Nov 12, 2009

Public Key Token of an assembly

There are times when you need to get the public key token of an assembly. Okay the only time is when you need to put in config files. The answers is same old sn.exe. That's right the same .NET strong name tool we use to generate snk files.

Usage:
sn -T helloWorld.dll
This gives you the public key token of the strong named assembly.

Just wanted to share.

Apr 25, 2009

Passing parameters to a function in setTimeout()

While working on some 'animation' effect on one of my pages, I came across a problem when using setTimeout(). I am using it to call a function repeatedly in certain interval. I am not much into javascript so had quite a trouble figuring it out. If the function which is being called does not have any input parameters,
setTimeout(MyFunc(),10); // calls 'MyFunc' function every 10 ms.
But my 'Animate' function takes a parameter ( divId ),so I tried
setTimeout(Animate(divId),10); // wrong !!
This did not work.
The correct way to call a function with parameters in setTimeout function is.
setTimeout(function(){Animate(divId);}, 10);
This concept is called 'Closure' in javascript.
Just wanted to share...