Hi, before I'm going to search my self to death; does anybody happen to know a link to a desciption how to not only produce code via CodeDom, but also modify code in an already opened source file (Like the form designer does)? Thanks a lot, Klaus ...more >>

I am searching for a suspected memory leak and I have made some assumptions and I would be grateful if someone could check my thinking... I have a remoting server that I believe has a memory problem. My first assumption is that I believe it has a memory problem because I am checking "Mem Usag...more >>

I'm trying to compile an assembly in memory (kind of a plugin thing) that references another assembly in memory. Unfortunantly, the CompilerOptions object only has an argument like this: parameters.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.DLL"); where the assembly must be on disk. Is there ...more >>

Can I un-install V1.0 of the framework leaving V1.1 installed without any ill effects? Thanks -- Ken Galer Preferred Utilities Corp. kgaler@-NoSPaM-preferred-mfg.com ...more >>

I note that among the properties provided by the MethodBase class is this strange one: IsFamilyOrAssembly. According to the description provided in the documentation, such a member is accessible to any derived classes or to any classes in the same assembly. Is there an associated access specif...more >>

Hi I am trying to implement an enterprise level application in C# with various functionalities such as database access,Disk I/O and GDI drawing I need to make this application run with different levels of .Net security settings, on an intranet. Where can i find a mapping between the...more >>

Sorry if I'm cross-posting, but I'm not sure what is the better post this question. It's about joining together many printer jobs into a single one. Note: this is not a Crystal Reports question. I'm using Crystal Reports to print a report by using the ReportDocument's PrintToPrinter method. ...more >>

Our deployement consists of web server (dual processor) and application server (dual processor). The ASP.NET web application makes remoting (Tcp/Binary) calls into a window service (our own) hosted on application server. During our load testing, we found that there is huge gap in time during cro...more >>

I'm trying to set the user's screensaver in the .NET world... In Win32 I could use a combination of setting the screen saver name via the registry and then setting the time and active status using SystemParametersInfo. And the system would use the new settings. Now that I'm trying to do i...more >>

Hi, I need to write my custom LicenseProvider. I would like to kown if the license key stored with context.SetSavedLicenseKey(...) is stored in a secure way in the assembly resource ? should i encrypt the license key or not ?? thank you. ...more >>

Hi, I am developing a multi-threaded windows service in C#. It is intended to run on a multi-processor server. Single Application domain. To the best of my knowledge there is a direct mapping between logical CLR (Systsem.Threading.Thread) threads and physical OS (System.Diagnostics.ProcessThr...more >>

hi all i know that i should not cross-post, but i am not sure to which group to post this question. 2 quesions about volatile: 1. i use volatile when 2 threads access the same variable is this the proper use of volatile? 2. when declaring a variable of type long, i get a compilat...more >>

Hi there! Is there any way how can I stop garbage collection for a period of time. Lets say, I have a form. Before form load I pause the GC and when the form is shown resume GC ...more >>

what is this internal compiler error? How is it generated how to correct it?...more >>

Is there any opendirectory dialog box similar to the open file dialog box My requirement is to allow the user to select a destination folder How can I acheive this in .net?...more >>

I am not sure why my non-thread safe code works and hope that I can get some insight from someone. I have the following class:- class Test { private int accessed = 0; public int Accessed { get {return accessed;} set {accessed = value;} } } I run 100 threads simultan...more >>

I have a question Java has a runtime, garbage collection and a JIT. Does Java use 'managed code'? If not, what does the CLR offer in additoin to this?! Is it just MS speak? Ben ...more >>

Hello How big assembly with numerous namespaces can affect performance of the application. I understand that the overhead is on start when the assembly is loaded, but isn't better then constant overhead with small assemblies? TIA Vadym ...more >>

Hi All, I have created an ActiveX control using VC 6.0. One of the interface implements a method which takes in VARIANT FAR* as the parameter. Iam unable to call this method from C#(.NET 2003) no matter what.. I can call the same method from VB 6.0. I have been bogged down by this problem fo...more >>

I used to use a tool called OleClean to clean the registry as I developed COM components. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with .NET based components, presumably because the value of InprocServer32 is mscoree.dll for all .NET components. When I use oleview to view the registry, I see all sorts o...more >>

Is it possible to avoid the closing of a Console Mode application when clicking "X" ? Thanks, Bruno. ...more >>

Hello , I have just rebuild an existing application with vs.net 2003. This application is deployed following the no-touch deployment pattern (i.e. executable sitting on a directory on a web server). When trying to accessing the new version (http://myintranetserver/mydirectory/myapp.exe), clie...more >>

I have created my own application to handle unmanaged clr exceptions using the DbgManagedDebugger registry setting. I tested it and it does get called when unmanaged exceptions occur. The problem is that when it exits, the offending application does not terminated. Making a call to TerminateP...more >>

I'm passing in TheUser to this function and am using the streamreader and writer to do a search through the ini file to find a line to replace. I have alread finished all of the code but this line. In VB.NET it would be written this way: TheUser is the person who created the thread. (Who logged on...more >>

Hello, I'm using the StackTrace class in order to display the stack trace when an exception occurs. I also display the parameter name and type of each method called: Begin Stack Trace: DoubleType>>#Parse Value As String NumberFormat As NumberFormatInfo ...more >>

On some W2K SP4 machines the error CLR 8007000b occurs when my C# application starts. After installation the app starts normally. After some time when the app is started again, the error is displayed. From this time on, it won't start any more. Reinstallation of the app don't solve the problem, ...more >>

Is it dependant as per a normal process on the number of CPU's and variant of OS installed ? Later ...more >>

Hi All, How can I get all the local variables, their values (something similar to the auto/locals window in debug windows) at runtime for my application? TIA Sankar ...more >>

Is it possible to create instances at runtime. i.e the type of the variable will be known at runtime. for example,see this simple sample code class A { // events and methods } class B { // events and fucntions } void main() { string s int i=9 if(i==9) s="A" else s="B" c1 = n...more >>

In my c#-app I want to use a 3party Com-Server. I made the following architecture: 1) App-c# project 2) a managed component "MyComp" in c++, using the comserver inside inside the method Initialize of MyComp i call CreateFromClsidInproc to create the comserver object instance. the docu of th...more >>

Hi All has anyone tried deploying publisher policy? when CLR resolving publisher policy and application policy, which one has the final say? My experiment shows that the application policy will determine the final version binding (publisher policy for the application and assembly are enabled)....more >>

I'm writing a program to Host the CLR. As part of this I would like to run my managed code in an AppDomain other than the DefaultDomain. My understanding is that I can do after loading and starting the CLR by using CorBindToRuntimeEx to obtain a pointer to ICorRuntimeHost. With this interface poi...more >>

Hi Can you tell me if .net platform support multilevel inheritance. Such as in C++? ek ...more >>

Hi, Does anybody know WHY an assembly can't be unloaded individually? In Java the Classloader provides this option, i.e. you can unload one single class. I'm wondering whether Microsoft will provide something equal at any time. I've found only the following FAQ on the CLR: http://blogs...more >>

Hi everybody, I'm a Java-developer and I tried to compare Java-Bytecode and IL-Bytecode. There are a lot of differences between those two bytecodes. Main difference: IL has a so-called "generic stack". But does IL have any advantages compared to Java-Bytecode? Why did Microsoft choose a "...more >>

Hi all I found some inconsistency in the presentation of the public key, need your clarification... 1) I generated a public/private keypair using SN. Then I use the following command to see the generated public key in text form: SN -tp mycompany.key the result is: Microsoft (R) .NET...more >>

I got a multi-processor machine. How do I know whether workstation version (mscorwks.dll) or server version (mscorsvr.dll) is being used on the machine? Thanks. ...more >>

All - Running V1.1 of the framework on an MP machine and based on what I've been reading, am I correct to suggest that the Workstation GC is what is being used by my dllhost processes? That the mark phase is done a separate thread of execution on the other CPU, but the sweep phase occurs on t...more >>

Hi Gang, My question is directed more towards the MS JSctip.NET dev team. I understand that you guys are planning to implement events in the newer versions of JS.NET, but is there a way to work around this problem now? I thought I could access a function in a HTA application by passi...more >>

Hi, I have a general doubt. It may sound stupid. Please help me clear this doubt. When a C# program is compiled, it will generate the Intermediate Language (IL) code. But when we compile, we will get a .dll file. Why do we have to Dis-Assemble it to see the IL code. Everywhere I read, it says,...more >>

Hi all does the CLR performs any load-time check for tampering/security on a strongly name assembly that is privately deployed (not installed into GAC)? thanks dan ...more >>

It seems that Environment.CurrentDirectory is changed by the cdo.dll. Why does cdo.dll need to change the currentdirectory? why does the framework allow the COM process to change the calling processe's current directory? this can be displayed best by: (vb.net) Sub Main() '...more >>

Hi, can anyone tell me what steps the compiler performs during compilation of the code? A rough step-by-step listing would be more than enough...or maybe a link where I can look it up? Thanks in advance and kind regards, Robert ...more >>

Hi all, If there is an exception inside the finally part of the try block, then the original exception will be lost. Other than making sure the finally code does not throw any exceptions and/or putting a try-catch (and ignore exceptions) block around the code in finally, is there any better ...more >>

Hi all, It is my understanding that if the main thread spawns a new thread, exceptions that are thrown in the new thread can't be caught in the main thread. Is that true? If it is, then what is a good way to handle such exceptions? Can we make it a design decision to put a try catch block i...more >>

There are a number of memory-related fields in the Process object that appear to be similar to counters under the Process object in Perfmon. Is there a mapping of the Process field names to the Perfmon counters? Are they really the same values but with different names? -- Bert Hyman | S...more >>

From a previous posting, I learnt that the Application class's Run method starts a message loop(pump) on the current thread. But the following findings confuse me. 1. When I look at the message loop code using the .NET reflector, I see a lot of code referring to the word Thread. (ThreadContext e...more >>

Thread.Suspend lets a thread run "until it has reached a [a point in its execution at which garbage collection can be performed] before actually suspending the thread." I'd expect the CLR's internal malloc/free routines are mutex protected so as to not scramble the free list, just as in unmana...more >>

Hi All, When I create a new StackTrace object using System.Diagnostics.StackTrace class, it does not seem to have the complete stacktrace of the calls as it is in the source code. We suspect it is due to optimizations. But even the il code contains calls to all functions matching the ...more >>

Hi I am working on this code string a = "rb" string b = a when I say object.referenceequals(a, b), what should it print either true or false. Its printing true. I read it somewhere that the runtime will create a new string b and copy a's value into b. Then a and b should point to different me...more >>