Ive searched usenet before, with nothing, so Ill go ahead and ask... Does anyone know how to read from the keyboard buffer from a console app, *without* blocking? I know about the PInvoke method and SetConsoleMode to char, which I am doing, but there is still a problem. What I need to do is i...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to understand the blocking method socket.Send(). The call blocks as expected, but does this mean, it returnes after the underlying TCP layer got a confirmation, that the send data was received by the socket on the remote end? Can I count on that? Do I understand TCP correc...more >>

Here are a few I'm considering: Design Patterns Explained : A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design (2nd Edition) (Software Patterns Series) by Alan Shalloway Design Patterns C# by Steven John Metsker Design Patterns by Erich Gamma Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freema...more >>

Hi, I have a web form page. it has gridlayout and a table at top like a template. When I have the literal or requiredfieldvalidator ErrorMsg displayed, they are all over the page. Is there any way to control their locations? Thanks. -dale PS: The html code is below: <%@ Page languag...more >>

Given the following: string x = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(buffer); x = x.Replace("\r\n", "\r"); If the buffer contains 13 and 10 (2 bytes), can someone please tell me why the second line cant find and replace? \r\n is supposed to be equivalent to 13,10 arent they? Im trying to...more >>

hi, i have a small browser. in IE, when you hover over a link, the text in the status bar changes to the URL. how do i do that? and when you type in some text into the address bar and press enter, the go button is clicked. how do i do that instead of having to lose focus from the combobox a...more >>

Hi, I have a multi-level complex XML that I like to process and store in the database. I'm comfortable with using DataSet and then reading the tables (XML is parsed into 7 tables in my case) and processing the data. However, just to become familar with XmlTextReader, I've done the same thi...more >>

Suppose a function which has Sleep() method in it. And I want to recycle it. I made two buttons which call "Resume()" and "Suspend()". But It doesn't work. The state of thread "t" will be "WaitSleepJoin" when it runs because the function it calls - "GenerateEvents()" has "Sleep()" function. ...more >>

Hi, I am having the following situation. The snippet of algorithm shown is being executed on a new thread. while (....) { ..... ..... myDataGrid.DataSource = myDataTable; myDataGrid.Refresh(); // Here I need to update some windows components, mainly a datagrid // Updat...more >>

Hey everyone, Previously, about a month ago I posted a question asking how to remove the command prompt that always appeared when I ran my Windows Forms Application EXE. Well, that was visually and all you hadd to do was to go to the output type and set it to windows application. How do I ...more >>

Hey everyone, If you still don't know, I manually create C# windows forms using one huge notepad file. So, to create a label, you start with: Label l; l = new Label(); l.Text = "This is a label"; this.Controls.Add(l); With longer pieces of text, the label automatically has a new line...more >>

I have: Rectangle[] rects = new Rectangle[10000]; I want to initialize the values of rects as follows: Option A: ======== for (int i=0; i<rects.Length; i++) { rects[i].X = 0; rects[i].Y = 0; rects[i].Size.Width = 100; rects[i].Size.Height = 20; } (By the way, rects[i].S...more >>

Hey all, I'm threading newbie, I've never attempted it before. I've got a button that when clicked starts up a thread to process some files. This keeps my GUI responsive and gets the tasks done. Here's an example of what I'm doing: ==================================== private void button1...more >>

Hello everyone, I'm manually creating my windows forms. And that means going into Notepad, and writing the designer.cs and class.cs and static void Main(), all by myself. I only have the .NET Framework SDK and Redistrubutable. To the point: To set the size in a form, you write: this.S...more >>

I have a hash table like: Hashtable myHT = new Hashtable(); myHT.Add("First", "Hello"); myHT.Add("Second", "World"); myHT.Add("Third", "!"); We can use key to find value like: myHT["First"] -> "Hello" But how can use use value to find key? ...more >>

Actually, I feel like my knowledge goes beyond this question, but it's still something I wonder about. Why, when you declare variables such as int x = 5; or string word = "Hello"; do you not use the 'new' keyword? Are these not objects? Or is there something implicit about them tha...more >>

Hi, A have a problem with Inhreit Control. I try to Change its Size in Construct Function, And it works. Code Here: -------------------------------------------------- public class UserControl:TextBox { public UserControl() { this.Size = new Size (100, 100); } } -----------...more >>