I'm trying to use the Toolhelp32 functions to enumerate processes, specifically because I need to get the Parent Process ID of a specific process (to know who launched it). The CreateToolhelp32Snapshot call does not fail (does not return an INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE), but the call to Process32Fi...more >>

Hi, is there any equivalent Set function of the GetCurrentThemeName I want to change the WinXP Style, using the GetCurrentThemeName give me the current active Theme, is there a way to change that programaticly ? is there any SetCurrentThemeName ? I went threw uxtheme.dll and I did not find a...more >>

Hello, please help me with a problem that drives me crazy: We've migrated our Legacy ASP application to ASP.NET some time ago. What's left is a a custom com-object (VB6) for the core-functions. We had no trouble with this combination so far. Now I get random values from a function of the ...more >>

Hallo to everyone, I have a dll called (picboot.dll) written in c++ that works in a vb6 project. I'm trying to convert the vb project in c#. PacketData is a byte array parameter, that reads and writes bytes to the dll, calling the functions ReadPic and WritePic . I've started with the new...more >>

Hi, Just before the query : I have posted a similar query to this prviously. Either no one knows the answer, or it is so painfully obvious, no one has bothered to post an answer. If it is the latter, please point out the obvious to me. I'm getting desperate. Someone suggested it mi...more >>

Hi! I have an webapplication written in ASP that talks to a dotnet app hosted in a winservice application via .net remoting. The server is based upon a singleton object that serves multiple ASP websites. About three times a week the w3wp.exe process crashes and debugging the minidump giv...more >>

Hi all, I am currently developing a shell extension, which introduces some new columns for Windows Explorer's detail view. Everything works fine, but how can I programmatically (via registry settings or the like) activate these columns, or determine whether the columns are visable due to th...more >>

Hi everybody, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook ExcelWorkbook = ExcelWorkbooks.Add(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlWBATemplate.xlWBATWorksheet); this gives me the following error: Old format or invalid type library. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80028018 (TYPE_E_INVDATAREAD)) I've ...more >>

Hi, I am storing userdefined objects in the clipboard and I want them to be available for external applications (Notepad, Excel, Word, ...) How does my userdefined object have to look like to be usable in other applications? Do I have to implement a special named method or something like that?...more >>

I have a C++ module which takes and returns parameters as (one and two D) arrays of int and double. I want to call this from c#, but I'm concerned about the memory implications. THe data items in question represent a sparse array which may have many millions of entries. The impression I ha...more >>

I need to make a class in .NET as a COM class, and get access to it with CreateObject in VB6. I googled it and saw this link: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/nettocom.asp?df=100&forumid=14076&exp=0&select=1092357#xx1092357xx But in this example, and others I have tried, CreateObject in VB6 t...more >>

Hi , I want to marshal following C structure . ---------------------------- [C] struct Foo { int First; int Second; }; struct FooList { int Count; Foo List[1]; }; void GetFooList(struct * FooList fList); I am doing it following way [C#] -------------------- [St...more >>

Can anybody tell me where this Win32 comes from? I would like to use it but can't find any information about it. The only thing I found is this: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.interop/browse_thread/thread/2e68307c5e9e5b0b/cd077b7c09484f82?lnk=st&q=%22best+way+t...more >>

I am having problems running a C# application which uses mschart 6.0 on machines with just .NET Framework installed. If I run this application on a machine with the full Visual Studio .NET 7.0 installed then it runs just fine. My application is very simple, I have a form and added the mschar...more >>

Hi. Can you help me to solve this issue.... Im working with DirectShow and Windows Media Format SDKs from a C# app so there is a lot of interop library work (http://directshownet.sourceforge.net), this access to directshow is great but there is a task i want to do that requires me to use th...more >>

I have defined LVITEM as follows: <StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)> Private Structure LVITEM Dim mask As Int16 Dim iItem As Int16 Dim iSubItem As Int16 Dim state As Int16 Dim stateMask As Int16 <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)> Dim pszText As IntPtr Dim cchT...more >>

I have developed a .NET DLL for another team who will be deploying it with their VB6 application. This DLL must also work with .NET applications in the near future. This team has been able to succesfully integrate my .NET DLL with their VB6 application, but it appears that each time I give t...more >>

I have made a mail merge process in server side using C# (web application). In my template (.dot file), I use xsd shema and XML file as datasource and every thing work nice. My problem is that doing this operation in server side is very cost for resources. I want to know how to do this in cli...more >>