.NET Core May 2020 Updates – 2.1.18 and 3.1.4 

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.NET Core 2.1.18 and .NET Core SDK ( Download  | Release Notes  

The .NET 7 release marks an exciting milestone in many ways, but one in particular that’s exciting for ASP.NET developers building distributed apps or apps designed to be cloud native and ready for dynamic horizontal scale out is the addition of the Orleans team to the broader .NET team. Bringing Orleans and ASP.NET Core closer together has led to some exciting ideas for the future of how we blend Orleans into the ASP.NET toolchain, and coupled with the huge advances in performance throughout .NET 7 are improvements to Orleans 7 that bring over 150% improvements to some areas of the Orleans toolchain. This post will introduce you to some of the new features in Orleans 7. 

Any experienced .NET developer knows that even though .NET applications have a garbage collector, memory leaks occur all the time. It’s not that the garbage collector has bugs, it’s just that there are ways we can (easily) cause memory leaks in a managed language.

Memory leaks are sneakily bad creatures. It’s easy to ignore them for a very long time, while they slowly destroy the application. With memory leaks, your memory consumption grows, creating GC pressure and performance problems. Finally, the program will just crash on an out-of-memory exception.

In this article, we will go over the most common reasons for memory leaks in .NET programs. All examples are in C#, but they are relevant to other languages.  

However, at the end of the day, it's good to remember that your initial regex along the lines of [a-z0-9.-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z0-9]+ is quite simply... wrong. 

 [Display(Name = "کد پستی")]    
[DataType(DataType.PostalCode)]
        [RegularExpression(pattern: @"\b(?!(\d)\1{3})[13-9]{4}[1346-9][013-9]{5}\b"),ErrorMessage ="کد پستی شما نادرست می‌باشد"]
        public string PostalCode { get; set; }

The PDF File Writer C# class library PdfFileWriter allows you to create PDF files directly from your .net application.
Most TrueType fonts such as Arial supports character values greater than 255. The PDF File Library allows you to perform a substitution. You can use any Unicode character and map it into the available one byte range.

// load the image and convert it to grayscale
var image = new Mat(fileName);
 
if (rotation != 0)
{
    rotateImage(image, image, rotation, 1);
}
 
if (debug)
{
    Cv2.ImShow("Source", image);
    Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
}
 
var gray = new Mat();
var channels = image.Channels();
if (channels > 1)
{
    Cv2.CvtColor(image, gray, ColorConversion.BgrToGray);
}
else
{
    image.CopyTo(gray);
}

// compute the Scharr gradient magnitude representation of the images
// in both the x and y direction
var gradX = new Mat();
Cv2.Sobel(gray, gradX, MatType.CV_32F, xorder: 1, yorder: 0, ksize: -1);
//Cv2.Scharr(gray, gradX, MatType.CV_32F, xorder: 1, yorder: 0);
 
var gradY = new Mat();
Cv2.Sobel(gray, gradY, MatType.CV_32F, xorder: 0, yorder: 1, ksize: -1);
//Cv2.Scharr(gray, gradY, MatType.CV_32F, xorder: 0, yorder: 1);
 
// subtract the y-gradient from the x-gradient
var gradient = new Mat();
Cv2.Subtract(gradX, gradY, gradient);
Cv2.ConvertScaleAbs(gradient, gradient);
 
if (debug)
{
    Cv2.ImShow("Gradient", gradient);
    Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
}

// blur and threshold the image
var blurred = new Mat();
Cv2.Blur(gradient, blurred, new Size(9, 9));
 
var threshImage = new Mat();
Cv2.Threshold(blurred, threshImage, thresh, 255, ThresholdType.Binary);
 
if (debug)
{
    Cv2.ImShow("Thresh", threshImage);
    Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
}
 
 
// construct a closing kernel and apply it to the thresholded image
var kernel = Cv2.GetStructuringElement(StructuringElementShape.Rect, new Size(21, 7));
var closed = new Mat();
Cv2.MorphologyEx(threshImage, closed, MorphologyOperation.Close, kernel);
 
if (debug)
{
    Cv2.ImShow("Closed", closed);
    Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
}
 
 
// perform a series of erosions and dilations
Cv2.Erode(closed, closed, null, iterations: 4);
Cv2.Dilate(closed, closed, null, iterations: 4);
 
if (debug)
{
    Cv2.ImShow("Erode & Dilate", closed);
    Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
}

//find the contours in the thresholded image, then sort the contours
//by their area, keeping only the largest one
 
Point[][] contours;
HiearchyIndex[] hierarchyIndexes;
Cv2.FindContours(
    closed,
    out contours,
    out hierarchyIndexes,
    mode: ContourRetrieval.CComp,
    method: ContourChain.ApproxSimple);
 
if (contours.Length == 0)
{
    throw new NotSupportedException("Couldn't find any object in the image.");
}
 
var contourIndex = 0;
var previousArea = 0;
var biggestContourRect = Cv2.BoundingRect(contours[0]);
while ((contourIndex >= 0))
{
    var contour = contours[contourIndex];
 
    var boundingRect = Cv2.BoundingRect(contour); //Find bounding rect for each contour
    var boundingRectArea = boundingRect.Width * boundingRect.Height;
    if (boundingRectArea > previousArea)
    {
        biggestContourRect = boundingRect;
        previousArea = boundingRectArea;
    }
 
    contourIndex = hierarchyIndexes[contourIndex].Next;
}
 
 
var barcode = new Mat(image, biggestContourRect); //Crop the image
Cv2.CvtColor(barcode, barcode, ColorConversion.BgrToGray);
 
Cv2.ImShow("Barcode", barcode);
Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events

 PM> Install-Package ZXing.Net

private static string getBarcodeText(Mat barcode)
{
    // `ZXing.Net` needs a white space around the barcode
    var barcodeWithWhiteSpace = new Mat(new Size(barcode.Width + 30, barcode.Height + 30), MatType.CV_8U, Scalar.White);
    var drawingRect = new Rect(new Point(15, 15), new Size(barcode.Width, barcode.Height));
    var roi = barcodeWithWhiteSpace[drawingRect];
    barcode.CopyTo(roi);
 
    Cv2.ImShow("Enhanced Barcode", barcodeWithWhiteSpace);
    Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
 
    return decodeBarcodeText(barcodeWithWhiteSpace.ToBitmap());
}
 
private static string decodeBarcodeText(System.Drawing.Bitmap barcodeBitmap)
{
    var source = new BitmapLuminanceSource(barcodeBitmap);
 
    // using http://zxingnet.codeplex.com/
    // PM> Install-Package ZXing.Net
    var reader = new BarcodeReader(null, null, ls => new GlobalHistogramBinarizer(ls))
    {
        AutoRotate = true,
        TryInverted = true,
        Options = new DecodingOptions
        {
            TryHarder = true,
            //PureBarcode = true,
            /*PossibleFormats = new List<BarcodeFormat>
                    {
                        BarcodeFormat.CODE_128
                        //BarcodeFormat.EAN_8,
                        //BarcodeFormat.CODE_39,
                        //BarcodeFormat.UPC_A
                    }*/
        }
    };
 
    //var newhint = new KeyValuePair<DecodeHintType, object>(DecodeHintType.ALLOWED_EAN_EXTENSIONS, new Object());
    //reader.Options.Hints.Add(newhint);
 
    var result = reader.Decode(source);
    if (result == null)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Decode failed.");
        return string.Empty;
    }
 
    Console.WriteLine("BarcodeFormat: {0}", result.BarcodeFormat);
    Console.WriteLine("Result: {0}", result.Text);
 
 
    var writer = new BarcodeWriter
    {
        Format = result.BarcodeFormat,
        Options = { Width = 200, Height = 50, Margin = 4},
        Renderer = new ZXing.Rendering.BitmapRenderer()
    };
    var barcodeImage = writer.Write(result.Text);
    Cv2.ImShow("BarcodeWriter", barcodeImage.ToMat());
 
    return result.Text;
}

var barcodeClone = barcode.Clone();
var barcodeText = getBarcodeText(barcodeClone);
 
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(barcodeText))
{
    Console.WriteLine("Enhancing the barcode...");
    //Cv2.AdaptiveThreshold(barcode, barcode, 255,
        //AdaptiveThresholdType.GaussianC, ThresholdType.Binary, 9, 1);
    //var th = 119;
    var th = 100;
    Cv2.Threshold(barcode, barcode, th, 255, ThresholdType.ToZero);
    Cv2.Threshold(barcode, barcode, th, 255, ThresholdType.Binary);
    barcodeText = getBarcodeText(barcode);
}
 
Cv2.Rectangle(image,
    new Point(biggestContourRect.X, biggestContourRect.Y),
    new Point(biggestContourRect.X + biggestContourRect.Width, biggestContourRect.Y + biggestContourRect.Height),
    new Scalar(0, 255, 0),
    2);
 
if (debug)
{
    Cv2.ImShow("Segmented Source", image);
    Cv2.WaitKey(1); // do events
}
 
Cv2.WaitKey(0);
Cv2.DestroyAllWindows();

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