I am looking for tutorials, articles, etc that can help to enlighten me on what's "really going on" or what's required to create a .NET application (particularly Windows Forms) WITHOUT the use of Visual Studio. I understand that VS does a lot of things for us, but I want to know what those thi...more >>

Hi, How to degrade Administrator to normal user and vice versa..(<->) Thanks in advance.. Thanks & regards Kondapanaidu *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***...more >>

..NET 2.0 introduced the <connectionStrings> section in .config files, but how do I reuse the connection strings defined under <connectionStrings> in other parts of the config files? <connectionStrings> <add name="connStr1" .../> </connectionStrings> Now I want to reuse the connection s...more >>

Wht is the general prctise for having try catch block and Finally. I mean in one methods what are Cicrustances to have entire code in ONE try catch block or MULTIPLE and which lines of code is not required /suppose to be in TRY blocks. Thanking you in advance -- RKNET...more >>

Hello support, I need help to have asp code to send email to the users. My scenario is like this: An Access database is created to look detect whether the database records not update, then an email will be sent to users to inform them to update their records in the database. Should I need...more >>

Hello all, I've been searching for a solution on google for a problem related to creating events from a worker thread, with no luck.. Basically, the problem is when my events are caught by a UI using my class, they get the usual "Control 'blah' accessed from a thread other than the thread i...more >>

Hello everybody, I'm quite new to .NET FW programming, and I started just few months ago, on FW2.0, knowing actually _nothing_ about FW1.1, so my question may sound silly... Anyway, what I need to know is: does Threading on FW1.1 behave exactly the same than on FW2.0? In particular my...more >>

Hello All, I am new to C# and dot NET in general. The book I am reading uses the term "non-public." I suspect that they don't mean "private", otherwise they would have said so. What is the difference between "non-public" and "private"? Help is always appreciated. Thanks, Paul ...more >>

Hi I have a Project in C# which makes 4 dlls and takes 2 C# class of the dlls and a string array as as an input and returns a string array. I want to use these dlls in java. The dll also makes a Word Object. Please suggest a method to do it. I know that convert from C# to MC++ to C++ to j...more >>

Hello All, I have a windows form with a gridview control and i'm trying to get the gridview to read the entire XML file. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Below is some code so you can see what I'm trying to do. private void btnBuildList_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ...more >>

I'd like to have a specific method execute on the click event of a control. The common syntax is: Control1.Click += new EventHandler( Control1_Click ); void Control1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e ) { //.... } Instead of Control1_Click executing, I'd like this method to execute...more >>

I have Dictionary that has custom class as its key. For that class I implemented both Equals(object) and IComparable<T>. I keep getting KeyNotFoudException. What should I do? Thanks Shimon ...more >>

Hi there, After applying the "Localizable" attribute to my form using the (form) properties window in VS, I was expecting to see "[Localizable(true)]" preceding my form's class in code (added automatically by the IDE). I don't however. Can someone point out where this info is stored. Thanks...more >>

Hi, I saw that some other people posted questions about regular expressions here so I thought I would do the same. I'm trying to parse an url to different parts. I want the file name and path to be two different parts. To do this I make the assumption that all file names has a '.' in them. I...more >>

Is there a way to bind a nullable Enum property to a combo box? When choosing a value, and then leaving the combo box, the value reverts back to the original value. It seems the databinding doesn' accept the new value. To populate the combo box: cboPageMode.DataSource = Enum.GetValue...more >>

dear Readers, i will be downloading a zip file from the intranet website programmatically and i would like to process some of the files inside them before the user can save it. we have a lot of copies of winzip. winzip does not let me call their functions as COM or as .NET assemblies. I w...more >>

I have an xml file that is read into an object using serialization. One of the objects has a string field called delimeter that I want to contain a carriage return. Instead of trying to include the carriage return, I used "\r" thinking that when it was read back into the object it would be inter...more >>

Hi I am writing some code to generate csv from xml. This works fine in the main, but I have a question regarding the handling of commas in the data. What is the normal way to handle this? For example, say part of the data in the xml is the string "a string , with comma". The comma is con...more >>

Anyone know how I can determine the free space of a volume that is mounted within a folder, rather than on a drive letter? The DriveInfo class seems to want to work only off drive letters. What I'm trying to do is write a simple program to generate a disk space usage report. I have numerous ...more >>

Hi, I keep resorting to com interop calls, for example I needed the location of the carot in a text box and I had to use a win32API call (GetCarotPos??) to do that. It's one example, I could give several more that have come up over the last few months, and it has raised a couple of questions th...more >>

Hi, Is there a way of getting the date that an assembly was last compiled? I am trying to help myself to remember what version of a particular assembly my Web applications are using, so I've taken to having it output the version number at the bottom of the page using: Assembly a = Assembly....more >>

Hi, Here is my client/server scenario: Step1: Client connects to server and sends data sucessfully (using Socket.Send()). Step2: Server gracefully exists (calls Socket.Shutdown() and Socket.Close()). I see the server connection status go from ESTABLISHED to FIN_WAIT2, the client connectio...more >>

I would like the code I am writing to display in a larger font size. How do I do this? I am using C# Express. Thanks! ...more >>

I am parsing a lot of files and need to replace a couple of string variables, but the string.Replace(string,string) method won't work because it is case-sensitive. What would be the best way to do this? I did find this article: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/FastestCSCaseInsStringRep.asp ...more >>

Please Advice... I need to create SqlServer2005 trigger from C# form. so all my trigger can re-create if i push one button on my app.... i need to know how i create and delete trigger from c# form and how to check if the trigger already exist regards Sandi Antono ...more >>

Hi, I have a .NET solution that contains a dll project and a tester application project which, of course, invokes the dll. The dll project has exception handling in it. What's happening is that when I run the executable from within the .NET studio environment, thrown exceptions are caught a...more >>

I'm writing a C# application for .NET 2.0 in which I intend a number of background worker threads to be conveying information from our SQL Server database to a legacy database via HTTP GET requests. Each worker thread runs the following code in a loop: ----- HttpWebRequest request = (Http...more >>

I am developing in VS2005, but I have some third-party DLL's that appear to only work correctly when compiled in VS2003. ("Incorrect" operation is defined as a busy-wait that kicks in on a message loop, hogging a full CPU thread even when nothing is happening.) I am assuming the difference...more >>

Hi, I am part of a team building a stock exchange software - Order Management system'. The current system that we have supports 200,000 orders per day. All of this data is needed in memory.Ofc ourse this system was built in VC++. what I want to know is : - Is there a alternative to storin...more >>

Is there a C++ typedef equivalent in C#? Thanks, -- George...more >>

Hi, I'm implementing the Idisposable pattern and am wondering what the difference it between managed, and unmanaged resources? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fs2xkftw.aspx in the code snippet where it's overloading the Dispose method it disposes of managed and unmanaged resources ...more >>

I have a C# application that is using a DataGridView (DGV). The DGV uses a table adapter to connect to the datasource, which uses a DataSet as the data. The DataSet has some constraints placed on them (PK on two columns). When I add / update a column that violates the PK constraint, I get...more >>

Hi, Im using 2 forms. The first form is called FrmMain. The second form has windows media player in it with controls. Its named: Fullscreen. Now, how can i send a '' axWindowsMediaPlayer.Ctlcontrols.play(); '' (= play) command from the FrmMain form to the Fullscreen form? Something like...more >>

I'm building a test platform that includes parsing a set of URL's. This is not part of a ASP.Net project. Otherwise I'd be posting it in that area. Given a URL of http://Somthing/Somthing.asp?parm1=val1&parm2=val2&parm3=val3 I'm trying to create an expression that gives me: parm1=val1 par...more >>

Anybody know how is the Regular Expression pattern to find text that begin with [Html: and end with ], like string: ================================================================= Event Description: [Html:table style="border-width:1px" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"][Html:tr][Html:td] Some D...more >>

Hi All, I'm preparing for MCTS on windows as well as Web applications. Anyone know free On-line tutorials, Q&As links, etc. If so, please send it across. Thanks for your valuable effort Raj ...more >>

C# 2.0 Hi everyone I want to set a date range on my calendar control, but cannot figure out how to do it. this.clnSelectDate.MinDate Is not a valid option for me, and I would like to be able to select only days between today, and eighteen months into the future, with the rest being un...more >>

I'm trying to gracefully intercept Control and Alt keys for mouse events within a Panel. I realize that keyboard is not normally relevant there, but in this case, I need to get Ctrl-LeftMouseButton, etc. This could be intercepted by the form that owns the panel, but that does not seem very e...more >>

I've a C# windows application (not asp.net) that needs to upload simple XML files to a URL on a website. I've tried WebClient such as WebClient Client= new WebClient(); Client.UploadFile(url,filePath); but get error (405) Method not allowed. I've got write permissions set on the remot...more >>

Hi everyone, How can one encrypt an entire file? What I mean is not simply encrypting the content of the file, but also the file's property(e.g. file creation date, file's name, access right, etc), so the input is a file, say abc.txt, after encryption and then decryption, the user can get the ...more >>

I originally posted this in microsoft.public.xml ... my apologies to those to who read both groups ... Someone please tell me if I'm missing something here. The XML Comment generator in VS2005 seems to be woefully incomplete. I created a test solution with 2 classes in different namespaces ...more >>

Howdy all, in my program, I have a ushort variable and a string variable and if I try to compile it, I'm receiving this error message: "Cannot convert type 'string' to 'ushort'". How can I compare both? Example: if ( uVariable != sVariable ) { ... } Tia, Marcelo Muzilli...more >>

Hi Can anyone help. I would like to replace the keys on the PC keyboard. For example, when I press Q button it displays A on the screen in any programs (MS Words, Note, Lotus....). And also when I press Ctrl + W button, it displays G on the screen. I would like to make the keyboards configu...more >>

I declared a class with 4 string properties, one of which overrides the "toString()" method. I add objects based on this to a combobox, and I can see the properties if I pause execution and look at the "SelectedItem" I can see my properties/values in the debugger, but if I try it in the code...more >>

Hi, Is there an eazy way to modify a ListView so that we can edit it on the run time? Thanks for help. Jason ...more >>