Windows App : Set an image in ListViewSubItem

For background details about the error, see this link...
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winforms/thread/229d8b6e-f167-48ee-aa2e-931e6ee7eb2b/


If you really do wanna set an image in ListVewSubItem, it's a bit tricky. You've to handle the following events of a list view
DrawSubItem
DrawColumnHeader


Now implement DrawColumnHeader

private void ListViewDrawColumnHeader(object sender, DrawListViewColumnHeaderEventArgs e)
        {
            e.DrawDefault = true;
        }

And DrawSubItem

private void ListViewDrawSubItem(object sender, DrawListViewSubItemEventArgs e)

{

       if (e.ColumnIndex == 1)

       {

          ((TriboldExtendedListView) sender).FullRowSelect = true;

if (e.ColumnIndex == 1)
{
//This allows window to draw background otherwise your column would be blank in //anyway
e.DrawBackground();
//Draw you graphics here
e.Graphics.DrawImage(img, new System.Drawing.RectangleF(e.Item.Position.X + Columns[0].Width - 10, e.Item.Position.Y, img.Width*(fScale), img.Height*(fScale)));
//Draw your text here
e.DrawText(TextFormatFlags.Left);


//This is something really important if you want to set the highlighted color //(windows blue) to the ListViewSubItem
e.Item.UseItemStyleForSubItems = false;
if (e.Item.Selected)
{
 e.Item.SubItems[1].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(51, 153, 255);
 e.Item.SubItems[1].ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(255, 255, 255);
}
else
{
 e.Item.SubItems[1].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(229, 229, 229);
 e.Item.SubItems[1].ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0);
}
}}

}

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WCF service giving socket connection time-out error

After spending about 3 hrs on this I came to know that I was doing a silly mistake. Here is the full scenerio...


I've created a class named ChangeSet inheriting from the interface IChangeSet. I wrapped up the result in a wrapper called GetAllLaunchEntitysResponse and returning from the proxy class as follows:


        public GetAllLaunchEntitysResponse GetAllChangeSetList()
        {
            using (var factory = new TriboldChannelFactory<IChangeSetService>("IChangeSetService"))
            {
                return factory.CreateChannel().GetAllChangeSet();
            }
        }


Also, before doing that, I've already created a WCF service and proxy to call the service endpoint. The function GetAllChangeSet() returns a list of change set interface (List<IChangeSet>) wrapped in GetAllLaunchEntitysResponse object from the DAL. 


I was getting the following error from the WCF service when calling from a proxy service.

The socket connection was aborted. This could be caused by an error
processing your message or a receive timeout being exceeded by the remote
host, or an underlying network resource issue. Local socket timeout was
'00:01:00'.

First thing that came in my mind is to check the configuration files. The endpoint was already set in the config file for both client & server as well. The timeout setting was set for 5 minutes...so that was not the case of time-out but something else which was triggering this error to raise.


Then I start thinking if there might exists any complex data-types present in ChangeSet class causing problem in serialization. So I commented complex data types and keep Int & string data-types only and call the service. Result was the same as before.


Then I change the return type from List<IChangeSet> to IChangeSet thinking there might be some problem returning list from WCF service. I call  the service & again result was same as before.


Now the last thing I tried was to replace the class name instead of interface from the list. i.e. List<IChangeSet> replaced by <List<ChangeSet> and call the WCF service again.


HURRAH....This time it worked....The silly mistake I was doing was returning a list of interfaces of ChangeSet (List<IChangeSet>) which cannot be seriablized since only class, struct and enum can be serialized and not interface [the fundamental concept of WCF service]


I am writing this post for someone who is doing the same mistake as I did. Be sure to serialize only class object and not Interface.

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