Finding which of a set of assemblies depends on assembly X
How can I quickly find, given a folder with .Net assemblies, which of these depends on some given assembly? (Opening them up one by one with Reflector is not what I had in mind) ...
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Word XML to RTF conversion
I am in a need of programatically convert an Word-XML file into a RTF file. It has become a requirement, because of some third party libraries. Any API/Library that can do that? Actually the language is not a problem because I just need to work done. But Java, .NET languages or Python are preferred. ...
Identifying all types with some attribute
Hello SO; I have an issue with .Net reflection. The concept is fairly new to me and I'm exploring it with some test cases to see what works and what doesn't. I'm constructing an example wherein I populate a set of menus dynamically by scanning through my Types' attributes. Basically, I want to find every type in my main namespace that ...
Where is Castle's AbstractFacility class?
I am trying to compile Castle.Facilities.ActiveRecordIntegration with the trunk version of Castle.Core. ARIntegration uses 'AbstractFacility', which sits in the Castle.MicroKernel DLL. The DLL is now nowhere to be found. Where is ARIntegration/MicroKernel? How do I proceed? ...
How to write to stdin of another app?
I have a module that reads StandartError of a process, all works fine, but I want to do something different. I don't know how redirect stdin like the native way: app1.exe -someargs | app2.exe -someargs Where app2 reads all the stdout of app1 in its stdin. ...
Thread safe lockfree mutual ByteArray queue
A byte stream should be transferred and there is one producer thread and a consumer one. Speed of producer is higher than consumer most of the time, and I need enough buffered data for QoS of my application. I read about my problem and there are solutions like shared buffer, PipeStream .NET class ... This class is going to be instantiate...
Updating Many-to-Many relationship with LinqToSQL
If I had, for example, a Many-to-Many mapping table called "RolesToUsers" between a Users and an Roles table, here is how I do it: // DataContext is db, usr is a User entity // newUserRolesMappings is a collection with the desired new mappings, probably // derived by looking at selections in a checkbox list of Roles on a User Edit pa...
If I replace an image in a PictureBox control, should I dispose the original image first? .Net Winforms.
Following on from my question here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2548664/long-overdue-for-me-question-about-disposing-managed-objects-in-net-vb-net , If I replace an image in a picture box, should I dispose the original image first? Or, what about this situation: Dim bm As New Bitmap(32,32) bm = New Bitmap(32,32) bm = New Bi...
Writing SDK documentation, need useful beginner tutorials
I'm currently writing SDK documentation for one of our products, but for obvious reasons I don't want to talk about the essentials of OOP. Does anyone know any good online teaching material that explain (aimed at absolute beginners) concepts such as classes, inheritance, constructors, instances etc.? Preferably urls that are likely to su...
Resizing window causes black strips
I have a form, which sets these styles in constructor: this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true); this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, true); this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.ResizeRedraw, true); this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.OptimizedDoubleBuffer, true); And I draw some rectangles in Paint event. There are no controls on the...
My exe run only dll's in exe file together. i need run exe from file how can i?
i created imported DLL in references. My plugin need these DLL but they are in common or plugin file if i click reference add dll they import form plugins file . they must be only in only plugins or common not two place. Look picture below: if i click add refrence ClearCanvas's DLL and PluginTest Dll must be only plugins file !!! ...
Using Action Filters for user login in Asp.NET MVC?
I recently built a site using Asp.Net. The way I chose to implement user login is through a base 'UserAwareController' class, that all controllers extend. It contained a reference to the UserRepository, and exposed a protected GetCurrentUser() method that concrete controllers could query. The whole process felt a bit wishy-washy to me....
"Does not implement IControllerFactory.CreateController" in Visual Studio 2010
When compiling this code: public class WindsorControllerFactory : IControllerFactory { private readonly WindsorContainer _container; public WindsorControllerFactory(WindsorContainer container) { _container = container; } public IController CreateController(RequestContext requestContext, ...
Automate downloads from password protected website
I need some help with a work project I have been assigned. At the moment we manually go to the site, logon and then download 2 excel files from a supplier's website every month. The files are then loaded into SQL. We want to automate this process. Now the loading of the files into SQL I can do, but I am not sure how I can automate log...
Problem with a chart with a polyline and a LinearGradientBrush
I have a graph with a polyline contained into a canvas. I would like to set the stroke of the polyline starting from a color at the bottom and ending to another color on top. I tried with this xaml: <Polyline StrokeThickness="2"> <Polyline.Stroke> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0.5,1" EndPoint="0.5,0"> <GradientStop Color=...
Deleting entity with child relationships using .Net Entity Framework problem
My God, EF is so frustrating. I can't seem to be able to get my head around what I need to do so I can delete an object. I seem to be able to remove the object but not the related child objects. Can anyone tell me what is the rule of thumb when you want to delete all related child objects of a given object? I've tried loading all relat...
ISerializable and backward compatibility
hello I have to work an an old application that used binaryFormatter to serialize application data into filestream (say in a file named "data.oldformat") without any optimizazion the main class has been marked with attribute <serializable()>public MainClass ....... end class and the serialization code dim b as new binaryformatte...
Looking for a .NET binary tree
I'm looking for a well tested simple in-memory binary tree implementation for c#. I would appreciate any pointers... ...
How come the Name property is <Unknown> on a FileStream which uses handle constructors?
Say you get a file handle from some outside DLL and instantiate a FileStream with it. It works just fine for reading and writing. Then you want the path and name of that handle and try to access the Name property of your FileStream object, and it returns 'unknown'. This is true for the constructors which takes file handles: public Fil...
Interface and partial classes
According to rule SA1201 in StyleCop elements in class must appear in correct order. The order is following: Fields Constructors Finalizers (Destructors) Delegates Events Enums Interfaces Properties Indexers Methods Structs Classes Everything is ok, except of Interfaces part, because Interface can c...