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Over the period of time C# really became a mature programming language. Compared to other standard programming language it's new but it has already offered lots to the programmer and many more new features are being added in Framework 4.0. I was exploring today, how I can work with websites like "Gmail" through my program. This is not a hack but a standard way of logging into the website, to do our work and logout. In this section, I tried to show, using the C#.net 'web browser' class, how anyone can log in to the site by providing a username/password and logging out. In this section I've not shown any other operation, I'll try to cover that in the future. Add the WebBrowser control on a WinForm Add three Buttons, one for UserName/PWD, the second button for login, and the third button for logout from Gmail. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using Sy...

We've 26 alphabets in English and using ASCII code we're representing it in the computer system. As an example, 'A' is represented as 65 in decimal, and 'a' is represented as '97' in decimal. Now check the binary counterpart of 65 and 97. 65 = 01000001 97 = 01100001 From the above binary representation, it's quite clear that the upper case letter differs from the lower case letter in binary representation, exactly in a one-bit position. The above example shows these two codes differ in the 5th bit. This is true for all 26 English alphabets and can easily be deduced to an implementation in C++ to convert any lower-case English letter to an upper-case letter. The following code demonstrates it: #define toUpper(ch) ((ch >= 'a' && ch <='z') ? ch & 0x5f : ch) int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { printf("Upper case conversion: %c\n", toUpper('b')); return 0; } *Inspired by Great Peo...

Floating point normalization has a great usage for computing anything very near to accuracy. A floating point number is consists of: Mantissa or significand. Exponent. Say, I've a number 123.75. Its a floating point number. It has integer significand, 12375 and exponent -2. So arithmatic representation is 12375 x 10 -2 . How to normalize a floating point number? - By shifting the mantissa to left until a 1 appears in most significant bits(HO). Hence, the normalized representation will be 1.2375 x 10 +2 . Most of the time for normalized number this bit is hidden as it happens to be 1. This is hidden bit. Now the question when we can't normalize a floating point number? - There are two such situations: We can't normalize zero(0). The floating point representation of Zero doesn't contain any 1 bit. However, IEEE representation for +0 and -0 has different significance. We also can't normalize a floating point number whose most significant bits in mant...