Tag Archives: c#

EXIF Quick Reference

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: February 19, 2010
Over the past few years, I've used the EXIF data stored by modern digital cameras in a couple of programs I've worked on. Having access to the date the photo was taken - or which way the camera was rotated when it was - is useful information to have. Even though it's relatively easy to do, finding the right identifier for the information you want is much harder than it should be. This page fills that niche - the most useful/popular EXIF properties in an easy-to-find format.
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Sending Email with PowerShell: Implicit and Explicit SSL

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: December 13, 2009
I never quite understood the attraction of scripting; sure, not having to set up the scaffolding code of a more formal language is nice, but the limitations of the environment just seemed too great.  The Unix community has it far better than the Windows community in this regard; shell scripting can accomplish amazing feats – [...]
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ECE 150 Programming Samples

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: September 21, 2009
This term, I’ve been given a position as a teaching assistant for ECE 150: Introduction to Programming at the University of Waterloo. In the spirit of learning, I’ve decided to put together a handful of applications over the course of the term in order to demonstrate various features of the C# language for programming beginners.
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XAML: Not Just for UI (part II)

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: July 20, 2009
Continuing from part I in the series, this post describes some of the tricky bits for implementing your own XAML-based test data loading infrastructure. For those that haven’t read part I, the story to this point is that XAML can be used to do some things that are completely unrelated to user interfaces – like loading [...]
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XAML: Not Just for UI

By Nicholas Armstrong | Published: July 12, 2009
XAML is somewhat of a niche language: developers outside of the .NET world rarely have heard of it, and those that have heard about it - .NET developers or not - often treat it as a language used exclusively for UI design. So it's mostly those of us in the XAML niche - those that write user interfaces for a living - that know its secret: XAML itself has nothing to do with UI. And it can be rather useful in other scenarios if you know to use it.
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