Re: Launching email client

2011-09-20 Thread Richard Mason
Hi Greg, You're looking at the results of a URL protocol handler. See here for more info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914(v=vs.85).aspx ciao, Richard Aussie Bushwalking It's like Wikipedia... but for Bushwalkers! http://www.aussiebushwalking.com/ On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:18

Re: REST call (obvious solution)

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Mason
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Michael Lyons maill...@ittworx.com wrote: This is very true, but in a lot of cases people could easily use REST instead of SOAP and vice versa as they are just doing basic CRUD or workflow operations I agree. I was just pointing out that its unjustified to

Re: REST call (obvious solution)

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Mason
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Michael Lyons maill...@ittworx.com wrote: REST is what SOAP should have been, but something along the way just went wrong. I'd strongly disagree with this. REST and SOAP have fundamentally different design goals. If the SOAP designers came up with REST they

Re: Generic class question

2011-06-03 Thread Richard Mason
The Convert class will help: value = (T)Convert.ChangeType(rawValue, typeof(T)) On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, in the tiny sample below I want to parse some text and set the generic value, which will be int, double or long. The highlighted statements

Re: Use of GCHandle.Alloc and Free

2010-10-31 Thread Richard Mason
Or perhaps use GC.KeepAlive On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:34 AM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: If by using a local variable you mean local field, then yes this is reliable. *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh

Re: Message Loops

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Mason
I think the NativeWindow class may be able to help you run a simple message loop without any UI. Here's some quick code I threw together in LINQPad as a proof of concept. void Main() { var w = new MyWin(); w.CreateHandle(new CreateParams()); Thread.Sleep(5000); w.DestroyHandle(); } // Define

Re: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

2010-09-03 Thread Richard Mason
Having just bought an AMOLED phone I can confirm that they are definitely nothing like the eInk. At the very least make sure you go see an eInk device. They're an entirely different beast. ciao, Richard On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Simon Reed simon.spectre.l...@gmail.comwrote: Can't comment

Re: Source control of DB scripts

2010-05-30 Thread Richard Mason
Hi Greg, I've worked on a project which has done the scripts in source control approach. I think the thing which made it work was that part of the CI build was to actually spin up a new db and run all the scripts. Failure of the scripts to run triggered a build failure and appropriate blame

Re: How cancel prevent sleep/suspend/shutdown in Windows 7/Vista/XP?

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Mason
Hi Michael, You want to look at the windows power management functions, in particular I SetThreadExecutionState. MSDN link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373163(v=VS.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373163(v=VS.85).aspxciao, Richard On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:38 AM,