Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
Rory and I and a guy with a camera filmed some videos about TechEd, conferences, architecture, technology, Don Box, underwear, whiteboarding, love, life and Exchange installs. Here's one. There may be more - watch for them! Actually, I'd love it if so many people watch this video of Rory and I in the bathroom that the server hosting it goes down! :)
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
I get some crazy questions emailed to me, presumably because of the blog. Most I can't answer, as I have a job and a wife, but some are too interesting not to. One fellow emailed me yesterday who's got a real world legacy system problem. So, since everyone is so concerned about VB6 support going away, I give you:
Getting a Shared Network Printer to work under DOS - A CheckList
Googling found these, I'm sure there are more:
Seems that if people care deeply about legacy systems, they will make things work. Now I'm off to get email from my C64...
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
Today I had a system that was sending me two base64'ed images in an XML response. The images were of the front and back image of a check. However, the requirement is to show a single composite check image at the browser with the front image stacked on top of the back image. Of course, it's got to be secure so no temp files, blah blah.
Here's the solution, done as an HttpHandler, so something like <img src="checkimage.ashx?whatever=4&something=6">
public class SomeCheckImageHandler : IHttpHandler
{
//some stuff snipped
public SomeCheckImageHandler(){}
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
context.Response.ContentType = "image/jpg";
//some stuff snipped
GetCheckImageRequest req = new GetCheckImageRequest();
//some stuff snipped, get the params from the QueryString
GetCheckImageResponse res = banking.GetCheckImage(req);
//some stuff snipped
if (res.ImageBack != null)
{
//merge them into one image
using(MemoryStream m = new MemoryStream(res.BackImageBytes))
using(Image backImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(m))
using(MemoryStream m2 = new MemoryStream(res.BrontImageBytes))
using(Image frontImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(m2))
using(Bitmap compositeImage = new Bitmap(frontImage.Width,frontImage.Height+backImage.Height))
using(Graphics compositeGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(compositeImage))
{
compositeGraphics.CompositingMode = CompositingMode.SourceCopy;
compositeGraphics.DrawImageUnscaled(frontImage,0,0);
compositeGraphics.DrawImageUnscaled(backImage,0,frontImage.Height);
compositeImage.Save(context.Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}
}
else //just show the front, we've got no back
{
using(MemoryStream m = new MemoryStream(frontImageBytes))
using(Image image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(m))
{
image.Save(context.Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}
}
}
}
I love it when .NET makes things this easy.
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
I have no words: http://classicvb.org/petition/
In other news, I demand that Leaded Gasoline be brought back to support my 1963 Ford Falcon.
Set VB6 = Nothing
'Nuff said.
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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