Re: Async coding pattern

2013-03-02 Thread Joseph Clark
Could you check whether client.GetFooCompleted is null before assigning a handler to it? On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, I have some skeleton code like this in a Silverlight app: client.GetFooCompleted += (s, e) = { Trace(GetFoo result is {0},

Re: [OT] Game designer (Kodu) prerequisite

2012-11-18 Thread Joseph Clark
DxDiag should get you started in the right direction - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DxDiag On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: A series of questions for some of you who are perhaps a few years younger than me: I would like a primary/high school age

Re: [OT] Secure page?

2012-05-02 Thread Joseph Clark
It really depends what the page does. You could try installer a web debugger like Fiddler http://fiddler2.com or Charleshttp://www.charlesproxy.com/(or look at the network tab in Firebug or the Chrome inspector) to see exactly where the page transmits your information to. Even if the username

Re: Users who compulsively highlight or click text as they read it - are you out there?

2012-04-16 Thread Joseph Clark
Woot! Thanks all for your replies :) At least I know I am not alone. I'll paraphrase as much of this as I can into some feedback for our team. Thanks heaps! On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Joseph Clark jcl...@atlassian.com wrote: Hi list! This is a bit of an odd request, but I'm yet

Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread Joseph Clark
I'm no expert on this either, but I'm fairly certain that this business requirement is simply not achievable. Due to the way mail servers operate on the Internet, there is no way for a sender to know if an intended recipient address is valid. An email may go through several mail exchanges before

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Joseph Clark
Bitbucket supports basic website hosting, too: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Publishing+a+Website+on+bitbucket On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: All the production quality issues are non-issues. The goal here is a website to support

Re: Playing nicely with ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback

2011-12-14 Thread Joseph Clark
ServicePointManager that you can hook onto without worrying you mess up with the rest of the application. Once done you can tear-down the app domain. If you need it for a longer time just keep that AppDomain live until the end of the app pool. Corneliu. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Joseph Clark jcl

Re: Event Log

2011-12-08 Thread Joseph Clark
As far I can remember from the last time I looked at this stuff... writing to the event log as a Joe user is fine - the problem is that creating the event source for the log entries required administrative escalation. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.auwrote:

Re: 32bit apps

2011-10-21 Thread Joseph Clark
, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Joseph Clark jcl...@atlassian.com wrote: I recall this coming up on the list recently (like in the last 6 months?) You can try: * Using the CorFlags tool to change the executable headers, but this will invalidate the assembly if it is signed. * Launch the app from

Re: 32bit apps

2011-10-20 Thread Joseph Clark
I recall this coming up on the list recently (like in the last 6 months?) You can try: * Using the CorFlags http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164699%28v=vs.80%29.aspxtool to change the executable headers, but this will invalidate the assembly if it is signed. * Launch the app from a

Re: Opening .MSI databases

2011-10-14 Thread Joseph Clark
Orca http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905 is the official tool, but I haven't used it in ages and I found it a bit painful. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Bing! New versionhttp://blog.scott.willeke.com/2010/12/lessmsi-v108-is-now-available.html,

Re: first chance exception

2011-10-12 Thread Joseph Clark
Try using the Assembly Binding log viewer (fuslogvwhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e74a18c4%28v=vs.71%29.aspx) to see where it is binding the serializer assemblies from (make sure it is configured to log all binds to disk). On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Ian Thomas

Re: first chance exception

2011-10-12 Thread Joseph Clark
Looks like you need to run it with escalated privileges on Vista/Win7 in order for the settings to be configurable. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Well, fuslogvw is a problem – Settings has logging disabled, and for the life of me I can’t enable

Re: Window Management software

2011-09-07 Thread Joseph Clark
I've been using Ultramon for years for just one single feature - it extends the Windows taskbar onto secondary monitors. Can't live without it, now. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Wallace Turner wallacetur...@gmail.comwrote: Does anyone use any window management software, free or otherwise,

Re: Good looking WinForms apps

2011-08-18 Thread Joseph Clark
Steering clear of the whether or not choosing WinForms over WPF is a good idea debate, it's definitely possible to create some nice looking UI's in WinForms. The System.Drawing namespace gives you a fairly open licence to do whatever the heck you want with the window. Bob Powell has some

Re: 64 bit wcf service library

2011-06-08 Thread Joseph Clark
Failing that, you could try using Corflags to set the assembly to be 64-bit compatible: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164699.aspx This has a number of caveats though, most notably the fact that you won't be able to do this if the 3rd party assembly is strong-named. On Thu, Jun 9,

JetBrains enters the .NET decompilation business

2011-05-11 Thread Joseph Clark
For those who haven't seen it, looks like the RedGate debacle has given some room for others to try and muscle in on the business. JetBrains (ReSharper, et al.) have released a new decompiler product for C#: http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/

Re: SSD minimum size question

2011-05-10 Thread Joseph Clark
The hibernate file apparently can’t be moved. Not a direct answer to your question, but although you can't move hiberfil.sys, you can remove it entirely if you don't use Windows Hibernate (seehttp://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToFreeingUpDiskSpaceUnderWindowsVista.aspx ) On Wed, May 11, 2011

Re: Unable to download Sharepoint Foundation from MSDN

2011-04-17 Thread Joseph Clark
Hi Dave, I intermittently had the same problem in the past while downloading SPFoundation, too. I tried a few times over a 24 hour period and eventually it worked, so perhaps there is a stale CDN node floating around somewhere. I had a hunt around for alternative download sites but couldn't

Obtaining support hotfixes from Microsoft

2011-03-20 Thread Joseph Clark
Hi List, I've recently run into some deployment problems on a local SharePoint server. A bit of digging reveals a KB article ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971521/) as a likely culprit. The article says there is a hotfix download available, but either I am blind, the hotfix is not available

Re: Obtaining support hotfixes from Microsoft

2011-03-20 Thread Joseph Clark
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Clark *Sent:* Monday, 21 March 2011 2:18 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Obtaining support hotfixes from Microsoft Hi List, I've recently run into some deployment problems on a local SharePoint server. A bit of digging

Re: [OT] Ticketing System

2011-01-23 Thread Joseph Clark
If a Java app doesn't scare you off, have a look at JIRAhttp://www.atlassian.com/jira. disclaimer: I work for Atlassian. :-) On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Hemal Modi he...@lawcentral.com.au wrote: Hi, I am currently looking for a good ticketing system for IT helpdesk support. Is there

Re: .NET friendly cloud-compute recommendations

2010-12-13 Thread Joseph Clark
: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Joseph Clark jcl...@atlassian.com wrote: Howdy all, Does anyone have any experience with Windows/.NET friendly cloud-computing solutions, specifically for the purpose of farming out compilation and test agents? Internally we've semi-standardised

.NET friendly cloud-compute recommendations

2010-12-12 Thread Joseph Clark
Howdy all, Does anyone have any experience with Windows/.NET friendly cloud-computing solutions, specifically for the purpose of farming out compilation and test agents? Internally we've semi-standardised on EC2 for all our java-based builds, but from the literature I've read on the tubes,

Re: OPen File not working...

2010-11-15 Thread Joseph Clark
Definitely sounds like it could be an encoding problem. You could try replacing this function of yours with System.IO.File.ReadAllTexthttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.readalltext.aspx, which should attempt to automatically detect the file encoding for you. Alternatively,

Re: Recommendations for a ERP system

2010-10-21 Thread Joseph Clark
Hey Andrew, Shameless plug, but I used to work for Technology Onehttp://www.technologyonecorp.com/in Brisbane. They're a home-grown ERP vendor who've been quite successful in competing locally against the Oracles and SAPs of the world. I know they have Financials, Payroll Supply Chain modules

Re: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread Joseph Clark
I've had no problems mixing different versions of Visual Studio (2008 2010) and the .NET Framework (2, 3 4) on the one machine. Can't vouch for Silverlight though/ HTH, Joe. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, I’m preparing for the big migration of all

Re: Retrieve parameters

2010-08-01 Thread Joseph Clark
Anthony, You can use the TargetSitehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.exception.targetsite.aspxproperty on the Exception class to access information about the method that caused the exception to be thrown... this causes a walk of the call stack, which has a performance overhead and

Re: Is it me..or is IIS 7 manager a crap interface?

2010-07-08 Thread Joseph Clark
I found it very confusing after first swapping to it from IIS 6. Having had time to adjust, I think it's a pretty good representation of a complex system. It's certainly easier to find the settings that were quite esoteric/hidden away in previous managers. The one thing I don't like is the

Re: Get main form instance from usercontrol

2010-06-23 Thread Joseph Clark
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.findform.aspxshould work? On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote: What method do i need to use to the get the main instance of a form from a usercontrol? The main form is of type FormMain

Re: Method Invoke problem

2010-06-18 Thread Joseph Clark
The object[] objs array is indicating that the method expects three parameters, rather than a single parameter which is an array. You need an array that contains one array :) object[] objs = new object[] { new object[] {Hi, 123, DateTime.Now}}; PS. Who feeds the magpies?! My dad shoots them

Re: [OT] Does anyone know of any SharePoint developers looking for work in Adelaide?

2010-06-10 Thread Joseph Clark
No, unfortunately SharePoint development is a kind of masochism :P On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:35 AM, DotNet Dude adotnetd...@gmail.com wrote: Sharepoint devs? I thought they just click here and click there... :p On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:04 PM, James Chapman-Smith ja...@enigmativity.com

Re: [OT] Does anyone know of any SharePoint developers looking for work in Adelaide?

2010-06-10 Thread Joseph Clark
I think that as a general skill for a .NET developer, familiarity with SharePoint isn't particularly important. Developing with SharePoint has a long, moderately-steep learning curve and in my experience, what you learn isn't particularly transferable to other areas; it's only useful when you're

Re: How to declare a class refrence as an argument type?

2010-04-29 Thread Joseph Clark
Use System.Type http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.type.aspx:-) On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: I need to have method with a a signature looking like this RegisterForm( typeof(Form) formType) where the forn type is actually a class

Re: [OT - Java]

2010-03-10 Thread Joseph Clark
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