I need to take a short piece of html/xml as a string IE: <tagName attribute1='value' attribute2=value/> Note that one attribute value is quoted and one is not. The input string could have any number of attributes with any combination of quoted and unquoted values. The ouput string n...more >>

VB.Net Using a BinaryReader to read the data coming from a WebResponse stream into a byte array. How is the stream byte length determined? If cannot get the length, what is the best way to move bytes from the stream to the array? Thanks....more >>

Hi All I am developing one Portfolio Management application where there is single database shared by all the traders. I have developed web-based application for this. I want to make this multiuser application. Following is the architecture of the application ... Front End is develope...more >>

I want to be able to use crystal reports in a ASP.NET web application. I have added crystal reports to my .net solution in solution explorer. However when I run my .net web application, the crystal reports does not display in the web page. Thus can you show me an example of how to have ...more >>

I am using the SortedList class to sort an array of items. I want to bind the SortedList to a DataGrid, but I want the list to go in descending order. Is there anyway to change the sort order in SortedList when databinding so that I can reverse the sort order? -- -----------------------...more >>

I am using the EventLog class to display log entries to my users. Is there any way that I can take the same log information that EventLog contains and package it into an EVT file similar to what the Windows Event Viewer uses for displaying events? -- ----------------------------------- ...more >>

Hi, Question from a newbie to C#. How effective is C# with respect to serialization techniques and object persistence ? also, I'm trying to create an application in C# in .Net framework. are there are pros and cons that one needs to be aware of when compared to C++ ? your feedback is appr...more >>

Hi, When i try to open a existing ASP.NET.It's giving error like this. JIT Debugging failed with the following error:Access is denied. JIT Debugging was initiated by the user account 'sasi\ASPNET'. Check the Documentation index for 'Just-in-time debugging,errors' for more information. Su...more >>

Hi; Is there a way to cast a byte[] to a sbyte[]? I know I can copy it but if I have a 32K array, that copy takes time & memory and yet the actual values are identical in both arrays. So is there some way to cast a variable in this case? -- thanks - dave...more >>

Hello all. First of all, I am not sure this is the place to post my question, but I didn't find a more apropriate one. The problem: I try to fill some fields of an object with values from a database. Because some database fields are nullable, I use nullable types in my object. So, to set th...more >>

Hi, I’m distributing an application that I Developed in VB .Net for medical purposes and it has a crystal report. When I execute the crystal report in the developer machine it works well, but when I execute the crystal report in my client machine the following error appear: “An unhandled...more >>

Hi! I have the following scenario: I want to connect to a windows 2000 "File" -server from a ASP.Net -web application, running under network service account and create a directory on the file server. Both the web server and the file-server is in the same Active Directory. Clearly, the Netwo...more >>

hi, when i close my app with "end" i get an system.invalidoperationexception how can i get more information, why this exception is thrown? kind regards...more >>

Hi, I was wondering what happens if an .net exe compiled with 1.1 uses one dll compiled with 2.0 and one dll compiled with 1.1. Supposing that the target machine has both 1.1 and 2.0. Does the 2.0 dll correctly use the .net 2.0 system's dll? and the 1.1 correclty use 1.1 dlls? I'm know how...more >>

From a .net windows service, I was tryng to access the app.config file using System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings, but it didn't return the settings. Can you access the app.config file from a .net windows service? If you can, where does the file need to be? If you can't, ...more >>

Many of .NET class members and properties in MSDN have no examples. I just see prototype decleration. I find this pretty lacking in MSDN. Are there good resources out there which explain more on how to use some of the .NET functions? I am looking for a reference + a quick example. -- Joh...more >>

We have recently upgraded from VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 to VS.NET 2005 Release Candidate on all our development machines. It appears it the Framework is upgraded from v2.0.50215 to v2.0.50727. This appears to be a major change. For any of our 2.0 projects that use collections, I am getting missing fie...more >>

Hi, I have been using FUSLOGVW.exe to inspect bindings - both successful and not. Yet all the time I see the following: LOG: Found assembly by looking in the cache Now, if I wanted to start fresh, how can I empty the cache? At least empty the cache for my assemblies or certain assemblie...more >>

DateTime.Compare is always returning -1. What am I doing wrong? Dim today As DateTime = DateTime.Now Dim temp As Integer Dim endPeopleRegDate As DateTime endPeopleRegDate = Convert.ToDateTime("10/5/2005 23:59:59") temp = DateTime.Compare(today, EndPeopleRegDate) today = Date.Now.AddMonths(1)...more >>

Hi, is there some SDK to working with scanner - telling to scan a doc and getting the currently scaned file? TIA. BTW, not must be dot-net, also VB6 or VC++ sample can help ...more >>

Hi Is there an easy way to figure out, from code behind, what javascript files gets loaded on an .aspx page?? Of source I cound tap into the render and parse the html, but I was wondering if that information already exists somewhere.... TIA Søren ...more >>

Hi All, I'm just wondering if someone can show me how to write a stream to a file. Specifically I have a file (bitmap) as an embedded resource in my app i.e. "MyApp.Resources.BitmapTemplate.bmp" and was wondering how I can write it to, say "C:\temp.bmp" from the following Stream stream =...more >>

is it possibile to know how many cpu (physicaly or hyperthreading) a machine has using dotnet framework ? thanks ...more >>

Hi there! I would like to know something. I've this feature, where I implement some code to communicate to a device via FTP. I've implemented this using MSWinsck. However I noticed that the communication with this device is very slow, mainly during the connect. But when I'm using a Wi...more >>

Our application server uses Remoting and CallContext class to assign context data for communication with client. We want to use network load ballancing (NLB) to scale out our architecture. CallContext is assigned after valid execution of login method (own method of authorization) - so, it is ses...more >>

Hi, Is it generally acceptable that the SCM says that the service has stopped but the service has spawn a thread which is still doing the cleanup thing which keeps the process running. ...more >>

hi i wrote a class which is deverted from the CollectionBase. now i tried to overwrite the Clear() method with the keyword "override". the compiler says then that this is not possible because the base method is not marked as virtual. however when i have a look at Clear method of the Collect...more >>

Not sure if I have the correct group, but here goes. I am trying to write a Windows service in c# and am having trouble catching exceptions. I purposley tried to write to a bad file name hoping that the exception would be caught and I could log to the event log or external log file. For some r...more >>

I have a string that contains the \", \t, \r, \n. I need to get the xml. sample below: "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\r\n<USERS xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns=\"http://www.slcorp.com\\xml\\slcorp_dtd_schema.xml\">\r\n...more >>

Hi, In order to run Excel 2003 - Office System Project with C#. All assemblies (.DLL) use by the project must be set to full trust. To do it manually, you right click on .NET Configuration 1.1-->Runtime Security Policy and select "Trust an Assembly". How can I automate this process? Th...more >>

When trying to install the .NET Framework Beta 2 on my coworker's system (Windows 2000), there is a "roll-back" error. The installation rolls back and will not install. I am not a programmer. Can anyone please help? -Teri in San Diego...more >>

You get warnings when compiling a project that is using the AssemblyKeyFile attribute. It recommends changing this to use the compiler option. I read about this and the reasons sound good, HOWEVER signing using project settings require that the snk file exists in the project directory. In fac...more >>

When I autogenerate class files from XSD schemas using XSD.EXE the generated class doesn't generate instances of nested classes. Is there any way to autocreate instances of nested classes also? I don't want to modify autogenerated code because all changes would be lost when the class would be ...more >>

I just stumbled on NSIS today, which look like a cool installer tool (I particularly like the facts that, unlike MSI: 1. you have small install bundle, 2. you could ship multiple language in 1 installer) Does any of you uses it? What about the .NET boostrapper? I mean when you create and i...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to install the above but it fails. When I look at the event viewer, I find the following entries: Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 -- Internal Error 2908. {7D4B5591-4C80-42BB-B0E5-F2C0CEE02C1A} Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 -- Internal Error 2908. {9922FCCE-...more >>

Hello all... I have a component which i wrote, which is used for automatically emailing errors, so that when an app (usually a website) goes into production, i automatically get emailed about any exceptions which occur on the site. A friend wanted to use the same thing but have the ability ...more >>

I'm trying to isolate "applications" into their own application domain within a single process. I've quoted applications because it's a logical representation of an application. Basically it consists of a bunch of components supplied by some application group. I got this to work, somewhat. ...more >>

Hello there, When ever visual studio loads up web projects it creats WebForm1.aspx, web.config files right, I want to include my own custom files (login.aspx, Logout.aspx) along with Webform1.aspx. How can I do this. ...more >>

Hi there, I am making a class libaray which is to use interop to work with a unmanaged COM object. What happens is that I also need to use .manifest file to control the version of COM object to load becuase there are multiple versions of COM objects. example: myapp.exe.manifest <?xml v...more >>

Hi, I'm having a little strange problem. When opening a FolderBrowserDialog with the following instruction: FolderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() the following exception is thrown: An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll Addition...more >>

Hello, I have an application that runs as a Windows Service. When the application runs for the very first time, it creates a new MSMQ Queue. Because the Queue was created under the SYSTEM account, now I cannot modify, delete, or even view the contents of the queue from the MSMQ Admin. What are ...more >>

I'm unsure of the best group to post this in, so feel free to direct me to the most appropriate group... I'm trying to use Sockets to send data from one computer to another. I have running a fairly simple sockets interface using a blocking socket (I experimented early on with sync and asy...more >>

I try to get a function pointer from a delegate with Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate() Doesn't works with Action<AManagedC++ type> is there any reason why :-( ?! -- Regards, Lloyd Dupont NovaMind development team NovaMind Software Mind Mapping Software <www.nova-mind.com> ...more >>

Hi, I have aspnet_wp.exe with increasing on every postback and not every revisit to any page. Even if I clear session and close the browser it remains in the memory. What could be the issue?? Regards, Vineet ...more >>

Can any one tell me what is the diference between a component and a class library in .NET ? We can add a component to a class library , but then the contents of the component could as well have been packaged in the class library itself ? Regards, Chak. ...more >>

I have a string that has several occurrences of \" and I would like to replace them with " msg = msg.Replace("\"", """); //this does not work Any suggestions?...more >>

I have been running into all kinds of problems with VS2003 and handling Windows services. One of the main problems is trying to uninstall services. It doesn't work half the time. Mainly it seems that is the case if you you try to change the service name (which it wants to force as Service1)....more >>

Shouldn't BinaryReader and BinaryWriter (or any stream that takes another stream) have an overload to LeaveInnerStream open. bool leaveInnerStreamOpen = true; using(BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(innerStream, leaveInnerStreamOpen)) { // Use the br stream, but don't close innerStream...more >>

It occurs to me that in the same way you can use LINQ and DLinQ to get strong typing and operations over a objects and tables, you could use the same method to operate over files and directories. So within VS or at the Command Line I could start type: \temp\dir\file.txt And get intellisense...more >>

How do I determine if SP 1 has been installed on a remote server? I can use the following Me.FrameworkVersionInfo.Text = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().ImageRuntimeVersion() but it doesn't return any service pack info. Thanks in advance Greg ...more >>

(This was first posted in the VB newsgroup, but I got the impression that is really for VB6 so I'm posting it here, too.) We have an application that is used to edit properties of a .NET form. It looks sort of like the .NET IDE, but is just for basically alterinf visyal attributes on the f...more >>

I have the following code Database db=DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase(); DBCommandWrapper dbCmd=db.GetStoredProcCommandWrapper("test1"); dbCmd.AddInParameter("modUsr", DbType.String, "QUINNJ"); dbCmd.AddOutParameter("CUR", DbType.Object, 2000); DataSet result= db.ExecuteDat...more >>

Hi all. I know I can catch individual events in a sub by handling the check state for a particular checkbox, but what if I was to catch for all check boxes? I need to check for whcih checkbox was clicked so I can pass that info into a variable for a select/case statement. Any ideas? ....I w...more >>

Is there a specific reason you are trying to code FTP yourself? In general this is not a good idea. _________________________ Chad Z. Hower Regional .NET Developer Advisor (DPE DE) Microsoft Middle East & Africa +90 212 326 5185 +90 533 685 6256 (Mobile) Legal Disclaimer Any newsgroup ...more >>

I am trying to implement a Active mode connection to an FTP server, but cannot get the server to connect to the port specified by the PORT command. Below is the code that creates an active data connection. It is based on code found in the FtpWebRequest class referenced in the following articl...more >>

I have searched throught the newsgroups on how to restrict entry in textboxes, for example, I only want the textbox to only accept numberic. The standard answer is to use the KeyPress event. However, this do not address the paste event User is still able to copy and paste any characters. H...more >>

In certain situations, accessing a simple control property can cause our entire application to freeze. On inspection, it has always frozen inside a framework call, such as Control.Visible. > system.windows.forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetVisibleCore(bool > value = false) + 0x47e ...more >>

Hello, I have a line code : StackTrace stackTrace = new StackTrace(false); When I run the project in debug, the application keeps hanging on this line. My Environment: Windows 2003 Server Standard SP1 Visual Studio 2003 SP1 Any help is welcome Kurt Biesemans ...more >>

I would like to format financial value with something as simple as: string.Format("{0:$#.###.00}", value) but instead of hardcoding the format string I would like to use the system one. I found the NumberFormatInfo but I can't find how to get the currency format string from it.... Any ti...more >>

Hi Does anyone know of any 'Sensors' (such as Ph, float switches, temperature etc), that are available to be connected to a PC, and their values read via the .NET framework?? Thanks ...more >>

what are the benefits of using the GAC? ...more >>

Is it possible, with a regular expression, to split a string by spaces, *not* splitting substrings between quotation characters? e.g.: one two "three three" four "five five" six --> 1: one 2: two 3: three three 4: four 5: five five 6: six...more >>

Hi Does anyone know of a class library which is available for coding against X10 devices (notably the CM12U) Thanks ...more >>

In my application I want to display 1 Unit = <Text Box> $ and This is worth $10 000.00 where, in each case the $ symbol or the $#.### formating come from the system. Where could I find these? ...more >>

You remember the Matrix "D=E9j=E0 vu" bug where the same sequence is executed twice. I may have I found the root cause of this. The Matrix encounters a .NET Framework bug. To make a long debugging story short I have been chasing an intermittent lock leak that was not the kind you find in text ...more >>

Hi, I have been doing a bit of work lately with xml. I have been using the xmldocument class to manipulate the DOM, I was wondering if I would be better to just to manipulate the xml as a dataset (just adding, deleteing, updating rows) or whether I should just stick to the xmldocument met...more >>

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Hello All As we know we can develop Test Automation tools for .NET Application in C#.NET it is discribed in James McCaffrey Article in http:\\msdn.microsoft.com/msdmag/issues.03/01/UITestAutomation/default.aspx someone tell me can it Possible we Develop this Tool in .NET Framework for ...more >>

Where do I get the architecture representation of .NET Framework 2.0? Where can I find the documentation for .NET 2 - also details on differences between 1.1 & 2.0 thanks...more >>

hi, since today, in my project every "properties box" is empty, in the designer mode. for example, when i click an a label, i can´t change it´s properties via designer... it looks like the link between sourcecode and designer is destroyed... what can i do?...more >>

Hi, how can I implement a trial software with activation possibilty for Pocket PC or PC? Is there somewhere an example for .net? How does the activation procedure work?Thank you juvi...more >>