Hi Friends, I'm working with Visual Studio Add-Ins. Using Visual Studio Extensibility (EnvDTE) I have disabled the context-menu (right-click) mouse event of deleting a project item. But I'm unable to lock/disable the Keyboard events. If I select an project item and press the "Delete" key in...more >>

I have come across an example where the following compiles in ms.net: ..locals init([0]unsigned int8 _loop_param, [1]unsigned int8 _loop_limit, [2]unsigned int8 _loop_param, [3]unsigned int8 _loop_limit, [4]unsigned int8 _loop_pa...more >>

Given a FieldInfo object, is there any way to get a reference to the object that the FieldInfo describes? In other words: FieldInfo aFieldInfo = aObject.GetType().GetField( "myTextBox" ) Now... how to I get the actual TextBox object that the FieldInfo describes? I can't see any obviou...more >>

Given a FieldInfo for a given instance variable, how can I then get PropertyInfo for a member of that object (assuming a type)... To illustrate: DoReflectionTask( object theForm, string theField ) { /// Get the field info for a field on the form object FieldInfo afi = theForm.G...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to create an application that can allow users to extend the menu by supplying the event handlers in their own libraries. My first thought was to use reflection to specify the event handler, something like this... // The user's assembly has already been loaded and we have...more >>

I just realized that there are 2 modes for garbage collection modes: server gs and workstation gs. Would someone know how I can go about changing the mode for my web application written in C#? I want to make sure it's using server gs mode. Thank you for any comment or advice. -zeng ...more >>

Hello, I got this weird problem. I have an intranet application that needs to communicate with Active directory. Authentication to Web application is done by means of active directory accounts. Now I have this code: DirectoryEntry objDomain = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://rootDse"); string d...more >>

Could anyone help me in the following problems? The ECMA standard states the following concerning the delegate constructors: "The verification algorithm shall require that one of the following code sequences is used for constructing delegates; no other code sequence in verifiable code shal...more >>

All - Up till now (at least in my opinion) the definition of a primitive type has been at a language level. You can refer to this definition on msdn at ms-help://MS.NETFrameworkSDKv1.1/vblsnet/html/vblrfVBSpec6_2.htm However, in reading Jeffrey Richters book (Applied Microsoft .NET Framewor...more >>

Hell All. The C# programming language does not allow the overloading of the new operator. I'm interested if there is some mechanism through which I can instruct the CLR to use a different memory allocation routine than that called by default by the runtime. Thx Z. Cristi ...more >>

Hello All, I am trying to implement proxies for a certain group of classes, using System.Reflection.Emit. Subclassing works fine as long as the base class have a non-private default constructor. Here is a part of my code: ConstructorInfo ci = basetype.GetConstructor(ALL_INSTANCE_METHODS, ...more >>

Hi all software cowboys, this may be dumb question, but I can't find answer in help. I have main windows service, which calls multiple background threads. I have many calls Console.WriteLine to trace their steps, but in output window appears "thread threadname exited with 0x0". It's fine, I a...more >>

Hi I need to be able to pass const parameters to function. And I'm using reflection to get class (which I will when pass as parameter) and I'm using FieldInfo.SetValue to set that's class fields. So, best way to acheve constness, will be to set change FieldAttributes of that field. I need ...more >>

Hi Friends, I am facing trouble with dynamically compiling C# source files. Here is the example: Following command works: csc.exe /out:test.dll /target:library /r:system.dll,Infineon.FD.Repository.S hared.dll /lib:E:\Pratik\FD\SourceCode\RE_TB\GUI\REGUI\bin\Debug\RepositoryBin\ test.cs ...more >>

According to Partition II (and several other documents) method headers are supposed to be aligned. However, examining a hex dump of System.Messaging.dll shows the following tiny method headers (Surrounded by *'s). 0013300 00 00 00 00*36*02 28 2f 00 00 0a 03 6f 30 00 00 0013320 0a 2a*3a*02...more >>

Currently, when I use a GCHandle member I declare another boolean member to record whether or not the GCHandle is in an allocated state. I do this because I don't see anything in the documentation anywhere that leads me to believe that you can avoid it. In order to know if a handle needs freeing ...more >>

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to access the section metrics to programatically query the same data that sos reports via the eeheap -gc command. I would like to access this from managed code ideally through the GC class or the the System.Diagnostics class. Some what less ideal al...more >>

Hi, I am currently working on a compiler and generating order preserving perfect minimal hashes, since the generated hash tables are availible at compile time I have been trying to embed these into the data segment of my IL file but when the test program is run I get the following exceptio...more >>

Is it true that CPU registers are not saved and restored on a switch between threads of the same process?...more >>

I'm trying to understand when assemblies get loaded (in particular so I can gain a better understanding of how security works) I have a .exe which references half a dozen other assemblies. If I put a breakpoint in the first line of Main, I can see that one of the referenced assemblies has b...more >>

I periodically get an ApplicationException "access is denied" in the WindowsIdentity._GetCurrentToken() method. Reflector shows the _GetCurrentToken() method as [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)] private static extern IntPtr _GetCurrentToken(); which i believe means it is an i...more >>

Hello, I have been trying to figure out how to write an array of doubles (in this specific case) to a binary stream without using a loop. What I have been doing is... foreach(double d in TraceData) { instanceOfBinaryWriter.Write(d); } The loop is introducing overhead I don't want. ...more >>

I have a piece of code that is reading resources out of a loaded assembly that goes something like this... Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName); using(ResourceReader reader = new ResourceReader(stream)) { ... Now the ...more >>

Could somebody help me with answers at the following problems: ECMA standard states that "initblk assumes that "addr" is aligned to the natural size of the machine". What does this "alignment" means in a low-level memory view? 1. Does it mean that, for example, on a 32-bit machine "addr" i...more >>

I guess I'm confused about how to use the asynchronous I/O capabilities in FileStream (BeginRead, EndRead, BeginWrite, EndWrite). The methods work in that they actually transfer the data, but things don't appear to be happening asynchronously. And, yes, I'm telling the FileStream constructor...more >>

I am looking for support for parsing and generating a mime stream in CLR. One of the scenarios which will better explain my requirements is User types some data in an HTML enabled text control. I take this data and converty it into multipart mime message and store the multipart mime message ...more >>

I would have a few questions concerning the generic instructions such as "add", "div", "rem". When a "div" is performed for two values on the stack, the result depends on the operands' types. So a "div" needs to know the types of the operands: int32, int64, etc. How does "div" know these ty...more >>

Hello I am writing a small dll in .NET. ILasm is compiling with no errors. However, peVerify is giving me the following error: Microsoft (R) .NET Framework PE Verifier. Version 2.0.40607.16 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Could not load type '' from assembly '...more >>

I want to know if I should worry about threading if I open a file (read/write) within a static block? Thanks...more >>

I have the Nov '04 CTP of .NET 2.0 (The splash screen of Visual Studio .NET calls it Beta 2). I was trying some simple iterator code... using System.Collections.Generic; public class CityCollection : IEnumerable<string> { string[] m_Cities = {"New York","Paris","London"}; public ...more >>

Follow up to previous 16 message thread. Real world example of how Garbage collector completely messes up machines and fails comprehensively to collect Garbage with out prompting. The Garbage collector is designed and optimised for Client based applications where there are regular pauses in u...more >>

I have Web Service (A) that dynamically loads a private assembly (B). I do NOT reference B in A. ( I do reference A in B, but that should not matter?). Both these Assemblies reside in the A's /Bin. I dynamically load B and Invoke a Method: 'Create evidence for the new appdomain. Dim adevi...more >>

All: I am writing an application (.NET 1.1/C#/VS.NET 2003) that would benefit from having a scripting language as part of the program - much like VBScript can be used in Excel to automate it. I would like to use Javascript as the scripting language. Any idea how I would go about solving t...more >>

Hi, //SITUATION I got a panel control that hold a certain position on a form. Every controls or UIs are on this panel. At certain situation, I called dispose() method of this panel control and change it with other panel which contains other business logic and UI controls. //ACTUAL CODE...more >>

If i add a number to an int which gives me a value > int.MaxValue i get a negative number, i would have expected an overflow exception, is this expected behaviour, can't see this in the SDK For the following console app i get -31789 -2147482669 -9223372036854774829 using System; publi...more >>

Hi all, is there any way how to access type which is decorated with mine attribute within that attribute? E.g. [MyAttr] public class Whatever { } [AttributeUsage(Class)] public class MyAttrAttribute : Attribute { MyAttrAttribute() { Type t = .... //want to get ty...more >>

Hi Everyone I have just been getting up to speed on the forthcoming ASP.Net 2.0 (Whidbey) that Microsoft is releasing some time this year. It all looks great but I was a bit concerned that it aims to reduce the amount of code that needs to be written by the developer by 70%. The new GridV...more >>