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Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by How to make Asynchronous Web requests in C# WPF | FaceColony.org – Developers Network

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:51:46 +0000

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Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by Sean

Sean — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:24:57 +0000

Sounds like you have some hardware problem with your CD/DVD drive–or there is already a disk in the drive.

Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by Sean

Sean — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:24:14 +0000

I think pretty much anywhere you like–just as long as they’re in scope for the code that uses the delegate type.

Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by Katherine Hord

Katherine Hord — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:48:17 +0000

OK, how do I get the disk into the machine? I’m reinstalling on a laptop — had to replace the hard drive so it’s completely blank. The laptop has one of those disk drives that sucks the disk into the maching and I can’t get it to suck it in!

Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by PEte

PEte — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:03:11 +0000

I can’t see where to place the delegate declarations.

Comment on Silverlight 4 Project Types part III – Silverlight Class Library by chim3v

chim3v — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:18:54 +0000

Sean,
Thank you for this blog post.
Its really nice and helpful for me.

Comment on .NET Basics – Do Work in Background Thread to Keep GUI Responsive by Sean

Sean — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:44:45 +0000

Take a look at – http://www.albahari.com/threading/ for a good intro to threading.

Comment on .NET Basics – Do Work in Background Thread to Keep GUI Responsive by hollidevil

hollidevil — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:12:07 +0000

Excellent work…can you provide links where I could study in depth about Threads and their types and all..
Thanks

Comment on Session – Offline-Enabled Data Services by Sean

Sean — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:16:10 +0000

There’s a Stack Overflow comment on this, at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1827795/is-ado-net-data-service-offline-astoria-offline-dead-any-plan-b . Possibly ADO.NET Sync Services replaced Astoria Offline, or is what Astoria Offline became known as. The Sync Framework page on MSDN is a good place to start – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sync/bb736753 . Looks like the Sync Framework is still alive and well.

Comment on Session – Offline-Enabled Data Services by Smitha

Smitha — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:25:40 +0000

What happened with Astoria Offline ? I could not find any CTP. We are urgently looking for solution to take WCF data Service offline.
So want to confirm if Astoria offline is still in existence ?

Comment on Silverlight 4 Project Types part III – Silverlight Class Library by Greg

Greg — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:12:42 +0000

I enjoyed reading your blog post. Very well explained and consise..

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Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by Einar Jón

Einar Jón — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:14:45 +0000

Very nice code, although the zip file is not available (your whole website seems to be out atm).

I save to a file by adding a FileStream variable to the WebRequestState, then initialize it with something like
outFile = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None);
in the ctor and a
reqState.outFile.Write(reqState.bufferRead, 0, bytesRead);
into the ReadCallback() function.

Works fine, even with doing multiple consecutive downloads (the labels and progress bar don’t handle it, but that’s easy to fix).

Comment on About Me by Sean

Sean — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:08:23 +0000

Seems to work fine for me.

Comment on About Me by Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:48:57 +0000

Your email address on your personal website is refusing emails.

Comment on BUILD Conference Notes #2 – Keynote, part II – Building Applications by BUILD: Keynote Day 2 Notes – F# 3.0 and More » Lab49 Blog

BUILD: Keynote Day 2 Notes – F# 3.0 and More » Lab49 Blog — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:59:07 +0000

[...] offers notes from day 2 of BUILD. Sean provides a few screen shots – Platform and Tools. Michael offers some documentation links – of particular interest, [...]

Comment on BUILD Conference Notes #2 – Keynote, part II – Building Applications by BUILD: Keynote Day 2 Notes – F# 3.0 and More « Tales from a Trading Desk

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:47:40 +0000

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Comment on Windows 8 Developer Preview Install Screenshots by Sammelthread Windows 8?

Sammelthread Windows 8? — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:45:10 +0000

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Comment on Notes on Office 365 Launch by Sean

Sean — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:42:16 +0000

Ok, it looks like this was a re-broadcast of the Office 365 launch from 28 Jun 2011. Available here – http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/office/online/videoGallery.aspx?contentID=365LaunchKeynote

I’m not sure why this fired up for me on the BUILD live stream yesterday. Perhaps they were re-broadcasting just to share the info again. Or perhaps it was a glitch with the Akamai stream and still sitting out there from the 28-Jun event. At any rate, it’s good info!

Comment on Notes on Office 365 Launch by Sean

Sean — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:31:21 +0000

The Office 365 launch was not part of the keynote, no. But it did show up on the BUILD live stream at 7AM PST, so I assumed it was part of BUILD. On the other hand, it was possibly a re-broadcast of an earlier event. Perhaps something that happened on Monday?

Comment on Notes on Office 365 Launch by David

David — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:49:05 +0000

Did this actually happen today, Sep 13 2011? There doesn’t seem to be an Office 365 session, 9am Central is 7am in Anaheim, and the keynote was more about Windows 8…

Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by sajeer

sajeer — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:39:20 +0000

Exellent:)

Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by wonky

wonky — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:47:32 +0000

Excellent, thanks for your prompt reply! I appreciate it. I’m quite savvy and perform builds etc regularly, but never knew how to do this.

Cheers mate!

Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by Sean

Sean — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:23:18 +0000

Thanks, good question. I ran the install in a virtual machine and then did screen captures on the host. (Normal method–Ctrl-PrtScrn).

Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by wonky

wonky — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:47:17 +0000

hi there.

Excellent tutorial, however I am wondering how you can capture screen shots during installation?

Are you capturing them via a phone or something?

Thanks in advance……

Comment on Simple Water Animation in WPF by Sean

Sean — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:28:02 +0000

Thanks Mike!

Comment on Simple Water Animation in WPF by Mike Tschudi

Mike Tschudi — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:56:06 +0000

Thanks, Sean, for a helpful sample of what one can do with mesh animation and how to do it. And it’s fun to watch!

Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by Sean

Sean — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:44:15 +0000

De nada. Writing C# code is almost as fulfilling as listening to Fado !

Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by Bruno de Carvalho

Bruno de Carvalho — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:59:09 +0000

Hey Sean,

Thanks a lot for this article. It’s been invaluable in understanding the shady depths of asynchronous execution of HttpWebRequest’s in .NET.

Keep up the awesome work!

Cheers

Comment on .NET Basics – Do Work in Background Thread to Keep GUI Responsive by Gold Post

Gold Post — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:23:33 +0000

Andreas,
It is not a good idea to use he finally block for normal code execution. Exceptions are for errors. Also, when an exception is thrown, the performance of the app stinks.

Sean,
Great article!

Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by vijayshankar

vijayshankar — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:47:22 +0000

thanks a lot for the needful help hope a great success ahead in your website

Comment on How to Reboot Machine While Connected Through Remote Desktop by Mike

Mike — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:15:38 +0000

Why not just keep RDP running on the default port on all the computers and have your router forward different ports to port 3395 on different computers. Seems easier than reconfiguring each computer to run RDP on a different port.

Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by Pavan

Pavan — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:19:40 +0000

thank you so much and this screen shot installation has helped on many occassions and you rockkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on .NET Basics – Do Work in Background Thread to Keep GUI Responsive by Andreas Wawa

Andreas Wawa — Thu, 26 May 2011 11:59:15 +0000

Thanks Sean for your excellent work!!
Simply put: when I’ve a button fireing several Methods in row(gathering infos, copying files (some 2 GB, i takes time..), installing, doSomeScripts, another_install etc.) and EVERY single method MUST wait for previous one to be acomplished (there is no point in installing when the files still are not copied!) all what I need to do, is just put then next method (say after copying the next one is installing()) in finally-block of “bgWorker_RunWorkerCompleted” method??
Andreas

Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by Gal pasternak

Gal pasternak — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:39:36 +0000

Is there any file size limitations with this implementation ?

Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by Sean

Sean — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:49:38 +0000

Yes, you can certainly do file downloads (server-to-client) in ASP.NET. If you want to do an asynchronous download, take a look at Jeff Prosise’s article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163725.aspx

You might also look at this articles:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/Download_Track.aspx

or take a look at the All-In-One Code Framework for ASP.NET, at:
http://1code.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ASP.NET

Comment on Using HttpWebRequest for Asynchronous Downloads by Gal pasternak

Gal pasternak — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:01:38 +0000

Any way of implementing this with ASP.NET ?
I need to create an Asynchronous huge file download but it must be asp.net I cant install anything on the client.

any help will be appreciated

Comment on How Do I Bring Up Task Manager from a Remote Desktop Session? by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:15:49 +0000

You rock, this saved my bacon!

Comment on Windows 7 Install Screenshots by PRADIP

PRADIP — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:01:51 +0000

it would be good if we had a parallel installation option included in this screen shot so that we can even save the personal data on the computer

Comment on How to Reboot Machine While Connected Through Remote Desktop by Ashu

Ashu — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:33:54 +0000

That works great!!