Archive for June, 2004

Cancelling a SOAP function call

A newsgroup user asked "Is it possible to cancel waiting for the webservice to return the result of a function?" To be extremely brief: Yes. Less succinctly, the answer lies in the ingenious use of threads. Firstly, if you’re going to have a single threaded application, you can’t stop a function call while it’s […]

Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 30th, 2004 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Launched from a shortcut?

If you would EVER need a way to check if your application was launched from a shortcut, rather than accessing the EXE itself, this article should help. Now why you would want to do this is, frankly, beyond my imagination. The only thing I can think of is that on XP/2000, you can choose […]

Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 24th, 2004 under Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

The FileZilla FTP Client

There are tons of FTP clients out there, I know. But if you will, check out FileZilla. Awesome client…I used it to do a ton of uploads/downloads - very impressive in terms of speed and features.
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Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 22nd, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Introducing "AltInvoke"

I’ve started getting all sorts of ideas now with this Microsoft page giving you alternatives to common PInvoke calls. My first set: Include it in my PBroker tool - now you have a "Get Alternatives" button that gives you…well, alternatives for your PInvoke calls. The first screen shot: (Click for a larger pic) And you […]

Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 22nd, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

.NET equivalents of Unmanaged calls

You have to check this site if you’re even thinking of using PInvoke. Read: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/win32map.asp It contains the equivalents of a number of Win32 functions. Now that gets me thinking….
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Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 22nd, 2004 under Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Shenoy In BusinessWorld

Seems I made it into a news article on Business World (India). But the Nokia 7650 was my old phone. My new phone is a Sony Ericsson P900. And the Sony even runs .NET apps, through something called Crossfire. Haven’t tried it yet, but this definitely looks interesting. Of course, the phone is Symbian OS […]

Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 22nd, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

First post

Hello and Welcome to my Blog. You can read some of my posts at my other blog. Will try to get some of that stuff in here as well.
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Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 18th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

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