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I was told today to not worry cross-thread execution when... [I was told today to not worry cross-thread execution when...]

Verdant — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:14:03 GMT

....Using multiple threads, we were taught to just run the code outside vs and the debugger, which seems to work, but also seems completly wrong to me.

From a WinForms Form Object:

tKey = new Thread(ReadKeyboard);

public void ReadKeyboard()
{
Text = "Keyboard acquired";
}

can someone verify that this is bad practice or otherwise?

i don't like skipping the debugger, so i used:
main.Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate() { Text = "Keyboard acquired"; }));

is this an acceptable "workaround"?

edit: main being a reference to the form object

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IGComBOT [IGComBOT]

Verdant — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:07:54 GMT

Me and my team just completed our 2D WiiMote and/or Keyboard controlled game.

We had 16 weeks, as part of a project management course in the B.IT program at carleton university.
The project is available on codeplex

As time was severely limited (this was only one component of a large course, which was part of a full course load) we didn't get all the features we wanted into it.

The game is written in C# targetting .NET 2.0 and using the DirectX managed library.

Please download and give it a shot, and give us some feedback if you have a WiiMote and bluetooth you can control one player with it.

I am proud of what we accomplished, my team (besides myself) had never even heard of C# before this term, and i'd never written a game or used DirectX in any capacity.

you can also learn about some of our basics here
here is a gameplay video

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XML Comments for C# namespaces and Creating Installer for .NET project? [XML Comments for C# namespaces and Creating Installer for .NET project?]

Verdant — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:28:33 GMT

I have spent an inordinate amount of time meticulously adding xml comments to my school team's first real C# project.

I am using Sandcastle Help File Builder (SCHB) to build an html based documentation site. But it adds to all my namespaces:

[Missing namespace summary documentation for N:Namespace]

Where can i specify this? i tried adding it above the namespace definition in one of the code files, but it didn't like that...

Also, we would like to generate an installer, the requirements would be that it copy the application files, install fonts, install directx 9 if required and install .NET 2.0 distribution if required... any idea how i might go about generating such an installer?

Edit: I forgot to mention, we are using Visual Studio 2008 Pro, and our budget is 0$, 0£ or 0€, for those of you who have difficulty with the currency conversion.
Edit 2: This actually an interesting project, i think, it will be posted to codeplex within a couple weeks, I'll post the link here for anyone who is interested.

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Cheap ASP.NET Hosting [Cheap ASP.NET Hosting]

Verdant — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:22:25 GMT

I was just wondering if anyone can offer suggestions for cheap ASP.NET (/w 3.5, esp AJAX) webhosts?

I just want a personal space for my portfolio and blog.

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using a Managed DLL from an unmanaged one? [using a Managed DLL from an unmanaged one?]

Verdant — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:23:38 GMT

I am working on a software research project that is entirely in C#, however now we want to have a maya plugin that utilizes some of the functionality from the C# code.

Maya expects an unmanaged dll, which is fine i don't mind writting that.

However, i need to make hooks to the C# code and vice versa, i have no problems accessing my unmanaged dll from C# using InteropServices, but i do not know how to access the managed code from the unmanaged C++, any hints?

I am sure this is possible, but i have never done it.

If anyone has any suggestions for a purely managed solution, i would be thankful

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