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Archive for the ‘C# 4.0’ Category

.net/C# – Serialize into an XML Fragment – not XML Document – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/17

Thanks User Andrew Hare – Stack Overflow for answering this on Stack Overflow.

I’m pretty sure it works in all .NET and C# versions starting with 2.0.

Here is a hack-ish way to do it without having to load the entire output string into an XmlDocument: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

c# – Is there a library that gets the media type and subtype out of a HttpWebResponse/WebResponse ContentType? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/16

Just asked this on SO: C# – Is there a library that gets the media type and subtype out of a HttpWebResponse/WebResponse ContentType?.

Anyone here or at G+ that has a hint?

The [WayBack] ContentType property of [WayBack] (Http)WebResponse [WayBack] maps to the HTTP/1.1 [WayBack] Content-Type which is a [WayBack] Media-Type that contains a type/subtype optionally followed by parameters which are [WayBack] attribute=value pairs.

I’m mainly interested in the type/subtype and the [WayBack] charset parameter.

The charset is mapped from [WayBack] HttpWebRequest.CharacterSet.

Is there a library that just retrieves the media type/subtype of the [WayBack] ContentType?

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] c# – Is there a library that gets the media type and subtype out of a HttpWebResponse/WebResponse ContentType? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Monitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxies – Rick Strahl’s Web Log

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/15

Reminder to self: for HttpWebRequest make sure you have your proxy setup correctly.

Monitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxies – Rick Strahl’s Web Log.

–jeroen

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.NET UI Automation examples: The managed way to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer) (via: The Old New Thing)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/10

Some interesting UI Automation examples: The managed way to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer).

  • find the text under the mouse cursor
  • run a the calc command
  • showing automation properties under the mouse cursor

–jeroen

via: The managed way to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer) – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/09

Interesting read:

The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

In other words: any language that merges null behaviour in the underlying storage will have a problem somwehere.

So if you want to have true nullable types, your null flag should be stored outside the underlying storage.

The .NET framework 2 and up, most database management systems and many other environment support that.

But most languages don’t support it for pointer types. So there will be portions of address spaces either inaccessible, or only accessible when skipping the null pointer checks.

Note that the thread above contains some very interesting bits, for instance this one:

Matt 28 Mar 2013 5:58 PM #

@MarkY “Dereferencing null is undefined?  Cool!  I thought it was guaranteed to crash, just like a false assertion or something.  So crashing is the OS guarantee, not the language guarantee apparently.”

Nope. It’s not an OS guarantee either. The OS won’t ever normally allocate memory at address zero, but there’s nothing to stop you telling it to. Try doing “VirtualAlloc(1, 4096, MEM_RESERVE | MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE)” on your pre-Windows8 machine.

In fact, this is the reason why null-dereferences in kernel mode are often exploitable as elevation of privilege attacks. The null-page is mappable and within the user-addressable region of memory, so if the kernel dereferences a null pointer, it reads attacker controllable data.

And btw, this is the reason why on Linux and Windows8+ you can’t map the null-page.

–jeroen

via: The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

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Getting Microsoft Product Keys back from the registry (via StackOverflow and various other sources)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/02

Every once in a while, someone hoses their computer far enough that it has to be reinstalled, but the original Microsoft product keys are misplaced, and some creepy anti-virus tool disallows the running of standard product key recovery tools like nirsoft’s.

Well, there is enough sourcecode that does recover it, just look for any of these strings:

Some hits:

The below full executables can trigger a virus warning (ordered from less often to most often):

–jeroen

 

Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, PowerShell, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

WinForms Container Controls 5: FlowLayoutPanel

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/24

When using a FlowLauyoutPanel, I always forget on which control the FlowBreak design time property / SetFlowBreak run time method operates.

Then I always end up writing a short demo program like Container Controls 5: FlowLayoutPanel.

It operates after the control on which you set it.

It is like text in a Word Processor: it breaks after the place where you set the break. Read the rest of this entry »

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Podcast 106: Shipping | iDeveloper; about RemObjects C# and a lot of other stuff

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/13

Listen to Podcast 106: Shipping | iDeveloper.

A few notes:

  • RemObjects C# on iOS is based on LLVM, so I assume the other platforms use that too.
  • Both guys are really busy shipping stuff, and it is hard.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, RemObjects C#, Software Development | 2 Comments »

.NET/C#/PowerShell: building .NET DiscUtils library for virtual disk images

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/11

Edit 20250107: added various [Wayback/Archive] archived links (dated as close to the blog post as possible) because of link-rot; marked some keywords as code; found the current .NET DiscUtils repository at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – DiscUtils/DiscUtils: Utility libraries to interact with discs, filesystem formats and more where you also can download it.

 

.NET DiscUtils is an interesting open source .NET library for accessing and manipulating virtual disk images. Since it is entirely written in C# (without the need for P/Invoke), you should even be able to run this on non-Windows machines using mono. Later on, you will see the 0.11.0 build fails this, but it gives good hope it eventually will.

Virtual disk formats supported are DMG, ISO, RAW (IMG/IMA/VFD/FLP/BIF), VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, and [Wayback/Archive] XVA, regular disks like Physical, iSCSI and NFS.

There are two ways of getting the .NET DiscUtils tools to run:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] download pre-build binaries (at the time of writing: version 0.10) from via [Wayback/Archive] .NET DiscUtils – Home, or
  2. from the [Wayback/Archive] latest source page, click the download button, then build the binaries from the source package. At the time of writing, that version is 0.11.

This post describes the second way, and requires PowerShell to be installed on your system (which probably is, as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 include it). Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, CommandLine, Development, PowerShell, Software Development | 1 Comment »

UINavigationController video when using Oxygene or Hydrogene Remobjects C# (via: remobjects)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/07

Nice video when using either of the RemObjects Elements (Oxygene or Hydrogene): for creating a UI UINavigationController – remobjects.

–jeroen

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