We've experienced two types of problems: 1) downloading assemblies from a web-based application base and 2) downloading an MSI to install components on a client machine. We never made much headway with the first problem, the app would just fail to run on some machines. There was a client ex...more >>

Hi All, I am in the habit of creating a solution then adding my Biz class project and Data project to my solution then adding my web/windows application project. The problem is that many of my applications use the same business/data layers which means that when I update my classes I have...more >>

HI My COM+ application being used by approximately 500 users can cause situations where a single COM+ object instance needs too many ressources or runs infinitely. Now it should be possible to terminate these single instance without affecting the other running instances. One possible solu...more >>

Trying to develop a webservice that gets/updates a ds, I'm having problems with my webconfig.ini in my local IIS. It works find in debug mode. I created a web service and invoked my methods to test them out. All is find in the debugger. However, I copied the webservice directory to a virtua...more >>

How to Get names of opened windows and their process name from remot machine ? -- fara ----------------------------------------------------------------------- farah's Profile: http://www.hightechtalks.com/m37 View this thread: http://www.hightechtalks.com/t229525 ...more >>

how to find remote machine Processes Main Window Title ?? through this code i can find local machine Process Main Window Titl .. thanku Dim i Dim Prc() As Process Prc = Process.GetProcesses("faraz") '''''''''''''pass localhos For i = 0 To UBound(Prc) If (Prc(i).MainWindowTitle.To...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of any resources that might teach me how to create distributed applications. I have a good knowledge of C# but don't know much about remoting or networking. Any recommendations? Thanks for your help. Reuben....more >>

Hi I have developed a standalone application using VBA and Access for distribution, but to my surprise the Microsoft Distributable files are 60Mb when compressed, (whereas my application is only 1Mb), which makes my application too big to distribute via download from my website. From discu...more >>

Hello As usually described Application Server (AS) communicates with GUI client by Business objects. So client should know about some interfaces that is implemented by business objects and some business service classes. When some changes occurs in business object interface all client module ...more >>

Hello I have created a small application with 1 form, and i would like this form to be displayed in the top right hand corner of the screen, but our computers have different resolutions in use so it needs to be able to move its self to the correct position. -- _________________________ ...more >>

Hi All, I am just trying to get an opinion here. I know this is always a tough choice to make. We are in the process of converting our VB6 based Healthcare Information System (a full-fledged package) to .NET. Our clients have been asking for lot of new stuff namely being able to send pat...more >>

Hi folks I am told that for interop purposes it is better to have a procedure that returns XML rather than a DataSet. How do you do this? Is it just a matter of having a public function (with WebMethod) that returns XML? eg Public function(args) as XML etc Then in the body of the...more >>

Hi folks I have this project that has a number of <WebMethod>'s. They have been executing OK (using F5), but when it completes, a window pops up. The window shows the result of the WebMethod call. I was wondering if there is some way of preventing this, or say I create a form for one o...more >>

Hi, I have a client (University) who is concerned about rolling out the .net framework 1.1 across machines on the university campus. If I give their concerns perhaps someone may be able to help (comment on them). (1) Apparently (not known to me) there are side-effects for other application...more >>

Is it possible to have a windows application that is developed in VS 2003 talking to a server that is developed using VS 2005 ? My guess is that it is possible if Web Services are used, but not possible if remoting is used ??? TIA...more >>

Framework 1.1-SP1 I have a DataSet, and when it is serialized something is causing an exception. "System.ArgumentException: The attribute local name cannot be empty" is at the top of the stack trace. I think an extende property on one of the DataTables is causnig a problem but I don't know wh...more >>

Suppose there are executable files A, B and C. when A is started, it attempts to run B and B also runs C. Can I ask Windows to tell me who started C? What if executables A and B are closed, but C is running. In this case, can I know who started C? If possible, please provide a .NET example (V...more >>

Suppose there are executable files A, B and C. when A is started, it attempts to run B and B also runs C. Can I ask Windows to tell me who started C? What if executables A and B are closed, but C is running. In this case, can I know who started C? If possible, please provide a .NET example (V...more >>

Hello everyone, When working in n-tier environments, I've noticed allot of what I thought was bad practices over the years. In my opinion here are some rules that should be met in a good n-tier object-oriented architecture and I wanted to know what everyone else thought? Everyone is welc...more >>

Hello. I am starting to develop an ASP.NET application and have a decision to make regarding data retrieval and storing persistent data for users. This application has an ASPNET portion, a Win32 console portion, and a Framework portion which handles all the business logic (standard n-tier de...more >>

..NET Framework 1.1-SP1. An ASP.NET client (ie the code-behind .cs-based class) retrieves an object from a Remoted Hashtable. The client then casts it to a DataSet like this: DataSet datacasted = ((DataSet)returnedobject).Copy(); Looking at the contents in the VS.NET 2003 debugger Qu...more >>

Hi, My WinFomrs app currently accesses data in local MDB files. Now I want my Winforms app to access data contained in an MDB located on a remote web site. I guess all I have to change is adapt the connectionsting correctly. Could you help me do that, or give me a link to an example? Thank...more >>

Hi, I have a very basic question in regards to a choice in architecture design. To gain a scalable and high performance architecture what sort of architecture is best? I'm currently developing a web farm each running a copy of the .NET application which includes all the assemblies which co...more >>

I have a proxy to a Remoted type. I would like to unload the the AppDomain that hosts the instance, but all I have is the proxy/reference. How can I do that? Thanks. ...more >>

I have a Remoted object setup as a Singleton. The private Hashtable properties are not staying alive in the same instance, although a test private Integer property is. Below are the relevant code snippets. I have stripped out comments and try-finally logic and etc to make this message small...more >>

Hi, I am developing a ASP.NET application which uses a 3rd party API that is an unmanaged C++ DLL. The possible solutions that I have in mind to build the .NET to C++ bridge: 1. Import the unmanaged C++ DLL in the .NET (C#) program and call the functions as static entry points exposed by th...more >>

I have an app that installs great using clickOnce. Most of the app is windows forms based, but there is a component that isa java exe file, and a dll that i need to deploy every time the application is updated. Is that possible with click once? i need these files deployed outside the area that...more >>

Hi I'm busy with a program where i used .Com (.ocx) component button. The program runs fine on a machine where Visual Studio.Net 2003 is installed,but an exception of "InteropServices.ComException" is thrown when i want to execute the program on another computer with the Framework 1.1 insta...more >>

Is it possible to load an URL into WebBrowser object without form (Ex: Windows service) save to the disk as file. I know how to do the above scenario by placing control over the form, loading URL then saving to a disk. But I don't know how can load the (page) given URL into WebBrowser objec...more >>

I have a general question about passing data from ASP.NET pages to modules or classes that are either standalone assemblies, or part of the App_Code directory. Can this be done? What is the best way? For example, I have a logging routine that is in the App_Code folder. I can pass the logge...more >>

Hi, I have an application which uses a queue and a COM+ ServicedComponent. Now I have a windows service running several threads which call the COM+ component method. That component starts a distributed transaction involving the queue and several database accesses. I know that a msmq trigger...more >>

Can anybody let me know how to get a web service to return objects that are from external assemblies? To provide a bit more background I want to be able to create a utility project and return one of the classes from the web method. The problem I am having is that the web reference changes ...more >>

Hi, i need to create an Serviced Component that use the enterprise library to connect a db. I put this assembly in GAC : Microsoft.Practise.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.dll Microsoft.Practise.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll Microsoft.Practise.EnterpriseLibrary.Configuration.dll i have create the s...more >>

I need to generate HTML files based on the some codes. One HTML file per code. I have the link (ex:http://123.234.345.456/WebPages/GetTestData.aspx?SomeCode=25), by passing the code as parameter I will get the page displayed. But I don't want to display it, instead save those files in one ...more >>