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How to make a Print Screen on Microsoft Source using WPF
Nov 1st
After we took a look inside of Microsoft Surface, let’s see how to take a later look on the surface, by creating printscreens of the application.
In some WPF applications you’ll need to take a quick screenshot of the user’s screen, allowing him (or them, in case of Multi User Surface) for later reviewing. Now, on Surface there can be only one full screen and active application. So it use the entire screen of the device.
Here are the steps in order to accomplish that:
First, we need to add to Visual Studio project the references to the libraries that we’ll use:
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C# .Net using Post with HTTPWebRequest
Aug 8th
Just a reminder for posterity : posting with .Net its so easy! Check out the Cocoa touch framework to realize the difference!
public string Post(string url, string data) {
string strReturn = null;
try
{
//Encoding the post vars
byte[] buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
//Initialisation with provided url
HttpWebRequest WebReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
//Set method to post, otherwise postvars will not be used
WebReq.Method = "POST";
WebReq.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
WebReq.ContentLength = buffer.Length;
Stream PostData = WebReq.GetRequestStream();
PostData.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
//Closing is always important
PostData.Close();
//Get the response handle, we have no true response yet
HttpWebResponse WebResp = (HttpWebResponse)WebReq.GetResponse();
//information about the response
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