Hi I am trying to engineer a way of testing that my logging framework is capable of writing to my eventlog. I want to include this test in my already existing NUnit tests - but I'm a little low on ideas as how to assert that I actually did write to the eventlog successfully. Naturally I ...more >>

I am sure this is a basic question. Why does the code below return the following (i.e. without the full path descriptions) string Temp = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath(); returns "C:\DOCUME~1\tobrien\LOCALS~1\Temp\" instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\tobrien\Local Settings\Temp". Which ...more >>

hi, Perhaps someone can help me. I am trying to serialize an object but the serialization isn't working. I have created a small console app to show my problem. Perhaps someone with more knowledge could nudge me in the correct direction. Regards Lee #region Using directives using S...more >>

In the current project that I am planning i am thinking of serializing the objects to save as binary files. The question I have is with inheriting classes. If I have 1 base class and 2 classes that inherit from it. How would I configure them for serialization. Do I just put the Serialized ...more >>

Hi, in my C# project it uses 24 sql connections, i am clearing all the conncetions whenever an error occurs and when i see in the performance monitor for that pool i can still see all those 24 connections sitting over there. so i am wondering how to clear the connection pool in C#. can anyone s...more >>

Hajo, I am searching solution for this proble over 2 days. I need to be able to create mailboxes on exchange server that is in domain. I need to do it outside of domain. What is more I can create user outside domain but I can not create mailbox. Below code throws following exception: The ser...more >>

Hi, As part of my Windows application, I need to open a folder containing a file (fileName is specified in txtFile). I have no problem opening the folder: FileInfo info = new FileInfo(txtFile.Text); string folderName = info.DirectoryName; System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo prStartInfo =...more >>

Hi, I've established a TCP-Socket Connection and now I want to receive datas. So I called BeginReceive where I set the receiving buffer and length. Now in the asynchronous CallBack-Function I call EndReceive and get the length of rceived datas. After receiving datas I call the Beginreceiv...more >>

Hi, I'm using OleDb to read an excel files and display the data in a datagrid (using dataset as data source), after modifying the data on datagird, how can I save the changes back into Excel files. Thankz.... -- Message posted via http://www.dotnetmonster.com...more >>

public enum Color {Red=1; Yellow=2; Orange=3; } Is there a way to get the value of the Color easily? I know it can be done using Enum.GetValues(typeof(Color)) but I have to use a for-loop to get the value in this case. Is there a direct way to get the value? something like Enum.GetValue(C...more >>

Hi Can someone point me to a resource or explain in brief how te create a component that i can add to the toolbox tab, but that is not positioned on the form . (like the Timer component ) Johan ...more >>

Hello I've written a small C# program that uses VFPOLEDB it is working perfectly. Then, I redesigned it to work as service (as described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbwlkwalkthroughcreatingwindowsserviceapplication.asp). Unfortunetly, now ...more >>

I'm using code similar to the following to search a line of code. I want to replace what was found with a modified version of the text. My regex pattern is "ListView\w*". And the line of text that I am matching against is: "public static void AutoSizeListView(ref ListView lv)". My RegEx fi...more >>

Documentation for error message Compiler Error CS0163 says: Control cannot fall through from one case label ('label') to another Ok, fine. Documentation for switch statement says the same thing, but ALSO says: Although fall through from one case label to another is not supported, it is...more >>

Hello, I'd like to read the extended file properties using C#. Those are e.g. author, subject, ... of a word file or bit rate, artist, duration of a mp3 file. I already tried to use the storage properties provided by OLE, but those only work for Office document. The explorer displays this inform...more >>

since ArrayList implements ICollection, is there a quick way to convert an ICollection into ArrayList (besides actually iterating through each element in the ICollection and explicitly adding them to a new ArrayList instance) ?? ...more >>

Hi!!! When my webapplication hit this line: Response.Redirect("Page.aspx?Variable=Something"); I got this exception: Thread was being aborted. Any ideas? Raul...more >>

I'm trying to follow the walkthrough guide for "Creating a simple windows form" to create a Hello World program (link below) using VisStu .NET. I have tried both Visual Basic and C# to create this application. I have done all the steps (create button, edit the click properties to use Messa...more >>

I can't find it .. what am I missing? - Sahil Malik http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik ...more >>

One of our ASP.NET Pages is starting a new Process using the Process object. When the process starts, it is started under the ASPNET User. We tried editing the web.config file and the machine.config to operate under other user accounts but our dynamically started process still starts under A...more >>

What are the best .NET datatypes to handle SQL Server's Float and Real datatypes? I'd like to avoid using the SQL Server specific datatypes like SqlInt32 or similar. Thanks in advance. -Mark ...more >>

Hi I had 2 forms inheriting from a base one. It all worked nicely to start off with. Don't know what I did next (did some code in the base form), because now the VS IDE doesn't want to open either of the child forms. It complains about "ConnectionString property has not been initialized"....more >>

Is the DataGrid source code publically available? If so, how can I access it?...more >>

Hi i need a library to deal with the modem, cause i have to make an application that connect to the modem and deal a number, and wirte the events (busy, answered, not answered) ...more >>

Hi, I place an http request to a web server using HttpWebRequest. When the response comes back (via a HttpWebResponse) the Cookies collection in the response is empty, though if I scan through the response's Headers collection I see that there *are* a number of "Set-Cookie" headers present...more >>

Hi Jon, I have to say thanks, you solved my problem, the only question is where did you see that it was ISO-8859-1, I can't discover this while I'm interested because I need to translate also to chinese and this is not well done with ISO-8859-1. Can you help me again ?? Many thans, Eng...more >>

Dear: I used to code a continously running thread in C++ like following: Handle hStopEvent = CreateEvent(NULL,true,false,NULL); UINT uOptional = 0; _beginthreadex(NULL,0,wtInvestigate,(LPVOID)NULL,0,&uOptional); unsigned _stdcall wtInvestigate(LPVOID lpParams) { while(true) ...more >>

Good afternoon! I have an error while trying to convert to DateTime ,here is the code and the error: ArrayList al = new ArrayList(); temp_str=Line.Split(' '); al.Add(temp_str[0]); // value="11/02/2004" al.Add(temp_str[1]); // value="10:53:10" temp_str2=(string[])al.ToArray(typeo...more >>

Hi, Happy New Year! Im writing a primary singlethreaded program. However I would like to insert a timer to do a check by reading some values in a file if accessable. The timer thread should set a boolean to either true or false depending on wether or not the user has responded to a messageb...more >>

Hello Friends, I hope you can help me with this one. I am doing a web-based project in asp.net, using c# as the scripting language and MySQL as the back-end database. I want to construct an XML String from my web-form values and then from the XML string, I want the values to go in to the My...more >>

Hi all - posted this on the webservices newsgroups but its a bit slow there so my appologiez in advance. I have a webservice and a windows app. both of them reference the same class library called WebServiceTest.Core that defines a class called Class1. the webservice exposes a method that...more >>