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I'm trying to use a animated GIF file on my splash screen. The GIF is placed inside of a picture box. The picture shows fine but the animation doesn't work. When I use the GIF in any other form the animation works. It just won't work on the splash screen. Any Ideas?
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There could be several things wrong, but you need to be more specific about how you're dealing with your splash screen, since it could be implemented in countless different ways.
The important thing is that you always modify a control - like change the PictureBox.Image property if that's what you're doing - in the thread on which the control was created. You can do this using the InvokeRequired property and the Invoke method, both of which include an example of using them (they're defined by the Control class and, thus, inheritted by every derivative class).
If you're doing this on a timer's event handler (like the System.Windows.Forms.Timer component), than you are doing this in a different thread and the results are undefined.
This is, most likely, the problem you're having.
Now, if you mean the GIF is animated and your PictureBox isn't animating it, please post some additional code to help us understand how you're using the control.
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hello techies,
I written a C# application which executes few stored procedures against the database(MSsql 7.0) .While executing stored procs thru my appln, sometimes it throws sql exception saying "Time expired when running the scripts". But it happens only 2 out of every 10 test runs..
Is there a way to overcome this problem
rgds,
jagan
ps; I donot have that many connections to SQL server as well.
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Time your stored procedure. One very simplistic way is something like this:
DateTime start = DateTime.Now;
try
{
connection.Open();
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
finally
{
connection.Close();
TimeSpan span = DateTime.Now - start;
}Again, this is very simplistic.
If you need to adjust your timeout for the command (not for the connection, which probably isn't the problem) - and do so intelligently since changing the timeout for invalid commands can make your program take needlessly longer to return in err - then change the CommandTimeout property of whatever IDbCommand implementation you're using (like SqlCommand).
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Heath Stewart wrote:
invalid commands can make your program take needlessly longer to return in err
Heath - what do you mean by "invalid command"? The call to the DB should return as soon as the DB is done processing it, regardless of the timeout right? So if the command is invalid, wouldn't the DB return some type of syntax error immediately?
Well, now that I think about it, if the application allowed the user to enter an arbitrary query, I guess the user could do something silly that took forever to execute which would effectively hang the app until the timeout was reached. Is this the type of situation you are referring to?
Brian
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Brian Nottingham wrote:
Well, now that I think about it, if the application allowed the user to enter an arbitrary query
Unless you're writing some database management tool, an application should never let a user enter an arbitrary query. There should always be some kind of control over what the user can enter.
"Invalid commands" may be a little overly broad but consider cases where a stored proc might connect to a remote data store (another database, XML, etc.). "Invalid command", depending on the scope of the problem, could also mean that the condition is to general and would select too many records for the intended use of the data. It doesn't necessary mean there's a syntax error.
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Heath Stewart wrote:
an application should never let a user enter an arbitrary query
Totally agree.
Heath Stewart wrote:
select too many records for the intended use of the data
I guess thats what i was getting at, but with the added twist that the user was allowed to enter it. The programmer should have an idea of the data the database may contain, and write the queries appropriately. If you know its going to take a while, increase the timeout. Which is what you already said a few posts ago, so... yeah...
Brian
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Unfortunately, most programmers are human and not only make mistakes but can't account for every possibility. Many uses for Code Access Security are to ensure that code isn't used inappropriately - protection against such a check.
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Thank you guys.. would get back to after i try out this option..
cheers,
jagan
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Hello folks,
The latest project involves a collection of large (multi-MB) images; I'm working on set of controls including an interactive thumbnail display and an image list; when the user selects an item in the list, a thumbnail is highlighted. When the user clicks a thumbnail, the corresponding item is selected in the list.
The problem here is that I load Bitmaps for each image, and then just draw them in a small rectangle. So I've got these huge hogging Bitmaps drawing in little spaces leading me to believe I'm wasting memory. Is there some way you can get a "low quality" thumbnail of a massive image file without loading the entire file into memory? "Skim" the file, or something like that.
If that is really difficult, is there a way I can load the huge files into memory only initially and just store them as tiny thumbnail Bitmap objects? Thanks!
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If you load the images into memory and draw them into a smaller bitmap, then call the dispose method of the larger ones, that will do the trick. I dunno of an efficient way to read the file off disc and build a smaller bitmap, but I guess it may be possible. Scanning the file to build a smaller bitmap is easy, I just dunno how the disc access part would work, or if it would be faster to seek to individual bytes, as opposed to reading the whole thing in one go.
Christian
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Just a thought:
Windows Explorer is able do create thumbnail display for most file types these days. If you can programmatically invoke the process, you will get the ‘thumbs.db’ file. Using some API you would be able to able to read it and show the thumbnails without wasting much resources. Search in this direction. 
Second way: You can have a service which creates thumbnails for all files in a predefined folder, like google’s picasa. You can use a third party library to generate the thumbnails. I believe there are free libraries for this purpose.  (ImageGear is a library I worked on, but its not free)
Hope this gives a direction.
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Thanks both of you for the quick responses. Right now I'm going with the simpler answer from Christian . I'd rather do things full-out but who knows if the managers would agree...
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I'm putting together something like the Snippet Compiler, and I am having fits trying to figure out how to add a .licenses file to the EXE.
It's sort of a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" problem.
Given a .licx file, I can use the lc.exe utility to generate a .licenses file. Then, I can use the /res: compiler switch to embed the generated resource.
BUT, you have to provide the .EXE file to the lc utility, which DOESN'T EXIST YET!!! Argh!
So, I'm thinking the approach is:
1. compile and generate the EXE
2. use lc to generate the .licx file
3. use al to embed the .licenses resource into the EXE
But I'm stumped on how to do step 3, or even if it's right!
Any ideas?
Marc
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Advanced Unit Testing
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Nick Parker wrote:
Marc, I came across this article that might be helpful.
I already found that link yesterday, but thanks! It was quite helpful, but the problem is that the EXE already exists, so you have something to use for the /target: switch.
I'm hoping that I don't have to resort to compiling the entire assembly, then recompiling it with the /res switch after building the .licenses file.
And then, there's dealing with older style licensing that used a .LIC file--here VS does something yet again different, as the instructions for the component says that the .LIC file has to be in the same folder as the assembly you're linking against.
Oh, and to make matters even more interesting, if I use the /res: option to add my .licenses file, then another component (from DevExpress) all of a sudden says that IT is missing licensing information.
Good grief. What a nightmare. I wonder if MonoSharpDevelop has solved these problems. 
Marc
MyXaml
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You don't need the compiled executable, only to specify the executable name. This helps name the .licenses file appropriately, nothing more.
Now, you would run into a problem if the control you wanted to license was in the .EXE in which you wanted to embed the .licenses file, but nothing that can't be overcome with a three-stage compilation like you outlined above.
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Heath Stewart wrote:
You don't need the compiled executable, only to specify the executable name.
Hehe. I just figured that out about an hour ago! Dang, I wish the documentation would have made this clear. I assumed from the description that the target had to exist!
Thanks!
Marc
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I agree. targetPE makes it seem like the PE/COFF is required. Be sure to send feedback about that link. It actually does get read.
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I've been working today on a metronome application in C#.
I'm using a System.Windows.Forms.Timer variable named "Clock" as my timer.
I've implemented basic tempo change functionality by means of a trackbar as follows.
private void tbTempo_Scroll(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Clock.Interval = 60000/(tbTempo.Value);
}
I would now like to implement "accented beats". If a bar has 4 beats, I want the 4th beat to sound different from the preceding 3.
Put another way, the first three ticks result in, say, DrumNormal.wav being played and the next tick results in DrumAccent.wav being played.
This is repeated till the user presses the "Stop" button.
Could I get some tips on how I can implement this?
Thanks!
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I think the modulus operator would work well for you in this situation. Without going into the details, if you have:
int result = someValue % 4;
Then result will be zero if and only if someValue is divisible by 4. I think you can use this information to build a solution to your problem.
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Brian, thanks for your suggestion. It did, indeed, work very well!
private void Clock_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
count++;
if ((count % 4) == 0)
AccentBeatBuffer.Play(0,0);
else
NormalBeatBuffer.Play(0,0);
}
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Hi All,
This is my first post in the C# section. Hope I get a reply.
In my windows form application I have a TreeView on the left side of a splitter control. Tree nodes can have 2 labels say, A and B.
If the user selects a node with A label on it, I want to show a form with some controls on the right side of the splitter.
If the user selects a node with B label on it, I want to show a different form with different controls on the right side of the splitter.
Can anyone suggest a method for form switching the way I want?
Please dont ask me to use only one form and show and hide controls depending on the tree node selection.
Your help will be much appreciated.
TIA
Binayak
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You could have also used User Controls. They would have been easier to work with since they would have each been their own class.
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