Hi all I have a question regarding exceptions When I have a try/catch block and within the try block I have an exception, it then goes to the catch block to deal with the error. thats all fine, but once I figured out what the problem is and fixed it in the catch block, how do I get my code to ru...more >>

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Hi, How is ProjectGuid generated? Or is it just some random generation. Thanks. ...more >>

(Type your message here) -------------------------------- From: Salim Ansari Can anybody please give me sample code in C# to use keyboard hooks in C#? THat would be a great help. Thanks in advance Salim ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) ...more >>

Hi, I would like to use a couple of hundred constant string variable throught my program. I want to use them from every corner of the software. In Vb I jst declared the global and it worked . How do I perform this in C#? p.e. string NE_01_001 = "Granulator"; How to declare it and where...more >>

Hello I use AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser in a windows application. But sometimes the url I browsed in AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser contains error caused by javascript. Can I prevent javascript from running in AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser Thanks Simon CJC...more >>

I am trying to create a composite control which is essentially a panel with 4 labels and 4 check boxes I have designed the control in VisualStudio form designer. I dont want to allow the user to change the size of this control at design time. How can I acheive that I was looking into the Immutabl...more >>

I have dowloaded a few sample code from Code Guru but my visual studio .net will not open it. Do anyone know how to make the earlier Visual studio .net open visual studio 2003 projects? The project file is just an XML file. ...more >>

I write my Windows code in the plain old Win32 API (no MFC at all) and I'm finding that more of my apps would benefit from the use of 3rd party controls. As I understand it, I could embed them in my Win32 API based app but the more sensible option would be to move to MFC. If I'm going to co...more >>

Hi, I'm using delegates to show progress when performing certain tasks. However, I'd like to check to see that there actually is a method available for the delegate to call. What's the correct way of doing that? Looking at the documentation for delegates, I've come up with: if (MyEvent.Targ...more >>

How can I understand a Request.Params object's type? I need this: User enters www.domain.com/myfile.aspx?6 then myfile.aspx.cs use "SELECT name FROM people WHERE id="+Request.Params[0]; so if the user enters the parameter as string instead of integer: www.domain.com/myfile.aspx?test th...more >>

I am porting an application from C++ to C#, and am having trouble finding a way to quickly and efficiently write structures to a binary file. In C++ this is trivial because all that is necessary is to pack the structure to 1 byte boundries, and then just write out the structure directly to the File...more >>

How do I create a one line text file with these control codes? e.g.: 144 = 0x90 and 147 = 0x93? I am trying to create a one line text file with these characters all one one row with no spaces. 1. 144 = 0x90 2. 147 = 0x93 3. STX = (^B = 2 = 0x2) 4. NUL = (^@ = 0 = 0x0) 5. DC4 = (^T = 20 =...more >>

Hi All, I have a string like ... String str1 = "(15*20)+12.5"; I want to evaluate this string to get the mathematical output. Ideally output will be 312.5. How can I do with the .Net?? thanks Manoj ...more >>

Hi there, when stored in the binaries (or in metadata), strings are represented in a special format: the length is followed by the string data. However, I do not quite understand this PackedLen value that precedes consecutive bytes. I've made some experiments and figured out that 8-b...more >>

Hi, First of all sorry for crossposing this question. I just found out that this place fits much more than microsoft.public.dotnet.framework I am playing around a little with C# and the .Net Framework. After finishing a first application I have a 52K executable. When executing it I can s...more >>

Hi all Ok first of me new to C#sharp. At the moment I am still learning the language. The problem I am running into is that I just can't seem to get a picture embedded into my program and then read it. Everytime I get a error from the debugger. I tried all kinds of thinks but can figure out what i...more >>

Anyone know of a good tutorial on how to take some pretty complicated C code and turn it into a C# class? I work for a company that wants to begin developing in .net languages but we have a whole bunch of very old, very complex c functions that I would very much like to turn into a DLL (as I'm...more >>

Hello What would be C# code for setting up control location property Thank you,...more >>

I have a text file with a date in the form of mmddyyyy. I want to load this into a dateTime column in a DataSet Table. What is the syntax for this? ...more >>

(Originally posted this in VC++ section .. whoops I'm working on a series of projects which have a few things in common, which has been abstracted into an object we'll call ParentForm. I started a new (actually, the first) project. It's "main" form is called ChildForm, and it inherets from Paren...more >>

How can I compare two double values and return the greater of the two values? example double doublea = 1.0; double doubleb = 2.0 double retVal = ?compare doublea and doubleb ...more >>

Can someone please tell me the method in C# I use to search a directory structure to find all files with the same name. I was hoping some sort of array would be returned or something Thanks in advance Cyd...more >>

The ToString() function, when applied to a variable that is an enumeration type, results in a string that is the name of the enumerated value that was defined in the source code. This is cool, but how does one override the function to have some values return a different string? For example, su...more >>

Is it possible to download the 60-day version of Visual Studio .Net Pro 2003? Microsoft.com has it for $4.95 but they're on backorder (and I don't want to pay for a trial version). Thanks. ...more >>

I am using PropertyGrid to display some attributes, one of them is a key/value pair struct. When you click on the attribute, a standard dialog box will popup that I can edit the values. My question is how can I access this dialog box? For example, there is a help button on this dialog box a...more >>

"Forms provide a Boolean KeyPreview property. If you set this to true, your form receives key press events when any of its controls have focus, and it receives these events before the control does. This technique is useful if you are programming a customized interface or a game where you need to ...more >>

Hi, have got a Windows Service that is a remoting server, like <wellknown mode="Singleton" objectUri="CacheService.rem" type="ObjectCache, Cache" /> but when used by a client, it does not appear to be a Singleton. The ObjectCache class has an Age property, and for each instance of ObjectCache ...more >>

Does anyone know how to do Chr$(13) in .NET? Thanks, Eddie ...more >>

The System.IO.BinaryReader contains methods for reading almost every basic data type except for 2-Byte floats. Does anybody know how to read a 2-Byte from a file stream? There has to be a more efficient way than to manually read the bits and encode them to a float. ...more >>

I am writing a c# windows forms application. I read in an XML file to a dataset for read-only access (by the user and the application logic). This is not an MDI app but has LOTS of seperate forms. They all need to get to tables within this DataSet. How can I make the DataSet "Global" for all ...more >>

How can I create a popup window similar to the 'Insert Comment' dialog in MS Excel? I only need it to popup, and it should have an OK button. Would that be a Windows form or a user control? Thanks. ...more >>

I have a system where my software sits on one server and interacts with another server running MS SQL. My software recieves connects via a socket layer on the internet and does it's thing with the SQL. This seems to work fine. The problem is now I have a situation where the internet connect...more >>

I have a situation where I have multiple objects that aren't related in any way (no base class), but all have a couple of common methods/properties. I'm looking for a clean way to call a particular method/property for the object, w/o having to resort to a bunch of if-is-cast statements. Here ...more >>

Hi, Does dialog boxes that can minimize vertically exist in C#.NET? I have seen these boxes in e.g. paint shop pro and many linux user interfaces. Could anyone help? -jp ...more >>

I have a dataset that was created from a XSD schema. I populate it with data and use WriteXml method to create XML document. Problem is XML tags come out in the order that is different from the order of tags in the XSD. My client requires that XML validates against XSD, and the use XMLSPY to vali...more >>

I have a C# Windows Service and I need to access it from a C++ Application. I am new to programming and have been looking all over for help on the internet without much luck. I did place this line at the top of the C++ file (using namespace Shutdown_Restart;) I get something that says a namesp...more >>

To whoever the Administrator is I am a newbie. I find this newsgroup is too active and daily there are a lot of postings. Does take a lot of time to browse thru the messages. Can we at least split this newsgroup into 2 or 3 groups like: - Newbie (Newbies will post and browse her...more >>

Hi. Is it possible to do a State Button ? (state selected, and state not selected) I want to do a choice : for example male/female yes/no. So, if the user select Yes, no will be not selected, and Yes will be selected. Is there a simple way ? Have I miss something in the Button property ? ...more >>

Programically press key in a TextBox as user does pressing keyboard button? ...more >>

I have it in my head that I saw a marketing document from Microsoft with the total number of classes and methods in the .NET Framework. Something like 70,000 methods? I don't need precise numbers, but a rough estimate of the number of classes and methods would be interesting to know.... Thank...more >>

I'm currently creating some user controls in C#, and I've come across the interface IServiceProvider. This interface must be one of the worst examples of bad design I've ever seen. It contains one single method, with the following signature: object GetService(Type serviceType); Can anyone t...more >>

How can I have a list of all sql servers avaiable on our LAN populated in a DropDownList exacly like what we have when we want to specify Datasource in ADO.Net or wherever? Thanks ...more >>

When a user disconnects their wire to the network or those who use RAS disconnects - I need for my Winforms app to be informed the moment it happens. What is the best way to code this in C# ? Any examples or code snippets?...more >>

I created a class in C# and I would like to step through the class to make sure it works correctly. How can I step thorough this class to make sure that everything is working correctly?...more >>

Hello, Could someone please explain to me how the sort works on a Windows Form DataGrid? What I'm trying to find out information on is the fact that when you have a DataTable bound to a datagrid through the DataSource property...if you click on a column header and sort the datagrid, the underly...more >>

Hello guru's, Please help me out in the following: How must I write the code in C# to cope with the following legacy-struct: typedef struct callback { FILE* stream; char buffer [1024]; } I've been trying to use the following, to no avail: [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] p...more >>

Hi I'm trying to convert a MSWord document to a pdf file. How can I do this without a pdfprinter or a software or a component that you can buy on the web. I just want to do ti programatically. If there is no way to do it freely can some one tell me where I can find information to do a component by...more >>

How can i get the date if i have weekno, year and dayofweek using gregorian calender...more >>

Hi, I need to read contacts from a public folder in Exchange. I want to do this using my favorite developping language .... c# Anyone there to get me started ? Roland...more >>

I want to serialize the properties of controls. I write Property Name and Value to an Hashtable. This hashtable is serialized. So I want to find out which properties of the control are serializable. I tried following but it doesn't work. I still get not serializable properties into my hashtable. Exc...more >>

Hi all ! There's a question I've been bothering for a while: I'm actually developing architectural frameworks for application developing and I think virtual methods, although needed because of the flexibility they introduce (flexibility really needed in framework developing), are often a nu...more >>

Does anyone know a good code parser that can parse source code written in C++, VB, C#, and other popular languages? I goggled but can't find any useful link. Thanks Tony ...more >>

I need to be able to call an executable from a .NET solution when a button is pressed. How do I go about this??...more >>

Dear Sir/Madam I made one user control using C#(.NET Runtime is 1.1). It is embeded in Internet Explorer Basically, this control is very similiar to FTP client program. So it should be connecte to FTP server. First of all, I have granted full trust for security. So it is not related with an se...more >>

dynamicly, during the program execution - for example - if I press a utton - to add MenuItem - "aaaaa" into the &File column, after Save and before Save As? - and how to remove it as well? ...more >>

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com//Code/2003/March/SwarmSim.asp I just found this port of the swarm groups famous 'complexity from simple interacting agents' type software. Very easy to load and run in Studio. I'm going to try a mono build when I get home...don't know about how to translat...more >>

I'm new to C# and am used to Java, where there is a correspondence between package names and directories. I'm having trouble creating the same functionality in Visual Studio. In particular, I'm having trouble compiling such projects. As an example, suppose I have a project called ConsoleApp...more >>

I am interested in working on more secure ways of distributing software, which is done via hardware dongles in many cases. However, I really don't even know where to start reading about how it all works. Is there any information out there about how dongle/hardware security works and how it is ...more >>