Hi Folks, I just moved to Seattle from Portland, Oregon. I was wondering what the average contract rates ( as a W2 with an agency ) are up here for a senior ..NET software developer with around ten years experience developing with MS technologies and a Masters in CS. In Portland, I was ...more >>

Hi I am developing scripts in C# which can be used to test windows based applications. I use Win32 API's to perform click operations etc. To uniquely identify a control in a window rather than using absolute position of a control I have been using Control-ids and captions of the control. B...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if there is a way in .NET to do the following: Suppose I have a test.exe (I have the source also) which uses lib1.dll and lib2.dll (which are .NET assemblies); Is it possible to compile the 3 files into 1 static executable so that I don't have to have lib1.dll and lib...more >>

Hi, I would like to serialize an instance of the bitmap instance. Actually, I've done serialization with the code below, but why parameter Tag is not serialized? I get the following exception after deserialization: Object reference is not set to an instance of an object. //...more >>

in a new project using .net 2005, c#. getting err message "Update requires a valid UpdateCommand when passed DataRow collection with modified rows." source RDBMS is oracle 8i. I add a new dataset to the project and drag a datatable from server explorer onto the dataset design surface. In th...more >>

I have a large quantity of EPS images created on Mac and now I need them on PC. Unfortunately the PC-EPS and MAC-EPS aren't the same and needs to be resaved to work in the programs I use (mainly Framemaker). Does anyone have any valuable tips when doing this and more importantly - Do anyone know...more >>

Can someone point me in the right direction? I need to wrap some class properties into XML tags in C#. I just need the XML tags and not the XML document information. Thanks....more >>

Hello. How come it's safe to read non-volatile fields that are shared across threads using locks for synchronization (for example, Monitor.Enter or EventWaitHandle), but it's not safe to access them if no lock synchronization mechanisms are employed? Whe using locks, I'm I guaranteed that wh...more >>

how can i rename my local website? i have had a right headache writing my new site, then modified it only to be told i cant upload because the local and remote sites have the same name, que??? any help will re-sponge my brain because it is liquified at the minute....more >>

Hi With Visual Studio 2003, I could hit CTRL+Space to invoke intellisense. Has the keystroke changed on 2005 because it doesn't work for me? Thanks Dave ...more >>

I am using VB.Net 2003 on a Windows 2000 machine to load directory contents into a ListBox. For some unknown reason the text is not visible, however, if I assign a label to the selected item in the list box the file name shows up in the label, so I know the the file list is being loaded into th...more >>

Has anyone here used this control in their own product at all? I am very interested in some sample code that shows how to implement a folding strategy so I can do code regions in my custom language. I know how to use the folding manager to get code segments to fold up into collapsible regi...more >>

Hello I have a question about CHILD forms in an MDI form. How can I have a neat positioning of child windows in an MDI form? When I open a new child window in my MDI form it is opened in a new cascading position but when I opens a lot of forms, it goes out of the borders of the MDI form...more >>

Hello Two questions about positioning: When I run my MDI application developed by VS.NET 2003, the MDI window is opened in a new place and after some run again and again, it opens in a position that some borders of MDI form goes out of the desktop. The WindowState of MDI form is in Norm...more >>