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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;

namespace CssSpriteGenerator
{
    public class CombineRestrictionUtils
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns true if the two given combine restrictions are combinable. That is, if
        /// two images with these restrictions could be combined into a sprite.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="cr1"></param>
        /// <param name="cr2"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static bool Combinable(CombineRestriction cr1, CombineRestriction cr2)
        {
            if ((cr1 == CombineRestriction.None) || (cr1 == CombineRestriction.Null) ||
                (cr2 == CombineRestriction.None) || (cr2 == CombineRestriction.Null))
            {
                // None and Null can be combined with anything
                return true;
            }

            // Neither is None or Null. So they must be the same in order to be combinable.
            return cr1 == cr2;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the most restrictive of two combine restrictions.
        /// If they are equally restrictive, any of the two may be combined.
        /// 
        /// Note that this method does not check whether the two combine restrictions are actually
        /// combinable.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="cr1"></param>
        /// <param name="cr2"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static CombineRestriction MostRestrictive(CombineRestriction cr1, CombineRestriction cr2)
        {
            if ((cr1 == CombineRestriction.None) || (cr1 == CombineRestriction.Null))
            {
                return cr2;
            }

            if ((cr2 == CombineRestriction.None) || (cr2 == CombineRestriction.Null))
            {
                return cr1;
            }

            // Neither is None or Null, so they are both equally restrictive. Just pick one.
            return cr1;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Compares two combine restrictions.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="cr1"></param>
        /// <param name="cr2"></param>
        /// <returns>
        /// greater than 0: cr1 is more restrictive than cr2
        /// 0: they are both equally restrictive
        /// smaller than 0: cr1 is less restrictive than cr2
        /// </returns>
        public static int Compare(CombineRestriction cr1, CombineRestriction cr2)
        {
            if ((cr1 == CombineRestriction.None) || (cr1 == CombineRestriction.Null))
            {
                if ((cr2 == CombineRestriction.None) || (cr2 == CombineRestriction.Null))
                {
                    return 0;
                }
                else
                {
                    return -1;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if ((cr2 == CombineRestriction.None) || (cr2 == CombineRestriction.Null))
                {
                    return 1;
                }
                else
                {
                    return 0;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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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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