Localizers often need to extract text from PSD (Photoshop) files, translate them, and put the text back in the PSD files in the appropriate places (layers). I haven’t personally seen anyone using a tool to do this. Is there any tool that can extract and...

I should admit that I am a little rusty as my last post was a while ago. I am interested to find out what content providers do to avoid Japanese Kinsoku issues. This page has a lot of details, but apart from specifying line-break="strict", are there...

Media Center SDK for Windows Vista Beta 2 is now available here for download. The good news is that you do NOT have to be a beta participant to get the SDK now. Install it, try it, and report any problems that you may have. You can leave a comment...

Do you have an AVI file encoded with Indeo codec that stopped displaying video when accessed from a share when your client is XP SP2? That's because XP SP2 blocked the content because of a security problem with the codec. If you should access the content...

So, here I am calling up my credit card company to have my address changed (well, I tried online, and failed to login for some reason). After changing the address, she goes: “do you want to add account protection to your card?” Me: “Yes...

This may be a no-brainer, but I thought I'd post it anyway. If you have a C++ class in an unmanaged dll what is the best way to call it from C#? 1. You need to wrap the C++ class in a COM object or expose the class through dll exports. Managed code...

Obviously, no! We are trying everything we can to make it less painful for the developers. Most of the time, the hard question is whether or not the P/Invoke signature is accurate. Now that we have a sample that shows P/Invoke signature for methods...

I often see questions like this in various forums: We are about start the coding phase of our project. We would like to validate our architecture against someone with expertise in DCOM/Remoting/--Add your technology here--. We probably need a week...

Another FAQ. Short answer: may be. Shorter answer: no. To be honest: no supported way. CoQueryClientBlanket() will give "some information", such as the user name and domain name, but unfortunately, there is no way of obtaining the client machine name...

As I look through the feedback for my post, I thought it may be a good idea that I propose this: feel free to post your Remoting related questions in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.remoting newsgroup. The newsgroup is pretty active with some MS guys...

Ferris Beuller asked me in response to my previous post: Why can the serializer not serialize types that implement IDictionary? SortedList in types cannot be serialized, you get an InvalidOperationException with the innerexception of {"The type System...

Applications that used to work well in Framework 1.0 give System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException when run under Framework 1.1. The exception has this format: System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Because of security restrictions...

My Name is Santhosh Pillai. I am a Technical Lead in the Microsoft Developer Support Organization. Till recently I used to support OLE, COM, DCOM, .NET Remoting, and COM Interop technologies. I am moving to Multimedia support soon, but most of the posts...