I have a class called "HistoryLog" which has a member variable of type StreamWriter which is initialized in the constructor. When I tested it on small outputs, nothing would write to the file, so I looked in the documentation and found out the Close() function was supposed to be called (or ...more >>

SWF DataGridView contains combobox control. Activating combobox and pressing F4 to open dropdown menu causes strange NRE (see below). When I enter some valid value to combobox, press tab, shift+tab , 44 dropdown menu opens OK. How to fix ? How to use VCSE 2008 with .net framework source ...more >>

Hi Group. I have an old VB6 application which loads a number of gui controls from an inifile and for each control the inifile states the name of the vbscript that should be executed once the control is clicked or otherwise triggered. My question is whether it is possible to execute the vb scr...more >>

Why is it that I can serialize a DateTime using XmlSerializer, but not a TimeSpan? Also, and perhaps more importantly - how could I have known ahead of time, using the published documentation, that DateTime is going to work and TimeSpan isn't? Trying to serialize a TimeSpan does not thro...more >>

Hi, I'm currently using a SOAP web service, using "Add webservice reference" in Visual Studio. But, to get a clearer view of the data I'm getting, I would like to take a look at the XML file I assume (1) I'm getting back from the webservice, before it's "translated" by the generated access...more >>

Hi, I need to "catch" every object that is tring to be written to memory (every line like String s = new String() and etc.) Can I overload it? Can Ioverride it? I need it to be general in all my solution and with out doing anything specail in the other projects (like inheritance from interfac...more >>

I would like to force the parent window's title bar to paint as Active when a tool window is active. Here is my code: public const int WM_NCACTIVATE = 0x086; protected override void WndProc(ref System.Windows.Forms.Message m) { if (m.Msg == WM_NCACTIV...more >>

I have a service that runs jobs. Each job is an instance of a class that inherits a CJob class. The service has a collection of objects (job classes). Each job has an inherited property named Running from the CJob class. The service checks the status of each jobs Running property every second. E...more >>

I have a class with an enum field which is serialized. For whatever reason, the enum value that was serialized, no longer exists in the enum. When I deserialize, I get an InvalidOperationException. Is there any way of ignoring this error in the xml document, set the enum to the default value, an...more >>

Hi, I need to develop a c# forms application. My application will do these steps --- 1) It will read a list of user entries from SQL server 2005 Database. 2) For each user it will generate some content & send it to him/her via email 3) For each operation it will generat...more >>

Hello, I would like to consult about thread usage in my application. I got a console application which is activating a process and I need to update a log file during this process. My question is : do I need to use another thread for updating th log or can i do it in the same thread with the con...more >>

I'm doing this on my rich text box called rtb, with cmb being a combo box. rtb.Text.Insert (rtb.Text.Length, cmb.SelectedItem.ToString () + "\n"); The text, however, doesn't appear. What do i miss? The idea is to add the text selected from the combo box each time the selection is made. Tha...more >>