Hello all, I am currently trying out the UIP Block V2.0 in a small test web app and am running into a problem... I am using 2 controllers, each with a different navigator. One uses a NavigationGraph, and is working fine. The other is using an OpenNavigator. Sometimes, when I start the task ...more >>

I am using the Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.ExceptionManagement within a distributed ASP.NET application that uses Remoting. I throw a customer exception from the middle layer to the web layer and trap this. When I try to publish this error to the event log using the Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Excep...more >>

Is this possible? Server Object: Standard Windows Form, compiled as dll Host: .NET Remoting referencing Server object Client: (run on different computer) to retrieve Server Object (windows form) from the Host The idea is to build "smart thick application" that will call all Forms from the ...more >>

Download page at microsoft.com cites supported operating systems as Windows Server 2003, Windows XP. For a Win Forms application having server connectivity to a Windows Server 2003 server, are there portions of the UIPAB v2 that may be used with Windows 2000, assuming any necessary installs ap...more >>

Hello, I am trying to use a begin and end date with both dates being inputs on a web form from a user to pull data from an MS Access DB and I am having problem. Please note that the data type of Date1 through Date4 is DateTime in DB (short date). When I do this, I get data back but this not ho...more >>

I have DataAccess class which handles routine work. When I first get object from the server and set the proxy on the clinet that is ok. *** ... dbobject = (IDBObject) GetRemotingObject("DBObject.soap", typeof(IDBObject)); DataSet ds = dbobject.RunSqlDataSet("select * from hr_main where ...more >>

I am working on a project which consists of ASP.NET to a COM+ component to SQL Server. The problem, or annoyance I am having, is that I am unable to easily debug the .NET component in COM+. I have to attach to the process by opening another instance of Visual Studio, put a break point, and if I find...more >>

I've got a process that will check a user's registration of my product. Can I have a deployment product run this process before it starts the actual installation (setting the registry, copying the files, etc.)? I want to do it in a way that will prevent the installation from proceeding if the u...more >>

I am getting a strange version error - "Visual studio .NET has detected that the specified web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to runASP.NET web applications or services." But the web applications are on there, and are running. I edited them before using VS.N...more >>

I am unable to connect to server after creating a new web app from the startup page in visual studio. I am working with vb.net -- bredd...more >>

I'm having no luck getting the FTP sample found here: http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive9.html to work. I've tried every conceivable angle, but can't figure it out why I can't successfully upload a file. I'm almost convinced it's a permissions issue when the System.IO tries to read t...more >>

..Net Remoting + COM Plus architecture ========================= Can I have a question or expecting a idea from you all Since .Net Remoting does not support transactions, and cannot cross boundaries, no security (it is not easy to have security implemented directly) can we have som...more >>

I've been reading "Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/distapp.asp which to my mind reconfirms the good practice I have come across from other sources, such as "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architect...more >>

All, Before I attempt to implement the following, I am wondering if this is even possible. There is the situation: client A wants to create a client-activated object (CAO) on server B. The configuration appears as follows: 1. CLIENT_A--FIREWALL_A <--> [INTERNET] <--> FIREWALL_B--SERVER_B...more >>

I have a VS NET 2003 VB solution in which I created a setup and deployment project. The setup & deployment object appears correct. The target system has the 1.1 framework installed. When I distribute the resulting files (the msi, setup.exe and setup.ini) and run the install, everything appears fi...more >>

I've written a simple application to test the remoting scenario, and find out that the client activated object's destructor was never called until server application was down. the application is simple. The remoting object public class RemotingObject:MarshalByRefObject { private strin...more >>

I have a form that is set up to display as a dialog form. This was converted from VB6 and was modal. When I open the form through code it populates the grids & lables ect. but has sections of the form that are not painted correctly. If I open some other type of application (word or ooutlook) and the...more >>

If the class is derived from ContextBoundObject or MarshalByRefObject, the debugger cannot view the members of the object remotly or even inside the same Application domain. The debugger displays the following message in the watch window: error: cannot evaluate field of a proxy object Debug.W...more >>

I created a singleton object using .NET Remoting. The object is created in a .NET remoting server and the same instance is marshaled to the client when the client creates a new object of it. This singleton object is hosted under NTService and I need to destroy it when the service is stopped and ...more >>

Looking for a bit of guidance here. We're moving our VB6 server objects to VB.net. I'm working at just getting a small subset working to compare performance. I've written a class library, inherited from ServicedComponent. I've strongly named it, and installed it to the GAC from the release direc...more >>

I'm helping to design a 3-tiered architecture for the first time and we have an issue that we're looking for advice on. In our application, we work with a particular type of object a lot. For the sake of argument, let's say that we're writing an application that simply stores data about people...more >>

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/47/238841.aspx My problem is similar to the above post by David. Again i am looking for some recommendations about designing my business objects for scalability and performance. The recommended way by using web services and xml doesn't really work for ...more >>

I tried using the Application Updater Component, using the article ".NET Client Applications: .NET Application Updater Component" by Jamie Cool. The application is going out to the network (as ZoneAlarm asks for permission), but it's neither downloading the newer version, or otherwise updating...more >>

Hello . I want to install Framework into all our users pc's. I have almost 200 users . Is there any possibility to install it throw Browser. I mean , When my user will log-on , my web application will check if the Framework is already installed in his PC , if not it will installed ...more >>

A view with a querystring results in an endless loop in the WebFormViewManager.cs (RedirectToNextView) when invoked by an OpenNavigationGraph. Is there a workaround? Sample web.config .... <view name="testA" type="test1.aspx" controller="MainController" /> this line works <view nam...more >>

Hi, I've created an application that I use the application update block to update it over the net. This is working fine. However, my application also includes a number of files that are created on the user side such as extra config settings, and extra wavs the user wants to play. Is there ...more >>

How to check the OS version in launch condition? Hi there, I'm working on a VS.NET setup project and I need to check the version of the opearting system (if it is Windows 2000 or higher) before the installation. Can anyone teach me how to do it using launch condition? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to get the StreamReader to read a text file (from a client or from the server), and am having strange results. The text of the file is not read, but instead, the file's text is deleted when I go to it. Does anyone have any explanation for this? I paste the code below...more >>

I need help with what I think is a design issue. I need to access a record for processing. I need to do it in such a fashion that several concurrent processes do not access the same record. I've set up a stored procedure that first queries the table for a record to process than marks the reco...more >>

When i open the .asmx file with IE the IIS server doesn't run the web service but instead i am prompted by the web browser to open the .asmx file (that is it is getting downloaded). The same happens with the default Hello World web service. I am using VS 2003 and Windows XP SP1 (with its IIS ser...more >>

I have a Page that contains 2 frames (both .aspx pages). The top frame is sort of a menu page and contains a 'Print' button (among other buttons). The Print button is a server control. When the user clicks Print I want to print what ever is in the below frame (and only that). I will work out nec...more >>

Hi, I have a Windows Service written in C# whos purpose is to sniff a folder to look for changes in the folder. If a file is created or changed, it should get its name and start an object the sends the file to another server. The problem I have is that when for example a txt file gets edited ...more >>

I wrote a small .Net windows app and made it available on a web server. When I navigate to the exe with my regular Administrator account from Windows XP, the application opens and runs correctly. However, when I try this from a non-administrator user account on the same computer, the application f...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to use XmlHashtableSectionHandler to store a hashtable. Here is my hashtable and class: Public ht as new Hashtable Public Class cDialogOptions Public width As Integer Public height As Integer Public otherOptions As Hashtable End Class dim opt1 as new cDial...more >>

Hi All, I am using UIP 2.0 to develop a wizard style web interface. I save the values in state when they press "Next" button. but, when they press "Prev" button, I want to have the screen with the values that were filled in. i.e. exactly as it was before they clicked "Next". I am trying t...more >>

HI all, When i try to instanciate a Cerk object in the Activate Method of the Worker Derived Class, It gives the following exception System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8000FFFF): Catastrophic failure at System.EnterpriseServices.CompensatingResourceManager.CrmLogControl.Regi...more >>

Hi I need to set terminal service configurations using c# code I found the VB script code to do that ,but how can i convert this code to C# .Net Thanks Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://cn=johndoe,ou=manufacturing,dc=acme,dc=com" WScript.Echo objUser.Name & " Terminal Services Profile S...more >>

The configuration management application block sounds like a good thing to use. However, I'm also considering using the exception management application block... But does the EMAB work with the CMAB? In other words, the EMAB has code such as... ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig ....but the CMAB...more >>

Hi, Iam trying to call a C# class file from VB..i have shown part of the Vb code where it does that.Here Solver is the name of the class which is written in C# .Here iam trying to create an instance of the class and call a method SolvingLP within the class.But for some reason class file is no...more >>

I have been working with the OAB for a little while now, and I understand most of what it is doing. But when it comes down to the caching the reference data and queueing the calls to the web services, I have a little problem with understanding how my code is to use the OAB. One thing I need to do ...more >>

I'm using NUnit to unit test my VB.NET code. I've had no probs. doing tests for my buiness layer, some GUI bits and infrastructure code etc. but I'm not sure of how best to go about writing tests for code that loads/saves to/from a database. My main issue is this: Given that unit tests are r...more >>

Hi All... I'm using a variant of the BinaryDataSet code from <a href="http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=ef4j%23vq%24CHA.1552%40TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl&rnum=5">this post</a>, as shown below. The serialization and transfer part works fine...When I step through the deserial...more >>

Hi, I am looking for ADO.Net data access utilities for both Oracle and SQL Server. The DAAB looks interesting, but it seems designed for SQL Server only. Does anyone use it for Oracle also? What does it take to do that? Just modify the connection string or more involved? Thanks...more >>

Hi.. I am using the 'User Services' tier in F&M sample application as a basis for my application. I have a problem which I am hoping some one can help me resolve. I have create my own page in the same style and manner as in the F&M example. But the problem is that it does not behave the same. Ins...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to integrate updater into my application. I only need updater check the new version once (when application started). I do not need the updater keep working. The fact is, after "ManifestValidated" event is fired, if there is no new version available, updater will delay ...more >>

Hello all, I am in the process of developing a Windows Forms application that is distributed via zero-touch. Unfortunately I have come across an obstacle! A 3rd party control that I am using seems to dynamically create an assembly. When I run the .EXE locally on the development PC it is fin...more >>

Hi, I have an VB.NET application that uses an OCX for some control. I integrated the application with the .NET Application Updater Component (http://windowsforms.net/articles/appupdater.aspx) to copy automaticly new versions of the application to the clients. The problem is: it copies the O...more >>

I'm using the CMAB. My XML is in SQL... here is what it looks like... <XmlSerializableHashtable xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><environmentSettings xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/...more >>

Hello all! I have a windows for application with 1 form. This form launches 2 threads, that possibly never return since those threads constantaly monitor the status of the form. My problem is, when the application is running and I try to logoff, shutdown, or restart my pc it won't it just si...more >>

I'm finding the term "Controller" quite confusing, since in the MVC design pattern it's supposed to represent only the input part of the process, whereas in the UIP application block a "Controller" seems to be, in fact, the "Model" part of MVC. In particular the Controller that you create in U...more >>