I was recently debugging an issue with a WCF service I had written, where it appeared that POSTing data to the service returned a HTTP 400 Bad Request error. There are several reasons you may experience such an error but mine was peculiar in that it wasn’t always repeatable and depended on what the client [...]
Read more →I recently got into MSDeploy in order to automate the deployment of web application packages to IIS. A great resource that got me most of the way was Web Deployment Painkillers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 & MS Deploy, very useful in getting me started via TFS 2010/VS 2010. What this gave me was the following [...]
Read more →I recently had a problem where I wanted my WCF services to run under the context of a user with additional permissions over the standard ApplicationPoolIdentity user used when hosting WCF services under IIS, including opening named pipe clients. I got a little burnt, and thought I’d share a couple of options I explored. ASP.net [...]
Read more →I wanted to see if there was a Java equivalent of .NET’s MessageBox class. Turns out there is but it’s a little more hidden away as a static method on JOptionPane, so I’ve pasted the code here for referring to it in the future: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,”message”,”title”)); This creates and shows a message dialog with no parent [...]
Read more →I’ve just released a small tool on CodePlex that lets you convert from a TeX bibliography (such as that done in JabRef) into an XML file that can be read with Word 2007. It’s called bib2Word07Xml and you can get it from http://www.codeplex.com/bib2Word07Xml, under the Releases tab. There are some limitations, these are documented on [...]
Read more →This follows on from an earlier post, Speech Recognition and the System.Speech namespace, where I was trying to find out roughly what the the topic of a given set of unannotated lectures was. As expected, using the DictationGrammar didn’t help too much, in fact some of the results from the recogniser were pretty funny! So [...]
Read more →I had a problem recently where I wanted to find out, very roughly, the topic of a set of un-annotated lectures. I needed a recognition engine that was speaker-independent, and required no training, as I don’t personally know the guy who did them. In the .NET framework 3.5, you get access to the System.Speech namespace [...]
Read more →In years gone by, to add a collection of items to a collection control, I’ve gone through the long winded way of calling Items.Add on a control, such as a ComboBox. The problem is it is then difficult to resolve the reference of the item you have selected, plus extra code is necessary to clear [...]
Read more →I’ve been looking for something that can aid me in converting doc files and other formats to html, or some internal representation that I can do additional parsing on server side, and have come across some interesting applications such as PurePage, ConvertDoc etc. These are great, and have some nice, simple and effective API’s but unfortunately [...]
Read more →This year has been a great year for developers with the general release of the .NET Framework 3.0 that provides a new set of APIs to produce visually stunning client applications with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), create distributed applications with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and design and manage long-running, interconnected processes with the [...]
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