That app. just downloads a jpeg and renders it - in my case I access a 3GP encoded file.

Thanks for your reply - it works great. Maybe just one more thing. ComboBox with this style doesn't show the selected item(text) when disabled. I tried adding a TextBlock to one of the border's but I don't know to what should be bind to. Any ideas? Thanks again for your help. Uros

Thank you for reply. That was excatly what I was looking for Uros

Hi I know that timer tick event should execute on the thread from the thread pool. That is expected behavior and that does not bother me. The problem is that this is only true when used in desktop(WPF or Forms) app. If the timer is used in windows service app. it executes on the thread that created the timer instance (at least Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId implies so and that is what I do not understand. Thank you for your answer, Uros

Thanks for the warning, it was a honest mistake. Uros

Did you read the last message on this board? "It works fine in a console or service app with no forms. The delegates are run on thread pool threads instead of the UI thread. So there is nothing special going on, just delegates, BeginInvoke, and events. Try it yourself." Greetings Covean

Mark thank you for your time. In the mean time I found the same solution and it works fine. But as you said you have to call the deserialization code by your self - there isn't any method that you could override. Thanks again for your time Uroš

Hi Thank you for your reply. I am afraid I don't quite understand your answer. What is a ServiceClient? I think you didn't understand my question. This is on the server(service) side, of the distributed app. not on the client, so there is no ServiceClient! I am trying to execute the callback method, using the async pattern. The call to the callback method is placed in the try-catch block because in case the client is not present any more, the call to that method throws an exception, so placing the call to the finnaly block would crash the program. Uros

you can not use DefaultValue = Support.Convert((string)record.Element("value"), DataType) the previous line DataType Calculation was not calculated until you use the Datatype Property. and also not calculated DefaultValue until you access it.So it is not executed properly..

You have two ways to inherit from a generic class: public class Base(Of T) ' stuff here End class public class Derived1(Of T) inherits Base(Of T) end class public class Derived2 inherits Base(Of String) end class I'm not sure if XAML supports using generic controls directly. If not, you will have to use option 2 to make an actual control.

WPF uses DirectX/Direct3D, so I reckon if you can run a WPF app, you can use WPF animation. Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

1 - It would be Reverse engineering the optimized x86 code. 2 - I am not a proponent of obfuscation. IMO, obfuscators will just rename classes,methods and variables to some hard to read names. Here[^] is a good article in which Jon Skeet shares his views on obfuscation. Its worth reading. :) Navaneeth How to use google | Ask smart questions

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Thank you gurge60, that solved my problem.

Is this what you're looking for? namespace MyNamespace { public partial class MyUserControlBase : UserControl { public MyUserControlBase() { } } public partial class MyUserControl : MyUserControlBase { public MyUserControl() { InitializeComponent(); } } } <local:MyUserControlBase x:Class="MyNamespace.MyUserControl" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:local="clr-namespace:MyNamespace" Height="300" Width="300"> <Grid> </Grid> </local:MyUserControlBase> Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java: