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Conditionally include file based on project configuration

Hi, I have a number of editions of the project for which I am making a Visual Studio setup project (installer). For each edition there is a separate license agreement that should be shown in the default License Agreement window. What I want to do is to point the LicenseFile of the License Agreement window to a file somewhere on the cl...

Autofac or Ninject? - which should I go for?

I'm hitting paralysis by analysis I think... Which should I go for for my first IOC container: Autofac or Ninject? (Just want an open source, nice and simple, IOC container) ...

Problem using ‘useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy’ & supportedRuntime in an application

Hello, I've modified a couple of different applications' .config file like this: <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true"> <supportedRuntime version="v4.0"/> </startup> When I did this for devenv.exe.config (VS 2005 - don't ask :) ), things work great - most of the Visual Studio used .NET 2.0 but I was able to make use...

Executing a modified expression

I found this brief demo: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb546136.aspx Which discusses modifying an expression. However the code starts with a Expression<Func<string, bool>> and ends up with a Expression so it's not complete. How do I take that expression and make it typed as Expression<Func<string,bool>> again? All the exampl...

Default entries on a first time creation for a serialized class

I have a class I am using for serializing various configuration options for an application I am working on. I'm adding a new property to the class that is a List, and I'd like it to fill this list if it does not exist already in a XML file. My first thought was to check if the list contained zero items, however this is not acceptable bec...

Dealing with huge SQL resultset

I am working with a rather large mysql database (several million rows) with a column storing blob images. The application attempts to grab a subset of the images and runs some processing algorithms on them. The problem I'm running into is that, due to the rather large dataset that I have, the dataset that my query is returning is too l...

Set Proxy Credential in Web Browser Control

I am working on a legacy code where an application uses AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser (NOT System.Windows.Forms.Control) to open up web pages and am extending it to take proxy into considerations. I have following example on http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/wininet/internetsetoption.html to use InternetSetOption() to go through specified p...

How to get checked items in a WPF ListBox?

I have a WPF ListBox where I have checkboxes, but what's the way to get the list of items that are checked? The ListBox is data binded to a Dictionary<T>. Here is the XAML: <Window x:Class="WpfApplication.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wi...

Are there any small scale, durable document/object databases?

I have a few .Net projects that would benefit from using a document/object database opposed to a relational one. I think that db4o would be a good choice, but we're not sure how much the cost is. I'd love to use MongoDB but it's design isn't for small scale, single server applications. Are there other options out there that I just hav...

How to handle a memory leak in an external DLL

I have an external (.Net) dll that I have to use for an application. Unfortunately that dll has several known memory leaks. We are working on getting the authors of the dll to fix the memory leaks, but in the mean time I was wondering what is the best way to use the dll without having to deal with the memory leaks? ...

Is there a .Net equivalent of Apache CXF Framework?

Here is the wiki for those who want to know about Apache CXF. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_CXF I am looking for something similar or .Net ports. ...

Strange error when filling a data adapter.

I am receiving the following error in my code (c#, .Net 3.5, VS2008) when I try to connect to an Excel sheet and fill a OleDbDataAdapter with the results of a query. First the error: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. And here is the code, which is honestly pre...

How to get actual type of an derived class from its parent interface

Lets say we have a code portion like this : IProduct product = ProductCreator.CreateProduct(); //Factory Method we have here SellThisProduct(product); //... private void SellThisProduct(IProduct product) { //..do something here } //... internal class Soda : IProduct {} internal class Book : IProduct {} How can I infer which pro...

Async actions inside Silverlight Method - returning the value

What is the proper way to call an Async framework component - wait for an answer and then return the value. AKA contain the entire request/response in a single method. Example code: public class Experiment { public Experiment() { } public string GetSomeString() { WebClient wc = new We...

SharpArch.Core.PreconditionException: For better clarity and reliability, Entities with an assigned Id must call Save or Update

When I do a save of an entity with assigned id I get a SharpArch.Core.PreconditionException: For better clarity and reliability, Entities with an assigned Id must call Save or Update My class is public class CompanyUserRepository : RepositoryWithTypedId<CompanyUser, string>, ICompanyUserRepository { public override Comp...

Silverlight 4RC threading - can a new Thread return the UI Thread

Hi all, Let's say I have a situation in Silverlight where there is a background thread (guaranteed to NOT be the UI thread) doing some work and it needs to create a new thread. Something like this: //running in a background thread Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(delegate{}); t.Start(); Lets also say that the UI thread at this p...

List.AddRange inline declaration

Hello, This may seem an easy question, but not to me, also a search has led to nothing. Up until now the only .net programming I have done is with Delphi Prism. With Prism I can do things like: var l := new List<String>(['A','B','C']); or var l := new List<String>; l.AddRange(['A','B','C']; but can I do a similar thing in C#, or d...

C# Generics Casting

Visual sutdio 2008 has the ability to automatically create unit test stubs. I have used this to create some basic unit tests, but I am confused by something: private class bla : BaseStoreItem { // } /// <summary> ///A test for StoreData ///</summary> public void StoreDataTestHelper<T>() where T : BaseStoreItem ...

Difference between IEnumerable Count() and Length

What are the key differences between IEnumerable Count() and Length? ...

What signing method to use for public open-source projects?

I'm publishing an open-source library on CodePlex, and want the dll files to have strong names so that they can be added to GAC. What's the best option for signing? Should I use SNK? If so, everyone have access to the key. I don't have a problem with everyone having access, but is it a good approach? Should I use PFX? If so, does it m...