WebSockets managed and SignalR client in Cpp

A managed implementation of WebSocket and a SignalR client implemented in cpp. This comes from Asp.net vNext effort. Cool.

Swift Substrings

An elegant design heavily based on protocols. The question is: is it  really fast?

Swift Substrings.

Using .NET HttpClient to capture partial Responses

Some tricks to control how many bytes are read from TCP/IP or how to read only 1000 bytes:

Using .NET HttpClient to capture partial Responses – Rick Strahl’s Web Log.

This post discusses relations between low level TCP/IP buffering and HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead, request.AllowReadStreamBuffering/AllowWriteStreamBuffering, using TcpClient directly and range (httpclient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Range = new RangeHeaderValue(0, size);)

Win32 API Hooking

The father Microsoft Research – Detours (Detours Professional is available but at a 12 739€ a prohibitive cost),

An article detailing used notions API Hooking with MS Detours

EasyHook starts where Microsoft Detours ends with an discussion of hooking ExtTextOut and DrawText,

API hooking revealed : in depth injection and interception technics analysis.

Beware of Method and system for dynamic interception of function calls to dynamic link libraries into a windowed operating system.

Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse – GitHub

This free open source tool for Mac OSX allow you to manipulate almost every Window with simple keyboard shortcuts: eczarny/spectacle · GitHub.