Hi, I have a application where i am using a font which is usually not available in windows\fonts. I need to install this font on the clients machine where my application is running. I have put the font in my installer so that it gets installed in the fonts directory on installation. But the...more >>

Hi, I am using Visual C# window creating an application to read an xml file. At some point I need to use XPathNavigator and XPathNodeIterator however when I used those subjects I get error message . I add the "System.Xml.XPath" class however it either empty or not implemented. This problem ha...more >>

Hi All! I have a layout issue. My form has 5 components on it. The are each docked, Top, Left, Right, Bottom and Fill. There are also 4 splitters. My issue is that I want the user to be able to hide/show the different controls with their splitters. When the controls are hidden and then sho...more >>

I cant seem to get my head wrapped around this issue, I have myself so twisted now there maybe no issue! Ok so I designed a class X that has a few members, and for arguments sake one of the members Y is the location of a file to be read. The original design assumes that this class will be ins...more >>

Hi, I inherited a web project from other programmer. I notice on my dev machine every time I request a page in IE or FF the CPU jumps to 100%, all utilized by asp_wp.exe. I did some researches on the web, somebody suggests this could be due to database connection not properly dispose...more >>

Hello! How does this connection pool function actually ? As I have been told is that when the connection is returned to the pool the connection to the database is still open. What you do is that you just return a still open connection to the pool. When I open a connection I get an already op...more >>

Hello! A DataSet is using XML to represent data that is stored locally. I just wonder how can I look at these XML data that describe the DataSet? //Tony ...more >>

Hello! I'm reading in a book about .NET and here they something that sound wrong but I'm not abolutely sure. They say that a DataSet contains methods to update data in the database is that really correct ? I have looked in the documentation for DataSet and it seems that there are no metho...more >>

I am trying to figure out how to make an object instance available for all methods of a class. I tried to do something like this: public class test { TheObject Instance = new TheObject(); TheObject.Dictionary<string, string> = new Dictionary<string, string>(); .... } The first line (TheO...more >>

Hello All, I need to integrate my application into Active Directory. My application has the concept of groups, users, and also individual permissions. Users can be part of a group such as administrators, but explicit permissions may also be set. Can active directory handle this too? F...more >>

Can connection pooling be implemented for multiple applications? How is it done? ...more >>

How can I duplicate the behavior of the operating system shortcut keys in my application? For example, my windows form has 5 controls (textboxes), the operating system will pickup which control has the focus and handle ctrl-c, ctrl-v, or any other shortcuts. I have the same shortcuts working i...more >>

Hello, Newsgroupians: I've a question regarding dictionaries. I have an array elements that I created, and I'm trying to sort those elements into various sections. Here's the template of my data type. DT { int nSize; ... } I'm trying to create a dictionary, which resembles a j...more >>

A windows service I've created runs on all boxes except Windows 2000 server. The windows service initializes (i.e., the Service:ServieBase class gets constructed), but the OnStart() method never fires. On the same server, I have another service I've created which runs just fine. Both serv...more >>

Hi there, since < has a meaning in c# for regular expressions and \< says it's an unrecognized escape sequence, I'm pretty lost parsing html tags without replacing them first with another character or string. Does anyone have a hint for me on how to get c# Regex class to find "<"? Thanks i...more >>

I want to write some custom error messages to a log so that I can read them on the next run of the application and as the user to send them to me. Where the right place to store this log file? Which directory path is the right one - so that it's always writable regardless of the user's perm...more >>

Is there an easier way to determine if a specific assembly is loaded into the current AppDomain? I'm thinking that there has to be a way to do it without looping through all currently loaded assemblies, yet I couldn't find how to do it without looping. This is what I have: private boo...more >>

Hi, just learning extension methods and the first parameter confuses me. I understand using the this keyword to indicate the class we wish to extend, but is the first parameter also used to catch something passed ? Or is is it just to specify the class we wish to extend? the reason I guess I'm...more >>

Hello! I'm going to buy a book about .NET remoting. Is it any major difference between .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 ? //Tony ...more >>

Hello, How do I select 10 random records from a table? Thanks, Miguel...more >>

I'm not very familiar with C#. I have a static class and would like to define some constants similarily to Math.PI. Could someone show me how to go about doing this. So far no luck searching. Regards Chris Saunders ...more >>

Hello, I am coming back to a project and I dont remember what the following Regex says I do know it removes all \r\n from the string, but I dont see how. Can someone explain this one? Regex re = new Regex(@"([\x00-\x1F\x7E-\xFF]+)", RegexOptions.Compiled); string op = re.Replace(FileToParse...more >>

I have a regular expression that catches these patterns: value1 - value2 value1 - value2 (value3) value1 - value2 [value3] value1 - value2 "value3" As you can see value3 is always optional. The regular expression I use is: (?<Value1>.+)-(?:(?<Value2>.+)??(?<Value3>(?:\([^\)]+\)|\[[^\]]+...more >>

Hello, I want to convert a string Array permanantly to a int Array. Everywhere in my code I have to use Convert.ToInt32 to use the data. I just want to change it once. Thanks Mike...more >>

Hi, all! Some weird thing happens... I'm trying to create a shortcut programmatically in C#. I need to create a shortcut with the "target" parameter using slash. Actually I'm creating a shortcut to a file using command line arguments, smth like: "C:\PATH\MyFile.exe" /param1 The problem is t...more >>

I need to create instance of generic type when generic type does not have parameterless constructor. I tried code below but got error shown in comment. How to fix ? Andrus. abstract class QueryFactory<TEntity> { public string O1; public QueryFactory(string o1) { O1 = o1; }...more >>

So I have this perfectly fine and running app, that uses managed C++ forms. Problem#1: [1] I pass a Bitmap reference to a class, hoping to modify it in one of the class's methods, so it reflects outside too. Something like this: // In a form's scope Bitmap ^m_Bitmap; // A separat...more >>

Hello, I have a software that I sign with a trusted certificate of Verisign (both the assemblies and the MSI packages) following the Microsoft recomendations. In most of the cases I can install this software with no problems, but there are a certain number of places where the software ins...more >>

hi there, i have generated a database model using vs and a *.dbml file. there are a lot of tables in the database and all of them are prefixed, like xxCustomers, xxOrders. for the generated entities i don't want those prefixes so i removed them in the design view of the model which works fine...more >>