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The OpenUp competition is ending in three weeks so time is running out on project submissions! Up until now we received submissions for many cool and popular projects starting from games to frameworks and controls, all the way to environmental friendly projects. The following projects have already won a Mobile Memory Mouse 8000: The winner for July was: Daniel Cohen – DNA Studio Defrost Outlook http://www.codeplex.com/defrostoutlook The winners for June were: Gil Shinnar and Simon Grinberg WPF poker...
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...
Daniel Cohen has released a popular project (that got into lifehacker ) called Defrost Outlook to OpenUp : Daniel - "Outlook 2007 sp1 freezes or hangs in some occasions. Until a formal fix release from Microsoft , we want to help in the meanwhile." Thanks Daniel!
Tamir Khason has create a handy free program , that knows to backup and restore all wireless networks setting from your computer. Tamir has released this program to OpenUp . Why is this tool useful? - "For some reason, there is no way to do it by using regular Windows Vista tools. This feature is extremely useful, when you have to reinstall your computer or use the same settings of wireless networks for different machines" Thanks Tamir!
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...
Shai Raiten has released a really cool, and free, gmail desktop application to OpenUp called GSender . Gsender is a simple Gmail desktop application that you can now use to send emails with your Gmail account, moreover no configuration is needed to run the application. Gsender features include - Drag and Drop attachment, Schedule email, add and remove contacts and more… Thanks Shai!
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...
Roni Furer has released a great green open source project call TurningOffService to OpenUp . About the project: By turning off your computer instead of leaving it in sleep mode, you can save 40 watt-hours per day. That adds up to 4 cents a day, or $14 per year. Turning off a computer extends its lifetime, contrary to some misconceptions. Leaving a computer running the whole year will cost you more than 1,000 kWh/y, or almost as much a the total electricity consumption of a high-efficiency household...
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...
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