I found another way. The physical size of the monitor are stored in the EDID, and Windows are almost always copies of its value in the registry. If you can parse EDID, you can read the width and height of the monitor in centimeters. Update: Added code BOOL GetMonitorDevice( TCHAR* adapterName, DISPLAY_DEVICE &ddMon ) { … Read more
Eric Lippert talks about this in his blog: Locks and exceptions do not mix The equivalent code differs between C# 4.0 and earlier versions. In C# 4.0 it is: bool lockWasTaken = false; var temp = obj; try { Monitor.Enter(temp, ref lockWasTaken); { body } } finally { if (lockWasTaken) Monitor.Exit(temp); } It relies on … Read more
A monitor is mechanism to control concurrent access to an object. This allows you to do: Thread 1: public void a() { synchronized(someObject) { // do something (1) } } Thread 2: public void b() { synchronized(someObject) { // do something else (2) } } This prevents Threads 1 and 2 accessing the monitored (synchronized) … Read more
Since the window is not yours, you can only move it by invoking the Windows API. You will have to do this: Launch the process. Use FindWindow to retrieve the handle to the window. If the window doesn’t exist yet, the process hasn’t created it yet; sleep for 500ms and then try again. (But don’t … Read more
The Wikipedia article has a pretty good description of what a “Monitor” is, as well as its underlying technology, the Condition Variable. Note that the .NET Monitor is a correct implementation of a condition variable; most published Win32 implementations of CVs are incorrect, even ones found in normally reputable sources such as Dr. Dobbs. This … Read more
The code is older than that – I wrote it some time before .NET 2.0 came out. The concept of a producer/consumer queue is way older than that though 🙂 Yes, that code is safe as far as I’m aware – but it has some deficiencies: It’s non-generic. A modern version would certainly be generic. … Read more