C#

public void SetText(Control control, string text) {
    if (control.InvokeRequired) {
        control.Invoke(new ControlStringConsumer(SetText), new object[]{control, text});  // invoking itself
    } else {
        control.Text=text;      // the "functional part", executing only on the main thread
    }
}

if (this.OutputConsole.InvokeRequired) {
   this.OutputConsole.Invoke(
      new OutputConsoleUpdater(delegate(string s) { this.OutputConsole.AppendText(s + "\r\n"); }),
      text);
} else {
    this.OutputConsole.AppendText(text + "\r\n");
}

this.OutputConsole.Invoke(
   new OutputConsoleUpdater(delegate(string s) { this.OutputConsole.AppendText(s + "\r\n"); }),
   text);

Bitmap RawImage = new Bitmap(Filename);

class TagInfo{
	public int tagOffset;
	public int tagLength;

	public TagInfo(){
	}
}

//	Dictionary to hold Taginfo Objects
System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<int, TagInfo>; TagInfoDictionary = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<int, TagInfo>();

private void buildMetaData()
{
	
	Record record = getData();
	int offset = IMGREC_TAGLIST_INDEX;
	int numTags = 0 ;
	short tagID = 0;

	try
	{
		numTags = this.getNumberOfTags() ;

		for (int i=0; i < numTags; i++){
			TagInfo info = new TagInfo();

			info.tagOffset = offset;
			info.tagLength = TagRecord.TAG_DATA_INDEX + record.readInt(offset + TagRecord.TAG_DATALEN_INDEX);
			tagID = record.readShort(offset + TagRecord.TAG_ID_INDEX);
			offset += info.tagLength;

			//	Add to the dictionary
			this.TagInfoDictionary.Add(tagID, info);

			Console.WriteLine("tagID = " + tagID);
		}
	}catch (Exception ex){}
	finally{}

	this.imageOffset = offset;
	this.imageSize = record.getLength() - offset;
}

public TagRecord getTagByID(short id)
{
	TagRecord record = null;
	
	//	Get from dictionary
	TagInfo info = this.TagInfoDictionary[id];
	if (info != null){
		byte[] data = this.getData().read(info.tagOffset,info.tagLength);
		record = new TagRecord(data);
	}

	return record;
}

'a'
"a"[0]
(char)97

a character literal
the way to get the first character of a string
a number cast to a character

char ascee='0';
char uniquode=Encoding.UTF8.GetChars(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(new char[]{ascee}))[0];

Luc Pattyn wrote:

allow some slack for VB coders

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

I have no idea what PDB files do