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I've recently been working on implementing an IHttpService that can work outside of a MonoBehaviour and call out to web services asynchronously. Rather than providing my IHttpService.JsonPost method with callbacks I decided to have it return a Promise, the code for which I took from this  Real Serious Games  GitHub repository. The problem is that when you use WebClient's async methods they call back the Complete events on the worker thread, so code like this won't work because you cannot manipulate UI from any thread other than the main one. httpService.JsonPost<MyInfo>(url)   .Then(myInfo => someTextUiObject.text = myInfo.Name); And there seems to be no kind of thread Dispatcher in Unity3D for UI updates as there is in Windows.Forms - so I wrote my own. using System.Collections; using System; using System.Threading; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine; public class UiThreadDispatcher : Singleton<MonoBehaviour> {     st...

Over the past year I've been spending my time contracting for a company in Norway. Now that project is completed it is time for me to start playing again, so I thought I'd pick up an old Node Express project. This time I intend to use TypeScript instead of Javascript. I'd also like to write unit tests and dependency injection - both are something I'm very familiar with in the C# world, but not in Node. I'm going to use this blog to record what I did; I will undoubtedly revisit some of these posts and make changes as I learn. In this first blog I intend to cover how to get up and running with Node, Express, and WebStorm (optional) from a fresh installation of Ubuntu Linux. The first thing we need to do is use apt-get to install Node. sudo apt-get install nodejs I've noticed that some Linux apps will look for a command "node" and others will look for "nodejs", so after installing I want to make an alias so that both commands...

I have this problem because I have to develop with VS running as administrator in order to use Local IIS hosting. When files are added (or generated by compiling) I think VS was setting the owner as Administrator, which IIS then cannot read. Start a command prompt as Administrator and type in the following icacls c : \devpath\yourwebsite / grant everyone :( OI )( CI ) F / T

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If you have an office VSTO plugin that is working in other versions of Office but not appearing in Office 2007 then try setting the following registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General\ Name = EnableLocalMachineVSTO Value (DWORD) = 1

A typescript example that converts the array's property into a single string that can be watched. $scope . $watch ( () => this . someArray . map ( x => x . selected ? "1" : "0" ). join ( "" ), ( newValue , oldValue , scope ) => this . onSelectionChanged ( this . getSelectedItems ()));

Here is a TypeScript example of how to call back a method on the controller from an embedded directive. The most important thing to note is that the directive's parameter name for your callback uses a & when defined, and when calling that callback you should not use positional parameters but instead use an object with properties having the names of the parameters in the target. Register the directive when you create your app module: module MyApp { var app : angular . IModule = angular . module ( "MyApp" ); MyApp . Directives . FileUploader . register ( app ); } The registration code is as follows: module MyApp . Directives . FileUploader { class FileUploaderDirective implements angular . IDirective { public restrict : string = "E" ; public templateUrl : string = "/app/Directives/FileUploader/FileUploaderDirective.html" ; //IMPORTANT - Use & to identify this as a method reference ...