i would like to use Microsoft.ink in my C# application but VS dont show ink after microsoft. Can someone tell me why?...more >>

I've got 2 files with several entries. There are some entries that will be contained in both files. I only want to output the entries that are *not* found in each file. What is the best way to do this with C#? There must be some .NET features that will help me out here? Marco ...more >>

Can you create your own switches or attributes for a console app to specify specific arguments? In other words, specify a /f to represent the "from date" and /t as "to date"? if I need to supply both? Thanks, Dave...more >>

I'm doing some analysis that is readily broken up into many independent pieces, on a multicore machine. I thought it would be best to just queue like 1000 of these pieces in the ThreadPool, and let that object take care of running them in the background on the machine's free cycles. But ...more >>

Hi, internal static class Program { public class foo { private int _id; public foo() { } public foo(int _id) { this._id = _id; } } pu...more >>

Hi, I would like to know why a lot of people wants to work with ListView control when DataGridView control already do the same thing ? for example, in my case i would like to display spin controls, progressbars controls, images, text, checkboxes,... it's now more than 2 weeks that i try...more >>

I have an application that dynamically invokes methods based on information in an XML file. In order to do this, I first have to make sure that a method with matching parameter types exists. All of the usable methods have generic parameter types, but most of the methods are not generic themse...more >>

Good day all, Trying to get a listing of directories in a directory using FTP. I get the following as a result: "drw-rw-rw- 1 user group 0 Nov 2 18:39 testdir" Anybody have a good regex expression or any ideas how I would parse this to get "testdir" or any other method?...more >>

In Visual Studio 2005, my Solution Configuration dropdown is disabled. You know, the one that lists build configs(Debug/Release/etc...). How can I enable it? Thanks....more >>

I am looping through the array of processes returned by Process.GetProcesses(). How do I get the command line parameters that each of the processes was started with? Kind of like in the SysInternals' Process Explorer? I've tried Process.StartInfo.Arguments property but it is always empty....more >>

Hi there. Quite self explained subject. I have a form where are few controls (edit boxes mostly). and I need to make some kind of search on the background. for that I made a separated class where I have a function that do actual search. Olso I have a delegate function defined there. No I need...more >>

I am working on a project where I am using bitmap graphics over my form background and all controls. In general the app looks fine. However there are a few users that have a problem where the graphics and the controls do not line up at all. I have a dell dimension with a widescreen that is e...more >>

i have an issue on page load when sometimes I want to quit processing the page, but the other events get called like page_prerender and individual controls' events get fired. i want to not raise any events after this point in page load. how can i do that without doing a request.end? (I don'...more >>

I'm trying to get the control name of an editbox in another window. The following code set the value "MyPassword" in the password EditBox but it fail to return the control name of the EditBox. I'm sure the problem is the way i'm using the sendmessage API, the return string and the lParam retu...more >>

I need to write to the 32-bit registry, and need to do so from a 64-bit MSI. It never occurred to me that this would be difficult... I have an application that installs some 64-bit binaries for development use in Visual Studio 2005. As such I want them to appear in the .Net References menu w...more >>

I am having trouble understanding the purposes of an interface, even though the concept of interfaces is around me all the time (user interface, for example). I'm just not understanding software interfaces. Like anything else, it appears Interfaces are by design something that requires docum...more >>

Hello all, First of all sorry for my bad English... I am making up an application that can't show any error window (e.g. Can't write to memory address) if any...therefore I wish destroy or manage this type of windows.. Please, may anyone help me? Thanks in advance... Vicente. ...more >>

I tried to do a simple operation on a Windows Form in VS2005 inside a = key_down handler: if (e.Control && e.Shift && e.KeyCode =3D=3D Keys.V) { int selectedRowIndex =3D dataGridView.SelectedCells[0].RowIndex; dataGridView.Rows.AddCopy(selectedRowIndex); } So when the user press...more >>

How can i make my form invisible public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form static void Main() { Application.Run(new Form1()); Form1.Visible=false; } It returns An object reference is required for the nonstatic field, method, or property 'System.Windows.Forms....more >>

How can I create an ArrayList in the older version of .NET that does not require the expensive Boxing and UnBoxing operations? In my case it will be an ArrayList of structures of ordinal types. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi NG, what happens if a exception in a lock block occures? lock(myObject) { dothis(); dothat(); } lets assume, dothis() causes a exception, does this mean, I get a deadlock? Regards Rainer ...more >>

Hello, My client needs to collect data on a disconnected computer. I am hoping I could store data in Isolated Storage as XML files and expose later to a server (does anyone have experience with Isolated Storage)? The solution I am looking for would be to have a connection string or url i...more >>

Hi: Below is the error I got from the 2 lines of code below. I don't understand why and how to correct it. The actionMenu.DropDownItems has 0 item in its collection at the time of the code. Thanks. An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException' occurred in mscorlib....more >>

I have an application that throws System.OutOfMemoryException when the application has only allocated 1.3GB of RAM (according to the Task Manager). I've repeated the operation several times and the exception is thrown either when I'm calling Add or ContainsKey of a System.Collections.Generi...more >>

I am trying to find out if particular array element contains InputOutput value. private static int FillParameters(DbCommand command, SqlParameter[] p) { int x = 0; //int initalize to hold zero for (int i = 0; i < p.Length; i++) { ...more >>

Hi, I made some changes to a business assembly I have. Now in the UI solution, I'm trying to add new object data sources. For some reason, the wizard isn't letting me select my business assembly... it just doesn't show up. Any idea how to get this assembly to show up again? ...more >>

I know how to work the .FindAll method of the List class, but is there a way to split a list into 2 lists, one containing all the items that match a certain criteria and one that doesn't? ...more >>

Re: ArrayList, Sort, Menu, IComparer, Object, multidemensional I have a multi-dimensional arraylist, and I would like to sort one level of it but not all. The multi-dimensional arraylist represents my menu system, and I would like to sort the third level menu items only and not the first two....more >>

Hello all, To help alleviate human error, I'm developing an application that uses a barcode reader to fill in a value in a TextBox control. The barcode reader is connected to the PC through the PS2 keyboard jack, so to Windows, it's essentially just a keyboard. After the reader has fini...more >>

Hi, I am working with strongly typed datatables. What is the most efficient way to build a new DataTAble based on the result of DataTable.Select? At this point I use a foreach loop to do the work manually. I am looking for an automated way. Thank you, Max ...more >>

Hi, I have an application where a listener thread has a while loop that just calls Socket.ReceiveFrom over and over. When I close the app by clickin on the X, the process doesn't die because there is still this listener thread running. How do I terminate this thread as well? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all, I'm writing a C# program, and I was wondering: is there a way to raise by code the click event of a Button control, as if it was the user to have clicked on it? Thank you very much ...more >>

Hi, I am using Asp.Net 2.0 with C#. I am looking to export two different Gridviews in one Excel file but as two different tabs, which means I should be able to create a new worksheet on the fly. How can I do that ?. TIA. Karthick ...more >>

I want to load a document which would be residing in the same directory as the application so I pass in a string to WebBrowser control which has no path information- normally doing this with regular File IO it knows to go to current directory but not WebBrowser. What do I need to change? Is th...more >>

Here is the overall structure I will be referring to: End-program ProvideWorkFlow.dll Forms and methods that properly manipulate calls to methods in AccessUtils AccessUtils (a web service) Hide.dll methods and data I want to remain hidden I have a DLL, Hide.dll, that contains m...more >>

Hi, I do this - take some data with sqldataadaptor (at this moment 2000rows) in fill datatable. For each two rows do some calculations and save data to the database with insert command. (the data which I insert are 5 int values for each two rows - so 2000*1999 insert commands) In this way...more >>

I'm writing an application that is somewhat similar to Visual Studios GUI Designer. Now my problem lies in that sometimes when there is a large number of forms read in from file, that there seems to be a serious lag in painting the controls. This doesn't always happen, but once the lag happe...more >>

Hi, I want to create my own custom control based on the Listbox. I basically want to add a couple of attributes and methods to the Items collection within the Listbox class. I know that i can do MyNewClass : Listbox But how do I add things into the Items collection Cheers Gary ...more >>

Hi, I would like to know what's the best way to get a DNS MX record from C#. The Win32 DnsQuery() API seams to do the job but is there a C# (.Net framework) equivalent? If not, is P/Invoke my only solution? I'm not that familiar with P/Invoke... and DnsQuery has a lot of structures (in C). If ...more >>

Hi guys, I'm working on a small desktop publishing software project where I need to display the default printer's ink status/level in the status bar of the main form. For the past 2 days I've been trying to find a way of getting the printer ink level from the printer but I haven't been able t...more >>

Hello everybody, I have a little "problem". I have a DataGridView that is loaded automatically by code sometimes, and manually by the user other times. When the user introduces data in the DataGridView, there are some events that control the introduced data for any errors the user can d...more >>

Hallo NG, i can call functions from a native C++-dll wich uses "const char *" as stringtype via P/Invoke without problems. Is there an easy way to call functions that uses std::string or std:wstring in the function call ? Has someone a tiny example how to access such a DLL with an IJW-Inter...more >>