Robuk's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Thread safe wrapper around generic dictionary

  Could someone give me a pointer as to how I might implement a thread safe wrapper around a genric dictionary   I've written thread-safe dictionaries in C# 1.x by inheriting from the DictionaryBase but I'm a bit stumped as to how to acheive this using Generics. TIA Danny Tobin, thanks for the feedback.  In the absence of any other guidance over the last month I implemented the first option, the 'sub'-cla ...Show All

• Visual C++ program execution from the ide

  I just loaded VisualC++2005 and have not been able to execute the code I have written. In C++6, there was an exclamation point that executed the code. I have not been able to find the " ! " or any other way to execute my code.   Thanks, Roger The exclamation mark in Visual C++ 6.0 did "Execute Program" which has now been replaced by "Start without Debugging", in Visual C++ 2005, under the debug ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VC++ new (new slot in vtable) - Is the help wrong or is it a bug?

  In the help under - New C++ Language Features - and - new (new slot in table) - there is an example.  But if I try to run this it produces compiler warnings and does not give the output that it should from the example.  Which is wrong The example is :- // newslot.cpp // compile with: /clr ref class C { public:    virtual void f() {       System::Console::WriteLine("C::f() called");  &n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista .icl files not supported by build 5308?

  Hi there, build 5308 does not recognize .icl (Icon Libraries) as files storing icons ... whenever I open an .icl file I get a message saying that the files does not contain any icons. I am pretty sure that it was working fine with the December CTP ... I tried it with several .icl files which are all working fine on XP. No luck on Vista, though ... Can someone confirm having the same problem with build 5308 Or can someone of M ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to get LanguageService from GUID?

  I would like to get LanguageService object (or IVsLanguageInfo interface) for currently used editor. I tried to use the following code to got it: private static IVsLanguageInfo GetLanguageInfo(IVsTextView vsTextView, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package package) { IVsTextLines lines = null; if (vsTextView != null) { vsTextView.GetBuffer(out lines); } Guid guidLangSvc; lines.GetLanguageServiceID(out guidLangSvc); // got a Guid o ...Show All

• Visual C# Compiler Warning CS0465: Introducing a 'Finalize' method...

  Compiler Warning (level 1) CS0465: "Introducing a 'Finalize' method can interfere with destructor invocation. Did you intend to declare a destructor " According to the MSDN online docs, this warning is supposed to happen when a public virtual Finalize() method is declared, but in my case it is a private non-virtual method and it seems that the warning is invalid... am I missing something After ...Show All

• Windows Forms Seperate Thread progress form

  I am trying to create a Progress form for my program that loads in a seperate thread so that screen updates and animations on the form are smooth and timely. I have had some success with the following code. The Form Used as a "Template" for the threaded progress form: Public Class frmDebug Private m_Thread As Threading.Thread Private m_CloseByCode As Boolean Public Shadows Sub AsyncShow() m_Thread = New ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Texturing Cube Faces Separately

  I am trying to texture the faces of a cube independently using Managed Direct X. The cube is first created by using the Mesh.Box method. Its vertices are then converted to a PositionNormalTextured format and the texture location then set. This works are the moment because all but one face is set just to use the first pixel of the texture which the program has already set to theses faces background colour. The face I want texture ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WF instance persistence

  I have a web config file that instructs the workflow instance to persist to the database. However, there is nothing in the database. the connection string is correct. Do I need to something special to persist the instance I have a delay shape and it should cause the instance to persist. Any ideas Hi, Just wanted to make sure if you are checking the database during the delay period, 'coz the instance in ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Wifi Printing

  I need to connect to a Mobile Printer that has integreated Wifi. It will be a point to point connection. This will be configured on the device itself. Basically i will be creating a Stream of data to send to the printer, but how can i specify the to print to that IP Address, thanks for any help I solved it by creating the connection to the printer and preforming the printing inside the same method. Here is the full code for anyone who w ...Show All

• .NET Development Why there is a huge jump in the time used?

  Hi, I've a quetion which has bugged me for several months. I wrote a .NET Web service which is hosted by IIS 5.1 on a Windows XP SP2 machine. This Web service just get the content of the specified txt file and send the content back to the client. The processing time on the server side was logged. The file sizes and results are listed below (in millisecond): FileSize:     1K       2K  &n ...Show All

• Visual C++ Why do I get these C2065 and C2057 errors?

  This is a brand new MFC program I created thru VS and C++ version 6.  When I added a new dialog which only has a progress bar and named it IDD_COMPUTER_SPEED I get the following errors "error C2065: 'IDD_GET_COMPUTER_SPEED' : undeclared identifier" and "error C2057: expected constant expression" both pointing to the .h file that was created automatically.  I don't know why I'm getting these error beca ...Show All

• Visual Basic [vb 2005 expr] Error: Unable to cast COM object of type...

  The error that raises at runtime is: ********* Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'NEROLib.NeroDrive'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID ******** This happens when I try to execute a sub (that burns an iso DVD with data files) called by an asynchronous thread. If the same sub is executed as click event of a button on the main form then ther ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Outlook 2007 Beta 2 and EntryID Futures?

  there is also a problem when you try to install the WDS with the office 2007 during the installation at the end you get a error saying Access Denied and the installation fails. is microsoft aware of this problem James Hi csdcomp, This is a known issue with the beta. The good news is that there is a workaround available. Please use the workaround only if you are comfortable modifying your regist ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce and Client Certificates

  There was some discussion back in the summer about the use of client certificates to secure the application on a web site. Since the RTM was released I haven't seen any updates about his issue. I have a requirement to secure our applications web site using client certificates, however because dfsvc.exe doesn't send any client certificates to the server when its downloading the manifests and the application it basically means that the publishe ...Show All