Coding Day

What a nice morning after everything… It has been more than a week since I finished my coursework which means that I unofficially finished my masters. Things are started to change now, I really didn’t understand how this month has passed and couldn’t believe it’s just finished. Well the truth is I enjoyed every single moment of and very happy about it. Something is going to happen soon, I’ll tell you later but fingers crossed for the moment…

Back to business, the source code of the .NET Framework will be released under MS-RL license. Moreover debugging from Visual Studio, looking to the source locally will be possible. What an announcement! I just couldn’t believe it. Since the BCL Team insisted on the comments, I really wonder about the comments, as well as the code.

Have you ever wanted to look inside some of the BCL methods? Have you ever wondered about some exception thrown by our code? Are you curious to see what comments BCL developers write in their code?

Well yes to all those questions. This is a big step for the developer community. Previously Rotor is available as a research license but we weren’t sure it was the real .NET framework also it wasn’t usable from Visual Studio. Although the current license will allow only as a reference the code rather than using, I assume there will be some further movements to be more open, we’ll see. Also now you could see the news on Slashdot and digg so everybody is talking about it which is absolutely perfect

I posted an article to The Code Project for an image control. The basic idea for developing that is to write e-mail addresses as images using various formatting options on web applications.

Labels are generated as images instead of text, to have more privacy without any configurations and without HttpHandlers

ImageLabel is an ASP.NET web control for generating labels as images. You might want to do that for providing security for e-mail crawlers or to disallow copy paste of the text. Many similar controls have implemented as HttpHandlers, so you need more configuration to make them work. However this control does not need any configuration. You just need to use just like any other asp.net control like Label. Almost all of the label formatting options are included, like font size, backcolor, forecolor. Although this is not implemented as a CAPTCHA control, that functionality can easily added to image generation method.

ImageLabel Control at CodeProject

I think it is a good way to understand page and control life cycle using that control, if you are wondered about them. Beside that, if you like the article you can vote for me if you want to

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