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Generate CSS sprites and thumbnail images on the fly in ASP.NET sites

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9 Jun 2012CPOL64 min read 117.7K   2.8K   85  
Reduces page load times of ASP.NET web sites by combining page images and CSS background images into CSS sprites. Compresses and physically resizes images to make thumbnails. Caters for repeating background images.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;

namespace CssSpriteGenerator
{
    public class SizeUtils
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Determines whether the given Size has both unknown width and height
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="size"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static bool IsEmptySize(Size size)
        {
            return ((size.Width < 0) && (size.Height < 0));
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns true if both width and height of the given Size are set
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="size"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static bool IsCompleteSize(Size size)
        {
            return ((size.Width >= 0) && (size.Height >= 0));
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Takes a Size that is possibly missing a width or height, and returns a Size
        /// with both width and height filled in.
        /// 
        /// If both width and height are missing, than a Size with both width and height set to -1 
        /// is returned.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="incompleteSize">
        /// Possibly incomplete Size.
        /// </param>
        /// <param name="aspectRatio">
        /// Aspect ratio of the image. Can be used to derive one dimension from the other.
        /// 
        /// Aspect ratio is width / height.
        /// </param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static Size CompletedSize(Size incompleteSize, float aspectRatio)
        {
            if (IsEmptySize(incompleteSize)) { return new Size(-1, -1); }

            if (IsCompleteSize(incompleteSize)) { return incompleteSize; }

            // At this stage, precisely one of the dimensions is not given

            if (incompleteSize.Width >= 0)
            {
                return new Size(incompleteSize.Width, (int)Math.Floor(incompleteSize.Width / aspectRatio));
            }

            return new Size((int)Math.Floor(incompleteSize.Height * aspectRatio), incompleteSize.Height);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the area of a Size.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="size"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static long Area(Size size)
        {
            return (long)size.Width * size.Height;
        }

    }
}

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Twitter: @MattPerdeck
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/in/mattperdeck
Current project: JSNLog JavaScript Logging Package

Matt has over 9 years .NET and SQL Server development experience. Before getting into .Net, he worked on a number of systems, ranging from the largest ATM network in The Netherlands to embedded software in advanced Wide Area Networks and the largest ticketing web site in Australia. He has lived and worked in Australia, The Netherlands, Slovakia and Thailand.

He is the author of the book ASP.NET Performance Secrets (www.amazon.com/ASP-NET-Site-Performance-Secrets-Perdeck/dp/1849690685) in which he shows in clear and practical terms how to quickly find the biggest bottlenecks holding back the performance of your web site, and how to then remove those bottlenecks. The book deals with all environments affecting a web site - the web server, the database server and the browser.

Matt currently lives in Sydney, Australia. He recently worked at Readify and the global professional services company PwC. He now works at SP Health, a global provider of weight loss web sites such at CSIRO's TotalWellBeingDiet.com and BiggestLoserClub.com.

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