Chris Honcoop's Q&A profile

• Community Chat Opensource C# BitTorrent library

  Hi there everyone, I've written an open source bittorrent client library which runs on Windows/MacOS and nearly all flavours of Linux which is pretty much at Beta 2 status, i.e. most of the really big bugs are gone. The source is available at the public SVN for mono under the Bitsharp folder (details can be found at www.mono-project.com). There is also a TorrentCreator and BitTorrent Tracker library available at the same place, both written in C# aswell. Those are also needing developers should anyone be interested in pitching in. Example code and a more detailed blurb is at www.mono-project.com/Bitsharp. Basically, i'm doing a call to developers to: 1) Try and find a few people who wish to help with further developing the library. 2) Try ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Defines in C#

  Originally I am from C++. I got really used to #define. Does this behavior carry over to C# No. Preprocessor is pretty much gone from C#. Defines in C# are only good for conditional compilation. You can use external preprocessor if you want though. ...Show All

• Windows Forms from string to form

  Suppose you have the name of the form : string fname = "FormSomething"; How do I create a form object with fname as name Apparently this is not enough: Form f = new Form(); f.Name = fname; Also tried: f.CreateControl(); Can anyone please tell me how to get the form object Thanks!!! Thx for the replies, but it works once. It's in a while loop and it does what it should do the first time. The second time it gives the error mentioned above. ...Show All

• .NET Development Bulk loading a SQL CE table from a text file

  I'm loading a sql ce table from a text file on an HP IPAQ using VB in Visual Studio 2005. The text file I'm loading now has about 16,000 100 character records and it takes about 6 minutes to load. The problem is the text file could have a 100,000 records or more. I tried "BULK INSERT" but SQL CE bulked at "BULK" so I assume it isn't implemented in CE. I've been looking at sqlbulkcopy but it looks like all the data has to be in a memory-resident table. Does anyone know the fastest way to load a text file into an sql ce database I need a run-spot-run explanation and some sample code in VB. Accessing the data with a binary search is going to be infinitely more efficient than hitting i ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll Problem

  Hi there, can someone possibly tell me why Noton WinDoctor is telling me that 10 executables in the .NET Framework 2.0 cannot access the necessary dll file msvcr80.dll I see that the dll exists in the WinSxS directory and I'm running XP pro. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded the 2.0 framework at windows update. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Naolin Hi Martin, can you clarify on what you mean when you say, " Are you sure that WinDoctor is right ".... I know its installed correctly, up to date and functioning properly if that's what you meant. ...Show All

• Visual C# Inserting a record using databound controls

  This seems like it should be simple.  I'm probably missing something obvious.. but here goes... How do I have a form for entering a new customer ( for example ),using databound controls on that form   I'm not opening a dataset to start with, so I can't just insert a record into that dataset. I suppose I could do a select saying something like "where customerID = -1" ( which would return zero rows ), and then insert a row into the empty dataset, but that seems kind of ugly. Is there a "right" way to do this    My appologies if this is a stupid question. Thanks, Kirk   Hi, See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms233812(VS.80).aspx Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to use fx software?

  hi all, I tried to usefx composer and render monkey create new fx file. But i not understand to create new effect file and how to add fx code in c# framework Please somebody help me. Best regards, Brian Tsim I suggest you taking a look at how it's done at www.mdxinfo.com Basically what you want is a .fx file with some kind of processing happening inside of it. What you could then do is load them using the DirectX API such as Effect.FromFile() method. This will return an effect that you can use to render your scene/objects with. There is obviously a bit more involved but mdxinfo's tutorials should give you a good understanding on how to accomplish this. I hope this helps. Take care. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Stop Smartphone Display timeout

  Hi. I am using VS2005/VB.Net and CF2 to write an application for Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones. At a point within my application I need to stop the device from timing-out and returning to the Home screen and/or turning off the display. Within a timer (firing every 5 seconds) I P/Invoke SHIdleTimerReset to stop the device returning to the Home screen. This works fine. The device no longer times out and returns to the Home screen. However, my test device (i-Mate SP5 with latest available ROM) still turns off the display after the timeout set on the device in Settings - Power Management - Display time out. To stop the display from timing out, I can P/Invoke SetPowerRequirement on BKL1: with a setting of D0. This als ...Show All

• .NET Development WebService vs ASP.Net pages

  me new to ASP.Net and Web Service. My target is GUI less web site response result in a XML format for any request. and me found ASP.Net provide a way that did it called WebService. but me confusing what difference between ASP.Net pages and WebService. because ASP.Net pages also can return XML instead of HTML an example for basic website [SignIn] and [SignOut] with WebService member.asmx/SignIn username=xxx&password=xxx member.asmx/SignOut and with ASP.Net pages SignIn.aspx username=xxx&password=xxx SignOut.aspx WebService seem work similar to ASPX, just combined all methods into one "ASMX" so anyone please be kind to explain to me, what the diffenrece between them, and what the benefit of using WebService. In my c ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Is this doable? How? Thanks

  Let's say we're in a workflow that we designed in VS2005 and half way through the workflow we have a group of activities that we want to execute in parallel. At design time, we don't know how many parallel runs we'll have nor do we know the actual parameter values that will be passed into each parallel run. So, we have an activity that return an array of parameters and we want to run the next few activities as a group. We want to run them in parallel and each of them need to use one of the parameters in the array. Does this make any sense and what would be a best practice Also, is it possible to run these activities on multiple hosts to lessen the processing burden Thanks CostasZ So I'd ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista VMR-9 displays nothing, in windowed or windowless mode?

  I'm capturing analog TV and displaying with VMR-9, but I can only see a black video display, no matter widowed or windowless mode is used, I can hear the TV sound though. What's the possible reason Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions My app will not close when I log off the computer

  I am new to vb so please I am sure I made some silly mistake. I created a vb 2005 express app that will monitor inactivity and log the user off in 20-40 min of inactivity. The app seems to work great, but I run into a problem if the user tries to logoff the normal way (start, logoff). When they do this my app hangs and will not close forcing the user to click the end task button. Any ideas on how I can make windows close this nicely without my users having to see the windows popup asking them to close task Thanks, Chad well it really depends what your app is doing at the time, if its in the middle of a process then yes, this will be the behavior of the application/Windows. Even though ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Live and Netmeeting

  Hi. Is there anyway to get the new Live Messenger to work more like the dying Netmeeting, with more than one person in a video call w/o using multiple windows/calls Thanks! The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live application development using the Messenger Activity API, and Windows Live Bots. If you have technical support questions about using MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, please check the following resources... Messenger Technical Support is available on the Messenger newsgroup: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/ dg=microsoft.public.msn.messenger&cat=en-us-msn&lang=en&cr=US&ln=en-us nntp://microsoft.public.msn.messenger Get the l ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can Anybody help me out How to do this

  Hi I have problem with global.asax file. I am working on wcf services for the past 2 months and I have integrated these services into our project. I am facing the proble , How to use the global.asax file in wcf services. Our flow of data is like this UI -- Business layer -- Service Layer -- DataBase. In service layer we have implemented WWF and WCF. WWF is using web services and global object is declared in global.asax file. We have to remove this web services and implement wcf services. Here the problem occurs this object declared in global.asax file is not recognised . We have declared wcf services as class library project. Can you suggest me how to over come this barrier.    This is the model I would re ...Show All

• Windows Networking Development Listen On a Certain Port

  I dont know if this is the right place for this.. but lets hope so... Im trying to create a simple... app that will listen on a certain port.. but for some reason It listen.. the program starts but.. then it ends... I also dont get any errors.. So Im a big lost here.. using System; using System.Net; using System.Net.Sockets; class internetcheck { public static void Main( ) { new startConnection(); } } class startConnection { public startConnection( ) { Socket socket = new Socket( AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp ); IPAddress ipaddr = IPAddress.Parse( "127.0.0.1" ); IPEndPoint endpoint = new IPEndPoint( ipaddr, 888 ); socket.Bind( endpoint ); socket.Listen(2); //soc ...Show All