Hi All, I have a pictureBox control inside of a panel control. The pictureBox is larger than the panel control and I have the panel control set true for AutoScroll so the panel displays scrolling bars. I would like the user to be able to click and drag the image and for it to move around w...more >>

I have created a simple program using C#/.NET. It is very small program without explicit system resources request in the code. However, the memory consumption is even above 17M(shown in Windows Task Manager), much higher than 5M of the same one developed with MFC before. Now I wonder if th...more >>

Dear All I have a requirement for creating a sub menu. I have been working on the addin and was able to put the addin in the tools menu of excel. The menu will be something like: 1. Main Item 1.a. Sub item 1 1.a.i sub item 1 1.a.ii sub item 2 1.b. S...more >>

Hello, I'm sorry for such a basic question, but here it is: I'm creating a VS2005 C# forms application. In the parent form I have a button that opens a child form. In the code for the parent form I have some public objects and some public methods. How can the child code access those ob...more >>

I have a custom set of objects that is correctly serializing & deserializing the object tree. However in some cases the size of the resultant serialization is larger than I would expect. Is there any documented way to pull apart the stream to determine the sizes of the objects embedded within ...more >>

Hi: I'm looking at some field declarations. Programmer has it static private int x. Shouldn't it be private static int x? Doesn't the access modifier come before variable modifier? But it compiles. How does this work? Please explain. Thanks, Charlie ...more >>

Hi, I have some code that sets up an asynchronous server. It is working fine on my XP machines but I can't get it to work on Vista. Actually, it "works: in that it runs but when I try to connect via telnet I get nothing. I have tried opening up the port and also turned off the firewall. Neit...more >>

Hi I need to exchange XML formated information between two methods in my C# program. I have been trying to play with XMLNode and XMLElement but without much success. I think I want to stop now and understand the xml classes in C# (rather in dot net) before proceeding further. Can any one po...more >>

I have a class implented in a c# dll which has two different properties of same name Say "A" and "a". Now, is their any way to use any one or both of these properties of this class in a vb.net project. because it will give the following error Error 2 'A' is ambiguous because multiple kind...more >>

Hi: I just took over support for a WinForms application. While trying to navigate a class file, IDE stalls making it very difficult to navigate file without bogging down. Feels like something is overloading IDE. File is 98KB (about 2000 lines of code) which shouldn't be too big. Any one...more >>

Hi. How to write a function that will return me the factorial (say in a string) for the any positive integer it takes? When we find a factorial of even say 2000 or a higher number, it will be very big to be accomodated in int or long datatype. Regards, Sugandh ...more >>

Hi. I have a button with an image which is animated gif. I need this animation to be played only when button_Click event occur. How to force form not to play animation until button is pressed? PK ...more >>

I've always been taught that stored procedures are better than writing SQL in client code for a number of reasons: - runs faster as is compiled and lives on the database server - is the more proper tier to put it since is a data function But then I've heard that writing SQL in my client .NE...more >>

I have a Windows Form Form1 (not MDI) and when I double-click on the Form, another Form2 will "pop up". How can I pass the text that I typed in Form2 to a textbox in Form1? I was thinking if it was possible that from Form2 I can call a public method in Form1 that updates the Textbox. I wanted ...more >>

My software should take snapshots from the current screen from an icon in the try area. I need to programmatically emulate what the "print-screen" keyword does. How do I do that ? Thanks in advance, ...more >>

I am trying to execute following code: Type type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("SomeType.SomeClass", true); object helper = Activator.CreateInstance(type); and get following RemotingException (in 2-nd line): Cannot load type SomeType.SomeClass, SomeType.SomeClass, Version=1.0.2658.25296, Cultu...more >>

VB had a neat object called "Debug". You could use "Debug.Print()" in your code, and you could get useful debugging information in the immediate window. Is there something like this in CSharp? Dom ...more >>

Every time I make any .NET framework based webservice consumer I have the same problem: The first call my application makes to consume a webservice takes about 15 seconds. Subsequent calls are very fast. What is happening during this initial delay, and is there anything I can do to fix this so ...more >>

This is a little tricky, but I think the error I'm getting isn't valid. The compiler just doesn't know my logic. MyObject o; switch (IntVariable) { case 1: o = new MyObject() break; case 2: o.MySetting = "Test Setting" break; } The com...more >>

Short of writing a custom version of the ListView control, is there a way to force the column headers to contain multiple lines. The problem is that the actual values of the items in each column only need 2 or 3 characters while the description of them in the column title takes many. Thus, m...more >>

hello, i need to run an application from a remote machine in the same intranet. But everytime i do something like "\\server\app\aplication.exe" i get a clr error. How can i do this? i can't install the application on every machine... this was not a problem with vb6. thanks!!! ...more >>

Hi there, Given two file names in relative or absolute format, I need to determine if they point to the same file. While I can simply pass each to "Path.GetFullPath()" and compare the results, what is the rule regarding case. That is, how do you determine whether the local file system is ...more >>

Hi All, Does anyone know of a tool which can profile my assembly, so that I get a stats on all the methods called and how much time each took? TIA ...more >>

I'm trying to insert data from one table to another on sql server via C#. here is my syntax: insert into tableA (CustOrderNumber, custName, custState, CustCity) SELECT ('" + System.GUID.NewGUID() + '", Name, State, City) from custSales I'm getting this error message: There was an error p...more >>

When I try to run this following small code sample: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Dictionary<string, int> MyDict = new Dictionary<string, int>(); MyDict["aaa"] = 0; MyDict["aba"] = 1; ...more >>

Hi, at the moment I have a batch file which builds a lot of projects. A typical line in the batch file would be: CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" Report.Change.sln /rebuild Debug /out Report.Change.plg Now that I have installed VS 2005 ...more >>

I have a window service that spawned a separate thread. Now I would make sure to process some work and then close the thread. After I closed this thread I wanted to shut down the service but would never be able to stop service even though I would call OnStop() on the service. Now I went another ...more >>

Hi, I have a form with progress bar. I'm querying sql server with large number of records(around 1 lakh) for export The records are written to a text file I'm showing the process running by updating the progress bar If the form loses focus(i.e selecting any other application) means progress b...more >>

Hey folks, So, I've got three enum types: enum enum1 enum enum2 enum enum3 And then I've got a function overloaded three times to accept each enum type: private void func(enum1 myenum){} private void func(enum2 myenum){} private void func(enum3 myenum){} And then I've got a wrapper f...more >>

Hi experts. I have a c# widows program that uses 3rd party dlls. All works correctly on my PC but when I try to run the exe on another PC, I get an error indicating a missing reference. I checked the other PC and all the 3rd party the dlls are present and registered. Is there anything I ...more >>

Can I step through a struct using foreach? I want a method that steps through a struct, and prints out the name/value of each member. Can it be done? The error I get when trying this is: "foreach statement cannot operate on variables of type '...' because '...' does not contain a public de...more >>

Hi! I need help ragarding the k-mean clustering algo. Any one have a source code in c#.. or a dll file that could be used in the project.... I cannot seem to identify the objects that could be used in the algo.. I have to group the diseases according to provinces, and plot them in graph, this ...more >>

how can i assign an alternate text to a button like we do to html pictures with ALT? i am working under c# environment. thanx in advance -Dr. S. ...more >>

I'm doing a server side automation(I know it's bad but..) and its working fine locally and when accessing it from a remote machine using web browser is was giving me this error"Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the ...more >>

Hi all. I have a web browser which has a button on it. That button click events starts a new independent process and that process uses a file thats needs to be read during its load function. my problem is when the user continuously clicks the webbrowser button i get an exception as the file is...more >>

I need to remove top 3 files from csv files before reading csv file. please give me link or peace of code for removing the rows from csv file. Thanks, Amit ...more >>

Greetings, I would like to create a windows service that would expect an event from my software to import data from a device and/or to import data in scheduled times My questions are: - How can I tell the windows service to import data from another application? - Is it possible to have a U...more >>

Hi, I'm not happy with the way in which I use accessors and was wondering if there is a better way of defining them. Take the following example - class MyClass { // prepended to version names appearing in version combo box private static string versionPrefix; // the current...more >>

Hi, I have an event handler to handle the closing of a form. In this handler (Form1_FormClosing), I ask the user if they wish to save updates made to a file. I wish to add the option to the message box to allow the user to cancel so that the form doesn't actually close. This is the behaviour ...more >>

This is as barebones as I can get it in order to explain my problem. **************************************************************************** using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static voi...more >>

I have a complicated class that I use to store a lot of values Now I need a copy of that class and I have been trying to find a way to do this automatic so I don't have to assign all properties and classes by hand (about 200 properties). I found this post on google: http://www.thescripts.com...more >>

I have SQL strings which contain comments starting with -- and continuing to end of line like string mystring=@"SELECT data, -- ending comment -- line comment FROM mytable "; How to remove comment from those strings ? I need to delete charactes starting from -- and end...more >>

Hello all, I am working on a csharp database application that should give its end users the ability to create new tables related to existing ones or even create the database structure completely on their own. I know how to do that by creating a DataSet object and adding tables and relations...more >>

Hi, This is my first mutiple threading progam, I have an AST.Net page zThreadPool.aspx which has one button: button1 and one Label: label1. The following code snippet does not work at all: public partial class zThreadPool : System.Web.UI.Page { void CallbackProc(object obj1) { ...more >>

Hello everyone!, I installed SVN Server on Windows a few weeks ago using SVN-1- ClickSetup, and I realized that all the files in all the projects have the same version. My dir structure is something like this: - svn://server/ - Project_1 - trunk - (some files)...more >>

Hi, what program should I use to draw these kind of graphics easy? http://tinyurl.com/2vy4oe -- If a "7–11" is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the door? —Nick Featherman...more >>

Hi, I've just downloaded the Orcas Express beta and it bombs on the first step (installing the 3.5 framework). It doesn't give me a specific error, it just calls home, tail between its legs :( I've tried the following: reburnt the image. disabled AV. Haven't got as far as "Profit"... An...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to identify whether my C# .NET 2.0 application is running on a Windows x64 or x86 version. I'm trying to avoid checking the version numbers because this will have to work on Vista too, which shares identical build numbers for x64 and x86. I'm currently using this: if...more >>

I have an interface ITest that includes an event TestStatusChange. There is also a class Test that implements ITest. In one of the functions of Test I want to call the event (see code at the end) but get the following error: "The event 'eventTest.Test.TestStatusChanged' can only appear on the ...more >>

Hi Looking at the following code ... double a = 100.1; double b = 0.1; double c = a + b; I would like to know why the value of c is 100.19999999999999 and not 100.2? What should I do to correct this. Thanks. ...more >>