'api' tag RSSAlmost two years ago I wrote a post describing how to translate text using Azure cognitive services, however the API it uses is to be switched off and so I needed to migrate from the version 2 API to version 3. This post describes how I migrated my existing TranslationClient class.
Entries tagged with 'api' Articles and information on C# and .NET development topics
A short article which describes how to get a window rectangle without including offsets for drop shadows
I was recently updating some documentation and wanted to programmatically capture some screenshots of the application in different states. This article describes how you can easily capture screenshots in your own applications using the BitBlt Win32 API call.
I've released a new open source project named MantisSharp, a simple .NET client for working with the recently introduced REST API for Mantis Bug Tracker.
Some time ago, I used the Bing Translator API to help create localization for some of our products. As Microsoft recently retired the Data Market used to provide this service it was high time to migrate to the replacement Cognitive Services API hosted on Azure. This article covers using the basics of Azure cognitive services to translate text using simple HTTP requests.
In several of my applications, I need to be able to line up text, be it blocks of text using different fonts, or text containers of differing heights. As far as I'm aware, there isn't a way of doing this natively in .NET, however with a little platform invoke we can get the information we need to do it ourselves as this short article demonstrates.
An article which describes a robust yet simple way to have custom text when using the LabelEdit functionality of a TreeView and working around the limitations of Windows Forms using C# along with the TVM_GETEDITCONTROL and WM_SETTEXT messages.
How to add a horizontal scrollbar to a ComboBox in C# using the WS_HSCROLL style and CB_SETHORIZONTALEXTENT message.