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Everything I wrote on my previous blogs at cumps.be between 2004 and 2014: C# and .NET, a series on design patterns, my Microsoft internship, SQL Server, and plenty of Windows tweaking. My study notes for exam 70-536 (.NET Framework 2.0) are here too.
NSurvey - Matrix Questions
NSurvey supports matrix questions in its surveys. The only problem with this type of question was that in the reporting section of NSurvey, it listed each…
NSurvey - Microsoft Layout
As this application was going to collect feedback from Microsoft events, it had to look like it belonged to Microsoft, and it had to be designed…
NSurvey - Survey Overview
The first thing I noticed is the small dropdown in the admin section listing all available surveys. This would become my starting point for users, a…
NSurvey
For one of the projects I had to do, I had to create an online survey application, which would be used to gather feedback from Microsoft events. Up until…
Reflector
One of the tools I had in my toolbox was Reflector. This tool is written by Lutz Roeder and allows you to examine a .NET assembly. Through the use of…
Boxing/Unboxing In .NET
In the .NET Framework there is a feature called boxing, which goes hand in hand with unboxing. Boxing is an implicit conversion of a value-type to the…
Imagine Cup
Important note (to not get confused): The text below (and the future ones) is written in the past tense, because they are text that have to go into a book…
A* Algorithm
The A algorithm works with two lists, an open-list and a closed-list. The open-list is the list of nodes to be checked, while the closed-list already has…
Binary Heaps
A pathfinder has to be very fast, but when we take a look at the performance we notice that working with the open-list is the bottleneck.