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Universal Parse Primitive Type on C#

I have string value and Type of some variable (For example int and "32" or bool and true). My type is primitive type. Can I parse string to my type in one line? ...

Data matching algorithm

Hi all, I am currently working on a project where I a data matching algorithm needs to be implemented. An external system passes in all data it knows about a customer, and the system I design has to return the customer matched. So the external system then knows the correct id of the customer plus it gets additional data or can update it...

Filter assemblies/namespaces out of Visual Studio 2005 Documentation index

Is there any way to remove certain assemblies or namespaces from the index of (or entirely from) the Visual Studio 2005 Documentation? System.Web.UI and System.Windows.Forms contain many identical class names and I'd like to eliminate those in System.Web.UI that are irrelevant to me. ...

what is meant by default implementation of an interface

I have seen this statement in many of the documention samples, like here This class is the default implementation of the "ISomeInterface" interface what exactly this means ? Thanks ...

How can I tell when the Text of a System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox wraps to the next line?

I'm creating a GroupBox at runtime and setting its Text property. Usually, the text is only on one line, but sometimes it wraps. The problem is that the controls contained in the GroupBox cover up the GroupBox's text. What I'd like to do is determine if and when the text wraps. Specifically, I'd like to determine how much extra height t...

MS Chart with ASP.NET chart type "column" not showing axis x label if there are more than 9 bar in the chart

Hi, I'm having problem with MS Chart chart type column. If there are only 9 bar in the chart like the following picture, then the axis-x label show up properly. However, there are more than 9 bars bar the chart, the axis-x label wont show up properly, some of them just dissappear. Here's my mark-up for the chart: <asp:Chart I...

Cannot convert IAsyncResult to AsyncResult when using a service reference

I have a WCF service running, I added a reference to the service by using Add Service Reference in the solution explorer, and I checked the box for create asynchronous operations. My call works fine, I have a two way channel that reports back some events from the server and I am receiving the events. However, when the asynchronous task ...

Creating a readable FxCop report

Is there a good tool that can convert the XML output of FxCop into something that can be put into a Word document? I'd prefer not to write an XML-FO XSLT transform, maybe someone did something like that already. ...

Creating methods with infinite overloads ? (.NET)

In C# you can do this: foo = string.Format("{0} {1} {2} {3} ...", "aa", "bb", "cc" ...); This method Format() accepts infinite parameters, being the first one how the string should be formatted and the rest are values to be put in the string. Today I've come to a situation where I had to get a set of strings and test them, then I r...

How can I debug an unhandled exception in code called from a BackgroundWorker?

I am running some import code asynchronously from a simple WinForms app using a BackgroundWorker object and its DoAsync() method. I had a problem where I didn't know that exceptions were being thrown and the thread was prematurely dying. I eventually discovered this, and now know when an exception is thrown after reading Unhandled exce...

Is it possible to seletively color a wrapping TextBlock in Silverlight/WPF

For instance, if I have a TextBlock: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cill...

.Net: How do I check for illegal characters in a path?

Is there a way to check if a String meant for a path has invalid characters, in .Net? I know I could iterate over each character in Path.InvalidPathChars to see if my String contained one, but I'd prefer a simple, perhaps more formal, solution. Is there one? I've found I still get an exception if I only check against Get Update: I've...

Any Way to Use a Join in a Lambda Where() on a Table<>?

I'm in my first couple of days using Linq in C#, and I'm curious to know if there is a more concise way of writing the following. MyEntities db = new MyEntities(ConnString); var q = from a in db.TableA join b in db.TableB on a.SomeFieldID equals b.SomeFieldID where (a.UserID == CurrentUser && b.MyField ...

create dataset using Dlinq query for the OLAP (RadarCube) at run time

How to create dataset at run time using Linq. then i want to use that dataset for OLAP (RadarCube winform c#) to set dimension, fact column at run time. please suggest me the way to implement this. thanks in advance. ...

MSIL inspection

I have some MSIL in byte format (result of reflection's GetMethodBody()) that I'd like to analyze a bit. I'd like to find all classes created with the new operator in the MSIL. Any ideas on how to do that programmatically? ...

Will IOC solve our problems?

Just trying to implement unit testing into a brownfield type system. Be aware i'm relatively new into the unit testing world. Its going to be a gradual migration of course because there are just so many areas of pain. The current problem i'm trying to solve is we followed a lot of bad practices from our VB6 days and in the conversion...

Why is there no .NET Community Process?

I was doing some research into general topics of software engineering and I came across the Java Community Process website: The JCP is the mechanism for developing standard technical specifications for Java technology. Anyone can register for the site and participate in reviewing and providing feedback for the Java Specific...

Code Contracts with Interfaces: "Method Invocation skipped. Compiler will generate method invocation because the method is conditional... [...]"

Good evening, I just started playing with Microsoft.Contracts (latest version) and plugging it on top of a sample interface and right now it looks like this: namespace iRMA2.Core.Interfaces { using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel.Composition; using System.Diagnostics.Contracts; ...

Domain driven design: Manager and service

I'm creating some business logic in the application but I'm not sure how or where to encapsulate it, I've used the repository pattern for data access, I've seen some projects that use DDD that have some classes with the "Service" suffix and the "manager" suffix, what are each of this clases suppose to take care of in DDD? ...

Does Java have an equivalent to .NET resource (.resx) files for localization?

Does Java have an equivalent to .NET resource (.resx) files for localization? In .NET, you can define resources as key-value pairs within a standard XML document. The resource files are named according to the culture. For example: myresources.resx myresources.en-us.resx myresources.fr-fr.resx myresources.de-de.resx ...