third-party

Creating a mock API for third party library in statically typed language?

I have an application in VB/C# .NET which needs to interact with a third party API, but I would like to interface it out so I can use a mock API for testing purposes. Here are example API calls I would use in code: RelayClient.AuthenticateUser(username, password, request, sessionID) RelayClient.GetUserInfo(sessionID) A few problems I ...

Is there a third party tool that actually speeds up MSTest

There a lot of questions very similar to this. Please read before you decide it is a duplicate. I have seen several people suggest that TestDriven.NET will help my slow MSTest woes. Most of them point to the ability to run a single test easier. I have resharper which can run a single test easily. So my question is, does TestDriven.N...

Does anyone know of a third-party service that manages user comments for websites?

I'm making a simple HTML website on which I would like users to post comments. Does anyone know of a third-party service that allows me to embed code snippets in my site which become comment boxes for users to post comments on my site at those positions, and the service takes care of all captcha / spam, etc. and I can log into an accoun...

Custom Asf file , DMO and seeking

Hi all. I am creating an ASF file using 3 proprietary streams, one video and 2 audio. The streams themselves contain timestamped samples with a proprietary compression. I also mark keyframes in the video, while all audio samples are marked as keyframes. These are then fed to a DMO that is supposed to play them in Windows Media Player, D...

iPhone How to BackUp third party application data on PC ?

Hi, I have a query regarding BackUp of third party application data on PC. I am developing an application which can store photos, text, recordings. The user can add number of photos or recordings. So at the runtime, size of application storage will go on increasing. User will never want to loose his data but storage is limited. Hence ...

Third party / community driven additional jQueryUI widgets.

Hello. Are there any additional jQueryUI widgets besides that come out-of-the-box? Third party or community driven? ...

Fast third party library to merge excel files (.Net)?

Hi, i am looking for a 3rd party utility pack sort of library for .Net to handle excel merging with formating, formulas, charts and etc. which does its job well and if possible fast. ...

How to detect/prevent a third-party class's constructor code?

I have a plugin interface that allows third-party developers to add custom plugins into my application. Performance and application responsiveness is very important to me, so I provide explicit "Initialize" and "Shutdown" implementations in my interface contracts. However, one thing out of my control is constructor code that should not ...

Do you know of a codepad/ideone/etc system that I can host internally for a commercial product for free?

I have a product in mind that would benefit from third-party developers being able to hook into the product with their own custom code. My product would call the developer's code. The trick of course is how? Embedding the code is a terrible idea as it is completely unsafe. A malicious developer could do all sorts of Bad Things. I could ...

FIPS compliance issue on third-party dll

Currently been using ComponentOne report generator on a web app with no issues. Recently had to turn on FIPS compliance on the server. The app now fails at the call made to ComponentOne method. Is it correct to think that the C1 dll was built on a machine that had FIPS turned off? Any workarounds aside from turning off FIPS on the se...

Visual Studio 2008 (C++): Why am I getting compiler warnings?

I am getting Visual Studio compiler warnings from third-party includes and my coworker is not. The following are true: We have checked out the exact same code, .vcproj files, and .sln files, with no local modifications. We are including the exact same third-party files. We are using the exact same version of Visual Studio. We have bot...

Third party components for both WPF and Silverlight

I tried Xceed datagrid for WPF and liked it, but the problem is that this vendor doesn't have similar control for Silverlight. It seems for me that it's not very convenient to buy it from some another company and have components from different vendors for such close thechnologies as WPF and Silverlight. Could you share your thoughts and...

Best practises for where to store assemblies?

I'm looking for some guidance where to store assemblies. This is how our source tree looks like at the moment: ProjectName trunk |--------src (source code) |--------lib (assemblies needed by every project e.g. NUnit framework, svn external) |--------tools (tools needed by every project e.g. NUnit executable, svn external) |...

Wowhead.com Site Framework

I'm building a community website (not WoW related) and am curious what, if any, framework(s) Wowhead may use. The general, non-WoW specific functions of the site are near identical to what I need. A few of the features I'm interested in are: Item page comments User/Account management Forums Blog Content Management Search box suggestio...

Document Layout Editor for the application user (Java SE)

I'm developing a Java SE application and I want to give the user the possibility to visually design his own layout for some documents the application generates. For instance: if the application generates and prints an invoice, I want the user to be able to design the layout for that invoice (the size for the invoice, where the date goes...

What is a good third party transaction API platform to use for ROR?

I have been looking at paypal for a online transaction, but I wanted to know if there are other 3rd party vendor that offer a good service at a good price ( transaction fee) and ease of use of API for ruby on rails application. ...

Do you build retry logic into code that relies on resources outside of your control?

We are working on an ongoing project that relies heavily on 3rd party web services. By heavily, I mean that our web app can't function without this connectivity. Once we got to production we started seeing piles of intermittent web exceptions coming through our error logging routines. After many, many lost hours trying to figure out wha...

schedule API call in PHP due to third party API call hourly limit

I'm using a third-party API to send messages to users. But this third-party limits 30 calls per hour. I'm using PHP on linux. What's the best way to implement this? ...

Compiling C# Application with VS Plugin?

Ok I feel like such an idiot..but I cannot figure out how to create a release version of my C# application. I am using a National Instruments Visual studio plugin and only can run the output .exe on the machine that has the plugin. Surely there can't be an added runtime to install for visual studio addons? The error I get is Una...

Does disabling third party cookies also disable cookies created by third party javasript?

When a page includes third party javascript (via script src=...) and that javascript that sets a cookie, that cookie "becomes" a first party cookie, even though it's originally set by a third party source. My question is this. If someone has disabled third party cookies in their browser, does that also apply cookies set by third party j...