Hello! I am looking for a good way to make an application multilingual. Danish/English for now (but I don't want to preclude more than two languages eventually) Every dialog will have an option for changing language (except simple dialog boxes) Here is what I am envisioning - I want to m...more >>

I would like to to add a time span "1Y 2M 3W 20D" entered as a string to a date time how do I do that? Lars ...more >>

What are some ways I can read MS Exchange Server 2003 message stores using C#? -- Thanks in advance, Les Caudle...more >>

Hi, I am developing an application which has established on MDI Form and there are many MDI Child forms. My problem is starting when i close the mdi child forms. They are not disposed from the virtual memory, so it wastes much memory for the clients. I trigger GC.Collect and i also implemet...more >>

Hi I have a static class written by other team which encapsulates a database instance. but I need to extend it to incldue other things. I know that C# static class is sealed and can;t be inherited & I don't want to copy + paste code. How can I inherit those member variables? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I need to hightlight some rows that have new data copied to them after they're sorted. I tried hightlighting int he DragAndDrop event but once the data is copied to some rows and I highlight them the grid sorts itself with the new data and of course the wrong rows are now highlighted. ...more >>

Hi NG, currently I am working on a add-in which shell read the callstack and write it to a file. The question is, how can I read the current callstack of a debugged application with a add-in? I assume there are some framework classes, that can help me on this task but I have no idea which...more >>

I have a WebBrowser control on a .net 2.0 winforms app. I load up a page and want to get the selected entry of a dropdown. I can get the element: HtmlElement stationList = browser.Document.GetElementById("dropdownFacID"); How do I know get the selected entry (the text, not the id). Th...more >>

I have a dotnet assembly which includes classes RequestType, Response, Transaction, and TransactionElement. To use this I would normally create a new Transaction passing it a parameter of RequestType and receive a Transaction object of the right type in return. Paymentech.Transaction trans...more >>

I have 1. An interface (generic). I simplified it to have one method. 2. A class which implements this interface. This class is also a Singleton. 3. A factory, (which right now only returns 1 concrete class, from #2 above) I can't figure out if I can get the factory to work correctly,...more >>

HI all, I have an xml file, I need to be able to read the data into strong typed dataset for further use in my application Can someone point me to documentation as to how I can do this. I have absolutley no idea where to start. Robert ...more >>

Why is the IDisposeable implementation of WCF clients private? I'm glad that you can still Dispose() by casting or with using ( .. ) { .. } because IDisposable is indeed implemented but what was the design reasoning to make Dispose() private? Jon ...more >>

Hi there, I have to installa a Windows service on a machine which has only the fw1.1 installed. I did the following: - Create a WindowsService application (using the VisualStudio template); - Create the ServiceInstaller; - Imported a .dll in the solution (which is the logic of my applicatio...more >>

Hi, Im having a reaaally hard time with something... Im trying to read a cell of data into a String variable. It seems like such a simple task too... Get the excel spreadsheet, get the workbook, get the sheet, get the cell, get the cells data and store it into a string. But it wont work!...more >>

If I define an expression or equation, how can I retrieve that expression as string literal? I want to do this so that I could avoid repetitive typing (or copy/paste/change) the same thing at two place. I try to demonstrate the problem in the following code. Bob M <%@ Page Language="...more >>

We have a product that has 5 executibles that communicate via message queueing. It works great. Problem is, when we install on customers PCs, there are some where their IT department has limited the machine so we can't do message queueing (the default user doesn't have rights to create/add the...more >>

We pass args to our WinForms app and would like the console to wait until the program ends before returning. For example: C:> MyApp.exe -r something This returns even though the process is still running (Task manager, processes). I would like it to wait until the process is done. An...more >>

I don't think this should be this complicated, but I can't figure it out. I've worked with C# for several years now, but in a web environment, not with windows form. I have a form with a query button on it. If the query returns multiple results, a new window is opened with a grid containing t...more >>

Hello all, We have a main form. We have the message loop programmed to listen for 'key strokes' from a bar code scanner. But when the message loop 'hears' the keystrokes, we need to know if the main form has a child window (specifically a modal child window). Any ideas how we ask a form ...more >>

Hi there, Does anyone know why the "ColumnChanged" event isn't fired when "Merge()" is called below. "OnRowChanged()" is fired however: Thanks in advance. private static void Test() { DataSet ds1 = new DataSet(); DataTable dt1 = ds1.Tables.Add("MyTable"); DataColumn primaryKe...more >>

Kevin Spencer was kind enough to provide me with the following regular expression: (?<artist>\w+)\s+-\s+(?<title>\w+)(?:\s+[\(\[](?<remix>\w+) [)\]])? This works great when I try to group the following mp3 naming conventions: Artist - Title [Remix] Artist - Title (Remix) Artist - Title ...more >>

When is it appropriate to use "volatile" keyword? The docs simply state: " The volatile modifier is usually used for a field that is accessed by multiple threads without using the lock Statement (C# Reference) statement to serialize access. " But when is it better to use "volatile" in...more >>

Under Vista, the Dev Studio program installer adds a desktop shortcut to the Desktop. (.Net application.) The shortcut does not have a context menu item to run as administrator. However, if you create a shortcut manually from the exe file it does have a context menu item to run as administrator....more >>

If I breakpoint on the closing brace of a function with a return value, can I see what the return value is at that point? How? Thanks. Example: bool funcA() { return funcB(); } // breakpoint here and I want to know what funcB returned ...more >>

I am wanting to create an installer project in Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, but I can't see how to do it. I see in online help that you should go to File...Add...New Project... and choose Setup/Installer Project. But, this is not an option in my Project Types list. Is this some l...more >>

Working with the DirectoryServices in C#, I want to build a tree of users. The tree control will have child nodes with user sam names, and expandable nodes for any group the current thread may view. The group however, may be many things. I'm quite new to LDAP and DirectoryServices, but I can i...more >>

Is there a way to have GetFiles() show hidden files also? Thanks ...more >>

I'm trying to call a third party dll routine from C# using pinvoke. Unfortunately I obtain a LoaderLock exception and my application stops. I've seen that it must be some uncorrect behaviour of the called routine, but I can't modify it. Note that calling this routine from a C++ project does n...more >>

Hi group, I have a strange error. I'm a beginner with dotnet 3.0, when i try to run an wpf application from my windows explorer, the application crash. For example, i've downloaded the demo project at this url : http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/wpfdemo1.asp, that contains an exe and th...more >>

Hi All, I have a .NET Winforms application that regularly posts to a PHP page. Till a few days back this worked perfectly. However, now, on certain machines, after the data is sent to the server, the server reports that no data is present. The code still works on my development machine. All th...more >>

To make excellent and useful scatter plot with huge dataset this is a stunning feature: brightness sum and transparency. look at (half of the page near Scatter plot Heading): http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/Manet/plots.html#plots Does someone have an idea on how to do that in c#? Thanks...more >>

I get "Value of '3720' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' should be between 'minimum' and 'maximum' exception if I remove rows in a dataGridView while scrolling from the top to the end of the grid in one fell swoop. You can reproduce this using the code listed under [1]. .NET 2.0 is used. The ...more >>

Hi, What are the advantages/new features .NET 3.0 brings in compared to .NET 1.1.What are the impacts on the current system using 1.1, backward compatibility etc. Can i get some heads-on comparison between the two? ...more >>

Here is a problem I encountered concerning threads: Here is the code in Form1 button click handler: AddForm addForm = new AddForm(booksDataSet.Titles); Thread addTitleThread=new Thread(new ThreadStart(addForm.GetNewTitle)); addTitleThread.Start(); Here is the cod...more >>

Hi, Can I compile code for mobile devices (Window Mobile 2005) using C# Express or do I need the full version of C# for mobile devices? thanks, Pratheep ...more >>

Hi all, I am having this problem with C# 2005 professional, while I could never see such a thing in VS 2003. The problem is that the form designer doesn't reflect the changes I make to a form through the property panel on-the-fly. Even if a change is reflected in the designer, when I compil...more >>

Since singleton classes conceptually are like static classes, the are supposed to last for the entire lifetime of the application. Starting from this point tell me if I'm wrong saying: - it make no sense to implement IDisposable - it make sense to implement Finalize if there are unmanaged res...more >>

Hi all, I don't know if this is possible but I'd like to access the functions contained in the 'Mail' applet within the Control Panel. Specifically I want to access the 'Profiles' list and then if the desired profile (source) name is found Copy... it to another name (target) - set the ta...more >>

Hi, Here is the SqlDataSource in my aspx file <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ETCServiceTestConnectionStringA %>" SelectCommand="SELECT [TestNo], [AcceptDate], [status] FROM [TestForm] ORDER BY [TestNo]"> </asp:SqlData...more >>