RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8
On switching apps: Good-old Alt-Tab works for me? Or Ctrl-Alt-Tab to keep it open and pick? John From: ton...@tpg.com.au To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: RE: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:41:15 +1000 I have to agree with what you’re saying about flicking between apps. And you’ve got a tablet - it’s even harder with a mouse! As far as I can tell, you have to go so close to the left border of the desktop and then it seems to only show the previous view/app you were using. I would have thought it would show all the apps that you currently have activated (but are probably suspended) allowing you to slide between the various apps. Also, it took me a while to figure out that the start button was still available because it was so far down in the bottom left corner that I’m surprised I actually stumbled across it with the mouse. I know it’s early days and it’s designed for touch – but I’m worried it’s going to upset a lot of people if they don’t work out how to make that more intuitive. There’s is a lot of existing hardware that it’s going to have to run on that is not touch ready. T. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burela Sent: Saturday, 17 September 2011 5:54 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 For those wanting to play with it inside a virtual machine, i'd recommend you instead boot directly into Win8 as a VHD instead. Here is a guide from Scott Hanselman http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToInstallingAndBootingWindows8DeveloperPreviewOffAVHDVirtualHardDisk.aspx One of those annoying things I'm finding with the new tile interface, is trying to swap from one app to another. You need to keep flicking your finger from the left to cycle through the apps. It makes it really difficult to know if your app is still actually in the back stack, or where exactly it is. I keep flicking through, cycling through twice only to discover that my app isn't open any more, or I keep missing it and need to keep cycling through again. Having a way to switch apps with say, similar to how you can quick switch on iOS would make it so much more functional. -David Burela On 16 September 2011 16:33, Grant Maw grant@gmail.commailto:grant@gmail.com wrote: No, Win7 64 bit host. x64 Win8 preview. On 16 September 2011 14:36, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.commailto:winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Grant, were you doing it on a 32bit host environment? installing the x64 Win8 preview build? On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Grant Maw grant@gmail.commailto:grant@gmail.com wrote: To get it working on VirtualBox (assuming you had the same unexpected error that I got) you need to do this : In the settings for your virtual box, motherboard tab, make sure you have selected Enable IO APIC, then on the Processor tab, make sure Enable PAE/NX is selected. I have also read somewhere that people are having trouble getting the networking to work properly. I didn't have this issue but the current wisdom for this is to go into settings and on Network-Adapter1-Advanced choose the generic (Intel PRO/1000 MT) network card. Hope that helps Grant On 16 September 2011 14:19, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.commailto:winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, nice, thanks Ken, I was using virtual box, but it crapped itself. So I thought it was across the board. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Applications like VMWare Workstation will let you run 64bit VMs even if the host OS is 32bit Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Winston Pang Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 10:58 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8 Man it totally sucks. I wanted to install x64 on a VM but forgot that my current install of windows is 32bit, so it wont run the Windows 8 x64 version, which is the only version that has the VS2011 express dev tools, GAHHH And that link requires MSDN subscription only. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.commailto:david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: Please also play around with the developer tools, I’d suggest downloading the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/09/14/announcing-visual-studio-11-developer-preview.aspx) over the Express edition. One thing you should be
RE: Decompilation - help unravelling syntax
Essentially it is all the magic late-binding stuff which VB does for you when
you forget to go Option Strict On.
RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(x)
just returns x boxed so you can omit it and the compiler puts it in for you.
NewLateBinding.LateIndexGet(instance, New Object() {a}, Nothing)
as the name suggests is a late bound index get, such as: instance[a]
NewLateBinding.LateGet(x, Nothing, methodName, New Object() {arg0,
arg1}, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
is a function call, equivalent to x.methodName(arg0, arg1)
The following is roughly equivalent source in VB (if you include the
Try-Finally and GetEnumerator calls):
For Each instance In someEnumerable
eArrayList.Clear()
eArrayList.AddRange(Strings.UCase(@@@ instance(e)).Split())
If ((Not sArrayList.Contains(instance(b)) And
eArrayList.Contains(Strings.UCase(sGENRE))) And Not
Module1.EdescList.Contains(SHOP)) Then
Dim obj44 As Object = instance(b).replace(, and)
sArrayList.Add(obj44)
dArrayList.Add(instance(a))
uArrayList.Add(instance(a))
cArrayList.Add(instance(f).length.ToString)
End If
Next
John
P.S. I happen to recognise where the code is coming from, especially since you
didn't quite completely sanitise it :p
From: il.tho...@iinet.net.au
To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
Subject: Decompilation - help unravelling syntax
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:21:19 +0800
A Monday brain exercise:
I have to reconstruct something (obtained by decompiling with Reflector
Pro), and would like some help unravelling some of the verbosity (VB.NET,
Framework 3.5 I think).
Here's a sample (presented as best I can) -
Do While enumerator.MoveNext
Dim instance As Object = RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(enumerator.Current)
eArrayList.Clear()
eArrayList.AddRange(DirectCast(NewLateBinding.LateGet(NewLateBinding.LateGet
(Nothing, GetType(Strings), UCase, New Object()
{Operators.ConcatenateObject(@@@ , NewLateBinding.LateIndexGet(instance,
New Object() {e}, Nothing))}, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing), Nothing,
Split, New Object(0 - 1) {}, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing), ICollection))
If ((Not
sArrayList.Contains(RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(NewLateBinding.LateIndexGe
t(instance, New Object() {b}, Nothing))) And
eArrayList.Contains(Strings.UCase(sGENRE))) And Not
Module1.EdescList.Contains(SHOP)) Then
Dim obj44 As Object =
RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(NewLateBinding.LateGet(NewLateBinding.LateInde
xGet(instance, New Object() {b}, Nothing), Nothing, replace, New
Object() {, and}, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing))
sArrayList.Add(RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(obj44))
dArrayList.Add(RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(NewLateBinding.LateIndexGet(ins
tance, New Object() {a}, Nothing)))
uArrayList.Add(RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(NewLateBinding.LateIndexGet(ins
tance, New Object() {a}, Nothing)))
cArrayList.Add(NewLateBinding.LateGet(NewLateBinding.LateIndexGet(instance,
New Object() {f}, Nothing), Nothing, length, New Object(0 - 1) {},
Nothing, Nothing, Nothing).ToString)
End If
Loop
Some variable types left out, but clear enough I think.
As you might guess, it's a partial parsing of some JSON rendered to a
string.
(Of course it will be easier to just rewrite the parsing, but I am
interested in the decompilation. I haven't looked at MSIL at all.)
Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: C# to Delphi (more accurately - Delphi to C#)
(OT- On Experts Exchange) If you just want to read the answers, visit the page with Google as a referrer and scroll all the way down. John Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:08:10 +0800 From: petermad...@aapt.net.au To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: C# to Delphi (more accurately - Delphi to C#) Thanks for the suggestion. I think a dll would be less effort but this could be another option. Use to have an Experts Exchange account. I needed this to solve a particular problem, once I had the solution I did not have much further use for it and it lapsed. I think it has a free trial period. I will consider this if the other directions I have become dead ends. On 16/12/2010 9:59 AM, Ian Thomas wrote: Peter You have the VCL controls for the Delphi app, I suppose (you said you had the source)? There is a question (with an acceptable solution) on Experts Exchange here – but unless a member, you won’t be able to judge its usefulness. Embedding VCL (Win32) control on external C# application form Asked by roknjohn in Delphi Programming, .NET, C# Programming Language Tags: Delphi, C# I have two applications, one written in C# (Windows Forms) and the other in Delphi (Win32). Is it possible to render a TPanel (or other component) within the running Delphi application onto some container control within the C# application? I've tried using the SetParent API function, but this results in a OutOfMemory runtime exception in the C# app. However, I am able to embed the entire Delphi app's main form on the C# app, using SetParent, but I would like to only embed a portion, TPanel/TFrame. I recall that someone on this list uses Experts Exchange. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Peter Maddin Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:33 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: C# to Delphi I tried using TurnSharp but this is really expecting a standard Delphi project (dpr) file. The code I needed to convert is a control (dpk) file. This is not a selectable option. I converted the demo project that uses this control and it claimed 93.8%. I checked the generated code and the critical code for the EllipticCurve was not present (In truth I did not expect it to be as this is a control integrated into the IDE) I would have to spend some time taking the control code and making it a standard unit within a delphi project. I would then have to do the same with all the other controls needed. While this is do-able I have not coded in Delphi for quite a few years and then the outcome may or may not provide a viable product. I think this might take up to a week to do with an uncertain outcome. At this stage I think the dll /COM is a more viable option. On 15/12/2010 2:10 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: Peter Had you considered a Delphi to C# code converter? There’s one (TurnSharp) that supports .NET 4.0 Framework and money-back if not 90%+ (not a great metric, really), with a trial version. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Peter Maddin Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:00 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: C# to Delphi I have some cipher units written for Delphi 7.
RE: Setting CMD-window title
Some thinking out loud:There is a compiled Windows DLL of the library version (librtmp); maybe that would suit your purposes? John From: il.tho...@iinet.net.au To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: RE: Setting CMD-window title Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:59:56 +0800 CMD.EXE - haha – I didn’t think it was open source ☺ Does Microsoft know that? No, it is something called rtmpdump.exe – sorry, I was “thinking out loud”, wordily. I’ll do what I wrote, rather than burbling on here. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 1:08 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Setting CMD-window title On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: meski – the Notepad was cited as an example, I think. If you follow the StackOverflow discussion, one person just would not back down on the general statement that it is necessary for the called application to accept / not update its title text. The other person pointed this out, and gave the example of CMD.EXE that can accept and retain the WM_SETTXT. I need to either compile a new version of the application I am using (with the free MinGW or the not-free WinGDB), or convince the OS folks that release the Windows version (it’s for Linuxes, Mac, “etc” and comes out of the *ix fraternity) to do so, for everyone’s benefit. More sophisticated code injection is feasible – but I want a simple, quick (and not dirty) remedy. Perhaps you know (from your C experience) why Microsoft won’t support the particular C99 extensions that prevent me from porting / converting this to something .NET (in-process DLL, for example)? You're wanting to recompile a version of cmd.exe, or want MS to? -- Meski Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
RE: F# Help
Not a F# expert by any means, but just playing around in VS, there seem to be two possible causes: 1. The order the files appear in the project matters. The file defining ShareEntity needs to come first (you can right click in Solution Explorer and Move Up/Down). 2. The type is in a module of the same name, so you either need to do a open ShareEntity or use ShareEntity.ShareEntity. Hope this helps, John From: t...@tomgao.com To: michaelsli...@gmail.com; ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: RE: F# Help Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:52:32 +1100 Thanks my understanding is that modules are like classes. I intended them to be in different modules. Any other suggestions? -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:14 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: F# Help On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Tom Gao t...@tomgao.com wrote: Hi guys, [...] At the moment the compiler is complaining that on the line let lagrangeInterpolatingPolynomial(share : ListShareEntity, degree, desiredPos) = in Lib.fs it isn't able to find ShareEntity. Is the problem that they are in different modules? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233221.aspx Anyone have any ideas? Thank you in advance, Tom -- silky http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being this signature.
