metadata

How to port an Ajax CMS based on metadata in Asp.Net MVC?

I'm maintaining a CMS where I have this feeling it was made in the age of dinosaurs (Asp.net 1.0?) and decided to upgrade it with Asp.Net MVC and jQuery. But I have some problems regarding the design/specifications of the CMS which I cannot change. The CMS The CMS uses JavaScript. Alot. As in "I don't load pages, I request new pages u...

PHP extract GPS EXIF data

I would like to extract the GPS EXIF tag from pictures using php. I'm using the exif_read_data() that returns a array of all tags + data : GPS.GPSLatitudeRef: N GPS.GPSLatitude:Array ( [0] => 46/1 [1] => 5403/100 [2] => 0/1 ) GPS.GPSLongitudeRef: E GPS.GPSLongitude:Array ( [0] => 7/1 [1] => 880/100 [2] => 0/1 ) GPS.GPSAltitudeRef: GP...

Image (?) File(?) Metadata(?) Properties(?)

Sorry for the question marks, but a simple (I think) question has an impossible solution. From file system, if I click on an image file "Properties | Details tab" I access to many metadata. I need to access from a WPF application to the Description properties (Title, Subject, Rating, Tag and Comment). In particular Tag. I have found a l...

Flash CS4 compiler Error 1120 when embedding pngs into class instance variables.

I have a Flash CS4 (Flash 9 ActionScript 3.0) project that compiles and runs perfectly on my machine. However it is part of a big batch of fla's that I want to compile on another (faster) machine. When I copy the project (the fla and all actionscripts and assets files) to the faster machine, it's Flash CS4 compiler gives me compiler erro...

When developing a Microsoft Office Add-In (for Word), is it possible to store hidden metadata information that is tied to a specific Table or Cell within a Word document?

I am trying to store metadata (basically a unique id) along with each cell of a table in a Word document. Currently, for the add-in I'm developing, I am querying the database, and building a table inside the Word document using the data that is retrieved. I want to be able to save any of the user's edits to the document, and persist it...

Reading writing WAV/RIFF Tags

I'm writing a simple audio recording utility which I want also to be able to tag the resulting files with meta data. It's pretty easy to find libraries to tag MP3 files with ID3 tags, but I'm more interested in lossless codecs like WAV and possibly FLAC. As I understand it WAVE files are really a subset of the RIFF file type which can c...

Metadata requirements for developers

I'm tasked with providing a list of metadata requirements our data warehouse developers might need. This is not the business metadata (nice descriptions etc), but rather data required for change management (also known as impact assesment), data lineage etc. I've seen this article Meta Meta Data Data - Ralph Kimball but as I'm not the f...

adding validation annotators to model classes when using Linq-to-SQL

How should I add the following attrubute [Required(ErrorMessage="...")] to one of the model properties when my model classes are automatically generated. There is a solution here, but it seems to be working only on Entity Framework ...

In WCF how to remove bindings from the metadata?

The WSDL generated by WCF is describing all my bindings, and I want it to describe only the wsHttpBinding. I want it because a PHP client can't parse the WSDL if it contains unknown bindings. There is a way to do that? ...

Best practices to build a highly configurable software product.

Hello. I am working on a software product that can substantially change behavior based on the configuration & meta-data supplied. I would like to know best practices to architect / build a highly configurable software product. Considering that there are substantial number of configuration parameters, I'd like to look at something that w...

SQL Server: sp_help with Default Values

Is there an alternative to sp_help that includes the default values for parameters? ...

jQuery Validation rule inner HTML

As we know, jquery.validation.js is very powerful. In common, we should define the rule in js first, and then apply to input element or form. I'd like to declare the rule inner HTML code, then validator to find and apply the rule. just as below: <input MaxLength="10" id="StrField" class="required" name="StrField" type="text" value="Te...

C#: Take Out Image Portion of JPEG to Backup Metadata?

This will be a little backwards from the typical approach. I've used ExifTool for metadata manipulation before, but I really want to keep the best metadata backup I can before I make anything permanent. What I want to do is remove the compressed image portion of a JPEG file to leave everything else intact. That's backing up EXIF, Maker...

Is it possible in Oracle SQLDeveloper to prefetch certain tables’ metadata and keep it cached locally ?

I am working on a remote database which has several master tables. the meta-data & the actual data in these tables changes rarely. When querying DB involving these tables and using certain functions (Ex: ctrl+space to auto-complete a table/column name), it takes too long to query the remote DB to fetch this data since its not cached loca...

How do I deal with late onMetaData in IE?

I am trying to dynamically resize an flv playing back in a flash player. To do this, I need to get the flv's width/height so I can maintain the original aspect ratio. I have noticed that in Firefox the onMetaData event will be hit right away, and the video will resize properly. In IE however, onMetaData is not hit until the buffer is fu...

how to tell if a photo was taken in landscape or portrait? JPEG .NET metadata orientation

Thru VB.net/C# is there any way to read any metadata of off a JPEG to tell if the photo was taken in landscape or portrait? I would assume a camera would need an accelerometer first of all to even tell what direction is up...correct? Assuming there is that kind of intelligence to detect the angle of tilt, how would I go about reading th...

Amazon S3 Add METADATA to existing KEY

In S3 REST API I am adding metadata to an existing object by using the PUT (Copy) command and copying a key to the same location with 'x-amz-metadata-directive' = 'REPLACE' What I want to do is change the download file name by setting: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=foo.bar; This sets the metadata correctly but when I downl...

Python: what package contains the installation metadata?

e.g., how can I find out that the executable has been installed in "/usr/bin/python" and the library files in "/usr/lib/python2.6"? ...

How to get metadata from file in C#?

For example I have a file '1.mp3', metadata are length, codec, compositor, license, bitrate, etc How can I get that metadata? I want to get metadata from different types of files. ...

C# to Java: What is a [DefaultProperty("value")]?

I do not understand how the DefaultProperty Metadata tag work or what it signifies. I've read the MSDN and went through the sample but I find it confusing. DefaultPropertyAttribute Class I've read a few blogs and they seem to refer to the indexers. I'm not sure why you would want metadata for your properties? I am coming from a Java ba...