Hi all, I have a method where the compiler is unable to deduce the generic arguments. Now I'm asking myself if this a bug, or if not, why it isn't working. The method in question is Foo3: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; namespace ConsoleApplication10 { class Prog...more >>

Happy holidays everyone! I know this is off topic but this is a pretty sharp group... Santa will be bringing me a new wide format monitor which has lots of room to display windows side by side. The thought occured to me however that it would be even nicer to have two independent desktops sid...more >>

Hi, how transparent is a label on the picture? thank you! this.label1.BackColor=Color.Transparent; this.label1.Parent=pictureBox1; ...more >>

I guess I am forgetting some rules, why I am not able to do following, = says it is read only -- Guid[] a =3D new Guid[2]; foreach(Guid b in a) b =3D Guid.Empty; but can do as following -- int c =3D 0; while(c < a.Length) a[c++] =3D Guid.Empty;...more >>

Hi everyone, What I'm trying to do is, to match all the countries in a list, except US and CANADA which is (CA). I tried a lot, but none of mine worked at all. I'm new to regular expressins and I looks completely none sense for me. I need this for work ASAP. Thanks everyone. I was sta...more >>

After reading the thread "Struct faster than class?" I thought I should = surely understand if I am doing anything wrong in my work. First, Jon you are very professional. Excellent. I will wish you as my = mentor. Anyways, getting to my question -- I am in need of enums a lot in my projec...more >>

Hi everyone, Ok, here's the deal. I have a laptop installed with VS 2005. I'm programming in C#. When I am at home, connected to my LinkSys router, it saves fine. However, whenever I am anywhere else, it saves very slowly (takes about 1 minute), on the same file(s). Any ideas? Thanks...more >>

Hi, Base on MSDN help, in VS2005 IDE, select "Tools -> Code Snippets Manager", but I cannot find "Code Snippets Manager" under "Tools" menu. Also I noticed when I insert snippets in C#, it has far less options then in VB. How do I show "Code Snippets Manager" under "Tools" menu? Tha...more >>

Hello. I have a combobox in a form (cmbNames). The DataSource property is some arraylist of strings. I have a button which is supposed to "clean" the combobox and deselect any item. Therefore, I do: cmbNames.SelectedIndex = -1; If index 0 was selected (meaning, the first item on the list) ...more >>

Hi. I wanted to create a non rectangular form (Winamp, BSPlayer), and I followed the instructions in MSDN on the topic. Created a bitmap, set the background color of the bitmap to blue 0000ff, set the bitmap as my form background, set the transarency parameter of the form to 0000ff, set border s...more >>

Hi, I am using the following code, and the xml being generated is shown below: XmlNode root = document.DocumentElement; XmlElement element = document.CreateElement("rdf", "Stadium", RDF_PATH); element.SetAttribute("about", null, STADIUM_PATH+"/"+stadium.Name); root.AppendChild(ele...more >>

hi, i wrote a method for writing a xml file. but it's throwing a exception my files are like this public class testforserialization { public testforserialization() { // // TODO: Add constructor logic here // } /// <summary> /// Method to convert a custom Object to X...more >>

Is there a way to find out what fonts are installed on a user's machine? I've created a ComboBox which allows the user to select font style and size. If a user didnt have a font installed, I could catch it, but it would look a bit unprofessional? Thanks, Chris ...more >>