Hi, I am trying to set the time zone information for a windows machine from a C# application. I have written a wrapper class for win32 api SetTimeZoneInformation and GetTimeZoneInformation. I am able to get all the time zones and the current time zone information. But when I try to set ...more >>

My window console application performs a batch processing job in= a certain interval of time=2E It post (HTTP "POST") data in xml= format to my ASP=2ENET application=2E My question is: 1=2E How does my ASP=2ENET application detects if a data is posted to= it ? Is there any event driven stuf...more >>

As I understand it, the only way to unload an assembly from memory is to load it in a separate appdomain and then unload that appdomain. However, I'm not sure about this situation. Here's the question: If an assembly is loaded by a static (shared) function, and no reference is maintained af...more >>

Hello Everyone, I am trying to display BSTR data in a message box, but looks like messagebox does not support BSTR data, can any one tell me how to acomplish this? I would really appreciate your help Thank you ...more >>

Hi, Im writing an application that crawls a website. One problem Ive come across is that sometimes, when reading the contents of a web response, the application will hang and timeout. This occurs when I am trying to read the stream returned from the GetResponseStream of the HttpWebResponse ...more >>

Group, Have couple questions on .NET smart clients: 1. The application "is downloaded to the assembly download cache on the client computer." What if the user "Delete all the temporary internet files" from the browser. Will the assembly download cache will also be cleaned up? 2. People i...more >>

Hi! I have 100 Labels and I need to put in text property a value but I don't want to write 100 lines of code, like something like that: for i=1 to 100 xrLabel(i).Text= i next How can do that? -- Cumprimentos, David de Passos ---------------------------------------------...more >>

Hello, I developped a winforms usercontrol that I need to use in a= webpage=2E If i make an msi file that the users download= seperately then it works=2E But I cannot figure out how to put it= in a cab file so I can just put it in my object tag and they= don't have to download it=2E (the ...more >>

Hi, Im developing an C# app and I am needing the MSCommLib component. Is it correct that it comes with Visual Studio 6.0? How can I get it? Is it possible do download. Thanks Julia...more >>

we are willing to upgrade our server from framework1 to framework2 but we afraid that it will damage our framework1 websites and applications. what are the risks in upgrading to framework2?...more >>

I haven't used it yet nor read the documentation (aheum.. :D) however I'm planning too but wonder if: Could I, with click once enabled application, have a notification panel saying to the user: ------------------- Attention please ------------------- A new version of the application is a...more >>

After reading some posts on the subject there seemed to be a consensus = that when a user is interactively logged on to a machine, that there = would be a windows station called "WinSta0" that would contain a desktop = called "Default". When no user was logged on then the respective = windows s...more >>

Am I the only one encountering problems with the May VB Express? Aside from the fact that Microsoft have again needlessly changed things, like registry access which was fine the way it was and removed the visual basic compatability namespace which I was actually using, ASIDE from that when I...more >>

what is difference between server_Activation and client_activation? TIA....more >>

Hi I've got a toolbar I developed inheriting from a band object class found here: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetbandobjects.asp This all works perfectly in Internet Explorer and it all works when I add it to the taskbar, until I logout. When I leave the Toolbar on the task bar and...more >>

(Type your message here) -------------------------------- From: ze paulo hello ppl, i'm trying for days now, to change this code to tranfer large files but, i dont wont to use ascii cause only send plain text and is not able to write non text files. can somebody help me to change th...more >>

Hi guys, Whenever i need to use threads in my apps, i always have the same problem of choosing the right kind of threads to create. I never know whether to create threads by using: 1) The Thread class, which may create a new os thread 2) A delegate, which uses a thread from the thread pool ...more >>

when dataset/datatable will be disposed ? After calling Dispose(), when i access DataSet or DataTable, the object exists. Even after calling GC.Colect(), when i access them, the object and data exists. Can anyone explain why & how. When i call dispose on dataset, will it automatically d...more >>

Hello, We reference System.Messaging from our library that is a .Net Framework 1.1 assembly. This library is then referenced within our .Net Framework 2.0 Beta 2 application: Expected references: Application (2.0) ==> Custom Library (1.1) ==> System.Messaging (1.1) Now we have the proble...more >>

Hi all, I am planning a software project using C#. I expect the project to take at least two months of design and coding, and another two months of internal testing before it will be released. After receiving the Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 DVD and getting some experience with the new .NET fr...more >>

Can I use the VB Express version 2.0.50215.44 (that's what vbsetup.exe version is) with the March CTP of Avalon? I am currently running VB Express Edition Beta 8.0.50110.28 and I want to upgrade it but also want to continue Avalon development. Thanks, Richard ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to resolve an issue where sending a file from a server to a browser using PHP will give an error message in MSIE, but the file does download from the server. The exact error is "There was an error opening this download. This file cannot be found". So far, all I've seen is th...more >>

This is a pretty minor issue but I'm wondering which makes more sense and why: Have one assembly key file per assembly or re-use the same key file for every assembly in the application? Does it really matter and if so, why? ...more >>

Hello I directly go to the problem, I create a Process, I set the Filename to the full path and filename of a shortcut file (.lnk) and then I start my process, like this : Process p; p.StartInfo.FileName = "path\\of\\my\\shortcut\\file.lnk"; p.Start(); My problem is that I always get ...more >>

Hi, Refering to the title, I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003, WInXP Pro SP2 to develop C# on PocketPC. To me surprise, I cannot locate the member function, FromFile( ) from the System.Drawing.Image class. My VS only show 8 members functions from the class; (1) Dispose (2) Equal (3) ...more >>

Hi Everyone, I have been designing a class that encapsulates the functionality of a "Phone Number". I find that I am getting stuck on how to implement the "type" of phone number the class represents. I started off by using an enumeration such as.. Enum PhoneType { Work = 1, Home = ...more >>

Hello All, How do we trap all calls to load MSCOREE.dll ? Regards,...more >>

Hello, Is there any way of getting currently instantiated class name from a parent class's shared readonly property? I would need to know which actual class (that was derieved from the class containing the shared property) is trying to get the shared property value. It would be something li...more >>

In DreamWeaver MX (or 2004) i could add a popup menu to a hotspot on an image, using "behaviors >> show pop up menu". How can i do the same thing in FP 2003? is there sth like it in FP at all? And if not, then is there an add-in for it ? Thanks for any help. ...more >>

Hello, I have the problem with allocation large array in C#. My array is largest than 1GB of RAM. My computer has 1,5GB of RAM memory and windows is set to use 2GB of virtual memory. In c++ exist /LARGEADRESSAWARE switch, but in c# is isn't. Can you help my. ...more >>

We are going to be installing VS developer on a computer, a few months from now we are getting VS architect. We are going to want to uninstall VS developer from the first machine and install it on a second, and install VS architect on the first. I have heard their may be issues with install...more >>

There is an application (which I don't have access to modify) that = launches a desktop toolbar for the user that needs to stay active = throughout their session. I've been tasked with writing a service (in = c#) that checks whether this process is running and if not, then = relaunch it. In ta...more >>

I believe the following applies to privilidges - but not sure how to correct on windows XP SP2 OS. For some reason cannot open any file on local machine using window.open(...) command. Sample syntax : window.open("C:\\Downloads\\File.txt", "_blank"). This works on another development machine...more >>

I just get the beta 2 of VS.NET 2005 today. It has a DVD with VS.NET Team Foundation. What is it for? Beside I'm the only Windows programmer in our team of 2 programmer.. ahum.. do I need a team tool? Thanks for any link, tips and other! ...more >>

What the latest guess as to when VS.NET 2005 will be released? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, the application I wrote in VB.NET has hung for an unknown reason. The application needed to be terminated by using the task manager, resulting in a corrupt Access-database. I am trying to find out what went wrong or what caused this behaviour. In the system's event log I can see some...more >>

Mit dem Framework 2.0 habe ich ein Problem das ich vorher nicht hatte. Oder es zumindest nicht festgestellt habe. In my Application I show each seconnd the Time in a statusbar. At runtim it works fine. If I want debug, fires an "InvalidOperationException". Is it my bug or a bug in VS2005 B...more >>

I have blocks of text stored in resource files and it would be great to allow the client to be able to update those files themselves.. any thoughts.. pointer.. tutorials ?? tia Dave ...more >>

I'm trying to instal Ms .Net but at the beginning of the installation it says that an application needs to reboot.. and reboots the system.. but after that i always receive that message.. how can i do? thanks Ale ...more >>

I've read about a new free technology named "LayerD", and it's impresive compared to .NET or Java, it's not only really multiplatform, with this technology you can make programs in an object oriented paradigm and the Aspect Oriented Paradigm (AOP), what is more you can make your own Semantics ...more >>

Does .NET's strong versioning paradigm mean that if I build an assembly for the 1.1 framework, a user must have exactly that version (1.1) of the framework installed? That is, if the user ONLY has .NET 2.0 will my assembly not work? or will .NET Fx 2.0 be backwards compatible? thanks dave...more >>

I can store icon images into an ImageList. Easy. Then I want to set the StatusBarPanel.Icon from one of the image in the ImageList. That sounds easy but I get "Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Drawing.Image' to 'System.Drawing.Icon'". So, how do I convert the Image to an Icon ? ...more >>

VB.net application running on Citrix Meteframe. We have about 1100 user and we receive the below error about 20 times a day. The user is usually switching from one application back to ours when they receive this error and are kicked out of our application. We are at a loss and need to get...more >>

Hi While looking in the help I came across this statement in the remarks section of the hashtable.containskey help: "This implementation is close to O(1) in most cases" Can anyone help me understand what this means ? thanks Lemony...more >>

I'm using a ProducerConsumer in a worker thread. If I want to end this thread, and it's currently waiting for Consumer to return, what's the best way to proceed? Should I just make the thread a background thread? Or should I pass a dummy object to ProducerConsumer.Produce to make Consume ret...more >>

Hi: I need to get a CD copy of the .NET 1.1 "end user" not "development" software on a CD. I use a dial up connection and the file is too long for practical download. Please tell me how I can do this. James Goudrault...more >>

My program makes use of a third party class library to do some transformations. The transformations take a long time, so I spawn the library call as a new thread. The problem is that the library spawns threads of its own, outside of my namespace. One of their threads is spawned at Highest pr...more >>

1. When I'm install the full vs2005 beta2, I can find the Gac manage. However, if I install the FW only (from MS download site) I can't find it, nor I have only 1.1 version (in Admin manager and in IIS manage). Any Idea why? 2. (It might related to Q1) How can I set my IIS web site to work w...more >>

I have a question regarding exception handling and logging. First let me explain the situation. I am creating a .NET library with functionality that I am giving to another team developer. This other developer does not want to be bother with all sorts of exceptions from me, but only wants "...more >>

Hello All, Do any of you have dates regarding the release date for .NET Framework v2.0? If there are any links or references on the release date can you post those links. -Saravana ...more >>