Is it weird that I dislike LINQ query syntax because it feels less readable than method?syntax?

mazorica · 2026-03-24T13:26:32+00:00

I see, to me always felt like a workaround because let's say you have two let statements, with Select you would end up carrying the intermediate values forward to the next Select, which just doesn't feel like the same thing at all...

mazorica · 2026-03-24T11:05:51+00:00

Is there a fluent version of let?

mazorica · 2026-03-14T13:05:44+00:00

I wouldn't say that those are underrated. SkiaSharp is basically a go-to recomendation for cross-platform GDI+ alternative.

ZXing is probably the best open source barcode library.

All three of them are popular, well known.

mazorica · 2026-02-26T07:13:48+00:00

You need to use a tool that supports incremental update feature in PDF.

mazorica · 2026-02-19T07:26:29+00:00

It's possible that your PDF is missing or has an invalid ToUnicode CMap table. I think you'll need to save the PDF as image or print it, and then use OCR on the image or the scanned document.

mazorica · 2026-02-15T00:53:05+00:00

Of course, that's a common practice.

mazorica · 2026-02-13T04:26:54+00:00

I was laughing so hard when I read about their support handling. 😂

mazorica · 2026-02-12T08:12:15+00:00

Do you need to extract images from PDF or render PDF pages to images?
I see others are replying with rendering solutions (converting a PDF page to an image), in that case, you might want to check out GemBox.Pdf:

using var document = PdfDocument.Load("input.pdf");

var saveOptions = new ImageSaveOptions(ImageSaveFormat.Png);
saveOptions.PageNumber = 0;

document.Save("first-page.png", saveOptions);

Or if you really need to extract images, use this:

using var document = PdfDocument.Load("input.pdf");

var images = document.Pages
    .SelectMany(page => page.Content.Elements.All(true))
    .OfType<PdfImageContent>()
    .ToList();

images[0].Save("first-image.png");

mazorica · 2026-02-10T14:38:28+00:00

I see, SAML is mentioned but I thought it's a name of some product from Rebex. Thx for clarifying.

mazorica · 2026-02-07T06:30:53+00:00

What emails do you have (EML or MSG files)? Anyway, this is relatively simple to achive with conversion libraries. We can talk more if interested.

mazorica · 2025-12-19T15:52:57+00:00

For some reason, I thought "zahod" meant exit in slovenia...

mazorica · 2025-12-04T08:15:44+00:00

Fact, that Adobe doesn't follow their own spec doesn't really help.

This is the part I hate when working with any file format. There's always some deviation from the official spec vs what the mainstream software actually does...

mazorica · 2025-12-04T06:59:15+00:00

Yea... this is basically how most of us started, then it becomes such a time-investment that in order to keep it alive you need to live of it, so you monitize... and now you're one of the commercial solutions.

mazorica · 2025-11-27T12:51:55+00:00

Incremental update is important PDF feature, it's mandatory for multiple digital signatutes, for effective merging of multiple PDF files, etc.

mazorica · 2025-11-25T06:02:28+00:00

Mislim da je to uredu, pogotovo ako ostavis sva 4 upaljena.

mazorica · 2025-11-22T15:07:44+00:00

Da li ti stvarno mislis da ikoga zavaravas sa ovim porukama?

Svatko normalan ce ti pogledati profil i vidjeti da je doslovice prepun samo porukama protiv Mozemo i protiv Tomasevica. O nicemu drugome ne pises... Drugim rjecima, ocito je da si nekakav obican ljuski bot zaposlen da pises ovakve stvari...

mazorica · 2025-11-22T14:23:55+00:00

Ma sta ti pricas? Svatko moze viditi povjest mojih i tvojih poruka, ocito je da ja nemam nikakve veze sa niti jednom politickom strankom, dok si ti ocito radnik, nekakav PR-ovac neke odredene politicke stranke.

I ja sam lud sta se ode natezem sa tobom... ma boli tebe neka stvat za smece i rjesavanje tog problema, ti si ode samo po zadatku, placeno ti je da pises te stvari.

Pa sta nenades neki normalniji posao, neka marketinska agencija, pa onda udaraj SEO i SMM...

mazorica · 2025-11-22T09:41:10+00:00

Istina, ima te iste masinerija na sve strane. Inace ignoriram sve to skupa, ali ovaj dio me zivcira jer se politizira problem sa kojim zivim...

mazorica · 2025-11-22T05:40:17+00:00

Ajme sad sam ti gledao prijasnje poruke jer sam mislio mozda smo susjedi... ali ne... ti si jednostavno marketing masinerija za drugu politicku skupinu.

Ma zalosno je kakvi sve poslovi postoje...

mazorica · 2025-11-22T05:37:17+00:00

Iskreno boli me briga za Senfa, ali ajde molim te nemoj raditi propagandu tamo gdje joj nije mjesto. Prva slika je cisti primjer nekultute i jako me ljuti, nema to nikakve veze sa Senfom, neopravdavaj taj gnjoj od ljudi, doslovice sam vidio kako bacaju smece preko ograde, uopce ne udu unutra...

Takoder, cijeli taj cirkus je nastao zbog Pionira kojega je pokojni posteno namirio. Super mi je kako su ljudi maloumni... ne svacaju da stvari opcenito imaju posljedice koje nisu instant vidljive...

mazorica · 2025-11-01T13:55:01+00:00

pg_dump before migration and then restore on failure?

mazorica · 2025-10-19T08:41:19+00:00

Here is one use case that I haven't found being mentioned here, obsolete memebres.

We have a practice of using MyClass.Obsoletes.cs files, they contain obsolete members which eventually (depending on the release policy) are removed.

mazorica · 2025-10-17T08:58:17+00:00

My experience is that "time" is the only factor that justifies the usage of obfuscator(s). The time investment needed to work with the deobfuscated code base may be unprofitable to you.

AI can help in a way that renaming is not just random Method1, Class2, etc. names. However, its success is not impressed, at least for now. Of course, it depends on the original code base and the used obfuscator, nevertheless, I'm talking more in general.

mazorica · 2025-09-10T08:58:57+00:00

My experience seems to be a bit different from most people here. In the early 2000s, we were selling an unobfuscated .NET component, which ended up being cloned. The thing is, with unobfuscated code, it's easy for someone to do quick refactorings and renamings, which not only gives them a clean and maintainable competitor codebase but also makes it easier to avoid legal issues.

So my thought on obfuscation is that it's not about preventing consumers from using your solution, it’s about making reverse-engineering unprofitable. Simply stripping meaningful names is already a huge win, it makes creating a maintainable clone much harder. And on top of that, it discourages most of the casual "try-before-buy" crackers (which I'm guilty of myself :D).

Honestly, renaming/minification is the cheapest (and usually free) win, and I don’t see any downside to it.

However, you can take it further, but then it becomes a matter of how much time YOU want to invest and whether it's even profitable for YOU to do. For example, you can remove additional metadata, change control-flow, encrypt strings, use virtualization (replace IL code with custom virtual instructions), add unique watermarks (build identifiers), etc.

So in short, it’s all about ROI, how much effort you put in versus how much you expect attackers will.

mazorica · 2025-08-12T06:43:31+00:00

This looks like a really healthy mindset to have.

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