Can anyone de-mystify this? I wrote a C# program, the entire code is shown below. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int a = 0; ...more >>

Can anyone recommend a book or tutorial about programming a command line tool? I need to build a .NET C# tool that starts some batch processes, so some info on how to build a nice syntax for the tool would be nice. -Jeroen ...more >>

Hi all, I am new to WSE 3.0, and currently reading the document shipped with installation. From sample provided (see below), I created WSE service side code, but how can I consume stream returned by web method in my Web Form application? I already configurated web.config of my web service...more >>

Here's my C# newbie question: How do I set the position of a modal form? This (correctly) positions top left of the form at the position of the main form: .... Form frmAbout = new About(); frmAbout.Show(); frmAbout.Left = this.Left; frmAbout.Top = this.Top; .... But this doesn't wor...more >>

I tried several online converters. In many case they do the job, but sometimes give some mess. I think that all converters I know are old, were created for VS 2003 and do not understand new stuff from VS 2005. For instance this block containing Using was not converted by anyone: Public Shar...more >>

All, I have started using NUnitASP to write test cases for an ASP.NET application. It works great, but some of the assertions that need to be made depend on values stored in the Session. The problem is that NUnitASP basically acts as a client to webforms and simply abstracts the HTML emit...more >>

Hi there, I have a worker thread that may need to display a dialog for the user. Is it safe for the worker thread to invoke the form's constructor and then pass the form's reference to the main GUI thread where "ShowDialog()" will then be invoked. I assume it probably is since the form is n...more >>

Are nullable primatives stored on the stack, i.e. as a struct, or on the heap as a reference type? Jon ...more >>

I tried to translate VB code for FOREACH and got this result: public static string GetUnauthorizedUsersCount() { MembershipUser objUser; MembershipUserCollection objUserCollection = Membership.GetAllUsers(); MembershipUserCollection objUsers = new MembershipUserCollection(); ...more >>

(1) I tried to use what seems like a standard line (from Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Service Application in the Component Designer at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zt39148a.aspx): if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists("MySource")) { ... But received this error whe...more >>

In C# integers are automatically intialized to zero. I need to assign null to an integer (i.e. int i = null). I cannot use Nullable Types because that is a feature in .NET 2.0 and I need to use .NET 1.1. Thanks ...more >>

The following code-snippet works but is just not elegant, IMO. Does anyone have a recommendation to make this more efficient? For example, I prefer NOT to have a static "buf" size. In fact, I would prefer something similar to StreamReader.ReadToEnd() for returning a string, but into a byte...more >>

Hi all, I am migrating a Windows Form application from .Net 1.1 to 2.0. I try to use BackgroundWorker object to handle a very lengthy process. I have a separated class to handle some very complex logic. In .Net 1.1, I create some events inside this class to notify WinForm the status of...more >>

Is it possible to change the Treeview style so the treeview starting from Top to bottom instead of Left to Right (parent-child node) ? or is any third party software control can do that? Please advice. Thanks. John ...more >>

Hi All, I am interested in writing an app or add-in for MS Outlook (I don't have any previous experience in this area). My main objective is following 1. I want to manage who are the people who need to be notified. 2. I want to create a groups of people as a part of 1. 3. Each group will h...more >>

I have a project staged in source safe. What is the right way to open the project from source safe and get all the depended files on to my local pc? I do not have the project locally in my PC. I am trying to get it in a right way. Thanks in advance for the help. ...more >>

I want my app to be able to run on PCs without requiring a .Net 2 download. Can C# Express 2005 be set to create applications that work with .Net 1 even if it requires .Net 2 to run itself? ...more >>

Hello, can anyone tell me how to detect a system's settings for dpi settings on the display properties dialog? For instance, it can be set to: Normal (96 dpi) Large size (120 dpi) or Custom size. I'd like to do this on application start up and then just run with whatever setting I find a...more >>

Hi, I have started using MS Enterprise Library for the data access layer and found it great. I have changed to coding on another machine though and didn't think it necessary to a full install of the Enterprise Library. This caused a problem that the following article solves: http://scottonw...more >>

Hi, I've got a method that I want to execute in a multithreaded environment (it's a specialized spider. I want to run a whole bunch of copies at low priority as a service). It works well running as a single application. I was wondering if there is a "Thread-Safety Analysis Wizard"? I'm ...more >>

Hi, All I need help: I have VS .NET 2003 version 1.1 (C#) and MS Access What will be the best way to create parameterized reports? Please, help I don't know where to start, any linkss to this topic will be appreciated ...more >>

I have an .exe console project and a class library project as part of a solution. The .exe has an App.config file and I have used the Settings page to add some Application level settings. When I try to retrieve a setting using this code: //Method 1 string s = ConfigurationManager.App...more >>

I have a quick question on custom controls. I have a control that I created with a class that extends the NumericUpDown control. My problem is that when I use this usercontrol on my form, the click event gets handled by the user class. I want the event to be passed to the Windows form (not ...more >>

I am building a custom utility application and need to read and write structures to a disk file. It was simple in Visual Basic using Types to define the structure and then using Put to write it to file / Get to read it. Is there any component / class library developed for use with C# ? ...more >>

I installed the Express version of both VS and SQL. But from VS Express I can not see the SQL tables. I can not create an ODBC link to SQL Express either. I have no problems doing this using VS 2002 Ent and SQL Server 2000 Ent. According to this page I should be able to do that... http:...more >>

During my code's processing of an exception, I would like to format the exception myself. I can get almost everything (I can get exception itself, stack trace, file name, line number, method, parameters) but cannot seem to get the source code where the exception occurred. The ASP.NET except...more >>

System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: "-1" Key being added: "-1" at System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add) at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value) at System.Windows.Forms.ComponentManager....more >>

Hi, I'm serializing a class and using shared memory / deserialization to send it to other processes. I can serialize with one app and deserialize with another instance of the same app. But if I try to deserialize with another different app, I get an exception (the assembly RegionViewer i...more >>

I need to zip up an 8Gb file using C# - do you know of any freeware libraries I can use to accomplish this? I guess it needs to be Zip64 to support such file sizes. I tried something called sharpziplib but it doesn't support >2Gb files - they are working on it however but I cannot wait......more >>

Hi All, Is there a good book or paper on conceptualizing Winforms as objects? In object-oriented programming I don't find it diffiucult to see "student", "person", or "car" as objects, but I do have problems conceptualizing a "form" and controls on forms as objects and how they fit together. ...more >>

Is there any way to do that C# always writes in the same line of the console? ...more >>

Hi creative thinkers ! I have one project in C# .. that project name ewaoNET . Now i will shifted into another project sub folders.... My current Project : Cititown Now i will use existing ( ewaoNet ) project in to Dating folder... This ewaoNET project using custom control...more >>

Hi, I have a number of objects i would like to store in a list like struture. They already have ID's associated with them so i would like to utilise these ids as accessors the list.. At the moment I have approx 10 objects with ids that are spread out, e.g 1, 12, 24, 56, 200,320.... ...more >>

How can I implement a byte in CSharp that works the same as the char in VC++ 6? EG: With the range -128 to 127? The standard byte has the range 0 to 255, and the CSharp char is too long (16 bits). ...more >>

Hi guys I have a clickonce deployment, with .net 2.0 as a prerequsite in the project settings. But when i tried to install from my publish.htm page on a non .net 2.0 machine it was unable to install. I installed .net 2 and it worked. So why the .net 2 prereq as it doesnt do anything??? ...more >>

Hello. Look at the code below. I'm trying to create a function/void for when a class is declared as an array. Is it possible? If so, how? Regards, Oyvind Eriksen public class Main { SomeClass[] array = SomeClass[10]; array.MyVoid(); <--- how do I create this void? } publ...more >>

Hello. I have some structs in different namespaces/classes/other structs and I sometime have to check if it contains something or not. myStruct == null doesn't work. I've currently done it by creating a IsNull method in my structs: struct TestStruct { public int Value; publ...more >>

Hi all, Someone can tell me how can I realize a streaming via web such as whose of some radio? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, MessageBox.Show (new TextBox ().Height.ToString()); MessageBox.Show (new ComboBox().Height.ToString()); gives 20 and 20 in non-VGA mode and 20 and 40 in VGA mode. Seems like the CF does not set the height of textboxes correctly in VGA mode (using res2exe). This means that textboxes ...more >>

Hi All I am writing a C# program that starts another program. Since this is destined to run on an un-attended PC, I want to be certain that my program can regain control. To this end, I use the WaitForExit methos with a timeout. So in order to test this, I added an endless loop to the ot...more >>