I am using the RegistryKey class to get access to the windows registry, I can get a value from the registry by doing: RegistryKey registryKey1 = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("Software\\test"); registryKey1.GetValue("test2") How do I find out what type "test2" is? i.e. string, dword, bin...more >>

Hi to all.. Happy New Year to all.. Need a help. I want an information regarding the site or information regarding "How to Connect to Microsoft Exchange Server through VB.Net" and How to send an E-Mail from VB.Net. Thanks Srinivas.K...more >>

Hi. I just try to encrypt data with TripleDES. The LegalKeySize is defined as MinSize=128, MaxSize=192, SkipSize=64. So i try to use a 128 byte array for key and IV : ----------------------- byte[] pwd = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(new string('a', 128)); byte[] desIV = new Syste...more >>

Hi. I've been developed a dll em VB .net and set it to GAC. Then, I build an executable to make use from that dll. It works fine. Now, I did modifications in that dll, and rebuild her. When I call the executable again, I noted that the executable is not using the new version of my dll. ...more >>

I have a class with a contructor that is declared Protected Friend. In another class in the same assembly I try to create a new instance of the class using Activator.CreateInstance, but I get a missing procedure exception. Is there a reason why this doesn't work? I don't have a problem ...more >>

I came accross this article that tells me that a Local/System service has a hard time modifying any regestry keys in HKCU. Does anyone know if a Local/System service can easily modify regestry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? Thanks! http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/314/1.html: Note: ...more >>

I have the following synchronizing problem below with multithreaded application. I wonder if you know the resolution. I have 3 classes: 1) Product class 2) Buffer class (the name can be changed later) 3) Upload class Product class is responsible in retrieving product information from ...more >>

Hi, I'm having a very very frustrating experience with the .NET. I've a simple crawler console application. The main objective of the crawler is to read a list of URLs and make HTTP calls to a web server and save the html files locally. I had setup perfmon to monitor the memory usage of th...more >>

I have a .NET Installer class that gets executed during my installation. However, that installer class is reliant on an associated .config file. So I have "MyClass.dll" that is a .NET Installer class. I also have a file "MyClass.dll.config" that is deployed into the same destination directory. ...more >>

I am writing a web based application using vb.net in my host computer. Every time i improve the application, i will port this to my staging server. The strange thing is that sometimes when i tried to access this application in the staging server, it gave me this error and i cannot retrieve...more >>

I want to incorporate an unattended installation of the newest .NET Framework 1.1 package on my Windows XP Pro, with SP1a clients. I can't find instuctions and my attempts to use the Windows Installer with the network installation package that I downloaded have failed....more >>

Hi, In development, code below works. But at production, I'll get a assembly key mismatch. I'm am very sure, all assemblies are compiled and copied. The batch exec, is a .NET application as well. Is something wrong with code below? Thanks for your time! AppDomain currentDomain = Ap...more >>

Hi:Everybody! I've encountered setting up failure in installing of net framework,it happened in the last registration stage of setting up,so it was rolling back and could not be installed to Windows Xp system. Hope to find a solution to it Thanks a lot...more >>

I am having a disagreement with my hosting company they are saying I am running on a Windows 2003 box. But when I do a trace the values that are returned are. SERVER_SOFTWARE Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Server software is set to Microsoft-IIS/5.0 can somebody actually verify on their own ser...more >>

I've been a developer for 10 years, and these last 5 years I've been doing VB6 and ASP, however I think it's time for me to expand my expertise by getting into dot.net. I will be taking a C# course in January, and I'm trying to decide what setup to install. I know I will use VS.net Ent...more >>

I have a project where I want to programmatically analyze an assembly by looking at every method of every class and recursively do the same for every method called within. Am I going to have to manually decompile assemblies from raw bytes to do this, or is there a set of classes in the framework...more >>

I call this code multiple times. After some period of time (I don't know how long, sometimes after a short period and then it will recover), (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse() starts to timeout. At some point it will continue to timeout and never recover until I stop the app and start it ...more >>

I am trying to strong name an ASP.NET Application. I have been successfull if I supply the private key file, but now I am trying to use delayed signing to create the assembly but with no success. I get the following error ... The check of the signature failed for assembly 'Microsoft.Applicatio...more >>

In the process of monitoring my inbox with .NET code, I would like to check the body of the email message to determine if there is a code (GUID) stored in the body of the mail message formatted like the code below. The position of the code may or may not be the last thing in the body of th...more >>

hi All, I have been fighting this error when i build the dll which is marked for com registration, it simply is refusing to regsiter the type library !, although the same code works on other machine and registers the type library i have taken following steps in trying to diagnose the s...more >>

When redirectiong assembly versions, is it possible to use *'s? <bindingRedirect oldVersion="9.0.0.452" newVersion="9.*.*.*"/> At one time I believe I read this was possible but I can't find any documents on it now. Thanks, Steve...more >>

How can you send and recive data to a usb port, or is it beter to do it with the serial port? Ej: I have a device witch has both interfaces, witch should I use? Thx Pedro...more >>

I have developed an application using Visual Basic .NET. It runs fine on Windows XP platforms once the >NET 1.1 Framework is installed. BUT it will not start on Windows ME or Windows 2000 Professional. I am using the JetEngine to work with an Access database. Any help is appreciated...more >>

Hi All, I have a created a solution in VS.NET, which has several projects. The output of 2 Class Library projects, is deployed in the GAC. The reference of these assemblies is added in the other projects using the File References, so the CopyLocal property of these references are fals...more >>

Hi, I have been using several http server code examples from the web, include one from msdn, and I can't seem to get a simple http server thread working. I can connect the server successful using IE6 and following url: http://127.0.0.1:5050 But when I attempt a second connect the windows symb...more >>

Hi, I have been writing a small Hello World app to try installing it into the GAC. However whenever I try to uninstall it I get an error message: Assembly 'NihcoMobile' could not be uninstalled because it is required by other applications. Not matter how I try to uninstall it (explorer, ...more >>

1.communication between the client and server has to go thru client and server channel sinks before its turned to object method invokations those channel sinks carry messages thru and other header informations now how can u secure those header information like the requestheaders from being modif...more >>

I am totally new in the telephony programming area. can someone point out where to start to do telephony programming with .NET? thanks jeff...more >>

Hi, Introduction *************** I have a system build of a collection of 'Native COM objects' and '.NET = COM interop' objects, all of the COM objects are managed through a = 'Native COM' layer, this layer manage the underlying COM Objects and = upon request, provide a pointer to those obje...more >>

Here is the problem: I have an IIS installed on my computer and a web site. When you click on the button on that website, it should save excel file. If I do it, it works fine ( but I'm an administrator on my own machine). If someone else try that same thing (calling the web site through URL), t...more >>

Hi, Can anyone help me- I need to find out at runtime the assemblies which are referenced from an assembly. I have tried the Assmebly.GetReferencedAssemblies() function, however it seems to only return assemblies which have been loaded- I need to also get the assemblies which have not yet b...more >>

Does anybody know weather there is a way to iterate over a=20 ResourceSet when using .NET Framework 1.0? I've seen in=20 the 1.1 documentation that ResourceSet class implements=20 GetEnumerator method, but I can't find nothing similar in=20 the old version. I've also try to inherit the Resour...more >>

How can I change the value of "timeout" in Web.config <sessionState timeout="20" /> in one deployed app (project A) from a method call in a WebForm (C#) that's running in another deployed app (project B) on the same server....more >>

Hi All! I would like to filter files, in a file dialog, with digits in extension only, i.e., files with extensions from *.000 to *.999. Since I could not find a joker for a digit, I made a filter in a brute-force way: fileDialog.Filter = "Test files (*.000 - *.999)|"; int i; for(i = 0...more >>

Hi all I have one doubt abt class library(.dll) I want my .dll to read from the config files and client should able to edit the config files. How should I do this, since this would be dome different .config file than the one that is generated in project (web.config, app.config) Please...more >>

In C++ Builder one could set up a collection of items, by deriving a collection from TCollection and a collection item from TCollectionItem and tieing the two together in the derived code, which a user could edit at design time. This collection had immediate support in C++ Builder's RAD designer...more >>

I have a lot of files I use to store application settings that are NOT part of the registery (and should NOT be). Can't seem to find a .NET Framework equivalent of GetPrivateProfileString -- I need to be able to specify my own file location (C:\MyApp\MyApp.INI) and read values from this file. ...more >>

Dear all, I am facing a problem in asp.net .As you might be knowing that any asp.net application has web.config file where you can change the timeout period. What I want is to redirect a user to the login page once his/her session is expired by using Session_onEnd method in the Global.asax...more >>

I'm using Visual C++.NET 2002 Standard to compile a freeware audio/music synth. I'm using the gaming library OpenAL for my audio. I just started to do testing on the program for its first release and the target machine can't run the program because it doesn't have the .NET framewor...more >>

Hi! I have a very simple problem. I'm calling a method w/c returns a Stream. How do I save the stream to file? Currently what I do is (in pseudo-code): returnedStream.Read(arrayOfBytes) FileStream outFile = File.Create(...) outFile.Write(arrayOfBytes) //-Flush, close, cleanup, etc... ...more >>

Hi, In Win32 framework, we used to work with .dll files as libraries of functions, not objects. We couldn't use objects because using a "IS" operation (on Delphi for instance) to check the type of the class, should not work.. I mean: 1. I have an object (TForm) on my application (.exe) 2. ...more >>

I have some code that is calling GetTickCount in the Win32 API. Currently I have it calling out direct but I'd like to port this little last piece to a full .net API. Ive searched MSDN and cannot find any .net replacement for it. What should I use to replace this? -- Chad Z. Hower (a.k....more >>

I seeking for information about using attributes with class/procedure declarations I want to get result same as microsoft releases for their components. For example the method XMLDocument.createAttribute in object browser of the visual studio describes information of him description argume...more >>

Is there anyway to speed up the startup of VB .net apps. They seem slower than vb6 both in startup and window loads and unloads including dialog boxes. Ron ...more >>

Hi, This has probably been asked before but ... I've written a Windows Service in C#. Everything works fine, exept for the fact that I do not want the service to start succesfull if it has problems reading it's own configuration file. I've tried raising an execption, which does infact cause...more >>

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I'm using async delegate calls. I would like to re-enter my initial thread after the callback. (I'm not using UI controls, so Control.Invoke is not the solution.) How can I manually implement behavior like Control.Invoke? How can I re-enter my initial thread? Any suggestions? Thanks! Mountain ...more >>

All important .Net Newsgroups are being backed up online at www.dotnetboards.com. You'll be able to find all your posts and answers to them, even if they are long time gone from newsgroup servers, which is pretty good idea I think. Anyways, I just though it's good to have it in our favourites. ...more >>

If you enable the 'define custom colors' button on the ColorDialog control the displayed form displays the basic colors on the left-hand side and the 'color builder' on the right-hand side. What I would like to be able to do is just display the 'color builder' bit, and not the show the ba...more >>

Hi, Been trying to find some information about the next itteration of the ..NET Framework. I can find information about the next VB.NET release, which includes edit-and-continue, but I don't see any mention of what or when the next release of the .NET framework will be. Anyone have any i...more >>