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quick and dirty client/server communication in Silverlight

I'm building a few small prototypes in Silverlight and have quite a bit of .NET experience, but Ive never had the need to contact the server from Silverlight. Im really just after a really quick solution for the purposes of prototyping and I'll be needing to call the server and do a few things, like serve a generated image from the serv...

Wait for a single RabbitMQ message with a timeout

I'd like to send a message to a RabbitMQ server and then wait for a reply message (on a "reply-to" queue). Of course, I don't want to wait forever in case the application processing these messages is down - there needs to be a timeout. It sounds like a very basic task, yet I can't find a way to do this. I've now run into this problem wit...

Use Struct as a Ptr/class? Need a fix .NET

I wrote a bunch of code and i would like to fix it the fastest way possible. I'll describe my problem in a easier way. I have apples and oranges, they are both Point and in the list apples, oranges. I create a PictureBox and draw the apple/oranges on screen and move them around and update the Point via Tag. The problem now is since its...

C# serial port driver wrapper class code and concept quality

Hi folks, Would like to know from all you guys what do you think about my Serial Wrapper class. Had been a while I've been working with serial ports but never shared the code what somekind make me closed to my very own vision. Would like to know if it's a good/bad approach, if the interface is enough and what more you see on it. I know...

Synchronization between Client database and Central Database

Hello, I am trying to develop UI in C# .NET to synchronize 7 instances of backup databases with the central database one by one (All holding same schema) .The backup database( all 7 instances client databases) which is brought to the central server in a removable device such pendrive will consist of mdf and ldf files from each client ...

Set Window Properties based on Datatype of UserControl

I've got a simple window, that is container for various views. I've got a DataTemplate that shows the correct view based on whatever the window's MainViewModel property is set to. <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type VM:StartupViewModel}"> <AdornerDecorator> <V:StartupView /> </AdornerDecorator> </DataTemplate> What I'd li...

Really simple JSON serialization in .NET

I have some simple .NET objects I'd like to serialize to JSON and back again. The set of objects to be serialized is quite small and I control the implementation, so I don't need a generic solution that will work for everything. Since my assembly will be distributed as a library I'd really like to avoid a dependency on some third-party D...

.NET WebService IPC - Should it be done to minimise some expensive operations?

I'm looking at a few different approaches to a problem: Client requests work, some stuff gets done, and a result (ok/error) is returned. A .NET web service definitely seems like the way to go, my only issue is that the "stuff" will involve building up and tearing down a session for each request. Does abstracting the "stuff" out to an ap...

Easiest Way To Get Started In Dot Net

Ok, so the initial search in StackOverflow shows nothing related for this question. So here it goes: Let's pretend for a moment that you're just getting started in a career in computer programming. Let's say that, for whatever reason, you decide to use the .Net framework as a basis for your programming. Let's also say that you've bee...

WebClient error when using a thread in .NET

I'm having a very weird error using the WebClient class in .NET 4. The app simply downloads some files off the internet and provides output on a textbox (the GUI is WPF). The method that does this is the following: void DownloadFiles(object files) { fileL = (List<string>) files; foreach (string url in fileL) { byte[...

LLBLGen Pro v2.6 designer issue

How do you delete more than one entity at the same time in the designer Entities list. it seems that the designer interface only allows the selection of 1 entity at a time.... This is frustrating, is this possible? Or even deleting all entities? Thanks Regards Luis ...

c# Counter requires 2 button clicks to update

Hi, I have a problem that has been bugging me all day. In my code I have the following: private int rowCount { get { return (int)ViewState["rowCount"]; } set { ViewState["rowCount"] = value; } } and a button event protected void addRow_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { rowCount = rowCount + 1;...

ASP.Net Forms authentication provider issue

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 + .Net 3.5 + ASP.Net to develop a simple web application. And I am using Forms authentication for my web site (I use command aspnet_regsql.exe to create a new database in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to host database for Forms Authentication. I am not using SQL Server Express.). I am learning Forms au...

Exporting data from a gridview to different excel worksheets

I am binding data from a dataset to a grid and exporting data from the grid to an excel.if the the number of items in the grid is greater than 50000,an error message is displayed. So i want to split the data and display it in different worksheets in excel.(Am working in a web application) using this code for exporting to excel gvExcel...

Outlook VSTO AddIn Configuration

I'm working on VSTO addin for outlook 2003.Outlook can read the startup section from Outlook.exe.config. <startup> <supportedRuntime version="v1.0.3705" /> <supportedRuntime version="v1.1.4322" /> <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727" /> </startup> But it is not able to read the system.diagnostics section of the confi...

error while converting the byte arry to image ,after modifying the byte array and the byte array is taken from the image itself in c#

Hi, this is my code. Here i hv formed the byte array of img, i am trying to add some vlue to this byte array say 10 and i'll take care that the value is not exceeding 255. later if i try to redraw the image via the following code i am getting error at this line... what can be the problem.. without modification if i try to draw the image...

When can we mock an object and its methods?

I am novice to the Moq and unit testing. I have to write unit tests to a lot of classes which has the objects of other classes. can i mock the methods of the class objects. Here is the exact scenerio- I have a class two classes A and B and A has a private object of B and in a method of A i am internally calling the method of B and then ...

how to make a textbox non selectable using c#

Im using c#.net windows form application.I have a text box. How can I make the text box unselectable. I don't want to disable the complete textbos ...

How to retrieve datas from access Database to Datagridview

I have datas as unitprice with 10 decimal places in access database. I want those decimal places to reduce when it comes to datagridview(round to 2 places). How can i achieve this. Any idea. Thanks in advance ...

In an extension method how do a create an object based on the implementation class

Hi, In an extension method how do a create an object based on the implementation class. So in the code below I wanted to add an "AddRelationship" extension method, however I'm not sure how within the extension method I can create an Relationship object? i.e. don't want to tie the extension method to this particular implementation of r...