Hello, Sorry for the repost in this group, but we are desdesperate. We are trying to use .NET multithreading capabilities in our VB6 COM+ application. Right now our scenario is this one: We have a VB.Net exe which calls VB.Net (name: Multithread) assembly with multithreading capabilities...more >>

In my webapp I create a PDF file using Crystal Decisions. When I call the Export function, the system got busy and never ends. After the call, none of the webapp on the server are available anymore. I have to restart IIS before I can use them again. In the application log I've found an entry "applic...more >>

Hallo, When I reference to an assembly and use a constant from that assembly it will be card coded during compilation. Dim a as integer = test123.class1.myconst 'myconst is 3 becomes to dim a as integer = 3 For me as the developer of the library causes this behaviour some problemes: Wheneve...more >>

I would like to extend the functionality of a program to reading mail from a POP account. Is this possible via .NET? If not, can I us CDONTS to gain this junctionality? - Rashad ...more >>

Hello, I'm just wondering if there are any .Net objects that I can use in the framework that set folders/files permission, assign quotas to users. Any suggestions/comments are welcome. Thanks in advance. Samuel ...more >>

As the title, How to change a ToolBarButton on a ToolBar to a custom control? For example. change a ToolBarButton to a ComboBox? ...more >>

Is there a combine method that works on URL's? I basically want to do this: Base = "http://localhost/test/" File = "../myimage.gif" string URL = (Object).Combine(Base,File); //URL = "http://localhost/test/myimage.gif" WebRequest objRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(URL); ...more >>

Does anyone know if you can use the Configuration Management Application Block (CMAB) for app.config files? Or do those particular .config files need to be XML and in a specific format? Going to use the CMAB for my application preferences file (where I save the user preferences such as last sc...more >>

I have seen various snippets of information about deploying Windows Forms applications using Internet Explorer. This is an interesting concept, but there does not seem to be a lot of information that I can locate on the topic. I have also heard that there are ways that Windows Forms objects c...more >>

I am making an windows application using c#. It contains two froms , Form1 and Form2. Form2 contains a button and its click event. I want to fire an event of click event of Form2 button from Form1. I am not getting the way for fire an event from Form1 to Form2 for button on Form2, Can anybody help ...more >>

String and all the integer value types smaller or equal to 32bit, as well as Char and Enum types are marked as thread safe on MSDN. Does that mean I do not need to protect them? Etienne Boucher ...more >>

When I try to connect to a specific HTTPS website, I'm receiving the following error WebException message: "The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS." System Information: 1. Windows XP Professional SP1 2. Visual Studio 2003 3. NET Framework 1.1.4322...more >>

Hi, I try to write event log from my Windows service, which is c#. In OnStart method I write a message to event log. I create event log object by using Event Log Component. I set source and log property to "RMS" and "RMS", respectively. I also put the following lines to the class constructor b...more >>

Hi all, I load some data into a treeview control, then set the ContextMenu property of a treeview control. So all of operations about shortcut menu are right. But i want not to show it after all data is unloaded. I set the ContextMenu to null, but it's useless and the shortcut menu still shows...more >>

I have written a VB.NET 2003 program that accesses a Access DB. On my development PC it works fine. I created a setup program so that I can install this on other computers. Of source, I have to install the ..NET framework first. But when I run the program on the other PC it does not find the...more >>

Dear everyone: I know I can call a dll by c# like this: using System.Runtime.InteropServices; [DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern int MessageBox(int hWnd, String text, String caption, uint type); but now I want to call...more >>

IS there a way to tell GC in .Net to not suspend a particular thread while garbage collecting (obviously this would also require telling the GC to not touch objects which this thread has reference to). This will help in making some of my threads do things on time (I require some threads to do th...more >>

We're just getting started on our new .NET project. When I started, I was just throwing everything into one DLL (assembly) and there were few problems. I then decided that multiple assemblies would be a good idea for several (rather typical, I believe) reasons including versioning, security, dep...more >>

Hello all, given the following piece of code: DateTimeFormatInfo dfi = (new CultureInfo("Ro-ro")).DateTimeFormat; DateTime now = DateTime.Now; string strDate = now.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy", dfi); the strDate contains the string '21-iul.-2004' What's with the dot after the month's name ? ...more >>

Hi, i'm sending mail from the aspx page on the server. it is running on hosting, so i configure the System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer property to my mail server. but problem is that sender email is also configurable and since the sender email is not from the SMTP server same host, it is no...more >>

I have the following persudo code: //My Form Class class Form1 { //Local Variable for my custom object private MyCustomObject1 //Constructor for Form Class public Constructor{ MyCustomObject1 = new MyCustomObject1(); MyCustomObject1.MyProp = "Test"; textbox.dat...more >>

Hi, I need a way for my thread to wake up at a specified time in .Net. I know that windows is not a real time operating system, so I have to live with much less precise timing. But what I am finding is that .Net thread.sleep is inaccurate by 600 milliseconds some times. Most of the time, it is...more >>

Hello experts! Is it possible to a culture specific resource file embedded into an existing dll? For instance: I have a dll-file called MyApp.dll which automatically holds the fallback language strings in a resource file called Strings.resx. Whenever I add resource file called Str...more >>

Hi, Using .Net sockets, with the following piece of code, there is always a problem. The loop never reads any data from the socket. But if the busy wait is removed with sleeps, it does read the data. It seems as if some other framework thread reading the data from TCP stack in windows and upda...more >>

Compatibility Considerations and Version Changes : http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/default.aspx Obsolete APIs in version 2.0 (beta 1) : http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/Beta1ObsData.zip FAQ: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/v2.0/obsoletefaq.a...more >>

Hi I have Visual Studio 2003 but I want to do a VB .NET project with Framework 1.0.3705. Is this possible? I created a Hallo world application and changed the Reference Path to C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705. All references changed to v 1.0 from v 1.1. When I tried to compile i got thi...more >>

An odd problem, but here goes: We implemented an ASMX web service as a gateway to the University's OpenLDAP directory to provide basic gorup membership / attribute lookups based on UID using the System.DirectoryServices namespace. Problem is that on a W2k3 box (member of AD), DirectorySearcher.F...more >>

Hi, I'm making HTTP request to a dynamic resource no web server. if i get in the response headers the Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=... and Content-Type: application/msword; name=... i need to get binary data from web server. what is the best way to do this? i got exception...more >>

hi i have a problem related to the .netframework i am using the MSKLC ( microsoft keyboard layout creater ) to create a custom keyboard layout for windows xp . MSKLC requires .NetFramework to be installed i installed it but when i run it gives me the error C:\windows\microsoft.net\framework...more >>

Hi, In C# .NET, is non-static class data member a TLS(thread local storage)? Thanks....more >>

We are a large organization with a number of offices all over the state. All our employees need to access data/update data and generate reports from all offices. Initially our application will be developed on intranet and then it will be uploaded on third party web server/database server ...more >>

Hi, This is following from one of the previous threads. Since it deserves a new thread, so here it is: JPG images are compressed, but when an image is loaded in an app it needs to allocate the memory required for the pixel data. For example, I took a screenshot of my desktop (a 24-bit imag...more >>

is there a debugger API for .NET. I need to be able to read a .net assembly for analysis and when I need to report something about it I need to point to the line of code when the .pdb file is present. Is there a way to interace with .pdb files? ...more >>

Hi, I have written a couple of routines which encrypt and decrypt data using DESCryptoServiceProvider. Currently, the user has to pass in the string to encrypt, the key and the IV to the routine. Is there a good way of creating the IV randomly so that the user does not need to create on...more >>

ERROR after uninstalling SQL Server 2005 Express I get this message, SQLDMO has not been registered. Please re-run your setupand contact your system administrator. GREAT!!! ReInstalled SQL SERVER 2000 after playing around with SQL Server 2005... Snap In Failed to Initialize, Name: Sql...more >>

I've developed a class in C# that implements the IList-interface because a Hashtable wasn't suitable for my task. However, I'm not sure that I developed my IList.Contains-method properly though. The definition of IList.Contains is 'bool Contains(object value);' and the documentation states that t...more >>

Hello, We have a vb.net dll which secuentially calls a method which inserts a record in our database. Our user fills up a grid with 15 records, we create an in memory xml which is passed to business tier. The business tier iterates through this xml calling a method in another dll which verif...more >>

How would I find properties in a dot net assembly which return a particular type? e.g., suppose a type I'm interested in is "FooType"; how would I find properties returning "FooType"? Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ------------------------------------------------...more >>

must i call connection.dispose() or the close() method is enough, on my sql server i see many connections created. TIA, z. ...more >>

Hi, There seems to be a memory leak problem in loading an image in .NET I am trying to load up an image, which is 1MB in size on the disk. When I load up the image it expands out to atleast 25MB in memory. THIS cannot be right!! The line of code I am using is: "formImage = new Bitmap("Fo...more >>

I am trying to serialize and deserialize a Class which has a Hashtable in it and I'm getting the error: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in system.xml.dll - Additional information: There was an error reflecting type 'HashSerializeTest.INIData'." at ru...more >>

I don't want to generate Visio UML class diagram. Is it possible to print the class view out? Or is it possible to generate a UML class diagram into Jpeg or other Bitmap formats (I can afford a class diagram without any association) ...more >>

Is there a way to find out if a class has an indexer via reflection? Assuming I have a System.Type object "asmType", how do I find out if the class has an indexer? I'd prefer to do this without iterating through all the class members, but even in that case I can't find out how to determine th...more >>

I’m not sure where to post the question that’s why I post it here. It has to do with DirectX, WMP, .NET framework and streaming audio. I’m trying to develop a media player using VB.NET 2003. My first thought was to use DirectX. I understand that a there is no support for DirectShow within t...more >>

I just upgraded to the beta 1 of 2005 from the May preview. It appears to be missing some of the features I enjoyed the most. For example, the performance profiler, unit test integration, FxCop integration, etc. are all missing from this build. Is this just for this build? Are you (MS) creatin...more >>

hi, i wrote a simple Update Application which downloads files from ftp server to client side, and it will delete the old files after download the new ones. but i found the User Group on client machine doesn't have the permission to modify files my application throw exception and cannot upd...more >>

UserControl has overrided the Text property. I can't view it in the designer. I subclass it and set the Browsable attribute to true. I can see the Text property now. Although the text becomes bold everytime I modified it, no code is added to InitializeComponent. What is the problem? Why no code ...more >>

I'm trying to set up a web service that provides generic services to our other web services (resident on the same physical machine). I've discovered that sqlCommands aren't serialisable, and that I need to pass an object reference. Can anyone please give me either assistance in using object re...more >>

(Type your message here) -------------------------------- From: James McCallum Hi, I have developed a multithreaded COM+ server and this works fine when I run it on the machine on which it was built. When I move the server to another machine, the thread will start with some builds bu...more >>

In my project I want to execute some commands on the remote machine. I am using .Net Remoting to achieve this. My server which is an exe is copied on the remote machine and it receives command from client which is executed by the exe. I am facing problem while executing the exe on the remote mach...more >>

If the String.IndexOfAny method's "anyOf" character array parameter was marked as "params", we could call it as S.IndexOfAny('a', 'b', 'c') instead of S.IndexOfAny(new char[] {'a', 'b', 'c'}) Why do we have to use the clumsy form? -- programmer, author http://www.midnightbea...more >>

Hello all, I was wondering if Microsoft has provided an alternate API or tool for MTS. Or its the same usage in .NET. Saj. ...more >>

Will Socket.BeginRead's IAsyncResult CompleteSychronously property always return false? I need to know this so I will not tie up the calling thread with processing performed in the AsycCallback function. Thanks, - Chris Tanger ...more >>

Hi there. Just trying to get the hang of SQL server CE... I' ve had some luck with creating and accessing local databases, trying to move up to remote data access. I can' t figure out how to deal with this error though. " 80004005 NativeError: 28017 An incorrect or unsupported HTTP Function call...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm still abit confused about static methods accessing locally declared variables. For example public static bool executeNonQuery(){ SqlCommand cmd; SqlConnection con; ..... } Is the above threadsafe? Can the cmd or con object be accessed by more than one thr...more >>

The MSDN documentation for this states: The wait thread uses the Win32 WaitForMultipleObjects function to monitor registered wait operations. Therefore, if you must use the same native operating system handle in multiple calls to RegisterWaitForSingleObject, you must duplicate the handle using ...more >>

I have little hope of resolving this as I have had to contact outside help. But I thought I would post it here to see if anyone could add an idea or solution. 1. I have a form in a Class Control library along with 6 other namespaces. My root functions are in this form and all the other ...more >>

Hey all, I'm trying to serialize a class that has a strong password field in it, so it can contain characters like * or { or <. It serializes fine, but the deserializarion goed wrong, because it doesn't encode does characters. I know that I can replace all strings with base64 equivalants, but...more >>

DEAR MICROSOFT: STOP TOUCHING MY CODE!!!!!! Stop ADDING these attributes to my tags meta:resourcekey="LiteralResource3" Your Web Developer 2005 express added that crappy and unneeded attribute to all my tags on my aspx page...you even added that attribute to the @page directive. ...more >>

DEAR MICROSOFT: STOP TOUCHING MY CODE!!!!!! Stop ADDING these attributes to my tags meta:resourcekey="LiteralResource3" Your Web Developer 2005 express added that crappy and unneeded attribute to all my tags on my aspx page...you even added that attribute to the @page directive. ...more >>

dear all, I would like to start a process for IE browser from my Pocket PC App, this can be done by CreateProccess. Now how can I assign a value to a text box on that website? for instance, open Yahoo mail, then assign my account name into textbox Yahoo ID ? how about SendMessage API? Reg...more >>

Does anyone know where the change / bug fix list for .NET 1.1 SP1 is? it'd be nice to know what fixes will be in when it's release later this year, thanks! ...more >>

I need to create a thumbnail/printscreen (picture - gif or jpeg) of the existing website on the internet. I am able to "grab" the content of other website, but how do I create a picture from it (all I have is HTML)? I provide URL and it returns picture (printscreen) of the website. I even don'...more >>

Guys, I was wondering whether there was any way to differentiate the memory space of two different aspnet_wp processes. Unfortunately, they seem to show up as a single aspnet_wp process in both perfmon and the task manager. Thanks, Abhijit....more >>

Can anyone help? I am opening an aspx page (webform) as a dialog window through javascript in response to a button click on a parent datagrid buttoncolumn using the window.showmodal() javascript call. The dialog webform is not hosted within an html frames page. The webform works great and when...more >>

Hola! Estoy desarrollando una biblioteca (dll), con VB.NET de VS2003 para extender una aplicación de un tercero que tiene expuesta su API con COM, por lo que estoy utilizando interperabilidad COM. Hace dos días instale el beta de VB 2005 Express, pero no podia hacer depuración del código cuando ...more >>

Hi, I just downloaded dthe new Net framework 2, beta 1 and I wonder if and hhow this can be integrated into Visual Studio 2003. I know that no new features will be supported intrinsically, but I would like to play around with the new classes a bit and compile my code against the new frame...more >>

Hi.. My problem is.. I am loading a datagrid by a dataset.My dataset changes lot of times in a day.And i want to display all those chages on my datagrid,the moment the change occurs. What I am doing is this.... I have added a timer to my form,and the interval of the timer is 10 sec.So after ever...more >>

Hi all, In my project I have made a number of helper methods static. As I understand it, this will create the problem that multiple threads could access the static method at the same time and interfere with one another. My question is, for each static method, do I need to lock access to only...more >>

I am working with 4 windows forms in my project and i cant see the design section for the 2 of them. Design section disappears when i choose that forms. ...more >>

If running a .Net application under IIS with 50 simultaneous requests and each request is trying to use an ASYNC socket what happens to the thread pool for that application? It appears that there is a maximum of 50 worker threads in the pool, if all those 50 threads are processing requests how ...more >>

i'm making an HTTP request using the HTTPWebRequest object. if the response status is 500 - internal server error, i ditn't find a way to get to the response data - HTML, since the request.GetResponse throws an exception, but the server DID returned HTML as well as ststus code. is there a way ...more >>

I made a typo in the code I sent. This exPattern = @"(\D+[\.]* +\D* *\d+ *,0x *\d+)"; should be exPattern = @"(\D+[\.]* +\D* *\d+ *, *\d+)"; Even with the correction, I am experiencing the same behavior. I made the change that you suggested: Match mt = rx.Match(inText); and saw it...more >>