Quick Intro: was thumbing through a book on Programming Windows in C# and was wondering if I shouldnt fork my developement: I've written a program in windows script, and now a more robust version in Java (using eclipse). I've hit the wall - in that the UI portions of eclipse are still manual...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas / opinions on what the best way would be to automatically save to and re-populate a form from a business object would be. I usually find myself spending a ton of time hooking up my GUI to my business objects to save the object to the database and the...more >>

Hi all, this may seem like a silly problem to you guys, but i want to be able to open my 2nd form from my 1st form. (Im Using Visual C# 2005) Form Names: 1st form = ticketDispenser 2nd form = signDisplay How can i open "signDisplay" from my button on the 1st form "ticketDispenser"? ...more >>

Hi All, I was hoping someone could clarify something I read in the C# Language Spec regarding "Definite Assignment" of structs. This is a very subtle point. I am referring to ECMA-334, section 12.3: [quote] The definite assignment states of instance variable of a struct-type variable a...more >>

in response to clicking the X in the upper right hand corner of a Form?...more >>

Hi All, I am currently making the switch from VB to C#. I understand that the VOID keyword allows creation of a function which doesnt require any parameters and doesn't return a value. Is this then, the equivalentof a SUB in VB? Thank you. Simon. ...more >>

Hello! Below I have method MostPowerful which is located in class SportsCar. As you can see the fomel parameter for method MostPowerful is carCompare of class SportsCar. Because this method MostPowerful is a member of class SportsCar can I use the field directly for the passed SportsCar obje...more >>

Hello! Below I have method MostPowerful which is located in class SportsCar. As you can see the fomel parameter for method MostPowerful is carCompare of class SportsCar. Because this method MostPowerful is a member of class SportsCar can I use the field directly for the passed SportsCar obj...more >>

Hello Everyone, I exported a gridview to excel spreadsheet. I want to adjust the column width of the excel spreadsheet. Is it possible to create Excel macro from C# to adjust the column width of the spreadsheet. Below is my code for exporting to excel string attachment = "attachmen...more >>

I have some problems with my generic. Part of code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace Gnrc { public class Gnrc<T> { //[some statements] protected void SomeMethod() { T A, B, C; //[some statements] C = ...more >>

Hello! public SportsCar MostPowerful(SportsCar carCompare){ if (carCompare.horsepower > this.horsepower) return carCompare; else return this; } ...more >>

Hi Is there a way that I could use the .net framework to extract from and compress using the legacy cab compression system (without having to buy 3rd party licenses)? My company uses this type of compression to support older windows PCs (pre-.net) as we can be sure that the OS is always abl...more >>

Basicall I am trying to create a local folder in IIS 6.0 to display default contents I have put in the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\nocdata default.asp. When I go to http://localhost/nocdata I don't get any content I get a 404 error code. Any assitance would be appreciaed. steps I have taken go websi...more >>

I need help with a Regular expression to match the following strings: /debug /x -debug -x The / or x are at the beginning of the string TIA Boaz Ben-Porat Milestone Systems ...more >>

I've coded using VBA on top of MS Excel for the last 2 years (40 hours a week). I've stepped up to VS C# 2005 Express / SQL Server 2005 Express a couple months ago, but the videos that I downloaded along with the software didnt really give me the kinds of examples I think I need to write the t...more >>

I set my database to trustworthy and deployed this clr stored proc as unsafe ok but when i run this it returns 1 each time. as if ival keeps getting set back to 0 each time i call this clr stored proc. How to fix so that ival keeps its current value each time i execute this from sql server? ...more >>

1. What are the additions to the class library that are not associated with new language features, or "Foundation" classes. E.G. I have heard a rumor that a "BigNum" class, or infinite precision arithmetic would be supported. 2. Are there any (runtime) performance improvements promis...more >>

We are migrating the vb6 project to C#.Net 2005. In this migration process we are facing one big issue with optional parameter. Actually in C#.Net there is not optional parameter concept . For that C# introduced 2 concepts like 1)overloading 2)params . But problem is 1) I am not able to see ...more >>

Hello! I just wonder what does it mean when this statement return true EventLog.SourceExists("MySource") I have read in .NET framework but doesn't quite understand what they mean. They say return true if the given event source(here MySource) exist in the computer's registry. What is a e...more >>

Hi, How I can, on btnClick move from one tab to another, for e.g. from tab1 go to tab2 and make tab1 disabled. Actually, I am trying to do some kind of wizard. Thanks for help. ...more >>

I heard there is some trick to referencing statics in C# CLR stored procedure without having to mark the assembly as unsafe. Does anyone know this? This is usefull as the case of needing a little static shared variable here and there without having to compromise safety in the Sql Server 2005. ...more >>

I have a member of my class which I only want to serialize in a flag is true. So in a way it would be ideal if I could do something like this: if (flag == true) NonSerializableAttrbiute(mymember); Is there a simple way to do this? Thanks, Joe ...more >>

Hi all, hope not to be OT here. I want to write a function that gets the following parameters: a string "s" a font "f" and returns the EXACT width and height of the font. I tried first with MeasureString but it adds me extra space; then I tried with MeasureCharacterRanges but I didn't ...more >>

I'm not sure I'm going about this the right away, and I've attempted to search every online topic that I can which makes me think this is not possible or I'm simple coding this incorrectly. What I'd like to do is this: 1) See hot many COM ports are on a computer: foreach (string port in ...more >>

Hi I have a class that inherits from Generics Dictionary The string that is used for the key is passed thru-out my pgm and sometimes it has modifiers added to the key string that are used in the system. The problem is now I have to strip the modifer to lookup in the Dictionary and I have t...more >>

CLR Shared Memory, C# DLL load How to share memory between CLR calls to the same C# dll? Is there some way to know in the C# dll when the dll is loaded? Is the dll reloaded each tiem a method is called from SQL Server or is the DLL loaded once when the C# dll is added to sql server with CRE...more >>

Is anyone else using the Microsoft Practices EnterpriseLibrary conventions for naming FILES (.cs) as far as a non-generic and generic implementation is concerned? Anyone have an alternative? I brought this up a while back, but with this new thing I just saw, thought I'd ask again. S...more >>

Developing C# app using VS 05 to connect to remote SQL Server 05. One form has a textbox bound to datetime column. When I delete the date in the textbox, app locks. I was using Access 2003 to hit the database and this did not cause a problem. Therefore, I know it can be done but have been un...more >>

I mught have misunderstood how SetCapture works, but I call it passing my form's Handle and I am not noticing any difference in what mouse events my app is picking up. It is only limited to mouse events within my control, which is the same way it worked with just setting a mouse event handler ...more >>

I have the following code which does 1. Make sure the array of numbers are in decending order starting from startNumber. 2. Make sure the total numbers in the array is equal to the totalNumbers passed to the method. Following code works, but for me it looks like there must be a better way of...more >>

Hi The methods below are identical except they take as arguments different enum types. There must be a better way of writing this? ta public string ConcatValues(params EnumType1 [] types) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); bool first = true; foreach (EnumType1 ty...more >>

Hi All, I am a network administrator in a fairly large software company and I would like to write myself a small utility, which would connect (one by one) to all machines on the network and get their current date and time stamps. This is mostly because of coming DST changes and having hundr...more >>

I want to do something similar to what some macro tools do, where they perform mouse/keyboard events on the user's machine , while intercepting the user's current keyboard/mouse events so that it does not interfere (unless they press a certain hotkey to deactivate it). How would I go about doi...more >>

Hi, I have a DataSet with 4 rows. I use .Delete command to delete a row from it. I use .Count to get the number of remaining rows - still get 4, and if I try to access the rows, I get a 'DeletedRowInaccesibleException' on it. Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour? Thanks a lot in advance DG ...more >>

I'm trying to call a COM object using C# but having no luck getting values back for passed in ref objects. I've tried the same call using VB.NET and can get data back. How would I implement the following in C# This is the method I am calling, which populates ref paramters with results. S...more >>

I need usage possibility when I double click on any row in datagridview, that row must be copied in second datagridview. Any good link about that?!...more >>

Hi, In multiLine textBox, enter moves to the next line, how can i overwrite it, so enter will move to the next control and ctrl + enter will move to the next line? Thanks, Gidi....more >>

I was supervised that Vista is so difficult to use(e.g. search), lost so many good features (e.g. go upper level folder) and so unstable(even MS own programs will hang up, back to Windows 95/98 era). Now I am surprised again that VS 2005 is lacking of some basic features VS 2003 has. (BTW, I w...more >>

Hello! Below I have the two methods OnStart and Start that are relevant to my question. If I do net start TimeServerService I will see something like Service TimeServerService starting ......... It wasn't possible to start the service TimeServerService The reason for this it that OnStart doe...more >>

What is object serialization? Thanks ...more >>