Do you know of any .NET library which can decode several types of audio files? Ideally, it should be platform agnostic, so it can be used with .NET and Mono - on Windows and *NIX. I already tortured Google searching for a library which meets my needs, but unfortunately I could not find anything. So before writing a lot of wrapper classe...
I asked a somewhat related question but I want it to make it more concrete and 'programming' oriented, so here it goes: Does any body know, if there is a .NET, JAVA or any other Framework, library, .jar file or what ever: to access S.M.A.R.T. Statistics? Thanks! ...
I have a Windows Form project that I've just started. On the form I have a listbox that I'm loading with Products. When someone double clicks a Product, I want it to raise a ProductChanged event. Other things in my project will subscribe to this event and update things like other parts of the GUI when the Product changes. My question i...
I need to convert a (possibly) null terminated array of ascii bytes to a string in C# and the fastest way I've found to do it is by using my UnsafeAsciiBytesToString method shown below. This method uses the String.String(sbyte*) constructor which contains a warning in it's remarks: "The value parameter is assumed to point to an array re...
Is there any C#/F# performance comparison available on web to show proper usage of new F# language? ...
I have an application that is causing a lot of headaches. It's a .NET app connecting to SQL Server 2005 via a web service. The program has grid that is filled by a long running stored procedure that is prone to timing out. In the case when it does time out and a SqlException is thrown, there is no execption handling to close the connecti...
I'm setting up StructureMap and it seems like everything I want to do there are two ways to do it and it's unclear to me what the difference is between them. For instance, what's the difference between these two lines: StructureMapConfiguration.ForRequestedType<IConsumer>().AddConcreteType<Consumer>(); StructureMapConfiguration.ForReq...
I'm wondering if mono.net is included in the default installation of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Fedora, and other popular distros? If so, does anyone have a good reason why NOT to use it to develop a new GUI application targeted mainly for linux? ...
What languages feature (1 per answer please) should be added to VB.NET in future versions? Update: where possible provide links to examples of language feature as used elsewhere. ...
Greetings, I'm trying to find either a free .NET library or a command-line executable that lets me convert M4A files to either MP3s or WMA files. Please help :). ...
I recently built an API and was often asked to replace the StringCollections i was returning by objects containing a single property, The reason being that it was easier to bind with a listview or other controls in ASP.Net. Since the API was used by the web application, the Web service and the dataloader I decided on keeping the StringC...
I thought that there was some way in .net 3.0 to give an array list a type so that it didnt just return Object's but I'm having trouble doing so. Is it possible? If so, how? ...
I think I might be missing the point of having a logging framework for your application. In all the small apps I've always written a small "Logging" class and just pass log messages to a method in it which is written to a file. What is the purpose of a 3rd party logging framework like log4net? Is it thread safety with logging write ...
I frequently start with a simple console application to try out an idea, then create a new GUI based project and copy the code in. Is there a better way? Can I convert my existing console application easily? ...
With what GUI framework is the Mono .NET Windows.Forms implemented? Example: KDE, Gnome, X11 itself? ...
I have a couple applications that I would like to be able to add scheduled tasks from within them. I've been Googling for how to add tasks in both XP and Vista. Apparently, Vista has a new Task Scheduler that is very different from the one in XP. Does anybody know if there is a single API to tackle both of them, or do I have to code for...
I know that attributes are extremely useful. There are some predefined ones such as [Browsable(false)] which allows you to hide properties in the properties tab. Here is a good question explaining attributes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20346/c-what-are-attributes What are the predefined attributes (and their namesapce) you actua...
I am in the process of writing a Bluetooth scanner that locates and identifies mobile devices in the local vicinity. Is this something that I can accomplish using C#, or do I need to drop down into the C/C++ APIs? My application is targeting Windows XP and Vista. Pointers are appreciated. Thanks! ...
Recently I had to do some very processing heavy stuff with data stored in a DataSet. It was heavy enough that I ended up using a tool to help identify some bottlenecks in my code. When I was analyzing the bottlenecks, I noticed that although DataSet lookups were not terribly slow (they weren't the bottleneck), it was slower than I expect...
Hi all, I'm implementing a secure WCF service. Authentication is done using username / password or Windows credentials. The service is hosted in a Windows Service process. Now, I'm trying to find out the best way to implement authorization for each service operation. For example, consider the following method: public EntityInfo GetEnt...