Hi! I have a problem: I've declared some classes and decorated them with my Custom Attributes. (say ClassA and ClassB) Now I have some Type member (in fact this is FieldInfo.FieldType) which is eq. typeof (ClassB). And when I call GetCustomAttributes() for this Type I never gets the attrib...more >>

I want to add "number of processors" to my license control system. I know I can use Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable() to check for the environment variable NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS, but I do not know how easy this might be to fake. Would I be better off using a Win32 sdk call to GetSystemInfo? ...more >>

Hi, I am working with the dotnet debugger API on windows XP, and when I finish my debugging session using my own debugger, I have uncleaned handles. My debugger is still alive and ready for a new debug run. For instance \BaseNamedObjects\CorDBIPCLSEventReadName_2776 I can't find why tho...more >>

Is there a means via Reflection to recreate the original C# source of an Attribute? I'm familiar with the process of discovering the public fields, properties and their values, but I'm a bit lost as to how one would know which of these values map to parameters in the constructor. I've seen this ...more >>

Hi I am writing a chat application I have developed the chat server in which i am creating objects that represents the communicating parties and those will stay in memory till there is communication between them when they logout i need to destroy the object from the memory Because the appl...more >>

Is it posssible to get something out of the GAC to another folder? Let's say you put an assembly into the GAC but you deleted the source - by accident no less -. Any ideas? Thanks ...more >>

HI! I am currently at the beginning of a new project and I would like to start with something out of the box. As we started our Web project we used IBuySpy Portal and it worked fine because we did not waste our time on authentification, authorisation and all that but we were able to start...more >>

Has anyone dealt with putting static implementations in interfaces ? you "can" do it (I am sure in IL) ... I'm wonderring if vb.net and c# play nice when you do it ... ...more >>

Using the May CTP of VS 2005 I read an article "How to: Marshal Unicode Strings using C++ Interop". That article talks about the need to pin the delegate prior to marshaling it out to native code as a function pointer. But then in the 2nd example it proceeds to NOT pin it and to instead simply...more >>

MSCORSVR.DLL is the multiprocessor build of the CLR. How to load it instead of MSCORWKS.DLL? Thanks. ...more >>

> - When thread scheduler sees that thread is waiting on Win32 > synchronization objects it immediately schedules context switch to another > runnable thread instead of wasting time spinning. shoud read as: When thread scheduler sees that thread is waiting on non-signaled Win32 synchroniza...more >>

Hi, I'm facing a problem for a long time. As I create the installation package from 'VB's package & deployment wizards', my system gets booted in between. Actually I have changed the original setup.exe of VB according to my installation but after this it worked well for some time. moreove...more >>

If I create a valuetype with ten string members. Are the ten string instances created in the heap or stack? JL...more >>

Is there anyway to locate an assembly from a path that is not relative to the current path without using the GAC? For instance. I have a .net application in C:\DirA\DirB that needs to use an assembly class in C:\DirC. Is there a way to have the exe find the assembly without using the GAC? I...more >>

Hi everybody, Does anyone know how to read a microfocus COBOL file from .NET ? I have a requirement where i need to read these files and store it in a sql-server database. I will really apperciate if anyone can help me on this. Thanks *** Sent via Devdex http://www.devdex...more >>

I need to open an assembly, change some custom attribute's values and then re-write the assembly without re-compiling it. I tried using Reflection.Emit, but I couldn't cast (System.Reflection.)Assembly to (System.Reflection.Emit.)AssemblyBuilder, which is the class where custom attributes are wr...more >>

I am creating an application that is quite complex. There will be several dozen objects, most of which have delegates defined. At runtime, there will be several hundred instances of some objects and many dozens of instances of other objects (e.g. 100+ ClassA's, 10+ ClassB's and 50+ ClassC's etc)....more >>

Is it safe if I want to check mscoree.dll version to determine .NET runtime version? So far they correspond. I know about GetCORVersion. But I would like to know the answer to my question. Thanks a lot ...more >>

Hello, Our VB.Net Application suddenly started to raise an CLR exception on a client machine. CLR Exception code is 800700b. I found that Error 0x8007000b == COR_E_BADIMAGEFORMAT == System.BadImageFormatException indicating that the file image of an executable program is invalid or the applicati...more >>

Hi All, I would like to have the following folder structure for an asp.net website: MasterFolder |---\AppRoot | --- webform.aspx | --- web.config | --- global.asax | |--- \images | |--- \styles | |--- \downloads | |---...more >>

Please excuse the cross-post - I'm pretty sure I've had interest in the article on all the groups this is posted to. I've finally managed to finish my article on multi-threading - at least for the moment. I'd be *very* grateful if people with any interest in multi-threading would read it (e...more >>

Hello ALL Does any one know if there is the way "to hook" method in the object using reflection? I don't want to override class (construct new one) but what I want is simply replace one method with another on run time. This method is virtual (overridden from abstract) so i guess it ...more >>

I have one question How the CLR locates an old version of Frameworks library like System version =1.0.333 and where are store on my machine. I have made a search and I can locate the previous versions of the assemblies. I am sure that they must me somewhere because I am using some tool which ...more >>

In microsoft articules the say that Assembly load method is the one that is used by the clr to locate and load an assembly. They discriped in create details all the steps involved in that process. My question is the following i have and assembly that is located under c:/Test/assembly.dll and...more >>

Hi Everyone, I am facing a problem while decrypting a stream object using ..NET cryptographic classes.Below i have pasted the code i used to encrypt and decrypt a stream object.The encryption seems to work fine, but the decryptiion fails with an error "Bad data".I am really not able to ...more >>

I have a .exe that runs on some machines not on others. I took one of these non-running machines and looked for differences. All assemblies appear to be there. It has both versions of the framework (including service packs) so no joy there ... I should describe the behavior when it is run on...more >>

Our .Net team have been pondering about using keyword. We are using streams FileStream and BufferedStream. We use using keyword at FileStream, and not BufferedStream which wraps FileStream. So bunch of people said what if exception occurs buffered stream is not closed. My Argument is over ...more >>

I'm copying one function's body (including header) into a newly one. The I'm calling the new one and receiving a MissingMethodException (a managed one). I can obtain information about the function I've just created, using IMetaDataImport and ICorProfilerInfo, so I'm not really sure what I'm doing wr...more >>

I have a set of framework assemblies that I am looking to insert into GAC in production and I have sets of applications that use those assemblies. I am trying to delay-sign the framework assemblies for the sake of maintaining private key confidentiality. Can someone walk me through a simple s...more >>

What is Shared Assemblies? Does it have anything to do with .NET? Or is this for existing win32 .dlls? Then why are they suddenly calling them "assemblies"? ...more >>

Hi, I'm profiling an app, trying to find where all the memory is going. I am using the CLR profiler and PView. I would like to know - does the CLR keep BOTH the IL and native JIT compiled code in memory at the same time, thus bloating the mem requirement of .net apps considerably? I un...more >>

My problem: I load an some assemblies (strong named) from a byte array using Assembly.Load(byte[]). They load fine. But one one of them is actually accessed, it's referenced assemblies can't be found on disk and I get a TargetInvocationExeption. For example, let's say I have a C# win form...more >>

hi, posting this a third time in the hope that someone may explain why it = happens, or that MS will acknowledge a bug and fix it in 2.0... i have a regular expression and very occassionally i'm getting an index = out of bounds exception from one of the inner framework methods, when i use Ma...more >>

What do ComVisible and CLSCompliant do? The definitions are found in the SDK doc but it's hard to grasp what these attributes accomplish. Setting ComVisible(false) on the assembly level is said to hide the assembly to the COM system. What does that accomplish? Is that simply in place to pre...more >>

Hi I am strongnaming all my assemblies in this project with a public/private key-pair (same key-pair for all assemblies). One of the application is a launcher application that shells out an application downloaded from a webserver. To avoid security issues, I would like to determine that the d...more >>

how can i get method content by reflection or other way like ILdasm doing...more >>

I have a set of assemblies that are shared by a number of applications(ASP.NET). I signed the shared assemblies using SN. I would register them in the GAC in production but I was wondering if I need to do the same when I'm developing. Basically, do I need to install the shared assemblies in my...more >>

From MSDN's "Parsing Date and Time Strings" doc: You can specify one of the standard date and time format specifiers or a limited combination of the custom date and time format specifiers. Could anyone elaborate on what the "limited combination" is? I have a date that comes from an exter...more >>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All! My managed C# app has to sign edited assemblies after finishing its work. I have tried to use .NET Framework unamnaged API function StrongNameSignatureGeneration() which apparently works (success as return result) but not with all sce...more >>

Ok, this may be a stupid question but do I need to generate public/private key pair for each assembly in a single solution? I am thinking about delay-signing and that'd mean the "signer" must maintain the key pair for every single assembly separately. Is this how it's supposed to be done? ...more >>

I am trying to examine the call stack using System.Diagnostics.StackTrace and it appears that the StackFrame, Method and ParameterInfo classes that I can navigate to from there only have static (compile time) information available to me. What I need is a way to access the actual (runtime) param...more >>

Hello, I am trying to create a multi-threaded application in C#, without using the thread pool. I have a reader-writer situation where I want one thread to write to a queue, and many threads to read from this queue. Also there will be many of these reader-writer groupings all working at the ...more >>

Try to build following code with /clr switch: #pragma unmanaged #include <windows.h> #include "Loki/Functor.h" #include <list> int main() { // typedef int TL; typedef TYPELIST_1(int) TL; typedef Loki::Functor<void, TL> FTor; typedef std::list< std::pair<FTor, FTor> >::iterator Iter...more >>

Hi gurus, I am a newbie for this CLR world. I am trying to know about CLR internals (How things work in CLR and features it provides..more in detail..). Could you please provide few pointers?? TIA, Av. ...more >>

Microsoft, Can I make a request for a newsgroup specific to MSIL? I have taken great interest in MSIL and have done a lot of reading into MSIL, and written, compiled and tested with success a few il programs. I'm sure this is a topic of interest to many people, as it is at the heart of .Net....more >>

hi, i have a regular expression to identify any valid form of server url, i.e. http://server or http://www.server.com or http://server:8080 or anything in between. very occassionally i'm getting an index out of bounds exception from one of the inner framework methods, when i use Match(). i don'...more >>

A small percentage of people (1% or less) are getting the following message running or application. "CLR error 80004005 The program will now terminate." I am not sure where to start looking on this and it is even more difficult since I cna not reproduce it. Any suggestions on how I can he...more >>

Due to an odd conjunction of stars (trust me, thats a better reason than the real one), I need to store text data in a SQLServer Image column I'm looking for a cleaner method to convert strings to byte[] and vice versa. So far the only implementation I have been able to make work has been to do a...more >>

Is there some article out there that helps in reading MSIL? I've been looking but can't find anything, and I'm probably just looking in the wrong spots for the wrong keywords. I understand mov, call, jmp, ptr, dword and some of the other obvious pieces. I'm looking to understand some of the l...more >>

Hi! How can I achieve the situation like that: there is some application (.NET) and it is using some class library (strongly named, installed by .msi, registered within GAC). I'd like to have a crash on my client application when the class library version differs from the one compiled with my...more >>