If anyone has tried using the .NET Graphics API, they know that replacing pixel colors takes a long time to complete. I did some research and found a good source. This code will adjust the color to greyscale by Binary.
The page is http://www.navicosoft.com/software_articles/softwares_articles_index.html for more information. It is under Basic Image Processing in the list of articles.

Gives factorials for a given value.

Code snippet that prints MAC addresses for Ethernet type devices.

The modus operandi for this is similar to that taken by PHP's implementation of such functions. It's comparitively memory-intensive, but is much faster than running a whole bunch of tests.

Basically, you set a mask -- an array of 256 null bytes -- and set those that correspond to characters you wish to trim. Then, rather than having to test if a character is in the set of characters to trim(O(n), or linear time on *ws), you just test once (O(1), or unit time) to see if the byte in question is set.

And of course, to trim(), you just wrap trim() around both ltrim() and rtrim().

One point of caution: these functions trim in place, so copy strings before trimming them. (Of course, if you usually want access to both pre- and post-trimmed strings, you could always make these malloc() a new string and return a pointer to it . . . )

Dynamically Populate a CheckBoxList in C#

Unwind and Format Exception Stack

Prior to NETCF 2.0, this was a royal pain. Now, it's pretty straight-forward.

These three related functions provide basic Clipboard operations for text. While not terribly useful by themselves, they become more useful when attached to a field's context menu or, better yet, implemented in a custom control.

The best way I've found to keep a suite of CGI environment variables in my C CGI programs is actually just to read them as name-value pairs into a stack. It simplifies parsing and makes the code cleaner and less fragile than using a specialized structure or an ordered array of strings (as well, empty variables are simply not push()ed onto the stack, so memory doesn't have to be allocated for empty strings). Plus, since there are never a huge number of environment variables, and they are all unique (by definition), a search through the stack for a given name takes minimal time. In fact, retrieval of environment variables beats a PHP-like hash-table implementation by a good deal.

In the code below, all you have to keep in mind is that the NVStk is a name/value pair stack (implemented as a singly-linked list with each node containing two char*s). Variable retrieval times can be minimized by adjusting the order of variable names in the char**s passed to sgcgi_getenv(). In fact, the ones below are just about backwards from how they ought to be, since I forgot I was using a stack instead of a queue . . . *blush*

Of course, there are more environment variables you can get, but you have to draw the line between exhaustion and efficiency, and that depends on the project. The variables included here are pretty much overkill for any program you're likely to need.

A nice way to use these types of functions is to wrap them in an accessor function that gets the environment once and keeps it as a static variable, and then on subsequent calls just looks up values in its stack. (If you want to see the NVStk, I can put it up, but it's pretty much a basic linked list.)

This routine will get an image stored in a SQL database (IBM Informix shown here) as a BLOB and return it to the screen.

To place this on an HTML page simply add

I have an MD5 hashed version as well, but can't share that...(So you can have encrypted id's passed)

Have fun,
Jeremy

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