Hi, I have windows app that I have a windows keyboard shortcut for. I am finding that the shortcut is not all that responsive. ie it takes sometimes more than a 5 seconds for form to appear or longer. Is this something I can improve or is it the windows messaging system that is causing...more >>

Hi, I have a form with a webbrowser control set to fill the form. I want to capture when the form is clicked. As the browser control is filling the form the user would click on the browser conttrol, but it does not have a click event. How can I trap the click event for a form like this?...more >>

Hi, I am looking for a way to use Ajax inside gridview. I am not talking about putting a gridview inside an updatepanel and refresh the gridview, I want to use Ajax on per row basis, when user clicks on a dropdownlist on row number x, only row x will be refreshed. Can somebody give me some...more >>

How do you determine the memory usage of an AppDomain? I am looking for something like System.Diagnostics.Process.PrivateMemorySize64 but using an AppDomain rather than a process. Thank you, Bill ...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to implement a voice recording function. Basically it's supposed to record the WAV and write it out to the file, at which point LAME will kick in and convert it to MP3. The only problem is that I'm having issues writing it out. I'm using this code as a base: http://www.eg...more >>

I get this error: " Error 1 'calcolo_percentuale.Program.CalcolaPercentuale(double, double, out double, out double)': not all code paths return a value C: \Documents and Settings\Robert\Desktop\prova VS8\calcolo percentuale \calcolo percentuale\Program.cs" Why? I don't understand where is t...more >>

This message is a continuation of my previous post "Pattern Match" Doug - Thank you for your help. Doug Semler was able to solve my problem to some point but I still need some help. Doug's pattern is going to make sure that I don't get match of ddd dd embeded in number. For example ...more >>

is there any shortcut available that i can use, without typing all the time Console.Writeline() all the time in C#? Thanks ...more >>

Hi I have multiple panels in a form. Some doched to the side and 1 panel doched to fill. If the form is Maximized on first display you can see the panel docked to fill resizing which is annoying to see Anyone have any suggestion on avoiding the resizing or hidding it from user??? Thanks...more >>

I have a usercontrol that has a panel as a band across the width of the user control When the usercontrol is diaplayed the button is not centered. If I anchor the button to the panel Left/Top/Right the button get's streched which I want to try to avoid. Anyone have ideas on how to center ...more >>

Hi everyone! I have the following problem: My program saves data as .xml files. I want the following: When a user right-clicks on a .xml file (in Windows XP), and he chooses "Open with..." and then he chooses my program, the program should load itself and should open exactly this x.xml fi...more >>

Hi, I've been tasked to write a windows app that allows people to enter transactions. For each transaction, there can be an unknown number of items, and as a person enters an item, the program asks if there are more items. If yes, a new set of input boxes are created dynamically. What I ...more >>

Hi, I have a situation where I have a class which manages different data connections. In trying to enforce encapsulation I have a member field called connection which could be a type of SQLConnection, or OleDBConnection etc. When I am setting up the field how can I say it might be type of ...more >>

I'm working in Visual Studio 2005. I'm looking at two tables in the Data Set Designer. There's a relation between the two tables that lists 7 matching columns. Works great. One of the key columns from each table is called "Team". Valid values are F1 through F7, and when they match, the res...more >>

I'm not expert in Pattern Matching and it would take me a while to come up with the syntax for what I'm trying to do. I hope there are some experts that can help me. I'm trying to match /d/d/d/s/d/d in any text. There could be spaces in front or after the pattern (the nnn nn could be with...more >>

Hi All, If I've configured a site on my web server (running IIS 5.0) to require SSL, when I add a web service in Visual Studio 2005 (C# Express) and use https://...in the URL when adding the service, will the windows app I'm building automatically use SSL when calling the web service or is th...more >>

Hi there, This is actually (probably) a C# or .NET issue. I'm working on an VS 2005 AddIn and at one point I'm caching all "EnvDTE80.ErrorItem" objects that result from compiling one or more projects in an arbitrary solution (which my own code carries out). These objects simply store each w...more >>

I have a Label control that I load some text into it on the page load event. when I navigate to a different page and then hit the "back" browser button the label is gone from the screen. I am assuming that the label control is still there but the text in the label has been some how cleared so ...more >>

Are there any tools available to track down IDisposable objects that don't have a call to Dispose? I'm thinking this can be done with static code analysis. If the object is created inside a method, it should be created with a using statement. If it's a member of a class, that class should have a...more >>

I have two web pages in a VS 2005 project. the first page has a struct defined and used in the partial class: public partial class InterIndex : System.Web.UI.Page { public struct TXMLData { public int DataID; public string FileName; public string FilePath; ...more >>

I have a small app that I am working with to create LDIF files from text files. I have a pictureBox that has an animated GIF that will appear on the form when the LDIF are being created. The pictureBox appears and the GIF is there, but it does not stop when called. So when I debug, the RunW...more >>

consider these two using statements: using (SqlConnection sqlcon1 = new SqlConnection(constr)) { ...} and if (this.rbl_LTorST.SelectedValue == "0") rdr = rfcs.fn_SpecData(); else rdr = rfcs.fn_SpecData2(); using (rdr) {...} When...more >>

I have a small app that I am working with to create LDIF files from text files. I have a pictureBox that has an animated GIF that will appear on the form when the LDIF are being created. The pictureBox appears and the GIF is there, but it does not stop when called. So when I debug, the RunWor...more >>

Hello i need some hints on how to implement a small app that does click an "Ok" button on a form that comes up from one other app once every 10 minutes. Something like "Push the freaking button". Any ideas where to get some information for this? _thanks rene ...more >>

I wrote two trivial test programs that do a billion iterations of a virtual method call, first in C# (Visual Studio 2005): Thing t = new DerivedThing(); for (System.Int64 n = 0; n < 10000000000; n++) t.method(); Then in C++ (using Visual C++ 2005): Thing *t = new Deri...more >>

I have two jpegs -- one portrait, one landscape. I need the ability to tell the length and height of the graphic for further processing. How can I do this using CSharp? thank you...more >>

Is there some generic property that will give me the name of a function within its catch block?...more >>

Can anybody get me started on how to play an FLV file? Like you play e.g. mpeg files using the wmplayer control, I want a box on my form where the FLV is played and the playback is controlled byt the user. Cheers, Johnny J. ...more >>

If you have a *small* console application that perhaps opens and reads a file, is it better to handle exceptions or test the returns from the opens, etc up front? Or is it six of one and half a dozen of the other? Cheers, Cliff -- Have you ever noticed that if something is adverti...more >>