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Switching from Sourcesafe - What to look for in a product

We're looking to move off of sourcesafe and on to a more robust source control system for our .Net apps. We're also looking for scripted/automated deployments. I'm a .Net developer (web and winforms). However, most of our development staff is RPG for the IBM iSeries and the devs use Aldon's LMI for source control and deployment. Our man...

In TFS, is there a maximum amount of workspaces which can be used for a user?

I'm currently in the process of creating a bunch of new build scripts for our platform. Things went okay until I encountered the following error: D:\TFS\WorkingDir\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj(173,5): error MSB4018: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.WorkspaceNotFoundException: TF14061: The workspace BUILDMACHINENAME_9;BUILDMACHI...

.NET: IOException for permissions when creating new file?

I am trying to create a new file and write XML to it: FileStream output = File.Create(Path.Combine(PATH_TO_DATA_DIR, fileName)); The argument evaluates to: C:\path\to\Data\test.xml The exception is: The process cannot access the file 'C:\path\to\Data\test.xml' because it is being used by another process. What am I doing wrong he...

ADO.NET 2.0 under Mono examples ?

I've seen that ADO.NET 2.0 is compatible with Mono but I can't found any example of that in the web ? ...

Check for valid IMEI

Hi, does somebody knows how to check for a valid IMEI? I have found a function to check on this page: http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article597-imeivalidator-in-vbnet-.aspx But it returns false for valid IMEI's (f.e. 352972024585360). I can validate them online on this page: http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=im...

nUnit Assert.That(method,Throws.Exception) not catching exceptions

Hi Everyone, Can someone tell me why this unit test that checks for exceptions fails? Obviously my real test is checking other code but I'm using Int32.Parse to show the issue. [Test] public void MyTest() { Assert.That(Int32.Parse("abc"), Throws.Exception.TypeOf<FormatException>()); } The test fails, giving this error. Obviousl...

InstallUtil Publishing WMI Schema to 64 Bit Directory Instead of 32 Bit Directory

This is similar to this question, but it doesn't look like a good solution was ever determined, so I'm opening a new one with clarified details. We wrote a .NET service, which among other things, publishes some of the class hierarchy using WMI. On a 64-Bit machine (running Windows 2008 R2 Server), we are running the 32-bit version of In...

.NET assembly in GAC + Config

I have a .NET 3.5 assembly, a DAL, that connects to a database through Linq2SQL. I deploy this assembly in the GAC as it can be used by multiple business layers. The question is: in a dev environment I have a connection string different than the one in the production environment. Before deploying the assembly to the prod GAC I need to r...

Getting error detail from WCF REST

I have a REST service consumed by a .Net WCF client. When an error is encountered the REST service returns an HTTP 400 Bad Request with the response body containing JSON serialised details. If I execute the request using Fiddler, Javascript or directly from C# I can easily access the response body when an error occurs. However, I'm us...

Why use Soap as authenitcation in webservice?

Hi I am looking at this tutorial http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/authforwebservices.aspx and I am wondering what the reason for using authentication through soap is? Like why not just pass the username and password through the parameters instead? Is it more secure to do it like the way the guy is in the tutorial verus just using pass...

.NET (MVC) implementations of OAuth WRAP

Are there any? I can't find any examples of this anywhere :( This: http://oauth-wrap-wg.googlegroups.com/web/WRAP-v0.9.7.2.pdf?gda=k-RR5kQAAABFB7PFAFiVedPtjcqT8uuIPJ0_oruXLUh15u1yfw6sJxidFvlYqd_ZjmG9h9kh5-pV6u9SiETdg0Q2ffAyHU-dzc4BZkLnSFWX59nr5BxGqA is WRAP. Thanks Andrew ...

How do I add "drawing" components to a WinForms control?

I'm using .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and want to add "drawing" components such as lines, rectangles, etc.. I've done this before in MS Access, but I can't seem to find similar things in teh Visual Studio 2005 IDE. Where do I need to look to find these elements? ...

Autocomplete jQuery 1.8-UI JSON Format

I'm toying with the new autocomplete in jQuery 1.8-UI. I've provided data in the following format ["val1", "val2", "val3"] This is coming from a stored procedure but output as a string. For some reason this doesn't work at all, however, if I supply the same data using a javascript variable var data = ["val1", "val2", "val3"]; The...

WPF ListView in GridView mode Highlighting problem

While reskining GridView (ListView with more columns), I ran into a problem, that I couldn't change the color of the Highlighted row. I searched the internet and found out, that adding this can help. <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}" Color="Transparent" /> <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:St...

Ironpython - Named parameters to constructor

When I create an instance of my C# class in IronPython with named parameters to the constructor, it is setting properties corresponding to the names of the parameters. I wish to disable this behavior so I can have better control on the order the properties are evaluated. Is this possible? ...

How to set the width of the text box when using HTml.TextBoxFor

I have the following line in my view: <div class="editor-field"> <%= Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Description)%> </div> How do I define the width of the text box? ...

Enumerating .NET assembly resources at runtime

I have a resource assembly with image files in it that are built using Resource or Content build action. This makes these files accessible using the Uris. However I cannot find the way to enumerate such resources. If I set the build action to Embedded Resource it becomes possible to enumerate the files with the following code: string[] ...

How to completely wipe a previous ClickOnce installation?

I have a curious problem: My app is distributed through ClickOnce. I recently installed three new clients on a new location. They worked. After an update however, all old clients worked fine, but the three new clients did not. As my code is swallowing an exception somewhere I have been unable thusfar to pinpoint where the error lies. Wh...

Error with SubSonic 2.0.3

Hi, I have to work on an application which used Subsonic 2.0.3. When I opened the project,I got a message The projectfile 'C:\Program Files\Subsonic\Subsonic 2.0.3\src\SubSonic\SubSonic.csproj' has been moved, renamed or is not on your computer. Does it mean I need to install Subsonic 2.0.3, I tried to find the same version but could ...

Automatically creating C# wrappers from c headers?

Is there a way to automatically create p/invoke wrappers for .net from a c header? Of course I could create them by hand, but maintaining them would be painful, and I'd probably make a mistake somewhere resulting in hard to debug crashes. I tried SWIG, but it created full classes where simple structs would be sufficient. Another proble...