4.19/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.99 Licence: Public Domain Views: 27,291 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A trick you can do with enhanced C#
	Let's randomize IEnumerable [Tip/Trick] 12 Oct 2011 Updated: 12 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,360 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Shuffle in O(N) time, vastly faster than the original version that calls RemoveAt().static Random r = new Random();public static IEnumerable Randomize(this IEnumerable source){ var list = source.ToList(); for (int i = 0; i < list.Count; i++) Swap(list, i,...
	Calculating the area of a polygon [Tip/Trick] 1 Jun 2013 Updated: 4 Jun 2013 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,542 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fast and simple algorithm.
	Using GetHashCode correctly [Tip/Trick] 12 Oct 2011 Updated: 12 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,810 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Assuming you are writing a class (not a struct), you can basically get a fixed random hashcode simply by NOT overriding GetHashCode() but inheriting the implementation from System.Object. Unfortunately the System.Object implementation is not documented in the standard .NET documentation[^] but I...

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C# 6.0

Graphing Calculator in C# with LES [Project]

11 Jun 2017 Updated: 12 Jun 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.99

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It has 41 features in about 1000 lines of code* - but only 3 lines are needed to parse the expressions you type in. Uses WinForms, BackgroundWorker, GDI+ and LES.

Qwertie

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Since I started programming when I was 11, I wrote the SNES emulator "SNEqr", the FastNav mapping component, the Enhanced C# programming language (in progress), the parser generator LLLPG, and LES, a syntax to help you start building programming languages, DSLs or build systems.

My overall focus is on the Language of your choice (Loyc) initiative, which is about investigating ways to improve interoperability between programming languages and putting more power in the hands of developers. I'm also seeking employment.

Articles by Qwertie (Articles: 33, Project: 1, Technical Blogs: 9, Tip/Tricks: 5)

Articles: 33, Project: 1, Technical Blogs: 9, Tip/Tricks: 5

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