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RegEx to ignore / skip everything in html tags

Looking for a way to combine two Regular Expressions. One to catch the urls and the other to ensure is skips text within html tags. See sample text below functions. Need to pass a block of news text and format text by wrapping urls and email addresses in html tags so users don't have to. The below code works great until there are alread...

Setting CommandTimeout in Microsoft's Data Access Application Block (SQLHelper)

I'm using the Data Access Application Block (SQLHelper) to execute SQL against a database. I have one query which takes longer than the default command timeout of 30 seconds. I want to up the timeout, but I don't see any way to do so without cracking open the Application Block. Is there any way to change the CommandTimeout without modify...

PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists is very slow if category doesn't exists

I have kind of library which uses a bunch of its own perf counters. But I want my library works fine even if that perf counters weren't installed. So I've created wrappers aroung PerformanceCounter and on the first use check if PerfCounter exists or not. If they exists then I'm using native PerformanceCounter instead I'm using a wrapper...

andromda problem

hi, I work now with andromda generator,and where I try to generate code ,I have this problem : "The default goals should be specified in the section of project.xml instead of maven.xml ". I use maven1.1 to download andromda plug-in please help me!!!! ...

bool as object vs string as object testing equality

I am relatively new to C# and I noticed something interesting today that I guess I have never noticed or perhaps I am missing something. Here is an NUnit test to give an example: object boolean1 = false; object booloan2 = false; Assert.That(boolean1 == booloan2); This unit test fails, but this one passes: object string1 = "string"; o...

UTC and Universal Time

In C#, what is the difference between UTC and Universal Time? What are the fuctions available? ...

Why aren't UI components refreshed when updated from background thread?

I have a winform with some buttons that are updated in an event handler. The event is fired from a background thread, then the appearance is set via the Invoke method. The buttons will just get enabled or disabled. Something will happen at unpredicable times, though: The button will not change appearance visually. When it should be ena...

MongoDB transactions?

Playing around with MongoDB and NoRM in .NET. Thing that confused me - there are no transactions (can't just tell MongoConnection.Begin/EndTransaction or something like that). I want to use Unit of work pattern and rollback changes in case something fails. Is there still a clean way how to enrich my repository with ITransaction? ...

HTTP compression - can I configure a client to compress the data sent to a server?

Hello, I'm using IIS 7 as web server for my application. If I enable dynamic content compression in the server, will this also enable clients to send compressed data to the server, if they can? I mean, my application uses SOAP webservices, and clients usually send large chunks of data to the server. The clients are written in C#/.NET. ...

Need suggestion for implementing Message alert in Client server application

My requrement is like, i have to display message alert like if you sign in yahoo messanger and once u got any message a alert box will display corner of the page.Like wise when i sign in my website and if anybody send me any message then message will store in database and symultaneously a alert should display in my site. I am using .net ...

Consuming Java web-services using .NET Client

Im trying to consume a Java web-service, that uses a certificate. I could generate the proxy, adding Service Reference. The problem is: It needs Basic HTTP Authorization Header. Its necessary to encript the user/password and pass them in the header. Thanks. ...

How can I determine if a composite format string is invalid?

Per the documentation, String.Format will throw a FormatException if either (A) the format string is invalid or (B) the format string contains an index that cannot be found in the args array. I want to be able to determine which (if either) of those conditions fail on any arbitrary string and array of arguments. Is there anything that ...

Reading Binary data from a Serial Port.

I previously have been reading NMEA data from a GPS via a serial port using C#. Now I'm doing something similar, but instead of GPS from a serial. I'm attempting to read a KISS Statement from a TNC. I'm using this event handler. comport.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(port_DataReceived); Here is port_DataReceived. ...

Smoke testing a .NET web application

I cannot believe I'm the first person to go through this thought process, so I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with it. Current situation: developers write a web site, operations deploy it. Once deployed, a developer Smoke Tests it, to make sure the deployment went smoothly. To me this feels wrong, it essentially means it takes t...

Linq causes collection to disappear when trying to use OrderByDescending

For background, I am using MongoDB and Rob Conery's linq driver. The code I am attempting is thus: using (var session = new Session<ContentItem>()) { var contentCollection = session.QueryCollection.Where(x => x.CreatedOn < DateTime.Now).OrderByDescending(y => y.CreatedOn).ToList(); ViewData.Model = contentCollection; } this wi...

How can I tell what files are currently open by a process (i.e. my app)?

I am using a Lucene.Net index and want to give the user an option to move the index, but am having trouble closing it down so the directory/contents can be moved (I keep getting access denied exceptions). I need to be able to have some more information so I can debug this problem, such as being able to tell what files are currently open,...

tesseract-ocr use ascii only?

I have been using tesseract-ocr (in .NET) which has been working well. The images i feed it are ascii only (A-z0-9). Is there a way i can tell it not to use special characters? ...

Referenced Assembly won't load

I've got a visual studio 2010 project which publishes an assembly called myAssembly.ddl. I then want to reference myAssembly.dll from an existing vs 2008 project. If I try to load the reference it comes up with an yellow exclamation mark next to it, suggesting that the assembly wasn't loaded. However, I'm not getting any error messages ...

How to disable ListView navigation through keyboard

Hello. Can I somehow disable ListView items navigation through keyboard (arrow keys), and leave navigation with mouse and in code? Im new to WPF, but have some experience with WinForm so any tips? ...

Is there compilation symbol to detect compact framework?

Is there a compilation symbol to detect if it's running on a compact framework platform ...