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VMWare Player vs Workstation

- by Anjisan

What's the difference between VMWare Player vs Workstation? Is it that Player is for non-commercial use and workstation isn't? For someone who builds and tests applications at home for non-commercial use, is it worth paying for a Workstation license? Do I get any benefits over Player? (Note: I realize there's open source solutions like VirtualBox, but am more interested in the differences between Player and Workstation.) Thanks!

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Alternatives to Flash Media Server for multiplayer game development

- by Anjisan

I've used Flash Media Server to create multiplayer flash games, but the cost of deploying a FMS application seems rather high. Are there good alternatives, open source or not, that I should look into to mimic the same functionality? I'm specifically looking at using FMS for the aspect of synching game-play state between users running the same swf.

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Generating dynamic thumbnail of a PDF for ASP.NET

- by Anjisan

I've used a tool from Aspose (Aspose.PDF.kit) to generate a JPG thumbnail on the fly of a PDF for a .NET application. This works great, but what kind of other alternatives are there? Codeproject.com has this tutorial, but it requires you to have the full version of Acrobat. Is there an open source alternative that's geared for ASP.NET?

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HttpUtility.UrlEncode in console application

- by iar

I'd like to use HttpUtility.UrlEncode in a console application, VB.NET, VS 2010 Beta 2. System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(item) Error message: 'HttpUtility' is not a member of 'Web'. In this question Anjisan suggests to add a reference to System.Web, as follows: In your solution explorer, right click on references Choose "add reference" In the "Add Reference" dialog box, use the .NET tab Scroll down to System.Web, select that, and hit ok However, I don't have a System.Web entry at that location.

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