I need to make use of some OWL ontologies in c#. Does anyone have a suggestion where I can start? Or if there are any libraries available for .NET please?
Take a look at ROWLEX:
ROWLEX is a powerful open source toolkit for software developers. It has been built to simplify the use of fundamental semantic web technologies (RDF and OWL) under Microsoft’s .NET platform.
Use Protege this is a open source tool of ontology editor and a knowledge acquisition system. It gives a GUI to define ontologies.
You can use RDFSharp on Microsoft Codeplex. It has a semantic extension capable of modeling, validating and reasoning on OWL-DL ontologies.
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I am developing an API for some application. And I need to attach there a script engine to make it possible to invoke API from script.
It would be quite nice to have autocomplete, syntax highlight and debug in scripts.
I have found this solution: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/27744/Net-Script-Editor-C-Vb-net-Mini-IDE
But there are a lot of bugs.
Does anybody have any ideas of alternative solution?
LinqPad has many of the features you are looking for - some of them cost a small extra fee, but it's probably worth the fee!
http://www.linqpad.net/
Snippet Compiler is a nice tool.
You don't mention which language your scripts are in, but based on your other question about debuggers I'll assume you are using IronPython.
The most complete (free/open source) option that I've been able to find is SharpDevelop. It includes all of the features you've mentioned for IronPython as well as a debugger. It is open source and includes many useful extensibility points, so it should provide a good starting point to fix bugs and add additional language support if needed (provided your use conforms to its license terms).
If your situation requires use beyond what is provided by the LGPL then the best choice (though not standalone or free) is to extend Visual Studio (there's already an extension for IronPython though I'm unsure if it supports debugging).
It doesn't sound like you're looking to do much, if any, development of your own for this but if I'm misreading your question then there are some editor controls available that provide the features listed (and then some) for .NET (not exhaustive):
Scintilla.Net
AvalonEdit (used by SharpDevelop)
An example of a project that uses Scintilla.Net is Peter.
You can try with SharpDevelop .
Consider you are in an interview for a .NET/C# job, and are asked:
What is Silverlight, in one sentence?
EDIT: OK, some took it the funny way:-) I have accepted one of the more serious approaches though. However, thanks to all posters.
Microsoft Flash.
It's a framework for building interactive applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices using .NET technologies.
This is my own try:
It's .NET in a browser.
Microsoft found the the way Java Applets should have worked.
Silverlight is a cross-platform approach for usable user interfaces within a browser.
It's Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash, but its more powerful as it can utilise the rest of the .NET framework.
I would say something like ...
Microsofts aproach at embedding a lightweight version of the .Net framework in to a portable package that can be deployed on many platforms, this is often compared to flash of java as they also take the same aproach, essentially the idea is to allow the .Net platform to reach other areas where a full install would not be required / suitable.
... or ...
Its a cut down version of WPF designed to run on any platform with a lightweight deploy.
Simple answer is that it is a compact edition of WPF.
Silverlight is microsofts way of making flashy applications. Ops, was that a pun?
Vector-based animations and RIA based ond XAML and .NET.
Microsoft Silverlight is yet an another fad into web2.0 casket.
Silver light is a new cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and Rich Interactive Applications(RIA) for the web. It runs in all popular browsers.It is combination of different technologies into a single development platform that allows you to select tools and the programming language you want to use. Silver light integrates seamlessly with your existing JavaScript and ASP.NET AJAX code to complement functionality which you have already created.
I'm looking for a library that can be used in native .NET code, just like any .NET assembly. The purpose of the library must be to automate Windows (push a button, select a window, send keys, record & playback, that sort of thing).
So: the library is supposed to be used natively in .NET, but the automation itself must be able to target any native or .NET Windows application that can receive user input.
Suggestions so far:
benPearce suggested AutoIt. It has a DLL, which is native Win32 but not native .NET and cannot be used without use of .NET Interop.
Chris Dunaway suggested Global Mouse Keyboard Lib. This came closest, but is not an automation lib. It just helps setting up keyboard and mouse hooks.
pm100 suggested Microsoft's WPF UI Automation. This one is pretty good, albeit that it's not available if you develop in .NET 2.0 and it requires the WPF to be installed on the system. It can, however, automate everything from Win32 apps to HTML in a browser.
JasonTrue suggested WebAI from ArtOfTest. This is a testing framework mainly geared towards browsers and web applications. It is unfortunately not well suitable for use for Windows automation.
If nothing else appears available, I'll probably choose Microsoft's UI Automation and upgrade any projects that require it that are still in .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5, if possible. But I hope for a more widely applicable automation framework (.NET prior to 2.0 does not need to be supported).
Have you looked at the White framework?
I have used AutoIt in the past with success.
microsoft's own built in one is fine
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms747327.aspx
not restricted to wpf as some seem to think.
If you haven't seen it yet, and a commercial library is acceptable, you might check out Ranorex:
http://www.ranorex.com/
I used Ranorex 1.5 quite a bit to write small C# UI automation utilities. It was pretty effective! Development seemed faster compared to using the MS UI Automation API directly, since Ranorex has a lot of useful convenience methods already available.
I haven't used Ranorex 2 very much yet, though.
In Ranorex 1.5, there was also support for traditional Win32 development in C++, but I didn't use it. As far as I know, that's still available in Ranorex 2.
I can't speak to the quality of the record/playback support in Ranorex since I never used that feature.
One final plus: Their support team was really responsive and helpful anytime I emailed them.
This library is pretty interesting and is fairly simple. Perhaps it will help you.
Check out Tools for automated GUI testing on windows
I would still suggest FlaUI for autoamating .Net Desktop,Mobile apps. Its based on Microsoft UIA libraries and have support for external controls like the DevExpress Grid too
Moreover, it is built on top of TestStack.White so indeed a very good library and has a github page also
I have used WebAii from ArtOfTest with a fair degree of success in automating integration testing for a Silverlight app. It also supports WinForms and Web applications.
Microsoft UI Automation, the successor to Active Accessibility, can do almost all of the Windows UI automation you would need.
How about CSharpScript, here's an article about it on Codeproject, and here's the link to the main website. Furthermore, it is familiar C#, scripted which can be used to automate anything.
Hope this helps,
Best regards,
Tom.
Is it possible to write a user interface in Java for an application written in C#?
I am working on a user interface of a project that is written in C#, but I have no experience with C# and I am an avid Java user. Is it possible to build the user interface in Java using Java's Swing and AWT libraries that operates an application primarily written in C#.
If this sounds like a really stupid question, I apologize in advance.
You might be able to leverage some of the interoperability features that are integrated into Mono 2.0
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
JNBridge is another possible interoperability solution:
http://www.jnbridge.com/
However, a more optimal approach might be to expose your .NET code as Services - and then access them from the Java client (or through a light-weight ESB).
Of course, time, budget, resources are constraints you'll have to consider.
In addition to http://www.jnbridge.com (proprietary)
you can try http://www.janetdev.org, - open source implementation of a Java 5 SE JDK environment for the .NET platform. Currently it supports .Net 3.5 only (not Mono).
We did this recently and went the route of using a low level socket connection, but pushing xml through it. C# was the server side, and we used the Microsoft 'xsd' tool to generate the XSD schema for the objects and then used JAXB on the java side to generate java code to parse and hold the same objects.
As Barry mentions most of the work/problems was around the socket connection - but that depends on how comfortable you are with that.
Also, for a solution that cross-compiles your java to run in the CLR: http://www.ikvm.net/
I am author of jni4net, open source interprocess bridge between JVM and CLR. It's build on top of JNI and PInvoke. No C/C++ code needed. I hope it will help you.
Can you provide a good example of rule definition language written in C#.
Java guys have JESS, is there anything good for C#?
This page shows some examples of open-source rules engines in C#: http://csharp-source.net/open-source/rule-engines
You can use the forward chaining inference engine that is part of Windows Workflow Foundation (.NET 3.5 and higher) The best part is that this has a free runtime licensing.
You can use the Rule Manager from Acumen Business and install the Windows Workflow Foundation adapter. Once installed, export the rules as WFRules (*.rules).
A visual studio .NET solution will be generated that shows how the rule engine can be invoked standalone (no workflow is necessary)
See also http://bizknowledge.blogspot.com/search/label/Windows%20Workflow%20Foundation
Try http://rulesengine.codeplex.com
It has a fluent-interface wrapper for creating rules.
It's lightweight and simple to use.
You could use Windows Workflow Foundation's (WF) workflow engine with C#. I'd started a small and simple project using WF as the workflow engine, it's actually quite straightforward to use. Check out the first part entry I've been developing on this here.
What is interesting about WF is that you don't have to use the whole thing if you want to - if you only want to write some custom rules against some entities or objects, you can - quite ingenious! Also, it's a lot less to take on board than BizTalk's BRE (and no licensing cost).
You need to add a reference to the following .Net assemblies, available in the .Net Framework v3.0 and onwards:
System.Workflow.Activities
System.Workflow.ComponentModel
System.Workflow.Runtime
Check out the article for more info.
There is the Microsoft Business Rules Engine: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa561216.aspx. Not sure if it can only be used inside Biztalk - it does says it is a .Net Class Library.
Microsoft Business Rule Engine(BRE) is quite nice. But(and that's a big BUT) you'll need a BizTalk Server license to use it.
Take a look at Jetfire on codeplex. It supports forward chaining 'rules'.