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  • What term is used to describe running frequent batch jobs to emulate near real time

    - by Steven Tolkin
    Suppose users of application A want to see the data updated by application B as frequently as possible. Unfortunately app A or app B cannot use message queues, and they cannot share a database. So app B writes a file, and a batch job periodically checks to see if the file is there, and if load loads it into app A. Is there a name for this concept? A very explicit and geeky description: "running very frequent batch jobs in a tight loop to emulate near real time". This concept is similar to "polling". However polling has the connotation of being very frequent, multiple times per second, whereas the most often you would run a batch job would be every few minutes. A related question -- what is the tightest loop that is reasonable. Is it 1 minute of 5 minutes or ...? Recall that the batch jobs are started by a batch job scheduler (e.g. Autosys, Control M, CA ESP, Spring Batch etc.) and so running a job too frequently would causes overhead and clutter.

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  • Setting up a Google Analytics Campaign

    - by Ashfame
    I will be doing a bunch of things to give one of my projects (main app) a big initial push for which I will be building a few small Facebook apps which will help in promoting the main apps. Traffic from these apps need to be tracked individually. My main app will be posting on the walls when the user needs to be notified. Traffic from these posts need to be tracked. Traffic from emails sent by the main app need to be tracked, like different types of email. I need to track all of these & possibly a couple of more but I need to be sure that I build my campaign URLs correctly as I won't get another chance to fix it. Correct me where I am wrong: Campaign Name: Launch Campaign Medium: Email Campaign Source: Type1 or Type2 (I can break it down for different types of email, right?) For apps: Campaign Name: Launch Campaign Medium: Apps Campaign Source: App1 or App2 (I can break it down here for different apps, right?) What if I want to track two different links within a single email or a single app? Any way of tracking them individually too but still keeping to track them as one because tracking them as one makes more sense for me. Campaign Term & Campaign content is irrelevant in my case, or I can/should use them for something? And I will also be tracking traffic of different apps. Should I do more? Let me know if my scenario wasn't clear enough & I need to explain more.

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  • Unable to view 2 local sites over network

    - by gentrobot
    I have 2 websites running on my local machine that I'd like to view from other machines on the same network. For /etc/apache2/sites-available/site1.com: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName site1.com DocumentRoot /var/www/answers/app/webroot DirectoryIndex index.php <Directory "/var/www/answers/app/webroot"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> For /etc/apache2/sites-available/site1.com: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName site2.com DocumentRoot /var/www/answers2/app/webroot DirectoryIndex index.php <Directory "/var/www/answers2/app/webroot"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> I have added 2 entries in the /etc/hosts file as: 127.0.0.1 site1.com 127.0.0.1 site2.com Now, when I point the browser on my machine to site1.com, it shows me the first site and pointing the browser to site2.com, it shows me the second site. However,when I type in the local IP of my machine in the browser, it always shows site2. How can I change it to switch between site1 and site2 ? Is there a way that I can view both the sites form another machine (esp. mobile devices over wireless network) ?

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  • Hosting and scaling a Facebook application in the cloud? [migrated]

    - by DhruvPathak
    We would be building a Facebook application in Django (Python), but still not sure of where to host it economically, and with a good provision to scale in case the app gets viral. Some details about the app: Would be HTML based like a website,using django as a framework. 100K is the number of expected pageviews in a day, if the app is viral. The users will not generate any media content, only some database data will be generated by them. It would be great if someone with more experience can guide on following points: A) Hosting on Google app engine or Amazon EC2 or some other cloud like RackSpace : Preferable points found in AppEngine were ease of deployment, cost effectiveness and easy scaling. For EC2: Full hold of the virtual machine,Amazon NoSQL and RDMBS database services in case we decide to use them. B) Does backend technology affect monthly cost? eg. would CPU and memory usage difference of Django over , for example , PHP framework like CodeIgnitor really make remarkable difference in running costs. (Here is the article that triggered this thought process : http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/01/12/rough-estimates-of-the-dollar-cost-of-scaling-web-platforms-part-i#comments) C) Does something like Heroku , which provides additional services over Amazon EC2, prove to be better than raw cloud management? It is not that we are trying for premature scaling, we just want to have a good start so that we are ready to handle unpredicted growth and scale.

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  • One good reason for a rewrite

    - by Supermighty
    I have a personal web project I cut my teeth on learning how to program. I wrote it in PHP and learned as I went. I eventually I re-factored it to use MVC and removed all mixing of php/html. Right now it has no users, save myself, and it makes no money. I have a strong desire to rewrite the entire app. Which really isn't that large of an app. I have a lot of reasons why I should not rewrite it. I know that I should move forward. It's a working app now and it will only set me back to rewrite it. But I can't shake this feeling that I would be better off using a different programming language in the long run. That I'd enjoy it more. That I'd feel comfortable with it. I feel like my one good reason to rewrite my app is that I have a gut feeling that I should. PHP seems like a hack thrown together. I want to use a language that feels more elegant to me. Any feedback you have would be welcome.

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  • Learning curve for web development

    - by refro
    At the moment our team has a huge challenge, we're being asked to deliver a new GUI for an embedded controller. The deadline is very tight and is set on April 2013. Our team is very diverse, some people are on the level of functional programming (mostly C), others (including myself) have mastered object oriented programming (C++, C#). We built a prototype for Android, although it has its quirks, it is mostly just OO. For the future there is a wish to support multiple platforms (Windows, Android, iOS). In my opinion a HTML5 app with a native app shell is the way to go. When gathering more information on the frameworks to use etc., it became obvious to me a paradigm shift is needed. None of us have a web background so we need to learn from the ground up. The shift from functional to OO took us about 6 months to become productive (and some of the early subsystems were rewritten because they were a total mess). Can we expect the learning curve to be similar? Can this be pulled off with a web app? (My feeling says it will already be hard to pull off as a native app which is at the edge of our comfort zone).

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  • Quick Fix for GlassFish/MySQL NoPasswordCredential Found

    - by MarkH
    Just the other day, I stood up a GlassFish 3.1.2 server in preparation for a new web app we've developed. Since we're using MySQL as the back-end database, I configured it for MySQL (driver) and created the requisite JDBC resource and supporting connection pool. Pinging the finished pool returned a success, and all was well. Until we fired up the app, that is -- in this case, after a weekend. Funny how things seem to break when you leave them alone for a couple of days. :-) Strangely, the error indicated "No PasswordCredential found". Time to re-check that pool. All the usual properties and values were there (URL, driverClass, serverName, databaseName, portNumber, user, password) and were populated correctly. Yes, the password field, too. And it had pinged successfully. So why the problem? A bit of searching online produced enough relevant material to offer promise. I didn't take notes as I was investigating the cause (note to self), but here were the general steps I took to resolve the issue: First, per some guidance I had found, I tried resetting the password value to nothing (using () for a value). Of course, this didn't fix anything; the database account requires a password. And when I tried to put the value back, GlassFish politely refused. Hmm. I'd seen that some folks created a new pool to replace the "broken" one, and while that did work for them, it seemed to simply side-step the issue. So I deleted the password property - which GlassFish allowed me to do - and restarted the domain. Once I was back in, I re-added the password property and its value, saved it, and pinged...success! But now to the app for the litmus test. The web app worked, and everything and everyone was now happy. Not bad for a Monday.  :-D Hope this helps, Mark

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  • How can I reduce the amount of time it takes to fully regression test an application ready for release?

    - by DrLazer
    An app I work on is being developed with a modified version of scrum. If you are not familiar with scrum, it's just an alternative approach to a more traditional watefall model, where a series of features are worked on for a set amount of time known as a sprint. The app is written in C# and makes use of WPF. We use Visual C# 2010 Express edition as an IDE. If we work on a sprint and add in a few new features, but do not plan to release until a further sprint is complete, then regression testing is not an issue as such. We just test the new features and give the app a good once over. However, if a release is planned that our customers can download - a full regression test is factored in. In the past this wasn't a big deal, it took 3 or 4 days and the devs simply fix up any bugs found in the regression phase, but now, as the app is getting larger and larger and incorporating more and more features, the regression is spanning out for weeks. I am interested in any methods that people know of or use that can decrease this time. At the moment the only ideas I have are to either start writing Unit Tests, which I have never fully tried out in a commercial environment, or to research the possibilty of any UI Automation API's or tools that would allow me to write a program to perform a series of batch tests. I know literally nothing about the possibilities of UI automation so any information would be valuable. I don't know that much about Unit testing either, how complicated can the tests be? Is it possible to get Unit tests to use the UI? Are there any other methods I should consider? Thanks for reading, and for any advice in advance.

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  • How do I create the "Gnome-Desktop-Item-Edit" program's launch icon with root privileges and more?

    - by GanZ
    I personally dont prefer running commands in terminal to achieve a task and prefer apps to execute the job. Creating launcher for apps is one such command where I prefer the gnome-desktop-item-edit application for creating launchers. If the gnome package is installed, just searching "create launcher" opens the app. But, it doesnt serve any purpose, because for starters the application cannot create launchers for various apps without root permission and the location where the apps have to be created. Usually the launcher apps with root permission can be created at /usr/share/applications and without root permission at /.local/share/applications. I dont prefer the latter location as it is vulnerable to deletion. Hence, in order to create the launchers through gnome with root, everytime I am forced to open this through terminal using the below command! $ sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/.local/share/applications --create-new I dont want to open terminal everytime I want to create an application launcher on unity! I am able to lock the "Create Launcher" App in the Launcher, but not with root privileges So I want to be able to create the "Create Launcher" app shortcut on unity with default root privileges and for the app to create the launchers at usr/share/applications by default! Please help! P.S. I dont have enough rep points to add screenshots to help with the question!

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  • Android: Not able to experiment on own?

    - by user221287
    I have just started learning Android App Development a few days ago, with prior knowledge of C/C++, HTML and CSS. This is the situation I am facing Repeatedly: I am learning from a Video Tutorial Series, after each video, or each few videos, I say myself: Let's use what I have just learnt in the simple (and also "meaningless") app that I have made so far by watching the tutorials. I start implementing it, but then after a few minutes, I realize that I cannot do it because I do not know a few other syntax related to the particular thing, (or) I do not know whether these things can be combined with these other things by the use of . (dot). Whatever I try, I get either an error in eclipse or "Sorry...the app com.example.simple has stopped unexpectedly...." when the app runs. Then I search StackOverflow, Google and learn that what I want to implement requires learning about a few more classes, syntax and creating a few more java classes. I am not able to experiment on my own. Is it normal? Is it the HARD-WAY in which one is supposed to learn? Should I first learn Java and then come back to Android - would that be helpful?

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  • HTTP PHP Authentication and Android

    - by edc598
    I am working on a website for which I hope to have an application for as well. Because of this, I am creating PHP API's which will go into my Database and serve specific data based on the method/function called. I want to protect these API's from misuse however, and I plan on implementing Authentication Digest to do so. However one of the OS's I want to support is Android. And I know that a malicious user would be able to reverse engineer the Android app and figure out my authentication scheme. I am left wondering: 1. Is there a better way to protect these API's from misuse? 2. Is there a way to prevent a malicious user from reverse engineering the app and potentially seeing the source code for it, enabling them to see my authentication scheme? 3. If none of these are preventable, then is my only option to have a Username/Password cred specifically for the Android app, and when eventually hacked, change the creds and issue an update for the app? I apologize if this is not the place to post such a question. Still pretty new to StackOverflow. Thanks in advance for any insight, it would be quite helpful.

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  • More Win 8 Education is Needed

    - by D'Arcy Lussier
    “My mail doesn’t work”. That’s what a colleague running Windows 8 said to me the day after he installed Windows 8 on his work laptop. “When I click my email, nothing comes up.” I took a look and realized what was going on – he was clicking the Windows 8 UI Mail app and assumed that this was somehow connected to his Outlook which was installed as a desktop app. And so highlights a major educational challenge that Windows 8 will encounter – millions of users used to one style of interface now being introduced to a new one that runs side-by-side with their desktop. At work we had an internal tech user group meeting, and we were showing new features of VS.NET 2012 and Windows 8. When we started talking about the difference between Windows 8 UI Apps (AKA Windows Store Apps), people started asking some good questions: - Can we share a codebase between desktop and Windows Store Apps? - What’s the difference between WinRT and .NET? - Why would we create a Windows Store App and not just a Desktop app? Of course, people are looking at this from a traditional desktop point of view and not a tablet platform, which is really the market that Windows Store Apps will shine on. Still, for developers who not only need to educate themselves but also educate their clients, we’re going to need a better understanding of Windows 8 to see it get real traction within the business/enterprise market. D

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  • Hosting and scaling a Facebook application in the cloud? [closed]

    - by DhruvPathak
    Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We would be building a Facebook application in Django (Python), but still not sure of where to host it economically, and with a good provision to scale in case the app gets viral. Some details about the app: Would be HTML based like a website,using django as a framework. 100K is the number of expected pageviews in a day, if the app is viral. The users will not generate any media content, only some database data will be generated by them. It would be great if someone with more experience can guide on following points: A) Hosting on Google app engine or Amazon EC2 or some other cloud like RackSpace : Preferable points found in AppEngine were ease of deployment, cost effectiveness and easy scaling. For EC2: Full hold of the virtual machine,Amazon NoSQL and RDMBS database services in case we decide to use them. B) Does backend technology affect monthly cost? eg. would CPU and memory usage difference of Django over , for example , PHP framework like CodeIgnitor really make remarkable difference in running costs. (Here is the article that triggered this thought process : http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/01/12/rough-estimates-of-the-dollar-cost-of-scaling-web-platforms-part-i#comments) C) Does something like Heroku , which provides additional services over Amazon EC2, prove to be better than raw cloud management? It is not that we are trying for premature scaling, we just want to have a good start so that we are ready to handle unpredicted growth and scale.

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  • XP Deploying issues due to msvcr90.dll trying to load FlsAlloc

    - by Sorin Sbarnea
    I have an application build with VS2008 SP1a (9.0.30729.4148) on Windows 7 x64 that does not want to start under XP. The message is The application failed to initialize properly (0x80000003). Click on OK to terminate the application.. I checked with depends.exe and found that msvcr90.dll does try to load FlsAlloc from KERNEL32.dll - and FlsAlloc is available only starting with Vista. I'm sure it is not used by the application. How to solve the issue? The SxS package is already installed on the target machine - In fact I have all 3 versions of 9.0 SxS (initial release, sp1, and sp1+security patch) Application is compiled with _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION=1 Also I defined the right target Windows version on stdafx.h #define WINVER 0x0500 #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500 Manifest file <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" /> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.CRT" version="9.0.30729.4148" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b" /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.MFC" version="9.0.30729.4148" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b" /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> </assembly> Result from depends Started "c:\program files\app\app.EXE" (process 0xA0) at address 0x00400000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\NTDLL.DLL" at address 0x7C900000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL" at address 0x7C800000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\program files\app\MFC90.DLL" at address 0x785E0000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78520000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\USER32.DLL" at address 0x7E410000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\GDI32.DLL" at address 0x77F10000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\SHLWAPI.DLL" at address 0x77F60000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL" at address 0x77DD0000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\RPCRT4.DLL" at address 0x77E70000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\SECUR32.DLL" at address 0x77FE0000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\MSVCRT.DLL" at address 0x77C10000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\COMCTL32.DLL" at address 0x5D090000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\MSIMG32.DLL" at address 0x76380000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\SHELL32.DLL" at address 0x7C9C0000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\OLEAUT32.DLL" at address 0x77120000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\OLE32.DLL" at address 0x774E0000. Successfully hooked module. Entrypoint reached. All implicit modules have been loaded. DllMain(0x78520000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x0012FD30) in "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" called. GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsAlloc") called from "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78543ACC and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127). GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsGetValue") called from "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78543AD9 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127). GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsSetValue") called from "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78543AE6 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127). GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsFree") called from "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78543AF3 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).

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  • SSL confirmation dialog popup auto closes in IE8 when re-accessing a JNLP file

    - by haylem
    I'm having this very annoying problem to troubleshoot and have been going at it for way too many days now, so have a go at it. The Environment We have 2 app-servers, which can be located on either the same machine or 2 different machines, and use the same signing certificate, and host 2 different web-apps. Though let's say, for the sake of our study case here, that they are on the same physical machine. So, we have: https://company.com/webapp1/ https://company.com/webapp2/ webapp1 is GWT-based rich-client which contains on one of its screens a menu with an item that is used to invoke a Java WebStart Client located on webapp2. It does so by performing a simple window.open call via this GWT call: Window.open("https://company.com/webapp2/app.jnlp", "_blank", null); Expected Behavior User merrilly goes to webapp1 User navigates to menu entry to start the WebStart app and clicks on it browser fires off a separate window/dialog which, depending on the browser and its security settings, will: request confirmation to navigate to this secure site, directly download the file, and possibly auto-execute a javaws process if there's a file association, otherwise the user can simply click on the file and start the app (or go about doing whatever it takes here). If you close the app, close the dialog, and re-click the menu entry, the same thing should happen again. Actual Behavior On Anything but God-forsaken IE 8 (Though I admit there's also all the god-forsaken pre-IE8 stuff, but the Requirements Lords being merciful we have already recently managed to make them drop these suckers. That was close. Let's hold hands and say a prayer of gratitude.) Stuff just works. JNLP gets downloaded, app executes just fine, you can close the app and re-do all the steps and it will restart happily. People rejoice. Puppies are safe and play on green hills in the sunshine. Developers can go grab a coffee and move on to more meaningful and rewarding tasks, like checking out on SO questions. Chrome doesn't want to execute the JNLP, but who cares? Customers won't get RSI from clicking a file every other week. On God-forsaken IE8 On the first visit, the dialog opens and requests confirmation for the user to continue to webapp2, though it could be unsafe (here be dragons, I tell you). The JNLP downloads and auto-opens, the app start. Your breathing is steady and slow. You close the app, close that SSL confirmation dialog, and re-click the menu entry. The dialog opens and auto-closes. Nothing starts, the file wasn't downloaded to any known location and Fiddler just reports the connection was closed. If you close IE and reach that menu item to click it again, it is now back to working correctly. Until you try again during the same session, of course. Your heart-rate goes up, you get some more coffee to make matters worse, and start looking for plain tickets online and a cheap but heavy golf-club on an online auction site to go clubbing baby polar seals to avenge your bloodthirst, as the gates to the IE team in Redmond are probably more secured than an ice block, as one would assume they get death threats often. Plus, the IE9 and IE10 teams are already hard at work fxing the crap left by their predecessors, so maybe you don't want to be too hard on them, and you don't have money to waste on a PI to track down the former devs responsible for this mess. Added Details I have come across many problems with IE8 not downloading files over SSL when it uses a no-cache header. This was indeed one of our problems, which seems to be worked out now. It downloads files fine, webapp2 uses the following headers to serve the JNLP file: response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "private, must-revalidate"); // IE8 happy response.setHeader("Pragma", "private"); // IE8 happy response.setHeader("Expires", "0"); // IE8 happy response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*"); // allow to request via cross-origin AJAX response.setContentType("application/x-java-jnlp-file"); // please exec me As you might have inferred, we get some confirmation dialog because there's something odd with the SSL certificate. Unfortunately I have no control over that. Assuming that's only temporary and for development purposes as we usually don't get our hands on the production certs. So the SSL cert is expired and doesn't specify the server. And the confirmation dialog. Wouldn't be that bad if it weren't for IE, as other browsers don't care, just ask for confirmation, and execute as expected and consistantly. Please, pretty please, help me, or I might consider sacrificial killings as an option. And I think I just found a decently prized stainless steel golf-club, so I'm right on the edge of gore. Side Notes Might actually be related to IE8 window.open SSL Certificate issue. Though it doesn't explain why the dialog would auto-close (that really is beyong me...), it could help to not have the confirmation dialog and not need the dialog at all. For instance, I was thinking that just having a simple URL in that menu instead of have it entirely managed by GWT code to invoke a Window.open would solve the problem. But I don't have control on that menu, and also I'm very curious how this could be fixed otherwise and why the hell it happens in the first place...

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  • Android programming. Application stopped unexpectedly.

    - by user277704
    I've just created a prototype of interface for my android app and tried to run it. Unfortunately I get an error that my app has stopped unexpectedly (my reputation doesn't allow me to post images so follow my links): screenshot of error message This is layout mode of editing. Everything looks as I want so there shouldn't be errors: mobileka.freehostia.com/3.png (I can post only one hyperlink...) This is my main.xml code: <code> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:gravity="top" android:background="@drawable/back" > <TextView android:id="@+id/score" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text = "@string/scoreT" android:textColor="@string/scoreColor" android:gravity = "left" android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="bold|italic" android:textSize="16sp" android:paddingLeft = "10px" android:paddingTop="4px"/ <TextView android:id = "@+id/scoreTxt" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/score" android:textSize="16sp" android:paddingTop = "5px" android:paddingLeft="4px" android:typeface="serif" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text=" 0" android:textColor="@string/scoreTextColor" android:gravity = "left"/> <TextView android:id = "@+id/scoreSeparator" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/scoreTxt" android:textSize="16sp" android:paddingTop = "3px" android:paddingLeft="4px" android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="bold" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="|" android:textColor="@string/scoreColor" android:gravity = "left"/> <TextView android:id = "@+id/timerTxt" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:textSize="16sp" android:paddingRight="10px" android:paddingTop="4px" android:typeface="serif" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textColor="@string/scoreTextColor" android:gravity = "right" android:text="00:00" /> <TextView android:id = "@+id/timer" android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/timerTxt" android:textColor="@string/scoreColor" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textSize="16sp" android:padding = "3px" android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="bold|italic" android:text="@string/timerT" android:gravity = "left"/> <TextView android:id = "@+id/timerSeparator" android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/timer" android:textSize="16sp" android:paddingTop = "3px" android:paddingLeft="4px" android:typeface="serif" android:textStyle="bold" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="|" android:textColor="@string/scoreColor" android:gravity = "left"/> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonOne" android:layout_below="@+id/score" android:layout_marginTop="40px" android:layout_marginLeft="14px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:clickable="true" android:src="@drawable/inactive"/> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonTwo" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonOne" android:layout_marginTop="63px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonThree" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonTwo" android:layout_marginTop="63px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonFour" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonThree" android:layout_marginTop="63px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonFive" android:layout_below="@+id/buttonOne" android:layout_marginTop="40px" android:layout_marginLeft="14px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonSix" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonFive" android:layout_marginTop="164px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonSeven" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonSix" android:layout_marginTop="164px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonEight" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonSeven" android:layout_marginTop="164px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonNine" android:layout_below="@+id/buttonEight" android:layout_marginTop="40px" android:layout_marginLeft="14px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonTen" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonNine" android:layout_marginTop="264px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonEleven" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonTen" android:layout_marginTop="264px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> <ImageButton android:id="@+id/buttonTwelve" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/buttonEleven" android:layout_marginTop="264px" android:layout_marginLeft="10px" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/inactive" /> And this is my logcat errors (p.s. line #12 is the first TextView in main.xml): 03-26 22:59:31.670: WARN/dalvikvm(185): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001b188) 03-26 22:59:31.727: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{kz.androidmarket.www.randomtest1/kz.androidmarket.www.randomtest1.randomTest1}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #12: Error inflating class 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2496) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2512) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #12: Error inflating class 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:513) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:563) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:618) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:198) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1622) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at kz.androidmarket.www.randomtest1.randomTest1.onCreate(randomTest1.java:11) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2459) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): ... 11 more 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.widget.TextView.(TextView.java:320) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:446) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:500) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): ... 22 more 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: File #ffff9900 from drawable resource ID #0x7f040002: .xml extension required 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.content.res.Resources.loadColorStateList(Resources.java:1820) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.content.res.TypedArray.getColorStateList(TypedArray.java:289) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): at android.widget.TextView.(TextView.java:627) 03-26 22:59:31.784: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(185): ... 26 more Could anybody help me?

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  • Android Uncaught Exception

    - by Agrim Asthana
    09-30 02:32:31.474: D/ddm-heap(214): Got feature list request 09-30 02:32:31.634: D/AndroidRuntime(214): Shutting down VM 09-30 02:32:31.634: W/dalvikvm(214): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001b188) 09-30 02:32:31.634: E/AndroidRuntime(214): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.mjcet.mjcet/com.mjcet.mjcet.MJCET}: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mjcet.mjcet.MJCET in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader@44e8c820 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2417) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2512) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mjcet.mjcet.MJCET in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader@44e8c820 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.findClass(PathClassLoader.java:243) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:573) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:532) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1021) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2409) 09-30 02:32:31.654: E/AndroidRuntime(214): ... 11 more 09-30 02:32:31.684: I/dalvikvm(214): threadid=7: reacting to signal 3 09-30 02:32:31.684: E/dalvikvm(214): Unable to open stack trace file '/data/anr/traces.txt': Permission denied the above is my debugging output for the below activities LOGINACTIVITY.java package com.agrim.mjcet; import com.agrim.mjcet.R; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; //import android.widget.TextView; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.EditText; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; public class LoginActivity extends Activity { EditText txtUserName; EditText txtPassword; Button btnLogin; Button btnCancel; public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); // setting default screen to login.xml setContentView(R.layout.main); txtUserName=(EditText)this.findViewById(R.id.txtUname); txtPassword=(EditText)this.findViewById(R.id.txtPwd); btnLogin=(Button)this.findViewById(R.id.btnLogin); btnLogin=(Button)this.findViewById(R.id.btnLogin); btnLogin.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { // Switching to Register screen if((txtUserName.getText().toString()).equals(txtPassword.getText().toString())) { Intent myIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),SampleActivity.class); startActivityForResult(myIntent, 0); } } } ); } } SAMPLE ACTIVITY.java package com.agrim.mjcet; import com.agrim.mjcet.R; import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.TextView; public class SampleActivity extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); // Set View to register.xml setContentView(R.layout.lol); TextView HomeScreen = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.back); HomeScreen.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View arg0) { // Closing registration screen // Switching to Login Screen/closing register screen finish(); } }); } } and here are my 2 layouts MAIN.XML <TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="#000000" android:stretchColumns="1"> <TableRow> <TextView android:text="@string/user_name" android:textColor="#347235" android:id="@+id/TextView01" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="25dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> </TextView> <EditText android:text="" android:inputType="text" android:id="@+id/txtUname" android:layout_weight="0.75" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_marginRight="10dip" android:layout_marginBottom="5dip" android:background="#FFFFFF" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> </EditText> </TableRow> <TableRow> <TextView android:text="@string/password" android:textColor="#347235" android:id="@+id/TextView02" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="25dip"> </TextView> <EditText android:text="" android:inputType="textPassword" android:id="@+id/txtPwd" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginRight="10dip" android:layout_weight="1" android:background="#FFFFFF" android:gravity="center"> </EditText> </TableRow> <TableRow> <Button android:id="@+id/btnLogin" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="#FFFFFF" android:layout_marginTop="25dip" android:layout_marginLeft="50dip" android:onClick="onClickMyButton" android:text="@string/login" /> <Button android:id="@+id/btnCancel" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="#FFFFFF" android:layout_marginTop="25dip" android:layout_marginLeft="100dip" android:layout_marginRight="50dip" android:text="@string/cancel" /> </TableRow> <FrameLayout android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="match_parent" > <ImageView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:scaleType="centerInside" android:src="@drawable/logo_invert" android:contentDescription="@drawable/logo_invert"/> </FrameLayout> </TableLayout> and finally LOL.xml <FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:background="#000000" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > <ImageView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:id="@+id/back" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:scaleType="centerInside" android:src="@drawable/lol" android:contentDescription="@drawable/lol"> </ImageView> <RelativeLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="138dp" android:orientation="vertical" android:gravity="bottom" > <TextView android:id="@+id/TextView02" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:text="@string/coming_soon" android:textColor="#347235" /> </RelativeLayout> </FrameLayout> I get a force close upon initialization.. and yes this is my first android app :)

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  • New Features and Changes in OIM11gR2

    - by Abhishek Tripathi
    WEB CONSOLEs in OIM 11gR2 ** In 11gR1 there were 3 Admin Web Consoles : ·         Self Service Console ·         Administration Console and ·         Advanced Administration Console accessible Whereas in OIM 11gR2 , Self Service and Administration Console have are now combined and now called as Identity Self Service Console http://host:port/identity  This console has 3 features in it for managing self profile (My Profile), Managing Requests like requesting for App Instances and Approving requests (Requests) and General Administration tasks of creating/managing users, roles, organization, attestation etc (Administration) ** In OIM 11gR2 – new console sysadmin has been added Administrators which includes some of the design console functions apart from general administrations features. http://host:port/sysadmin   Application Instances Application instance is the object that is to be provisioned to a user. Application Instances are checked out in the catalog and user can request for application instances via catalog. ·         In OIM 11gR2 resources and entitlements are bundled in Application Instance which user can select and request from catalog.  ·         Application instance is a combination of IT Resource and RO. So, you cannot create another App Instance with the same RO & IT Resource if it already exists for some other App Instance. One of these ( RO or IT Resource) must have a different name. ·         If you want that users of a particular Organization should be able to request for an Application instances through catalog then App Instances must be attached to that particular Organization. ·         Application instance can be associated with multiple organizations. ·         An application instance can also have entitlements associated with it. Entitlement can include Roles/Groups or Responsibility. ·         Application Instance are published to the catalog by a scheduled task “Catalog Synchronization Job” ·         Application Instance can have child/ parent application instance where child application instance inherits all attributes of parent application instance. Important point to remember with Application Instance If you delete the application Instance in OIM 11gR2 and create a new one with the same name, OIM will not allow doing so. It throws error saying Application Instance already exists with same Resource Object and IT resource. This is because there is still some reference that is not removed in OIM for deleted application Instance.  So to completely delete your application Instance from OIM, you must: 1. Delete the app Instance from sysadmin console. 2. Run the App Instance Post Delete Processing Job in Revoke/Delete mode. 3. Run the Catalog Synchronization job. Once done, you should be able to create a new App instance with the previous RO & IT Resouce name.   Catalog  Catalog allows users to request Roles, Application Instance, and Entitlements in an Application. Catalog Items – Roles, Application Instance and Entitlements that can be requested via catalog are called as catalog items. Detailed Information ( attributes of Catalog item)  Category – Each catalog item is associated with one and only one category. Catalog Administrators can provide a value for catalog item. ·         Tags – are search keywords helpful in searching Catalog. When users search the Catalog, the search is performed against the tags. To define a tag, go to Catalog->Search the resource-> select the resource-> update the tag field with custom search keyword. Tags are of three types: a) Auto-generated Tags: The Catalog synchronization process auto-tags the Catalog Item using the Item Type, Item Name and Item Display Name b) User-defined Tags: User-defined Tags are additional keywords entered by the Catalog Administrator. c) Arbitrary Tags: While defining a metadata if user has marked that metadata as searchable, then that will also be part of tags.   Sandbox  Sanbox is a new feature introduced in OIM11gR2. This serves as a temporary development environment for UI customizations so that they don’t affect other users before they are published and linked to existing OIM UI. All UI customizations should be done inside a sandbox, this ensures that your changes/modifications don’t affect other users until you have finalized the changes and customization is complete. Once UI customization is completed, the Sandbox must be published for the customizations to be merged into existing UI and available to other users. Creating and activating a sandbox is mandatory for customizing the UI by .Without an active sandbox, OIM does not allow to customize any page. a)      Before you perform any activity in OIM (like Create/Modify Forms, Custom Attribute, creating application instances, adding roles/attributes to catalog) you must create a Sand Box and activate it. b)      One can create multiple sandboxes in OIM but only one sandbox can be active at any given time. c)      You can export/import the sandbox to move the changes from one environment to the other. Creating Sandbox To create sandbox, login to identity manager self service (/identity) or System Administration (/sysadmin) and click on top right of link “Sandboxes” and then click on Create SandBox. Publishing Sandbox Before you publish a sandbox, it is recommended to backup MDS. Use /EM to backup MDS by following the steps below : Creating MDS Backup 1.      Login to Oracle Enterprise Manager as the administrator. 2.      On the landing page, click oracle.iam.console.identity.self-service.ear(V2.0). 3.      From the Application Deployment menu at the top, select MDS configuration. 4.      Under Export, select the Export metadata documents to an archive on the machine where this web browser is running option, and then click Export. All the metadata is exported in a ZIP file.   Creating Password Policy through Admin Console : In 11gR1 and previous versions password policies could be created & applied via OIM Design Console only. From OIM11gR2 onwards, Password Policies can be created and assigned using Admin Console as well.  

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  • Windows Phone Developer Spotlight: Nikolai Joukov

    - by Lori Lalonde
    Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/lorilalonde/archive/2014/06/04/windows-phone-developer-spotlight-nikolai-joukov.aspxAs part of an ongoing series, I plan to include a spotlight post on people within the community that are stars in their field and area of expertise. For my first spotlight post, I interviewed Nikolai Joukov, who is a regular attendee at my local area .NET User Group (CTTDNUG), and has also participated in many of the Mobile and Cloud workshops we have hosted over the past few years. Nikolai stood out immediately, because of his passion for developing mobile apps, his interest in continuous learning, and his drive to publish quality apps that people will find useful and entertaining. Background: Nikolai immigrated to Canada in 1995, and has been working in IT since 1997. He moved on to become an independent contractor in 2005, and has worked at various large scale organizations over the course of his career, including BMO, Enbridge, Economical Insurance, Equitable Life, Manulife and Sun Life. Nikolai is an accomplished Windows Phone and Windows Store publisher, with 11 published Windows Phone apps, and 8 published Windows Store apps. He has almost 6000 downloads and favourable reviews. Q & A with Nikolai How many years have you been developing Windows Phone apps? 2 years When did you develop your very first Windows Phone app, and what was it about? Actually, the very first app I wrote was for the Microsoft “Smart Phone” back in 2004. This phone was given to me by Microsoft during the Developers Days Conference in Toronto. It was some kind of experimental model named Smart Phone, but you had to use VB 3 to develop the applications. Needless to say, this was not very successful at that time. My app was a Stock Trades Calculator. Very primitive, but it was working for me. The phone was heavy and the battery barely lasted 4 hours. Microsoft stopped supporting it few months later and the phone stopped working shortly after, but I still have it as a souvenir. For Windows Phone, my first app was “Trip Packing Assistant”. This is a simple trip packing check list that allows you to list items by category, set required quantity of items, and mark off the item in the list when it is packed. I designed it for me and my wife Galina, since we love to travel and this program helps manage our list for us. How did you get started in Windows Phone development? I have to say thanks to our .NET User Group for introducing me to Windows Phone development. I was intrigued and decided to give it a try. In October 2012 during a 2 day training event that ObjectSharp hosted in London, I met Bruce Johnson. On his advice, I registered for Developer Movement, and it is was a good push to actually complete the apps that I started. You have a great series of travel guide apps both for Windows Phone and Windows Store. Tell us about how you came up with the idea to develop those apps and what process you went through to put it all together. Like I said earlier, my wife and I love to travel. Before I created Trip Packing Assistant, every time we were planning to travel somewhere new, Galina would spend 3-4 weeks doing research. She would create a Word document with all of the information. We didn’t want to have to carry our laptop with us all the time, so we printed out the Word document she created, and would take it with us. After we returned from the trip, we would bring back tons of pictures and materials. Then our friends started to ask us about our materials before they planned their trips to the same places we had visited. So I decided to give it a try and started making apps for Windows Phone and for Windows 8. I hope these applications will help people who are planning to travel. So, all of the pictures used in the travel apps you created were actually taken by you during these amazing trips? Yes Do you have another Windows Store/Windows Phone project in development right now? If so, can you give us a hint at what it will be about? I want to stay with travel apps for now. But this time I will try to write an app for us (Galina and I). Usually we go on the trip, then I write the apps after we have all this beautiful pictures in our hands. We are planning a trip to Rome. This app will not have the pictures, but I want to add a map with points of interest and all information that can be useful for us. Then we will go on our trip and test it on location. As well I am planning to work on my existing apps to make them better. What learning resources would you recommend for other developers that want to get started in Window Store and Windows Phone development? I would start with dev.windowsphone.com to get all tools and samples, also links to training materials. I like MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy). Their videos are really useful and it is free. Pluralsight is good too but it is not free and I do not have a subscription anymore. Our .NET User Group meetings give good insights too. I went to all meetings and full day training events. When you start to develop your app, you need to do research for specific questions that arise during development. The Developer Portal and Nokia Developer are good resources too. Wrap Up Thanks Nikolai for participating in my first Spotlight blog post! Shown below is Nikolai’s publisher page in the Windows Phone Store and his publisher page in the Windows Store. Simply click on it to be taken to there to check out his portfolio of apps. Be sure to download his apps and try them out! They are all free! Nikolai’s Windows Phone apps   Nikolai’s Windows Store Apps

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  • how to do event checks for loops?

    - by yao jiang
    I am having some trouble getting the logic down for this. Currently, I have an app that animates the astar pathfinding algorithm. On start of the app, the ui will show the following: User can press "space" to randomly choose start/end coords, then the app will animate it. Or, user can choose the start/end by left-click/right-click. During the animation, the user can also left-click to generate blocks, or right-click to choose a new destiantion. Where I am stuck at is how to handle the events while the app is animating. Right now, I am checking events in the main loop, then when the app is animating, I do event checks again. While it works fine, I feel that I am probably doing it wrong. What is the proper way of setting up the main loop that will handle the events while the app is animating? In main loop, the app start animating once user choose start/end. In my draw function, I am putting another event checker in there. def clear(rows): for r in range(rows): for c in range(rows): if r%3 == 1 and c%3 == 1: color = brown; grid[r][c] = 1; buildCoor.append(r); buildCoor.append(c); else: color = white; grid[r][c] = 0; pick_image(screen, color, width*c, height*r); pygame.display.flip(); os.system('cls'); # draw out the grid def draw(start, end, grid, route_coord): # draw the end coords color = red; pick_image(screen, color, width*end[1],height*end[0]); pygame.display.flip(); # then draw the rest of the route for i in range(len(route_coord)): # pausing because we want animation time.sleep(speed); # get the x/y coords x,y = route_coord[i]; event_on = False; if grid[x][y] == 2: color = green; elif grid[x][y] == 3: color = blue; for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN: if event.button == 3: print "destination change detected, rerouting"; # get mouse position, px coords pos = pygame.mouse.get_pos(); # get grid coord c = pos[0] // width; r = pos[1] // height; grid[r][c] = 4; end = [r, c]; elif event.button == 1: print "user generated event"; pos = pygame.mouse.get_pos(); # get grid coord c = pos[0] // width; r = pos[1] // height; # mark it as a block for now grid[r][c] = 1; event_on = True; if check_events([x,y]) or event_on: # there is an event # mark it as a block for now grid[y][x] = 1; pick_image(screen, event_x, width*y, height*x); pygame.display.flip(); # then find a new route new_start = route_coord[i-1]; marked_grid, route_coord = find_route(new_start, end, grid); draw(new_start, end, grid, route_coord); return; # just end draw here so it wont throw the "index out of range" error elif grid[x][y] == 4: color = red; pick_image(screen, color, width*y, height*x); pygame.display.flip(); # clear route coord list, otherwise itll just add more unwanted coords route_coord_list[:] = []; clear(rows); # main loop while not done: # check the events for event in pygame.event.get(): # mouse events if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN: # get mouse position, px coords pos = pygame.mouse.get_pos(); # get grid coord c = pos[0] // width; r = pos[1] // height; # find which button pressed, highlight grid accordingly if event.button == 1: # left click, start coords if grid[r][c] == 2: grid[r][c] = 0; color = white; elif grid[r][c] == 0 or grid[r][c] == 4: grid[r][c] = 2; start = [r,c]; color = green; else: grid[r][c] = 1; color = brown; elif event.button == 3: # right click, end coords if grid[r][c] == 4: grid[r][c] = 0; color = white; elif grid[r][c] == 0 or grid[r][c] == 2: grid[r][c] = 4; end = [r,c]; color = red; else: grid[r][c] = 1; color = brown; pick_image(screen, color, width*c, height*r); # keyboard events elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN: clear(rows); # one way to quit program if event.key == pygame.K_ESCAPE: print "program will now exit."; done = True; # space key for random start/end elif event.key == pygame.K_SPACE: # first clear the ui clear(rows); # now choose random start/end coords buildLoc = zip(buildCoor,buildCoor[1:])[::2]; #print buildLoc; (start_x, start_y, end_x, end_y) = pick_point(); while (start_x, start_y) in buildLoc or (end_x, end_y) in buildLoc: (start_x, start_y, end_x, end_y) = pick_point(); clear(rows); print "chosen random start/end coords: ", (start_x, start_y, end_x, end_y); if (start_x, start_y) in buildLoc or (end_x, end_y) in buildLoc: print "error"; # draw the route marked_grid, route_coord = find_route([start_x,start_y],[end_x,end_y], grid); draw([start_x, start_y], [end_x, end_y], marked_grid, route_coord); # return key for user defined start/end elif event.key == pygame.K_RETURN: # first clear the ui clear(rows); # get the user defined start/end print "user defined start/end are: ", (start[0], start[1], end[0], end[1]); grid[start[0]][start[1]] = 1; grid[end[0]][end[1]] = 2; # draw the route marked_grid, route_coord = find_route(start, end, grid); draw(start, end, marked_grid, route_coord); # c to clear the screen elif event.key == pygame.K_c: print "clearing screen."; clear(rows); # go fullscreen elif event.key == pygame.K_f: if not full_sc: pygame.display.set_mode([1366, 768], pygame.FULLSCREEN); full_sc = True; rows = 15; clear(rows); else: pygame.display.set_mode(size); full_sc = False; # +/- key to change speed of animation elif event.key == pygame.K_LEFTBRACKET: if speed >= 0.1: print SPEED_UP; speed = speed_up(speed); print speed; else: print FASTEST; print speed; elif event.key == pygame.K_RIGHTBRACKET: if speed < 1.0: print SPEED_DOWN; speed = slow_down(speed); print speed; else: print SLOWEST print speed; # second method to quit program elif event.type == pygame.QUIT: print "program will now exit."; done = True; # limit to 20 fps clock.tick(20); # update the screen pygame.display.flip();

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  • Android Actionbar Tabs + Fragments + Service

    - by Vladimir
    So, I have 3 problems with my code: 1) I want that each tab saves its state. So that a TextView shows changed text if it was changed. 2) if I go to Tab2 then to Tab1 I can't see the content of the fragments. Only if I touch on the already selected tab, it shows me the content 3) I can't correctly connect/bind and unbind service to Fragment Text must be changed from Service. Please help, I don't know how I realize my intent. MyActivity.java package com.example.tabs; import android.app.ActionBar; import android.app.ActionBar.Tab; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.ActivityManager; import android.app.ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo; import android.app.Fragment; import android.app.FragmentTransaction; import android.content.ComponentName; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.content.ServiceConnection; import android.content.SharedPreferences; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.os.IBinder; import android.os.Message; public class MyActivity extends Activity { private static String ACTION_BAR_INDEX = "ACTION_BAR_INDEX"; private Tab tTab1; private Tab tTab2; private static MyService.MyBinder myBinder; private static Intent myServiceIntent; private static MyService myService; private TabListener<Tab1> tab1Listener; private TabListener<Tab2> tab2Listener; private static ServiceConnection myConnection = new ServiceConnection() { public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder binder) { myBinder = (MyService.MyBinder) binder; myService = myBinder.getService(); myBinder.setCallbackHandler(myServiceHandler); } public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name) { myService = null; myBinder = null; } }; /** Callbackhandler. */ private static Handler myServiceHandler = new Handler() { public void handleMessage(Message message) { super.handleMessage(message); Bundle bundle = message.getData(); if (bundle != null) { String text = bundle.getString("Text1", ""); if (!text.equals("")) { } } } }; protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); myServiceIntent = new Intent(this, MyService.class); bindService(myServiceIntent, myConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE); if (!isServiceRunning()) { startService(myServiceIntent); } final ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar(); actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); tTab1 = actionBar.newTab(); tab1Listener = new TabListener<Tab1>(this, R.id.fl_main, Tab1.class); tTab1.setTag("Tab_1"); tTab1.setText("Tab_1"); tTab1.setTabListener(tab1Listener); tTab2 = actionBar.newTab(); tab2Listener = new TabListener<Tab2>(this, R.id.fl_main, Tab2.class); tTab2.setTag("Tab_2"); tTab2.setText("Tab_2"); tTab2.setTabListener(tab2Listener); actionBar.addTab(tTab1, 0); actionBar.addTab(tTab2, 1); } @Override public void onResume() { super.onResume(); SharedPreferences sp = getPreferences(Activity.MODE_PRIVATE); int actionBarIndex = sp.getInt(ACTION_BAR_INDEX, 0); getActionBar().setSelectedNavigationItem(actionBarIndex); } protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) { // Save the current Action Bar tab selection int actionBarIndex = getActionBar().getSelectedTab().getPosition(); SharedPreferences.Editor editor = getPreferences(Activity.MODE_PRIVATE).edit(); editor.putInt(ACTION_BAR_INDEX, actionBarIndex); editor.apply(); // Detach each of the Fragments FragmentTransaction ft = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction(); if (tab2Listener.fragment != null) { ft.detach(tab2Listener.fragment); } if (tab1Listener.fragment != null) { ft.detach(tab1Listener.fragment); } ft.commit(); super.onSaveInstanceState(outState); } protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) { // Find the recreated Fragments and assign them to their associated Tab // Listeners. tab1Listener.fragment = getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(Tab1.class.getName()); tab2Listener.fragment = getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(Tab2.class.getName()); // Restore the previous Action Bar tab selection. SharedPreferences sp = getPreferences(Activity.MODE_PRIVATE); int actionBarIndex = sp.getInt(ACTION_BAR_INDEX, 0); getActionBar().setSelectedNavigationItem(actionBarIndex); super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState); } public boolean isServiceRunning() { ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE); for (RunningServiceInfo service : manager.getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE)) { if (MyService.class.getName().equals(service.service.getClassName())) { return true; } } return false; } @Override protected void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); unbindService(myConnection); stopService(myServiceIntent); } public static class TabListener<T extends Fragment> implements ActionBar.TabListener { private Fragment fragment; private Activity activity; private Class<T> fragmentClass; private int fragmentContainer; public TabListener(Activity activity, int fragmentContainer, Class<T> fragmentClass) { this.activity = activity; this.fragmentContainer = fragmentContainer; this.fragmentClass = fragmentClass; } public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) { if (fragment != null) { ft.attach(fragment); } } public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) { if (fragment == null) { String fragmentName = fragmentClass.getName(); fragment = Fragment.instantiate(activity, fragmentName); ft.add(fragmentContainer, fragment, fragmentName); } else { ft.detach(fragment); } } public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) { if (fragment != null) { ft.detach(fragment); } } } } MyService.java package com.example.tabs; import android.app.Service; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Binder; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.os.IBinder; import android.os.Message; public class MyService extends Service { private final IBinder myBinder = new MyBinder(); private static Handler myServiceHandler; public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { return myBinder; } public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) { super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId); return START_STICKY; } public void sendMessage(String sText, int id) { Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); bundle.putString("Text" + id, sText); Message bundleMessage = new Message(); bundleMessage.setData(bundle); myServiceHandler.sendMessage(bundleMessage); } public class MyBinder extends Binder { public MyService getService() { return MyService.this; } public void setCallbackHandler(Handler myActivityHandler) { myServiceHandler = myActivityHandler; } public void removeCallbackHandler() { myServiceHandler = null; } } } Tab1.java package com.example.tabs; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.Fragment; import android.content.ComponentName; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.content.ServiceConnection; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.os.IBinder; import android.os.Message; import android.view.LayoutInflater; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.view.ViewGroup; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.EditText; import android.widget.TextView; public class Tab1 extends Fragment { public static String TAG = Tab1.class.getClass().getSimpleName(); private static TextView tvText; private EditText editText; private static MyService.MyBinder myBinder; private static Intent myServiceIntent; private static MyService myService; private static ServiceConnection myConnection = new ServiceConnection() { public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder binder) { myBinder = (MyService.MyBinder) binder; myService = myBinder.getService(); myBinder.setCallbackHandler(myServiceHandler); } public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name) { myService = null; myBinder = null; } }; /** Callbackhandler. */ private static Handler myServiceHandler = new Handler() { public void handleMessage(Message message) { super.handleMessage(message); Bundle bundle = message.getData(); if (bundle != null) { String text = bundle.getString("Text1", ""); if (!text.equals("")) { tvText.setText(text); } } } }; public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.tab1, container, false); tvText = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv_tab1); editText = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.editText1); Button btn1 = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.btn_change_text_1); btn1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { myService.sendMessage(String.valueOf(editText.getText()), 1); } }); return view; } @Override public void onAttach(Activity activity) { super.onAttach(activity); myServiceIntent = new Intent(activity, MyService.class); activity.bindService(myServiceIntent, myConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE); } @Override public void onDetach() { super.onDetach(); getActivity().unbindService(myConnection); } } Tab2.java package com.example.tabs; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.Fragment; import android.content.ComponentName; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.content.ServiceConnection; import android.os.Bundle; import android.os.Handler; import android.os.IBinder; import android.os.Message; import android.util.Log; import android.view.LayoutInflater; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.view.ViewGroup; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.EditText; import android.widget.TextView; public class Tab2 extends Fragment { public static String TAG = Tab2.class.getClass().getSimpleName(); private static TextView tvText; private EditText editText; private static MyService.MyBinder myBinder; private static Intent myServiceIntent; private static MyService myService; private static ServiceConnection myConnection = new ServiceConnection() { public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder binder) { myBinder = (MyService.MyBinder) binder; myService = myBinder.getService(); myBinder.setCallbackHandler(myServiceHandler); } public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name) { myService = null; myBinder = null; } }; /** Callbackhandler. */ private static Handler myServiceHandler = new Handler() { public void handleMessage(Message message) { super.handleMessage(message); Bundle bundle = message.getData(); if (bundle != null) { String text = bundle.getString("Text1", ""); if (!text.equals("")) { tvText.setText(text); } } } }; public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.tab2, container, false); tvText = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv_tab2); editText = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.editText2); Button btn2 = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.btn_change_text_2); btn2.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { myService.sendMessage(String.valueOf(editText.getText()), 2); } }); return view; } @Override public void onAttach(Activity activity) { super.onAttach(activity); myServiceIntent = new Intent(activity, MyService.class); activity.bindService(myServiceIntent, myConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE); } @Override public void onDetach() { super.onDetach(); getActivity().unbindService(myConnection); } } main.xml <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:id="@+id/main" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:background="@android:color/black" android:orientation="vertical" > </LinearLayout> tab1.xml <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_gravity="center" android:gravity="center" android:orientation="vertical" > <EditText android:id="@+id/editText1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp" android:ems="10" android:inputType="text" > <requestFocus /> </EditText> <Button android:id="@+id/btn_change_text_1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp" android:text="Change text" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/tv_tab1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="TAB1\nTAB1\nTAB1" /> </LinearLayout> tab2.xml <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_gravity="center" android:gravity="center" android:orientation="vertical" > <EditText android:id="@+id/editText2" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp" android:ems="10" android:inputType="text" > <requestFocus /> </EditText> <Button android:id="@+id/btn_change_text_2" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp" android:text="Change text" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/tv_tab2" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp" android:text="TAB2\nTAB2\nTAB2" /> </LinearLayout> AndroidManifest.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.example.tabs" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" > <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="15" android:targetSdkVersion="17" /> <application android:allowBackup="true" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="TabsPlusService" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo" > <activity android:name="com.example.tabs.MyActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize" android:label="TabsPlusService" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> <service android:name=".MyService" android:enabled="true" > </service> </application> </manifest>

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  • ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM Released

    - by shiju
     The ASP.NET team has released RTM version of ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download the ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM from here and source code of ASP.NET MVC 3 can download from here. Microsoft has released the following products along with ASP.NET MVC 3.NuGetIIS Express 7.5SQL Server Compact Edition 4Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0Orchard 1.0WebMatrix 1.0 You can read more details from ScottGu's blog post Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix .You can upgrade your ASP.NET MVC 2 projects to ASP.NET MVC 3 using MVC 3 Project Upgrade Tool. You can read more details about the MVC 3 Upgrade Tool from here. Demo Web App using ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM  You can download a demo web app using ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM from here. The demo app is explained in the below blog postsDeveloping web apps using ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor and EF Code First - Part 1Developing web apps using ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor and EF Code First - Part 2

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  • Translator by Moth v2

    - by Daniel Moth
    If you are looking for the full manual for this Windows Phone app you can find it here: "Translator by Moth". While the manual has no images (just text), in this post I will share images and if you like them, go get "Translator by Moth" from the Windows Phone marketplace. open the app from the app list or through a pinned tile (including secondary tiles for specific translations)    language picker (~40 languages)     "current" page     "saved" page    "about" page Like? Go get Translator by Moth! Comments about this post by Daniel Moth welcome at the original blog.

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  • Using the “Settings.settings” functionalities in VB.NET can be tricky…

    - by Vincent Grondin
    Sometime you’re searching for something forever and when you find it, you realize it was right under your nose.  Maybe you were distracted by other things around… or maybe that thing right under your nose was so well hidden that it deserves a blog post…   That happened to me a few days ago while using the “Settings.settings” functionalities in my VB.NET application…  I thought it was a cool feature and I decided to use it…  So there I am adding new settings with “USER” scope and StringCollection as the data type, testing my application and everything works perfectly fine...  That was before I decided to modify the “Value” of one of my settings…  After changing the value of one of my settings, I start my application again and, to my surprise, my new values aren’t showing!  Hmmm… That’s odd…  My setting was a pretty long list of strings so I was rather angry at myself for not saving my work after I was done…  So I open up the Settings.setting in the designer and click the ellipsis symbol to enter my string collection again, but to my great pleasure (and disbelief) my strings are there!!!  Alright, you rock VB.NET!  You’ve just save me a bunch of typing time and I’m thinking it’s just a simple Visual Studio glitch…  I hit “Save” then “Save All” (just in case) and finally I rebuild everything and fire up my app once again.  Huh?  Where are my darn strings????????  Ok there’s a bug there…  I open up the app.config and my new strings are there!!!  Alright, let’s recap…  My new strings are in the app.config, they show correctly in the Settings.settings designer UI but they aren’t showing at runtime…  Hmmmm?  Let’s try something else…  Let’s start the application but outside Visual Studio this time… I fire up the exe and BAM!  My strings where there!  I “alt-tab” and hit “F5” and BOOM, no strings!  So it’s a bug in the Visual Studio environment… or could it be a FEATURE?  I must admit that I’m a little confused over what’s a bug and what’s a feature in Visual Studio… lol!   Finally I found out there’s a “cache” for your Visual Studio located here:  C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\<your app name and a very weird temp ID>\<your app version>\user.config When using the “Settings.settings” with a setting of scope “user”, this file is out of sync with your app.config until you manually decide to update it… The button is right there… under your nose… at the top left corner of your screen in the settings designer…  See the big “Synchronize” button there?  Yep…  Now that’s user friendly isn’t it?  Oh, and wait until you see what it does when you click it…  It prompts you and basically says:  “Would you like your settings to start working inside Visual Studio now that you found out that I exist?” and of course the right answer is yes… or rather “OK”…  Unfortunately, you have to do this every time you edit a value… On the other hand, adding and removing settings seem to work flawlessly without having to click this magical button… go figure!  Oh and I almost forgot… this great “feature” is only available for VB.NET…  A project in C# using Settings.settings will work perfectly EVEN when editing values… Here’s a screenshot that shows this important button: Button Using other data types appears to work perfectly well…   Maybe it’s simply related to the StringCollection data type?  If you are a VB.NET programmer, you should pay attention to this when you plan on using the settings functionalities and your scope is “user” and your data type is StringCollection… Happy coding all!

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  • Ask the Readers: What’s Your Favorite Windows Customization Trick?

    - by Jason Fitzpatrick
    Windows doesn’t really feel like your own until you’ve tweaked and prodded it a little. This week we’re interested in hearing about your favorite must-have customization trick that takes precedence over all others. Whether it’s a stock tweak that uses built-in Windows tools or requires a third-party app (like those that enable multi-monitor toolbars or virtual desktops), we want to hear all about it. Sound off in the comments with your must-have customization tip, trick, or app. Check back in on Friday for the What You Said roundup! How to Use an Xbox 360 Controller On Your Windows PC Download the Official How-To Geek Trivia App for Windows 8 How to Banish Duplicate Photos with VisiPic

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