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Linq -Intro Part 1

satish1.v — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:41:00 GMT

Linq is definitely not a new topic for c# nor for any of the .net platform per-se . But its usage in the project , i rarely see people adopting to the technique , so its my attempt to break down the concept into a small parts and try to embark as the series grow. Motivation : Linq –Language integrated Query , as the word explains it integrates the querying capability to the language like filtering,sorting , Grouping into the .net language with simple and readable fashion. Disclaimer : You can always...(read more)

How to Set the environment path in PowerShell

satish1.v — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:34:00 GMT

Setting an environment variable will make you the access the files directly from any Command Line tools easily and it makes the life of automation task easy, For example i have a challenge of adding the .net Framework path to the environment.so that i can run Msbuild.exe Solution Powershell gives an easy way to work with the environment variables using a $env . $env:Path – gives the environment Path Use Write-Host $env:Path which will Display the ‘;” separated folder paths. To Set a Path $env:Path...(read more)

My Experience in ASP.net MVC 2

Morteza Naeimabadi — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:09:00 GMT

In this post I would like to present some of my ASP.net MVC 2 experience, why MVC 2? Because the host which I used recently supported MVC 2.I should confess that I learned a lot by doing this project. And one thing that I should aware you before going through ASP.net MVC is please don’t go through it if you are aiming to learn it with a real project in hand. One of my experiences was that developing web app via ASP.NET MVC takes much more time than developing it in ASP.net WEBFORM. Yes much more time, I will try to clarify this in detail after wards. But one thing you should know is MVC is all about separation and off course more clarity of code, this is what I gained from coding in MVC pattern.

1. For each and every single thing you should write an Action within Controller. Next you should add a View for that single thing (that Action). So you see for a single thing you should perform 2 operations and that mean more time in development step. And obviously this takes time in big and small scale projects.
1. Because in MVC style developing you don’t have POSTBACK or VIEWSTATE or ASP.net Controls concepts then everything is upon you and that eventually takes some time. I mean for example working with GRIDVIEW was so cool because everything was handled by ASP.net engine but it also lacks in some extend (that we don’t have full control on backbone of it). In MVC you should decorate and design and customize your need by yourself. No more ASP.net Controls such as DATAVIEW or GRIDVIEW or FILEUPLOAD but these doesn’t mean you can’t do it in MVC but it means you should now decorate all of them with HTML + CSS + JAVASCRIPT + JSON + AJAX + JQUERY. Yes these tools makes your power in MVC style application. I will try to present some practices I used in developing MVC 2 web app.
1. For the last comment I should aware you that having good knowledge of JQUERY and JSON helps in developing your web app in MVC faster. I have used AJAX in JQUERY frequently and am sure you would also use it frequently.

WAF for .NET Framework 4.5

_jbe_ — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:45:00 GMT

I published the package WAF for .NET 4.5 (Experimental) which shows some new ideas I have for the WPF Application Framework (WAF). These ideas won’t come in the 2.5 release because the 2.5 release targets the .NET Framework 4.0 version. But some of them might be seen in one of the next major releases.

Highlights

1. Simplify the usage of the INotifyPropertyChanged interface

New methods in the Model class simplify raising the PropertyChanged event.

Classic approach:

public object ContentView
{
    get { return contentView; }
    set
    {
        if (contentView != value)
        {
            contentView = value;
            RaisePropertyChanged("ContentView");
        }
    }
}

New approach:

public object ContentView
{
    get { return contentView; }
    set { SetReference(ref contentView, value); }
}

The new approach uses the CallerMemberName attribute which is a new feature of .NET 4.5. The compiler creates the property name directly in the assembly. This way the new approach is type safe and doesn’t come with performance penalties like a lot alternative approaches do.

In this package I have implemented two different Set methods for value types and reference types:

SetValue: Sets a new value type and raises the PropertyChanged event.
SetReference: Sets a new reference type (object) and raises the PropertyChanged event.

2. Better WeakEvent support by the .NET Framework

The WAF base classes Controller and DataModel provide an improved weak event support because working directly with the WeakEventManagers was cumbersome and error-prone. The new .NET Framework comes with an enhanced API which makes the WAF weak event support obsolete.

Weak events with WAF:

AddWeakEventListener(fileService, FileServicePropertyChanged);
AddWeakEventListener(fileService.Documents, DocumentsCollectionChanged);

Weak events with .NET 4.5:

PropertyChangedEventManager.AddHandler(fileService, FileServicePropertyChanged, "");
CollectionChangedEventManager.AddHandler(fileService.Documents, 
    DocumentsCollectionChanged);

3. MEF supports now dependency injection of NonShared parts

Until .NET 4.5 the creation of NonShared parts was only possible via the Service Locator approach. It had to be done by calling GetExportedValue on the Container. Now it is possible to import a factory which is able to create the NonShared parts.

Service Locator approach with .NET 4.0:

[ImportingConstructor]
public FileController(CompositionContainer container, IMessageService messageService, ...)
{
...
// Show the save changes view to the user
ISaveChangesView saveChangesView = container.GetExportedValue<ISaveChangesView>();
SaveChangesViewModel saveChangesViewModel = new SaveChangesViewModel(saveChangesView, 
        modifiedDocuments);
bool? dialogResult = saveChangesViewModel.ShowDialog(shellService.ShellView);

New approach with .NET 4.5:

[ImportingConstructor]
public FileController(..., FileService fileService, 
        ExportFactory<ISaveChangesView> saveChangesView)
{
...
// Show the save changes view to the user
SaveChangesViewModel saveChangesViewModel = new SaveChangesViewModel(
        saveChangesView.CreateExport().Value, modifiedDocuments);
bool? dialogResult = saveChangesViewModel.ShowDialog(shellService.ShellView);

4. Usage of WPF Ribbons

The Writer sample application comes with Ribbons. Now the application looks a lot more modern and trendy.

Why i Learn F#

satish1.v — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:41:00 GMT

1)Its very expressive (long held dream of man to make computer understand their language). 2) Functional leads as to readable program which is better than writing N number of abstraction 3) I like to learn about writing immutable programs (meaning the programs which don't change the data. (If you are interested to know then you come along with me) 4)After watching the spaces like Ruby,Scala,Haskell languages i highly believe f# is a good competition from Microsoft which likely to have copied...(read more)

Perspective 3.0 for Silverlight 5.0

odewit — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:02:00 GMT

I just published the version 3.0 of Perspective for Silverlight, which gathers a port of the Perspective 2.0 features under Silverlight 5.0, a new high-level 3D framework and some new code samples. Features list.

Difference between MSP(Microsoft Project) and Microsoft Project Server(with site named:PWA(Microsoft Project Web App)

Morteza Naeimabadi — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:28:00 GMT

Dear All,

It seems there is a bit confusion for those new to sharepoint and MSP about the jargoned such as MSP and PWA and Project Server.

Bascially Microsoft Project Server is not a standalone Application it is an addin for sharepoint and when installed it brings the features available for web users to observe the results and actions taken place in the Client version of Project Server named MSP or Microsoft Project in a sharepoint site associated to it.

To be more detailed,When you install MS Project SERVER 2010 it goes and sits inside sharepoint.After installation Within Sharepoint Central Administration you should navigate to Application Management and then from right pane click on Manage Service Applications.In the new page opened click on Project Server Service Application.(By the way if you are not seeing that it means your installation was not completed by any reason).After clicking on it, if you are able to see any site url under URL column which status column is set to "Provisioned" then that is your site url of project server on sharepoint.click on it and enjoy surfing that!

but if you don't see any or you need extra site click on Create Project Web App Site and complete the form and click on create and wait untill the status is set to "Provisioned".This is all about MS Project SERVER 2010.But be aware that this site is just for showing the results,what I mean by that is you don't have much more flexibility than MSP(MS PROJECT).You are able to create project ,see gaunt charts but any undoing takes time because you are on web and some features are not supported on PWA or Project SERVER such as TASK USAGE option in MSP,Instead you should try MSP or simply Microsoft Project software which is standalone windows application(not web app) and draw your chart and timeline them and after finishing your work if you prefer to have your MSP work to be observed by end users on Web platform(web browser) by a specific website then you should upload your work on that site on sharepoint(or on PWA site).

So All the thing PWA site or Project SERVER does in its primary function is shows the results of MSP(MS PROJECT) in a website.

Hope that helps!

thannks to my dear friend Salehi,

Get the Value from the object based on the Property Name

satish1.v — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:54:00 GMT

I searched in Google for quite a day and didn't find the method in one place for the problem which i want to solve.so here i am putting a simple solution for getting the value from the object by just giving the property Name. Three different options which i want to solve Should be able to get the Value of the Property with the Name: 1: PropertyInfo info = objectValue.GetType().GetProperty(property...(read more)

Developing a Fluent Interface AKA Creational Pattern - I

satish1.v — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:46:00 GMT

Fluent interface patterns are basically a Creational Patterns like Factory , Builders more than the behaviour pattern .so What is a fluent interface anyways , a simple DSL pattern which can make the code readable and understandable after all that is the major one which contribute Software –ability . How it Looks ? you would have seen if you...(read more)

Plan For a Year–My Way of Doing Application

satish1.v — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:06:00 GMT

After all its a another new day which begins with the name called New Year. But its the time to write down my plan and things i would like to share with everyone .Domain driven design seems to be moving a lot and there are lot of tools and framework which can make the life easy and has come to my discovery process on the DDD. So my blog is going to fill my adventure in learning the Domain driven design.So here are the things which i am interested in Writing and its going to Show the Problem ,Design...(read more)

Waf Stopwatch

_jbe_ — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:18:00 GMT

Waf Stopwatch is an advanced stopwatch with a lap recording feature. The recorded times can be copied into Excel or a similar application via the clipboard. Furthermore, it provides a Countdown with alert sound.

Link: http://wafstopwatch.codeplex.com/

Features

Stopwatch with Lap recording.
Copy the time recording into Excel via the clipboard.
Countdown with alert sound.
Supported languages: English and German.
View Settings: Zoom and Always On Top.
Optimized for keyboard only access.

For developers

.NET Framework 4 / WPF desktop application.
Based on the WPF Application Framework (WAF).
Layered Architecture and usage of the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern.
Custom validation of the Start Time.
Custom control which is designed to support the MVVM pattern (see TimeControl).
Animated transition between the Stopwatch and the Countdown view.
Applications and Domain layer is completely unit tested.
Automatic architecture validation in the release builds.

some good practice!

Morteza Naeimabadi — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:27:00 GMT

retrieve your page url which the webpart is in it:

Request.Url.AbsoluteUri

Good to know some basics with cool examples

Morteza Naeimabadi — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:54:00 GMT

Lately I have been interviewed by some IT Inc and in most of this interviews they asked some basic and important concepts in .Net (e.g CTS,CLS,.Net Framework etc). Actually what strikes me to write this post was the interviews.(thanks to them anyway!).

Common Language Specification (CLS):

The .NET applications generated by .NET-oriented compilers (such as Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, ILAsm, and many others) are represented in an abstract, intermediate form, independent of the original programming language and of the target machine and its operating system. Because they are represented in this abstract form, .NET applications written in different languages can interoperate closely, not only on the level of calling each other’s functions but also on the level of class inheritance. Of course, given the differences in programming languages, a set of rules must be estab-lished for the applications to allow them to get along with their neighbors nicely. For example, if you write an application in Visual C# and name three items MYITEM, MyItem, and myitem, Visual Basic .NET, which is case insensitive, will have a hard time differentiating them. Like-wise, if you write an application in ILAsm and define a global method, Visual C# will be unable to call the method because it has no concept of global (out-of-class) items. The set of rules guaranteeing the interoperability of .NET applications is known as the Common Language Specification (CLS), outlined in Partition I of the Common Language Infrastructure standard of Ecma International and the International Organization for Stan-dardization (ISO). It limits the naming conventions, the data types, the function types, and certain other elements, forming a common denominator for different languages. It is impor-tant to remember, however, that the CLS is merely a recommendation and has no bearing whatsoever on common language runtime functionality.

Simple Console App using the new "SQL Server Express LocalDB"

Pirate11 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:16:00 GMT

Hello.

In this post, we will see how to connect to a LocalDB database. You can download it from here
LocalDB is a lightweight version of SQL Server 2012 Express RC0 that has all its programmability features, yet runs in user mode and has a fast, zero-configuration installation and short list of pre-requisites.

Before we get started, I hope you have the following configuration running:

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate SP1
SQL Server 2008 R2 Express

To use LocalDB with VS 2010, you need to download this update. You will now have these 2 files with you:

After installation is successful, we are now ready to start building our app.
Open Visual Studio 2010 -> New Project -> Console Application
Name the project anything you like. I named it as LocalDB1

Add required namespaces:
using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient;

We now have LocalDB running and our app set.
Let us have a look at LocalDB.
The "exe" for this database is located at: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn
(Depends on where you installed it)

Open Command Prompt under Administrator Privileges and type in the below commands:

C:\>cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn>sqllocaldb

The above command will give you the options to use "sqllocaldb.exe" utility. You can find details here

The webpage above states:

If you application uses .NET 4.0 you must connect directly to the named pipe of the LocalDB. The Instance pipe name value is the named pipe that the instance of LocalDB is listening on. ....

It uses SQL Server Management Studio. But we will see how to do it from command line. Type in the following command:

sqllocaldb create "emp" 11.0 -s

It will give us the following output:


LocalDB instance "emp" created with version 11.0.

LocalDB instance "emp" started.

To know more about the instance you created, type in the below command:

sqllocaldb info emp

It will give us the following output:


Name:   emp

Version:11.0.1750.32

Shared name:

Owner:  

Auto-create:        No

State:  Running

Last start time:    12/29/2011 7:37:28 PM

Instance pipe name: np:\\.\pipe\LOCALDB#F9A61CFD\tsql\query

The Instance pipe name value is the named pipe that the instance of LocalDB is listening on. The portion of the Instance pipe name after LOCALDB# will change each time the instance of LocalDB is started.

i.e., In our case, the string F9A61CFD between LOCALDB# and tsql\query will change every time we start and stop our instance.

This screen-shot sums it up:

From our app, we can connect to this instance using the following code.
Type the below code in your console app.

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=np:\\.\pipe\LOCALDB#F9A61CFD\tsql\query"); static void Main(string[] args) { con.Open(); Console.WriteLine("Connection Opened !"); con.Close(); Console.ReadLine(); }
Update:
Once .NET 4 Update 4.0.2 is installed, you don’t need to use the named pipe connection anymore.
This update adds the support for the general (localdb) connections to .NET 4. So, instead of:

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=np:\\.\pipe\LOCALDB#F9A61CFD\tsql\query");

you could just call:

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\emp");

As you can see, “emp” is the name of the instance that you had created. The advantages of the second approach are that the connection string will never change, and that the instance “emp” will be started during the connection if needed.

Here too, "emp" needs to be created before the first use.

Hit "F5" and you will see "Connection Opened !"

This all works fine with instance of LocalDB, but we need to work with Automatic Instance.

The easiest way to use LocalDB is to connect to the automatic instance owned by the current user by using the connection string "Server=(localdb)\v11.0;Integrated Security=true". To connect to a specific database by using the file name, connect using a connection string similar to "Server=(LocalDB)\v11.0; Integrated Security=true ;AttachDbFileName=\my_db.mdf".

Next step is to open a connection to automatic instance like this. Replace the old connection string with this:


SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\v11.0;Integrated Security=true");

Hit "F5" and you will see "Connection Opened !" again.

The first time a user on a computer tries to connect to LocalDB, the automatic instance must be both created and started. The extra time for the instance to be create can cause the connection attempt to fail with a timeout message. When this happens, wait a few seconds to let the creation process complete, and then connect again.

Next, we will create our database. Write the following code (replace the old one):


SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\v11.0;Integrated Security=true");

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("create database empdb", con);

con.Open();          
 
Console.WriteLine("Connection Opened !");

cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

Console.WriteLine("Database Created !");

con.Close();

Console.ReadLine();

Hit "F5" and you will see "Connection Opened !" and "Database Created !"

We now have out Connection Set and Database Created.

Where is my database file ???
By default the LocalDB database will be created under "C:/Users//" directory.
To create the database at your desired location, you need to modify your create database statement as:


create database empdb on (name='empdb', filename='c:\my_dir\empdb.mdf')

Next is we need to create a table named "employees". Before we create our table, comment out the lines to create database.
Modify the connection string as:


SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\v11.0;Integrated Security=true; AttachDBFilename=C:\Users\\empdb.mdf");

Next, replace you entire code with the one below if you are facing confusion over commenting out existing code:


SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\v11.0;Integrated Security=true; AttachDBFilename=C:\Users\VNSS\empdb.mdf");

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();

con.Open();

Console.WriteLine("Connection Opened !");

cmd.Connection = con;

cmd.CommandText = @"create table employee (

        srno int identity(1,1) primary key,

        ename varchar(50),

        emailid  varchar(50),

       )";

cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

Console.WriteLine("Table created !");

con.Close();

Console.ReadLine();

Hit "F5" and you will see "Connection Opened !" and "Table Created !"

Now we have the following this with us:

A valid database connection
A database
A table

Next is ... yes, you know the drill, perform CRUD operations on our table. i.e.,

Create new records
Retrieve existing records
Update existing records
Delete existing records

If you know about CRUD, this blog post ends here !

Before we begin, move your SqlConnection and SqlCommand objects outside the Main() method and mark them "static".
Add the below 4 methods:

        static void ReadRecords()
        {
            cmd.CommandText = "select * from employee";
            SqlDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
            if (rdr.HasRows)
            {
                Console.WriteLine();
                while (rdr.Read())
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Id    : " + rdr.GetInt32(0));
                    Console.WriteLine("Name  : " + rdr.GetString(1));
                    Console.WriteLine("Email : " + rdr.GetString(2));
                    Console.WriteLine();
                }
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("No records !");
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
            rdr.Close();
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void AddRecord()
        {
            string name, emailid;
            Console.Write("Enter Name    : ");
            name = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.Write("Enter EmailId : ");
            emailid = Console.ReadLine();
            cmd.Parameters.Clear();
            cmd.CommandText = "insert into employee (ename, emailid) values (@en,@em)";            
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@en", name);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@em", emailid);
            cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
            Console.WriteLine("Record inserted !");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void UpdateRecord()
        {
            int id;
            Console.Write("Enter Employee Id to update: ");
            try
            {
                id = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.ReadLine();
                return;
            }
            string name = "na", emailid = "na";
            Console.Write("Enter Name    : ");
            name = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.Write("Enter EmailId : ");
            emailid = Console.ReadLine();
            cmd.Parameters.Clear();
            cmd.CommandText = "update employee set ename=@en, emailid=@em where srno=@id";
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@en", name);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@em", emailid);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@id", id);
            cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
            Console.WriteLine("Record updated !");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void DeleteRecord()
        {
            int id;
            Console.Write("Enter Employee Id to delete: ");
            try
            {
                id = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.ReadLine();
                return;
            }
            cmd.Parameters.Clear();
            cmd.CommandText = "delete from employee where srno=@id";
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@id", id);
            cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
            Console.WriteLine("Record deleted !");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

Then back in Main() method, add a menu like this:

        static SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\v11.0;Integrated Security=true; AttachDBFilename=C:\Users\\empdb.mdf");
        static SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            con.Open();
            cmd.Connection = con;
            int menu = -11;
            while (menu != 5)
            {
                Console.Clear();
                Console.WriteLine("1. View Records.");
                Console.WriteLine("2. Add Record.");
                Console.WriteLine("3. Update Record.");
                Console.WriteLine("4. Delete Record.");
                Console.WriteLine("5. Exit.");
                Console.Write("Enter choice: ");
                try
                {
                    menu = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
                    switch (menu)
                    {
                        case 1:
                            ReadRecords();
                            break;
                        case 2:
                            AddRecord();
                            break;
                        case 3:
                            UpdateRecord();
                            break;
                        case 4:
                            DeleteRecord();
                            break;
                        case 5:
                            Console.WriteLine("Thank You !");
                            break;
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                    Console.ReadLine();
                }
            }
            con.Close();
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

Compile, fix any errors and run. Add some data and watch the LocalDB take care of your operations.

You will find more details here.

Here is the entire project There, thats all to LocalDB for now. I will post some more interesting topics soon.

Perspective : easy 3D programming with Silverlight 5 RTM

odewit — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:09:00 GMT

While Silverlight 5 has hit its final (? wait and see :-) version, I've updated my work about 3D programming with the Perspective library.

Enjoy !

Customer Needs

Morteza Naeimabadi — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:34:00 GMT

Manage your Project To-Do List using XML

Pirate11 — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:28:00 GMT

Hello all.

In this post I would like to share an app which i made long back. It is a small app which uses XML file for storing data.

This is app is especially useful for someone like me who has to work on multiple projects at a time and keep track of what-to-do-in-which-project ..

I'm sure that majority of developers use separate directories to store their project related data and files. And because of this, many of you end up having a cluttered desktop!

To use this app, all you have to do is, Copy the small exe file of this application in your project folder. Execute the file and start adding your To-Do list. (This is not a virus and will NOT delete your project files)

For WPF developers, this app uses

Transparent Window,
Add/Update/Delete using LINQ-XML,
Read data from XML file into ObservableCollection,
Sorting data when clicking ListViewColumnHeaders and Searching data in ObservableCollection list.

Hope you like it... Enjoy.

Click "here" to download the app.

ValidationDSL WHY,HOW,WHAT

satish1.v — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:31:00 GMT

WHY *** Need is the mother of the invention and the validationDSL is not an exception it's basically need of the hour for me before it become major breakthrough in the software history :) Basically we have a multi tenant application(Multi company/Multi lingual) where the validation and the business rules changes according to the different company. This is really where MVC DataAnnotations are not enough . We need to compose our validation based on some condition so this framework does the work...(read more)

SCADA Software VC++ Source Code Component Solution

ucancode1 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:32:00 GMT

SCADA Software VC++ Source Code Component Solution

The quick and simple way to building SCADA Software with VC++, and the .NET platform

Download this scada & Hmi Sample 0

Download this SCADA Sample 1

Download this SCADA Sample 2

Product Tour E-XD++ and UCCDraw product walkthrough

Screenshots Applications built on E-XD++ ToolKit

Product feature comparison

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Developers prefer ucancode's solutions because they are easy to use, completely customizable, and can deploy to both the desktop and the Web. ucancode is the industry’s leading real-time SPC software, automating quality data collection and analysis

Add Diagrams and SCADA to your applications. E-XD++ Diagrammer brings accurate and intuitive diagrams and dashboards to your c++ desktop applications. It offers a comprehensive set of tools, components and graphic objects for creating visualization, editing and monitoring Windows applications.

With E-XD++ Component, you can add advanced SCADA functionality to your applications. The E-XD++ Library is a 100% VC++ data rendering and visualization system, built specifically for Visual Studio .NET and designed to bring your User Interface to the printed page. Now you only need a few days for building a very powerful label print or report print application.

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Powerful, flexible, and easy to use Diagram Components.
Powerful and flexible enough to create diagrams exactly the way you want them to appear. So easy to use that you will be able to prototype your application in just a few minutes.

Feature rich.
With features such as automatic layout, multiple layers, collapsible sub-graphs, snap-to connection points, XML, SVG, and more, E-XD++ Have the power and flexibility you need to create sophisticated diagrams, quickly and easily. Events such as click, double-click, hover, select, rubber-band select, copy, delete, resize and move are supported. Operations such as drag-and-drop, unlimited undo/redo, and clipboard operations are common and complex, and are expected by today's sophisticated users. it full supports importing ArcGis, SVG and DXF File format.

Performance and Scalability.
UCanCode E-XD++ Capable of handling many thousands of nodes and edges, up to hundreds of thousands depending upon the complexity of the nodes you wish to draw and the operations you wish to allow. Our graphical classes are extremely lightweight objects enabling outstanding performance.

Save Time and Money and gain Reliability.
A diagram is worth 1000 words, and E-XD++ is worth over 500,000 lines of well designed and well tested code! In use by hundreds of the worlds most quality conscious companies. The buy vs. build decision couldn't be more clear. Add advanced functionality and slash thousands of hours of complex coding and years of maintenance.

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The VC++ source codes of this sample is shipped with E-XD++ Library Enterprise Edition, order it now.

MATLAB Drawing and Simulation development engine VC + + source code

ucancode1 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:46:00 GMT

MATLAB Component, MATLAB Software Tool, Drawing and Simulation development engine VC + + source code

MATLAB Simulink^® is an environment for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design for dynamic and embedded systems. It provides an interactive graphical environment and a customizable set of block libraries that let you design, simulate, implement, and test a variety of time-varying systems, including communications, controls, signal processing, video processing, and image processing.

We provide these solutions does not mean that E-XD++ visualization component library can only develop graphical applications in these areas, in fact, E-XD++ with any other third party C + + component libraries, including hundreds can be separated function independently. With QT, MFC, etc., you can independently determine the need for E-XD++ in a function, in general, as long as you need graphics, you need flow charts, control charts, printing, publishing capabilities, simulation, electronic maps, electrical wiring diagrams, forms, etc., you can use the E-XD++ components library, of course, sometimes Maybe you only want to use the E-XD++ provides control without the need for the drop-down color graphics, that's no problem !

The MATLABDemo sample demonstrates how to use E-XD++ to build a matlab like diagramming application with complex diagram drawing and layout, as below. With matlab demo, you build models by dragging and dropping blocks from the library browser onto the graphical editor and connecting them with lines that establish mathematical relationships between the blocks. You can arrange the model by using graphical editing functions, such as copy, paste, undo, align, distribute, and resize.

This is the first diagramming component that supports link to link line feature.

You can use E-XD++ MATLAB Solution to build any your own simuation system quickly and easily, with ShapeDesigner you can design any kind of symbols as you want.

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More than 50 million lines all carefully designed and rigorously tested to provide the source code without any reservations!
Provide more than 400 class C + + extensions, 50 million lines of effective VC + + / MFC source code, sample or solution more than 70 source code, complete and detailed online help system and user documentation, supporting development tools designed!

Powerful, flexible and easy to use graphical visualization of source code libraries.
Powerful and flexible to create a variety of charts to meet your needs. Product design specifications, it is easy to use, in just a few days can be designed according to your needs products. We provide complete support for products, download the trial.

Feature-rich.
Ultra-versatile, such as automatic layout, multi-level collapsible subgraph, cell connection point, XML, DXF, SHP, SVG, etc., can help you quickly create complex and flexible chart. Supports a number of events: such as click, double click, hover, select, rubber band select, copy, delete, resize and move the support. Support the most complex operations: such as drag and drop, unlimited undo / redo and clipboard operations and so on.

Save time and money to obtain reliability.
A picture is worth a thousand words, E-XD++ offer more than 50 million lines of well-designed and well-tested C + + source code! Development takes years, thousands of customers worldwide validation, can save you a lot of development time and money!

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Do not just listen to us say it a try! Our free trial includes all you need to prototype your application. Free technical support.

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Some simple stuff about coding workflow in VS2010

Morteza Naeimabadi — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:04:00 GMT

As I said before share point workflows are based upon windows workflow foundation and you can benefit from the workflow controls available in the toolbox.

IT's a pretty cool feature added to visual studio and it fulfills the need to develop grossly any kind of workflow solutions (specially for sharepoint as our target platform).In the series of "developing share point 2010 workflow's solutions within Visual Studio 2010",I have developed a very very(the second "very" is typed intentionally) simple sequential workflow which just checks for the status of a document library and when the status is equal to "completed" then the workflow finish working.Actually you can extend it by assigning task to the task list associated to the workflow and add some more activity to the workflow designer. You are free to do anything with the sample. The language used in the sample code is c#.I keep developing more realistic solutions in future posts, till then good luck.Preliminaries:Create a document library and name it "myDoc" then add two columns: assignee(user type) and docStatus(choice type) respectively. Add two values to docStatus: InProgress and completed. You can extend the solution by adding a task to task list by getting advantage of assignee column. That’s itDownload the sample from http://www.avarezmahdishar.com/mytestWorkflowCode.rar.

Some sentences one should take into consideration

Morteza Naeimabadi — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:33:00 GMT

I myself should take these considerations.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.(Martin Fouler)

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

The purpose of software engineer is to control complexity, not to create it..

Learn from the mistakes of others;you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself

CAD Software VC++ Library and CAD OCX Control

ucancode1 — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:46:00 GMT

CAD Software VC++ Library and CAD OCX Control

E-XD++ Suite is the leading C++ CAD library for building image-based CAD GUIs.

Rich, custom CAD GUIs for demanding applications
Equip demanding applications with user interfaces that are highly customized and visually rich. XD++ Visualization Component Suite helps you build better displays, fast:

High-performance 2D graphics
Powerful GUI builder
Shorter development time
Reduced maintenance costs
Customizable business graphic objects, charts and diagrams.
support multiple layers drawing.
support import autocad's DXF file.
support measure distance between a list of points.
support measure area.
support draw circle or ellipse with two or three points.
supports drawing multiple kind of dimension shapes.
Printing and preview.
Export with jpeg or bitmap file.
Most important, it is written with 100% VC++/MFC and ships it's full source codes.
etc.

High-performance graphic objects, robust, versatile graphic objects

Display thousands of vector and raster graphic objects
Animate objects (display moving aircraft in air traffic control applications)
Modify objects (display equipment status in real time)
High-performance display and refresh (ideal tool for map displays)

This example shows how to use E-XD++ in CAD component application, including drawing from center, MM_HIMETRIC projecting mode, black background editing and customized printing, vertexes auto-capturing, intersections, etc, as shown below:

UCanCode CAD ActiveX Control

For Visual Basic, C#, Delphi or other languages developers, ucancode had prepared a CAD OCX Control, it's UCanCode CAD ActiveX Control. It has the following features:

1. Can be called with any C#.NET, Java, Delphi or VB languages.

2. Can be used by web.

3. It is based on UCanCode leading CAD solution, all the features of UCanCode CAD Solution can be called with this CAD ActiveX Control.

4. It supports DXF loading, layer, and many kind of advance CAD features.

5. All the features can be full customized.

6. The source codes of this cad control can be purchased with E-XD++ Enterprise Suite.

7. With our consulting service, we can help you do any modify with this cad ocx control to meet your own specify requires.

8. With all the other features of UCanCode Draw Control.

electrical power system analysis tool and Simulation development engine VC + + source code

ucancode1 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:33:00 GMT

ETAP Component, electrical power system analysis tool and Simulation development engine VC + + source code

ETAP is a fully integrated AC and DC electrical power system analysis tool. Engineers use ETAP in thousands of companies and electric utilities worldwide in the design, analysis, maintenance, and operation of electrical power systems.

The ETAPDemo sample demonstrates how to use E-XD++ to build a ETAP like electrical power system analysis tool application, as below. With ETAPDemo , you build models by dragging and dropping blocks from the library browser onto the graphical editor and connecting them with lines that establish mathematical relationships between the blocks. You can arrange the model by using graphical editing functions, such as copy, paste, undo, align, distribute, and resize.

You can use E-XD++ ETAP Solution to build any your own electrical power simuation system quickly and easily, with ShapeDesigner you can design any kind of symbols as you want.

-- UCanCode Consulting Services offer a full range of services to help you implement your own ETAP Like applition with specify requirements,

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Rob's new gig (Kinect for Windows) & new blog (robrelyea.wordpress.com)

Rob_Relyea — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:09:00 GMT

In my last blog post (WPF, Family, Rowing in Feb 2011), I said:

Haven’t been blogging much lately, but you can see a lot of me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rrelyea

Lots has happened since February...and I'm changing blog sites.

Read on...

Rob's Blogging History

An updated history of my blogging sites:

From 2003 to 2006: windows-now.com/blogs/rrelyea (111 posts)
From 2006 to 2008: rrelyea.spaces.live.com (305 posts)

I started when it was: spaces.msn.com/rrelyea
MSN changed their URL scheme to rrelyea.spaces.live.com
In September 2010, MSN got out of the blogging engine business and my content from 2006 to 2008 moved to robrelyea.wordpress.com

From 2008 to 2011: blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea (more than 272 posts)

Yes, my blogging history has been a bit twisted - see "Never change your blog address - oops"

So What Now?

So now my plan is to move all my blogging to the wordpress site...so I'm kind of going back to my 2nd blog - http://robrelyea.wordpress.com

In fact, I just blogged my first new post there with the big news you would have seen on twitter: My shift from WPF-XAML to Kinect for Windows