08 Jun 09 Installing WinPcap & WC3Banlist on Windows 7
I had a bit of trouble getting WC3Banlist (mainly due to its dependency on WinPcap) on Windows 7
This is working on Windows 7 RC1, with User Acount Control (UAC) on (set to Default)
I did quite a few things when troubleshooting so it’s hard to replicate the exact steps, but here’s some instructions on how I have it set up now:
Install WinPcap
- Download WinPcap 4.1
- Right click the downloaded installer exe and choose Properties
- Go to the Compatibility tab
- In Compatibility mode, Tick “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” and choose Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) from the drop-down
- Tick “Run this program as an administrator” in Privilege Level
- Hit OK
- Run the exe and go through the normal installation
Install WC3Banlist
- Download WC3Banlist
- Right click the installation file and choose Run as administrator
- Untick “Install WinPcap 3.1 (required)” when you get to the “Select additional tasks” step and proceed as normal
Run Wc3Banlist
- Browse to where you installed banlist and open up file properties for wc3banlist.exe
- Go to the Compatibility tab and tick Run as an administrator
- Click OK
- Run wc3banlist.exe
Verify
- Go to the Preferences tab in Wc3Banlist
- Select Network in the list on the left navigation pane
- Ensure your network card(s) are listed in the drop-down
- You can click Diagnostics to verify banlist can receive TCP packets
Troubleshooting
If this still isn’t working, I would recommend turning off UAC and trying again.
- To turn off UAC, open the Control Panel (Start > Control Panel)
- Click System and Security
- Under Action Center, click Change User Account Control settings
- Drag the slider down to Never Notify
- Click OK
- You have to restart for this to take effect
Tags: dota, frozen throne, uac, user account control, warcraft, wc3banlist, win7, windows 7, winpcap
04 Jun 09 Opera 10 Beta is out
Opera 10 Alpha last night prompted me to automatically update, and lo and behold it installed the Beta 1.
The most noticeable change is the default skin, which is lighter and more consistent, using some new etching effects and icons everywhere. More changes are on the horizon for this for Beta 2, from the skin designer John Hicks.
A cool new enhancement is you can drag down the tab bar to get thumbnails for all the tabs, known as Visual Tabs:
There’s now an interface to customize the Speed Dial (rather than manually editing ini files)
Opera Turbo, the Opera proxy service that offers compression of web pages (suitable for low-bandwidth connections) is built in and can be switched on or off or set to auto mode (turning itself on if it detects you’re on a slow internet connection). I have tested this out while I’m on 64kbps, and it’s ok but it’s probably not worth it unless Opera have some New Zealand or Australia proxies. I suspect it would work great in Europe.
Tags: beta, internet, opera, opera 10, web browser
03 Jun 09 Unit testing multi-threaded, asynchronous code and/or events
I’ve been writing some unit tests recently that test some multi-threaded functionality.
Typically this involves hooking up some event handlers then waiting for some asynchronous code to fire the event before proceeding with the unit test and assertions.
The ManualResetEvent class (MSDN) seems a good choice for this, and this post has a small example of using it in a unit test:
[Test()] public void AfterRunAsync() { ManualResetEvent manualEvent = new ManualResetEvent(false); TestTestCase tc = new TestTestCase(1, "", 0, 0); bool eventFired = false; tc.RunCompleted += delegate(object sender, AsyncCompletedEventArgs e) { Assert.IsInstanceOfType(typeof (TestTestCase), sender, "sender is TestCase"); bool passed = tc.Passed; string output = tc.Output; eventFired = true; manualEvent.Set(); }; tc.RunAsync(); manualEvent.WaitOne(500, false); Assert.IsTrue(eventFired, "RunCompleted fired"); }
Tags: .net, asynchronous, c#, events, mstest, nunit, threading, unit test
