I have an application which is .NET 2.0, running on Windows XP Professional. This app uses the Serial Port to communicate with some custom devices. For some reason, a few of our custom built PCs have an issue with the Serial Port, where it will stop functioning after a few weeks of use. Other that auto-reboots, which won't work in my ...
When my script sleeps for 50sec my IDE locks up which is very annoying. I cant switch tabs, look through my source, type code, etc. It happens in pylde and pyscripter, i havent tried other IDEs. What can i do to fix this? i'm actually doing for i in range(0, timeInSeconds): time.sleep(1) hoping the IDE will update once per second but...
When writing the below my code locks up on GetResponse. Why? try { WebRequest myWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strURL); WebResponse myWebResponse = myWebRequest.GetResponse(); //more code here ...
I have to call a function 3rd party module on a new thread. From what I've seen, the call either completes quickly if everything went well or it just hangs for ever locking up the thread. What's a good way to start the thread and make the call and wait for a few secs and if the thread is still alive, then assuming it's locked up, kill (o...