Hi, I have a custom attribute targing Property: [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property, AllowMultiple=false, Inherited=true)] public class StatefulPropertyAttribute : Attribute{} and all the properties marked with [StatefulPropertyAttribute] will be handled by public System.Comp...more >>

I'm sorry for posting this here- I have to integrate an parcel tracking with Canada Post into one of my applications. The web service they use is made with SAP and is not the usual WSDL type of service I am used to. I cannot just add a web reference to my project and get going. Canada Pos...more >>

Hi, I have benefited from a profitable idea for a stand-alone program that I've created in C#. Up until recently, my method of licensing hasn't been touched. I base authorization on user accounts, and the program sends and receives RSA encrypted data in order to determine whether or not the...more >>

I am trying to print huge images (much bigger than target paper). I try and use e.PageSettings.HardMarginX and e.PageSettings.HardMarginY in the PrintDocument's PrintPage event to try and determine the maximum area that I can print on. However, the edge of the image invariably gets cut off...more >>

Hi All, I have a class that has a property returning IList. For example, class A { public IList<string> MyList { get { return _list; } set { _list = new List<string>(value); } } private List<string> _list; } Now, I have a method that has an IEnumerabl...more >>

Hello Everyone, I just started learning Threading in C#. I read lot of articles and what I am trying to accomplish here is that I have an array of string and I want to pass the member of that array to each thread one by one until the processing is done. how can I pass the values one by...more >>

VS 2005 help says they are only for the synchronous send and receive methods. So what about the asynchronous calls? How are timeouts handled? ...more >>

So I've got web pages that are going to be loaded that take a little while to load. Rather than having somebody sitting there staring at nothing while the page loads, I'd like to put up something and when the page finishes loading, show them the entire page. Would this be accomplished with ...more >>

I have the following snippet of code which works both as a standalone application and as when incorporated to a windows service. There seems to be a slight difference between the service and the standalone app however. We have a legacy VB app which uses ADSI to apply file permissions. I have ...more >>

Hi, I m kind of new to multithreading programming and try to implement one solution. The problem I have is, I have one background thread which does time consuming processing. The parent(calling) thread can be windows application or console application or simple object. How can I pass message ...more >>

I have a ListView with checkboxes. I want to remove items when the checkboxes are unchecked, but to do so yields an ArgumentOutOfRangeException. Is there an easy way to get around this? A simple program that illustrates the exception is below: using System; using System.Windows.Forms; ...more >>

> That was the case before anonymous methods came along Fair enough Jon - good catch (and one I normally try to spot ;-p) - but in fairness that doesn't affect the example cited (unless it does something major in the elipsis). Marc ...more >>

I've being trying to get a cookie value for a certain site but the site I have no control over has a comma (",") in the cookie value and it gets broken down like this when I use the response= (HttpWebRequest)request.GetResponse. Name: SESSION_ID Value: 3862511 Name: y90iM7ucrhW/nFEi8nxHds...more >>

Hi. Using VS2005, .NET 2.0. I have an xml document that I want to go through and set the values on attributes of elements. The elements are complex types defined in my schema (xsd) files. I can iterate the document and get my XmlType and XmlBaseType values just fine. However, as soon ...more >>

> Does anyone else besides me find this to be unacceptably stupid and messy? I am 100% in agreement with you; to my view, Dispose() should worry about any internal details - not me! That being the entire point of encapsulation and a resource-management interface that is so common that it has com...more >>

I've been using reflector to look into some of the core MS .NET assemblies. I have noticed this pattern in the naming of classes that wrap p-Invoked Win32 api functions. I like this pattern. I'm just curious why are some API functions considered "Safe" and others "Unsafe"? Shouldn't any...more >>

On May 23, 2:10 pm, Chris Dunaway <dunaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 23, 12:54 pm, JPS <jpsu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On May 23, 12:43 pm, "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" > > > <m...@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote: > > > JPS, > > > > Did you look at the output? If y...more >>

On May 23, 12:43 pm, "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <m...@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote: > JPS, > > Did you look at the output? If you use "\\", you will find in the final > output that there is only one "\". The slash is an escape character for > strings in C# (unless you use the...more >>

I'm using HttpWebRequest. It seems that all the callback called from HttpWebRequest are in another thread (not in the "original" thread). Now my problem is that the "original" thread is the thread that maintains the interface (the forms). I want to signal from the "worker" thread to the main ...more >>

Sorry, but I believe you are wrong; there are huge advantages to this, especially in a factory scenario. Just because you Invoke() passing objects doesn't mean type safety isn't an issue (although obviouslt it is enforced at runtime, not compile-time). MakeGenericMethod() still enforces all n...more >>

At the IL level, all variables are declared at the top; there is therefore no functional difference in this code, other than "x" remains scoped (to C#) outside of the braces. Marc ...more >>

Hi I usually stick to the convention of not declaring variables in my bodies of "loops" (including foreach) ie int x; for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { x = ... } as opposed to for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { int x = ... } I've heard that in Java declaring variables within loops...more >>

I have need to be polling a directory for files ( I am going to be using files to have programs communication between each other - don't ask! ) Anyway - the question I have is what happens if in the middle of processing something another files comes in. Does the event get interrupted because t...more >>

On May 23, 12:43 pm, "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <m...@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote: > JPS, > > Did you look at the output? If you use "\\", you will find in the final > output that there is only one "\". The slash is an escape character for > strings in C# (unless you use the...more >>

Hi, Just before I invent my own solution... :-) I'm developing a program where I use binary serialization of the data the program holds. Know and then the serialized objecst will be modified, e.g. with a new field, or perhaps the removal of a field. Depending on the changes, the program ...more >>

I need to build a string with just one backslash included "\", but I keep getting an error message unless I use "\\". The double backslashes will not work with what I am doing. ...more >>

On May 23, 8:08 am, "Ben Voigt" <r...@nospam.nospam> wrote: > I don't think so, actually. Without volatile semantics, the compiler is > free to cache the value of any parameter, including in/out parameters. Say > you are calling an Interlocked method in a loop. If the variable is not > volati...more >>

I’m not sure how to feed PCL commands (i.e. “Ec&l1S”) thru the PrinterSettings() function, but we have been successfully using the PrinterSetting() properties and methods to successfully call on most of the printer’s properties. Our understanding was that by using the correct combin...more >>

Is there any way to detect if there is an error in a script for a page through the browser object? Or at least turn it off? I know I can set it through IE but was wondering if I can do it programtically for my object. TIA - Jeff. ...more >>

does this command use a lot of resources? should i comment them all out before creating my .exe file? i use it a lot for debugging... or, does it not make much of a difference? thanks much ...more >>

Are you sure this is CSharp Express? Because I don't find it there. Could this be something MS left out of the free Express version? Dom On May 23, 11:00 am, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA laceupsolutions.com> wrote: > Hi > > Is there, and even more is it called the...more >>

On May 23, 3:19 pm, rodchar <rodc...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > i have a String that i need to DateTime.Parse() and if a FormatException > occurs I need to assign a null to my DateTime variable. The only way i know > to do this is DateTime.MinValue or .MaxValue. > > Does this still sta...more >>

On May 23, 11:00 am, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA laceupsolutions.com> wrote: Are you sure this is CSharp Express? Because I don't find it there. Could this be something MS left out of the free Express version? Dom > Hi > > Is there, and even more is it called the sam...more >>

Hey all , I wanted to create a project or item template in C# such that when I use that template a parameter wizard comes up asking for values. I know how to create the template without implementing the wizard, i.e., work the parameter replacement using the <CustomParameters> keyword in XML. ...more >>

I am running VS 2005 writing in C# accessing remote SQL Server 2005 database. I want to develope a custom listing of the relationship between Customers and Locations (one to many) in a combo box. The releation is defined in SQL and shows up in the dataset. I have been using datagridview and w...more >>

Hi, I'm looking to create a simple application that will copy files from a folder on one PC on the network to another PC on the network but I am having a bit of difficulty doing this. The problem is that the network is not active directory and there is not a common username and password betwe...more >>

VB had a call stack window (although I'm not sure that's the term). You could use it to see the chain of routines that brought you to where you were. Is there something like this in C# Express? I can't seem to find it. ...more >>

hey all, i have a String that i need to DateTime.Parse() and if a FormatException occurs I need to assign a null to my DateTime variable. The only way i know to do this is DateTime.MinValue or .MaxValue. Does this still stand? And are there any caveats doing it this way? thanks, rodchar...more >>

I have a Winform (Composite UI Application Block) application that works great. Users have discovered that double-clicking any window title bar in Microsoft Windows XP is the same as clicking the Maximize/Minimize button. This works with Microsoft Word, the My Computer window, and my Winform ...more >>

Hi all. I have stuck at a strange point.in Database some master table have identity column and some havenot. Then How can i know at runtimes that which table have identity column. According to this i have to write query string. I got dataset from table. and write ds.Tables[0].Columns[0]....more >>

Hi I wonder if regular expressions are in general sower than using classes like String and Char when used for validating/parsing text data? I've done some simple test (using IsMatch()) method and the result was that Regex is either as fast or two times slower than method which used methods...more >>

Hi :-) I am creating a software that will save the present state of all the applications running on the desktop (WinXP). Can anyone point out the method to extract the filenames from the handles (or otherwise) of the files that are being accessed by processes and programs ? For example : I...more >>

I have a cpp application with this structure: //////////////C++/////////////// typedef struct StatusStructure { char FixedLenString[255]; long LongVariable; double DoubleVariable; BOOL BoolVariable; } StatusStructure; //////////////end C++/////////////// I have to recover this stru...more >>

Hi, I'm creating a kind of a gadget using C# and windows forms. For this to work I need it to that it won't ever get minimized, even if the user presses Windows+D or Windows+M. Does anyone knows how can I do that? Or am I thinking about this in the wrong way? Thank you very much for yo...more >>

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Hi Can we refer an Assembly from an Assembly. Can we have cross Reference also in .NET. Thanks In Advance EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com...more >>

When I look at MSDN, I found there is a thing called Task Scheduler 1.0/2.0. But it says: Task Scheduler 1.0: Interfaces are provided for C++ development. Are there class lib for C# developers? Thanks, ...more >>

Hi, For the taskes which will be executed once a while, I used to write an endless loop, do the job then call Thread.Sleep(). I just notice threre is server-based Timer. What are the advantages to use that? Thanks a lot! Ryan BTW, my previous two posts never show up, is this mailing...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to automate the creation of an excel file via COM. I copied my code below. I read many articles about how to release the COM objects that I create. The code below runs just fine and excel is closed. But there are some commented lines: //xlSeries.XValues = xlWs.get_Range("B...more >>

I have a dialog box with a Cancel button that I want to be activable with the ESC key. In the form the Cancel button is connected to the CancelButton property. Now my problem is that the OnClick event of the button must be able to "stop" the closing of the form: I want to change the text of th...more >>

Hi, I would like to know what the DataSet name is and where the DataSet is for a SqlDataSource like this: <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSourceA" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ServiceConnectionStringA %>" SelectCommand="SELECT TestNo, AcceptDate, status FROM TestF...more >>