Occasionally when writing ASP.NET pages you may find that the Page_Load subroutine will take a long time to complete and therefore the final page will not be viewable by the end user until the processing has completed. It is possible to send some HTML to render before the Page_Load subroutine has finished using the Response.Write and Response.Flush commands.
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Steam is well known for doing weekend deals, often with them halving the price of a game just for a few short days. Recently I noticed that Bioshock was being offered at half price and as it is a critically acclaimed game with a Metacritic score of 96% (external link) I was interested in buying it.
At least I was until I noticed this link (external link), in summary the US were being offered Bioshock for $15 whilst in the UK it was $27.49! Thats almost double!
Team Fortress 2 (PC) (external link)
As you can see in the screenshot I have configured my screenshot key as F5, once in game pressing F5 will create a TGA screenshot.
To find the the created screenshots you can have to navigate to the following folder where <steam id> is your login id, if one of the folders does not exist then try the other one:
TGA files are not very common and as such you generally won’t be able to view them without additional software such as Quicktime. In order to convert them into more manageable files such as JPG or BMP I use the open source image program GIMP, it’s a bit overpowerful for this task but is very easy to use. If you have trouble with it you could try IrfanView instead which is more user friendly.
