Does anyone know a good method of preventing keyboard and mouse events from interrupting processing? My situation is: 1) I need to track and handle all key and mouse events 2) I need to perform processing on certain key/mouse events 3) If key/mouse events interrupt processing, the events shou...more >>

I am looking for a very good book on forms. One that treats the controls one by one in depth, with concise examples (e.g. not like the Erik Brown book, which rambles on and on with one example that grows and grows until you loose all perspective.) Can someone please come up with some good s...more >>

Does anyone know if thier is anything built in the framework to generate random filenames? I have a dataset(hash table) that grows very large. After a certain point a good portion of the elements will not be used anymore until the end of the program. In order to conserve memory I wanted to w...more >>

I like the feature, to have the IDE report missing XML doc tags for my project, but I have some typed dataset, which generates thousands of missing XML hint. Obviously I does'n like to document this module, because it autogenerated, and VERY large. Is there a compiler directive to disable hints ...more >>

Hi... is it possible to send data from a socket to at physical address (MAC) on f.x another PC or Router ??? I have a IP header with information about another client, and this cannot be altered, so I want to send the whole IP package to the server / router using OSI layer 2 (datalink), but is it...more >>

Anyone know how to change the current working directory in a windows NT service application written in C#? It appears to start in the windows system32 directory not where the exe is located which really screws up my app which acts on business objects in the directory that the exe lives and ther...more >>

created a custom class that is derived from TreeNode, let's call it customTreeNode. I'm trying to use the TreeViewEventArgs (for the AfterSelect event) but I cannot cast to my derived TreeNode. Here is a snip... ---code snip--- private void _TreeView_AfterSelect(object sender, TreeViewEven...more >>

Please any help will do!!!! I have several issues implementing serviced components with .NET = framework. Please stop a few minutes to read the issues found on my = application. This is an academic project emulating an online billing = software for a health care facility. My application is...more >>

Hello Group, I'm a VC++ programmer who recently working on C#. I have a question about web programming using C#. Please let me know what I do need to do web programming using CSharp? What I need to know is from A-Z! Should I have IIS installed ? if so, what type of connection sho...more >>

Has there been a change in the way the UI designer handles winform inheritance in the 2003 version of visual studio. Consider the following (try it if you are using 2003 Everything seems to work under 2002) Create a form and add two buttons (bottom right) and a panel (fill the top of the form...more >>

I have string that I want to split. I want to split on a string, not just one character. It looks like the Split method of a string in C# only takes a character. I've tried Character array, and all that does is splits on every character in the array separately, not as one string. There has to b...more >>

I have a class which is implementing an interface, but I also want to have it inherit from a base class. Can you do both with a class? If so, what's the syntax? thanks. ...more >>

Hi, Okay, now that I've read pretty much the entire "Deploying Applications" section of the MSDN .NET framework documentation, including the part that lists the minimum hardware/software specs - but doesn't list disk space needs - could somebody give me a rough answer to the question I ...more >>

Hi all. I'm writing some .net compoents that are also going to be used from vb6 code. Is there a way for me to distinguish all the different types of exceptions that the .net code my throw ? My .net component can throw a few different types of exceptions and I need my vb6 code to take action di...more >>

Hi everyone, I've got a console application that grabs data into 3 datatables asynchronously, and writes each datatable's data to a textfile. The problem is that the data returned by each sproc could easily hit up to 100,000 records each. Since the datatable doesn't implement IDisposable, wo...more >>

Hi, I'm migrating a program to C# that I wrote using MFC. The programs GUI was split vertically in two halfs with a tree control to the left. Accordingly to the different items that could be selected in this tree view, the right side of the GUI showed different Formviews that was replac...more >>

Hi, in VB.NET there is the following code: Friend htProvidedProperties As New Hashtable() Private Class TextboxValidatorProvidedProperties Public DataType As DataTypeConstants Public RegularExpression As String = String.Empty End Class 'casting 1 Dim ProvidedPrope...more >>

How can you create a collection of objects in C# like you can in VB? In VB you say Dim myCol as new Collection and then add the item and index ...more >>

Hi I want to be able to retrieve the data from a given URL, fill in the necessary form fields and submit the form back to the server, all from within a Windows Application. I can retrieve the HTML from the page, using the HttpWebRequest class but that is where I have become stuck. These are t...more >>

The following code behaves differently from what I would expect: socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType.Tcp); socket.Blocking = false; socket.Connect(ipe); isConnected = socket.Poll(30*1000000, SelectMode.SelectWrite); I would hav...more >>

I have a custom UserControl, which can have many sub class levels derived from it. I want to be able to discover all the components at Load time, but the only components I can see from the base class are the private components internal to the base class itself. What I want are ALL components f...more >>

I need help with a regular expression that will pull the title and all the meta tags held in the head section of an HTML file (including the head tags). I want to exclude everything else such as link tags, script tags, etc. I have a pretty big process that pulls this stuff now using simp...more >>

Hello, I am using Visual C# .net Standard and want to create a Class Library. However I am having some difficulty. I am following the directions to do so from Deitel's "C# How to Program" in Chapter 8.16 in which it says, "From the FILE menu, choose option NEW, follewed by PROJECT... ...more >>

I am trying to get the XML documentation working and I cannot get the <code> </code> block to work... <summary> works <remarks> works No way that I can get the <code> to work. The XML generates ok but when the Html page is made with the tool the <code> </code> section disappears. I ev...more >>

Load richtextbox with a .rtf document. Want to use the Rtf.Replace method to replace text, but nothing happens. If anyone has suggestions it'll be greatly appreciated Thanks - Michael ...more >>