As an exercise I wrote a small C# program to download several hundred text files of guitar tab music by parsing the home page of the site and retrieving all the links to the music text files and using 'WebRequest and a StreamReader to download them. I followed up the call to WebRequest.Create wi...more >>

How do I code an event handler to inform my application whenever an active(which the user was using)word document changes(to another word document). ...more >>

Hi, I am beginner for C# and .Net world. Any advise for real good books and how to start on .Net will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Milan Shah ...more >>

I see many rich classes in System.Configuration, but all of these classes are read-only. While I have many rich classes for extracting information from a config while, I am reduced to the most primitive XML classes when writing data to an config file. Is there a technical reason why System....more >>

I didn't find a group for this. Sorry. Matt ...more >>

I am displaying money values in a textbox like this: txtCountryPack.Text = String.Format("{0:c}", dr[0]["Pack"]); I then need to updated my Database: decimal packPrice = Convert.ToDecimal(txtCountryPack.Text.Trim()); The problem is that the value is in a formatted format i.e. $300.00 How do...more >>

I have problem how can i do it in C# safe code. class ABase { SetValueFromXX(string name,source,dest) // in C++ ( string name,source, int *dest) { 1. step in source i find row with name 2. step set value from source on finded row to dest, // in c++ ...more >>

Hi What is the way to copy data to a buffer. I need to copy byte by byte of data from source to destination. Thanks, Regards ...more >>

Hi, Can someone supply a code example of displaying a string with a fractional part, say 5 and 7 16ths. I cannot find an example of how to use the Encoding object (if that is what you use). thanks, Mori ...more >>

Is there a quick way to Convert an Object to XML and then pass the XML string to VB as a paramenter. Then rebuild it on the VB side? ...more >>

I have a class class FileMakerParameter I also create the following subclass of ArrayList public sealed class FileMakerParameterCollection : ArrayList, IDataParameterCollection { public FileMakerParameter this[int index] { get { /* return something */ } set { /* som...more >>

Can't compile. Does this mean that all functions that throw exceptions must be of return type void? examples: // won't compile: "not all code paths return a value" public override int Run() { throw new Exception("exception thrown"); } // won't compile: "unreachable code detected" pu...more >>

Hi, I am encountering a really subtle error which I have been trying to isolate for a while and I am still not able to find it. The problem boils down to this: I have a button which marshals two files (two images) across a remoting boundary. It does this by accessing an Access database for the...more >>

Hi, Somehow when I open a project the project Output Type is always changed to Windows Application. What is happening? --Heng ...more >>

Hi Friends, Please forgive me if this question has appeared before. If so please give me a link or some clue on this problem. I'm writing XML comments to build Comment Web Pages by using Tools-->Build Comment Web Pages in VS.Net IDE. I could see <summary>, <remarks>, <param> etc in the res...more >>

I have created a Windows Service with VS.NET 2003 and compiled the = service with Supported Runtimes v1.1.4322, v1.0.3705. When I try to = install it on a machine that has only .NET 1.0 runtimes I get the = following error message: 'System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: One or more o...more >>

I've got a RichTextBoxEx inherited from RichTextBox, and I want to overload the TextLength property to use TextBoxBase's implementation of TextLength. But since TextBoxBase isn't my immediate base class, I don't know how to call its TextLength property. Any ideas? public override int TextLeng...more >>

Hi Do anybody know how to show ActiveX whitout AxHost? For example i got wrapper to ActiveX and now i don't know how AxHost shows ActiveX. I must do it, because i think AxHost made it wrong and i got some problems with using ActiveX. Second question is how AxHost do it? I mean how he show...more >>

I am using .NET remoting with a class,call it MyClass, that contains many other classes (say one of them is MySubClass). I have been able to successfully call functions from the MyClass, but when I try to access the sub-classes it gives me a: System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException ...more >>

I need to define a constant for a character in my Constant class. I defined as follows public const char = '\136'; when I compile I get the error 'Unrecognized escape sequence' How do I define a char constant with octal or hexadecimal values? Thanks...more >>

Hey there I have beentrying to get a windows form to send an email thru outlook and cannot find the right code. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!...more >>

i'm currently working on a windows xp machine with an english visual studio .net 2003 environment. when i connect to an oracle table using OracleClient-Objects (Connection, DataAdapter, Command) everything is working fine (i can see all the stuff in a datagrid). When i move the same applic...more >>

When an object goes out of scope, do all the event handlers automatically get removed, or must this be done manually to ensure that the object succeeds in being disposed of? Thanks, Jon ...more >>

If two delegates are created that point to the exact same method, and an event is assigned both delegates, ... myObj.MyEvent += new EventHandler(MyHandler); myObj.MyEvent += new EventHandler(MyHandler); .... does it recognize the duplicate method and ignore the second one, or does i...more >>

Hi to all, I need sources for programming external devices, actually I have to make a program to control electronic circuit boards... I collect some info from the net and I think it is easier to reach circuit boards with serial ports. Finally I guess there are some resources out there and if ...more >>

Hi, I have a numericupdown control in my form. I added a tool tip control and set the numericupdown control's property to show the tool tip text. But when i hover over the control, no tool tip shows up. To make certain I added other controls and added tooltips for them which works perfectly. ...more >>

Hi , How to make a particular column in a DataGrid Control as a Combo Box. Any ideas/suggestions would be of great help . Thanks Prashant ...more >>

What is the difference between indexers in csharp and overloading [ ] operator ? thanx, ...more >>