I need to parse a binary stream in .NET to convert a 16 byte unsigned integer. I would like to use the BinaryReader.ReadUIntXX() functions but there isn't a BinaryReader.ReadUInt128() function available. I assume I will have to roll my own function using the ReadByte function and build an array but I don't know if this is the most effi...
I'm using the Application.ThreadException event to handle and log unexpected exceptions in my winforms application. Now, somewhere in my application, I've got the following code (or rather something equivalent, but this dummy code is enough to reproduce my issue) : try { throw new NullReferenceEx...
Hello friends, I heard from my peers that knowledge of sharepoint is going to be good for career. We do not use sharepoint at our office. So dont know how to get started. These are my sharepoint newbie questions Is learning sharepoint worth the effort? Where are the resources to learn sharepoint? Is there any reference project I should...
I was told that one of the many reasons strings were made immutable in the C# spec was to avoid the issue of HashTables having keys changed when references to the string keys altered their content. The Dictionary<> type allows reference types to be used as a key. How does the dictionary avoid the issue of altered keys that lead to "mis...
We are using ASP.NET with a lot of AJAX "Page Method" calls. The WebServices defined in the Page invokes methods from our BusinessLayer. To prevent hackers to call the Page Methods, we want to implement some security in the BusinessLayer. We are struggling with two different issues. First one: public List<Employees> GetAllEmployees()...
I have a .net website and I want to post messages by the facebook api to every user's wall.I want via an application to post messages, but the error message when i execute Stream.Publish is "The user hasn't authorized the application to perform this action". I am using the Facebook Developer Toolkit. I believe that i make something wrong...
We have a bunch of WCF services that work almost all of the time, using various bindings, ports, max sizes, etc. The super-frustrating thing about WCF is that when it (rarely) fails, we are powerless to find out why it failed. Sometimes you will get a message that looks like this: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The soc...
I have a Silverlight application that consists of a MainWindow and several classes which update and draw images on the MainWindow. I'm now expanding this to keep track of everything in a database. Without going into specifics, lets say I have a structure like this: MainWindow Drawing-Surface Class1 -- Supports Drawing DataC...
What would be the right way to sort a list of strings where I want items starting with an underscore '_', to be at the bottom of the list, otherwise everything is alphabetical. Right now I'm doing something like this, autoList.OrderBy(a => a.StartsWith("_") ? "ZZZZZZ"+a : a ) ...
I am trying to performance test some code. I am using a stopwatch. When I output the number of milliseconds it always tells me 0 so I thought that I would try the number of ticks. I am seeing that the number of ticks is about 20 000 to 30 000. Looking at the MSDN at TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond it says that is 10 000 ticks per millisecon...
I have a super-class named "ClassA" and two sub-classes "Class1" and "Class2". I have a list containing objects of "Class1" and "Class2", that list is of type "ClassA". I want to loop through only the "Class1" objects in the list by doing something like List<ClassA> AList = new List<ClassA>; AList.Add(new Class1()); AList.Add(new Clas...
Is there a simple way to fetch data from other programs running in the background? Like for instance i want my program to read the temperature values from Speed Fan and so on... So basicly reading data from controls that are present in a diffrent application. ...
I have a really tricky thing going up here. My project has around 100 tables and they are all mapped by LINQ. Everything works fine in a dev and test environment. These enviroments are MS Win 2008 r2 servers with SQL 2008 sp1 databases. IIS and SQL are on a different machines. Now on production enviroment which is MS Win 2003 x64 web far...
Basically I want to have a single construct to deal with serializing to both JSON and formatted xml. Records worked nicely for serializing to/from json. However XmlSerializer requires a parameterless construtor. I don't really want to have to go through the exercise of building class objects for these constructs (principle only). I w...
Is there an official way to distribute (deploy) a specific font with a .NET application? We have a (public domain) "LED font" that prints numbers with the retro LED instrumentface look. This is a standard True Type or Open Type font like any other except it looks funky. Obviously for that to work, this font needs to be on the user's ma...
I'm replacing a website that was previously HTML only. I put a GridView on the French and the English page and I'm getting 2 fields: A date and a currency. For the date, I need to transform it into a long date format. The English part isn't very hard, but when I get to the French page, I can't transform it into a long date format with...
Hello, We have a program calling xaml service via channel factory. The problem occurs when we try to call the service multiple times. The error is : The open operation did not complete within the allotted timeout of 00:00:30. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout. In xaml service web.config...
I'm using Ninject (1.5 ... soon to be 2) and I'm curious how other people use Ninject or other IoC containers to help wire up events to objects? It seems to me in my code that I'm doing it herky-jerky all over the place and would love some advice on how to clean it up a bit. What are people doing out there to manage this? ...
My web service is returning quite a bit of data, so i'm storing it in an arraylist and returning that to my application. I don't know whether or not this is the preferred method or not. When the arraylist is returned and displayed in my application, it also displays the arraylists "anyType" section. I'm new to this whole process so i'm s...
In some, but not all, of our click-once applications when the user copies the icon to the desktop the icon will be deleted when the user updates the application. What causes this and how do I prevent it from happening? ...