I am trying to create a custom Configuration Section that will have this kind of an xml representation <CustomSection> <Objects> <Object type="sometype"> <Property name="someproperty" anotherAttribute="somevalue"/> <Property name="someproperty" anotherAttribute="secon...more >>

G'day, I have 2 Win2003 servers, 1 is my database server, 1 runs IIS On the IIS machine I have an ASP.NET 2 application that makes a call to a proprietry 3rd party COM Object/DLL that makes a call to a database on server number 2. When the DLL call is run, I get "Security.Permissions.Sec...more >>

Hi, Can you help me with some sample code for signing an email? I have the code to manage/Select the Digital Cert but cannot figure out how to sign an email with it. I have been using the CAPICOM interop to sign email but now that I have upraded to VS2005 I am wanting to convert the code to...more >>

Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered a...more >>

I have an enum defined as public enum velocityUom { /// <remarks/> [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlEnumAttribute("m/s")] ms, /// <remarks/> [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlEnumAttribute("cm/a")] cma, ... } This class was g...more >>

I would like to use some of the data in the Wikipedia in one of my (.NET!) program. I'm still at the stage of trying to figure out how to download the data. Any tip on: - how to download WikiPedia data? - how to use the data once downloaded? ...more >>

Hello there, I wrote my own DataDridViewTextBoxCellEx, inherited from DataGridViewTextBoxCell which accepts an integer (index) as value and displays the correspondign string out of a dictionary collection. Now I want to use data binding to connect this collection (a private member and pu...more >>

Hello, how would you solve in general the following requirement: my application will ask you to login with a language, so you have installed on your desktop one version of my application, providing multilanguage support that means text, description, column names etc. will be displayed in y...more >>

I'm trying to install a MSI (LINQ preview in fact), but at some stage it (unsuccessfully) try to upgrade the C# language service with the error message: ===== An error occured while applying security settings. Power Users is not a valid users group. ===== But the control panel\User Accou...more >>

Hello, There are several datetime formats, that the DotNet framwork supports. The timeformat mentioned in the header, is produced by outlook and other mailers and in Javascript, but it seems this is not an implemented standard formatstring (such as "r"). Can somebody shed a light on this? ...more >>

I want to get the instance of the scroll to draw it by custom. But how can get it? thanks! ...more >>

Hello Gurus, I wanted to install the framework on a network pc that does not have any keyboard/mouse. I believe Service Packs can be applied in such scenarios, is it possible to do so for the framework? any help/hints is greatly apreciated.. thank you, ...more >>

Hi everyone, I am trying to get the WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile working using the 101 Samples for the Base Class Library from MS. I can get through the authentication part OK but when the code gets to: Dim ftpResponse As FtpWebResponse = CType(ftpRequest.GetResponse, FtpWebRespons...more >>

When I try to use VSTS Source Control, it hangs indefinitely. For example, when I try to edit a workspace, or get latest, visual studio hangs. If I press Ctrl+F4, it comes back to life, as if a hidden window were closed. Also, from the command prompt, tf.exe hangs when I try to do any opera...more >>

Hello usenet, I am currently debugging an application that uses SqlTransactions. When running in the debugger, it seems that my transaction ignores the isolation level and locks everything in SQL Server... If I put a breakpoint before SqlTransaction.Commit gets called, all the tables used t...more >>

Hi! I have my Visual Studio 2005 Prefessional Edition I wonder what version is this Here is the version.. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200 Mirosoft .Net Framework version 2.0.50727 What is this? Is this part of the Beta Version...more >>

Hi, I have a problem to set default printer programatically using c#. My codes works well in windows2003,but it fails in windows2000. My codes is just listed below: System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher query; ManagementObjectCollection queryCollection; string classname ...more >>

Hi everyone, I developped a UserControl and for this control I need to handle the + and - keys. The KeyPress event doesn't suit because I want to have an effet when the key is down and when the key is up. So, I handle the KeyDown and KeyUp events, but I received KeyCode and not the transl...more >>

Dear everyone, I want to create my program's installer using installshield. As my program needs dotnet runtime component to install first before it can run. How Can I combine this component in my installer. Any help will be really appreciated! Best Regards Crespo ...more >>

I have suucessfully been able to configure and execute 32bit 1.1 and 2.0 applications on my develpopment box however once I try to run 2.0 x64 I am getting a DNS error on localhost and I have not been able to resolve this issue and I was hoping someone could point me in the correct direction. ...more >>

is it possible to compile some test code as legacy application without dotnet frame work? how? I don't have any non dotnet compiler on my pc. I want to test my dotnet com assembly for interop with an legacy application that works through com interface. and I want to verify that I got my int...more >>

I have created a windows service, and can happily install it and run it, but this involves manually running the InstallUtil command line tool for each installation. Can this not be automated to run from within my MSI? Thanks (vb.net, vs.net 2003, .net 1.1, windows xp sp2) ...more >>

I am trying to use reflection to get the value of a property using Generics. A sample property is as follows: /// <summary> /// Gets the collection of links rendered at the bottom of the header. /// </summary> /// <value>The links collection.</value> ...more >>

I have a .Net 1.1 application that starts through internet explorer and uses webservice for data-retrieval. It is an application that runs for 3 years now (so it was first created with 1.0 framework and later compiled with 1.1). To get it running i had to add it to the trusted sites and set...more >>

I Have Visual Studio .NET 2003 Is is upgradable for 2.0 Framework? Best regards...more >>

HI All, I have a VB6 App and a VB.NET DLL. The VB.NET DLL Is used to call a web service. When I compile the app is works fine but when I try to debug the VB6 Code I get this error message: "File or assembly name GetGantnerTxns, or one of its dependancies, was not found." GetGantnerTx...more >>

I got the following problem: an RTF is loaded and stored in memory in a form of a byte array. I need to convert it to a PDF without the necessety to store it on the disk (i.e. I need either byte array or a stream). I tried to use TX Text Control which works fine except that it does not conver...more >>

Does Microsoft even bother involving developers anymore in their process of developing new "features"? I've spent about four hours with VS2005 now and can't believe the list of problematic improvements I've generated in that short time. Then I run across this partial class feature. What a...more >>

Hi When I added a shortcut to the desktop folder it did work but the icon is not the icon of the application is there a way to change that T.Y. Sam ...more >>

Hi All, When I 'Add' an 'object' to a System.Collection (ArrayList, HashTable,...) does it just put a 'reference' to the object in the Collection, or is it a 'deep copy' (a new instance of the object)? SteveH ...more >>

Hello, I am having some difficulties using Directory.GetFiles. I have a directory with contains: file1.fmt file2.fmt file3.fmt file4.fmt_ file5.fmt_ When i use Directory.GetFile(directory, "*.fmt") i returns all the filenames instead of just the .fmt files. Is there a function...more >>

I have to do some WYSIWIG rendering. Because I need to know exactly where is what and have to have the same output on both the screen and the printer I decided to change my Page unit to Inches. As I was testing my first thought was to draw red outline of some relevant rectangle. And here ...more >>

All, Using VS 2005, C#.NET, SQL Server 2005, W2K3. We are developing a web application that would be shared by numerous customers for information management. Some of those customers want variations on the usual form layout. For example, we have a form where the user can enter their depe...more >>

I have to do some WYSIWIG rendering. Bacause I need exactly where is what and have the same output on the printer I decided to change my Page unit to Inch. As I was testing my first though was to draw read outline of some relevant rectangle. And here I had my 1st encouter with those infamou...more >>

I need to start execution of an exe in a command line fashion from a Windows application. Is there a way to do this using the framework, or do I have to instantiate the WScript.Shell somehow? ...more >>

Why did MSFT feel they had to separate the two? What if I am writing a class in an assembly that could be used by either an ASP.Net app or a Winforms app? I don't want to have each look for the data in different ways. I want to abstract that. Couldn't they have used a factory that returns an ICo...more >>

Does anyone know how I can get the list of all available groups in Windows XP ?...more >>

Hello, I have a list of objects that I want to serialize as XML and save it as user setting. The objects are of type of the following class. [Serializable] public class SourceFolder { public SourceFolder(string path, bool controlled, bool includesSub) { ...more >>

Hi, When providing the HttpListener with a list of 'prefixes' to respond to there doesn't appear to be an option for binding to an arbitrary freely available port, and if there is then there doesn't seem to be a mechanism for discovering that port by the calling code. I'm happy to be proven...more >>

Hi all, Setting the transparency key on vb.net 2005 form (I randomly chose the color yellow), works great on my machine, meaning i set the form's background color to yellow as well, and it becomes transperent. Deploying my app on 3 other machines, i fould out the yellow background shows on thei...more >>

I would like to be able to get the ContentType of a file programmatically (for example, I want *.txt files to return "text/plain"). I could not find a way to do this using VB.NET's classes, but I am also somewhat new to using the System.IO namespace for anything other than text files and the p...more >>

Hi, I'm creating a control that overrides ListView and so I'm working on redrawing everything myself with some changes here and there... But I'm having a problem with drawing the text inside the rectangle on LargeIcon mode... I thought I'd finally discovered the solution with TextRenderer b...more >>

Hi, How can I (remotly) control my windows media player. like the logitech software. like: windows media player is playing a list of songs. run my exe, and the next song is player. I can't find some information about it. thank you ...more >>

Hi everyone, I hope you can comment on this -- I'm pretty darned sure that either some of the MethodInfo properties are wrong or the Microsoft documentation is wrong. Please have a look at the program below. It attempts to print out the accessibility (i.e., "visibility") of each method i...more >>

Hi, wanted to know what people have experienced in terms of effort+time in migrating your apps to 2.0 from 1.1? Are there any case studies on msdn? I couldn't find any.. how well did it go with you all? days? weeks? months? we have a mid sized external app using mcms, a small asp.net a...more >>

Afternoon all, Can somone help with this regular expression problem VB sample below Dim RegexObj As Regex = New Regex("") RegexObj.IsMatch( "<start field=fred col=2 />", "\x2f" ) Returns false with no match. This is a simplified example trying to end my capture onthe "/>" but the forw...more >>

Hi, I came across a doubt on the String.PadLeft Method.The doubt is this -- What's difference it make if the argument to this function carries an integer whose value is less than the length of the string object For example in the sample code below(VB.NET) I could not see any difference ...more >>

I have found services debugging to be a big pain. One reason is because the play button in VS is worthless for this kind of application. So I wrote this scripts that will execute for an app whose name ends on Service, it will lookup the debug directory, Stop the service copy the executables an...more >>

Hi, I have a web project in VS 2005 and I'm using a wrapper to work with a COM object. this object must work in a remoting environment. So we've done a simple console app to give us the access to the remote object. In our test web app, everything works fine... if we copy paste all the cod...more >>

In my application I have some tool window. some of these tool window do accept key input. yet I would like key shortcut (CTRL+S, F2, etc...) to be handled by the main menus of my main window. how could I achieve somethink like that? ...more >>

Is there a way to create a System.Console from code. I periodically have a WinForms app that needs to open a console window for progress tracking. Thanks, Mike Ober. ...more >>

How can I determine what is consuming a particular assembly that's in the GAC. (There's an assembly of ours that's not letting me delete it from the GAC. It's COM exposed and so could be used be either COM or .NET) ...more >>

Hi, Slightly dim question, possibly. I dunno. When i run the following c#: for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine (DateTime.Now.Millisecond.ToString ()); System.Threading.Thread.Sleep (1); } I would expect the output to increment by at least 1 ...more >>

Hi, Is there an elegant way to capture/preview keystrokes in a Windows.Forms application that has an AxWebBrowser control which is focused? The browser seems to swallow anything while it has focus. I also have a (related?) problem with back and forward buttons on the mouse. They work jus...more >>

Hello Group, i want to get the file size of some files located on a webserver, therefore i create a WebRequest with the URI of the file and then a WebResponse on the WebRequest to get the ContentLength: WebRequest webRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(fileUri); webRequest.Method = "HEAD"; ...more >>

Hi, I developped some time ago an Outlook Add In (VB.NET 2005) that worked fine during several months with all the users. Suddenly, 2 weeks ago it stopped working for one of the users. The administrator desinstalled it and installed it again, but that didn't work. i did the same, desinst...more >>

Hi, Which technology's are used to make Windows Forms (Fat) Client - Server application with VB.NET (2.0)? - XML Webservices, Remoting, DCOM, ... are there others? - Which are used the most and why? - Pro's and cons? Any help or usefull links would be really appreciated! thanks a lot i...more >>

I have an asp.net (1.1) that "as" sending emails okay. Lately it is trowing the following exception: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.UnauthorizedAccessExce...more >>

Using dotnet 1.1, sp1, C#. I have assembly "A", which references assembly "B". Neither of these assemblies are stongly named. I have an application which uses a plug in architecture, to load assembly "A" using Assembly.Load(byte[]). The app (actually a web service) needs to be able to ha...more >>

Hi, Anyone know how I can do this? I will pay anyone via PayPal who can do this for me. Let me know? Write a function in C# that takes in an array of ASCII strings and finds all common character sequences. A common character sequence is defined as 3 or more adjacent characters that ap...more >>

Ok, I have a app that has a C API, the API is very poorly documented and I am trying to figure out how to expose the API so I can see what is there. Suggestions? -- D @ premierdata...more >>

I find it mildly amusing this following paragraph from a tutorial MS wrote on an introduction to VB.Net for VB6 developers. It's written in such a manner as to sound as the VS does something for you (auto-generates) that previous versions did not. As if you had to write the Form class by hand in...more >>

Hello. I am starting to experiment with the FTP functionality within the .NET framework, but am having problems producing a list of files. This is my function which returns files in a string array: Public Function GetFileList(ByVal sMask As String) As String() Dim cSocket As Socket ...more >>

"The Express Editions of Visual Studio are free forever if downloaded before November 6, 2006..." extract from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/inthebox/trickedoutapp/default.aspx so, for all of you that did not downloaded the free develop tools, do so... you have until November 6...more >>