Hi folks, we have a little internal discussion about deploying our software product. It's a .NET product compiled against .NET 3.5sp1, not supporting older OSes prior to Windows XP. Our sales rep (he's a fan of SAAS solutions, whatever...) somewhat ranted about this issue like it's a BLOCKER for starting the sales process. My position regarding this is that it's generally not our (as a software vendor) task to deliver Microsoft Windows updates. What do you think? Should every software, available via download, be packaged with the .NET Framework and if yes: The full package or the web installer? I'm eager to hear from you! Best regards, Stevie

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Thank you, this looks like fun, ... not... :wtf: I'll try to implement GetMessage-hooking. Seems that's the best approach (to me)... Thank you for your help! Best regards, Stevie

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Hi, hooking WM_PAINT sounds like a good way, but how is it done? Is every application hooked or is there some über-hook to catch all redraws appearing? Thank you, Stevie

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Hi there, Screencaptureing seems to not let go of me. Right now I'm using the Method Graphics.CopyFromScreen to capture screen images (whole desktop and parts of it) and I think, that using this method is quite costly regarding CPU and memory consumption. So I'm wondering how other projects deal with this task... I don't want to reinvent VNC or something. The goal here is to grab a movie-like thing from the desktop with minimum CPU/memory consumption. Is there a best practices guide or something floating around? I need everything from algorithms to actual source code... Thank you very, very much in advance! Best regards, Stevie

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Hi folks, I'm in need of your advice. I'm trying to create a screenshot from a c# application. This works well as long as I use my code within a standard desktop application. What we really need is a windows service taking screenshots. I tried Graphics.CopyFromScreen and the code in here Capturing the Screen Image in C# to grab an image but all I get back is a black image. Not even the dimension is correct. The service was started with LocalSystem and desktop interaction allowed. What did I miss? Any hints? I can provide the sources If it helps... Thank's in advance and best regards, Stevie

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Hi guys, I'm about re-planning a larger LOB application (an older version, created as a 2-tier solution is already existing and running for a couple of years). The plan is to go from 2-tier to 3-tier. We are not about to reuse code, so in this regard I'm totally free! Ah yes, it's not a web-application (so no ASP.NET or Silverlight)... Merely Winforms/WPF... What I am thinking about is whether or not to not make all service directly accessible via a WCF-Service (per class) or going to implement a single Service for communication (call it "CommService" which can send and receive serialized objects) to handle data exchange. The application relies on several different entities (so I definetly have to implement a couple of WCF-Services when using the one-service-per-entity approach). What would be the best approach in your opinion?

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Thank you for pointing out fluid! Looks promising. Actually I was looking for a XAML snippet like handling two / three images in a Viewport3D view. Maybe any other documents/HowTos? Best regards and thank's again! Stevie

Hi! I need a small 3D feature for a WPF window and I don't know where to start. I need a series of Pictures in a row like a carousel, but in a kind of theatre view. On Channel 9 is a Flickr viewer, but that is way tooo complex and uses mouse interaction (not what I need) and several rows (I just need ONE row) with a maximum number of 9 images. The more "lightweight" the solution is, the better. Any ideas?

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Thank you, that's my intention! :) I just wanted to know, if there's already a working listener or something. Best regards, Stevie

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Hi guys! I have this idea of making all contact information in a business application I write some time ago available thru LDAP so that outlook/thunderbird etc. can access the contacts via network and I don't need to import/export everything. So basically, the idea was to create a simple wrapper to accept LDAP queries and return the data to the clients. The next step would then be to be able to edit/create new contacts. But the first matter would greatly ease my burden... Is there any library (C# or general .NET, ...) available to realize something like that? Best regards, Stevie

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modified on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:47 AM

Nevermind! WPF is just great and I failed to see its greatness! :) Use of ControlTemplate.Triggers solved my problem!

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Hi folks, I'm trying to get a little color animation working for a Border(ed)-area. The Border has a style defined like this: My guess is, that the TargetName-property of the storyboard is misgiven. What would be the right path? When this is solved, I'd like to add an animation for the background (LinearGradienBrush). How can I set that path? Thank's in advance for you help! Regards, Stevie Greetings, Stephan Eberle hawke@deltacity.org

Hi, some of you might have already seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CufEjqqZ7WU Does anybody know if and where there's some code around? Kind regards, Stevie

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Hi there! I was wondering if there's a possibility to switch IE Editmode ON inside a WPF FRAME-control. Is it possible? And if yes, how? ;) I'm quite new to WPF and there are _some_ gaps to fill... Is there any elegant way of handling HTML viewing/editing? Best regards, Stevie

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Hi! I'm currently working on a little function to paste pre-formatted text into outlook (or any other mail client). Outlook is my testbed so I'll stick with it as of now. I'd like to do something like this: Clipboard.SetData("text/html",strHtmlText) But somehow Outlook does not recognize "text/html" as pastable text. Using only "Text" pastes the text _with_ html-tags which is not what I want. I'd like to do the same when copy&pasting from a browser to Outlook, just programmatically. Any ideas?

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Hi, I'm curious if there's a piece of software available which emulates a TWAIN scanner with any given image file, so that you can actually write TWAIN capable software without having a scanner connected to your machine. Any ideas? Best regards, Stevie

Hi coders! I would like you to give me some insight. I have almost NO experience with graphics programming (speaking of DirectX and OpenGL) and would like to implement something like a biiiig bulletin board which should only be a big scrollable/zoomable image. How/where should I start with this? I'd like to use C#/VB.NET for the task. Best regards, Stevie

Hi fellows! Did anyone of you ever something like a winamp credit window? (the 3D credits viewer when you click on "Nullsoft Winamp..." in the context menu). Anyone seen some code for doing this in .NET? Thank's in advance, Stevie

Hi! Is there any possibility to use WPF-like spell-checking with Windows.Forms-Controls for example when .NET 3.0 is installed? :confused: Any info on this is warmly appreciated! :) Thank's in advance!

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Well, I just wondered what other people might think about the new WPF-way to do things (especially when replacing Windows Forms)... My point of view is, that WPF is a pain in the *ss... Why in the world do I have to fire up an Expression (whatever) suite to be able to get decent UIs for my apps? Why did MS change the whole API from Win Forms to WPF so that really nothing is compatible now and you have to completly start over learning WPF!? Why is the "preferred" way of building desktop UIs now more complex than before even for simple applications and why do I have to write some XML-Pseudo HTML "dingsda" (jokerword ;) )? Is it just me? Am I the only one who feels that WPF is a huge step in a totally wrong direction? I'm looking forward to any answers! :)

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