I'm writing a small C# Windows Forms application. As it does its processing, I set the .Text property of a Label - so I can know the status of the ongoing execution. Even though I set the property several times throughout the execution, I don't see any but the last one - and even then I see it...more >>

Hi, I'm getting an exception that really has me stumped. It's sporadic at best, it's only happened a handful of times. This particular time it happened when the user pressed 'Alt-S' to save the data that they were entering. Following is all exception information. Any thoughts much appreciat...more >>

Hi. I'm fairly new to C#, and have had some luck getting it to do what I want to, but something I could do with bash shell scripting is escaping me. Bash has a tool called "uniq", and it can take a list and just take out unique entries. I am trying to create something that will take a lis...more >>

Greetings, I'm trying to open a word document when a command button is clicked. = The code below loads Microsoft Word. I can see it in the task manager. = When I tried to copy the file, I received an access denied error. So, I = believe the document is also loaded. =20 But, the document i...more >>

Hi all, i do have a class class Page: CustomPage { } and i do have some other class class Page1:CustomPage1 { } I do have a seperate control where i pass (this.page) Here the case is regardless of the base class iam passing the this.page, But i need to know which clas...more >>

Hi, I have a requirement wherein I need to maintain the state of the data in the windows forms form application (C#). Basically the interface is a graphical rich interface where there are different shapes and on double click of each shape, a tab window pertaining to that shape will be open...more >>

Hello, I'm new to WebServices and WinCE. My first projects involves an image retrieving Client app, running on a desktop with XP. The local server is IIS. The images resides on the server machine (jpg, bmp etc). The app works fine; I did it with FromStream from the System.Drawing.Image cla...more >>

I'm allowing the user to enter a string of text which then gets displayed in a panel. It works great except that if they enter 1 ampersand then it does not display correctly. So I thought it was just a matter of using the String Replace function to fix the problem. I've tried: text.Repla...more >>

Hello In my asp.net application,I will be showing some PDFs which the user can download. When the user clicks on any PDF I will be downloading the related file and I will be showing the related portion of the map in the image box. When the user clicks on any file, the ImageBox is getting th...more >>

I have an MDI child form and when I display it I'd like all the other open windows to remain unusable ( like the showdialog() ) but, at the same time, it should be a child window (like the Form.Show() ). Is this possible? Thanks. ...more >>

How can I loop through all the controls on the form, and for certain types of controls, access the custom properties. For example, I've created a custom textbox for name fields. It has a property called InvalidData that I turn on during the validating event if the data is not valid. Here'...more >>

Hi all, I'm translation some C headers to C# but it doesn't work. I need to fill the Call struct and pass it in encode function as *pdu parameter. The function will encode and fill the PrivateData struct in *priv parameter filling the data field but it return some wrong values. I've the origi...more >>

I am using Visual C# to design a system as follows: There will be 3 computers all on the same network running identical programs at the same time. The computers can come up in any order. The programs (which I am writing) are supposed to share their data with one another a few times per se...more >>

Hi, I would like to apply a Xsl Transformation on a serialized object. But I don't know where to start. Should I do a XmlDocument.load(ObjectToSerialize.ToString())? Or should I call the ObjectToSerialize.Serialize() before? In wich case I dun understand why I can't access the .Serialize(...more >>

Hello, I'm pretty new to both COM and C#/.Net so assume I'm an idiot and you won't be far off the mark! I built an STA COM object using VC 6.0. I build a number of applications which use the object in C++ & VB 6.0. It all works well. I was able to write a test application using C# and u...more >>

When have a class, but need some info that is contained in other class, is it worth the overhead to instantiate both objects if you only need 2 properties, or let those other properties piggyback on the first class which makes it not so OO? Say you had a Home class & and HomeOwner class. If yo...more >>

What exactly is the parameter passed to a thread monitor used for? For example, I might do this: private Object Protect1 = new object(); Monitor.Enter(this.Protect1); try { myarray[j].Delete(); } finally { Monitor.Enter(this.Protect1); } The Protect1 parameter has nothing to do...more >>

I have a form named dataGatheringForm with a few controls on it (some generic labels and a button). How do I set the properties of the form (title, color, etc.) and it's controls (a label for example) at runtime? I've included the code I have so far and it does work. Specifically, in thi...more >>

I am getting the internal compiler errors (CS0586) in my csharp project - about 15-20 in various "stages" (i.e "COMPILE", "BIND"). I have been beating myself up for a day now on this one - I even rebuilt the whole project from scratch to see where it breaks, but that didn't help. When the projec...more >>

How do I set the backcolor for a form to a Hex number? this.BackColor = #H00404; ...more >>

I have url: www.site.com/index?a=1&b=2 www.site.com/index?a=1 and I need a regex or some solution to extract 'a' variable and its value. Any ideas? joe ...more >>

How do I open a console from a Winform App? I've tried Console.WriteLine but that doesn't work. Regards...more >>

Hi all: I have a StringCollection property like this: public class FormExito : Form { ................ ................ private StringCollection FEditar; [Editor("System.Windows.Forms.Design.StringCollectionEditor, System.Design", System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor, System.Dra...more >>

Hi : I am developing an applicaiton with ASP.NET & C#, with remote web server. It was working fine . But last two days when I bulid my application it throws an error: "Cannot Save the file bin/holimart.pdb to the web server. The server connection timed out." here holimart is my project name. ...more >>

Would someone give me a code example that reads an ASCII string from a binary reader and converts it to a c# string please. I find that the help files aren't very clear on how do do this eg "DATA" = 4 bytes 0x44, 0x41,0x54,0x41 ...more >>

I want to show the parent form (MDIContainer) and a child form on load of the application. frmMain is the parent and frmDataEntry is the child. static void Main() { Application.Run(new frmMain()); } I tried adding...more >>

Hi there, I have a problem in that I need to de-compress a file that was compressed using the UNIX compress command. The resulting filename is helloworld.xml.Z I have looked at SharpZipLib, but haven't been able to make it work on this file (perhaps this format is not supported?) WinZi...more >>

Hi I have some difficulties understanding some issues with multithreading: *What is the meaning of: "implement a method to run each update call in its own thread" *If i have a component that does an AsynchronousCallBack that will pass data to the client, which thread will process the data, ...more >>

Hello, I am quite new to c#, so this question may be quite stupid. I saw some variables are defined as this: ArrayList _Text= new ArrayList(); why _ is needed? _ -- hello, please help...more >>

I've conquered a very strange behaviour that I cannot account for logically and therefore seek help in this Discussion Group. I'm currently developing 2 applications and intend to use the standard open File Dialog with the code snippet found below. The code snippet is exactly the same in both...more >>

I am working on an application which sends a print file to a print queue on a sun machine. Currently this is run vit DTS and a batch file calls the LPR command. I am changing this app to a .net console app in C#. I was wondering if it is possible to do call the LPR command w/o shelling ou...more >>

Hi all I have to find a way to access som corba APIs on a remote server (Apachee) from a webservice running on a win2k3 server. Anyone have a idea as where its a good idea to start looking? so far all i manage to find is 3rd part vendors selling finished solutions for this, but that is not an...more >>

hi again, has anyone an idea on how i can get my datagrid view to only allow entry of numeric values. ok i can validate when leaving but what i really want to do is not allow invalid characters to be typed to begin with. Thanks for any help Brian ...more >>

hi, i have a WELCOME screen. here i have a PICTURE BOX. there are 8 pictures that go into this Picture Box. At every 5 seconds i want to RANDOMLY load a new Picture. this is what i am using but it is not loading the new picture. Can any one help? public void Presentation_Load(object s...more >>

Hi, My client uses Win 98. The email part does not work in Win98. I read the documentation and i find that System.Web is not supported in Win98. Now How do i send email on a win 98 platform. Thnks and this is very urgent Venugopal...more >>

How can i create a form which cannot get Active / Focus ? thx Dulo...more >>

Hi, I developed an application in C# (VS 2003) using Tcp sockets. What is the more reliable way to know when a Tcp connection is broken. My code looks like this : while (_mustRun) { if (_socket.Poll (PollTimeout, SelectMode.SelectRead)) { if (_socket.Available == 0) ...more >>

Hi, Can the following ugly type-switching code by optimized by the compiler/jitter?: object o = ...; if( o is Foo ) return (Foo)o; Arguably, the cast is guranteed to succeed, but do the compiler take advantage of that? If yes, would it be possible to each that conclusion by look...more >>

I have a Windows Forms app that connects to an Access database. One of the tables in the database contains a bunch of pictures stored in OLE Object fields. What I need to do is extract those pictures to the file system so the user can do stuff with the image. For example, the user would s...more >>

Hi, I try to read a value from app.config file using this code: string s=System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["server"].ToString(); I got the compiler error: Error 1 The type or namespace name 'ConfigurationManager' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Configurati...more >>

"Pramod" <pramod.yadav@solversa.com> wrote in message news:... > hi all, > I m working in C# .Net and want to create a table > on RichTextBox which should look similar to the one in > MS-WORD. > The column width should resize when text is entered into. > > Any code or Hint will be appriciat...more >>

Hi All, I want to execute a .bat file and get the output from console using C# in a window application, the .bat file includes the java classpath and other environment setting, can anyone know how I can do that? Thanks in advance, Bright ...more >>