How can one enumerate all running Thread objects in AppDomain? Is there a way to do it in .NET 2.0? ...more >>

Hi all.... Is it possible to cast a Hashtable object to a SqlParameterCollection object? Both types implements ICollection interface, so I think it is possible to do that without the need of using foreach and copying each element individually. I tried SqlParameterCollection sqlParamIn =...more >>

Is there a way in which I can access the CLR information, like what .NET applications are running, the object that are created, the memory the use, etc? Thanks....more >>

We're receiving a StackOverflowException intermittently. I've attached with WinDbg and provided some of the stack below (you can see the repeating pattern that eventually causes the stack overflow): 0:004> !DumpStack 035cc9d8 Thread 4 Current frame: ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet ChildEBP Ret...more >>

what namespace in the CLR help working with active directory (impot users etc...) TIA ...more >>

If I statically link to an assembly(MyClassLibrary) and create an instance of a type that works fine. If i take the assembly class representing the statically linked one and do a CreateInstance and cast it to the correct type that works as well. However if a do an Assembly.LoadFile on the s...more >>

Hi all, I have a major problem in my application. The application does lots of image processing computations, which are all implemented in managed code, and involve large array allocations (most of these arrays fit into the large object heap). Until a few days ago everything was working lik...more >>

Is there a way to override an explicit implementation, say CollectionBase.IList.Insert(), and then in my override defer to that implementation? I've been able to override that implementation (though I was suprised that I needed to add IList to my class's inheritance), but I can't see anyway...more >>

Dear MVPs: I have an interesting question for you...well, I find it interesting at least. I am giving a talk on .NET technologies next Friday and while I was working on creating a few examples I noticed something in my work that I had not noticed before. When I compile a simple C# hello...more >>

Hi, Was wondering if anybody could tell me if the .NET 2.0 framework will be supporting Windows NT? I looked at the system requirements, but can seem to see Windows NT there!! Anybody know.. Many Thanks Wayne Gibson ...more >>

I am referencing an assembly from a third party that is not strongly name and I am getting the error: Assembly generation failed – Referenced assembly ‘xxxx’ does not have a strong name There must be a way to use/reference an assembly that does not have a strong name inside of an a...more >>

Hello all! I have been working on a project for some time now and yesterday, my debugger stopped working. It is a class library which I run from a Win32 test app, so no IIS involved at this point. I can still set breakpoints and when debugging the breakpoints get hit - just like it would w...more >>

Is there anyway unified way to parse a string of a decimal value which either contains a comma (,) or a period (.) as the decimal point, without knowing which before you parse? Decimal.Parse with NumberStyles.Currency and CultureInfo.InvariantCulture does not do the trick. The provide...more >>

Hi, I have created CLR Trigger project using SQL Server Project. In that project i want to add external dll which is located in disk. For that first i have placed the external dll in one folder. Than i have placed all the supporting dlls for the external dll in that folder. Then using Crea...more >>

Hi, I am facing a problem in accessing a network shared folder. I just wrote a test console application to test the behavior and found that in some cases the .NET does not releases the network connection after accessing the folder. I am not instantiating object which holds the network reso...more >>

Hi, I just want to know when the garbage collector runs? Is there any condition that should meet before the garbage collector gets executed?. Thanks in advance !!...more >>

Hi It is a good practice to set that all assemblies in my company must to have a strong name even the privately deploying. I'm looking for a simples rules. Thanks in advance Javier ...more >>

If you run 3 different .Net applications on one machine, a certian amount of memory loaded by the OS to run the CLR is shared across all instances. But if i have a server setup as a terminal server or citrix server, with 5 users logged on running .Net applications, with the OS still share thi...more >>

Hi, I'm using June CTP Visual studio .NET Framework. I have created SQL Server Project in C# language. In that i want to add external dll's(located in disk) to that Project. But when i click the Add reference in the References, it shows only two Tabs 1. Projects 2. SQL Server. I cant ...more >>

Hi all, I want to use the classes in the System.Reflection namespace to gather information about classes in an assembly and about their members. But there is one information I have not managed to find: When you pass parameters by reference in managed C++, these parameters have a modopt IsCXXRe...more >>

I have developed a software using Microsoft Visual C# .NET, which can run under Windows CE.NET. The software is running in a CASIO (DX-T10) device and controlling WJ RFID Card. When I started the project from the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net, I selected Smart Device Application. Now, we wo...more >>

Guys, Does anyone know much about the IExpando interface? I have a business object I've created and I'd like to add support for methods / attributes at runtime so that scripting clients ( e.g. ASP / VBScript / Java script ) can call the .NET object through a RCW and invoke methods which are...more >>

Hi, I am setting System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal to a Windows pricipal before I go ahead call methods to process, sometimes cross assembly. The problem I am facing is that intermittently the WindowsPrincipal object within seems to be garbage collected because I get "Handle is...more >>

What is the difference, in .NET between physical and logical Threads ? To be more precise, how does it affects performance to have a high number of threads (100) ? Does it means that the processor will have to constantly switch context between thread, then beeing inneficient ? Thanks Joh...more >>

Hi All Not sure is ths is the right newgroup; if not could you point me in the right direction? I've written an application for .Net 1.1 that uses the RSACryptoServiceProvider. It all works fine when I tested it on Windows XP, Windows2003 etc. But a customer has Windows 98 SE and they ha...more >>

There is an excellent set of guidelines about rules to throw exceptions: http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2005/03/16/396787.aspx Two very important statements: Do not return error codes. Exceptions are the primary means of reporting errors in frameworks. Do not use error codes be...more >>

This is the situation : I run an application with 5 threads with 50 updates/sec (the thread receives some data then send it to a client) Works fine I run another application using 5 Threads. The first one is working slower... I close the second app The first one works fine .... I...more >>

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to access the CLR heap at runtime? We have a very large application with 30+ forms and we need to monitor which forms have had instances created and which ones have not. It would be too complicated to pass references to each form around around between ...more >>

How do you xml-serialize an array of a class? I have narrowed it down to use an emply class (I've tried a class with properties and fields as well) like this Public Class MyClass End Class To be serialized like this Dim Output As New MemoryStream Dim Serializer As X...more >>

Hi, I need to implement my own ThreadPool class because I want to have control over the threads and their lifetimes. The ThreadPool class will take care of thread recovery in case threads lock up and the implementation provided by .Net does not provide for the same. My question now is...more >>

Is Thread.Abort safe? Given code like Monitor.Enter(Datum); try { // obviously, an Abort is safe here } finally { Monitor.Exit(Datum); } (or the equivalent "lock (Datum) { /*obviously, an Abort is safe here*/ }") it's clearly safe to Abort within the try block. B...more >>

Hi! i have a problem about dotfuscation or any process that called dotfuscation. I can see code details in .NET reflector while my assemblies already dotfuscated by Dosfucator... isnt there any way to keeping my code secure.?? thanks.... ...more >>

Is there a debug version of the 1.1 framework available? I'm getting a null reference exception in System.Data.dll that I'd like to track down but can't step into the code. It's throwing an exception while clearing the child relations of a data table. ...more >>

Hi Folks, I got an Auto-Updating Application that is supposed to download all the assemblies needed from a deployment machine when started. Here ist the Code for the Launcher that has to be deployed to the Machine actually running the Code. All other Stuff should be downloaded upon executio...more >>

I'm trying to use ml.exe to comile some .asm files but it doesn't seem to like long filenames. Using the INPUTPATH macro with VS.net 2003 it tells me it can't find the file "and", like so ... Performing Custom Build Step Microsoft (R) Macro Assembler Version 7.10.3077 Copyright (C) Microsoft...more >>

Hi all, sorry about the subject but I couldn't think of a sensible way to put it say I have class A { public int i; public string s; } class B { public int i; public string s; } now I have an object of type A but I want to treat it as if it were type B. Obviously a cast is not valid. ...more >>

I have a situation where a thread will sleep, do some work and sleep again until it is told terminate. Of course the termination could take some time, if the thread is in a long sleep. (Sleep here is a refresh interval and the user could reasonably expect to set it into the several minute range....more >>