How to get the list of installed fonts corresponding to any perticular charactor set? eg. if I want to get Japanese supporting font list (corresponding to char set Shift_JIS), how to do it? please guide -- sachin...more >>

Hi I had a couple of questions: 1.)I am trying to invoke member functions of a class which is coded in VC++ from a UI that is coded in C#. Firstly, if I am not mistaken I think this can be done only if the exposed classes are managed. I am totally new to this. So can someone give some point...more >>

Hello: I write a multithread c# socket server,it is a winform application,there is a richtextbox control and button,when the button is click,the server begin to listen the socket port,waiting for a incoming connection,the relative code snipprt as following:: private IPAddress myIP=IPAddress.Pa...more >>

I am new to C#. At this time I am working on a project that requires to make a Dialog box (with OK button) that will display a message. This dialog box must be resizable based on the message that will be displayed (just like the Message Box does, changes its size based on the infomation th...more >>

Hi all, I Googled without lucky. I want my app has more than one icon like ACDSee or MS Word. Thank in advance. ...more >>

How can I do to see a float numer in screen with only 2 decimals? Thank you. ...more >>

Hi, I would like to display 3 fields in a List box: Lastname, Firstname, age. Is there a way that C# allows me to neatly display this in a columized manner? ...more >>

I have in a form a SqlConnection and a SqlCommand but I also want to use them in form shown as DialogForm. I declared the objects as public but I don't know how to go on. Thank you. ...more >>

Hello, I am having trouble serializing a typed dataset that has a number of expression columns. When I attempt to serialize the dataset, the framework (.NET 1.1) throws a NullRefException. After a little research I've come across Microsoft KB 818587 (link below), which describes a similar pr...more >>

..NET framework 1.2 Hello. We've been accessing a Java COM component from classic ASP for a while now, which works fine. We now need to access it from .NET, but we have no idea how to reference this component as we can't find the .dll (or whatever type of file Java COM components compile to...more >>

I execute a Select sentence using a SqlDataAdapter object and a fill a DataSet object. After doing this I set the DataSource property of a DataGrid to the value of the DataSet but in the DataGrid I see an hiperlink to the table but I want to see Data. How can I do it? Thank you. ...more >>

I've been searching for a new cell phone and I've noticed that many cell phones can download java applications for their phones. How possible is it to write applications for any kind of cell phone in C#? I don't know much about these phones but I'm not talking about the expensive ones with PDA an...more >>

First of all I would to to apologize for resending this post again but I feel like my last post as been spoiled Here I go for my problem: Hi, I have a webservice that I am using and I would like it to return an XML serialized version of an object. the class of the object is defined ser...more >>

Hi, I have been trying to encrypt and decrypt a filestream. I have a problem where if I encrypt a file a set key and iv (eg. key is 'polomint' and the IV is '12345678'), and then decrypt it with the same key but an IV of 29384567, it still shows the file mostly unencrypted!.... Is it just m...more >>

I am looking for a way to allow the currently logged in user to change his/her password. Is there an API I can interop to in c#? Tia! ...more >>

...more >>

Hi, I have a webservice that I am using and I would like it to return an XML serialized version of an object. the class of the object is defined serializable as the following: [Serializable] public class Event { } Also it contains 5 properties returning simple data type such as int a...more >>

How do I get only one character from the keyboard without having to hit return like in the C function getch(); ...more >>

Is there a way to verify a web service is up before executing function calls from a windows based application against it? I have heard of programs hanging while trying to connect to a service that is not available. How can I guard against this using c#? Respectfully, Dean Bortell...more >>

There used to be a nice api call to change a file extension. Is there a class that will do this in c# .net? The FileInfo class will return some information about a queried file. Yes I can query the whole file path/name and the extension, but I can't query the raw filename without its extension a...more >>

Hi, How do I make my program so that it will be full screen and hide the menu taskbar? right now it is fullscreen but the menu taskbar is in the way. ...more >>

..NET 1.1 Hi. My C# .NET application has a memory leak - if I leave it running for hours then the system ends up using 500MB+ of virtual memory, which is released immediately when I close the app. Now, I thought this would be impossible with automatic garbage collection, but it seems this ...more >>

Is it possible to display a form as a modal dialog box where it's is not a top-level form? If I include it as a top-level form, I won't be able to access all the MDI children through it (by using this.MdiParent.MdiChildren from within the form). Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, How do you do a FullScreen option for you program during running? I want to display my form in full but right now, the task bar on the bottom's still shown. ...more >>

Hi Folks, After the weekend I wanted to start working on my c#/asp.net project, but when I tried to open it on my machine i got the following error: Compilation Error Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the fo...more >>

If I have a string variable with a formula: string sMyformula = "3.3*5.2*5"; How can I convert this to a mathematical formula that the compiler can calculate? For all purposes, the formula in the string will always be valid. Thanks ...more >>

Hi We're newish to visual studio .net. I wanted to store some user defined variables. Normally I'd have written these to the registry but my colleague informed me that Microsoft was trying to dissuade users away from the registry and towards configuration files. So I had a look at the System.C...more >>

Hey, I'v managed to set the "User Must Change Password At Next Logon" flag on the LDAP protocol, Using the - "pwdLastSet" property - by setting it to - "0" (for on) or - "-1" (for off). The problem is, I dont know how to check what's the current status of this user - When I try and read this ...more >>

Hi, I would like to display different group of buttons at different time depending on the users. So if the user click on Button1 then a group of Buttons related for that group will appear on a certain location on the form. If the user click on Button2 then another group will appear and grou...more >>

Hi, I need to have 2 (at least) different language in my C# app. What's the best way to do that ? Thanks for your help. H. MAILLARD ...more >>

I have an object (eg MyObject with namespace eg MyNamespace) [XmlRoot("MyObject", Namespace="MyNamespace", IsNullable=false)] public class MyObject While I serialize it the XML created is <MyObject xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-...more >>

Hi, I have created a MainForm and another form called "Form2" statically. I would like to call Form2 from MainForm, how do I do this? I have tried in MainForm: Form2.ActiveForm.Show(); But no luck. ...more >>

ERROR after uninstalling SQL Server 2005 Express I get this message, SQLDMO has not been registered. Please re-run your setupand contact your system administrator. GREAT!!! ReInstalled SQL SERVER 2000 after playing around with SQL Server 2005... Snap In Failed to Initialize, Name: Sql...more >>

Hello, Could you tell me if it is possible to create a OLE server application using C#? I want to be able to embed this application into other applications using "Insert Object". If it is possible could you point me in the direction of some samples. Many Thanks Charles Lewinton...more >>

Hi In delphi we can create an array of an enum. type TMyEnum = (meRed, meGreen, meBlue); const cMyArray : array[TMyEnum] of TColor = (clRed, clGreen, clBlue); This has the huge advantage that the compiler will actually check if enough elements are inside the array. It is also very ...more >>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"> [...] <xs:element name="DateTimeScheduled" type="xs:dateTime"/> [...] <xs:element name="FileSize" type="xs:unsignedLong"/> [...] </xs:schema> This is my xml XSD. ...more >>

My text boxes are transparent in that the backgrornd is visible behing the window containing the text box. This occurs when the BackColor property is Window. In some projects this does not happen so I suspect their is some property or setting causing this. If I choose a BackColor of Info, they ...more >>

Please can someone tell me WHY I would be getting this error and secondly HOW to resolve it. Regards Rob...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to display a progressbar in a listviewsubitem? I can't find how to do this. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi I've managed to make a datagrid so the contents of its cells can't be edited, but is there any way of making the datagrid select one single cell? Similar to the way in which SQL Query Analyzer's grid does....more >>

I have an ownerdrawn combo box which I am drawing with an image and some text, this is all working beautifully apart from the difference in the Brush I have to draw the background and the text with if the item is the currently selected one. I have selected a blue (SystemColors.Highlight) backgrou...more >>

Hi All, I want to have a link on the web form. On click it should print the web form. If I use javascript window.print then it displays the Title on the top of the page & URL at the bottom but i don't want any such thing. Is there any other method to print the complete form thanks ...more >>

I put three buttone on my form. Double clicked the first button and got the below code private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { } I put some stuff in it and then it occured to me that I left the button's name etc default.. Went to the putton's properties and cha...more >>

I am not very much experienced in C# programming but has learnt a lot of C#. I want to test my C# skills by developing sample projects which covers different aspects of C# language. can anybody give me such list of sample projects and/or white papers on C# projects....more >>

I have an ownerdrawn combo box which I am drawing with an image and some text, this is all working beautifully apart from the difference in the Brush I have to draw the background and the text with if the item is the currently selected one. I have selected a blue (SystemColors.Highlight) backgrou...more >>

I am reading in a certain file format and it is compressed with Run Length encoding. To output to the screen i convert this to a 24bpp bitmap. The problem is when the data is decompressed its big and the program is very slow.....any functions in C# to help with this...... *** Sent via Devdex h...more >>

Hi, I'm using the Image.FromImage() function to load a jpg file into a bitmap class and then convert it to a lower resolution. The problem I'm having is that if I check the resolution of the image using either of the properties (Horizontal or Vertical), it reports it as 72 dpi when in fact t...more >>

A few times when looking at code on the net I have seen objects, variables etc prefixed by an underscore. But I've never seen any explanation for the reason for this. What is the reason for doing this? Thanks, Mike *** Sent via Devdex http://www.devdex.com *** Don't just parti...more >>

I'm sure there is a way. Any suggestions. I would like to test how much processing time a certain function takes to complete and lest say modify that funtion and compare the speed. Thanks in advance. Nick Z....more >>

I have a regex for matching VB6-functions, but it hangs on one specific function. The regex: ^(Public\s)?(Declare\s|Static\s)?(Function)\s(\S)+\(((Optional\s)?(ByVal\s|ByRef\s)?(ParamArray\s)?(\S)+(\sAs\s(\S)+)?(\s=\s(\S)+)?(\,\s)?)*\)(\sAs\s(\S)+)? The string on which it hangs: "Public F...more >>

I had use fxcop to check my code. I had 1 confusion here. I would normally call a method by this way in my IAnimal: Example: public void CallFuncA(ushort port); But fxcop says i need to write like a property rather than method to this: public void CallFuncA(ushort port) { this.por...more >>

Hello All, It is said that : Enabling the console window is easy. From Microsoft Visual Studio®, right-click on the project and choose Properties. Change the output type from Windows Application to Console Application. I use C# Standard Edition and I can't change the output type files from ...more >>

Hi there, I had a scenario here. I had many tonnes of C codes in my office. Each C codes are used in low level stuff. Like connecting to smart card readers or even the OS itself. I was being hired to push .NET into it and fully object oriented. I had some questions to ask. 1) Is C# i...more >>