Even though I don't use Korean in my codes and comments, I often need to insert Korean literals, because the target users are Koreans. Because I have no plan to globalize those programs, I use hard-coded literals. Anyways, can't I set VS.NET 2005 always create and save C# files in UTF-8 encod...more >>

hi i would like you all to let me now some pro's and con's between vb.net and c# I want my company to get away from vb6 and move into c# we do alot of online transactions mssql2005 back end services, processing ,email, fpt, vpn etc. and front end web reporting, ftp, information pages tia ma...more >>

Hello, I am developing a chat application in C# where I want to send/recieve emotion icons. Is there a way to implement this feature? Regards Jayshri ...more >>

I have a barcode scanner with a USB interface. It acts as a keyboard (ie if I scan a barcode, it is placed at the text cursor as if I'd typed it on the keyboard). I'd like to bypass this behaviour so barcodes don't go to the text cursor, but instead go into my C# programme, even if it doesn't...more >>

Hi, I want to add a Label on a panel programatically. No problem. But I can't seems to manage that the label is centered horizontal and vertical in the panel. I experimented with TextAlign and Dock but no real success. I probably forget something. Some hints really welcome :) -- rgds, ...more >>

Hi, If I add programatically a Panel to a control, and a Label add to that Panel. Then when I Dispose the Panel do I have to Dispose the Label also, or does the Panel take care of that ? And if it is do I gain time doing it myself or not ? I ask this because if I for example put panels o...more >>

Hi i have a method that returns a value public bool readxml (string xmlFilename, out string value) but I would like to catch an exception if it occurs in the method . How do i catch the following error if the xmlField 'location' doesn't exist in the xmlfile or if the xmlfile is blank? ...more >>

Hi, I created an Addin Project with the Addin-Project-Wizzard in VS2005. I added some code from a Knowledge Base How To und built the project. It worked, and the Addin got registered with Outlook. Now my questions are: How an when did the registering took place? Whre is the informations s...more >>

I've read the "How to: Create Application Settings" article (http:// msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171565.aspx) on the MSDN. It looked fine. But this code is only good when all the settings entries are defined at the compile time. And I have to modify the class itself each and everytime I ...more >>

Anyone did it before. Please advise. Yahoo mail, Gmail, Regular Hotmail work... ...more >>

Hi, Is there any way to write a graphical program in CSharp that could be embedded into Word2000. I've read .NET doesn't support creation of ActiveX controls (unless done using C++) but is there any other option, like an existing ActiveX that can embed some CSharp program. What I'd l...more >>

LeesWizard : BaseWizard : UserControl LeesWizardPage1 : WizardPage : UserControl LeesWizard contains a collection of WizardPages. Each WizardPage already contains a docked panel at the top. At design-time, when I add other panels and dock them, things look fine. But when I close the for...more >>

Hi, In my C# windows form, is it possible to encapsulate a Label to an Image? If possible, how to do that? Thanks for help. Jason ...more >>

I need to format text in cell in an Excel worksheet and I need to do this using C#. I've seen code that will set the format for the whole cell, but I just need to format one character in that cell. Example: The cell has this text in it: H20 I need to use C# to change the "2" to be a subs...more >>

Are there any good built-in or availble functions that I can call to sort my dataset datatalbe based on 1 or more of the table's columns? -- Thanks....more >>

Hi Is there a tool to merge several assembly dll's into one ? Johan ...more >>

Hello, I'm implementig a C# app in which I need to access to a Joystick. Nowadays I'm using the DirectInput class for getting the actual joystick position, but trhough polling. I would like to do it through event, i.e., when you move the joystick, it send to the app an event or message w...more >>

Hello, We are testing and tweaking some of our software to run on Vista, but it turns out that we are having problems with one of our programs. Here is our code: // attempt an experiment to register an OCX object in silient mode try { System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("regsv...more >>

Hi All, I want to remove a function from my solution. But there are more than 100 calls made to that function. I just want to remove (delete) all such calling statements from my code. Is there a easy to do this is visual studio IDE? Thanks for your help. Regards Anand Ganesh ...more >>

Does C# have problems when running a mix of release and debug builds of projects? I'm talking about something similar to the DLL hell you could get into with VC6 and the MFC shared library. If not, why do the debug and release projects write to \Debug and \Release subdirectories by default? ...more >>

Hi All, (I first posted this question on the csharp.general but got no response, and since this NG is more active, so I repost it here) I have two enum definitions from two different namespaces: namespace ns1 { public enum e1{ e1a, e1b ...... } } namespace ns2 { public...more >>

Hi... I had a VC++ 6.0 application that created a DLL to be used with another C# app. I have convered that app to VS .NET 2003 and I can build the DLL without making any changes to the existing code. However, when this DLL is used by my C# application I get some memory errors. I am not too ...more >>

Dear group, I have a very strange behaviour: In a loop there are several TextBoxes initialized: [Pseudo-Code] TextBox objTextBox = null; // one declaration for-loop // multiple initialisations objTextBox = new TextBox(); objTextBox.ReadOnly = true; objTextBox.Name = "TxtBox" + i...more >>

Boy am I having trouble with this. Does anyone know here I can get a good example of using a combobox within a dataviewgrid? No matter what I do i get all kinds of errors. My grid is bound to a table and I want one field to be a combobox which gets its list form another table. When I r...more >>

I have a typed-dataset of items that need to be written to an xml file in a specific format. Writing the Xml file is the easy part. How difficult is it to write an output with the following format: <root> <productGroup productGroupId="1"> <product productId="1" price="2.00" /> ...more >>

Hi, I am interested hearing your expert opinions on what is the best way to create menu. My menu has only ONE level (i.e. no sub menu item). I could use the ASP.NET Menu control or just use the good old "href" with some CSS. I would like to know which one is better and why? And what is th...more >>

Ok, I am utilizing the threadpool class to manage a number of threads. Priority is not important to me and neither is if the threads are background or foreground threads so I opted for the threadpool class. The issue is that I am latebinding on several libraries that I have. (They're actual...more >>

Hi there, Does anyone know if the standard "PropertyGrid" control is (foreign) language sensitive. If I display an object in the control, and my object has the native .NET "Size" struct as a property (which also contains its own ""Width" and "Height" members), will someone running my app o...more >>

I can delete RCan't delete Registry.LocalMachine = subkeyegistry.LocalMachine subkey using regedit. But not using code: RegistryKey eurotaxKey =3D Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Firm\Application\Eurotax"); eurotaxKey.DeleteSubKey("pathDat"); I am administrator and regedit sho...more >>

I have a set of programs that automatically get updated from our server. On some machines, when I download a new version it says 'Unknown publisher. Continue?'. My program is supposed to run unattended so this isn't acceptable. How can I get windows to not put up this message? TIA - Jeff...more >>

Hello, I have problem with DataGridView and BindingSource. I have created DataSet and added TableData to it with manualy created columns (without DataAdapter - I'm not using MSSQL). On the Form I put DataGridView and BindingSource, and connected them (BindingSource of course is also connected w...more >>

I am trying to rewrite a vbs script in c# that collects data from a pc = and writes it into an xml file I have figured out how to write the file with data in an array. Smple of = code below. But that seems quite inefficient considering I have to collect many many = properties for different item...more >>

Hi, I have a home network with a DSL router. I want to check the router state (connected, disconnected...) from an XP computer on the network by showing an icon (green / red) in the system tray. I am new in C# and I am checking for some hints on how to do it. Thanks! VMAM...more >>

If an app has several toolbars and menus the event handler methods can create a lot of code in the form's cs file. What is the best approach to breaking it all up so that it is more organized? Thanks, Mark ...more >>

How might I serialize an IPAddress? I read it needs to have a default constructor so I made a wrapper class: [Serializable] public class IPAddressEx : IPAddress { public IPAddressEx() : base( IPAddress.None.GetAddressBytes() ) { } ...more >>

Hi all, I am having one dataset in which i am taking data from database. Then in my application i am creating one new column into datatable of that dataset and assigned one default value for all rows. so when i call getchages method its not returing me all rows as i set default value for ...more >>

I posted this question in vsnet.ide newsgroup about more than a week back but didn't get any single response yet therefore, reposting again same to several newsgroups. When I run my C# WinForms project either by pressing F5 or clicking Start button on toolbar, it sometimes doesn't execu...more >>

hi guys, right now i'm going through System.Globalization Namespace. and i found very intersting class there called CultureInfo. i was trying to get cultureInfo on the basis of name but i didnt find the way to do it. for example, if i pass the language name "Danish","German",Russian", i'm sup...more >>

Hello all, Was wondering if anyone could provide some info on what could be a possible solution to a problem am having. I have to generate a Unique Identifier in C# which I will use to assign to a user, i dont really need the Unique Identifier's to be sequential so i was considering using s...more >>

Hi, I'm very new to windows forms and C# so this is my first post in this group :-) I have a very simple forms app with a tab control containing two tabs. Its related to football and one tab relates to players and the other tab to teams. I'm using the ErrorProvider component to display error ...more >>

Hi, I have project that automate excel(using Excel COM) which works fine in my home. I took the project from my home to work and tried to build the project but it won't built. I get error "The type or namespace name 'Excel' could not be found". the error points to line in my code: "public Ex...more >>

Hello, I am trying to get clipboard events using SetClipboardViewer api. It works in a windows form when i override the function: protected override void WndProc(ref System.Windows.Forms.Message m) that belongs to the base class System.Windows.Forms. The problem is that i want to do it ...more >>

Hi all, I'm creating processes of a console based application. After proc.Start() the process is not getting terminated and the thread keeps waiting for some reponse from the process. Now I need to kill the process if it takes more time. Process proc = new Process(); proc.StartInfo.FileN...more >>

Hi, I have a scenario where a class is wrapped inside another but the inner class triggers an event. I want that event to be accessed outside of the wrapper. As a result i do code such as: public Table() { _Logic = LogicFactory.Instance.GetLogic(); ...more >>

Can We create the instance of class with Inheritance like following : Derivedclassname var = new Baseclassname ...more >>

Hi, Is there a managed method for getfileversion ? Egil...more >>

When using filesystemwatcher to keep an eye on a directory to see if there are any files, how will I know when it is safe to work on the files in a directory? In other words, how will I know that no more files are being written and that the directory is static? -topher ...more >>

I'm able to pass string parameters with no problems to a LocalReport being displayed by the ASP.NET ReportViewer control. However, my report also has a DateTime parameter. LocalReport.SetParameters(..) only seems to allow me to set string parameters. Is there a way to pass DateTime (or othe...more >>

Hi=20 I need to create a .NET object that will be serialized into the = following xml structure ( I can't change the XML schema)=20 <Root> <Record> <Field1>data1</Field1> <Field2>data2</Field2> <Record> <Record> <Field1>data3</Field1> <Field2>data4</Field2> <Re...more >>

Hi! I issue a ExecuteCommand, is there a way to get a response from the service when the command has been executed? What i want to do is to change an icon on the servicecontroller app, depending on the command is being executed or is ready. Regards Martin ...more >>