Let's say I asked Microsoft to describe the perfect, modern, Microsoft-based technology stack to power a standard e-commerce web site, which perhaps has a simple 2-tier web/database architecture. What would it be like? Yes, I'm just looking for a list of product / technology names. For example, in the J2EE world, I might describe a stac...
I am currently working on a plugin for AutoCAD that allows users to interact with a document versioning application, and in order to sync files between the remote repository and local machine, I had planned on using custom file properties. The properties would be set when a file is initially downloaded, and then persisted for as long as ...
When I'm testing with WatiN, I like to save screenshots. Sometimes I don't really need a picture of the whole browser window though - I just want a picture of the element that I'm testing. My attempt to save a picture of an element with the code below resulted in a picture of a block box, because elementBounds.Top points to a pixel posi...
I am looking for a free .NET OCR library that will be able to do OCR on a given application window or even a image in memory (I can take a snapshot of the application window myself). I have looked at tessnet2 and MODI but both require an image located on disk. I need to use OCR because the application I am trying to write a script for ...
[VS 2010 Beta with .Net Framework 3.5] I've written a C# component to asynchronously monitor a socket and raise events when data is received. I set the VB form to show message boxes when the event is raised. What I've noticed is that when the component raises the event synchronously, the message box blocks the component code and locks t...
Hello everyone, Ive had this problem multiple times and it ruins my projects, I make some changes, like say I have a button in the top left corner of the form and move it to the top right corner, then I press debug but nothing happens to the form, it doesn't change the button is still in the top left-hand corner instead of the top right,...
I am attempting to import items from a legacy issue tracking system stored in an Excel sheet into Team Foundation Server. I loop through the rows of the Excel file successfully, and I can create new work items, but they are always in the Proposed state. If I attempt to change the state to Closed, then call the Validate method for the wor...
I added requestvalidationmode=2.0 to my page header. Everything works great. However when I try and build this on my build server it crashes with this message: errorASPPARSE: Error parsing attribute 'requestvalidationmode': Type 'MYASPFORM' does not have a public property named 'requestvalidationmode'. Any ideas on what could be...
Does anybody know Office-independent .NET components supporting creation/updating full-fledged office open xml charts from different types of documents (PowerPoint preferred) in a couple of lines of code. An example from MSDN How to: Insert a Chart into a Spreadsheet Document does it in a difficult way (as far as I can understand I nee...
After installing .Net 4 and getting some questions that were already answered here I also realized how the Framework dlls are repeated in several places for the different Framework versions (this is not new, it happens with previous versions, but hadn't paid attention to it until now) 1 - GAC: %systemroot%\assembly 2- Framework instal...
I posted this over at reddit but it didn't gain any momentum. So here is what is going on: our company was recently purchased by another web shop and I was promoted to head of development here in our office. Our office is completely .NET/SQL Server and the company who purchased us is a *nix/PHP/MySQL shop. Now several of our large cli...
I'm trying to create Global.asax in a Winform. I could do it in ASP.NET, but i couldn't find a way for Windows Application. Any help will be appreciated. I have a singleton class called DataAccessLayer, i need to instantiate it once only, so i can call its method/properties anywhere in the application easily. ...
I'm working on a personal website and I'm using webforms and .NET 3.5 and C#. I'm trying to get the custom error pages sorted but I can't get them to work properly. Not on my local IIS 7.5 as on the external server. It keeps prompting me with default IIS error pages when pages can't be found. How can it be fixed? I've got the following ...
Can anyone provide me with info about learning about Winforms projects. I am starting new job where I have to work on winforms. Prior to this job, I have mostly worked on Web applications in ASP.NET and C#. So I am familiar with certain features of C#. What are the kind of projects that use winforms? ...
A group of us (.NET developers) are talking unit testing. Not any one framework (we've hit on MSpec, NUint, MSTest, RhinoMocks, TypeMock, etc) -- we're just talking generally. We see lots of syntax that forces a distinct unit test per scenario, but we don't see an avenue to re-using one unit test with various inputs or scenarios. Also...
Is there any way I can get the body of a Response object back before it's sent down to the browser? I'd like to do something on Page_LoadComplete to get the current response of what's about to be written to the page so I can do something with it. ...
I need to support the use of proxy on our application that is using WCF connections. We do not have any proxy server on our network and I don't want to disrupt our corporate network by requesting a proxy installation. I was thinking of installing a proxy server on a local virtual machine and configurating Internet Explorer so that it wi...
I have a radiobuttonlist with two items, Yes or No. The radiobuttonlist control has a customvalidator that needs a servervalidation function and a javascript clientvalidationfunction. Could you help me? The function in this message works but only when i actually have choosen one of the two listitems, when no listitem is selected the vali...
I'm building three web applications in .NET that will all share a users database and login information. Lets pretend that application 1 is the "parent" application and applications "A" and "B" are the "child" applications. All users have to be logged into application 1 to have access to applications A and B. Authorization, Authenticatio...
I'm writing a program which listens to an incoming TcpClient and handles data when it arrives. The Listen() method is run on a separate thread within the component, so it needs to be threadsafe. If I break out of a do while loop while I'm within a lock() statement, will the lock be released? If not, how do I accomplish this? Thanks! (A...