Some hacky fixes to PAuthor PivotViewer library

Overall the PAuthor project for creating PivotViewer for Silveright datasets works great - I've used in in .Net4 for 4 separate command line apps :)

However, when working on some large data sets (around 75000 Items) I found the following problems - mostly to do with corrupt items in my input.

Hope this post helps other people...

Problems seen in collectionCreator.Create(m_dziPaths, m_dzcPath); in ParallelDeepZoomCreator.cs

• System.ArgumentException in ParallelDeepZoomCreator.cs due to problems in my item names (some of my names included the "*" wildcard character - doh!
• And System.IO.FileNotFoundException in ParallelDeepZoomCreator.cs due to unknown problem (no real clue why these particular folders didn't exist - it was 8 out of 75000...)

To fix these I just wrapped the call with: 

             List<String> toRemove = new List<string>();             foreach (var c in m_dziPaths)             {                 try                 {                     System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission f = new System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission(                             System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermissionAccess.AllAccess, c);                 }                 catch (ArgumentException exc)                 {                     toRemove.Add(c);                     System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("INVALID PATH " + c);                 }             }             foreach (var c in toRemove)             {                 m_dziPaths.Remove(c);             }              while (true)             {                 try                 {                     DZ.CollectionCreator collectionCreator = new DZ.CollectionCreator();                     collectionCreator.Create(m_dziPaths, m_dzcPath);                     break;                 }                 catch (System.IO.FileNotFoundException exc)                 {                     System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("STUART - SORRY - REMOVING " + exc.FileName);                     m_dziPaths.Remove(exc.FileName);                 }             } 

Some multithreaded problem seen in image download

The finalizer for PivotImage.cs occasionally sees IO exceptions in the File.Delete operation - the exception claims that the fie is currently open in another process.

Not sure what is causing this - my guess is it's a multithreading issue of some description.

To fix (mask) this I simple added a try catch to the finalizer:

        ~PivotImage()         {             if (m_shouldDelete == false) return;             if (File.Exists(m_sourcePath) == false) return;              try             {                 File.Delete(m_sourcePath);             }             catch (IOException)             {                 System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Some clean up needed " + m_sourcePath);             }         } 

That's it - hope it helps someone.