The guidance on not using a thread abort is controversial. I think there is still a place for it but in exceptional circumstance. However you should always attempt to design around it and see it as a last resort. Example; You have a simple windows form application that connects to a blocking synchronous web service. … Read more
Microsoft released the Async Targeting Pack (Microsoft.Bcl.Async) through Nuget as a replacement for the AsyncCTP. You can read more about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2013/04/17/microsoft-bcl-async-is-now-stable.aspx. You can read about the previous version here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucian/archive/2012/04/24/async-targeting-pack.aspx. As this pack is officially supported, I now believe the best option for targeting XP + async would be using Visual Studio 2012 … Read more
After a bit of time (and more searching), I found this blog entry by Jomo Fisher. One of the recent problems we’ve seen is that, because of the support for side-by-side runtimes, .NET 4.0 has changed the way that it binds to older mixed-mode assemblies. These assemblies are, for example, those that are compiled from … Read more
Use the Timer class. public static void Main() { System.Timers.Timer aTimer = new System.Timers.Timer(); aTimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(OnTimedEvent); aTimer.Interval = 5000; aTimer.Enabled = true; Console.WriteLine(“Press \’q\’ to quit the sample.”); while(Console.Read() != ‘q’); } // Specify what you want to happen when the Elapsed event is raised. private static void OnTimedEvent(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e) { … Read more
What’s new in .NET Framework 4 Client Profile RTM explains many of the differences: When to use NET4 Client Profile and when to use NET4 Full Framework? NET4 Client Profile: Always target NET4 Client Profile for all your client desktop applications (including Windows Forms and WPF apps). NET4 Full framework: Target NET4 Full only if … Read more
ASP.NET 4 was not registered in IIS. Had to run the following command in the command line/run 32bit (x86) Windows %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir 64bit (x64) Windows %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir Note from David Murdoch’s comment: That the .net version has changed since this Answer was posted. Check which version of the framework is in the %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64 directory and … Read more
Adding a new answer to this as the question of printing PDF’s in .net has been around for a long time and most of the answers pre-date the Google Pdfium library, which now has a .net wrapper. For me I was researching this problem myself and kept coming up blank, trying to do hacky solutions … Read more
In order to use a CLR 2.0 mixed mode assembly, you need to modify your App.Config file to include: <?xml version=”1.0″?><configuration> <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=”true”> <supportedRuntime version=”v4.0″ sku=”.NETFramework,Version=v4.0″/> </startup></configuration> The key is the useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy flag. This causes the CLR to use the latest version (4.0) to load your mixed mode assembly. Without this, it will not work. … Read more
The best solution I have found is in the blog post Using Newer Version(s) of .NET with PowerShell. This allows powershell.exe to run with .NET 4 assemblies. Simply modify (or create) $pshome\powershell.exe.config so that it contains the following: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <configuration> <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=”true”> <supportedRuntime version=”v4.0.30319″/> <supportedRuntime version=”v2.0.50727″/> </startup> </configuration> Additional, quick setup notes: Locations and … Read more
You can flatten a tree like this: IEnumerable<MyNode> Flatten(IEnumerable<MyNode> e) => e.SelectMany(c => Flatten(c.Elements)).Concat(new[] { e }); You can then filter by group using Where(…). To earn some “points for style”, convert Flatten to an extension function in a static class. public static IEnumerable<MyNode> Flatten(this IEnumerable<MyNode> e) => e.SelectMany(c => c.Elements.Flatten()).Concat(e); To earn more points … Read more