I have this task that creates a service: Target Name="InstallService" DependsOnTargets="CopyFiles" Exec Command="sc \ \remotecomputer create "ServiceHost" binPath= "E:\ServiceHost.exe" DisplayName= "ServiceHost"" WorkingDirectory="c:\" ContinueOnError="false" /Target The problem is that when I run this script it doesn't know the \ \re...
I have a desktop application that uses Sql user instancing. This is my connection string: "Data Source=.\SqlExpress; AttachDbFilename=C:\path\file.mdf; Integrated Security=True; User Instance=True; Connect Timeout=100;" My application creates this DB, downloads a load of data into it from a web service and then does a lot of actions w...
Scenario: I have an existing https ASP.NET site to which I'm going to be adding some new remote services. The services provide calculations that need to be callable both via AJAX methods on the site, and via a .NET desktop application. I had been using ASP.NET WebServices (marked with the ScriptService attribute) to accomplish this. I...
I am building an app that has a daily quote that should be stored in the database. Each quote is assigned with a day of the year, including one for Feb 29th. Since the quote only cares about the day not the year should I still use smalldatetime type? Please let me know your opinions, thanks!! ...
Hi guys, I want to be able to do the following: I have a model and inside there I do have an entity. This entity has the following structure: public class Client { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string Description { get; set; } } What I want now, is to just get the client name bas...
Hello, I have a value range from 0 to 255. There is a method that returns an array with a min and max values within this range, i.e: 13, 15, 20, 27, 50 ... 240 where 13 is the min and 240 is the max I need to scale these values so that 13 becomes 0 and 240 becomes 255 and scale all the other values between them proportionally. Is ther...
I'd like my app to run sql files and receive the results output as if the sql was run from SQL Management Studio with results to text. i.e. nicely formatted recordsets, printed messages, rows affected, errors, running multiple batches separated by GO statements, etc. Any suggestions how to do this without building it from scratch on top ...
Hello I'm not able to understand the difference between Thread vs ThreadPool. Consider i've to manipulate 50,000 records using threads. In case of threads i need to either predefine no of threads or no of records per threads. Either of them has to be constant. In case of threadpool we dont need to set any of them theoretically. But pr...
I'm trying out the Rijndael to generate an encrypted license string to use for our new software, so we know that our customers are using the same amount of apps that they paid for. I'm doing two things: Getting the users computer name. Adding a random number between 100 and 1000000000 I then combine the two, and use that as the lice...
I've created two UserControls, a ValidationManager and a ValidationOutput. On a given form there is one ValidationManager and several ValidationOutput controls, one for each control that is validated. The ValidationManager is given a list of validation errors when the form is submitted, I want each ValidationOutput control to look at thi...
I have taken an example straight out of the MSDN. I want to create a file and write to it straight away. I was hoping to use FileInfo objects. So I create a new FileInfo object, call the Create and then open a FileStream. When I try to open the FileStream I get an exception telling me that another process is using the file. (Yes me). I...
Hi, I've realised that there is more levels than all, debug, info, warn, error and fatal, they are listed in the log4net.Core.Level class. But how can I use them? I mean, in the ILog interface you have methods to use the usual ones, but what if you want to use "Fine" or "Emergency", etc? Cheers. ...
If I have registered an event as following List.Changed += new ChangedEventHandler(ListChanged); what should be the best way of de registering it in destructor List.Changed -= new ChangedEventHandler(ListChanged); or List.Changed -=ListChanged; ...
Hello, Is there anyone who has already tried to use the Microsoft Bing translator web service. if yes, could you please help me. I was not able to find useful information in google ...
I got a thread that is just banishing.. i'd like to know who is killing my thread and why. It occurs to me my thread is being killed by the OS, but i'd like to confirm this and if possible to know why it's killing it. As for the thread, i can assert it has at least 40 min of execution before dying, but it suddenly dies around 5 min...
Hey All, I'm using VS 2005 fx2.0. If I know my Dictionary contains only 1 item how do I get to it? Thanks, rod ...
I have installed the .net 4 framework on one of my servers. When I run an installation project created in Visual Studio - get the following error: Error 1001 Exception occurred while initializing the installation. System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. This assembly is bu...
Hi, I am working on a web site with several other developers and we have had problems where people commit JavaScript code with AJAX calls that use URL's relative to the site root. An example would be /Home/Index which will not work if the site is hosted in a virtual directory. To get round the problem we use a $.url() method to convert...
I'm working on application for tracking vehicles. There will be about 10k or more vehicles. Each will be sending ~250bytes in each minute. Data contains gps location and everything from CAN Bus (every data that we can read from vehicle computer and dashboard). Data are sent by GSM/GPRS (using UDP protocol). Estimated rows with this data ...
Working with Unity, I thought it would be a good idea to create some LiveTemplates to help out with creating configuration entries. For example, I want to create some typeAlias elements in a file called "unity.config": <typeAlias alias="QueryService" type="type,QueryAssembly"/> So, I created a live template...