Hello, I'm trying to create a small text editor (to be included in another project), and I've created two methods to toggle bold/italic/underlined text styles, in order to have the same behaviour as WordPad has, ie : if I select a text which has bold and non-bold parts, and click "Italic", af...more >>

Hi! Could someone please point me to a good tutorial or similar (what classes, small hint...) describing the best practice when it comes to importing database schema and data into a sql everywhere database? I've tried searching both MSDN and Google but I get millions of hits... :-( Thank...more >>

i have select query that returns multiple records and populates a combobox/pulldown. once a selection from the pulldown is selected, i need to reference two or three fileds from the previous query related to that selection. as usual, i'm probably making this harder than it needs to be. an...more >>

I want to copy a part of the windows form into clipboard as .bmp file. The usecase is the user drags using the mouse and creates a rectangular selection any where on the form. This part has to be copied into clipboard. Can anybody help me in implementing this using C#? Thanks, Ajith ...more >>

Hi all, For my own educational process I am implementing a Fraction class described in the VSJ magazine to help me understand Visual C# operator overloading. I'm a relative newbie. At the moment my basic code is: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; na...more >>

I need to trigger some code when user drags and drops an entire folder onto my form. How can I distinguish between a folder drop and files dropped ? Can someone point me to code or a sample, please ? Thanks ! ...more >>

Can an WBA/XBAP directly make a call to database server or does it need to go through the WS? Thanks in Advanec...more >>

I would like to create a .net application that still uses a few screens from an old legacy application we have. I can list records from the database in my .net app, but when it comes to making updates I still need to legacy screens as the update logic is very complex. I have found I can ...more >>

I'm trying to wrap all the basic controls(Button, scrollbar, etc..) to allow for skinning. The problem is that many of the controls seem so different in the way they work. For example, right now I'm trying to wrap teh scrollbar class but when I override the OnPaint and OnPaintBackground preve...more >>

I'm doing a report on the speed of develipment and executionin varius programing langiuiges. write code for all these tasks in the languige of your choise if intrestied send code to atbusbook@aol.com. Task 1: write a program that prints how many times you repeat all words in a file passed a...more >>

i need a regexp to parse some like this <AwordHere> any thing here #$% #@$#@ /./09812 anything </AwordHere> this works for that: <(?<field>\w+)>(?<value>.*)(?<field></\w+>) but when i have <AwordHere> any thing here #$% #@$#@ /./09812 anything </AwordHere> <OtherWordHere> any thing her...more >>

Hi, I'm new to Visual C# and I am looking for guidance with structuring projects. I am wanting to develop a DLL assembly which will contain all my common classes which will be used by various projects. During development of this DLL assembly I have decided to have a second project which wil...more >>

Is there a way to 'download' any particular namespace that is not shipped C# express? I want to access System.Net.IrDA namespace. L. A. Jones...more >>

In our business frameworks we are creating objects off of the heap to represent every small value such as a CustomerNumber. We will have thousands of these small objects in an application at any one time. These objects are very thin as most of the members have been declared static. I pr...more >>

Hi, I am about to give a project's exe file to my manager, so that he can run it on his PC. I have compiled it in Release mode. Exe File is in obj folder. Now I have connection srting details my project's app.config file, but I can't see it anywhere in the obj folder. What do I need to do to ?...more >>

I'm planning to write an app that will extract certain messages in mailboxes stored in Eudora and Thunderbird formats. These are both "plain text" formats, but the character encoding varies greatly from one message to the other. I wonder how to deal with that, so that the messages comes out ...more >>

hi i have an app in which i can drop objects onto a form and move them, it consists of graphics (lines), i am using double buffering to avoid filckering in the parent control which is a panel,but when i add controls to this panel dyanamically, the double buffering effect is not there, i move al...more >>

hi I am developing an app for making data flow diagrams visually so i have a toolbox, from which i drag and drop objects onto a panel For obvious reasons i have lines which i use to connect objects which are user controls, i wan't to resize lines, i mean they should be selectable and be resiz...more >>

Hi , I need help on this one.. any help would be appreciated, heres my code: My code for sending using UDPClient: public void Send( string Message) { if ( !isRunning ) return ; try { byte[] bs = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Message); thisClient.Send(b...more >>

Hi, I installed VS 2005, also its msdn library. But when I click on Start - Program Filees - Microsoft Developer Network - MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005, it gives me error: Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help 'ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en' in i...more >>

How to prevent the designer to create a value for a property in InitializeComponent ? I do not want the designer to create an initialisation entry in the InitializeComponent method. Is there any attribute i can apply to my property in my custom control to avoid the designer making the init...more >>