The Cyotek Development Blog has moved - please find it at https://devblog.cyotek.com.
Although these pages remain accessible, some content may not display correctly in future as the new blog evolves.
I've recently been updating our series on dithering to include ordered dithering. However, in order to fully demonstrate this I also updated the sample to include basic color quantizing with a fixed palette.
While color reduction and dithering are related, I didn't want to cover both topics in a single blog post, therefore this post covers finding the nearest color via Euclidean distance.
StartSSL code signing certificates are crippled and your binaries no longer trusted once they have expired, even if they have been counter signed. Not to mention the other trust issues that StartSSL are experiencing.
A round up of the different software tools used by Cyotek over the past year.
A very short note on an unexpected log message which appeared when testing CopyTools FTP support.
A short article on at least one possible cause for the very unhelpful DEP0001 : Unexpected Error: -1988945902 error when trying to deploy a UWP application to a physical Windows Mobile phone.
A brief article showing how to display individual pages from a multi-page tiff file in the ImageBox control.
One of the nice things about the Visual Studio WinForms designers are the guidelines it draws onto design surfaces, aiding you in perfectly positioning your controls. These guidelines are known internally as snap lines, and by default each visual component inheriting from Control gets four of these, representing the values of the control's Margin property. However, this default designer doesn't include an implementation for the BaseLine snap line, which is used to align controls via their contained text. This article shows how to create a custom designer to allow your controls to easily include this alignment option.
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.
A short article on using command line tools for backing up databases hosted using Azure's SQL Database SaaS offering, and restoring them onto local SQL Server instances.
Some weeks ago I was trying to make parts of WebCopy's UI a little bit simpler via the expedient of hiding some of the more advanced (and consequently less used) options. And to do this, I created a basic toggle panel control. This worked rather nicely, and while writing it I thought I'd write a short article on adding keyboard support to WinForm controls.