Author Archives: Antanas

Suspend Ubuntu Server via Terminal

Works, tested with Ubuntu server 12.10

Java snippet – get byte array of data actually written to ByteBuffer

Let’s say the buffer was allocated with bigger capacity than the written data. This code will get the written bytes

An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = ‘80004005’

Note to self: getting an error “An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = ‘80004005’” during Visual Studio Setup build. Solution: check all .csproj projects in the solution, all ToolsVersion values should be same, e.g. 3.5

.NET Short Assembly Name

How to get a short assembly name. Use:

Populating .NET TableLayoutPanel cells programatically

A code snippet on how to populate a TableLayoutPanel cells with controls:

Yats – Implementing Custom Test Parameter Type

This post will give an example on how to add support for a custom test parameter type. The basic idea of test parameter value handling could be summarized as such: A parameter of a certain type is declared in a test case. In this example, the test case parameter could look like:

Remote OVP/OCP control in Velleman PS3005D

I’ve just discovered an undocumented command of the Velleman PS3005D programmable lab power supply. This PSU is available as a number of clones like Korad KA3005P reviewed at EEVBlog. I don’t know much about the serial communication protocol in the other PSU variants, perhaps they are different.

Visual Studio C# Debugger AccessViolationException in VirtualBox

I have been struggling with a weird Visual Studio C# Express debugger behavior. My application runs OK without the debugger. When started from VS it either throws an AccessViolationException without a meaningful stack trace or returns with code 0xc0000374. I’m running Windows 7 in VirtualBox, the host OS is Linux Mint 14. Finally I have… Read More »