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Named pipes in Windows Mobile 6.x

I'd like to create a named pipe transport on Windows Mobile 6.x in Compact Framework 3.5. After googling and so, I got that Named Pipes classes in .NET Framework 3.5 are not available in CF, and P/Invoke cannot be done because I found no support for SafeFileHandle, so I can't invoke "CreateNamedPipe" from "kernel32.dll". Then, I was wo...

.NET - What is the best library for inspecting and controling Windows Services?

Hi, I need to monitor and control a set of Windows Services that are running either on a local machine or remotely. I've heard of WMI and ADSI and the first one seems to do what I want. Before going deep into it, I just want to check if I'm going in the right direction? Thank you EDIT Additional information: I also need to inspect SQ...

Table-per-hierarchy and inheritance implementation issue

I am migrating an old ASP application to a modern .NET version, to cut down on development times we are looking at the .NET 4.0 Entity Framework. However, we seem to have hit a brick wall in our development with this issue. Given is a small part of our database: A table OBJECT which contains a list of cars and their respective propertie...

C# GroupJoin efficiency

without using GroupJoin: var playersDictionary = players.ToDictionary(player => player.Id, element => new PlayerDto { Rounds = new List<RoundDto>() }); foreach (var round in rounds) { PlayerDto playerDto; playersDictionary.TryGetValue(round.PlayerId, out playerDto); if (playerDto != null) { playerDto.Rounds...

Debugging hanging website

We have a problem with an asp.net website we part build and host for a client. About a week ago the website would just failed to respond to requests, no error was returned. No code was deployed by us but the client does upload non compiled pages from time to time. Restarting the app pool the site runs on fixes the problem but in 1-8 h...

Making Panel Control Visible Causes HTML Parsing Error

Exactly as the title suggests. When I click a button on my webpage it should display a asp .net panel control that was previously hidden. The error I get is Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917) The KB Article points to a few things but most notibly "Th...

able to get the events in fullcalender, but not able to sync these events with time

i just loved the fullcalendar and wanted to implement it in a small application, everythin worked OK. i am able to get the events from my database through json to the front end. but all events are being listed as "ALL-DAY" events itself. not able to figure out why.. here is the screenshot for the same. any ideas what is going wrong..? i ...

Fluent NHibernate beginner problem: How to convert single column data to custom class?

I am very new to Fluent NHibernate and I have a problem that I cant find the answer to. I have a string column in my database table, containing a mathematical expression i.e: "10 + 15 * 5". On my entity I have a property that I call Formula and this returns a class that contains the mathematical "formula" (not as a string). I beleive t...

Creating a Hello World library function in assembly and calling it from C#

Let's say we use NASM as they do in this answer: how to write hellow world in assembly under windows. I got a couple of thoughts and questions regarding assembly combined with c# or any other .net languages for that matter. First of all I want to be able to create a library that has the following function HelloWorld that takes this par...

"Could not load file or assembly" error on trying to access auxillary assemblies from COM

We have the project structure as follows: COMExposedCCW.dll -refers-> BusinessLayer.dll -refers-> Utils.dll COMExposedCCW.dll -refers-> Utils.dll The COMExposedCCW.dll has been registered for COM interop. From the COM application we can successfully create the CCW object and access its properties, but when we try to invoke methods th...

Question about how the IsinRole(string name) method is used?

When supplying the string value for this windows principal method .... do you always to supply the Domain also or can you just supply the Group's name and thats abt it??? MSDN: //Get the role using the string value of the role. Console.WriteLine("{0}", myPrincipal.IsInRole("BUILTIN\\Administrators")); Console.WriteLine("{0}", myPrinci...

Entity Framework 4 and persisting foreign key relationships

I am a pretty much a newbie to Entity Framework (specifically version 4) and I am trying to understand an issue I have. I have an ASP.NET MVC2 project I am using with Entity Framework 4 and a Repository class. I have a simple foreign key relationship that I have defined. When I run my MVC project I am able to load the MVC form and updat...

Image.Location variant for WPF?

Hi All I'm a noob when it comes to WPF; In win forms I can do this: public void blah() { using( var o = new OpenFileDialog()) { if(o.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { PictureBox p = new PictureBox(); p.ImageLocation = o.FileName; p.AutoSize = SizeMode.AutoSize; ...

Sitecore development. Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControl.GetCacheKey() throws NullReferenceException

I just click submit button and got an exception. Unable to debug, because this happens before the submit event handler work. I tried to clear sitecore caches, browser caches and cookies... nothing helps. here the stack trace. [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControl.G...

How to Configure and run DataBase Mail in SQL Server

How to enable and run Database Mail in SQL Server 2008 . I know that it need Enabling Service Broker Configuring SMTP (a Mail server is needed) Using Configuration Storeprocedure. I don't know what's the relation between application and dataBase mail. Actually How to enable Database mail for a RollBack and Commit Transaction ? (not f...

What is Service Broker ?

What is Service Broker in SQL Server and is it meaningful to enableitin a simple Database, Not in a distributed DB. please do not close this question, I saw others similar question and non of them answered me. ...

How to pass around event as parameter in c#

Am writing unit test for a multi-threading application, where I need to wait until a specific event triggered so that I know the asyn operation is done. E.g. When I call repository.add(something), I wait for event AfterChange before doing any assertion. So I write a util function to do that. public static void SyncAction(EventHandle...

How do I bind to a property on the TemplatedParent of my TemplatedParent?

I'm creating a silverlight 4 custom control. The control's template is defined through generic.xaml. The control includes ItemsSource and ItemTemplate properties similar to an ItemsControl. The template includes (amongst other things) and ItemsControl which has its own DataTemplate, however inside that DataTemplate I have a ContentContr...

Custom Command in WPF to allow dependency property value change in "realtime"

I have a scenario where in my custom control I have a custom Dependency Property called MinValue of type int. I want to allow the user to change that value via keyboard input Ctrl++ (increase) and Ctrl+- (decrease). I undertand this can be done with Commands, but am clueless as to where to implement those Commands. The user should be a...

SQL 2005 optimal "Paging"

When creating a record "grid" with custom paging what is the best/optimal way to query the total number of records as well as the records start-end using C#? SQL to return paged record set: SELECT Some, Columns, Here FROM ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Column ASC) AS RowId, * FROM Records WHERE (...) )...