Google Picasa Desktop Application

Google Picasa Desktop Application

Recently I have been developing a small windows application which interacts with the Picasa Web Albums Data API. Development has been in the C# programming language using Windows Forms as the GUI. The application allows a user to view/upload/download and search for public photos from the Google Picasa Web-service all from their desktop.

Cross-thread operation not valid

As I’ve been doing a lot of programming with win-forms, c# and c++ and making my applications multi-threaded – I came across a problem of allowing a newly created thread change the UI. I wanted to move away from using the BackgroundWorker class. Below I will discuss how to do this in c#.

C++ win-forms feed reader application

I have started to develop a win-forms based Visual C++ web feed reader application. The application basically extends the idea of the web based Ajax application I created for my Masters dissertation. I enjoyed developing the web application so much that I thought it would be interesting to develop one in the win-forms environment.

As usual more information can be found after the jump..

From web to desktop: DAY 1

I am currently working on developing a desktop based RSS reader application. Instead of a web application environment (see the post below) I am planning on using the win-form environment. Again the primary language will be C#. If all goes to plan I’ll try to post some screen shots and so you too can keep track of my progress. Screen shots from day 1 can be seen after the jump.

Undergraduate university projects

Final year project as part of undergraduate BSc in Software Engineering.

Language used: C++

Application: Network News Reader NNTP

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