Articles by Steffen Ploetz (Articles: 35, Tip/Tricks: 25)

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Desktop Programming
X11	Programming Xlib with Mono Develop - Part 3: Motif widgets (proof of concept) 17 Sep 2013 Updated: 17 Sep 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,443 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 252 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to call native Xm API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little Motif widget application.
	Programming Xlib with Mono Develop - Part 4: FWF Xt widgets 7 Nov 2013 Updated: 7 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,124 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 338 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use Free Widget Foundation Xt compatible widgets from Mono Develop C#
	Unleash the power of list and tree widget (C# X11) 13 Aug 2014 Updated: 13 Aug 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,550 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 150 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get out the maximum from the Roma Widget Set's list and tree widgets in C#.
	Programming the Roma Widget Set (C# X11) - a zero dependency GUI application framework - Widget set 4 Oct 2014 Updated: 9 Mar 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,640 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get out the maximum from the Roma widget set in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Short introduction of the widgets.
	Programming the Roma Widget Set (C# X11) - a zero dependency GUI application framework - Composite widgets 31 Mar 2014 Updated: 9 Mar 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,481 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to develop Linux/Unix (X11) GUI applications in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Description of composite widgets.
	Programming the Roma Widget Set (C# X11) - a zero dependency GUI application framework - Programming techniques 13 May 2014 Updated: 21 Oct 2015 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,192 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to develop Linux/Unix (X11) GUI applications in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Description of simple widgets.
	Programming transparent and gradient output without Cairo (C# X11) - a proof of concept 3 Aug 2015 Updated: 3 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,511 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 339 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to draw transparent and gradient output on a X11 window unsing the (low level API) XRender protocol extension for X11.
	Programming Cairo Text Output Beyond the 'toy' text API (C# X11) - A Proof of Concept 15 Jul 2014 Updated: 14 Mar 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,932 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 224 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Draw text using Cairo from C# with full control over character positioning, linebreaking, etc.
	Writing a XAML application for X11 and Windows drawing a chessboard to demonstrate DrawingBrush 14 Feb 2017 Updated: 14 Feb 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,530 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 172 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application utilizing the DrawingBrush with offset and tiles.
	Programming Xlib with Mono Develop - Part 2: Athena widgets (proof of concept) 8 Jul 2013 Updated: 14 Sep 2013 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,580 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 231 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to call native Xt API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little Athena widget application.
	Writing a XAML dialog application for X11 10 Oct 2014 Updated: 10 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,913 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 317 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article shows 'how to' a XAML based dialog application with the Roma Widget Set (Xrw) in C#
	Writing a XAML ribbon application for X11 29 Oct 2014 Updated: 29 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,145 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 618 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article shows 'how to' a XAML based ribbon application with the Roma Widget Set (Xrw) in C#
	Writing a XAML application for X11 with massive data binding and zero code 22 Nov 2014 Updated: 22 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,572 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 175 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application utilizing massive data binding with zero code.
	Writing a XAML application for X11 with UserControls 16 Aug 2015 Updated: 16 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,184 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 289 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application utilizing WPF UserControls.
	Writing a XAML 7 segment LCD display UserControl for X11 and Windows 30 Sep 2015 Updated: 30 Sep 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,395 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 833 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article introduces a XAML based 7 segment LCD display utilizing a WPF UserControl.
	Writing a XAML Minesweeper game for X11 and Windows 9 Nov 2015 Updated: 9 Nov 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,562 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 469 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article introduces a XAML based Minesweeper game with WPF.
	Programming Xlib with Mono Develop - Part 1: Low-level (proof of concept) 1 May 2013 Updated: 21 Jan 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,932 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 944 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to call native X11 API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little application.
Multimedia
OpenGL	First Steps to Make NoesisGUI, a WPF Competable Framework, Running on Linux with C# 14 Mar 2018 Updated: 18 Mar 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,594 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 250 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to run the -IntegrationSample- of the incredible feature-rich NoesisGUI, that might be the best WPF competitor, on Linux using MonoDevelop and C#.
	Getting startet with OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET for serious applications 21 Oct 2015 Updated: 26 Mar 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,459 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 1,543 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Check OpenGL as a basis for appealing applications, that are not necessarily games.
	A basic X3DOM editor based on OpenGL running on ReactOS (and consequently on Windows XP and newer versions) 16 May 2021 Updated: 16 May 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,150 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 318 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creation of a basic X3DOM editor based on OpenGL with as little code as possible, that is running on ReactOS and Windows, to check out the capabilities of X3DOM.
	First Steps / Tutorial: How to Start with TGUI (Running on SFML and Utilizing OpenGL) using Code::Blocks on Linux 15 Oct 2022 Updated: 5 Nov 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,002 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My way to have a first sample program running with "Texus' Graphical User Interface" (TGUI) - a cross-platform modern C++ immediate GUI, on which I use "Simple and Fast Multimedia Library" (SFML) as backend.
Programming Languages
C#	Parse, understand and demystify Enhanced Meta Files (EMF) with C# 27 Mar 2019 Updated: 27 Mar 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,886 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 677 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple approach to inspect Enhanced Meta File (EMF) content and find/fix inconsistencies. Easy to adopt to your specific purpose.
	Reflections on a GUI Toolkit Based on OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET for Serious Applications 24 Jan 2016 Updated: 24 Jan 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,793 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 160 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Check OpenGL as a basis for appealing applications, that are not necessarily games.
	More about OpenGL with C/C++ and C# on ReactOS (or Windows) 27 Oct 2019 Updated: 15 Mar 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,233 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 366 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Second step to a serious looking OpenGL application on plain old Win32 API for ReactOS (and also for Windows or WINE)
	Introduction to System.Windows.Forms on ReactOS with C# 31 Dec 2017 Updated: 19 Feb 2019 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,483 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 87 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to compile and run the first C# GUI application with System.Windows.Forms in ReactOS.
	LINQ and Performance 1 Nov 2022 Updated: 15 Nov 2022 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.13 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,121 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 21 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Is LINQ the right technology for processing large amounts of data in runtime-relevant environments?
XML	Abstract of the text rendering with OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET 24 Nov 2015 Updated: 27 Oct 2018 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,231 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 4,923 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Give an brief overview of text rendering options for OpenGL/OpenTK especially for MONO/.NET.
	A Very Simple Resource Compiler for .NET .resx Files on Non-Windows OS 8 Jan 2018 Updated: 8 Jan 2018* Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,748 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 129 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to provide multi-language resources from .NET compatible *.resx files for GUI applications on ReactOS (and other non-Windows OS like Linux)
Web Development
HTML	Programming the Roma Widget Set (C# X11) - a zero dependency GUI application framework - Introduction 20 Jan 2014 Updated: 9 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 7.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 90,063 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 2,166 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get out the maximum from the Roma widget in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Basics and description of concepts.
	A Universal Gauge for Your Web Dashboard 17 Jun 2013 Updated: 16 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 94,841 Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 4,450 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. JavaScript plugin gaugeSVG to generate widely configurable SVG gauge for a web dashboard
	A Basic Icon Editor Running on ReactOS (and Consequently on Windows XP and Newer Versions) 12 Dec 2019 Updated: 31 Jan 2021 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,309 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 1,302 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creation of a basic icon editor with as little code as possible, that is running on ReactOS and Windows, to check out the stability of application development capabilities on ReactOS
	Simple radial gradient implementation with XAML sample application for X11 (but without the need for any external library) 20 Sep 2016 Updated: 26 Sep 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,487 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 198 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to calculate a radial gradient and draw the output on a System.Drawing.Bitmap. And how to use this bitmap as a tile pixmap to fill any path.
	Writing a XAML application for X11 and Windows to create HTML help for assemblies 17 Mar 2017 Updated: 24 Mar 2017 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,181 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 246 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article introduces a small tool (much simpler than sandcaste help file builder) to create HTML help for .NET/MONO assemblies and reviews the XAML based approach to create GUI application with the Roma Widget Set XrwXAML.
	Writing a XAML calculator application for X11 2 Feb 2015 Updated: 2 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,546 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 818 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application with basic menu, clipboard & validation features.
	Writing a XAML application with geometry objects (shapes) for X11 12 Jun 2015 Updated: 12 Jun 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,144 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 938 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application with WPF geometry objects (shapes).

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Desktop Programming
	Extend the GNOME 2.x desktop menu [Tip/Trick] 11 Aug 2015 Updated: 11 Aug 2015 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,051 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to group applications into user defined menus of the GNOME desktop menu.
Win32	Yet Another Fully Functional ownerdraw Menu [Tip/Trick] 13 Jan 2020 Updated: 23 Jan 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,514 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 591 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Another fully functional ownerdraw menu with minimal effort - this time based on Win32, with icons instead of bitmaps, with accelerators and tested for ReactOS and WinNT 4.0 to Windows 10
	Guarantee Correct Spacing for toolbar Separators on Multiple TB_ADDBUTTONS Calls [Tip/Trick] 15 Jan 2020 Updated: 15 Jan 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,673 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A solution for: If the toolbar is created button by button with single TB_ADDBUTTONS calls, the width of the separators is not calculated correctly.
	Introduction to Embedded Icons without Resource on ReactOS [Tip/Trick] 21 Oct 2019 Updated: 21 Oct 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,261 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 56 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to embed icons into Win32 programs without utilizing resources - useful for platforms without resource editor/resorce compiler, e.g., ReactOS. Learn the missing things about the .ico format.
	Approach to Paste a Bitmap into an Icon Image on ReactOS (and Consequently on Windows XP and Newer Versions, using Win32 API) [Tip/Trick] 27 Dec 2020 Updated: 27 Dec 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,070 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 91 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Step-by-step instructions and source code snippets for inserting a bitmap (or a section of it) into an icon image.
	Automatically Disappearing Dialog, Used to Provide VERIFY and ASSERT on ReactOS [Tip/Trick] 8 Jan 2020 Updated: 8 Jan 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,141 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 28 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Automatically Disappearing Dialog
	Win32++ Programmatically Created Menus with Code::Blocks on ReactOS [Tip/Trick] 23 Jan 2020 Updated: 23 Jan 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,670 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Win32++ class library sample collection does not contain a sample, that creates the frame menu via API instead of via resources. Here is the missing part.
X11	Understand X11 graphics context functions by samples [Tip/Trick] 22 Sep 2016 Updated: 22 Sep 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,391 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This tip shall help to select the desired GCFunction for fill operations.
	Copy a GL Texture to Another GL Texture or to a GL Pixel Buffer and from a GL Pixel Buffer [Tip/Trick] 13 Oct 2018 Updated: 13 Oct 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,602 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use GL's pixel buffer object (PBO) to copy one texture to another
General Programming
Threads	Approach to Provide Modal UI Components (e.g. Dialogs) Without Blocking [Tip/Trick] 6 May 2016 Updated: 6 May 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,870 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to provide modal UI application components without leaving the UI thread or pause/block it
Hosted Services
Web Hosting	The Next Logical Step Using Azure Functions - How to Integrate a Native DLL via P/Invoke ([DllImport]) [Tip/Trick] 7 Feb 2020 Updated: 10 Feb 2020 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,200 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. YES, you can - use native DLLs in your Azure Functions via P/Invoke ([DllImport]) as you already know it from .NET Framework, and safe the code you have developed and maintained for decades with much effort and patience.
Multimedia
	Quality Losses (Related to Kerning) in Text Rendering for OpenGL with FreeType [Tip/Trick] 17 Dec 2022 Updated: 17 Dec 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,000 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. High-end quality in text rendering concerns not only the characters, but also the character spaces - and here FreeType is not quite up to date anymore: The kerning used by FreeType is not always available (especially with newer fonts).
OpenGL	Approach to Implement Modal Windows for OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET for Serious Applications [Tip/Trick] 5 Jun 2016 Updated: 5 Jun 2016 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,770 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to implement modal windows with OpenTK on Linux, that behave like dialog boxes on Windows
	Add Clipboard Text Consumer Capability to Your C# OpenGL App on X11 [Tip/Trick] 18 Feb 2019 Updated: 18 Feb 2019 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,691 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 56 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to realize text past functionality via inter process communication for your OpenTK based C# OpenGL application running on X11
	Add Clipboard Text Provider Capability to Your C# OpenGL App on X11 [Tip/Trick] 13 Feb 2019 Updated: 18 Feb 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,711 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 59 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to realize text copy functionality via inter process communication for your OpenTK based C# OpenGL application running on X11
	Geometric Primitives for OpenGL [Tip/Trick] 9 Mar 2021 Updated: 9 Mar 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,050 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Box, cylinder, cone and sphere construction for OpenGL with texture and light effects
	Light Source Features and Related Material Properties in OpenGL [Tip/Trick] 16 Apr 2021 Updated: 16 Apr 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,350 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Basic light source approaches and related material properties handling for OpenGL
	Introduction to OpenGL with C/C++ on ReactOS [Tip/Trick] 23 Sep 2019 Updated: 10 May 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,450 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Check whether ReactOS is able to run OpenGL, determine a convincing IDE and get started with the OpenGL on ReactOS.
Programming Languages
C	How to Set a New or Change / Exchange / Replace the Image of a Toolbar Button [Tip/Trick] 21 Feb 2021 Updated: 21 Feb 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 3,460 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My best practice approach to change the image of a toolbar button
C#	Investigate the Window Manager Shell Window ID [Tip/Trick] 10 Jul 2016 Updated: 10 Jul 2016 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,140 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 20 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Investigate the window manager's shell window ID and additional information of an OpenTK window.
	Minimalistic C# Application with GLUT Window on Linux [Tip/Trick] 9 Mar 2018 Updated: 9 Mar 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,050 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create an OpenGL (Mesa) window using C#, P/Invoke GLUT, GLU and GL libraries
	Introduction to C# on ReactOS [Tip/Trick] 23 Dec 2017 Updated: 19 Feb 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,185 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to compile and run the first C# application in ReactOS
	Are Speed Considerations Concerning List Still Important (Performance of Loyc's AList<T>)? [Tip/Trick] 11 Feb 2019 Updated: 11 Feb 2019 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,360 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 27 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Compare the speed of generic collections running on .NET Framework 4.6.1, .NET Core 2.1 and Mono/.NET 4.5 based on the framework's version of List against Loys's version of AList.
C++	STL: Amazing Speed Differences between std::vector and std::set (Observed with an UndoRedoAction). [Tip/Trick] 25 May 2021 Updated: 2 Jun 2021 Rating: 3.88/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,681 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why replacing std::vector with std::set sped up my UndoRedoAction class by about 20x
C++14	How to Return a String Class from a C++ Function/Method [Tip/Trick] 25 Oct 2020 Updated: 27 Dec 2020 Rating: 1.94/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 1.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,510 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use STL and C++14 to return a dynamically created string from a function/method, that is automatically garbage collected.

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Steffen Ploetz

Team Leader Celonis SA

Germany

I am currently the CEO of Symbioworld GmbH and as such responsible for personnel management, information security, data protection and certifications. Furthermore, as a senior programmer, I am responsible for the automatic layout engine, the simulation (Activity Based Costing), the automatic creation of Word/RTF reports and the data transformation in complex migration projects.

The main focus of my work as a programmer is the development of Microsoft Azure Services using C# and Visual Studio.

Privately, I am interested in C++ and Linux in addition to C#. I like the approach of open source software and like to support OSS with own contributions.

Articles by Steffen Ploetz (Articles: 35, Tip/Tricks: 25)

Articles: 35, Tip/Tricks: 25

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Desktop Programming

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