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  • How to tell what account my webservice is running under in Visual Studio 2005

    - by John Galt
    I'm going a little nuts trying to understand the doc on impersonation and delegation and the question has come up what account my webservice is running under. I am logged as myDomainName\johna on my development workstation called JOHNXP. From Vstudio2005 I start my webservice via Debug and the wsdl page comes up in my browser. From Task Manager, I see the following while sitting at a breakpoint in my .asmx code: aspnet_wp.exe pid=1316 UserName=ASPNET devenv.exe pid=3304 UserName=johna The IIS Directory Security tab for the Virtual Directory that hosts my ws.asmx code has "Enable Anonymous access" UNCHECKED and has "Integrated Windows Authentication" CHECKED. So when the MSDN people state "you must configure the user account under which the server process runs", what would they be refering to in the case of my little webservice described above? I am quoting from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302400.aspx Ultimately, I want this webservice of mine to impersonate whatever authenticated domain user browses through to an invoke of my webservice. My webservice in turn consumes another ASMX webservice on a different server (but same domain). I need this remote webservice to use the impersonated domain user credentials (not those of my webservice on JOHNXP). So its getting a little snarly for me to understand this and I see I am unclear about the account my web service uses. I think it is ASPNET in IIS 5.1 on WinXP but not sure.

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  • ASP.NET ListView, custom DataSources, and editing items

    - by Andrew Shepherd
    The MSDN walkthroughs provide a number of examples where you can drag a DataSource from the toolbox, run through some simple configuration steps, then drag a ListView onto the screen, point it at the DataSource, and hey - you've got full table editing. Now I'm trying to write my own DataSource class (a class that implements System.Web.UI.IDataSource) and my own DataSourceView class. I now assign an instance of this custom DataSource class to the ListView.DataSource propery. The display of all the items is working well. However, updating, inserting and deleting just is not working. I'm overriding every function I can in my DataSourceView class, and they just aren't being called. This is such a huge topic, I'll focus this question on one simple example: When you press the "Edit" button (the button inside the ItemTemplate with a CommandName of "Edit", you expect the ItemTemplate to be replaced by an EditItemTemplate. This did not happen. The only way I could get it to happen was to handle the onitemediting event. protected void _listViewPublicHolidays_ItemEditing(object sender, ListViewEditEventArgs e) { _listViewPublicHolidays.EditIndex = e.NewEditIndex; _listViewPublicHolidays.DataBind(); } This is hardly a problem, but how come I had to do it at all? In the MSDN walkthroughs where I attach a ListView to a LinqDataSource, this code doesn't have to be written. Can someone who's been here before hazard a guess as to what would be different or missing in my custom datasource?

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  • JQuery code in ASP .NET content pages

    - by user2645830
    I have made a very simple sample project where I want to toggle an asp .net calendar control through jquery. Could anyone please point out why it is not working. I have made no changes to master page from the sample project provided for ASP .NET web application. <%@ Page Title="Home Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication5._Default" %> <asp:Content ID="HeaderContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="HeadContent"> <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js"> </script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ function Button1_onclick() { alert( $('<%=Calendar1.ClientID%>')); $('<%=Calendar1.ClientID%>').toggle(); } // ]]> </script> </asp:Content> <asp:Content ID="BodyContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent"> <h2> Welcome to ASP.NET! </h2> <p> To learn more about ASP.NET visit <a href="http://www.asp.net" title="ASP.NET Website">www.asp.net</a>. </p> <input id="Button1" type="button" value="button" onclick="return Button1_onclick()" /> <asp:Calendar ID="Calendar1" runat="server"></asp:Calendar> <p> You can also find <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/? LinkID=152368&amp;clcid=0x409" title="MSDN ASP.NET Docs">documentation on ASP.NET at MSDN</a>. </p> </asp:Content>

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  • Does unboxing just return a pointer to the value within the boxed object on the heap?

    - by Charles
    I this MSDN Magazine article, the author states (emphasis mine): Note that boxing always creates a new object and copies the unboxed value's bits to the object. On the other hand, unboxing simply returns a pointer to the data within a boxed object: no memory copy occurs. However, it is commonly the case that your code will cause the data pointed to by the unboxed reference to be copied anyway. I'm confused by the sentence I've bolded and the sentence that follows it. From everything else I've read, including this MSDN page, I've never before heard that unboxing just returns a pointer to the value on the heap. I was under the impression that unboxing would result in you having a variable containing a copy of the value on the stack, just as you began with. After all, if my variable contains "a pointer to the value on the heap", then I haven't got a value type, I've got a pointer. Can someone explain what this means? Was the author on crack? (There is at least one other glaring error in the article). And if this is true, what are the cases where "your code will cause the data pointed to by the unboxed reference to be copied anyway"? I just noticed that the article is nearly 10 years old, so maybe this is something that changed very early on in the life of .Net.

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  • Can't seem to get .Union to work (merging 2 array's together, exclude duplicates)

    - by D. Veloper
    I want to combine two array's, excluding duplicates. I am using a custom class: public class ArcContact : IEquatable<ArcContact> { public String Text; public Boolean Equals(ArcContact other) { if (Object.ReferenceEquals(other, null)) return false; if (Object.ReferenceEquals(this, other)) return true; return Text.Equals(other.Text); } public override Int32 GetHashCode() { return Text == null ? 0 : Text.GetHashCode(); } } I implemented and the needed IEquatable interface as mentioned in this msdn section. I only want to check the Text property of the ArcContact class and make sure an Array of ArcContact have an unique Text. Here I pasted the code that I use, as you can see I have method with two parameters, array's to combine and below that the code I got from the previous mentioned msdn section. internal static class ArcBizz { internal static ArcContact[] MergeDuplicateContacts(ArcContact[] contacts1, ArcContact[] contacts2) { return (ArcContact[])contacts1.Union(contacts2); } internal static IEnumerable<T> Union<T>(this IEnumerable<T> a, IEnumerable<T> b); } What am I doing wrong?

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  • substrings and multiple textfields, AS3

    - by VideoDnd
    How do I get my text fields to populate correctly and show single digits? Description Each textfield receives a substring. This doesn't limit it's input, because the text fields shows extra numbers. The counters are set to 2,200,000.00, just to see if the numbers are populating. Ex A is the one I'm trying to fix. Ex A the one I want to fix //Tweening method 'could substitute code with Tweener' import fl.transitions.Tween; import fl.transitions.easing.*; //Timer that will run a sec and repeat var timer:Timer = new Timer(1000); //Integer values var count:int = +220000000; var fcount:int = 0; //Events and starting timer timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, incrementCounter); addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, checkOdometerPosition); timer.start(); //Tween Variables var smoothLoop:int = 0; var originalYPosition:Number = 0; var upwardYPosition:Number = -99; //Formatting String function formatCount(i:int):String { var fraction:int = i % 100; var whole:int = i / 100; return ("0000000" + whole).substr(-7, 7) + "." + (fraction < 10 ? "0" + fraction : fraction); } //First Digit function checkOdometerPosition(event:Event):void{ if (seconds9.y <= upwardYPosition){ var toText:String = formatCount(fcount); //seconds9.firstDigit.text = formatCount(fcount); seconds9.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(9, 9); seconds9.y = originalYPosition; seconds8.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(8, 8); seconds8.y = originalYPosition; seconds7dec.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(7, 7); seconds7dec.y = originalYPosition; seconds6.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(6, 6); seconds6.y = originalYPosition; seconds5.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(5, 5); seconds5.y = originalYPosition; seconds5.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(4, 4); seconds5.y = originalYPosition; seconds3.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(3, 3); seconds3.y = originalYPosition; seconds2.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(2, 2); seconds2.y = originalYPosition; seconds1.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(1, 1); seconds1.y = originalYPosition; seconds1.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(1, 1); seconds1.y = originalYPosition; seconds0.firstDigit.text = toText.substr(0, 1); seconds0.y = originalYPosition; } } //Second Digit function incrementCounter(event:TimerEvent):void{ count++; fcount=int(count) if (smoothLoop < 9){ smoothLoop++; } else { smoothLoop = 0; } var lolly:String = formatCount(fcount-1); //seconds9.secondDigit.text = formatCount(fcount); seconds9.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(9, 9); var addTween9:Tween = new Tween(seconds9, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds8.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(8, 8); var addTween8:Tween = new Tween(seconds8, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds7dec.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(7, 7); var addTween7dec:Tween = new Tween(seconds7dec, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds6.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(6, 6); var addTween6:Tween = new Tween(seconds6, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds5.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(5, 5); var addTween5:Tween = new Tween(seconds5, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds4.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(4, 4); var addTween4:Tween = new Tween(seconds4, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds3.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(3, 3); var addTween3:Tween = new Tween(seconds3, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds2.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(2, 2); var addTween2:Tween = new Tween(seconds2, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds1.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(1, 1); var addTween1:Tween = new Tween(seconds1, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); seconds0.secondDigit.text = lolly.substr(0, 1); var addTween0:Tween = new Tween(seconds0, "y", Strong.easeOut,0,-222, .7, true); } Ex A has 10 text objects, each with a pair of text fields. It’s move complex than Ex B, because it has a Y animation and pairs of numbers. The text objects are animated to create a scrolling effect. It moves vertically, and has a lead number and a catch up number contained in each symbol. See illustration for more description. Ex B work fine! for example only //STRING SPLITTER COUNTER with nine individual text fields //Timer settings var delay:uint = 1000/100; var repeat:uint = 0; var timer:Timer; timer = new Timer(delay,repeat); timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, incrementCounter); timer.start(); //Integer values var count:int = 0; var fcount:int = 0; //Format Count function formatCount(i:int):String { var fraction:int = i % 100; var whole:int = i / 100; return ("0000000" + whole).substr(-7, 7) + "." + (fraction < 10 ? "0" + fraction : fraction); } //Split strings off to individual text fields function incrementCounter(event:TimerEvent) { count++; fcount=int(count+220000000) var toText:String = formatCount(fcount); mytext9.text = toText.substr(9, 9); mytext8.text = toText.substr(8, 8); mytext7dec.text = toText.substr(7, 7); mytext6.text = toText.substr(6, 6); mytext5.text = toText.substr(5, 5); mytext4.text = toText.substr(4, 4); mytext3.text = toText.substr(3, 3); mytext2.text = toText.substr(2, 2); mytext1.text = toText.substr(1, 1); mytext0.text = toText.substr(0, 1); }

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  • ASP.Net Session Storage provider in 3-layer architecture

    - by Tedd Hansen
    I'm implementing a custom session storage provider in ASP.Net. We have a strict 3-layer architecture and therefore the session storage needs to go through the business layer. Presentation-Business-Database. The business layer is accessed through WPF. The database is MSSQL. What I need is (in order of preference): A commercial/free/open source product that solves this. The source code of a SqlSessionStateStore (custom session store) (not the ODBC-sample on MSDN) that I can modify to use a middle layer. I've tried looking at .Net source through Reflector, but the code is not usable. Note: I understand how to do this. I am looking for working samples, preferably that has been proven to work fine under heavy load. The ODBC sample on MSDN doesn't use the (new?) stored procs that the build in SqlSessionStateStore uses - I'd like to use these if possible (decreases traffic). Edit1: To answer Simons question on more info: ASP.Net Session()-object can be stored in either InProc, ASP.Net State Service or SQL-server. In a secure 3-layer model the presentation layer (web server) does not have direct/physical access to the database layer (SQL-server). And even without the physical limitations, from an architectural standpoint you may not want this. InProc and ASP.Net State Service does not support load balancing and doesn't have fault tolerance. Therefore the only option is to access SQL through webservice middle layer (business layer).

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  • Does F# documentation have a way to search for functions by their types?

    - by Nathan Sanders
    Say I want to know if F# has a library function of type ('T -> bool) -> 'T list -> int ie, something that counts how many items of a list that a function returns true for. (or returns the index of the first item that returns true) I used to use the big list at the MSR site for F# before the documentation on MSDN was ready. I could just search the page for the above text because the types were listed. But now the MSDN documentation only lists types on the individual pages--the module page is a mush of descriptive text. Google kinda-sorta works, but it can't help with // compatible interfaces ('T -> bool) -> Seq<'T> -> int // argument-swaps Seq<'T> -> ('T -> bool) -> int // type-variable names ('a -> bool) -> Seq<'a> -> int // wrappers ('a -> bool) -> 'a list -> option<int> // uncurried versions ('T -> bool) * 'T list -> int // .NET generic syntax ('T -> bool) -> List<'T> -> int // methods List<'T> member : ('T -> bool) -> int Haskell has a standalone program for this called Hoogle. Does F# have an equivalent, like Fing or something?

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  • Commited memory goes to physical RAM or reserves space in the paging file?

    - by Sil
    When I do VirtualAlloc with MEM_COMMIT this "Allocates physical storage in memory or in the paging file on disk for the specified reserved memory pages" (quote from MSDN article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366887%28VS.85%29.aspx). All is fine up until now BUT: the description of Commited Bytes Counter says that "Committed memory is the physical memory which has space reserved on the disk paging file(s)." I also read "Windows via C/C++ 5th edition" and this book says that commiting memory means reserving space in the page file.... The last two cases don't make sense to me... If you commit memory, doesn't that mean that you commit to physical storage (RAM)? The page file being there for swaping out currently unused pages of memory in case memory gets low. The book says that when you commit memory you actually reserve space in the paging file. If this were true than that would mean that for a committed page there is space reserved in the paging file and a page frame in physical in memory... So twice as much space is needed ?! Isn't the page file's purpose to make the total physical memory larger than it actually is? If I have a 1G of RAM with a 1G page file = 2G of usable "physical memory"(the book also states this but right after that it says what I discribed at point 2). What am I missing? Thanks.

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  • Reflection and Operator Overloads in C#

    - by TenshiNoK
    Here's the deal. I've got a program that will load a given assembly, parse through all Types and their Members and compile a TreeView (very similar to old MSDN site) and then build HTML pages for each node in the TreeView. It basically takes a given assembly and allows the user to create their own MSDN-like library for it for documentation purposes. Here's the problem I've run into: whenever an operator overload is encounted in a defined class, reflection returns that as a "MethodInfo" with the name set to something like "op_Assign" or "op_Equality". I want to be able to capture these and list them properly, but I can't find anything in the MethodInfo object that is returned to accurately identify that I'm looking at an operator. I definitely don't want to just capture everything that starts with "op_", since that will most certainly (at some point) will pick up a method it's not supposed to. I know that other methods and properties that are "special cases" like this one have the "IsSpecialName" property set, but appearantly that's not the case with operators. I've been scouring the 'net and wracking my brain to two days trying to figure this one out, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

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  • c# Unable to open file for reading

    - by Maks
    I'm writing a program that uses FileSystemWatcher to monitor changes to a given directory, and when it recieves OnCreated or OnChanged event, it copies those created/changed files to a specified directorie(s). At first I had problems with the fact that OnChanged/OnCreated events can be sent twice (not acceptable in case it needed to process 500MB file) but I made a way around this and with what I'm REALLY STUCKED with is getting the following IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Where are Photos\bookmarks (11).html' because it is being used by another process. Thus, preventing the program from copying all the files it should. So as I mentioned, when user uses this program he/she specifes monitored directory, when user copies/creates/changes file in that directory, program should get OnCreated/OnChanged event and then copy that file to few other directories. Above error happens in all casess, if user copies few files that needs to owerwrite other ones in folder being monitored or when copying bulk of several files or even sometimes when copying one file in a monitored directory. Whole program is quite big so I'm sending the most important parts. OnCreated: private void OnCreated(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e) { AddLogEntry(e.FullPath, "created", ""); // Update last access data if it's file so the same file doesn't // get processed twice because of sending another event. if (fileType(e.FullPath) == 2) { lastPath = e.FullPath; lastTime = DateTime.Now; } // serves no purpose now, it will be remove soon string fileName = GetFileName(e.FullPath); // copies file from source to few other directories Copy(e.FullPath, fileName); Console.WriteLine("OnCreated: " + e.FullPath); } OnChanged: private void OnChanged(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e) { // is it directory if (fileType(e.FullPath) == 1) return; // don't mind directory changes itself // Only if enough time has passed or if it's some other file // because two events can be generated int timeDiff = ((TimeSpan)(DateTime.Now - lastTime)).Seconds; if ((timeDiff < minSecsDiff) && (e.FullPath.Equals(lastPath))) { Console.WriteLine("-- skipped -- {0}, timediff: {1}", e.FullPath, timeDiff); return; } // Update last access data for above to work lastPath = e.FullPath; lastTime = DateTime.Now; // Only if size is changed, the rest will handle other handlers if (e.ChangeType == WatcherChangeTypes.Changed) { AddLogEntry(e.FullPath, "changed", ""); string fileName = GetFileName(e.FullPath); Copy(e.FullPath, fileName); Console.WriteLine("OnChanged: " + e.FullPath); } } fileType: private int fileType(string path) { if (Directory.Exists(path)) return 1; // directory else if (File.Exists(path)) return 2; // file else return 0; } Copy: private void Copy(string srcPath, string fileName) { foreach (string dstDirectoy in paths) { string eventType = "copied"; string error = "noerror"; string path = ""; string dirPortion = ""; // in case directory needs to be made if (srcPath.Length > fsw.Path.Length) { path = srcPath.Substring(fsw.Path.Length, srcPath.Length - fsw.Path.Length); int pos = path.LastIndexOf('\\'); if (pos != -1) dirPortion = path.Substring(0, pos); } if (fileType(srcPath) == 1) { try { Directory.CreateDirectory(dstDirectoy + path); //Directory.CreateDirectory(dstDirectoy + fileName); eventType = "created"; } catch (IOException e) { eventType = "error"; error = e.Message; } } else { try { if (!overwriteFile && File.Exists(dstDirectoy + path)) continue; // create new dir anyway even if it exists just to be sure Directory.CreateDirectory(dstDirectoy + dirPortion); // copy file from where event occured to all specified directories using (FileStream fsin = new FileStream(srcPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read)) { using (FileStream fsout = new FileStream(dstDirectoy + path, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)) { byte[] buffer = new byte[32768]; int bytesRead = -1; while ((bytesRead = fsin.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0) fsout.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead); } } } catch (Exception e) { if ((e is IOException) && (overwriteFile == false)) { eventType = "skipped"; } else { eventType = "error"; error = e.Message; // attempt to find and kill the process locking the file. // failed, miserably System.Diagnostics.Process tool = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); tool.StartInfo.FileName = "handle.exe"; tool.StartInfo.Arguments = "\"" + srcPath + "\""; tool.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; tool.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true; tool.Start(); tool.WaitForExit(); string outputTool = tool.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(); string matchPattern = @"(?<=\s+pid:\s+)\b(\d+)\b(?=\s+)"; foreach (Match match in Regex.Matches(outputTool, matchPattern)) { System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessById(int.Parse(match.Value)).Kill(); } Console.WriteLine("ERROR: {0}: [ {1} ]", e.Message, srcPath); } } } AddLogEntry(dstDirectoy + path, eventType, error); } } I checked everywhere in my program and whenever I use some file I use it in using block so even writing event to log (class for what I ommited since there is probably too much code already in post) wont lock the file, that is it shouldn't since all operations are using using statement block. I simply have no clue who's locking the file if not my program "copy" process from user through Windows or something else. Right now I have two possible "solutions" (I can't say they are clean solutions since they are hacks and as such not desireable). Since probably the problem is with fileType method (what else could lock the file?) I tried changing it to this, to simulate "blocking-until-ready-to-open" operation: fileType: private int fileType(string path) { FileStream fs = null; int ret = 0; bool run = true; if (Directory.Exists(path)) ret = 1; else { while (run) { try { fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open); ret = 2; run = false; } catch (IOException) { } finally { if (fs != null) { fs.Close(); fs.Dispose(); } } } } return ret; } This is working as much as I could tell (test), but... it's hack, not to mention other deficients. The other "solution" I could try (I didn't test it yet) is using GC.Collect() somewhere at the end of fileType() method. Maybe even worse "solution" than previous one. Can someone pleas tell me, what on earth is locking the file, preventing it from opening and how can I fix that? What am I missing to see? Thanks in advance.

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  • C++ NetUserAdd() not working?

    - by Brett Powell
    I posted earlier about how to do this, and got some great replies, and have managed to get the code written based off the MSDN example. However, it does not seem to be working properly. Its printing out the ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED message, but im not sure why as I am running it as a full admin. I was initially trying to create a USER_PRIV_ADMIN, but the MSDN said it can only use USER_PRIV_USER, but sadly neither work. Im hoping someone can spot a mistake or has an idea. Thanks! void AddRDPUser() { USER_INFO_1 ui; DWORD dwLevel = 1; DWORD dwError = 0; NET_API_STATUS nStatus; ui.usri1_name = L"DummyUserAccount"; ui.usri1_password = L"a2cDz3rQpG8"; //ignored by NetUserAdd //ui.usri1_password_age = -1; ui.usri1_priv = USER_PRIV_USER; //USER_PRIV_ADMIN; ui.usri1_home_dir = NULL; ui.usri1_comment = NULL; ui.usri1_flags = UF_SCRIPT; ui.usri1_script_path = NULL; nStatus = NetUserAdd(NULL, dwLevel, (LPBYTE)&ui, &dwError); switch (nStatus) { case NERR_Success: { Msg("SUCCESS!\n"); break; } case NERR_InvalidComputer: { fprintf(stderr, "A system error has occurred: NERR_InvalidComputer\n"); break; } case NERR_NotPrimary: { fprintf(stderr, "A system error has occurred: NERR_NotPrimary\n"); break; } case NERR_GroupExists: { fprintf(stderr, "A system error has occurred: NERR_GroupExists\n"); break; } case NERR_UserExists: { fprintf(stderr, "A system error has occurred: NERR_UserExists\n"); break; } case NERR_PasswordTooShort: { fprintf(stderr, "A system error has occurred: NERR_PasswordTooShort\n"); break; } case ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: { fprintf(stderr, "A system error has occurred: ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED\n"); break; } } }

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  • C++/Win32 : XP Visual Styles - no controls are showing up?

    - by mrl33t
    Okay, so i'm pretty new to C++ & the Windows API and i'm just writing a small application. I wanted my application to make use of visual styles in both XP, Vista and Windows 7 so I added this line to the top of my code: #pragma comment(linker,"\"/manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"") It seemed to work perfectly on my Windows 7 machine and also Vista machine. But when I tried the application on XP the application wouldn't load any controls (e.g. buttons, labels etc.) - not even messageboxes would display. This image shows a small test application which i've just put together to demonstrate what i'm trying to explain: http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/2250/myapp.png In this test application i'm not using any particularly fancy or complicated code. I've effectively just taken the most basic sample code from the MSDN Library (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381409.aspx) and added a section to the WM_CREATE message to create a button: MyBtn = CreateWindow(L"Button", L"My Button", BS_PUSHBUTTON | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 25, 25, 100, 30, hWnd, NULL, hInst, 0); But I just can't figure out what's going on and why its not working. Any ideas guys? Thank you in advanced. (By the way the application works in XP if i remove the manifest section from the top - obviously without visual styles though. I should also probably mention that the app was built using Visual C++ 2010 Express on a Windows 7 machine - if that makes a difference?)

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  • How to delete ProgIDs from other user accounts when uninstalling from Windows?

    - by Mordachai
    I've been investigating "how should a modern windows c++ application register its file types" with Windows (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2828637/c-how-do-i-correctly-register-and-unregister-file-type-associations-for-our-ap). And having combed through the various MSDN articles on the subject, the summary appears to be as follows: The installer (elevated) should register the global ProgID HKLM\Software\Classes\my-app.my-doc[.version] (e.g. HKLM\Software\Classes\TextPad.text) The installer also configures default associations for its document types (e.g. .myext) and points this to the aforementioned global ProgID in HKLM. NOTE: a user interface should be provided here to allow the user to either accept all default associations, or to customize which associations should be set. The application, running standard (unelevated), should provide a UI for allowing the current user to set their personal associations as is available in the installer, except that these associations are stored in HKCU\Software\Classes (per user, not per machine). The UN-installer is then responsible for deleting all registered ProgIDs (but should leave the actual file associations alone, as Windows is smart enough to handle associations pointing to missing ProgIDs, and this is the specified desired behavior by MSDN). So that schema sounds reasonable to me, except when I consider #4: How does an uninstaller, running elevated for a given user account, delete any per-user ProgIDs created in step #3 for other users? As I understand things, even in elevated mode, an uninstaller cannot go into another user's registry hive and delete items? Or can it? Does it have to load each given user hive first? What are the rules here? Thanks for any insight you might have to offer! EDIT: See below for the solution (My question was founded in confusion)

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  • Programmatically setup a PEAP connection in Windows Mobile

    - by tomlog
    I have been working on this for a few days and this is doing my head in: Our application is built using the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and running on Windows Mobile 5 & 6 devices. We can set the WLAN connection of the device programmatically using the Wireless Zero Config functions (described here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms894771.aspx), most notably the WZCSetInterface function which we pinvoke from our application. This works fine for WEP and WPA-PSK connections. In a recent effort to add support for WPA2 networks we decided to modify the code. We have successfully added support for WPA2 which uses a certificate for the 802.1x authentication by setting the correct registry settings before calling WZCSetInterface. Now we want to do the same for WPA2 using PEAP (MS-CHAPv2) authentication. When manually creating such a connection in Windows Mobile the user will be prompted to enter the domain/user/password details. In our application we will have those details stored locally and want to do this all programmatically without any user intervention. So I thought going along the same route as the certificate authentication, setting the correct registry entries before calling WZCSetInterface. The registry settings we set are: \HKCU\Comm\EAP\Config\[ssid name] Enable8021x = 1 (DWORD) LastAuthSuccessful = 1 (DWORD) EapTypeId = 25 (DWORD) Identity = "domain\username" (string) Password = binary blob containing the password that is encrypted using the CryptProtectData function (described here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms938309.aspx) But when these settings are set and I call WZCSetInterface with the correct parameters, it still prompts me with the User Logon dialog asking for the domain/username/password. Has anyone got an idea what I need to do to prevent the password dialog from appearing and connect straight away with the settings stored in the registry?

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  • GetLongPathName Undeclared

    - by iwizardpro
    When I try to compile my code with the function GetLongPathName(), the compiler tells me that the function is undeclared. I have already read the MSDN documentation located @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364980%28VS.85%29.aspx. But, even though I included those header files, I am still getting the undeclared function error. Which header file(s) am I supposed to include when using the function? #include <Windows.h> #include <WinBase.h> #define DLLEXPORT extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) DLLEXPORT char* file_get_long(char* path_original) { long length = 0; TCHAR* buffer = NULL; if(!path_original) { return "-10"; } length = GetLongPathName(path_original, NULL, 0); if(length == 0) { return "-10"; } buffer = new TCHAR[length]; length = GetLongPathName(path_original, buffer, length); if(length == 0) { return "-10"; } return buffer; } And, if it makes a difference, I am currently compiling using Dev-C++ on a Windows Vista 64-bit.

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  • Serializing a class containing a custom class

    - by Netfangled
    I want to serialize an object as xml that contains other custom classes. From what I understand (I've been reading MSDN and SO mostly), the XmlSerializer doesn't take this into account. This is the line that's confusing me: XML serialization serializes only the public fields and property values of an object into an XML stream. XML serialization does not include type information. For example, if you have a Book object that exists in the Library namespace, there is no guarantee that it will be deserialized into an object of the same type. Taken from MSDN, here For example, I want to serialize an object of type Order, but it contains a list of Products, and each one contains an object of type Category: class Order { List<Product> products; } class Product { Category type; } class Category { string name; string description; } And I want my Order object to be serialized like so: <Order> <Product> <Category Name=""> <Description></Description> </Category> </Product> <Product> <Category Name=""> <Description></Description> </Category> </Product> <Order> Does the XmlSerializer already do this? If not, is there another class that does or do I have to define the serialization process myself?

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  • Semaphore - What is the use of initial count?

    - by Sandbox
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.semaphoreslim.aspx To create a semaphore, I need to provide an initial count and maximum count. MSDN states that an initial count is - The initial number of requests for the semaphore that can be granted concurrently. While it states that maximum count is The maximum number of requests for the semaphore that can be granted concurrently. I can understand that the maximum count is the maximum number of threads that can access a resource concurrently. But, what is the use of initial count? If I create a semaphore with an initial count of 0 and a maximum count of 2, none of my threadpool threads are able to access the resource. If I set the initial count as 1 and maximum count as 2 then only thread pool thread can access the resource. It is only when I set both initial count and maximum count as 2, 2 threads are able to access the resource concurrently. So, I am really confused about the significance of initial count? SemaphoreSlim semaphoreSlim = new SemaphoreSlim(0, 2); //all threadpool threads wait SemaphoreSlim semaphoreSlim = new SemaphoreSlim(1, 2);//only one thread has access to the resource at a time SemaphoreSlim semaphoreSlim = new SemaphoreSlim(2, 2);//two threadpool threads can access the resource concurrently

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  • FreeText COUNT query on multiple tables is super slow

    - by Eric P
    I have two tables: **Product** ID Name SKU **Brand** ID Name Product table has about 120K records Brand table has 30K records I need to find count of all the products with name and brand matching a specific keyword. I use freetext 'contains' like this: SELECT count(*) FROM Product inner join Brand on Product.BrandID = Brand.ID WHERE (contains(Product.Name, 'pants') or contains(Brand.Name, 'pants')) This query takes about 17 secs. I rebuilt the FreeText index before running this query. If I only check for Product.Name. They query is less then 1 sec. Same, if I only check the Brand.Name. The issue occurs if I use OR condition. If I switch query to use LIKE: SELECT count(*) FROM Product inner join Brand on Product.BrandID = Brand.ID WHERE Product.Name LIKE '%pants%' or Brand.Name LIKE '%pants%' It takes 1 secs. I read on MSDN that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187787.aspx To search on multiple tables, use a joined table in your FROM clause to search on a result set that is the product of two or more tables. So I added an INNER JOINED table to FROM: SELECT count(*) FROM (select Product.Name ProductName, Product.SKU ProductSKU, Brand.Name as BrandName FROM Product inner join Brand on product.BrandID = Brand.ID) as TempTable WHERE contains(TempTable.ProductName, 'pants') or contains(TempTable.BrandName, 'pants') This results in error: Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on column 'ProductName' because it is not full-text indexed. So the question is - why OR condition could be causing such as slow query?

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  • What is wrong with my gtkrc file?

    - by PP
    I have written following gtkrc file from some other theme gtkrc file. This theme is normal theme with buttons using pixmap theme engine. I have also given background image to GtkEntry. Problem is that, When i use this theme my buttons doesn't show text one them and my entry box does not show cursor. Plus in engine "pixmap" tag I need to specify image name with it's path as I have already mentioned pixmap_path on the top of rc file but why I still need to specify the path in file = "xxx" # gtkrc file. pixmap_path "./backgrounds:./icons:./buttons:./emotions" gtk-button-images = 1 #Icon Sizes and color definitions gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-small-toolbar=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=24,24:gtk-button=16,16" gtk-toolbar-icon-size = GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR gtk_color_scheme = "fg_color:#000000\nbg_color:#848484\nbase_color:#000000\ntext_color:#000000\nselected_bg_color:#f39638\nselected_fg_color:#000000\ntooltip_bg_color:#634110\ntooltip_fg_color:#ffffff" style "theme-default" { xthickness = 10 ythickness = 10 GtkEntry::honors-transparent-bg-hint = 0 GtkMenuItem::arrow-spacing = 20 GtkMenuItem::horizontal-padding = 50 GtkMenuItem::toggle-spacing = 30 GtkOptionMenu::indicator-size = {11, 5} GtkOptionMenu::indicator-spacing = {6, 5, 4, 4} GtkTreeView::horizontal_separator = 5 GtkTreeView::odd_row_color = "#efefef" GtkTreeView::even_row_color = "#e3e3e3" GtkWidget::link-color = "#0062dc" # blue GtkWidget::visited-link-color = "#8c00dc" #purple GtkButton::default_border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } GtkButton::child-displacement-x = 0 GtkButton::child-displacement-y = 1 GtkWidget::focus-padding = 0 GtkRange::trough-border = 0 GtkRange::slider-width = 19 GtkRange::stepper-size = 19 GtkScrollbar::min_slider_length = 36 GtkScrollbar::has-secondary-backward-stepper = 1 GtkPaned::handle_size = 8 GtkMenuBar::internal-padding = 0 GtkTreeView::expander_size = 13 #15 GtkExpander::expander_size = 13 #17 GtkScale::slider-length = 35 GtkScale::slider-width = 17 GtkScale::trough-border = 0 GtkWidget::link-color = "#0062dc" GtkWidget::visited-link-color = "#8c00dc" #purple WnckTasklist::fade-overlay-rect = 0 WnckTasklist::fade-loop-time = 5.0 # 5 seconds WnckTasklist::fade-opacity = 0.5 # final opacity #makes menu only overlap border GtkMenu::horizontal-offset = -1 #removes extra padding at top and bottom of menus. Makes menuitem overlap border GtkMenu::vertical-padding = 0 #set to the same as roundness, used for better hotspot selection of tabs GtkNotebook::tab-curvature = 2 GtkNotebook::tab-overlap = 4 GtkMenuItem::arrow-spacing = 10 GtkOptionMenu ::indicator-size = {11, 5} GtkCheckButton ::indicator-size = 16 GtkCheckButton ::indicator-spacing = 1 GtkRadioButton ::indicator-size = 16 GtkTreeView::horizontal_separator = 2 GtkTreeView::odd_row_color = "#efefef" GtkTreeView::even_row_color = "#e3e3e3" NautilusIconContainer::normal_icon_color = "#ff0000" GtkEntry::inner-border = {0, 0, 0, 0} GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbar-spacing = 0 GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbars-within-bevel = 1 fg[NORMAL] = @fg_color fg[ACTIVE] = @fg_color fg[PRELIGHT] = @fg_color fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color fg[INSENSITIVE] = shade (3.0,@fg_color) bg[NORMAL] = @bg_color bg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.95,@bg_color) bg[PRELIGHT] = mix(0.92, shade (1.1,@bg_color), @selected_bg_color) bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color bg[INSENSITIVE] = shade (1.06,@bg_color) base[NORMAL] = @base_color base[ACTIVE] = shade (0.65,@base_color) base[PRELIGHT] = @base_color base[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color base[INSENSITIVE] = shade (1.025,@bg_color) text[NORMAL] = @text_color text[ACTIVE] = shade (0.95,@base_color) text[PRELIGHT] = @text_color text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color text[INSENSITIVE] = mix (0.675,shade (0.95,@bg_color),@fg_color) } style "theme-entry" { xthickness = 10 ythickness = 10 GtkEntry::inner-border = {10, 10, 10, 10} GtkEntry::progress-border = {10, 10, 10, 10} GtkEntry::icon-prelight = 1 GtkEntry::state-hintt = 1 #GtkEntry::honors-transparent-bg-hint = 1 text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#787878" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#787878" text[SELECTED] = "#FFFFFF" engine "pixmap" { image { function = FLAT_BOX state = NORMAL recolorable = FALSE file = "./backgrounds/entry_background.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } image { function = FLAT_BOX state = PRELIGHT recolorable = FALSE file = "./backgrounds/entry_background.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } image { function = FLAT_BOX state = ACTIVE recolorable = FALSE file = "./backgrounds/entry_background.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } } } #----------------------------------------------- #Chat Balloon Incoming background. style "theme-event-box-top-in" { xthickness = 1 ythickness = 1 GtkEventBox::inner-border = {0, 0, 0, 0} engine "pixmap" { image { function = FLAT_BOX state = NORMAL recolorable = TRUE file = "./backgrounds/chat_in_top.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } } } style "theme-event-box-mid-in" { xthickness = 1 ythickness = 1 GtkEventBox::inner-border = {0, 0, 0, 0} engine "pixmap" { image { function = FLAT_BOX state = NORMAL recolorable = TRUE file = "./backgrounds/chat_in_mid.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } } } style "theme-event-box-bot-in" { xthickness = 1 ythickness = 1 GtkEventBox::inner-border = {0, 0, 0, 0} engine "pixmap" { image { function = FLAT_BOX state = NORMAL recolorable = TRUE file = "./backgrounds/chat_in_bot.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } } } #----------------------------------------------- #Chat Balloon Outgoing background. style "theme-event-box-top-out" { xthickness = 1 ythickness = 1 GtkEventBox::inner-border = {0, 0, 0, 0} engine "pixmap" { image { function = FLAT_BOX state = NORMAL recolorable = TRUE file = "./backgrounds/chat_out_top.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } } } style "theme-event-box-mid-out" { xthickness = 1 ythickness = 1 GtkEventBox::inner-border = {0, 0, 0, 0} engine "pixmap" { image { function = FLAT_BOX state = NORMAL recolorable = TRUE file = "./backgrounds/chat_out_mid.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } } } style "theme-event-box-bot-out" { xthickness = 1 ythickness = 1 GtkEventBox::inner-border = {0, 0, 0, 0} engine "pixmap" { image { function = FLAT_BOX state = NORMAL recolorable = TRUE file = "./backgrounds/chat_out_bot.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } } } style "theme-wide" = "theme-default" { xthickness = 2 ythickness = 2 } style "theme-wider" = "theme-default" { xthickness = 3 ythickness = 3 } style "theme-button" { GtkButton::inner-border = {0, 0, 0, 0} GtkWidget::focus-line-width = 0 GtkWidget::focus-padding = 0 bg[NORMAL] = "#414143" bg[ACTIVE] = "#c19676" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#7f4426" bg[SELECTED] = "#ff0000" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#000000" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" text[NORMAL] = "#ff0000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#ff0000" text[PRELIGHT] = "#ff0000" text[SELECTED] = "#ff0000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" text[ACTIVE] = "#ff0000" base[NORMAL] = "#ff0000" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#ff0000" base[PRELIGHT] = "#ff0000" base[SELECTED] = "#ff0000" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#ff0000" engine "pixmap" { image { function = BOX state = NORMAL recolorable = TRUE file = "./buttons/LightButtonAct.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } image { function = BOX state = PRELIGHT recolorable = TRUE file = "./buttons/LightButtonRoll.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } image { function = BOX state = ACTIVE recolorable = TRUE file = "./buttons/LightButtonClicked.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } image { function = BOX state = INSENSITIVE recolorable = TRUE file = "./buttons/LightButtonInact.png" border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 } stretch = TRUE } } } style "theme-toolbar" { xthickness = 2 ythickness = 2 bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.078,@bg_color) } style "theme-handlebox" { bg[NORMAL] = shade (0.95,@bg_color) } style "theme-scale" { bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.06, @bg_color) bg[PRELIGHT] = mix(0.85, shade (1.1,@bg_color), @selected_bg_color) bg[SELECTED] = "#4d4d55" } style "theme-range" { bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.12,@bg_color) bg[ACTIVE] = @bg_color bg[PRELIGHT] = mix(0.95, shade (1.10,@bg_color), @selected_bg_color) #Arrows text[NORMAL] = shade (0.275,@selected_fg_color) text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color text[ACTIVE] = shade (0.10,@selected_fg_color) text[INSENSITIVE] = mix (0.80,shade (0.90,@bg_color),@fg_color) } style "theme-notebook" = "theme-wider" { xthickness = 4 ythickness = 4 GtkNotebook::tab-curvature = 5 GtkNotebook::tab-vborder = 1 GtkNotebook::tab-overlap = 1 GtkNotebook::tab-vborder = 1 bg[NORMAL] = "#d2d2d2" bg[ACTIVE] = "#e3e3e3" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#848484" bg[SELECTED] = "#848484" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#848484" text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#737373" text[SELECTED] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#737373" fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color fg[NORMAL] = "#000000" fg[ACTIVE] = "#737373" fg[SELECTED] = "#000000" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#737373" } style "theme-paned" { bg[PRELIGHT] = shade (1.1,@bg_color) } style "theme-panel" { # Menu fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color font_name = "Bold 9" text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color } style "theme-menu" { xthickness = 0 ythickness = 0 bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.16,@bg_color) bg[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" text[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color } style "theme-menu-item" = "theme-menu" { xthickness = 3 ythickness = 3 base[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" base[NORMAL] = "#ff9a00" base[PRELIGHT] = "#ff9a00" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#ff9a00" base[ACTIVE] = "#ff9a00" bg[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" bg[NORMAL] = shade (1.16,@bg_color) } style "theme-menubar" { #TODO } style "theme-menubar-item" = "theme-menu-item" { #TODO bg[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" } style "theme-tree" { xthickness = 2 ythickness = 1 font_name = "Bold 9" GtkWidget::focus-padding = 0 bg[NORMAL] = "#5a595a" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#5a595a" bg[ACTIVE] = "#5a5a5a" fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" fg[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" bg[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" base[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" base[NORMAL] = "#ff9a00" base[PRELIGHT] = "#ff9a00" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#ff9a00" base[ACTIVE] = "#ff9a00" text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[PRELIGHT] = "#ff9a00" text[ACTIVE] = "#ff9a00" text[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" } style "theme-tree-arrow" { bg[NORMAL] = mix(0.70, shade (0.60,@bg_color), shade (0.80,@selected_bg_color)) bg[PRELIGHT] = mix(0.80, @bg_color, @selected_bg_color) } style "theme-progressbar" { font_name = "Bold" bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color bg[ACTIVE] = "#fe7e00" bg[NORMAL] = "#ffba00" } style "theme-tooltips" = "theme-wider" { font_name = "Liberation sans 10" bg[NORMAL] = @tooltip_bg_color fg[NORMAL] = @tooltip_fg_color text[NORMAL] = @tooltip_fg_color } style "theme-combo" = "theme-button" { xthickness = 4 ythickness = 4 text[NORMAL] = "#fd7d00" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#8a8a8a" base[NORMAL] = "#e0e0e0" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#aeaeae" } style "theme-combo-box" = "theme-button" { xthickness = 3 ythickness = 2 bg[NORMAL] = "#343539" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#343539" bg[ACTIVE] = "#26272b" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#404145" } style "theme-entry-combo-box" { xthickness = 6 ythickness = 3 text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#8a8a8a" base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#aeaeae" } style "theme-combo-arrow" = "theme-button" { xthickness = 1 ythickness = 1 } style "theme-view" { xthickness = 0 ythickness = 0 } style "theme-check-radio-buttons" { GtkWidget::interior-focus = 0 GtkWidget::focus-padding = 1 text[NORMAL] = "#ff0000" base[NORMAL] = "#ff0000" text[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" text[INSENSITIVE] = shade (0.625,@bg_color) base[PRELIGHT] = mix(0.80, @base_color, @selected_bg_color) bg[NORMAL] = "#438FC6" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#aeaeae" bg[SELECTED] = "#ff8a01" } style "theme-radio-buttons" = "theme-button" { GtkWidget::interior-focus = 0 GtkWidget::focus-padding = 1 text[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color text[INSENSITIVE] = shade (0.625,@bg_color) base[PRELIGHT] = mix(0.80, @base_color, @selected_bg_color) bg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#dcdcdc" bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color } style "theme-spin-button" { bg[NORMAL] = "#d2d2d2" bg[ACTIVE] = "#868686" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#7f4426" bg[SELECTED] = shade(1.10,@selected_bg_color) bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#dcdcdc" base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#dcdcdc" text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#aeaeae" } style "theme-calendar" { xthickness = 0 ythickness = 0 bg[NORMAL] = "#676767" bg[PRELIGHT] = shade(0.92,@bg_color) bg[ACTIVE] = "#ff0000" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#ff0000" bg[SELECTED] = "#ff0000" text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE]= "#000000" text[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" text[ACTIVE] = "#000000" fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#ffffff" fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" base[NORMAL] = "#ff0000" base[NORMAL] = "#aeaeae" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#00ff00" base[SELECTED] = "#f3720d" base[ACTIVE] = "#f3720d" } style "theme-separator-menu-item" { xthickness = 1 ythickness = 0 GtkSeparatorMenuItem::horizontal-padding = 2 # We are setting the desired height by using wide-separators # There is no other way to get the odd height ... GtkWidget::wide-separators = 1 GtkWidget::separator-width = 1 GtkWidget::separator-height = 5 } style "theme-frame" { xthickness = 10 ythickness = 0 GtkWidget::LABEL-SIDE-PAD = 14 GtkWidget::LABEL-PAD = 23 fg[NORMAL] = "#000000" fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" fg[SELECTED] = "#000000" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#000000" bg[NORMAL] = "#e2e2e2" bg[ACTIVE] = "#000000" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" bg[SELECTED] = "#000000" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#000000" base[NORMAL] = "#000000" base[ACTIVE] = "#000000" base[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" base[SELECTED] = "#000000" base[INSENSITIVE]= "#000000" text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#000000" text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" text[SELECTED] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE]= "#000000" } style "theme-textview" { text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#000000" text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" text[SELECTED] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#434648" bg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" bg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" bg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#ffffff" fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#ffffff" base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" base[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" base[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" base[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#ffffff" } style "theme-clist" { text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#000000" text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" text[SELECTED] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#434648" bg[NORMAL] = "#353438" bg[ACTIVE] = "#ff9a00" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#ff9a00" bg[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#ffffff" fg[NORMAL] = "#000000" fg[ACTIVE] = "#ff9a00" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ff9a00" fg[SELECTED] = "#fdff00" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#757575" base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" base[ACTIVE] = "#fdff00" base[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" base[SELECTED] = "#fdff00" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#757575" } style "theme-label" { bg[NORMAL] = "#414143" bg[ACTIVE] = "#c19676" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#7f4426" bg[SELECTED] = "#000000" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" fg[NORMAL] = "#000000" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" fg[SELECTED] = "#000000" fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000" text[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" text[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" text[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" text[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" base[NORMAL] = "#000000" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#00ff00" base[PRELIGHT] = "#0000ff" base[ACTIVE] = "#f39638" } style "theme-button-label" { bg[NORMAL] = "#414143" bg[ACTIVE] = "#c19676" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#7f4426" bg[SELECTED] = "#000000" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" text[SELECTED] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#000000" base[NORMAL] = "#000000" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#00ff00" base[PRELIGHT] = "#0000ff" base[SELECTED] = "#ff00ff" base[ACTIVE] = "#ffff00" } style "theme-button-check-radio-label" { bg[NORMAL] = "#414143" bg[ACTIVE] = "#c19676" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#7f4426" bg[SELECTED] = "#000000" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" fg[NORMAL] = "#000000" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" fg[SELECTED] = "#000000" fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000" text[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" text[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" text[SELECTED] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" base[NORMAL] = "#000000" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#00ff00" base[PRELIGHT] = "#0000ff" base[SELECTED] = "#ff00ff" base[ACTIVE] = "#ffff00" } style "theme-table" { bg[NORMAL] = "#848484" bg[ACTIVE] = "#c19676" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#7f4426" bg[SELECTED] = "#000000" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" } style "theme-iconview" { GtkWidget::focus-line-width=1 bg[NORMAL] = "#000000" bg[ACTIVE] = "#c19676" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#c19676" bg[SELECTED] = "#c19676" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#969696" fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#ffffff" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000" text[SELECTED] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#000000" base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#434346" base[PRELIGHT] = "#FAD184" base[SELECTED] = "#FAD184" base[ACTIVE] = "#FAD184" } # Set Widget styles class "GtkWidget" style "theme-default" class "GtkScale" style "theme-scale" class "GtkRange" style "theme-range" class "GtkPaned" style "theme-paned" class "GtkFrame" style "theme-frame" class "GtkMenu" style "theme-menu" class "GtkMenuBar" style "theme-menubar" class "GtkEntry" style "theme-entry" class "GtkProgressBar" style "theme-progressbar" class "GtkToolbar" style "theme-toolbar" class "GtkSeparator" style "theme-wide" class "GtkCalendar" style "theme-calendar" class "GtkTable" style "theme-table" widget_class "*<GtkMenuItem>*" style "theme-menu-item" widget_class "*<GtkMenuBar>.<GtkMenuItem>*" style "theme-menubar-item" widget_class "*<GtkSeparatorMenuItem>*" style "theme-separator-menu-item" widget_class "*<GtkLabel>" style "theme-label" widget_class "*<GtkButton>" style "theme-button" widget_class "*<GtkButton>*<GtkLabel>*" style "theme-button-label" widget_class "*<GtkCheckButton>" style "theme-check-radio-buttons" widget_class "*<GtkToggleButton>.<GtkLabel>*" style "theme-button" widget_class "*<GtkCheckButton>.<GtkLabel>*" style "theme-button-check-radio-label" widget_class "*<GtkRadioButton>.<GtkLabel>*" style "theme-button-check-radio-label" widget_class "*<GtkTextView>" style "theme-textview" widget_class "*<GtkList>" style "theme-textview" widget_class "*<GtkCList>" style "theme-clist" widget_class "*<GtkIconView>" style "theme-iconview" widget_class "*<GtkHandleBox>" style "theme-handlebox" widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>" style "theme-notebook" widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkEventBox>" style "theme-notebook" widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkDrawingArea>" style "theme-notebook" widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkLayout>" style "theme-notebook" widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>*<GtkViewport>" style "theme-notebook" widget_class "*<GtkNotebook>.<GtkLabel>*" style "theme-notebook" #for tabs # Combo Box Stuff widget_class "*<GtkCombo>*" style "theme-combo" widget_class "*<GtkComboBox>*<GtkButton>" style "theme-combo-box" widget_class "*<GtkComboBoxEntry>*" style "theme-entry-combo-box" widget_class "*<GtkSpinButton>*" style "theme-spin-button" widget_class "*<GtkSpinButton>*<GtkArrow>*" style:highest "theme-tree-arrow" # Tool Tips Stuff widget "gtk-tooltip*" style "theme-tooltips" # Tree View Stuff widget_class "*<GtkTreeView>.<GtkButton>*" style "theme-tree" widget_class "*<GtkCTree>.<GtkButton>*" style "theme-tree" widget_class "*<GtkList>.<GtkButton>*" style "theme-tree" widget_class "*<GtkCList>.<GtkButton>*" style "theme-tree" # For arrow bg widget_class "*<GtkTreeView>.<GtkButton>*<GtkArrow>" style "theme-tree-arrow" widget_class "*<GtkCTree>.<GtkButton>*<GtkArrow>" style "theme-tree-arrow" widget_class "*<GtkList>.<GtkButton>*<GtkArrow>" style "theme-tree-arrow" ####################################################### ## GNOME specific ####################################################### widget_class "*.ETree.ECanvas" style "theme-tree" widget_class "*.ETable.ECanvas" style "theme-tree" style "panelbuttons" = "theme-button" { # As buttons are draw lower this helps center text xthickness = 3 ythickness = 3 } widget_class "*Panel*<GtkButton>*" style "panelbuttons" style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround" { text[NORMAL] = "#000000" text[ACTIVE] = "#fdff00" text[SELECTED] = "#fdff00" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#757575" bg[SELECTED] = "#b85e03" bg[ACTIVE] = "#b85e03" bg[SELECTED] = "#b85e03" fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#434348" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" base[SELECTED] = "#ff9a00" base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" base[ACTIVE] = "#ff9a00" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#434348" base[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" } widget_class "*.<GtkTreeView>*" style "murrine-fg-is-text-color-workaround" style "murrine-combobox-text-color-workaround" { text[NORMAL] = "#FFFFF" text[PRELIGHT] = "#FFFFF" text[SELECTED] = "#FFFFF" text[ACTIVE] = "#FFFFF" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#FFFFF" } widget_class "*.<GtkComboBox>.<GtkCellView>" style "murrine-combobox-text-color-workaround" style "murrine-menuitem-text-is-fg-color-workaround" { bg[NORMAL] = "#0000ff" text[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" text[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff"#"#FD7D00" text[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"#"#ff0000"# @selected_fg_color text[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"#"#ff0000"# "#FD7D00" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#ffffff"#ff0000"# "#414143" } widget "*.gtk-combobox-popup-menu.*" style "murrine-menuitem-text-is-fg-color-workaround"

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  • Cannot see the variable In my own JQuery plugin's function.

    - by qinHaiXiang
    I am writing one of my own JQuery plugin. And I got some strange which make me confused. I am using JQuery UI datepicker with my plugin. ;(function($){ var newMW = 1, mwZIndex = 0; // IgtoMW contructor Igtomw = function(elem , options){ var activePanel, lastPanel, daysWithRecords, sliding; // used to check the animation below is executed to the end. // used to access the plugin's default configuration this.opts = $.extend({}, $.fn.igtomw.defaults, options); // intial the model window this.intialMW(); }; $.extend(Igtomw.prototype, { // intial model window intialMW : function(){ this.sliding = false; //this.daysWithRecords = []; this.igtoMW = $('<div />',{'id':'igto'+newMW,'class':'igtoMW',}) .css({'z-index':mwZIndex}) // make it in front of all exist model window; .appendTo('body') .draggable({ containment: 'parent' , handle: '.dragHandle' , distance: 5 }); //var igtoWrapper = igtoMW.append($('<div />',{'class':'igtoWrapper'})); this.igtoWrapper = $('<div />',{'class':'igtoWrapper'}).appendTo(this.igtoMW); this.igtoOpacityBody = $('<div />',{'class':'igtoOpacityBody'}).appendTo(this.igtoMW); //var igtoHeaderInfo = igtoWrapper.append($('<div />',{'class':'igtoHeaderInfo dragHandle'})); this.igtoHeaderInfo = $('<div />',{'class':'igtoHeaderInfo dragHandle'}) .appendTo(this.igtoWrapper); this.igtoQuickNavigation = $('<div />',{'class':'igtoQuickNavigation'}) .css({'color':'#fff'}) .appendTo(this.igtoWrapper); this.igtoContentSlider = $('<div />',{'class':'igtoContentSlider'}) .appendTo(this.igtoWrapper); this.igtoQuickMenu = $('<div />',{'class':'igtoQuickMenu'}) .appendTo(this.igtoWrapper); this.igtoFooter = $('<div />',{'class':'igtoFooter dragHandle'}) .appendTo(this.igtoWrapper); // append to igtoHeaderInfo this.headTitle = this.igtoHeaderInfo.append($('<div />',{'class':'headTitle'})); // append to igtoQuickNavigation this.igQuickNav = $('<div />', {'class':'igQuickNav'}) .html('??') .appendTo(this.igtoQuickNavigation); // append to igtoContentSlider this.igInnerPanelTopMenu = $('<div />',{'class':'igInnerPanelTopMenu'}) .appendTo(this.igtoContentSlider); this.igInnerPanelTopMenu.append('<div class="igInnerPanelButtonPreWrapper"><a href="" class="igInnerPanelButton Pre" action="" style="background-image:url(images/igto/igInnerPanelTopMenu.bt.bg.png);"></a></div>'); this.igInnerPanelTopMenu.append('<div class="igInnerPanelSearch"><input type="text" name="igInnerSearch" /><a href="" class="igInnerSearch">??</a></div>' ); this.igInnerPanelTopMenu.append('<div class="igInnerPanelButtonNextWrapper"><a href="" class="igInnerPanelButton Next" action="sm" style="background-image:url(images/igto/igInnerPanelTopMenu.bt.bg.png); background-position:-272px"></a></div>' ); this.igInnerPanelBottomMenu = $('<div />',{'class':'igInnerPanelBottomMenu'}) .appendTo(this.igtoContentSlider); this.icWrapper = $('<div />',{'class':'icWrapper','id':'igto'+newMW+'Panel'}) .appendTo(this.igtoContentSlider); this.icWrapperCotentPre = $('<div class="slider pre"></div>').appendTo(this.icWrapper); this.icWrapperCotentShow = $('<div class="slider firstShow "></div>').appendTo(this.icWrapper); this.icWrapperCotentnext = $('<div class="slider next"></div>').appendTo(this.icWrapper); this.initialPanel(); this.initialQuickMenus(); console.log(this.leftPad(9)); newMW++; mwZIndex++; this.igtoMW.bind('mousedown',function(){ var $this = $(this); //alert($this.css('z-index') + ' '+mwZIndex); if( parseInt($this.css('z-index')) === (mwZIndex-1) ) return; $this.css({'z-index':mwZIndex}); mwZIndex++; //alert(mwZIndex); }); }, initialPanel : function(){ this.defaultPanelNum = this.opts.initialPanel; this.activePanel = this.defaultPanelNum; this.lastPanel = this.defaultPanelNum; this.defaultPanel = this.loadPanelContents(this.defaultPanelNum); $(this.defaultPanel).appendTo(this.icWrapperCotentShow); }, initialQuickMenus : function(){ // store the current element var obj = this; var defaultQM = this.opts.initialQuickMenu; var strMenu = ''; var marginFirstEle = '8'; $.each(defaultQM,function(key,value){ //alert(key+':'+value); if(marginFirstEle === '8'){ strMenu += '<a href="" class="btPanel" panel="'+key+'" style="margin-left: 8px;" >'+value+'</a>'; marginFirstEle = '4'; } else{ strMenu += '<a href="" class="btPanel" panel="'+key+'" style="margin-left: 4px;" >'+value+'</a>'; } }); // append to igtoQuickMenu this.igtoQMenu = $(strMenu).appendTo(this.igtoQuickMenu); this.igtoQMenu.bind('click',function(event){ event.preventDefault(); var element = $(this); if(element.is('.active')){ return; } else{ $(obj.igtoQMenu).removeClass('active'); element.addClass('active'); } var d = new Date(); var year = d.getFullYear(); var month = obj.leftPad( d.getMonth() ); var inst = null; if( obj.sliding === false){ console.log(obj.lastPanel); var currentPanelNum = parseInt(element.attr('panel')); obj.checkAvailability(); obj.getDays(year,month,inst,currentPanelNum); obj.slidePanel(currentPanelNum); obj.activePanel = currentPanelNum; console.log(obj.activePanel); obj.lastPanel = obj.activePanel; obj.icWrapper.find('input').val(obj.activePanel); } }); }, initialLoginPanel : function(){ var obj = this; this.igPanelLogin = $('<div />',{'class':"igPanelLogin"}); this.igEnterName = $('<div />',{'class':"igEnterName"}).appendTo(this.igPanelLogin); this.igInput = $('<input type="text" name="name" value="???" />').appendTo(this.igEnterName); this.igtoLoginBtWrap = $('<div />',{'class':"igButtons"}).appendTo(this.igPanelLogin); this.igtoLoginBt = $('<a href="" class="igtoLoginBt" action="OK" >??</a>\ <a href="" class="igtoLoginBt" action="CANCEL" >??</a>\ <a href="" class="igtoLoginBt" action="ADD" >????</a>').appendTo(this.igtoLoginBtWrap); this.igtoLoginBt.bind('click',function(event){ event.preventDefault(); var elem = $(this); var action = elem.attr('action'); var userName = obj.igInput.val(); obj.loadRootMenu(); }); return this.igPanelLogin; }, initialWatchHistory : function(){ var obj = this; // for thirt part plugin used if(this.sliding === false){ this.watchHistory = $('<div />',{'class':'igInnerPanelSlider'}).append($('<div />',{'class':'igInnerPanel_pre'}).addClass('igInnerPanel')) .append($('<div />',{'class':'igInnerPanel'}).datepicker({ dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',defaultDate: '2010-12-01' ,showWeek: true,firstDay: 1, //beforeShow:setDateStatistics(), onChangeMonthYear:function(year, month, inst) { var panelNum = 1; month = obj.leftPad(month); obj.getDays(year,month,inst,panelNum); } , beforeShowDay: obj.checkAvailability, onSelect: function(dateText, inst) { obj.checkAvailability(); } }).append($('<div />',{'class':'extraMenu'})) ) .append($('<div />',{'class':'igInnerPanel_next'}).addClass('igInnerPanel')); return this.watchHistory; } }, loadPanelContents : function(panelNum){ switch(panelNum){ case 1: alert('inside loadPanelContents') return this.initialWatchHistory(); break; case 2: return this.initialWatchHistory(); break; case 3: return this.initialWatchHistory(); break; case 4: return this.initialWatchHistory(); break; case 5: return this.initialLoginPanel(); break; } }, loadRootMenu : function(){ var obj = this; var mainMenuPanel = $('<div />',{'class':'igRootMenu'}); var currentMWId = this.igtoMW.attr('id'); this.activePanel = 0; $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .pre'). queue(function(next){ $(this). html(mainMenuPanel). addClass('panelShow'). removeClass('pre'). attr('panelNum',0); next(); }). queue(function(next){ $('<div style="width:0;" class="slider pre"></div>'). prependTo('#'+currentMWId+'Panel').animate({width:348}, function(){ $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .slider:last').remove() $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .slider:last').replaceWith('<div class="slider next"></div>'); $('.btMenu').remove(); // remove bottom quick menu obj.sliding = false; $(this).removeAttr('style'); }); $('.igtoQuickMenu .active').removeClass('active'); next(); }); }, slidePanel : function(currentPanelNum){ var currentMWId = this.igtoMW.attr('id'); var obj = this; //alert(obj.loadPanelContents(currentPanelNum)); if( this.activePanel > currentPanelNum){ $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .pre'). queue(function(next){ alert('inside slidePanel') //var initialDate = getPanelDateStatus(panelNum); //console.log('intial day in bigger panel '+initialDate) $(this). html(obj.loadPanelContents(currentPanelNum)). addClass('panelShow'). removeClass('pre'). attr('panelNum',currentPanelNum); $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .next').remove(); next(); }). queue(function(next){ $('<div style="width:0;" class="slider pre"></div>'). prependTo('#'+currentMWId+'Panel').animate({width:348}, function(){ //$('#igto1Panel .slider:last').find(setPanel(currentPanelNum)).datepicker('destroy'); $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .slider:last').empty().removeClass('panelShow').addClass('next').removeAttr('panelNum'); $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .slider:last').replaceWith('<div class="slider next"></div>') obj.sliding = false;console.log('inuse inside animation: '+obj.sliding); $(this).removeAttr('style'); }); next(); }); } else{ ///// current panel num smaller than next $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .next'). queue(function(next){ $(this). html(obj.loadPanelContents(currentPanelNum)). addClass('panelShow'). removeClass('next'). attr('panelNum',currentPanelNum); $('<div class="slider next">empty</div>').appendTo('#'+currentMWId+'Panel'); next(); }). queue(function(next){ $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .pre').animate({width:0}, function(){ $(this).remove(); //$('#igto1Panel .slider:first').find(setPanel(currentPanelNum)).datepicker('destroy'); $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .slider:first').empty().removeClass('panelShow').addClass('pre').removeAttr('panelNum').removeAttr('style'); $('#'+currentMWId+'Panel .slider:first').replaceWith('<div class="slider pre"></div>') obj.sliding = false; console.log('inuse inside animation: '+obj.sliding); }); next(); }); } }, getDays : function(year,month,inst,panelNum){ var obj = this; // depand on the mysql qurey condition var table_of_record = 'moviewh';//getTable(panelNum); var date_of_record = 'watching_date';//getTableDateCol(panelNum); var date_to_find = year+'-'+month; var node_of_xml_date_list = 'whDateRecords';//getXMLDateNode(panelNum); var user_id = '1';//getLoginUserId(); //var daysWithRecords = []; // empty array before asigning this.daysWithRecords.length = 0; $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "include/get.date.list.process.php", data:({ table_of_record : table_of_record,date_of_record:date_of_record,date_to_find:date_to_find,user_id:user_id,node_of_xml_date_list:node_of_xml_date_list }), dataType: "json", cache: false, // force broser don't cache the xml file async: false, // using this option to prevent datepicker refresh ??NO success:function(data){ // had no date records if(data === null) return; obj.daysWithRecords = data; } }); //setPanelDateStatus(year,month,panelNum); console.log('call from getdays() ' + this.daysWithRecords); }, checkAvailability : function(availableDays) { // var i; var checkdate = $.datepicker.formatDate('yy-mm-dd', availableDays); //console.log( checkdate); // for(var i = 0; i < this.daysWithRecords.length; i++) { // // if(this.daysWithRecords[i] == checkdate){ // // return [true, "available"]; // } // } //console.log('inside check availablility '+ this.daysWithRecords); //return [true, "available"]; console.log(typeof this.daysWithRecords) for(i in this.daysWithRecords){ //if(this.daysWithRecords[i] == checkdate){ console.log(typeof this.daysWithRecords[i]); //return [true, "available"]; //} } return [true, "available"]; //return [false, ""]; }, leftPad : function(num) { return (num < 10) ? '0' + num : num; } }); $.fn.igtomw = function(options){ // Merge options passed in with global defaults var opt = $.extend({}, $.fn.igtomw.defaults , options); return this.each(function() { new Igtomw(this,opt); }); }; $.fn.igtomw.defaults = { // 0:mainMenu 1:whatchHistor 2:requestHistory 3:userManager // 4:shoppingCart 5:loginPanel initialPanel : 5, // default panel is LoginPanel initialQuickMenu : {'1':'whatchHIstory','2':'????','3':'????','4':'????'} // defalut quick menu }; })(jQuery); usage: $('.openMW').click(function(event){ event.preventDefault(); $('<div class="">').igtomw(); }) HTML code: <div id="taskBarAndStartMenu"> <div class="taskBarAndStartMenuM"> <a href="" class="openMW" >??IGTO</a> </div> <div class="taskBarAndStartMenuO"></div> </div> In my work flow: when I click the "whatchHistory" button, my plugin would load a panel with JQuery UI datepicker applied which days had been set to be availabled or not. I am using the function "getDays()" to get the available days list and stored the data inside daysWithRecords, and final the UI datepicker's function "beforeShowDay()" called the function "checkAvailability()" to set the days. the variable "daysWithRecords" was declared inside Igtomw = function(elem , options) and was initialized inside the function getDays() I am using the function "initialWatchHistory()" to initialization and render the JQuery UI datepicker in the web. My problem is the function "checkAvailability()" cannot see the variable "daysWithRecords".The firebug prompts me that "daysWithRecords" is "undefined". this is the first time I write my first plugin. So .... Thank you very much for any help!!

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  • .NET WebRequest.PreAuthenticate not quite what it sounds like

    - by Rick Strahl
    I’ve run into the  problem a few times now: How to pre-authenticate .NET WebRequest calls doing an HTTP call to the server – essentially send authentication credentials on the very first request instead of waiting for a server challenge first? At first glance this sound like it should be easy: The .NET WebRequest object has a PreAuthenticate property which sounds like it should force authentication credentials to be sent on the first request. Looking at the MSDN example certainly looks like it does: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest.preauthenticate.aspx Unfortunately the MSDN sample is wrong. As is the text of the Help topic which incorrectly leads you to believe that PreAuthenticate… wait for it - pre-authenticates. But it doesn’t allow you to set credentials that are sent on the first request. What this property actually does is quite different. It doesn’t send credentials on the first request but rather caches the credentials ONCE you have already authenticated once. Http Authentication is based on a challenge response mechanism typically where the client sends a request and the server responds with a 401 header requesting authentication. So the client sends a request like this: GET /wconnect/admin/wc.wc?_maintain~ShowStatus HTTP/1.1 Host: rasnote User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 4.0.20506) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en,de;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive and the server responds with: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 WWW-Authenticate: basic realm=rasnote" X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate WWW-Authenticate: NTLM WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="rasnote" X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:58:20 GMT Content-Length: 5163 plus the actual error message body. The client then is responsible for re-sending the current request with the authentication token information provided (in this case Basic Auth): GET /wconnect/admin/wc.wc?_maintain~ShowStatus HTTP/1.1 Host: rasnote User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 4.0.20506) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en,de;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: TimeTrakker=2HJ1998WH06696; WebLogCommentUser=Rick Strahl|http://www.west-wind.com/|[email protected]; WebStoreUser=b8bd0ed9 Authorization: Basic cgsf12aDpkc2ZhZG1zMA== Once the authorization info is sent the server responds with the actual page result. Now if you use WebRequest (or WebClient) the default behavior is to re-authenticate on every request that requires authorization. This means if you look in  Fiddler or some other HTTP client Proxy that captures requests you’ll see that each request re-authenticates: Here are two requests fired back to back: and you can see the 401 challenge, the 200 response for both requests. If you watch this same conversation between a browser and a server you’ll notice that the first 401 is also there but the subsequent 401 requests are not present. WebRequest.PreAuthenticate And this is precisely what the WebRequest.PreAuthenticate property does: It’s a caching mechanism that caches the connection credentials for a given domain in the active process and resends it on subsequent requests. It does not send credentials on the first request but it will cache credentials on subsequent requests after authentication has succeeded: string url = "http://rasnote/wconnect/admin/wc.wc?_maintain~ShowStatus"; HttpWebRequest req = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest; req.PreAuthenticate = true; req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("rick", "secret", "rasnote"); req.AuthenticationLevel = System.Net.Security.AuthenticationLevel.MutualAuthRequested; req.UserAgent = ": Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 4.0.20506)"; WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse(); resp.Close(); req = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest; req.PreAuthenticate = true; req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("rstrahl", "secret", "rasnote"); req.AuthenticationLevel = System.Net.Security.AuthenticationLevel.MutualAuthRequested; req.UserAgent = ": Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 4.0.20506)"; resp = req.GetResponse(); which results in the desired sequence: where only the first request doesn’t send credentials. This is quite useful as it saves quite a few round trips to the server – bascially it saves one auth request request for every authenticated request you make. In most scenarios I think you’d want to send these credentials this way but one downside to this is that there’s no way to log out the client. Since the client always sends the credentials once authenticated only an explicit operation ON THE SERVER can undo the credentials by forcing another login explicitly (ie. re-challenging with a forced 401 request). Forcing Basic Authentication Credentials on the first Request On a few occasions I’ve needed to send credentials on a first request – mainly to some oddball third party Web Services (why you’d want to use Basic Auth on a Web Service is beyond me – don’t ask but it’s not uncommon in my experience). This is true of certain services that are using Basic Authentication (especially some Apache based Web Services) and REQUIRE that the authentication is sent right from the first request. No challenge first. Ugly but there it is. Now the following works only with Basic Authentication because it’s pretty straight forward to create the Basic Authorization ‘token’ in code since it’s just an unencrypted encoding of the user name and password into base64. As you might guess this is totally unsecure and should only be used when using HTTPS/SSL connections (i’m not in this example so I can capture the Fiddler trace and my local machine doesn’t have a cert installed, but for production apps ALWAYS use SSL with basic auth). The idea is that you simply add the required Authorization header to the request on your own along with the authorization string that encodes the username and password: string url = "http://rasnote/wconnect/admin/wc.wc?_maintain~ShowStatus"; HttpWebRequest req = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest; string user = "rick"; string pwd = "secret"; string domain = "www.west-wind.com"; string auth = "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(user + ":" + pwd)); req.PreAuthenticate = true; req.AuthenticationLevel = System.Net.Security.AuthenticationLevel.MutualAuthRequested;req.Headers.Add("Authorization", auth); req.UserAgent = ": Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 4.0.20506)"; WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse(); resp.Close(); This works and causes the request to immediately send auth information to the server. However, this only works with Basic Auth because you can actually create the authentication credentials easily on the client because it’s essentially clear text. The same doesn’t work for Windows or Digest authentication since you can’t easily create the authentication token on the client and send it to the server. Another issue with this approach is that PreAuthenticate has no effect when you manually force the authentication. As far as Web Request is concerned it never sent the authentication information so it’s not actually caching the value any longer. If you run 3 requests in a row like this: string url = "http://rasnote/wconnect/admin/wc.wc?_maintain~ShowStatus"; HttpWebRequest req = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest; string user = "ricks"; string pwd = "secret"; string domain = "www.west-wind.com"; string auth = "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(user + ":" + pwd)); req.PreAuthenticate = true; req.Headers.Add("Authorization", auth); req.UserAgent = ": Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 4.0.20506)"; WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse(); resp.Close(); req = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest; req.PreAuthenticate = true; req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(user, pwd, domain); req.UserAgent = ": Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 4.0.20506)"; resp = req.GetResponse(); resp.Close(); req = HttpWebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest; req.PreAuthenticate = true; req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(user, pwd, domain); req.UserAgent = ": Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 4.0.20506)"; resp = req.GetResponse(); you’ll find the trace looking like this: where the first request (the one we explicitly add the header to) authenticates, the second challenges, and any subsequent ones then use the PreAuthenticate credential caching. In effect you’ll end up with one extra 401 request in this scenario, which is still better than 401 challenges on each request. Getting Access to WebRequest in Classic .NET Web Service Clients If you’re running a classic .NET Web Service client (non-WCF) one issue with the above is how do you get access to the WebRequest to actually add the custom headers to do the custom Authentication described above? One easy way is to implement a partial class that allows you add headers with something like this: public partial class TaxService { protected NameValueCollection Headers = new NameValueCollection(); public void AddHttpHeader(string key, string value) { this.Headers.Add(key,value); } public void ClearHttpHeaders() { this.Headers.Clear(); } protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri uri) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) base.GetWebRequest(uri); request.Headers.Add(this.Headers); return request; } } where TaxService is the name of the .NET generated proxy class. In code you can then call AddHttpHeader() anywhere to add additional headers which are sent as part of the GetWebRequest override. Nice and simple once you know where to hook it. For WCF there’s a bit more work involved by creating a message extension as described here: http://weblogs.asp.net/avnerk/archive/2006/04/26/Adding-custom-headers-to-every-WCF-call-_2D00_-a-solution.aspx. FWIW, I think that HTTP header manipulation should be readily available on any HTTP based Web Service client DIRECTLY without having to subclass or implement a special interface hook. But alas a little extra work is required in .NET to make this happen Not a Common Problem, but when it happens… This has been one of those issues that is really rare, but it’s bitten me on several occasions when dealing with oddball Web services – a couple of times in my own work interacting with various Web Services and a few times on customer projects that required interaction with credentials-first services. Since the servers determine the protocol, we don’t have a choice but to follow the protocol. Lovely following standards that implementers decide to ignore, isn’t it? :-}© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2010Posted in .NET  CSharp  Web Services  

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  • Setting up and using Bing Translate API Service for Machine Translation

    - by Rick Strahl
    Last week I spent quite a bit of time trying to set up the Bing Translate API service. I can honestly say this was one of the most screwed up developer experiences I've had in a long while - specifically related to the byzantine sign up process that Microsoft has in place. Not only is it nearly impossible to find decent documentation on the required signup process, some of the links in the docs are just plain wrong, and some of the account pages you need to access the actual account information once signed up are not linked anywhere from the administration UI. To make things even harder is the fact that the APIs changed a while back, with a completely new authentication scheme that's described and not directly linked documentation topic also made for a very frustrating search experience. It's a bummer that this is the case too, because the actual API itself is easy to use and works very well - fast and reasonably accurate (as accurate as you can expect machine translation to be). But the sign up process is a pain in the ass doubtlessly leaving many people giving up in frustration. In this post I'll try to hit all the points needed to set up to use the Bing Translate API in one place since such a document seems to be missing from Microsoft. Hopefully the API folks at Microsoft will get their shit together and actually provide this sort of info on their site… Signing Up The first step required is to create a Windows Azure MarketPlace account. Go to: https://datamarket.azure.com/ Sign in with your Windows Live Id If you don't have an account you will be taken to a registration page which you have to fill out. Follow the links and complete the registration. Once you're signed in you can start adding services. Click on the Data Link on the main page Select Microsoft Translator from the list This adds the Microsoft Bing Translator to your services. Pricing The page shows the pricing matrix and the free service which provides 2 megabytes for translations a month for free. Prices go up steeply from there. Pricing is determined by actual bytes of the result translations used. Max translations are 1000 characters so at minimum this means you get around 2000 translations a month for free. However most translations are probable much less so you can expect larger number of translations to go through. For testing or low volume translations this should be just fine. Once signed up there are no further instructions and you're left in limbo on the MS site. Register your Application Once you've created the Data association with Translator the next step is registering your application. To do this you need to access your developer account. Go to https://datamarket.azure.com/developer/applications/register Provide a ClientId, which is effectively the unique string identifier for your application (not your customer id!) Provide your name The client secret was auto-created and this becomes your 'password' For the redirect url provide any https url: https://microsoft.com works Give this application a description of your choice so you can identify it in the list of apps Now, once you've registered your application, keep track of the ClientId and ClientSecret - those are the two keys you need to authenticate before you can call the Translate API. Oddly the applications page is hidden from the Azure Portal UI. I couldn't find a direct link from anywhere on the site back to this page where I can examine my developer application keys. To find them you can go to: https://datamarket.azure.com/developer/applications You can come back here to look at your registered applications and pick up the ClientID and ClientSecret. Fun eh? But we're now ready to actually call the API and do some translating. Using the Bing Translate API The good news is that after this signup hell, using the API is pretty straightforward. To use the translation API you'll need to actually use two services: You need to call an authentication API service first, before you can call the actual translator API. These two APIs live on different domains, and the authentication API returns JSON data while the translator service returns XML. So much for consistency. Authentication The first step is authentication. The service uses oAuth authentication with a  bearer token that has to be passed to the translator API. The authentication call retrieves the oAuth token that you can then use with the translate API call. The bearer token has a short 10 minute life time, so while you can cache it for successive calls, the token can't be cached for long periods. This means for Web backend requests you typically will have to authenticate each time unless you build a more elaborate caching scheme that takes the timeout into account (perhaps using the ASP.NET Cache object). For low volume operations you can probably get away with simply calling the auth API for every translation you do. To call the Authentication API use code like this:/// /// Retrieves an oAuth authentication token to be used on the translate /// API request. The result string needs to be passed as a bearer token /// to the translate API. /// /// You can find client ID and Secret (or register a new one) at: /// https://datamarket.azure.com/developer/applications/ /// /// The client ID of your application /// The client secret or password /// public string GetBingAuthToken(string clientId = null, string clientSecret = null) { string authBaseUrl = https://datamarket.accesscontrol.windows.net/v2/OAuth2-13; if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(clientId) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(clientSecret)) { ErrorMessage = Resources.Resources.Client_Id_and_Client_Secret_must_be_provided; return null; } var postData = string.Format("grant_type=client_credentials&client_id={0}" + "&client_secret={1}" + "&scope=http://api.microsofttranslator.com", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(clientId), HttpUtility.UrlEncode(clientSecret)); // POST Auth data to the oauth API string res, token; try { var web = new WebClient(); web.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; res = web.UploadString(authBaseUrl, postData); } catch (Exception ex) { ErrorMessage = ex.GetBaseException().Message; return null; } var ser = new JavaScriptSerializer(); var auth = ser.Deserialize<BingAuth>(res); if (auth == null) return null; token = auth.access_token; return token; } private class BingAuth { public string token_type { get; set; } public string access_token { get; set; } } This code basically takes the client id and secret and posts it at the oAuth endpoint which returns a JSON string. Here I use the JavaScript serializer to deserialize the JSON into a custom object I created just for deserialization. You can also use JSON.NET and dynamic deserialization if you are already using JSON.NET in your app in which case you don't need the extra type. In my library that houses this component I don't, so I just rely on the built in serializer. The auth method returns a long base64 encoded string which can be used as a bearer token in the translate API call. Translation Once you have the authentication token you can use it to pass to the translate API. The auth token is passed as an Authorization header and the value is prefixed with a 'Bearer ' prefix for the string. Here's what the simple Translate API call looks like:/// /// Uses the Bing API service to perform translation /// Bing can translate up to 1000 characters. /// /// Requires that you provide a CLientId and ClientSecret /// or set the configuration values for these two. /// /// More info on setup: /// http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/ /// /// Text to translate /// Two letter culture name /// Two letter culture name /// Pass an access token retrieved with GetBingAuthToken. /// If not passed the default keys from .config file are used if any /// public string TranslateBing(string text, string fromCulture, string toCulture, string accessToken = null) { string serviceUrl = "http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V2/Http.svc/Translate"; if (accessToken == null) { accessToken = GetBingAuthToken(); if (accessToken == null) return null; } string res; try { var web = new WebClient(); web.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken); string ct = "text/plain"; string postData = string.Format("?text={0}&from={1}&to={2}&contentType={3}", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(text), fromCulture, toCulture, HttpUtility.UrlEncode(ct)); web.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; res = web.DownloadString(serviceUrl + postData); } catch (Exception e) { ErrorMessage = e.GetBaseException().Message; return null; } // result is a single XML Element fragment var doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.LoadXml(res); return doc.DocumentElement.InnerText; } The first of this code deals with ensuring the auth token exists. You can either pass the token into the method manually or let the method automatically retrieve the auth code on its own. In my case I'm using this inside of a Web application and in that situation I simply need to re-authenticate every time as there's no convenient way to manage the lifetime of the auth cookie. The auth token is added as an Authorization HTTP header prefixed with 'Bearer ' and attached to the request. The text to translate, the from and to language codes and a result format are passed on the query string of this HTTP GET request against the Translate API. The translate API returns an XML string which contains a single element with the translated string. Using the Wrapper Methods It should be pretty obvious how to use these two methods but here are a couple of test methods that demonstrate the two usage scenarios:[TestMethod] public void TranslateBingWithAuthTest() { var translate = new TranslationServices(); string clientId = DbResourceConfiguration.Current.BingClientId; string clientSecret = DbResourceConfiguration.Current.BingClientSecret; string auth = translate.GetBingAuthToken(clientId, clientSecret); Assert.IsNotNull(auth); string text = translate.TranslateBing("Hello World we're back home!", "en", "de",auth); Assert.IsNotNull(text, translate.ErrorMessage); Console.WriteLine(text); } [TestMethod] public void TranslateBingIntegratedTest() { var translate = new TranslationServices(); string text = translate.TranslateBing("Hello World we're back home!","en","de"); Assert.IsNotNull(text, translate.ErrorMessage); Console.WriteLine(text); } Other API Methods The Translate API has a number of methods available and this one is the simplest one but probably also the most common one that translates a single string. You can find additional methods for this API here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512419.aspx Soap and AJAX APIs are also available and documented on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd576287.aspx These links will be your starting points for calling other methods in this API. Dual Interface I've talked about my database driven localization provider here in the past, and it's for this tool that I added the Bing localization support. Basically I have a localization administration form that allows me to translate individual strings right out of the UI, using both Google and Bing APIs: As you can see in this example, the results from Google and Bing can vary quite a bit - in this case Google is stumped while Bing actually generated a valid translation. At other times it's the other way around - it's pretty useful to see multiple translations at the same time. Here I can choose from one of the values and driectly embed them into the translated text field. Lost in Translation There you have it. As I mentioned using the API once you have all the bureaucratic crap out of the way calling the APIs is fairly straight forward and reasonably fast, even if you have to call the Auth API for every call. Hopefully this post will help out a few of you trying to navigate the Microsoft bureaucracy, at least until next time Microsoft upends everything and introduces new ways to sign up again. Until then - happy translating… Related Posts Translation method Source on Github Translating with Google Translate without Google API Keys Creating a data-driven ASP.NET Resource Provider© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2013Posted in Localization  ASP.NET  .NET   Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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  • Interview with Tomas Ulin at the MySQL Innovation Day

    - by Monica Kumar
    MySQL Innovation Day held on June 5, 2012 was a great event for the MySQL engineers, users and customers to gather, share and network. I was able to get a few minutes with Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering at Oracle, to ask him some questions. Here are the highlights of my interview with Tomas. Monica: This was the first MySQL Innovation Day, correct?  Why now, what was the strategy behind hosting this kind of event? Tomas: In the last year, we have rolled out an incredible number of MySQL events worldwide – some targeted at developers that are new to MySQL and others for the MySQL savvy. At the MySQL Innovation Day, our first event of this kind,, we had a number of our key engineers presenting lightning talks delivering previews of key new features as well as discussing roadmap. Our goal is to keep an open dialogue with the MySQL community. In fact, we are hosting a two-day conference, another first, for the MySQL community called MySQL Connect on Sept. 29-30 in San Francisco. If you attended the MySQL Innovation Day and liked what we did, you are going to love MySQL Connect. We’ll have a lot more of our engineers and many users and community members presenting hour long sessions and hands on labs. Our engineers will be presenting new MySQL features as well offer previews of upcoming enhancements. Monica: What's the big take-away from today's MySQL Innovation Day? Tomas: I hope the most important takeaway for attendees was to see that Oracle has been driving, and continues to drive MySQL innovation with a steady stream of new great GA and Development Milestone releases. Monica: What were attendees most interested in? What feedback did they have? Tomas: Feedback from attendees was incredibly positive and encouraging. In particular, they liked the interaction with the MySQL engineers and were also excited about the new early access features in MySQL 5.6 and MySQL Cluster 7.3. In addition, sessions delivered by MySQL users like Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter were very well received. For example, Pinterest talked about using MySQL to scale from 0 to billions of page views/month, Twitter talked about “Scaling twitter with MySQL” and Facebook discussed the many options to implement MySQL master failover solutions. The presentations are already available for download while some of the session videos will be made available on the MySQL Innovation Day web page shortly. Monica: How would you distinguish the use of MySQL vs. Oracle Database? What key factors should customers consider? Tomas: MySQL and Oracle Database complement each other. They are very different products, best suited to different use cases. Customers can choose world-class solutions from Oracle to fulfill a variety of needs. MySQL is a great choice for enterprise web-based, custom and embedded apps. Oracle Database is the leading choice for enterprise packaged applications such as ERP, CRM as well as high-end data warehousing and business intelligence applications. Monica: What are the highlights of the current MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Release and early access features for MySQL Cluster 7.3? Tomas: MySQL 5.6 development milestone release builds on MySQL 5.5 by improving: Optimizer for better Performance, Scalability Performance Schema for better instrumentation InnoDB for better transactional throughput Replication for higher availability, data integrity NoSQL options for more flexibility We announced some new early access features in MySQL 5.6, including binary log group commit. We also announced early access features in MySQL Cluster 7.3 including support for foreign key constraints. Monica: How do people get these releases? Tomas: You can access development milestone releases by going to: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysqlThen select the “Development Release” tab. The MySQL Cluster 7.3 and other early access features can be downloaded at: http://labs.mysql.com Monica: What's coming up next for MySQL? Tomas: Our development team is working in overdrive, cranking out new features with community feedback. Don’t miss the MySQL Connect conference being held in San Francisco on Sept. 29 and 30th. My team and I will be there. I hope you can join us! Monica: Thank you for your time, Tomas. I look forward to seeing you at the MySQL Connect conference. To our followers, I hope you found this interview informative. I welcome your comments. Please stay tuned here for more updates on MySQL. Note: Monica Kumar is Senior Director of product marketing for Linux, Virtualization and MySQL at Oracle.

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  • Form, function and complexity in rule processing

    - by Charles Young
    Tim Bass posted on ‘Orwellian Event Processing’. I was involved in a heated exchange in the comments, and he has more recently published a post entitled ‘Disadvantages of Rule-Based Systems (Part 1)’. Whatever the rights and wrongs of our exchange, it clearly failed to generate any agreement or understanding of our different positions. I don't particularly want to promote further argument of that kind, but I do want to take the opportunity of offering a different perspective on rule-processing and an explanation of my comments. For me, the ‘red rag’ lay in Tim’s claim that “...rules alone are highly inefficient for most classes of (not simple) problems” and a later paragraph that appears to equate the simplicity of form (‘IF-THEN-ELSE’) with simplicity of function.   It is not the first time Tim has expressed these views and not the first time I have responded to his assertions.   Indeed, Tim has a long history of commenting on the subject of complex event processing (CEP) and, less often, rule processing in ‘robust’ terms, often asserting that very many other people’s opinions on this subject are mistaken.   In turn, I am of the opinion that, certainly in terms of rule processing, which is an area in which I have a specific interest and knowledge, he is often mistaken. There is no simple answer to the fundamental question ‘what is a rule?’ We use the word in a very fluid fashion in English. Likewise, the term ‘rule processing’, as used widely in IT, is equally difficult to define simplistically. The best way to envisage the term is as a ‘centre of gravity’ within a wider domain. That domain contains many other ‘centres of gravity’, including CEP, statistical analytics, neural networks, natural language processing and so much more. Whole communities tend to gravitate towards and build themselves around some of these centres. The term 'rule processing' is associated with many different technology types, various software products, different architectural patterns, the functional capability of many applications and services, etc. There is considerable variation amongst these different technologies, techniques and products. Very broadly, a common theme is their ability to manage certain types of processing and problem solving through declarative, or semi-declarative, statements of propositional logic bound to action-based consequences. It is generally important to be able to decouple these statements from other parts of an overall system or architecture so that they can be managed and deployed independently.  As a centre of gravity, ‘rule processing’ is no island. It exists in the context of a domain of discourse that is, itself, highly interconnected and continuous.   Rule processing does not, for example, exist in splendid isolation to natural language processing.   On the contrary, an on-going theme of rule processing is to find better ways to express rules in natural language and map these to executable forms.   Rule processing does not exist in splendid isolation to CEP.   On the contrary, an event processing agent can reasonably be considered as a rule engine (a theme in ‘Power of Events’ by David Luckham).   Rule processing does not live in splendid isolation to statistical approaches such as Bayesian analytics. On the contrary, rule processing and statistical analytics are highly synergistic.   Rule processing does not even live in splendid isolation to neural networks. For example, significant research has centred on finding ways to translate trained nets into explicit rule sets in order to support forms of validation and facilitate insight into the knowledge stored in those nets. What about simplicity of form?   Many rule processing technologies do indeed use a very simple form (‘If...Then’, ‘When...Do’, etc.)   However, it is a fundamental mistake to equate simplicity of form with simplicity of function.   It is absolutely mistaken to suggest that simplicity of form is a barrier to the efficient handling of complexity.   There are countless real-world examples which serve to disprove that notion.   Indeed, simplicity of form is often the key to handling complexity. Does rule processing offer a ‘one size fits all’. No, of course not.   No serious commentator suggests it does.   Does the design and management of large knowledge bases, expressed as rules, become difficult?   Yes, it can do, but that is true of any large knowledge base, regardless of the form in which knowledge is expressed.   The measure of complexity is not a function of rule set size or rule form.  It tends to be correlated more strongly with the size of the ‘problem space’ (‘search space’) which is something quite different.   Analysis of the problem space and the algorithms we use to search through that space are, of course, the very things we use to derive objective measures of the complexity of a given problem. This is basic computer science and common practice. Sailing a Dreadnaught through the sea of information technology and lobbing shells at some of the islands we encounter along the way does no one any good.   Building bridges and causeways between islands so that the inhabitants can collaborate in open discourse offers hope of real progress.

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