I would like to place XML and/or HTML tags inside an XML Resource (*.resx) file. This is easy to do within text based resource files; likewise, I would assume that resx files (being XML based) would support the standard CData tag. However, when putting a CData tag in a Resx file, I receive a...more >>

Hello! I have some Vb.Net applications, which are terminated at indefinite times without message. If I call in the program regulated system.GC.Collect, then the program is terminated here sporadically without message. It's not possible to debug in visual studio, i get no exceptions (appl...more >>

Hello, I am trying to retrieve additional user information of the Windows account (such as first name, surname, e-mail, ...) Does anybody know how I can get this information? Thanks in advance and best regards, Christian ...more >>

My app needs to access files accessible via UNC on a local network path and get to some DOCs, XLSs and PDFs. I have to run the system.io.file.exists function to see if the document are where it is said to me. I can run a test like "c:\printer.log" and it passes using the account "NT AUTHORITY\...more >>

I would like to store a referenced assembly in a subfolder within the application's folder. When I move the assembly to the subfolder, the application can no longer find it. Can somebody tell me what I need to do to allow the application to find the referenced assembly in a subfolder of the ...more >>

Hi. I have a situation where I would like to stream data from one process to another. I.e. I can write data to a stream in one process, and the read the data from a stream in a different process. I already have a solution running where I use a Tcp sockets to do the job. Quite simple actu...more >>

Hi All, In reading the documentation on AutoResetEvents and WaitHandle I'm not sure whether they are limited resources (i.e. limited by something other than memory). WaitHandle mentions that it uses some nebulous "operating system resources" and I would like to know more specifically is ha...more >>

Hi group, I need to know when a user change the time on the computer, I mean if there is a log in which is saved information about the pc clock. Thanks so much. ...more >>

Is it possible to marshal a FileStream or StreamReader object in C#? Ok the real question is: How dow you marshal the above objects? I've been trying all different ways and haven't figured it out. Thanks in advance, Eric ...more >>

My company develops software for end user. We have some .net software which we would like to sell to end users and we would like to make the software "Windows Logo Compliant". Does any one know where or how we can get info on how to do this? One of the biggest problems is when the appli...more >>

Windows 2000 SP4 Hello everyone... here's the deal. I have searched everywhere I could to find the answer to this problem, but it seems I'm the only one with this particular installation error. When installing the framework, I recieve an error writing to the c:\winnt\.Net\ subfolder for the...more >>

Hi, I have an application where I am attempting to pass an ArrayList of ArrayList objects from a function to another function. I have created a sample application as follows: using System; using System.Collections; namespace ArrayListTest { class Class1 { static void Main(...more >>

I am writing i web based program, based on HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse. When i want to make query to specified server with following parameters : -------------------------------- Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:00:08 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Cache-Control: max-age=...more >>

HOWTO Build a C# app to MSIL/CIL? Please help, I want to build an MSIL from my VS.NET/C# app, but I am finding confusing information in MSDN on how to do it. I want VS.NET to automatically build the MSIL each time my project builds. How can that be done? ...more >>

Hi, I've found that sometime a statement after Thread.Start() is not executed. My code are as follows:- Sub Start() ' initialize threading value ... _thrd.Start() ' new instance _obj = new MyClass End Sub From code above, I've found that sometimes a statement "_obj ...more >>

I am trying to create a Windows service that needs to be aware of the status removable devices. In essence I want to be able to handle the SERVICE_CONTROL_DEVICEEVENT event, however I cannot find any way of doing this using the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase class. Can anyone tell me ho...more >>

I have a static class that I'll be using in an ASP.NET app. One of the static methods returns an array based on a user ID. Pseudo-code is as follows: static string[] myFunc(string userID) { declare array populate array with value from a database; filter by userID param. return the array t...more >>

I've recently read guidelines where it is recommended to organize projects in directories that match assembly names. For example, if I have an assembly called MyCompany.MyProduct.Data, then I should have the following folder structure on my local disk and in version control system: MyCompan...more >>

Obviously the system does this for deserialization. So how can I do it for arbitrary classes (not just enums)? Does this require generating a temporary assembly and compiling it? -- kov...more >>

Hi Have someone already tested with the .Net Translator compone=AD=ADnt. I downloaded the component from www.dotnettranslator.com to test and it seems very easy to=AD use. My problem was that my customers always changes the text on =AD=ADthe website. In the beginning I used resource ...more >>

Hi all, How can an windows form be started in hidden mode? My problem is I've setup a load event handler where I'm setting this.Visible = false and calling base.OnLoad(). I noticed calling base.OnLoad() is setting visibility to true for the frame. I tried to peek in to Windows.Forms assembly us...more >>

I have a idea to build my own data type. I want my variable as a value type not a object type for some reason. Here is my idea : ID myKey; myKey = ID.key; string str = "Here is the key value" + myKey; Unfortunatly, I really can't find any articles discussing how to implement this, or I...more >>

When I use AppSettings and try to retrieve multiple values associated with a single key, I only get the last value. E.g. if I have in my config <appSettings> <add key="Key" value="Value1" /> <add key="Key" value="Value2" /> </appSettings> then attempt to read both values by using AppSet...more >>

I developed a Web Application that has a Web Service component. I also created a direct API to the second layer of the Web Service without going through the Http connection to the Web Service. I noticed that if I make the calls through the direct API (getting about 4KB of data from disk), it w...more >>

My wife needs to buy a new computer. The main app she uses is available for both Windows and Mac. I'm more than a little bit tempted to talk her into buying a Mac mini, but before I do there is something I would like to know. Has anyone here ever tried developing .net apps for the Mac, an...more >>

Hi All I recently upgraded one my servers to .NET FW 1.1. I noticed in IIS, that my web apps were still associated with the older .NET version. When I try to remap with the new version by using the following commandline statement C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322> Aspnet_regiis....more >>

Hello I'm Developing for PDA and using Assembly.LoadFrom("") static method, but I obtain a strange behavoiur. If i use an old DLL I compiled long time ago, the method correctly loads the assembly dinamically, but If i use now compiled DLL, instead of return the DLLs assembly it return...more >>

Does anyone know how to determine the userid of the user invoking the events. I have seen other post, but no solutions. Any help with this would be much appreciated. ...more >>

Would there be any performance gain to calling SqlDataReader.GetSqlXXXX instead of SqlDataReader.GetXXXX ? I assuming that SqlDataReader.GetXXXX makes a call SqlDataReader.GetSqlXXXX (i.e.GetString calls GetSqlString) ...more >>

Would there be any performance gain to calling SqlDataReader.GetSqlXXXX instead of SqlDataReader.GetXXXX ? ...more >>

I am using log4net 1.1 and am having a really hard time getting it to work with a C# Windows service. Here is the code I put in the Main: StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("c:\\tmp\\log4net.log"); writer.AutoFlush = true; Console.SetOut(writer); log4net.helpers.LogLog.SetInterna...more >>

Greetings, Is anybody aware of any code that will allow me to read .rtf or .doc or .pdf or .htm as plain text (so I can do a streamreader off them). Thanks, -Dave ...more >>

I think I overlook something, but when a write to a text file using a StreamWriter, the file is written as unicode. I'm writing information that is retrieve from nvarchar fields on SQL server. I have a problem with characters like Ü, Ö, etc. When looking at the file they seems to be correct,...more >>

When I call the GetRequestStream() method for the site I'm trying to access, I get a long pause followed by an HTTP 500 error (contained in a WebException object) I've tried to mimick the behavior of Explorer exactly to no avail. I believe all my cookie handling and HTTP headers are correc...more >>

A question. Before I instantiate a type I need to know whether it will be local or remote. Obviously I know the type by a namespace.type string, as I don't have an instance. Now, I can tell a WebService proxy by using reflection to see if it's derived from System.Web.Services.Protoc...more >>

Hello: I have several question about the security system in dotnet framework. 1: How is the evidence of assembly decided by common runtime system? 2: If a assembly is deployed to producton enviroement,is there anything changed in evidence? 3:How does security p...more >>

I wrote a console application that basically consumes arguments and starts other command line apps via System.Process. Let's call it XCompile for now. I wrote a Visual basic add-in that does pretty much the same thing to XCompile. Let's call it MyAddin. XCompile collects information to send to...more >>

I'm sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a bit confused. I'm reading about Delegats in Jesse Liberty's C# Programming book and, well, I'm confused as to the motivation behind delegates. On the surface, they look exactly like using interfaces in java, so why have another construct to conf...more >>

Hi Using the System.Web.Caching.Cache object, I'm able to share data between two (or more) different web clients (http-sessions). But what if some of my Clients are Windows/Comsole/... applications ??...can I somehow access the same cache or am I bound to access my data using http?? Ti...more >>

I am using Framework v1.0 (C#). My question about richtextboxes is: I have been choosing a location in the text box string doing the following: .... textbox.SelectionLength = 0; textbox.SelectionStart = myPos; .... After setting the position I have been inserting text by calling: .... textb...more >>

Someone knows how to copy Files into the clipboard using C#? I've tried filling a DataFormat with FileDrop and I passed a string with the filename to setData() but no luck. I've also tried with a FileInfo object but It does not work. Is it possible? Please help!!! ...more >>

hello who can tell me the relation and difference between the following concept: 1 no-touch deployment 2 clickonce 3 smart client ...more >>

Overview: I redirect a user to a page to register, then redirect back to orginating page. The registration page is a two part form. On the second post I send the user back to the page they came from. On Page Load I assign a Form value called ReturnURL to a Session value called the same thi...more >>

Hello, I have a class which is beeing serialized/deserialized using the BinaryFormatter class. That has been working with no problems until I signed all my assemblies. Now I get a SerializationException when I try to Deserialize the class which has been serialized before the signing. So wha...more >>

Hello, I just started out with Windows.Forms and was going through the MS tutorials. In the tutorial where you can create a non-rectangular shaped window by using your own window painted with some paint utility, I am having some problems with trying to compare the color of the pixel that I retr...more >>

The other day I posted a question about using ActiveX in my project..... obviously, that's not the best solution. But I found this great article on what the author calls rich-client which does EXACTLY what I'm looking for. Being able to show a windows form in an IE window! http://msdn.micro...more >>

Hi, how does GetResponse() act (request-method is GET!), when the Content-Length of the HTTP-Response is -1, i.e. unlimited? Using a Packet-Sniffer i found out, that it returns after having received the HTTP-header and a few packets from the data-stream. However, i'd like to know the method's...more >>

Hi. I’m writing a Windows service in C# that needs to run in the NetworkService account, but when I create an Installer and set ServiceProcessInstaller.Account to NetworkService on an otherwise unaltered new project, I get an “Error 5: Access Denied” message when I try to start the ...more >>

I've been given a C++ class library project which I need to use from my asp.net vb.net project. I have tried building the C++ class library it but it only creates a series of .obj files which I can't reference from the asp.net project. How do I get the C++ class library to compile to a dll (I'...more >>

I save and get the ViewState from persistance medium in my application instead of saving it in the hidden field and my program works without problems except in my login screen. In my login screen I have two dropdownlists. The first contains the name "Administrator" and any branch names that ...more >>