I am using SpeechLib for a very simple text to voice conversion. Works great locally. When I deploy the applcation on to the server, I get the exception: could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80030002 (STG_E_FILENOTFOUND)) I have done the following with no luck: Set the AppPool to run using the LocalSystem Have given write ...
Hello, I have an application with one main thread and N worker threads. At some point I need that the main thread waits until all the N threads have completed one section of their work. I normally would use Monitor.Wait() and Monitor.Pulse() but this will prevent the N threads from working at the same time. Any idea on how to do that?...
It is my understanding building a COM object aggregating an existing COM object implies implementing redirection logic in the IUnknown.QueryInterface method of the outer object. The question I have is how to do that if the object you are building is managed. On managed objects IUnknown is not explicitly implemented COM Interop does it f...
I have 2 projects. I want to create ONE single MSI setup package that will install both of those projects. In My Application Folder I have created 2 subfolders (Project A and Project B folder). So after the install, the project ouputs will be in Program Files\MyProduct\Project A Program Files\MyProduct\Project B The problem I am havi...
Lets say I have a collection of Messages which has the properties "UserID" (int) and "Unread" (bool). How can I use LINQ extension methods to set Unread = false, for any Message in the collection in whose UserID = 5? So, I know I can do something like: messages.Any(m => m.UserID == 5); But, how do I set the Unread property of each o...
I have a TextBlock within a ScrollViewer that aligns with stretch to its window. I need the TextBlock to behave as the following: Resizes with window, no scrollbars When resized below a certain width the TextBlock needs to keep a MinWidth and scrollbars should appear TextWrapping or TextTrimming should work appropriately How can I ...
Hello, I've created a HTML based report that can be variable lengths and number of segments in C# (which is why Crystal Reports wasn't used) and I can't use the wonderful http://www.printfriendly.com/ as the report is Intranet based (boooo, hiss). I've created a media=print CSS file that is used to make the formatting as paper and ink ...
Hello. I wonder what is (if is) the "shortcut"(code-snippet) for adding handlers in VB.NET (Visual Studio 2005/08), equivalent to the += + Tab + Tab in button1.Click += ... C# IDE. In this way C# IDE auto-creates the necessary method, with all necessary parameters. So, If I know that I need to execute a method at a event even if I don...
Anyone know how I can dynamically load a control inside of a shared/static function? The function itself is inside of a mustinherit/abstract class. (It's an ASP.NET project in VB) I want to do something like this: VB: Public Shared Function GetWidget(ByVal name As WidgetName) As Control Select Case name Case Wi...
I have a couple of pictureboxes that need to be resized by aspect ratio when the window size changes. I assumed I can anchor the width, but set the height manually (i.e. anchor the left, right, and top edges; but not the bottom.) However, my control won't resize if I try changing the Size property. Why wouldn't that work? How can I resiz...
I am getting the following exception when I deploy my WPF app to another user's machine: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException' occurred in PresentationFramework.dll However, the WPF app runs fine when I open it. The app crashes at StartUp with this message. I've double-checked to make sure ...
Background: I toasted my old hard drive at work and am getting a new one. With that I'll have to rebuild my machine. My manager has Windows 7 installed on him loaner laptop that I've been using while my machine is out of commision. But I've run into a problem. We have a fair number of apps that make use of the Microsoft.Office.Interop.E...
Hello, My Visual Studio solution has several late-bound projects (dll) which are loaded by other projects in runtime. The dll loaded depends on some runtime condition. To load dll in runtime I need it to be present in the application bin directory, and there are several of those apps. To do that I run a post-build script which copies l...
In reference to an earlier post (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1980890/pdf-report-generation) I have decided to use a solution similar to http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom For those of you who don't want to read either reference - I'm creating a report and need it as a PDF. I've decided to go the HTML -> PDF route using .NE...
When a user browses to a ASP.NET website, is the user impersonating the ASPNET account or the account specified in IIS->Directory Security->Account used for anonymous access (EX: IUSR_XXX) My website writes files to the disk and I was wondering which of these accounts need write access to the folder? Also, can someone explain how the im...
I am generating an XML file from a VB.NET app. The document was generating fine before I tried to add nillable elements. I am now testing putting in just one nil element as: <blah xsi:nil="true"></blah> Once this element is in place and I try to view the XML file in IE it is unable to display. I am receiving: > The XML page canno...
Good day, is it possible in C# to get an object by name? i.e. get this.obj0 using string objectName = "obj0"; executeSomeFunctionOnObject(this.someLoadObjectByName(objectName)); ...
Let's say I have a non default app domain. I want to get a reference to the Default app domain and cause a thread to be created within it, that runs a piece of code. Is this possible? The only way I can think of doing this is to re-load my assembly into the Default app domain and have some logic in one of the constructors of a type that ...
I have recently decided to move my connection strings to machine.config as this seems to be by far the most elegant approach for managing multiple environments. However, I would still like to be able to override these settings in my local web.config if the need arises (or the non-enlightened masses begin to complain). How can I override...
I have a WCF service installed on my system. I can browse and see the .svc file just fine. Should I be able to use a browser to view the endpoint addresses such as https://svc.example.com/BaseService/Login ...