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The only real issue you run into is that many of the Microsoft sample solutions come with a unit tests project in MSTest format. This is not supported in the Express editions. However, it is very straightforward to replicate such projects using NUnit or whatever, just find and replace all the test attributes with the appropriate ones for NUnit and they work OK. Or, of course, you can just ignore the unit test projects.
It's good that Visual Web Dev Express supports both Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC. They could have chosen not to support them.  Kevin
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| You do not need to pay for any of these products; I have been using them for 3 or 4 years and find them excellent for all forms of development and learning. MVP 2010 - are they mad?
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Thanks very much Richard.  Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
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Hi,
I would like to know how to create a custom control in which I have one trackbar but with two thumbs (sliders) one at extreme left and one at extreme right.
How tough it will be ?
Will I have to write it from scratch or I can modify the existing trackbar to implement this ?
Thanks in advance
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cooljeba1 wrote: I would like to know how to create a custom control in which I have one trackbar but with two thumbs (sliders) one at extreme left and one at extreme right.
How tough it will be ?
From scratch would probably be faster. Two small Panels that you can (horizontally) position with the mouse?I are Troll 
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply.. I was looking for something like this:
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/2306/slider.jpg
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As a programmer, I see a control with two little controls on it. The little controls can slide.
As an end-user, I'd say it would be confusing. What's the current setting? Is it set to the minimum, the maximum or both?I are Troll
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yeah...
It will be used to scroll through a graph.. the left slider will be set to min and the right slider to the max by default.
User can slide either controls so select a range.. in graph.. lets say the min year he sets to 2005 and max year he sets to 2009. so he can generate graph for data inbetween these years
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Hi i am developing an vb.net erp solution and want to know if there is any performance testing tool for windows appication available in market from which i can check how my appication doing.???
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The biggest improvement you can make is to not use VB.
There are plenty of profilers, like ANTS[^]
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Unable to cast COM object of type 'ESchRCW.eSchReadClass' to interface type 'ESchRCW._eSchRead'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{C8DD174B-A1C9-40AC-990C-91E62D7FAD12}' failed due to the following error: Error loading type library/DLL. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80029C4A (TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY)).
This RCW, .net code and the corresponding code is working in local, DEVWEB, QAWEB, except the UATWEB region (as of now). I think may be there is a problem in UATWEB region. I checked the Frameworks and service packs and all are same, except the hardware is windows server 2003 standard edition in DEVWEB,QA, but UATWB it is windows 2003 standard edition. I hope it got nothing to do with this problem. I even cleared the all entries of this com+ component and it's guids from registry and re added the COM+ component to the COM+, but the result is same. I checked even in even logs, but no information on it. I am giving more information below, hopefully it will help .net experts to understand my problem and help me.
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EXCEPTION INFORMATION:
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MESSAGE: Unable to cast COM object of type 'ESchRCW.eSchReadClass' to interface type 'ESchRCW._eSchRead'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{C8DD174B-A1C9-40AC-990C-91E62D7FAD12}' failed due to the following error: Error loading type library/DLL. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80029C4A (TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY)).
FRIENDLY MESSAGE: Unable to cast COM object of type 'ESchRCW.eSchReadClass' to interface type 'ESchRCW._eSchRead'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{C8DD174B-A1C9-40AC-990C-91E62D7FAD12}' failed due to the following error: Error loading type library/DLL. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80029C4A (TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY)).
ERROR ID: F239D36A-E327-4E8A-9BFF-5D3EB9815E01
CREATED DATE: 2/6/2010 5:25:40 PM
REPORTED DATE: 2/6/2010 5:25:40 PM
MACHINE NAME: UATWEB
APP DOMAIN NAME: APP DOMAIN NAME
THREAD IDENTITY NAME:
WINDOWS IDENTITY NAME: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
TARGET SITE:
STACK TRACE:
SOURCE:
INNER EXCEPTION #1 INFORMATION:
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MESSAGE: Unable to cast COM object of type 'ESchRCW.eSchReadClass' to interface type 'ESchRCW._eSchRead'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{C8DD174B-A1C9-40AC-990C-91E62D7FAD12}' failed due to the following error: Error loading type library/DLL. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80029C4A (TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY)).
EXCEPTION TYPE: System.InvalidCastException
STACK TRACE: at ESchRCW.eSchReadClass.read_ProcessingComplete_New(String pLoadid, Object& vRowSetDest, Object& vRowSetStOff, Object& ErrStr)
at BTran.MT.BShipper.EScheduleSTD.GetProcessingComplete(String loadID, Object destDetail, Object stopOffDetail, Object errStr)
TARGET SITE: System.Object read_ProcessingComplete_New(System.String, System.Object ByRef, System.Object ByRef, System.Object ByRef)modified on Sunday, February 7, 2010 5:18 PM
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Hi
Since I am going to work on .NET after a long time, I want to know whether I should go for VS 2005 or 2003?Are current XP and Windows 2003 machines supporting .NET frame work > 1.x ?
Thanks
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| Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are the latest versions, with 2010 and .NET 4.0 hot on their heels. You should be looking to those versions in order to get up to date with current technology. MVP 2010 - are they mad?
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What about backward compatibility? How many people would be using new framework on XP machines?
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volatil3_ wrote: How many people would be using new framework on XP machines?
I have no idea.MVP 2010 - are they mad?
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Where have you been?
Use .Net 3.5 with VS 2008.
If you are looking at a long term project then 4.0 beta might also be an option.Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...
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Don't consider 1.0/1.1, the functionality is limited and the bugs are plentiful.
Use at least 2.0
All Visual Studio versions since VS2003 can target 2.0
The current version is 3.5, supported by VS2008, which also targets 2.0 and 3.0
so there is no reason to use any older Studio version.
Finally 4.0 (and VS2010) are almost there, but the quality of VS2010 may still be unclear.
All versions of .NET can coexist on a machine, XP or other.
A machine with only 1.0/1.1 on it would be a curiosity, that can easily be updated to have at least also 2.0
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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I just finished a little article[^] on the subject.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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Nice article, Luc.
But it would be nice to have a list of Windows versions with the version of .Net supported natively. Although we can redistribute the runtime with applications to update the user's OS, it might be desirable to avoid that step by simply targeting an app to a specific version. IIRC, WinXP originally supported .Net 2.0, but SP3 added .Net 3.0. For my purposes, I'd select 3.0 for development, on the assumption that most of my users (people at work) have SP3 installed, and won't want to install 3.5."A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Hi Roger,
I understand it would be nice to add an (OS, .NET) table somehow, however I don't think I can do that, as I don't have such information; and I think the set of pre-installed .NET versions depends on many things, not just the OS version and the service pack level, but also what computer vendors decide to add.
Cheers.Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
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Actually, I recall seeing this very table posted at MSDN or Technet, but what are the odds of ever finding it again?
I really should learn to use bookmarks.  "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I'll be happy to include a link to it, so I'll await your find.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. All Toronto weekends should be extremely wet until we get it automated in regular forums, not just QA.
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I'm working on a project that uses the System.IO.FileSystemWatcher to monitor a folder. What I'm wanting to do is copy select types of files from the monitored folder when they are created. This works pretty slick, but the problem I run into is that the FileSystemWatcher event oftentimes fires before the file finishes copying, so copying the file results in an error.
I resolved this by creating a timer that's started on the FileSystemWatcher.created event. It waits a reasonable amount of time and then copies the file. No issues.
My problem is that this isn't a very good solution, particularly when hundreds or thousands of files are being copied onto the watched drive, as this can result in thousands of threads.
I wanted to resolve this by having the FileSystemWatcher.created thread add the files to be copied to an arrayList, then have a separate single thread monitor the array... wait for the file to be available to be copied, then start copying files. However this has more problems since the arrayList collection is changed on a separate thread which introduces a lot of locking issues, which I'd rather avoid.
Can anyone offer an idea of what the best practice for this situation would be? I appreciate any input. 
Thanks!
Dana
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Hi,
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yes, FileSystemWatcher is rather good at signaling the start of an action, it does not offer a Done event, and the best I ever could find was a loop, trying and waiting some, till success.
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hundreds of threads doesn't make sense, they all take a lot of resources. Anyway having multiple threads each copying one or a few files will not help, as soon the disk bandwidth will be the bottleneck. So don't take the multithreading hassle.
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the FSW events occur asynchronously, so their handlers aren't running on your main thread, instead they use a ThreadPoolThread. If you copy the file right away, you would be too soon, and also hog the thread. So you will end up using at least two threads: one for the FSW event (probably filling a queue), and one for copying the files, maybe a BackgroundWorker.
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Hence my proposal is: use a queue to store the incoming file paths; use a BGW that reads all entries from the queue and copies the files. If the copy fails (it will initially unless the file is really small), let it enqueue the file path again. When all entries have been processed (ignoring the ones requeued), then wait say one second, and repeat. You do need a lock for those queue operations, both at the producer side (FSW event and requeueing) and at the consumer side (BGW dequeue); make sure to keep the lock short, don't do File.Copy within the lock!
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that. [The QA section does it automatically now, I hope we soon get it on regular forums as well]
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Switch this round, and stop thinking of reacting and using the FileSystemWatcher - as it does have problems; which you've discovered now. So, if you can't copy the files like this, how can you do it? Well, a method I've had a lot of success with is to use Microsoft's Synchronisation Framework[^] which provides a file synchronisation provider, so you can transfer files based on periodical synchronisations of the folders."WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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