[This followup was posted to microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.clr and a copy was sent to the cited author.] When managed code is started, the CLR is loaded into a process and it starts executing the managed code. Q1. How is the process used to host the CLR determined? Q2. what account doe...more >>

I have an extremely weird problem that I have no idea how to approach. I have a simple page with a search textbox and a search button. The button causes a postback, where I perform the search and display the results in a DIV that has a tree. I've tested all the code up until I add in the co...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a map of my project reference while looping through my dll references. This is what I'm doing: 1. I'm able to load my root assembly using "Assembly.LoadFile" 2. get all the references AssemblyNames using "assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies();" 3. Trying to load ea...more >>

Hi, I'm loading graphics into a PictureBox using then Image.FromFile method. If the Image is a TIF file it get's only half the height. The whole Image is displayed (not cut off somewhere) but it looks squeezed. The TIFs are documents received by fax and encoded by "Group 3 Fax Encoding" (as...more >>

I am somewhat confused with Brad Abrahms' Exception Message Guidelines (http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2004/01/28/64255.aspx), also published now in the book. One of his suggestions is: "Do localize exception message". This works fine as long as the application runs in a desktop. It g...more >>

Hi, We have memory problems with one of our ASP.Net application. While analysing the process memory I found that two performance counters were displaying interesting values: #Total Committed Bytes: 145'000'000 #Total Reserved Bytes : 647'000'000 I understand that "Total Reserved Bytes"...more >>

Hi, we have an MFC app where the database interface is ADO.NET. The rest of the app is unmanaged. We want to interface to another app by using OLE. We have done this before with other vendors and it works fine. But with the #import directive with the .tlb from this vendor VS reports the follo...more >>

Hello. Can someone explain to me or point me to documentation about why circular dependencies are not allowed between projects in Visual C# .NET? I'm assuming it's because of the CLR and how the compiler generates assemblies but I'm having trouble finding specifics on MSDN and the web. ...more >>

This was previously posted in dotnet.framework.interop, but no replies were received. Hello, We've got a mixed mode application, which includes MFC/ATL and is written in mainly C++ and some MC++. We are extending our product by calling assemblies that have been written in C#. We've go...more >>

Hello, I would like to "package" a few files that my program needs into a single executable, I have successfully added them to my resources. But I would like to know how I can access the files directly. So let's say I have a pdf added, is there a way to open the pdf and access it (just ...more >>

How does the 64Bit CLR handle .NET Framework 1.1 assemblies in the following scenario? App.exe <--- .NET Framework 2.0 100% Managed MyLib.dll <--- .NET Framework 1.1 100% Managed App.exe has a dependecy on MyLib.dll. Does the whole application execute in 64-bit native? Does the...more >>

try this (C# syntax for the example) Rectangle rect = new Rectangle( 1,1,3,3); // make a rectangle at 1,1 that is 3 wide and 3 high. Debug.Assert (rect.Left == 1); // true Debug.Assert (rect.Top == 1); // true // right and bottom should be 3,3 Debug.Assert (rect.Right == 3); // FALSE ...more >>

Hello, I need to store culture-specific resources in my application that are not limited by standard cultures recognized by .NET. For example, a German customer can specify his preferred language as English, and in such case he will receive messages in English but still tailored for Germany...more >>

Hi, We have a requirement to disable Local Settings\Application Data\ApplicationHistory\ ini file generation for our app only or globally on some customer machines. I found out that i can disable it globally by setting the following registry value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion...more >>

I'm running the RC version of VS 2005 handed out at the PDC. I'm working on something where seeing what's going on all the way down the stack would be very handy. I'm using 2.0.50727 of the CLR, and whenever mscorwks.dll appears on the stack, I can't see the entries (and everything gets out of...more >>

Hi All, I've been working on having my application create dynamic assemblies within the current domain of the application and loading them at a later point inside new domains (so they can be unloaded as necessary) and I feel I'm almost there thanks to great help from people in the dotnet news...more >>

Hi all, I am working on a service that uploads METAR weather information to the National Weather Service FTP site. The service I'm authoring is hosted on a Windows 200 server, and the NWS FTP host is on a Unix server. I'm using the FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse classes to do the file upl...more >>

Is my class library is it possible to get the calling assembly's executable full name, or the Url if it is being linked from an ASP? Thanks, Joe TIA, poifull ...more >>

Hi All, I wondered if anyone could make sense of this undocumented object (System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.__TransparentProxy) being returned from the static method call to System.Appdomain.CreateDomain(...). Normally (in my mono-assembly testing application), System.Appdomain.CreateDomain(...more >>

Hi All I am developing one Portfolio Management application where there is single database shared by all the traders. I have developed web-based application for this. I want to make this multiuser application. Following is the architecture of the application ... Front End is develope...more >>

I am using the SortedList class to sort an array of items. I want to bind the SortedList to a DataGrid, but I want the list to go in descending order. Is there anyway to change the sort order in SortedList when databinding so that I can reverse the sort order? -- ---------------------------...more >>

Hi I use system.reflection.emit to create runtime subclasses of some classes. all works very well with one little problem. I cannot use quickwatch on my proxies , they just show up in quickwatch as "{}" instead of showing a tree with properties etc. also , when hovering an proxyinstanc...more >>

Hello, For some reason I cannot look at the processes running on one machine on the network. I always get the following error: System.InvalidOperationException: Couldn't get process information from remote machine. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The network path was not found ...more >>

Hi, Is it generally acceptable that the SCM says that the service has stopped but the service has spawn a thread which is still doing the cleanup thing which keeps the process running. ...more >>

hi, i am trying to make some assembler things (embeded, so no relation with ..net or anything, just basic dos assembler), i am checking some sources but i dont know the meaning of two statements: 1. os = 0 2. CLD does anyone knows what those mean? (they are not consecutive, just the m...more >>

if i want to call into another AppDomain with messing with Remoting, i can use the AppDomain.DoCallBack() passing in a CrossAppDomainDelegate. But this executes synchronously. Is there a way i can call into another AppDomain asynchronously, but without having mess with Remoting?...more >>

is it possible to get collection of passed-in values in a method call ? I would like to get values of parameters for logging/debuging purposes. e.g private void DoSomeBusinessLogic(int a, int b, String c,...) { //get somehow values of the method Object[] paramterValuesCollection = ?...more >>

Hi, I have a .NET application that spawns a lot of threads that are then executed according to availability of threads in the thread pool. In each thread I query a database and then write results to disk to separate files. Typically I have no problems, however, when I try to run this applicat...more >>

I'm trying to isolate "applications" into their own application domain within a single process. I've quoted applications because it's a logical representation of an application. Basically it consists of a bunch of components supplied by some application group. I got this to work, somewhat. ...more >>

My server application gets an OutOfMemoryException after running a few hours. I’ve inspecting mini dumps with WinDbg + sos.dll and believe that the application suffer from heap fragmentation caused by pinning of TcpServerSocketHandler + friends. The application uses both SqlClient and remo...more >>

Looking through these newsgroups I notice there isn't an actual group for Enterprise Services and I'm wondering if someone could maybe give me a decent set of resources relating to the use/best practices/common issues for them. Thanks! - James...more >>

I know that there is a note in the documentation of the System.Threading.Thread class saying that there is no fixed relationship between a ThreadId and a managed thread. In some posts, however, I've found info that in the framework version 1.* managed thread will never change underlying OS thre...more >>

"ApplicationName must be set before the DynamicBase can be set" This is the message of the exception returned when I try to load an assembly into the current domain of my application. The same code worked great in a smaller application I created to test the loading of assemblies that I create...more >>