Articles by Luc Pattyn (Articles: 7, Tip/Tricks: 13)

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Operating Systems
Windows	Code Rescue: Copying code from CodeProject to Visual Studio 30 Jul 2007 Updated: 30 Jul 2007 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,890 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 290 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ow to copy code snippets with Internet Explorer while preserving newlines and indentation
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C#	Facts and Fallacies of Events in C# 24 Jul 2007 Updated: 24 Jul 2007 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 7.63 Licence: CPOL Views: 94,094 Bookmarked: 64 Downloaded: 654 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Delegates: how to add them to an event, how they get removed and when that is necessary
	Timer surprises, and how to avoid them 2 Feb 2007 Updated: 2 Feb 2007 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 72 Popularity: 8.93 Licence: CPOL Views: 204,999 Bookmarked: 98 Downloaded: 3,619 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple app demonstrates unexpected behavior of .NET timers and Thread.Sleep(); native multimedia timers come to the rescue.
	LP#TrayIconBuster 16 Jul 2007 Updated: 21 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 113,371 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 5,214 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A utility that removes phantom icons from the Icon Tray
	CP Vanity 22 Mar 2010 Updated: 8 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 80 Popularity: 9.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 213,259 Bookmarked: 67 Downloaded: 1,774 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A viewer for CodeProject's recently introduced reputation information; futile, but fun
C# 4.0	LPTextFileDiff: another textfile compare utility. 27 Aug 2009 Updated: 31 Aug 2009 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 39 Popularity: 7.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 92,599 Bookmarked: 64 Downloaded: 981 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My entry to the lean-and-mean programming competition.
Web Development
ASP.NET	PRE tags galore: LPCodeRecognizer 4 Jan 2010 Updated: 24 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,206 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 259 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. From automatic code recognition to fully automated code snippet pasting; no more missing PRE tags!

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C#	Counting Lines in a String [Tip/Trick] 10 Jan 2012 Updated: 10 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,360 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "Counting Lines in a String".
	See If a Flags Enum is Valid [Tip/Trick] 11 May 2011 Updated: 11 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,400 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "See If a Flags Enum is Valid".
	Partial DateTime Object Equality [Tip/Trick] 9 Oct 2011 Updated: 9 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,060 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "Partial DateTime Object Equality".
	Validating Dates in dd-MMM-yyyy format [Tip/Trick] 13 May 2010 Updated: 13 May 2010 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,001 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "Validating Dates in dd-MMM-yyyy format"
	WebBrowser shows File-less local Image [Tip/Trick] 10 Jun 2010 Updated: 11 Jun 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,064 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Showing an image in a WinForm WebBrowser without using files
	Following Object Inheritance [Tip/Trick] 25 Jul 2010 Updated: 25 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,431 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "Following Object Inheritance"
	How to Generate Many Random Various Numbers? [Tip/Trick] 31 Aug 2011 Updated: 6 Sep 2011 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,202 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "How to Generate Many Random Various Numbers?"
	Convert RGB to Gray Scale Without Using Pointers [Tip/Trick] 13 Jan 2012 Updated: 13 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,401 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "Convert RGB to Gray Scale Without Using Pointers".
	Extension Methods to Reverse a String and StringBuilder Object [Tip/Trick] 1 Jan 2011 Updated: 1 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,890 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "Extension Methods to Reverse a String and StringBuilder Object".
	Extension Methods to Reverse a String and StringBuilder Object [Tip/Trick] 1 Jan 2011 Updated: 1 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,121 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. And even simpler, faster and better would be this:public static string ReverseCA(string s) { char[] chars=s.ToCharArray(); Array.Reverse(chars); return new string(chars);}Whatever the string's length, only three objects get created; and all characters get copied three...
C# 4.0	L33t Tr4nsl4t0r (Leet Translator) [Tip/Trick] 7 Jun 2011 Updated: 13 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,431 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "L33t Tr4nsl4t0r (Leet Translator)".
Java	Week Numbers According to ISO8601 [Tip/Trick] 7 Mar 2010 Updated: 7 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,631 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is an alternative to "Week Numbers According to ISO8601".
Web Development
HTML	Using PRE tags on Code Project [Tip/Trick] 3 Sep 2009 Updated: 16 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 66 Popularity: 8.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 170,571 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use PRE tags to preserve formatting, and improve readability of code snippets or tabular data in posts.

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Luc Pattyn

Software Developer (Senior)

Belgium

I am an engineer with a background in electronics, software and mathematics.

I develop technical software, both for embedded systems and for desktop equipment. This includes operating systems, communication software, local networks, image processing, machine control, automation, etc.

I have been using all kinds of microcontrollers and microprocessors (Intel 4004/8080/8051/80386/Pentium, Motorola 680x/680x0/ColdFire/PowerPC, Microchip PIC, Altera NIOS, and many more), lots of programming languages (all relevant assemblers, Fortran, Basic, C, Java, C#, and many more), and different operating systems (both proprietary and commercial).

For desktop applications and general development tools I have been using both UNIX systems and Mac/MacOS for many years, but I have switched to x86-based PCs with Windows, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework several years ago.

I specialize in:
- cross-platform development (making software that runs on diverse hardware/OS combinations)
- instruction set simulation
- improving software performance, i.e. making sure the software runs the job at hand in as short a time as possible on the given hardware. This entails algorithm selection, implementation design, accurate measurements, code optimisation, and sometimes implementing virtual machines, applying SIMD technology (such as MMX/SSE), and more.