Trying to avoid the .net WebBrowser control (I don't need to navigate to a url, print rendered html or any of the other inbuilt goodies). Wrapping the IE dll seems a bit heavyweight. I simply require something that can display basic html marked up text - an html equivalent of RichTextBox in effect. Anyone have any experiences / recomm...
I've been asked to write a Windows service in C# to periodically monitor an email inbox and insert the details of any messages received into a database table. My instinct is to do this via POP3 and sure enough, Googling for ".NET POP3 component" produces countless (ok, 146,000) results. Has anybody done anything similar before and can ...
I'm using the System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser, to make a view a la Visual Studio Start Page. However, it seems the control is catching and handling all exceptions by silently sinking them! No need to tell this is a very unfortunate behaviour. void webBrowserNavigating(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatingEventArgs e) { // WebBrowser.N...
I've been tasked with the awesome responsibility of trying to document the advantages of using JEE for a web app over .NET. Of course via Google I am mostly getting back blog posts on how an Int is an object in Java, or a list of code comparisons. No real hard evidence or numbers. Is anybody aware of any legitimate studies trying to pro...
What are some good references for SQL Server 2005/2008? As someone with background working in PHP and interacting with MySQL/PostGreSQL databases, is there anything specific that I should be on the look out for? ...
So, in your experience, whats the best way? Is there a secure way that's also scriptable/triggerable in a build automation tool? Edit: I should mention this is windows/.net and I'll be deploying to iis6 ...
I've created a WCF service and when I browse to the endpoint I get the following fault: <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <s:Body> <s:Fault> <faultcode xmlns:a="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none"> a:ActionNotSupported </faultcode> <faultstrin...
Has anyone used Mono, the open source .NET implementation on a large or medium sized project? I'm wondering if it's ready for real world, production environments. Is it stable, fast, compatible, ... enough to use? Does it take a lot of effort to port projects to the Mono runtime, or is it really, really compatible enough to just take of ...
In .Net you can read a string value into another data type using either .parse or Convert.To. I'm not familiar with the fundamentals of parse versus convert so I am always at a loss when asked which one is better/faster/more appropriate. So - which way is best in what type of circumstances? ...
In an application that I am currently working on, a requirement is to bring a window of an external application to the foreground. Making Win32 API calls such as BringWindowToTop and SetForeground window do not work all the time. This is due to some restrictions within Windows XP. What I would like to do instead is send simulate a mou...
I've found myself increasingly unsatisfied with the DataSet/DataTable/DataRow paradigm in .Net, mostly because it's often a couple of steps more complicated than what I really want to do. In cases where I'm binding to controls, DataSets are fine. But in other cases, there seems to be a fair amount of mental overhead. I've played a bit...
I am creating a program that will be installed using the .net installer project. The program writes to settings files to its directory in the Program Files dir. It believe there are some active directory settings that will prevent the application from righting to that directory if a limited user is running the program. Is there away to c...
I want to use Lucene (in particular, Lucene.NET) to search for email address domains. E.g. I want to search for "@gmail.com" to find all emails sent to a gmail address. Running a Lucene query for "*@gmail.com" results in an error, asterisks cannot be at the start of queries. Running a query for "@gmail.com" doesn't return any matches, ...
I have a project that utilizes the javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage and other related classes that does mime parsing for emails that we receive. This needs to be ported to .NET. What .Net 3rd party or built in library can I use to replace the Java classes that I'm using? EDIT: Anything change in the last 9 months since I asked this ques...
Using C# and WPF under .net (rather than WindowsForms or console), what is the correct way to create an application that can only be run as a single instance? I know it has something to do with some mythical thing called a mutex, rarely can I find someone that bothers to stop and explain what one of these are. The code needs to also inf...
There is some documentation on the internet that shows that Windows changes the behavior of the NotifyIcon.BalloonTipShown command if the user is currently idle and this is detected by checking for keyboard and mouse events. I am currently working on an application that spends most of its time in the system tray, but pop-ups up multiple ...
I have an ASP.NET webservice with along the lines of: [WebService(Namespace = "http://internalservice.net/messageprocessing")] [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)] [ToolboxItem(false)] public class ProvisioningService : WebService { [WebMethod] public XmlDocument ProcessMessage(XmlDocument message) {...
I'm tasked with building a .NET client app to detect silence in a WAV files. Is this possible with the built-in Windows APIs? Or alternately, any good libraries out there to help with this? ...
In a .NET project, say you have a configuration setting - like a connection string - stored in a app.config file, which is different for each developer on your team (they may be using a local SQL Server, or a specific server instance, or using a remote server, etc). How can you structure your solution so that each developer can have th...
I was reading the example chapter from the book by Ayende and on the website of the Boo language I saw a reference to the Specter BDD Framework. I am wondering if anybody is using it in their project, how that works out and if there are more examples and/or suggested readings. Just in case you are wondering, I'm a C# developer and so I...