.NET on Remko's Blog

Modifying a .NET Application

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:31:03 +0000

I will explain why in a seperate post, but on my MacBook Pro I wanted to use the Intel Thunderbolt driver under BootCamp instead of the ones supplied by Apple.

The Thunderbolt control program however refused with the following error message:

It’s really beyond me why Intel would deliberately block their Thunderbolt software on Apple hardware (under Windows). Believing this was just a simple hardcoded hardware check rather than any hardware issue that would prevent the drivers to work I proceeded into finding where the check takes place.

Returning a string from unmanaged dll to .net

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:01:31 +0000

I write most of my code in unmanaged languages such as Delphi and C/C++. Sometimes customers ask me to interface my code to their .net code in which case I create a dll for them.

A recurring thing is that I need to return string to .net.

There are many ways to do this of course but in all cases we need to manage memory: who will allocate the memory for the string and who is responsible for freeing it?

Making String.IndexOf case insensitive

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:41:24 +0000

I don't do much programming in .NET based languages but I have to for some things like the Windows Live Writer plugin I am creating.

I didn't expect this but the String.IndexOf Method is by default case sensitive.

But we can make it case insensitive if we use one of the overloads: IndexOf(String, StringComparison).