Re: Launching email client

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 PM

Re: REST call (obvious solution)

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Michael Lyons 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 claim that the desi

Re: REST call (obvious solution)

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Michael Lyons 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 would've failed thei

Re: Generic class question

The Convert class will help: value = (T)Convert.ChangeType(rawValue, typeof(T)) On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Greg Keogh 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 show what I

Re: Use of GCHandle.Alloc and Free

Or perhaps use GC.KeepAlive On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:34 AM, David Kean 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 > *Sent:* Sunday, Oct

Re: Message Loops

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 oth

Re: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

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 wrote: > Can't comment on AMOLED as I haven't used

Re: Source control of DB scripts

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 placed

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

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 ciao, Richard On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:38 AM

Re: Open application and pass parameters from webpage?

You can use a url protocol to launch an app - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914(VS.85).aspx Pass the parameters through the url. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Anthony wrote: > Anyone know how to do this? > > > > Is your website being > IntelliXperienced?