Hi there, I would like to query data from SQL Server 2000 by using SMS. Conceptually, For example, I send the following SMS Message "TK1234GPS" to SQL Server. Then SQL Server will respond to my mobile phone the following info: "TK1234Lat203.345Long35.5050". How do I implement that scenario? W...more >>

Hello. I want to abort a thread whose thread function contains something like : void threadfunc () { while ( 1 ) { ... some code udpClient.Receive(...); // instance to read network data ....more >>

Could someone please review my method below. I'm trying to return the type of the OS on the local machine using the below. My concern is that there could be a flaw in the if statement and the return statement with variable scope on osName. I originally had the return statement inside the fo...more >>

Hi everyone, We're needing to pick a suite of components for our C#/VS 2005 development. Top on our list is a treeview that integrates with a datagrid. I think all the big goes provide that. Does anyone know which suite is the "best" or are they (Infragistics, ComponentOne, DevExpress, ...more >>

I have been searching for a way to have autocomplete in a DataGridTextBox object. There does not appear to be an obvious way to do this like you would for a TextBox outside of a grid using the AutoCompleteCustomSource. Any thoughts on how I can add this collection? :)...more >>

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Do you other sites, forums or discussion groups where you can change knowledge, opinions etc. considering C# programming and .NET? -- like to get answers sometimes too -- ...more >>

Hi, I have a field named "BaseClasses" in C++ as in the following simplified code: using Collections::Generic::List; namespace A2M { namespace LipIntrospection { public ref class BaseClassInfo { ... }; public ref class ClassInfo { public: ...more >>

Hello! Whilst refactoring an application, I was looking at optimizing a ModelFactory with generics. Unfortunately, the business objects created by the ModelFactory doesn't provide public constructors (because we do not allow developers to instantiate them directly). Because our business ...more >>

I have am working on an app that has many forms. I would like to make each of these forms capable of interacting with the Windows Clipboard. I did some research and found out how to do this using the Windows API, which involves overriding one of the Form methods. Am I correct in thinking ...more >>

Will I able to print documents from a web page using the System.Drawing.Printing class to a client computer? Thanks for any info. ...more >>

How would I convert something like below to C# or VB.Net? unsigned char ar[] = "AB"; unsigned int i = 0; i = *(unsigned int *)ar; Thanks JK ...more >>

Here's what I'm trying to understand; how can you store a generic collection in a variable/field? If I have an abstract generic collection class as follows... public abstract class BizCollection<T> : Collection<T> where T : BizBase { // Collection Implementation override void Inse...more >>

when a class is compiled and run,(simple hello world for example) the command box flashes up with whatever the program did, then disapears! so never able to see for more than a fraction of a second what program output was. visual studio 2005 express. any setting for keeping command prompt box ...more >>

That didn't come out right, but what I mean is something like: struct X { private int x ; public readonly X MinValue ; static X() { MinValue = new X ( 0 ) ; } public X ( int x ) ...more >>

Hi I'm really stuck outputting a double number to the console with three decimal places if the furthest right value is a zero. I can coutput the number 4.546 as 4.546 but then if I output 0.220 it comes out as 0.22 and drops the zero. Also, outputting 1.000 outputs as 1. How can I forma...more >>

I need to implement plugins in my application. That is to say, DLLs that communicate with my application data. Does someone have a link to the best explain of how to accomplish the above ? Thanks a lot Luis Arvayo ...more >>

Hi NG! With a Inner-Join SQL I get my datas in a DataSet. In the table are the column Entry and Version. Like this: Entry Version 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 1 3 1 Now i would like to have just the newest version o...more >>

I am having this problem in a managed c++ DLL which mixes managed and unmanaged C/C++ code. I tried to assign value to a struct array nested in another struct. but I can only write to the first element in array, not the others. struct struct2{ int a; int b; }; struct struct1 ...more >>

A third party site requires all request to have HTTP-Auth. I have an application running in ASP.net and C# from which I need to send a request to this site. How can I do this? Meaning HTTP-Auth. Example will be great help. Thanks. ...more >>

I wish to use a sorted list to store lists of strings. I am unsure as to how things work. I want to do something like: SortedList list = new SortedList(); for(...loop for string...) { if( ! list.contains(key)) { list.add("keyval", new ArrayList(string)); else list.GetValue().add(st...more >>

Hi, completeString = "<p><a href="http://www.google.com"> ..... " Now I want to extract the link pointed out by href so I try to find the position of first the href tag and then try to see where the quotes begin. pos_tag = completeString.IndexOf("href", 0, completeString.Length); pos_t...more >>

Is there a way to receive a message any time the mouse is clicked anywhere on the screen? I would be kind of like a clicke event handler for the entire screen. ...more >>

Hi, We would like to build a Web site based on C#.Net. The purpose of building this web site is to post our Documents for our employee only. Since we have many Documents(e.g., ISO9000, ISO14001), we would like to have them published on our web. Would some one give us some advice? Thanks fo...more >>

I am looking for a simple example to open a window with a message "Processing Request" while i do some export / writing data to a text file. Do I need to use Async programming ? any examples? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have 2 references to COM objects (through interop). How do I compare the tow to know if they are pointing to the same COM object? The Object.Equals doesn't work in this case... Thanks! Uzi ...more >>

Can anyone here confirm for sure that reader.Close() and Dispose() will get called using the following routine: using(SqlDataReader reader = GetOpenReaderFunction()) { while(reader.Read()) doSomething(reader); } I have seen examples here and there with mixed assumptions. ...more >>

Hi I need implement loosely coupled events to raise events in a Classibrary project from one Windows Application project, and hanlde these from other Windows Application project. I found this article in MSDN, but I don't know how to implement. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=...more >>

I searched for a couple hours lastnight on example code of how to go about making an item in the System Tray (notification area) not be square. I've found several programs that do this but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to actually get this to work. I checked out some system...more >>

This is the third newsgroup that I'm posting my problem. I'm sorry for the multiple posts but the matter becoming urgent. I hope this is the right place for it... I have created a very simple batch file (echo hello world) and was trying to retrieve the standard output but every time I ru...more >>

When a thread calls a method (and/or that method calls another method), = are they thread safe if the first method is controlled on access?...more >>

Hello everyone, I have a windows form that has 2 child usercontrols i created and added inside, control1 has a label that displays some text based on activities i do in control2, my question is how do i update the label text inside control1 from control2? previously i got around this issue by...more >>

Is there a way to query the monitor status, to know if it is on or off in C#? I found that WM_SYSCOMMAND is sent to WndProc when the monitor goes on and off but im not sure to find out if that message is always just about the monitor. Thanks for any help. ...more >>

Hi, I am removing problems but I am having a problem. The code below is the code being used to remove items from the listview. ListViewItem oldItem = listViewAllStates.SelectedItems[0]; listViewNextStateSelected.Items.Remove(oldItem); My problem occurs in the following scenario (example)...more >>

Hi, When a RichTextBox control doesn't have focus, it DOES NOT scroll to the last line that is added; however, if it does have focus, it WILL scroll to the last line added. I want to stop and start this behavior at will. When I stop the behavior, this will give users a chance to examine t...more >>

Can't ace in how client and server component contexts correspons with each other. Server-side (entperiseServices) component is always created in context. But I'd like to create serverside component in *client context*, and therefore contextID of the client and server should be the same. For unk...more >>

Hi, I am developing an application which will listen the server at one port and retrieves new data or the same data for the given parameters the thing, I want is, I want to update the datagrid without clearing the table and refilling the new rows in it. So if the data is in less than the g...more >>

I am creating a Master page and I need to put 3 different content holders on it. When I put the content holder on the master page I am not able to resize it. I can move it around but not resize it. I grab the handles and nothing happens. I tried putting the content holder inside it's own div b...more >>

I would appreciate it if someone could help me understand NaN handling with respect to conditionals in IL code. I am playing with a small IL interpreter and having a little problem with it. Following is a small piece of C# code that gets compiled by VS2005 to simulate my problem. static void ...more >>

I have both a webbrowser object and a shockwave object on a window's form. I want to make it so that if a person clicks on either of them, something happens. But they both look like they don't have an onclick event. How do I add that. I was thinking of putting an object (like a label) in front...more >>

I have a browser object on a form with a label in front of it. I want the label to be transparent so that you can see what's going on in the browser behind it. When I make the label transparent (backcolor = color.transparent) what it shows is the window, not the control behind it. What am I...more >>

Hi, I'm about to embark on .NET/C# certification (after 6 weeks intensive training). I'm actually heading off to India as it's cheaper....sign of the times. The goal is to compliment my existing c++/java skills and to enhance my employability (I contract in finance at the moment...I have wor...more >>

I'm a newbie.. I'm trying to list all files in a directory, and store them in a aFile object. As I iterate through each file, I store the size, name, path, date etc... How do I store them once the object is created? I thought they would simply be added to an ArrayList, but this doesn't s...more >>

I’m developing script system based on C# script for a game engine. Scripts are written in C# and compiled at run time by a C# class library. The native C++ game code accesses the script compiler class library through a COM interface. Compile scripts are passed back to the native C++ game code ...more >>

Cant access a object that is in the same class it seems... With a new c# win. app. project in vis studio 2k5, if I want to access a richTextBox that was defined in Form1.Designer.cs. (richTextBox1). I write a simple line in program.cs richTextBox1.Text="Test 1.1"; Essentially richTextBo...more >>

hi all, i have a byte array which has length of 10,000.I have to break this byte array into smaller parts of length 512 and save this values into another byte array. I am doing this because i want to send the large byte array thro' the socket connection.Plz help me....with example ......more >>

Greetings, By default Visual Studio 2005 starts each new project up with the code in partial class form. Is there anyway I can change this behavior so that the code is not split amongst different source files? Im using the professional edition for c#. Thanks, Christopher...more >>

Hi all. I'm writting a multithreading program that will update a loacal Access database. I'm using OleDB connection to get access to the database from each thread and my question is: how do I synchronize between threads\ how do I lock the database so no clashes between threads occurs. do I hav...more >>

Is it possible to decide on the type of an object at run time. So in pseudo-code I am looking for one (or preferably both) of the following.... string s = "SomeExistingClass" ClassTypeInString(s) MyThing = new ClassTypeInString(s) ; ....or.... SomeClass myVar = new SomeClass() // an...more >>

Hi, In visual studio 2003 I made an application that ran without problems on a number of 50+ machines (all running .Net 1.1). Now I've recompiled the program using Visual studio 2005, .Net 2.0 has been installed on all machines, completely updated from windowsupdate.com. On two mahines how...more >>

I am browsing the ActiveDirectory with the code below and I get the error message in the subject, with Additional Information: Unspecified error. Any ideas? string s=GetDomain; DirectoryEntry de=new DirectoryEntry(s); string sFilter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=use...more >>

Hi, Anyone using the new System.Net.HttpListener class included in 2.0? How about the performance? And can it register for example "http://host:80/app" to use with iis running website on "http://host:80/" ? I cannot register same port prefix when iis is running on winxp sp2. But it might be wor...more >>