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Guy Eden has released a new project to OpenUp : This solution deals with transferring huge DataTables over WCF and .NET Remoting. When transporting large DataTables between a Server and a remote Client, there are several issues; that stem from .NET serialization. Serialization of a large DataTable is memory thirsty. A large enough DataTable will cause the client to get System.OutOfMemoryException, or System.InsufficientMemoryException. Those exceptions cannot be caught at the server side, as they...
Silverlight 2 is great technology, but some of very handy User Controls are still missing from it. Alex Golesh has released to openup a project called Silverlight Tree View that provides Tree View user control for Silverlight 2. *NOTE: current code was ported from WPF source code and corresponds to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Thanks Alex !
Eran Steinmetz has released a project called MOSS 2007 Open Calais Integration to OpenUp . What is OpenCalais ? The Calais Web Service automatically creates rich semantic metadata for the content you submit – in well under a second. Using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods, Calais analyzes your document and finds the entities within it. But, Calais goes well beyond classic entity identification and returns the facts and events hidden within your text as well. This metadata...
Sasha Goldshtein and Alon Fliess have released a very interesting project called Non-Paged CLR Host to OpenUp , Microsoft open source competition. This project is a custom CLR host that can provide significant performance improvements for applications that consume large amounts of memory. This is accomplished by locking all CLR-allocated pages into physical memory. Running an application under this host can guarantee that paging will not occur even if other applications on the system are allocating...
Alex Golesh has release String-To-PathGeometry Converter to OpenUp . About the project: "Silverlight 2 is great technology. But for some developers who used to work with WPF there are some missed helper classes, which are very handy. One of them is “PathFigureCollectionConverter” object, which accepts string with figure path definition and convert it to Geometry object. This project provides similar functionality for Silverlight 2: it accepts string with path definition, and return PathGeometry...
Rotem Bloom has submitted to openup a nice, small and free .NET tool that display useful information on .NET DLL (Assembly). The tool shows information like: 1) Compilation mode Debug\Release. 2) .NET Assembly full name. 3) .NET Assembly references. Thanks Rotem,
Eyal Post has released an open source project to OpenUp called WCF Extras . WCF Extras is a collection of useful WCF extensions including Soap Header support, WSDL documentation etc. The WCF platform is very extensible and allows you to easily add features that are not part of the core product. This project contains some extensions needed in a WCF based project: SOAP Header support for WCF Adding WSDL Documentation from Source Code XML Comments Override SOAP Address Location URL Single WSDL file...
Sagi Levi has released a project to OpenUp that enables you to to add text to an image. If this is something you need or just interested in how it is done, check it out here . This reminds me of a cool web site where you can generate things like this: Thanks Sagi.
We got 3 new games submitted to OpenUp , All these application are free and open source software: Gil Shinnar and Simon Grinberg have released WPF poker , a simple WPF base poker for local area networks. The project is developed under Visual Studio 2008 and uses .NET 3.5. Eyal Vardi has contributed a Sudoku Puzzle application. Omer Hanetz has released SnakeX , a Direct3D based snake game (using C# and .NET Framework 3.5). This game demonstrates basic DirectX usage. SnakeX uses basic Direct3D components...
Here is another OpenUp project, with an hilarious name: About Tipeysh - "Are you also feel miserable when you need to create a new header file in your Visual Studio C/C++ project? Repeatedly choosing "new header file", then writing the annoying (but needed) "#ifndef" section, then writing the class name with it's "private", "protected" and "public" access modifiers... too much clicks and typewriting! Well, there is a solution: Tipeysh! is...
Yinon Eliraz has released a Video Player application to openup , our open source competition: This simple .NET based application allows you to control Video from the DirectX library. The code is designed in VisualBasic2008 - a NET framework, it is a simple and easy to understand. Using this Video player you can play many Video formats, inside the code there is, in addition to the Video controller, an Audio controller in which I decided not to use. The Video player have simple functions such as- Playing...
Eyal Vardi has submitted three new open source projects to OpenUp: CAB WorkItem Visualizations is upgrade to Sample Visualizations. this Visualizations show the WorkItem hierarchy, Worksapce, SmartPart, Command, Events, State and Items. CAB WorkItem Visualizations contains 3 main windows: 1. CAB WorkItem Visualizations hierarchy tree. 2. Properties Windows. 3. Control Visualizer, show the Workspace and SmartPart. WPF Recursion Controls presents a simple language for drawing pictures that illustrates...
Shidonni , an Israeli startup has released a preview of their new, Silverlight based, game for kids. The basic idea is that you draw a creature and then feed it and take care of it and its offspring. They really show the potential of Silverlight and what can be done with this technology on the web. The guys there have done a great job and my kid played with it for a very long time :)
Tamir Khason has contributed a great set of projects to OpenUp, Microsoft open source competition . WebCam control for WPF : Reusable WPF control to display high frame rate video such as WebCam or framegrabber DirectShow output. This control uses InteropBitmap introduced in .NET framework 3.5 and managed DirectShow P/Invoke. This control does not uses DirectShow.net library, so it's completely independent. Silverlight controls library : This is the library of WPF (and not only WPF) controls,...
We have received submission of several projects to the OpenUp open source competition and we are updating the competition site as I write this post. Here is the first project submitted to the competition: Project Name: TFSUndoUtility Project Description : Neat little utility that scans a teamsystem source-control tree and finds all locked pending changes. With a simple double-click, you can undo the change, thus unlocking the file (given you have the sufficient permissions,of course). Very useful...
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