doogal.co.uk - C# code and other stuff



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Welcome to my website. I hope you enjoy it. I'm Doogal Bell (also occasionally known as Chris). My main interest these days is in .NET development, there are a few pages here devoted to it. In a previous existence I also did a fair amount of Delphi development, which is also covered on a few pages. I also help run The London Random Pub Finder, home to some very entertaining pub reviews (developed in PHP which I've dabbled in). I have a blog, that gets updated much more frequently than this site. Finally, I am not related to Doogal of the Magic Roundabout, although it's quite likely that that is how you've stumbled across this site.

Licensing - Any of the source code on this site is available under a public domain license, which means you can do what you like with it. I retain copyright to everything else on the site (except Jethro's stuff which is copyrighted to him).

Most popular content

1. C# Exception logger - log unhandled exceptions in your WinForms app
2. C# Transparent label - a WinForms label that renders with a transparent background
3. C# Postcode to OS coordinates - convert UK postcodes to OS coordinates and longitude/latitude with some screen scraping from Streetmap
4. Google Maps lat/long finder - find the latitude and longitude of locations by clicking on a map
5. C# INI file class - read INI files from .NET
6. London postcodes - an incomplete list of London postcodes and their OS coordinates
7. ASP.NET login control - an ASP.NET control that could be used for logging in users, now somewhat redundant due to the login control that comes with ASP.NET 2
8. C# web crawler - A little app that randomly crawls round the web
9. Google Maps UK postcode geocoding - get the latitude and longitude from a postcode
10. Photos of Lola

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What's new

17th June Whilst waiting for a new job to turn up, added an example of how to show Street View in a popup window.
16th May You can now add comments to the pages on the site, lets see if anybody other than spammers does
8th May Somebody is actually using the RSS generator so I've updated it so it works in ASP.NET 2
24th April Added the Google Maps directions finder to show how to implement getting directions for routes with multiple waypoints
23rd April The Google Maps latitude/longitude finder has been improved to use Street View to get more accurate positioning
23rd March Added a very incomplete list of UK postcodes with their latitude and longitude
2nd January Added the Google Maps postcode geocoding example
1st January Added the Virtual Earth version of the polyline code generator