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I'm developing a tester-application that will be used to test some of our products. The testing process involves displaying instructions to the tester (who might not be a professionally trained IT expert). These instructions involve formatting and can may also contain pictures. What would be a good way to display these?
I've thought about using a WebBrowser control and pointing it to static some HTML, but after having some issues with it (the webbrowser control is using a different version of the rendering engine then the locally installed IE is, etc...) I feel like this might not be the best option.
An argument for the use of HTML is that I could use one of many templating engines to easily create the instruction-content without hassling with too much formatting.
Do you have any advice on what to use here?
If winforms are not a strict requirement, you could try using XAML in a WPF application.
It should allow you to obtain all the layout you need, and you can also find some tools to convert to/from HTML (with some restrictions, of course).
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I'm new to MVC and am still adjusting to the drastic switch from WebForms. I was a bit happy when I found that the idea of ready-made components is not totally gone when I found http://nuget.org/packages/TinyMCE.JQuery, a nuget package that installs an HTML editor component such that it just takes the addition of a UIHint attribute to use it.
My question is where do I go to find more things like this which will help me get closer to the level of efficiency I got used to with WebForms/AjaxToolkit (not withstanding my obvious need to keep learning MVC best practices)?
The nice thing about MVC is you don't need server controls, you now have the freedom to use anything HTML/CSS/JS
If you want something cohesive try:
http://www.kendoui.com/web.aspx
There's tons of stuff in NuGet, just go searching at NuGet.org
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As proposed by Brandon Walkin (for Xcode, but same thing), more visualization in the IDE can help productivity. In particular, I'd like to provide little icons to better convey the meaning of enum choices or classes (such as UI controls), roughly like this:
The built-in XML comment syntax clearly doesn't support this, but maybe someone has written an add-in to add support for, say, a <img> tag?
Man I love the Visual Studio Gallery for all the good things it contains.
Never seen anything like what you suggest there, but have seen plugin's for adding that kind of content to comments tho. This is one that I can find in there now (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/e216ec81-730b-4022-8305-25c39eb1f820), but I distinctly remember that there used to be one that allowed you to link to an image file (an export from say visio or it's ilk), and it would display it inline. I can't find it now tho :-(
You might want to look at this one, which is close, but not quite on the money http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c3eaa4fc-f2de-43ad-92ee-f0f257b79005. The source code is available here: http://csharpintellisense.codeplex.com/
And I'd actually like to thank you for drawing my attention back to that fabulous repository of goodness.
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Earlier today I was looking for an C# API which provides stock quotes for Indian market(BSE)/(NSE) in real time. But couldn't really find anything close to it.
I want to create a rich desktop application like MoneyControl.com for windows using C# .NET and expression studio. I am searching for an C# API or any webservice to get the quotes from NSE or BSE.
To be honest, I am not sure about your exact answer.
However, stock exchanges generally do offer their data feeds e.g. check this service from BSE: http://www.bseindia.com/about/abtip.asp . There are two levels of data feeds available and over HTTP, you can get one minute snapshot delivered - check out FAQ and vendors.
Another way would be do web scraping to gather the data - essentially, you mimic browser actions for target web-site (say www.bseindia.com) from your code to get the relevant data. For example, simulating this page (http://www.bseindia.com/debtbhav/BhavCopyDebt.aspx) would give you bhavcopy details for BSE. NSE also has similar pages to get the relevant data e.g. http://www.nseindia.com/archives/archives.htm.
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I've been asked to write an internal application for our business that uses mapping functionality to place push-pins of business related data.
As this is not a public facing application and to be used by a single person within our firewall I can not use google maps as we do not have the funds for the google license.
I am investigating the use of OpenStreetMap and can either embed a component into an already existing WPF application or embed into an existing WPF application, a NetBeans platform based application or into a new web application.
Could someone please suggest a library for use in either of these environments?
I recently updated JMapViewer from r26523 to r26975 without incident. Subjectively, it seems faster.
I've recently started to build a WPF prototype using SharpMap - although it's currently migrating to V2 and some of the dataproviders are missing - so I've been using V1 which has support for BruTile. You also might find BruTile useful.
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What is the best pattern for instrumentation. I have an application and i want to be able to track metrics on everytime a users does a number of functions in the app (brings up a form, views a certain feature, etc) but i dont want to have code all over the application that is doing this instrumentation. what are my options here?
At the end of the day, i want to be able to aggregate data across multiple users listing out metrics.
I've been investigating doing something very similar (for an anonymous stats-collection library... kind of like Google Analytics, but for desktop apps. If you're interested, check out the GUI mockup here.)
Anyhow... for .NET, I've been looking at a few aspect-oriented libraries that provide dynamic and static instrumentation. I'm not sure whether they'll fit the bill yet (I haven't written any code yet; I've just started researching the libs). But here are a few prospects:
http://dotspect.tigris.org/
http://setpoint.codehaus.org/
http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.2.0-RC1/reference/html/aop.html
http://www.castleproject.org/aspectsharp/
http://www.postsharp.org/
Good luck!