Introduction In my experience I found that people starting to learn a new programming language find it hard to accomplish this by reading “complicated and sophisticated” books written by the experts that developed or helped maintain the respective language. They find easier to...

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Why use delegates? I understand HOW to use delegates, but in what situations would you actually use them? The examples I see in the literature are all in situations where the code could just be written without ever using them.

Hi! I need to intercept GDI function to save painted screen to hard drive. I have tried Microsoft Detours. Everything is good, but I need 64-bit version (Detours Professional do support but it costs much). Is there any 64-bit alternatives to Detours Professional?

void Main(String args) { int a,b; Console.WriteLine("**************************"); Console.WriteLine("**************************"); Console.WriteLine("MINI CALC"); Console.WriteLine("**************************"); Console.WriteLine("enter the values you want...

In a silverlight app, I have a BitmapImage defined as System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage and it as a method called "SetSource" where I can set the source like this: BitmapImage bitmap = new BitmapImage(); System.IO.Stream stream = _scene.GetStream(); if (stream == null) return;...

Hi All, I am using AForge library to capture live video stream from an IP camera. Initially, I tested my task in a simple C# application but I should convert my code into my existing MFC C++ application. I made some progress as the following: 1. I configured the project to become compatible with...

I need to put some xls files ( ~50kB) on aspx so that user could download through ssl. I used: Response.Clear(); Context.Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel"; Response.WriteFile(path); // or Response.Clear();

Currently i'm developing a websocket server for version 13 (RFC 6455) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455 However i face some issues about parsing the dataframe. If you see section 5.2 of the specs, the 2nd bytes denotes the MASK and Payload length, From the specs, it is stated at MASK must be set...

How do you set a default size of a control that you can resize? I have been looking at a code sample from Charles Petzold. It is from here: http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2009/05/Realizing-a-Fisheye-Effect-in-Silverlight.html it uses mouse over methods to increase the size of button...

I have a stream of data read from a serial port. Example: $S,01,00FF,02,0003\r\n Generally, '$S' is has no significance. Following that is a "command" follow by a hex data value. The number of "command" and "data value" pair is unknown. It could be 2 or 5. The command spams from "00" to "16"...

Help me Convert this WPF to Silverlight I am interested in a Charles Petzold C# example that shows how to do a fisheye effect ( http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2009/05/Realizing-a-Fisheye-Effect-in-Silverlight.html ). The XAML code samples are in WPF but I want to try this in...

Ok, I've been fighting this for days and so far haven't found very much helpful information on the web. Apparently this isn't a very popular thing to do since there isn't much out there. I'm hoping someone here can help me out. If it's relavent I'm using Visual Studio 2010 on a Windows 7...

I have created a class which acts like a server. And a GUI that displays status. How ever i face cross thread exceptions Code is written in C# // MyClass class MyClass { public delegate void UpdateHandler(Boolean status); public event UpdateHandler Update;

Hello all! I'm seeking to begin work on a relatively simple at first VB instant messanger. I only have experience in html and C++ maybe even a little php, I could use some help if anyone knows! If possible could you provide a little example for me to work off of? Regards, Joe

Hi i'm trying to create a C# webCLient application. I've read through http protocol and System.Net I have a question in mind. for example, my webClient logs in GIDForums I open a webClient with this base address. I created a httpWebRequest with POST Method. what other headers are required (are...

TextBlock wrapping of text in Silverlight XAML file. I have a wierd and annoying problem. I have a textblock that is inside a stackpanel that is Oriented horizontal. It would be nice if I could have the textblock appear in multiple lines nicely wrapped. How could I do that?

How do you make repeatable backgrounds for things in XAML? Back when I was working with HTML, I remember having bitmaps as backgrounds for either a page or for an area. Now I find I want this same sort of thing in my XAML page for Silverlight. How do I do that? How do I make it repeatable so...

Hi friends, I need to get instance variable value from non static method and which is used in the static method. Is it possible to access an instance variable via a static method in the same page? here is my code, public ClassName

Hello, I need to get page unique Id from "DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString() " when i call page load and this value retun from App_code class when i call method using asp.net 3.5 C# Please help me for this, Thanking You guys.

Hello, I'm a newbie. :banana: I need to do the reverse of this: Console::WritleLine In other words, I want to read a user input from the Command Line application. Thanks,

Hello, Am writing a programme that is getting the contents of a text file one by one by use of a for loop. as can be seen below. for (int i = 0; i < FileName.Length; i++) { textline = textline + (Reading.Read() + " "; textBox1.Text...