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Articles by Colin Angus Mackay (Articles: 11, Technical Blogs: 3)
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EuroCPian Spring 2004 Get Together
7 Jan 2004 Updated:
6 Mar 2004
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A central point for co-ordinating the EuroCPian's Spring 2004 Party in London
Autumn 2004 EuroCPian Get Together
10 Apr 2004 Updated:
25 May 2004
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The page for all the latest information on the second unofficial EuroCPian event in Brussels on the 4th September 2004
Desktop Programming
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Passing Values between Forms in .NET 1.x with C# and VB.NET examples
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This article provides an introduction to passing values between two forms in an application. The examples are written in C# and VB.NET and are targeted at .NET 1.1.
Mobile Apps
An International Hangman Game for the Pocket PC
29 May 2004 Updated:
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As globalization increases internationalized applications become more important. This hangman game is a fun introduction to some of the internationalization features of the .NET Compact Framework.
Windows Mobile
SQL Injection Attacks and Some Tips on How to Prevent Them
23 Jan 2005 Updated:
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Discusses various aspects of SQL Injection attacks, what to look for in your code, and how to secure it against SQL Injection attacks.
Programming Languages
C#
Using IEnumerator and IEnumerable in the .NET Framework
3 May 2003 Updated:
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An article on the .NET Framework's implementation of the Iterator pattern
A Simple Beep - Reminiscing about ZX Spectrum audio
21 May 2004 Updated:
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Driving the PC Speaker from .NET.
Test Driven / First Development by Example
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A step by step example of how to build up an algorithm by writing the unit tests first
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Help! My ViewState Is Out Of Control
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How to reduce the viewstate your application generates and the effects of its reduction.
Data Visualization with the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Controls
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An introduction on how to use Virtual Earth's ASP.NET Controls to show data on a map.
Introducing Xander.PasswordValidator
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Xander.PasswordValidator is an assembly (or two) that assists in validatating passwords in .NET applications.
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Injecting a Dependency into an IHttpModule with Unity [Technical Blog]
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How to inject a dependency into an IHttpModule with Unity
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Quick guide to Geolocation in JavaScript [Technical Blog]
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A quick guide to geolocation in JavaScript.
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Automatically Replacing an Image on an HTML Page When it is Not Found [Technical Blog]
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Colin Angus Mackay
Technical Lead
Scotland
Have been a Code Project MVP 5 years running and was Microsoft C# MVP 4 years running, MBCS, MIAP and a whole bunch of other stuff. Now I just help run
Scottish Developers
which is a user group with
software development events in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee
and I have also started an open source project to help with
Password Validation
Main topics I blog about:
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Parallelization in .NET
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Code Quality
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Data Security