I have a speciffic task of which i do not know how to start on. The task is to create a virtual drive (like a ram drive og deamon tools). Through this drive files are to be saved and loaded like a normal drive, but the "files" are created runtime by my program. The idea is that the program acc...more >>

I saw the following requirement somewhere: "....using WinForms and the screens should be described in XML. The XML is to prescribe both the layout as well as the connectivity to the underlying model" Can someone tell me how a Windows Form can be described in XML? ...more >>

Hello, which performance counter do I have to use, if want to know the actual cpu usage? ...more >>

I am just starting out teaching myself C#, and I have come accross a confusing point in my book. It seems that any class can have a Main() function, but what does that mean? Is the Main() function for a class called whenever an instance of that class is created, or would it be there for another ...more >>

Hi all, I try to create a tool to check the delta (diff) of 2 binaries and create the delta binary. I use binary formatter (serialization) to create the delta binary. It works fine but the delta binary is pretty huge in size. I have 1 byte file and 2 bytes file, the delta should be 1 ...more >>

Anyone know of any "good" open source C# game projects out there? Something that actually has a game engine and some content done, so I can just fiddle with it and do interesting / goofy things. I hesitate to state genre preferences. I've been all over SourceForge and it's slim pickings in C# ...more >>

I'm trying to pass a structer from C# to a C dll in .Net Compact Framework This partially works. If in the GetStatus I only set -- status->fileLength = 10; -- and not the second variable then filelength = 10 and fileposition = 0, but if i set the second one only or both of them then they are f...more >>

For the past few days, I've been getting really poor performance with these newgroups (use Outlook Express 6 as my NNTP reader), and sometimes it will completely fail download a message, and I have to go to the Web interface to read it. Is there some kind of problem with the NNTP server, or am I...more >>

Hi all, I'm new to C#, and have two pretty simple questions: I have a class, in a .cs file by itself. I need to make use of the sole function in this class in another .cs file. Here's the code, filename bannertrack.cs First question - the function "LogImpr" users ServerVariables["REMOTE...more >>

Hi! im working on a client server application using .NET remoting, i have a problem in which the server is at another time zone and i want to enforce the server timezone on the client current proccess. something like setting the server culture info on the client, but doing that only sets th...more >>

Hello. I'd like to create utility, that writes something to a file, but this utility shoud be easy to access from several different applications. Because this utility have to open a file, it shoud do this only once (there is one class instance, but every application has a acces to it). What t...more >>

Hello why doesn't this match everything after first space? Match m = Regex.Match(@"/great ba b4",@"Zs:+"); /Lasse ...more >>

I need to execute a TcpListener in a windows service. tanks for the help. ...more >>

Hi I want tu use an app.config like the example below. The problem is, that i don't know how many Action-Tags there will be, because this can be changed by the user. When using System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("IncomingActions/action ") I can access the config file, but g...more >>

Scenario: - I'm dumping an int value of myEnum into a table. - I am getting that int value out of the table. - I need to set myEnum equal to that int value Easy enough: private enum animals {cat=0, dog=1} private animals myAnimal = (animals)1; OK- so that works, and myAnimal is set to dog...more >>

A class has a private field of type IWizard (An interface) and a public property to access it. When I try to serialize the Geometry class in XML, i have an error but it works in Binary Can you help me [Serializable] public class Geometry { .... private IWizard _wizard; ...more >>

I'd like to purchase Visual C# .Net for learning purposes only since it's a lot cheaper than Visual Studio (note that I'm a very experienced C++ developer). Can someone simply clarify the basic differences. Ok, Visual Studio has C++, VB and J++ thrown in plus some extra bells and whistles (I alr...more >>

Hi, I have to set the url of a link from the codebehind. I want to call the GetLink function which returns a string. <<a href= <<% GetLink(); %>>My Link<</a>> - Thanks,...more >>

I have an iterated function like this: 01 string Guid = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString(); 02 _bSeed = (new UnicodeEncoding()).GetBytes(Guid); 03 04 CreateHashChain(0,_bSeed,10000); 05 06 private void CreateHashChain(int i,byte[] b, int max) 07 { 08 SHA1 sha = new SHA1CryptoServicePro...more >>

How can I cleanly stop a thread that is currently blocking on Socket.Receive? I don't want to use Thread.Abort, because I would like the thread method to exit cleanly, and the same code must run under the Compact Framework, which does not support Abort. Will Socket.Close cause the Receive m...more >>

In .NET and C#, is there anyway to create a hook for a specific directory or file where my C# .NET software can monitor which static web files are requested by the browser? What I am doing is writing temporary files to a specific directory for a specific user, and then when the user has reques...more >>

Hi, All: I have this error. It seems execution time is too long. Actually the = execution time is about 30 seconds(I tested in Query analyzer). How do I = solve this problem? System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: = System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to = ...more >>

You know how a textbox on a web-page retains previously typed values? How do I get rid of that? Both the capability and the history? sandman *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!...more >>

Hi. Is there a way to make sure that float, double and decimal data types never will be presented in a scientific notation? I have tried to round(Math.Round) float's to 7 decimals, double's to 15 and decimals to 28 decimals, but that does not help. And the System.Globalization.NumberFormatI...more >>

Is there a way to modify the properties of event log once it is created with ..net language? For example, I want to change the size of new log to 1 MB instead of 512 KB. Can this be done using some other component in .net? The EventLog class does not seem to offer any help in this regard. T...more >>

Ok, nobody at my office, including me, has a clue on .net security, how to configure it, etc.. Any book or URL recommendations are welcome. Thanks. -NS...more >>

How can I impleement a singleton pattern in an abstract or interface for inheritance to an object so all the pattern rules are followed on all similar objects? ...more >>

With two controls a PictureBox and another "PictureBox like" , Pic2, a control from a dll, I'm stuck on cannot implicity convert System.Drawing.Image to System.Drawing.Bitmap error. How do I convert the following code so that the Pic2 can accept the Image from the stream where it wants Pictur...more >>

I am looking for the quintessential blueprint for how a C++ like destructor should be implemented in C#. I see all kinds of articles in print and on the web, but I see lots of discrepencies. For example ... C# Essentials (O'Reilly) - "Finalizers are class-only methods". Not sure what "...more >>

just like invalid pointer referencing in C++? it seems to me so as unsafe code should prevent the runtime from checking the memory location for performance issue, right? ...more >>

I want to test whether someone has the right to open a form and need to test for this in the constructor. If they are not permitted, I want to display a message and exit the form. The question is how do I exit the form from the constructor before the form is initialized? Can't use ParentForm.C...more >>

hi there i was wondering if it is possible to set a checkedListBox in a state where i can not change the checkboxes but still select the lines (entry with the name for the checkbox). when i set the control to enabled=false, te everything is diabled but i only want the checkboxes to be disab...more >>

Sample code: static void Main(string[] args) { double inf = 0.1 / 0.0; int test2 = (int)(inf * 0.0F); Console.WriteLine( test2.ToString() ); } On a P3 this gives the result "0", on a P4 it gives -2147483648 which is int.MinValue. Anyone know why this happens? Is it .Net which...more >>

I'm trying to add an attribute to each column header of a DataGrid. I know that I need to do this within the ItemCreated event of the DataGrid, but I'm stuck on how to go any further. I found some info on MSDN on how to do this, but it's doesn't clear any thing up for me Here's the paragraph...more >>

Hi, Is there a comparable shell statement for C#? In vb.net you just use Shell(). I need to shell out a process from within C#. Thanks. ...more >>

How do you get a count of how many times a string appears in another string ? eg. How many times does: "abc" appear in the string: "xyxabcxyzabcxyz" Is there a String method that does thsi - I know I have seen this before but cannot find details on it again. - peteZ ...more >>

I have been trying to Serialize an object that is the child of another object which is also serializable. Here is the simplified scenario (assume missing code is correct): class One : ISerializable { int x; int y; One() {}; // constructor One(SerializationInfo i, StreamingContext...more >>

I am just wondering if there is a C# equivalent to the VB StrRev function? I have written my own, but was wondering if there is a built-in way? JRB ...more >>

Hy I'm a computing student I looking for some one who can help me to create driver by using one of this compiler (see subject) Because it's not part of my studies I couldn't find any teacher to help me doing that I getting worry cause all my diplomat project is stopped because I cannot m...more >>

I am trying to learn the best ways to do some things in c# When testing for an empty string, what is the best way to test it. For example, if I have a textbox named txtValue Should I use txtValue.Text == "" or txtValue.Length == 0 and why would I use one over the other. And if ...more >>

I have a web application which has a custom error handler which displays frendly message to user and emails me the details. The standard Asp.NET error handler page will, if the project is in debug mode, display the line of code that the error occoured on, as well as the previous and next ...more >>

Hi, I use this code to send an email: System.Web.Mail.MailMessage myMail =3D new=20 System.Web.Mail.MailMessage(); myMail.Subject =3D "Mail di prova.";=20 myMail.Body =3D "Questa =E8 una mail di test."; myMail.To =3D "Tizio "; myMail.From =3D "enrico.teotti@must-ht.it"; //SmtpMail.SmtpServe...more >>

Hi, We recently upgraded to C# from VB 6.0 and all our front ends imported fine. I was wondering how to convert over all our DLL code to C#. Does C# support the notion of creating DLLs or do I have to create a Class Library instead or whether a VB DLL could be called by a C# front- end. ...more >>

I have an abstract class with some abstract methods. I created another class that derives from the abstract method. In the derived class I have overridden all the abstract methods. However, I tried to create a method in the class that doesn't exist in the abstract class and I get a compile er...more >>