hi i want to develop a carom game for my major project. i am new to c# programming. can any one tell me what are things required to make this game. ...more >>

HI all, Can some recomend some good C# 2.0 and .net books, with a good slant towards database programming Thanks Robert ...more >>

Hi, in VS 2005 suddenly a program that used to start in the debugger within a couple seconds now takes a couple minutes to start. The problem appears to be thrashing about constanting loading and unloading symbols. Once started the program also runs about 50-100 times more slowly than b...more >>

Hi, guys, I have a simple question, what's the recommended name convention for the user control on the form. If I put a button on the form, by default, it will be called button1, how do you change if if I want to create a command button. A. commandButton. B. CommandButton. B. buttonCo...more >>

Hi Are there any predefined constants i could use in my C# code similar to __DATE__ __FILE__ __LINE__ in c++ ? Johan ...more >>

Hi, I want to have a list of the display devices available on the computer, just like the Settings tab do in the desktop properties... What I need is the DeviceID, it's rectangle(left, top, width, height) and if it's active or not. Is there a built-in function to get these informations in ...more >>

I'd like to store something such as the following the my app.config file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key="DEBUG" value="true"/> <add key="DEBUGCleanFile" value="true"/> </appSettings> <DataGridColumnCollection> <AGrid v...more >>

How can I read an Excel 2003 XML Spreadsheet and save it as an Excel 97 file? ...more >>

I have an ASP.Net web site built on C# that uses Oracle database, in some pages, I get an error "max number of cursors opened exceeded". I've a tipo on www.CodeProject.com that asks to call Dispose method for every Command object. So I made this, but I'm still receiving this error message. ...more >>

Hi, I'm not SURE if Visual Styles is what I'm delaing with, but there is my situation. On computer A which I have chosen "Classic Windows" as my "Theme" my application appears the way I want it to. That is my progress bars are solid when I tell them to be, my tool strips aren't blue, etc....more >>

In the application I am working on, the user makes a request of information from the database. As there is a great deal of information to go through and possibly return, to speed things up, the request for data only returns the first 25 rows of data. So thas the user knows how many total rows ...more >>

I am looking for a very good Enterprise Forum with Blog. This will be used for our public website which serves about 1.5 million users. This software cannot be cheesy, and must be as flexible as FuseTalk (www.fusetalk.com). FuseTalk authentication has never worked and their support is h...more >>

In a sub Private Mysub (string strLang) { if (strLang = "FR") Won't compile. strLang is declared as string in the sub's parameter collection. I get an error message saying Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'bool' What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciat...more >>

I'm trying to create a user control which cannot get focus, but is enabled. In VB6, I just set the CanGetFocus property to false, but I can't find the ..NET equivalent. The .NET CanFocus property is ReadOnly. ...more >>

New to C# (migrating from Delphi) and I'm not sure how to get a delimited string into an array of string. input: string looks like - 01-85-78-15-Q11 output: an array with elements - 01,85,78,15 etc... Is there some sort of easy one liner that does this? Hard to search the help ...more >>

Hi ! At the startup of my application (in a new enviroment without Visual Studio but with .NET 2.0 Framework and SQL Server 2005 Express), I get the following error and I don't know at all where it originate... If I go back to my developement environment, everything is OK... Thanks for yo...more >>

Hi Everyone, Just a generic question, but.... With dealing with touch screens & programming. Do all the events work the same as with how the events ie mouse down/keydown etc work? Or do I need to take extra steps. Thanks all in advance MikeY ...more >>

Dear Professionals, I'm a beginner in C#.net and also PPC Programming. I try to develop a PPC 2003 Software that show me the content of arrived SMS into a TEXTBOX. I will appreciate you If you give me the code or show me a sample. (Please don't reply me request by references or documentations...more >>

I am trying to load child nodes to a TreeNode in a TreeView in a ASP.net web application. The Treeview with parent nodes are loaded on a Page_load while doing if( ! ISPostback ) and then in the Treeview event I am dynamically trying to load the child nodes to the exisisting TreeView. The probl...more >>

Hi, We have many servers setup as a cluster. When one server crashes, another one take the relay... We want to know if it's possible (I suppose it is) to make a Windows service developed with .NET 2.0 work in a cluster environment. I mean, how to make sure the service will take the relay if o...more >>

I wrote the following lines of code under Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: I compile my WinCE c++ application importing MyInterop.tlb generated file. The MyInterop.tlh generated file do not contain my interface definition. Does anyone could help me?? (Aditional info) -When I open tlb file with ...more >>

I have a Win app wherein users login via my interface (i.e. not via NT Authentication). Since the User Names are like "Driver 1, Driver 2, etc., sometimes Driver 1 might accidentally login as Driver 2. There's also a Truck selection where drivers are supposed to select the truck that they're...more >>

I've created a program that will create zips and exes of all the product downloads on our website (mostly clipart and PowerPoint templates, around 6000 total), but the program slows down dramatically after the first few minutes. The process never gets above 24meg, all child processes called are...more >>

I'm looking for help creating a keylogger program.It doesn't have to be hidden because I want to allow people access to what they have written. Can anyone help me with this or send me tutorials or code on how to create a keylogger. Thanks *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developers...more >>

Do anybody have any code to grab the Windows XP CD Key ? TIA - Jeff. ...more >>

Hi, I have a listview with items,subitems.I tems and subitems are added as below listView1.View = View.Details; listView1.Columns.Add("Column 1", 100,HorizontalAlignment.Center); listView1.Columns.Add("Column 2", 100,HorizontalAlignment.Center); listView1.Columns.Add("Column 3", 100...more >>

Hi All Some tips for optimizing your .Net Code. You can add more by leaving comments http://dotnetforum.blogspot.com or http://www.dotnetforum.blogspot.com Regards Akash ...more >>

There's DataGridView control in the .NET but it lacks of some critical functionalities. I need to use a ComboBox(to be exact, it is a control inherited from ComboBox) control to receive inputs into cells. But I can't do that with DataGridView. There is a sample to embed ComboBox in DataGridVie...more >>

I created a UDL file on my desktop. I then double click on the file and identified the provider I wanted to use (IBM OLEDB) and my user name and password. I then tested the connection and tested successfully. I then copied this connection information into my .net application and when I at...more >>

Hi Can anyone tell me how C# allocates memory for structs in C#? I am having problems figuring out how much memory will be allocated. Consider the following snippet struct S1 { int i; char c; } I expect the size of this struct to be 6 bytes but it turns out to be 8 ...more >>

HI Guys How to open a word file and HTML file (Without tags) into richtextbox control.file is opening by this code but it is opening in plaintext format but i want to open in word format IDataObject Data1; object nullobj,file; WordApp=new Word.ApplicationClass()...more >>

I'm looking for Planning/Scheduling controls for C#. But I'm interested in open-source solutions only. Regards. Osmar. ...more >>

Dear Experts, I have to write a C# program with the following requirements. I have to make two components (call C1 and C2) both of which can be included by an end user into his project. I have not decided what they have to be - an ActiveX component or a class library. Each of these objects...more >>

Im having problems getting the correct number from System.Xml.XmlNodeList.Count so my loop will process all nodes named <Folder>. What am I doing wrong? XML file (cut out): <Configuration> <Options> <Settings> <SourceFolders> <Folder>C:\</Folder> <Folder>D:\Te...more >>

Hi anyone. I want to make a class data-aware so i can just set my grid's datasource property to my object. i have an object with a list of other objects and at the moment i'm using serialization to convert my object to xml and then a dataset, i want to use a Datatable but i keep on getting "...more >>

I am working in a domain environment. I am on a client machine and wants to edit registery of domain server. I am currently in a Domain user account and member of Domain administrators on the domain controller. I am able to open registry manully by connecting the remote registry. While doing the...more >>

Hi, In my company, we used to use Visual Basic in our old application, and it's OK 'cause the VB will encapsulate all the needed DLLs into that application. So the application runs well on all our clients who has different versions of Microsoft Office. Now, we are developing our new Wind...more >>

I may be way off track here but ... I can do this : DataGridViewColumn col = new DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn (); but if I have this Type t = typeof (DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn ); and I want something (like this which is wrong ) DataGridViewColumn col = Activator.CreateInstance ( t ...more >>