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Fake ASMX Web Service Call

I built a .NET ASMX web service connecting to an SQL Server database. There is a web service call GetAllQuestions(). var myService = new SATService(); var serviceQuestions = myService.GetAllQuestions(); I saved the result of GetAllQuestions to GetAllQuestions.xml in the local application folder Is there any way to fake the web serv...

Logging strategy vs. performance

Hi, I'm developing a web application that has to support lots of simultaneous requests, and I'd like to keep it fast enough. I have now to implement a logging strategy, I'm gonna use log4net, but ... what and how should I log? I mean: How logging impacts in performance? is it possible/recomendable logging using async calls? Is better ...

Generating XPS document from a Windows Application

I want to capture the html content in web browser and print to XPS Document. I am using a Windows application to do it since it is used in IE toolbar. Is there a way to capture the httpwebrequest to read the content of the webpage to to a FixedDocument object or other through other ways so that it can be converted to an XPSDocument? ...

Perform Grouping of Resultsets in Code, not on Database Level

Stackoverflowers, I have a resultset from a SQL query in the form of: Category Column2 Column3 A 2 3.50 A 3 2 B 3 2 B 1 5 ... I need to group the resultset based on the Category column and sum the values for Column2 and Column3. I have to do it in code because I ...

Monitor disk activity programmatically (Windows)

In Windows 2008R2, in Resource Monitor in the Disk Activity section I can see the number of bytes read from/written into files. How can I do this in a programmatic manner, preferably using C# (or Win32 API)? I have looked into WMI and various performance counters, however I cannot figure out if there is something which suits my needs. ...

Placing custom code in a System namespace

Are there any best-practices that state custom code shouldn't be placed in a System namespace? Should System and its children be reserved for Microsoft code? I ask because I'm writing a class library that will be used across many projects and I'd like to keep things consistent by placing it in System.InteropServices (since it deals with...

C# IE Proxy Detection not working from a Windows Service

This is very odd. I've written a windows form tool in C# to return the default IE proxy. It works (See code snippets below). I've created a service to return the proxy using the same code, it works when I step into the debugger, BUT it doesn't work when the service is running as binary code. This must be some sort of permissions or c...

Visual Studio 2010 ADO.NET Data Model vs Linq to SQL

What's the difference between the two? They seem to have the same functionality at first glance. Which one has faster performance which one is easier to use? ...

WPF Dispatcher.UnhandledException within a ShowDialog call.

It appears that ShowDialog() invokes the Dispatcher message handling loop within. Thus, you have a stack that looks something like: Outer-most Dispatcher message loop ... x.ShowDialog() Inner Dispatcher message loop ... I am using the Dispatcher.UnhandledException to catch exceptions not handled by my code. However, it appears that ...

Winform .Net 3.5 - Get path of ApplicationFolder for Office Add-In

I am writing an add-in for Expression Web 3 in VS2008 The solution has a Windows Installer setup project in which the ApplicationFolder is tagged to hold some ancillary files. I need to be able to access those files during the add-in's startup, but naturally the Application object as well as the AppDomain reference paths to Expression ...

How do I achieve a 'select or insert' task using LINQ to EF?

I have an import process with regions, locations, and shifts, where a Shift object has a Location property, and a Location object has a Region property. If a region name does not exist, I create the region, and like wise a location. I thought I could neatly encapsulate the 'Select if exists, or create' logic into helper classes for Reg...

Configuring terminal server and Remote desktop

I have a WinServer 2008 machine with 8 local users on it. Basically I want to connect all of them remotely and simultaneously. I read that I should use Terminal server. I want to write a c# code (or use some code from the net) that configures the number of possible remotely and simultaneously connected local users to TS to be some N....

IVsEditorAdaptersFactoryService.CreateVsTextViewAdapter throws an object null reference

I'm trying to create a IVsTextViewAdpater with the IVsEditorAdaptersFactoryService but when I call CreateVsTextViewAdapter it throws an object null reference: var editorFactory = componentModel.GetService<IVsEditorAdaptersFactoryService>(); var serviceProvider = (Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider)this; ...

How to dispose of variables in windows close button

Hi, I have a windows forms application, where I have declared some static variables. On the click of exit button, I have disposed of some datatable which i have declared static. Many a times the user instead of clicking the exit button, will just exit the windows application by clicking the X button on the left corner top. What should...

How can I insert or remove bytes from the middle of a large file in .NET

Is it possible to efficiently insert or remove bytes from the middle of a large file, and if so how? Or am I stuck rewriting the entire file after the point where the data was inserted or removed? [A lot of Bytes][Unwanted Bytes][A lot of Bytes] - > [A lot of Bytes][A lot of Bytes] or [A lot of Bytes][A lot of Bytes] - > [A lot of Byt...

Problem in Closing Exe

In C#, I am using form1 as homescreen,.. while running exe from Debug folder, form1.exe appears in Process tab in task manager,... The problem is: Through form1 at runtime, i may create more instances of form1 while trying to close particular instance, the instances closed,.. but still exe appears in task manager. what i found: If i c...

What is the best practice to wrap up functions into dll for windows desktop application?

Is there any resources that how to create windows application, especially for how to design the dll to wrap up the api calls or the similar? It seems that people don't compile the entire project into a single exe for release and what is the best practice to architect the windows application component based on MVC pattern? Is the dll us...

user creating/saving

i want to write 2 program: 1) programm saves all local users to the file. 2) loads file find that users not found on local machine and create user. for searching all users which create on local machine i use next code: foreach (ManagementObject user in userSearcher.Get()) { if ((bool)user["LocalAccount"]) { string...

Setting permission for a remote private message queue - MSMQ

Hello all I'm using MSMQ to transfer data between geographically distributed systems. How can i configure the security of my message queue to give full access to a remote user. Also how can i do it through commands (not powershell)? Thank you NLV ...

Problem Upgrading NHibernate SQLite Application to .Net 4.0

I have a WPF Application using Fluent NHibernate 1.0 RTM and System.Data.SQLite 1.0.65 that works fine in .Net 3.5. When I try to upgrade it to .Net 4.0 everything compiles but I get a runtime error where the innermost exception is this: `The IDbCommand and IDbConnection implementation in the assembly System.Data.SQLite could not be fou...