Hi, I am using .NETV1.1, I have the problem with reading Ini file. [xxx] a b c I am not reading this section. But when I put [XXX ] a= b= c= In this case I am reading fine. [XXX ] a b c How to read this XXX section. Thanks in advance. *...more >>

Hi I want to interface my winforms application with External API of Flash 8 . If any one has done a similar problem do ... guide .. ...more >>

I have a Thread making a callback to a Form function that alters Form data. Of course, the debugger is telling me, "Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'FormTest' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on." But I am locking before I touch the shared data, so do I...more >>

Hi everybody, Suppose I have a class 'Dog' defined as follows: public class Dog : Animal Now suppose I have the following code: Dog fido = null; Animal animal = new Animal(); Then how do I assign the animal Object to fido? If I were to write: fido = (Animal) animal; I get an error i...more >>

Hi, What are APIs can used to get information used to uniquely identify a PC system? Indeed the only thing I really want is to find a mechanism to generate a global unique key to identiy my software installed across customers. The installation package is same, when my client install it, I w...more >>

Hi everyone. I'm going to write an app in C# that changes a folder's custom picture to some kind of picture that represents how much 'stuff' is inside the folder... .... as soon as I can figure out how to change this: http://naikrovek.org/stuff/folderPicture.png programmatically. ...more >>

I thought that the whole point of StringBuilder was that it was supposed to be a faster way of building strings than string. However, I just put together a simple little application to do a comparative analysis between the two and, surprisingly, string seems to out perform StringBuilder by a ...more >>

Hi, Ours is a windows based application and I have to perform an action which takes much time (as it requires much CPU time) on a single pc. I want to split the action to more than two and I want to run the action on different servers and mix the result at end and do the res...more >>

Hi All, I want to excute IE with specified URL, my code: Process p = new Process(); p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE http://www.google.com?ei=UTF-8&p=" + textBox1.Text; p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true; p.Star...more >>

Hi All, Why I can not see the scroll bar to choose the event I want to handle ( as in VB ) ? Best regards, Boki. ...more >>

I have the following code in an aspx.cs file: [snip] string strLocation; strLocation = Server.MapPath(".")+"\\test.exe"; System.Diagnostics.Process Proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); Proc.StartInfo.FileName = strLocation; Proc.Start(); [snip] ...more >>

Hi all, I have an RSS feed that I am dropping into a repeater (using the Dataset's ability to collect from a URL). Is there a quick and easy way to limit the amount of rows from the feed appearing? I have done a search and cannot find one. Thanks. Best regards, Dave Colliver. http:...more >>

What is the right way to declare a static event handler? I have a: delegate void TestEvent(string ID, ref string payload); namespace TestNS { public class TestFrm : System.Windows.Forms.Form { public static event TestEvent newEvent; .... And this last line gives me compiler e...more >>

I would like to create a class library that uses a ListItemControl, but when I try to create the class withthe following using atetments, it doesn't recognize the System.Web.UI components: using System; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; Why is that? How can I get around that? -- ...more >>

Hi I have a class CodeGen in which GenerateILBody is a method that uses ILGenerator.Emit to create the IL code as method body for a dynamic method DynMethod. GenerateILBody at runtime must call another method CallBack of the class CodeGen. All i have to do is to emit the IL code that loads ...more >>

I am using a StringBuilder to build a link tag (based on categoryId and categoryName , which are populated elsewhere ) : StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.Append("<a href=\"http://www.mywebsite.com/mypage.aspx?category="); sb.Append(categoryId); sb.Append("&filter=price\">"); sb.Ap...more >>

Is there a way to search a string for a whole word w/o using a regular expression? i.e. mystring.IndexOf(mypattern, *WholeWord); The reason i rather not use a regular expression is because sometimes i want to search for whole words w/o the regular expression special characters being interp...more >>

I am trying to programmatically access to the properties of a picture file (jpg). These properties are available in Explorer by right clicking->selecting "properties"->"Summary" tab. Examples of these properties are: width, height, Date picture Taken, etc. Unfortunately, I cannot find a way...more >>

Hi, I am using WMI to gather information about different computers (using win2K and win 2K3), checking common classes and also WMI load balance. My application runs every 1 minute and reports the status of the machines. Upon we follow the .NET object lifetime recommendations the applicatio...more >>

Here are my steps: create resource files from resx files: <echo message="CREATING RESOURCE FILES FROM RESGEN EN" /> <resgen todir="product\resources_en" verbose="true"> <resources> <include name="${AppName}\**.en.resx" /> <include name="${AppName}\Global.asax....more >>

Hello: Since NDoc does not seem to support .Net 2.0, (and the project seems to be inactive), what are the other alternatives out there for producing HTML documents from XML Comments in C# 2.0 code? ...more >>

I'm trying to add an assembly that has a couple UserControls (among other things) to the toolbar. When I browse to it, I get a message that it's can't find an assembly that it needs (ObjectBuilder) - I know my assembly uses ObjectBuilder, but I don't know what I need to do VS2005 to find it? ...more >>

Hello. I have program which now searches for one file in a directory, because file name is hard-coded. What I wish to do is to have program go to first file in directory, do some processing, then go to next file in same directory, do some processing, ect, ect. It seems to me this would be a...more >>

Hi, I'm having a problem, I have a DateTime value in Portuguese representation (dd-mm-yyyy) and I'm using SQLServer2005 with its default language English (yyyy-mm-dd), so when I assemble a WHERE clause the date that goes to SQLSErver is wrong. I found that in SQLSErver I can convert a da...more >>

I have a very general question. When you compile a website in asp.net 2.0 where do the compiled assemblies (for the individual pages) go? You used to see something in the bin directory for them, but now I don't see anything there. Am i missing something?...more >>

Is there any difference between convert.ToDateTime and System.DateTime.Parse? I am using them both and they seem the same. Is one better to use than another? Thanks, Tom ...more >>

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In my office, we have workstations with standard Win 2000 images (OS plus standard apps like Office, etc.) as developers, we then install our development tools on top of those images. other developers in my office have installed VS8 and use it with no problems. however, on a new workstati...more >>

Hello all, is there any way I can create additional start menu items under my program folder that is being created by ClickOnce? I have created the SUpport URL, but I would also like to include a help file, and a few additional documents. I appreciate any help you guys can give me. Chris...more >>

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to embed help pages into an application? I looking for the standard windows help system that you typically see.. little purple books as the index pages in the other pane, ability t open the correct page on demand etc. Thanks ahead of time!! -- RBChallenge -------...more >>

I have built a downloading engine that is designed to use the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse classes to draw files in 64K chunks, rather than pull a file all at once. This is to ensure that the client is never overtaxed with huge byte arrays or streams going into memory as the downloaded f...more >>

DWORD _stdcall DLLFunction(DWORD Num, CHAR *Str); I call the above dll function from a C++ app. Now I need to call it from my C# app. How can I do it? [DllImport("MyDll.dll")] public static extern int DLLFunction(int Num, string Info); int Num; string Info = new string(' ', 80); DLLFun...more >>

When a user launches the program, I want it to test if an update is available. You see many examples of this method to update. (Quickbooks, Norton AntiVirus, online games) I have a method already to determine if an update is available and download it to the end-users computer. It does not...more >>

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms229057(VS.80).aspx * Do not assign instances of mutable types to read-only fields. I would have to disagree with this "Field Design" guidelines...to an extent. Example: public class SomeClass { private NameValueCollection mCollection; ...more >>

WHy are the get/set properties so useful? I know they're used so that I don't directly access a variable, but why is that so useful? What would the difference be between using it directly and using get/set? Thanks....more >>

I have a windows forms app (VS 2005) that uses a worker thread to do lots of stuff in a job. When I run the job again - always after the first completes - from the app (back to the UI thread to spawn another worker thread) I notice that the performance has slowed a lot. Is there something I need...more >>

Hi, I am implemeting an asynchronous socket server in my app. There will be up to 30 clients sending data to the socket server. Within the socket server I will have a number of local variables for each client connection. e.g varA, varB, varC, varD. I have been testing the comms with...more >>

Hi Folks, I have a datagrid that could be bound to an IBindingList. Currently I don't get it how the mapping is made between the class and the grid. As far as I got I have a class with some public properties that will be mapped automatically by the grid to be used as columns. Now I have the...more >>

I'm trying to use the repeater control to create a column-like row of data, I've searched the net and it doesn't appear to be that easy. Use this page for reference: http://www.westmarkadvisors.com/photo_gallery.php (i'm converting this to .net) I'm using the repeater to list all of the th...more >>

Hi, I wrote code that captures a users windows nt id and sends an email in their name. However, I haven't been successful in resolving their exchange id based on nt logon. Does anyone know how to do this? Roger ...more >>

I am attemtping to create a C# which can be used in my C++ app. Here is my source. http://pastebin.com/671099 Register for COM Interop is checked and the following warning is displayed when I build: Warning 1 "C:\Documents and Settings\sblair.TS3INTERACTIVE\My Documents\Visual Studio 200...more >>

Let's say I have this: interface MyInterface {} class MyClass1 : MyInterface {...} class MyClass2 : MyInterface {...} class SomeClass { MyInterface myClassX; public SomeFunc() { if (someCondition) myClassX = new MyClass1(); else myClassX =...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to programatically change the background color of lines of text and running into a few difficulties, anyone got any suggestions? my relevant code is as follows: public void colorLines() { //_Paint = false; //don't want to update while we are doing this ...more >>

Hi, My application uses passwords to limit access to certain parts of the app. I was considering storing these in my database but have heard that there can be problems with this. I have heard using the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) would be a good place. Does anyone have any opinions on th...more >>

Is it possible to open a website or URL in internet explorer by clicking a button in window form? what class should I use? ...more >>

Is it possible to open a website or URL in internet explorer by clicking a button in window form? what class should I use? ...more >>

hi I need help.I want to to record my Skype Messenger Conversation i.e Incoming and Outgoing conversation in C#.Please if some body know guide me.I need starting help.what should i study for this? thanks Usman ...more >>

Hi Everyone, I am looking for a book on C#.net (2005) which will give me a insight into programming using more advanced techniques such as multi-threading and sockets examples. Does anyone have any recommendations? Kind regards...more >>

Hi all This has been driving me nuts for months now, if I access my site from IE https://db.cornwall.gov.uk/PlanningApplications and then hover over one of the 2-level menus it comes up with the message: "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the non...more >>

Hi, I would like to know how to convert the value with return type of object to a byte array. For example: byte[] photo = ds.Tables[0].Rows["Photo"]; Thanks and have a nice day ...more >>

Hi all, Is there a way to make a string array from DataTable? I wish to avoid for statement... thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to use the media player activeX control (wmp sdk 10) in my windows forms app. My problem is that I have the file in a stream in memory and I don't want to write it to a temp file. Is there a way I can play the stream without writing it to a temp file? thanks, sa¹o ...more >>

Hi, The data MyTable in SQL Server is: 123456789 And the XML in my C# Windows Form project is also: 123456789 However, if I request the data after '9' using SqlClient , it will raise error, this is correct. But if I use the ReadXML method requesting data after 9, it will start over from ...more >>