Articles by Dennis C. Dietrich (Articles: 5)

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Windows Forms	Writing effect plug-ins for Paint.NET 2.1 in C# 2 Jan 2005 Updated: 10 May 2005 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.92 Licence: Not specified Views: 94,750 Bookmarked: 55 Downloaded: 1,823 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is an introduction on how to create your own effect plug-ins for Paint.NET 2.1 in C#.
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C#	How to check for user inactivity with and without platform invokes in C# 19 Dec 2004 Updated: 22 Dec 2004 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 67 Popularity: 8.86 Licence: Not specified Views: 299,123 Bookmarked: 179 Downloaded: 7,410 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Within the last month, two fellow programmers asked how to implement a timeout after a certain interval of inactivity. This article features four and a half ways of doing this.
MSIL	Unexpected Garbage Collection Results Courtesy of Your Compiler 9 Aug 2013 Updated: 9 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 18,552 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Clarifying how the .NET GC identifies objects to collect once and for all... hopefully...
VBScript	Erasing data on free space on NTFS partitions 4 Sep 2004 Updated: 19 Sep 2004 Rating: 4.13/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.88 Licence: Not specified Views: 61,810 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 691 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A VBScript that overwrites free disk space to prevent file recovery on a NTFS partition, by creating a file with random data and (mostly) the size of the free space.
Visual Basic	How to enable a control on double click in Visual Basic .NET 10 Sep 2004 Updated: 10 Sep 2004 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.86 Licence: Not specified Views: 67,195 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 184 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple class written in Visual Basic .NET which enables disabled controls on double click.