It's a bit of a leading question, I know, but this question came up in a PHP Users group discussion and I was interested to see if there were any studies done comparing the two (regardless of who "wins"). I can see there are many tangibles to compare in licensing, IDEs, hosting, etc., as well as the intangibles of amount of time spent o...
I've just been researching the ActiveRecord pattern, and based on this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern), it seems Linq 2 Sql more or less implements this, am I wrong? or what would need to be changed for it to conform to the ActiveRecord pattern? ...
Hi, Let's say I want to have a function which reads data from the SerialPort and returns a byte[]. public byte[] RequestData(byte[] data) { //See code below } Something as simple as this really doesn't work/perform well and isn't very reliable: byte[] response = new byte[port.ReadBufferSize]; port.Open(); port.Write(data, 0...
I am doing an application which is used to clear the Temp files, history etc, when the user log off. So how can I know if the system is going to logoff (in C#)? ...
I've written a console application that basically fires one BackgroundWorker that supports ReportProgress and Cancel. How can I make sure that before a window is closed (by pressing the close button or pressing ctrl+c) the cancel operation is triggered on my thread and the window only closes after the cancel is completed? ...
How can I fill the background of drop down calender of a DateTimePicker with gradients? ...
How do you serialize the following [XmlRoot("response")] public class MyCollection<T> { [XmlElement("person", Type = typeof(Person))] public List<T> entry; public int startIndex; } where T can be a class like public class Person { public string name; } into <response> <startIndex>1</startIndex> <entry> <...
i have two color "red" also "Salmon". i need create dynamiclly panel also panel background color. These colors must be between two color(red public Color x, y; protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { BackGroundColorArranger(Color.Red, Color.Salmon); } void BackGroundColorArrang...
Does anybody know where can I get the compiled HtmlAgilityPack Library? ...
I'm using .net 3.5. The problem here is that I cant seem to get the passwords to match. I have tried using the ComputeHash method on both, but it generates a different hash. As they are now the arrays are different sizes. (Obviously they are based on the same string). What have I done wrong? ("password" is byte[] param by user input) ob...
If I have a "Any CPU" compiled .NET app, it will run in 64bit mode on a 64bit OS. But if I, for whatever reason, wants to force this app to run in 32bit mode. (As if it were compiled using "x86"). Recompiling is not an option, so is this possible to config at run time ? With the .manifest file perhaps? ...
In one C# maintenance project I came across following variable declaration: Int32* iProgressAddress; Is it pointer declaration in C#? I thought that there is no pointer concept in C#, what does that statement mean? ...
How would I use regex to parse the following: <b>HelloWorld</b> <p>This is a test</p> <a href="myUrl">Google</a> All html tags need to be removed and the urls extracted from hyperlink tags, and the result should be: HelloWorld This is a test myUrl ...
I'm attempting to bind a combo to a collection of objects: Dim t As New TradeOrderStatus() Dim ts As List(Of TradeOrderStatus) = t.GetStatuses With Me.cboTradeStatus .DataSource = ts .SelectedItem = Nothing End With This works fine and I see the list of items in the combo. However when I try to set the...
My problem is the following: In an existing database I want to encrypt data in a couple of columns. The columns contains strings of different lengths. I don't want to change the size of the columns so the encryption need to produce an equal length text representation of the input text. The strength of the encryption algorithm is of se...
When you right-click an .exe file, you can see various details, such as file description. I'm looking for way to retrieve that data programmatically (preferably, from C#). (Program's name, program's description, Vendor's name, Vendor's site etc) ...
I'm having a very strange problem where I run a managed .net console app on a remote server using psexec. I get this error "The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe". Now I wrote an unmanaged C++ program to output to std::cout, and it works just fine. Interestingly, if I run cmd.exe remotely, and use the /u (unicode) option, I...
Hello, I am trying to use reflection to create object array of the type created from reflection like the folowing: Client[] newArray = new Client[] {client1, client2}; I need to somehow get the Client object type to create the object so it can be passed through. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rob object clientObjec...
Trying to mimic the way the IPhone flips the album art to the songs list. I want to pass in two generic objects and have the storyboard flip them. I can get the slide effect, but have not figured out how to scale the object so it appears to be rotating and not just sliding. Thanks, Dave ...
I have a simple struct which contains two fields; one stores an object and the other stores a DateTime. I did this because I wanted to store objects in a Dictionary but with a DateTime stamp as well. I've got a method which returns my structure, and I've now decided the method should also be able to return null, so I made my structure n...