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Content Running for a Cable Operator (Playing Videos with Advertisements)

Guyz i am planning to develop a software which will be used in the area of media i.e. Cable TV operators. The basic features that i need to work on are: Play Live TV channel stream coming from TV Tuner card (e.g. ESPN) or Play a video from Harddisk (e.g a movie) While above mentioned video is running, I want to add 3 kind of add ons: ...

XML to JSON or To where to use it in .NET c#

How can I gather the data into c# from this xml? I get the data from :http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml PS: I would like to get the currencies rates from a web service, bu I could not find a trustworthy web service, thats why I try from xml... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> - <gesmes:Envelope x...

Disable conversion of & to shortcut indicator (winforms)

I have a tab control (in my case a UltraTabControl from Infragistics) and I add a new tab. The text of this new tab is set to "Escape &Characters". lTab.Text = "Escape &Characters" When visualizing the tab control the & will become an _ (underscore) for the next character - in this case "C" I know that & is the Microsoft way of ind...

How does C# generics affect collections with primitives

As I understand it, C#/.Net generics support some degree of reification. So, if I have the following code: List<int> list = new List<int>(); list.Add(1); Will the value 1 be autoboxed or will the 'list' object handle primitive ints efficiently? ...

Entity Framework

Hi i have Entity Model with lets say 3 entity's like so all related of course: 1.-----Costumers------- CustomerId CustomerName 2.----CustomersOrders----- CustomerId OrderId Total 3.---Orders------ OrderId OrderName And I want to display orders of some costumer in GridView like so: ----------|---------- OrderName|Tota...

Control.Bindings.Add problem, exception telling me that the program cannot bind to a column that does not exist (but it does)

When I try to use the following line of code: cboSite.DataBindings.Add("Text", _dtSite.Select("Site <> 'ALL'"), "Site") I get the following exception: EXCEPTION : Cannot bind to the property or column Site on the DataSource.{10}Parameter name: dataMember details I am connecting to an Access database and using .net 3.5 and writing th...

How can I proctect my .NET application agsinst DLL Hijacking?

We have a .NET 3.5 application with registered extensions. How can we protect it against DLL Hijacking attacks? Because of legacy & design problems strong naming/signing is not an option right now Extra Information if you don't know what DLL Hijacking is: What's DLL Hijacking - SO DLL hijacking vulnerabilities ...

How do I sensibly store large numbers of serialized binary files in C#?

I'm serializing a large number of objects to binary files, however I want to keep everything neatly organized and don't really want hundreds of files in a folder. Is there anyway to group them into zip files, and then access the individual files within that zip? For example, say I created 100 binary files and zipped them. Would I be abl...

CSS problem with silverlight component position. Cannot set height that i want.

I want to make simple content page with silverlight with next requirments: Page must contains: top space for banners(html) center - silverlight component. and he will stretch to fitt page. bottom space for banners(html) Looks quite easy but i faced problem with internet explorer 8. Silverlight component have small size and doesnot st...

what's a good way to show temporary details in a screen, that later is gonna be used for updating a masters/details tables

I have a master/detail tables and I need to show in a screen a set of detail data which has exactly the same structure than the details table, so later I can save the temporary details data to the real physical details table. What's a good way to do this in .NET without LinQ? (since Im not familiar with LinQtoSql) ...

Reading Batch shell script output into C# .Net Programm,

Good Day, As a project I am building a new front end for an old Batch script System. I have to use Windows XP and C# with .Net. I don't want to touch this old Backend system as it's crafted over the past Decade. So my Idea is to start the cmd.exe Programm and execute the Bash script in there. For this I will use the "system" function in...

Problem deriving from ToolboxItemAttribute in .Net, Winforms

As an example, here's a simple attribute, derived from ToolboxItemAttribute: <ToolboxItemX(False)> _ Public Class Class1 Inherits Button End Class Public Class ToolboxItemXAttribute Inherits ToolboxItemAttribute Public Sub New(ByVal defaultType As Boolean) MyBase.New(defaultType) End Sub End Class The probl...

Looking for UI library for .NET and Mono

Hi I'm looking for a UI library for .NET and Mono, something like Gtk#, but with support for 64-bit (on Windows too), and with some widget like WinForm's ListView, with VirtualMode. I don't want to use WinForms and WPF. Is there any alternative? Thanks. ...

When I try to add a class library project I got this error: the tools version 3.5 is unrecognized

When I try to add a class library project I got this error: the tools version 3.5 is unrecognized. What can I do? ...

Add attributes to class & properties on the fly

Is there anything in castle that can let me add attributes to a class on the fly? I have a dto in a project that I want to use as a data contract in a wcf service. I'd need to add a [DataContract] attribute to the class and then [DataMember] to each of the properties. I could just replicate the class in the service layer and th...

Get list of programs using each .NET version installed on my machine

This is not an urgent need but more of a curiosity I have had in the back of my mind for awhile. For each .NET framework version installed on my machine I would like to list the installed apps that require it. With this in hand, I could know whether or not I could safely delete earlier framework versions without causing any programs to f...

Send ASCII string using HTTP Post

I'm currently sending image data over as a byte array. However, I wish to send it over as ASCII string. How can I send an ASCII string from client to server using HTTP POST in c#? HttpWebRequest webRequest = null; webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://192.168.1.2/"); webRequest.ContentType = "applicat...

Is asp.net used for web development only?

Is asp.net used for web development only? ...

C# HttpWebResponse Comet problem

Hello! I am wondering how I would go about reading a persistent connection with HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse. The problem seems to be that the GetResponseStream() function waits for the server connection to be closed before returning. Is there an alternative easy way to read a comet connection? Example that doesn't work. // get ...

Math.Pi constant is wrong

I'm well aware that a Double has only so many bits of precision, but we should still try to achieve high accuracy if possible. So I certainly do not expect to see this in the official .NET 4 system library. // Summary: // Represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, // specified by the constant, π. publ...