So here's the scoop. Google video is closing its doors, and when that happens their DRM service will no longer function. Why does that matter? Well even if you shelled out $19.95 or whatever to purchase the video you no longer can view that file. This is the equivalent of having Bestbuy go out of business, and all the DVD’s you’ve every bought from them melt inside the case… bogus!
Lately I’ve been messing around with SharpDevelop. Mainly because I think I’m going to pick Boo as my one new programming language each year. As part of my research I’ve discovered that it can be used as a Portable App. That is, it can be run directly from a USB thumb drive without an install. In it’s simplest form all that is needed is to copy the files from the install directory to the thumb drive and away you go. However if you are using the PortableApps Suite and want SharpDevelop to show up in you menu it’s a little harder.
First the PortableApss Suite expects all its applications to exist in folders that end in “portable”. This isn’t hard to do just create a ShpapDevelopPortable folder under the PortableApps directory and copy the files there. Now, the second hurtle is that the Suite menu expects the executable to be in that root folder; SharpDevlop is not, it’s in a bin folder. You could probably move the assemblies to the root directory but it would probable create problems with some of the resource dependences. So, I decided to create a proxy exe that would call the real one. Here is the entire source code.
/*
* Created by SharpDevelop.
* User: Trevor Michealson
* Date: 6/13/2007
* Time: 11:17 PM
*
* To change this template use Tools | Options | Coding | Edit Standard Headers.
*/
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace SharpDevelop
{
class MainClass
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string apploc = @"/bin/SharpDevelop.exe";
Process SharpDev = new Process();
if (System.IO.File.Exists(apploc))
SharpDev.StartInfo.FileName = apploc;
else
SharpDev.StartInfo.FileName =
@"/PortableApps/SharpDevelopPortable/" + apploc;
SharpDev.Start();
}
}
}
The if statement determines if you are running from the menu or if you’ve run the exe directly, it gets a different working directory in both.
Note: when I brought it to work it ran in completely different working directory. I’m not sure if this is Windows 2000 or a profile setting but this code did work on both my Home PC (running XP) and my Laptop(running Server 2003).
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What I have found is that this isn't a bug
in fact it was a design decision to put headers
in the repeating rows in order to support
images. With the repeating rows in use;
there is no other way to repeat information
on each page.
The header can be moved to the excel header
by setting the UseSimpleHeader tag in the
device directive, but even then the table
header row won't repeat. My personal
opinion is that this shouldn't be a big deal
because if the report is exported to PDF
the column header repeat just fine, I have
to imagine that plenty of offices won't view
that as an expectable solution.
By the way, I'm not a Reporting Services
expert, if there is something I've missed
please tell me.
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Micorsofts callback javascript handler expects a response that either begins
with an 's' for success or 'e' for error. The authentication failure does
not return either of these
To get around you add a handler for the Application_AuthenticateRequest
event in the global.asax. In the handler, write a message to the response
the begins with an 'e' then you can redirect to the login page from within
the the Callback error javascript.
using System;
using WatiN.Core;
using WatiN.Core.DialogHandlers;
namespace Framework.UnitTesting
{
public class UseDialogOnce : IDisposable
{
private DialogWatcher dialogWatcher;
private IDialogHandler dialogHandler;
public UseDialogOnce(DialogWatcher dialogWatcher,IDialogHandler
dialogHandler)
{
this.dialogWatcher = dialogWatcher;
this.dialogHandler = dialogHandler;
if (dialogWatcher != null)
{
dialogWatcher.Add(dialogHandler);
}
}
#region IDisposable Members
public void Dispose()
{
Dispose(true);
GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
return;
}
protected virtual void Dispose(bool managedAndNative)
{
dialogWatcher.Remove(dialogHandler);
dialogWatcher = null;
dialogHandler = null;
}
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For those of you that don't know a Code Camp is really just a one day
conference. There will be five tracks and five sessions. They'll have
breakfast and lunch, and they'll givaway prizes. Best of all it's all FREE.
Hope to see you there.
Trevor
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Build.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Build.Utilities;
using Microsoft.Build.Framework;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Xml;
namespace Framework.Build.CustomTasks
{
public class CheckFXCop : Task
{
private string _reportLocation;
[Required]
public string ReportLocation
{
get { return _reportLocation; }
set { _reportLocation = value; }
}
/// <summary>
/// Executes the Task
/// </summary>
/// <returns>true if the task successfully executed; otherwise,
false.</returns>
public override bool Execute()
{
bool returnVal = true;
int numIssues = 0;
try
{
FileStream xmlFileStream = new
FileStream(this.ReportLocation, FileMode.Open);
XmlTextReader fxReport = new XmlTextReader(xmlFileStream);
while (fxReport.Read())
{
if (fxReport.LocalName == "Issue")
{
returnVal = false;
numIssues++;
}
}
if (!returnVal)
{
Log.LogError("There are " + numIssues.ToString() + "
FXCop issue(s). Please review the report");
}
return returnVal;
}
catch
{
return false;
}
}
}
}
alert('message');
This function displays a message to the user and requires that they click a
button labeled OK before continuing.
Creating an automated test for a website that uses this poses a couple of
problems. First the is no DOM object
for the window, and second the window runs under a different thread then the
main browser window. Luckly any
web automation tool worth its salt will address both these issues and WATIN
is no exeption. The following code is an
example of how to use the alertdialog handler.
using( IE ie = new IE("http://hostname/pagename.htm"))
{
AlertDialogHandler alertDialogHandler = new AlertDialogHandler ();
using (new UseDialogOnce(ie.DialogWatcher, alertDialogHandler ))
{
/*************************************
* -- code to generate alert -- *
* *
* must use the "nowait" to allow *
* the code to goto the next line *
* *
*************************************/
alertDialogHandler.WaitUntilExists();
alertDialogHandler.OKButton.Click();
IE.WaitForComplete();
}
}
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