Daniel Vasquez Lopez .NET Blog

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Daniel Vasquez Lopez: 03.2004

The action being performed on this control is being called from the wrong thread. "The action being performed on this control is being called from the wrong ...

Daniel Vasquez Lopez: 06.2004

How to Ping in C# using System.Management. If you are using Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or above perhaps you might want to avoid using unsupported code ...

Daniel Vasquez Lopez: 05.2004

P/Invoke Add-in for Visual Studio.NET. This is a very, very useful tool that can help you to find quickly the P/Invoke definition for almost any Win32 API ...

Daniel Vasquez Lopez: 04.2004

Use Buffer.BlockCopy instead of Array.Copy for better performance. Buffer.BlockCopy is faster than Array.Copy when you are copying primitive arrays (arrays ...

Daniel Vasquez Lopez: 08.2004

The OVERLAPPED structure in C#. The OVERLAPPED structure is widely used in the Win32 functions (some examples are the functions ReadFile, WriteFile, ...

Daniel Vasquez Lopez: Win32Exception class forgotten

Win32Exception class forgotten. It’s very common to see people (and books) declaring the FormatMessage Win32 API function in . ...

Daniel Vasquez Lopez: Marshal.SizeOf returns 1 for System.Char

Marshal.SizeOf returns 1 for System.Char. As you might know, in .NET all strings are Unicode, because of that, the size of a System. ...

Daniel Vasquez Lopez: How to clear the Downloaded Cache ...

How to clear the Downloaded Cache programatically? The most important thing that you must considerate before clear the Downloade Cache programmatically it's ...

Daniel Vasquez Lopez: Enabling XP Visual Style in Windows Forms

Enabling XP Visual Style in Windows Forms. Back to the .NET Framework version 1.0, the requirement to enable Windows XP Visual Style in a Windows Forms ...