2 Questions: (1) The documentation says application.run() creates a standard message loop on the current thread and "optionally" shows a form. This is really confusing because I was of the understanding that application.run() creates a message loop for the form and passes all messages to it....more >>

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How to make an application to recognize if it run in DesignMode? I find in Help something called ISite but I don't understand how to use it. Hrcko ...more >>

Hi there, I've frequently noticed quite a few .NET functions with the following MSDN caveat: "This method supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code." Does anyone know whether this officially means you can't use the function or it...more >>

I can't figure out how to approach this problem. I would like to have a custom object that will contain some predefined attributes. The simple solution that I know is to create my own class -- something like: public class MyClass { private string _property01 = string.Empty; pub...more >>

Hi all Any recommendations for a good object persistence framework? I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with personal experience. Thanks Pete ...more >>

Hello! In his recent newsletter embedded expert Jack Ganssle says that programming students, as well as professional developers should readh "great code" (hight quality/well-crafted code that works). He even gives to examples. One is uC/OS-II operating system and the other is TCP/IP stack f...more >>

Hi I am trying to exexute a transform (XslCompiledTransform .Transform), but get this exception: System.Text.EncoderFallbackException: Unable to translate Unicode character \u2013 at index 3637 to specified code page. at System.Text.EncoderExceptionFallbackBuffer.Fallback(Char charUnkn...more >>

Hi, I have a question on sql injection attacks. I am building a tool that will be used exclusively by our other developers and will generate stored procs for them dynamically based off input from them. I wanted to add a "parser" functionality where based off the table and where clause they ...more >>

How to read pdf files? Is there a .net component that support that? Hrcko ...more >>

Hi is there a way to change propertys attribute from the code? Let´s say that i have the following property in my class: [DisplayName("Number of cars")] public int Count[ get { . . . } set { . . . ] } Is there a way to change the displayname, from my code, at runtime to "Number of...more >>

Has anyone had experience producing an employee schedule display by way of a datagrid? Creating this isnt hard but I am trying to get changes made in the database to show in the datagrid. For example if someone requests vacation time and it gets approved by a manager I would like it to sho...more >>

Hi, I want to save an audio stream into a circular file so that I only keep say the last hour's audio. Can anybody help? Cheers, Quentin ...more >>

I remember reading a few years back about destructors not being guarenteed to be run. Doing a search all I can find is a reference to some bugs with finalizers and appdomains in 1.0 and 1.1. Are destructors guarenteed to be called in every case? Are there any pathological cases? ...more >>

How to use progressBar with loading picture into pictureBox. Code: private void InitializeMyTimer() { // Set the interval for the timer. time.Interval = 250; // Connect the Tick event of the timer to its event handler. time.Tick += new EventHandler(IncreaseProgressBar); // St...more >>

Hi guys, I have to make a event signup page for our company that would display the event time/date in 3 different time zones (Eastern - New York, Central - Chicago, and Pacific - San Francisco). To do this. I convert the inputed date from local time zone and convert it into UTC and store it ...more >>

Hi guys, I'm coding an application connected to a database. I have some clients that use this program with 2 or 3 computers, and I use MsSQL Express for them. But if the client needs more computers to be connected to the database, I have to use a standard MsSQL. No problem with that, but I ...more >>

I' using this code to call a loginForm(that form is in another classLibrary) This is a Main Form from witch I'm calling login form: void Login() { LoginForm lf = new LoginForm(); this.AddOwnedForm(lf); lf.ShowDialog(this); } private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs...more >>

Hello, I need to create an application that will span its transactions through SQL Server and Active Directory (Insert records in SQL Server and for example set a property for a user in AD2003). Is it possible to wrap this kind of action in a single transactions? Thanks, ...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm new in this group and I have a question that might have been answered already. I created an arraylist that I want to contain the object that I created. But when I try to store these objects, I end up having the same information in the arraylist. Here is my code in Person.cs ...more >>

Hi All, I'm pretty new to using these technologies so bear with me. I have created a c# app which communicates with sql-server express 2005. When I run an insert on a table via the SqlCommand class nothing seems to happen! No errors are apparent either. If I check the table contents in the ...more >>

Hi Say you had N threads doing some jobs (not from a shared queue or anything like that, they each know how to do their own set of jobs in a self-contained way). How can you coordinate them so that they all wait until they've all done one job before starting off on each of their next jobs. ...more >>

Hello, I need to write an application that spans its transactions between SQL Server and Active Directory. Is it possible to wrap the code in a single transaction? Thanks, Sanja Stojanovic ...more >>

Hi there. I'm doing an application in C# 2005. I was used in VB6 to put code in Forms load event in order to initialize some values of the controls (grid values, text boxes values, label captions, among others). Sometimes that code includes retrieving information from a database. Now that...more >>

Hi all, I would like to know, how can I check the name of the current user that is Log on in O.S XP. Hi already try the Environment.UserName.ToString(); but is not what i would like to appear,its abreviated, like 'MJhonson', and and what i want is the complete name 'Michael Johnson'. ...more >>

Hi, I'm just working on a hobbyhorse command-line app for modders on TA-Spring. The app is configured using XML deserialization, and I've generated XSD to make designing the confuration XML files easier... and in Visual Studio it's relatively painless. The problem is that I want to be able to...more >>

I have the following business entity classes shown below. I have a data layer that retrieves the data from the database and populates a new instance of the PendingRecord class then adds it to the PendingRecords collection. i.e. PendingRecords pendingRecords = dataLayer.GetPendingRecords(); ...more >>

Is there a way I can list the contents of all the EventArgs passed to a specific method? Thanks, Ben ...more >>

Nice and simple one for you all... Is there a time to use Catch(Exception) rather than creating an instance of the Exception, as in Catch(Exception ex)?...more >>

I am new to VS 2005 although I have years of experience with the previous versions of VS. Without having to spend a lot of time diving into the docs, can someone tell me the easiest way to parse xml content? In the past I used the DOM object model and XPath. Perhaps things have improved in VS 20...more >>

hey i m using MSXML2.dll in my application when i m building this using visual studio it is building with no error. but when i m trying to compile same file using command prompt i m getting 'type or namespace couldnot be found (are u missing directive or assembly reference?)' error. Can any...more >>

Hi, Got a query regarding plotting a preview / thumbnail for a graph which reads data from a binary file. The preview should should take very less time, look exactly like the original graph i.e. not miss the peaks and curves should look similar. Is there algorithm or anyway to do this in ...more >>

Hello, How to read a mail from the mail server as formatted. I am able to read the mail as row HTML, is there any class, or something method using that i can easily get the all info of that mail, like as TO,From,Subject,Body. here I am attaching my coe which i developed. using System; u...more >>

Hello, Please cnay one can tell me how to read mail as formatted.... i have made some code using that able to read but not able to serialize..... so am i need to parse the HTML, or is there any class using that i can directly get the full info ablt the mail, like TO,From,Subject,Body,Attach...more >>

I have created a control that displays a list of items. During design mode I fill it with junk data using calls from the constructor. So when I look at a form with the control on, instead of being empty, it has some content, and this gives a better idea of what the form will look like when run...more >>

Hello, I have a very strange problem which involve databinding in winform c#.net 2 . I have a user control which holds textbox inside. the user control has property which reflect the inner textbox text property : [Bindable(true)] public string Content { get { return textBo...more >>

Hi, is there a tentive roadmap/features already semi-official for the next version(s) of C#? I'm interesting in the features of C# 4.0, maybe... Aspects? "Polyphony"? Memory-Transactions? LINQ extensions? And what about the CLR? I know in .NET 3.0 the CLR will be the same 2.0 core... what'...more >>

Hi! I'm a newbe on c#. Is there any good api for c# classlibrary(.net) on the internet that you can recommend? I'm thinking something like javas api. Regards /Tom...more >>

Hello friends, I want to connect http or https by taking url, username & password from user (if necessary )& then connect to download file from that source in console application. Can u help me out ............ Sachin ...more >>

Hi, My app populates a list of custom objects from data fetched from a database. What i want to do now is filter the list and remove items from the list that don't match the filter criteria. I was thinking of using foreach to traverse the list and dynamically remove items that fail the ...more >>

I get the following errors from the code ( CRM 3.0 ) below, whats wrong ? Any suggestions are welcome because i'm kinda stuck here. The first error is pointing on the last bracket ] <--- c:\inetpub\wwwroot\bredanaweb\jdshentlead.aspx.cs(18,35): error CS1001: Identifier expected c:\i...more >>

Hi, If a DataGrid.DataSource is an IList, not a DataTable, is there a way similar to dt.AcceptChanges(), dt.RejectChanges()? Thanks a lot! Ryan Liu ...more >>