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Tales from the Unmanaged Side – System.String –> char* (pt. 2)
A while ago, I posted an entry about marshalling a managed System.String into an unmanaged C string, specifically a plain char*. The solution I suggested, back in 2007, involved calling Marshal:: … more
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Static Constructor throws the same exception again and again
Here’s a little gotcha I ran into today – if you have code in a class’s static constructor that throws an exception, we will get a TypeInitializationException with the original exception as the … more
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Upgrading all projects to .NET 3.5
A simple macro to change the Target Framework for a project from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5, hacked together in a few minutes. This will fail for C++/CLI projects, and possibly VB.NET projects (haven't … more
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System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry and the non-equal Equals.
Just a quick heads-up in case you're stumped with this problem, or just passing by: The System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry class implements the Equals method to check if two entries are identical, even … more
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Displaying live log file contents
I'm writing some benchmarking code, which involves a Console application calling a COM+ hosted process and measuring performance. I want to constantly display results on my active console, but since … more
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Dynamically creating a Sharepoint Web-Service proxy instance
In my current code, I find myself accessing many Sharepoint web services. In one run of code I can access 5-6 different web services on dozens of different sites, not necessarily even on the same … more
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Allowing timeout on long-running operations - possible bug
A while ago, I wrote about a simple pattern to allow us to put a timeout limitation on a long running operations. Simply put, it allows us to replace this: public MyObject GetData(){ try& … more
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Retrieving all properties for a Sharepoint list
When we call the GetListItems or GetListItemChanges methods in Sharepoint's Lists Web Service, we pass an XmlNode parameter specifying which fields we want to return, in this format: < … more
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Granting User Rights in C#
As a follow-up to my previous post about changing a Windows Service's user account - there was one think I forgot. In order for a user to run a service, that user must be granted the "Run as Service" … more
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Setting Windows Service Account - C# and WMI
I've been busting my brains for over two hours trying to accomplish a relatively simple task - changing the username and password of a currently running Windows Service. Should be trivial enough, but … more