Looking at the ".resx" files produced by the Windows forms designer, I see nodes like this: <data name="MyRadioBtn.Size" type="System.Drawing.Size, System.Drawing"> <value>94, 21</value> If you then read the "94, 21" back into your code as a string (exactly as seen), how do you then...more >>

1) Is RSA used by other programming system? Eg. If I gen. a key, can I share it and someone with Java, etc. access it? 2). When generating a public key, you get <Modulus> and <Exponent> values. What parts do you need to share with someone. Also, what is the correct format for these value...more >>

do you know if there is a plan from MS to release a service pack for .net 2.0 and vs2005 ? thanks.- ...more >>

I have an XML file which have nodes that contain filepaths, e.g.<path>c:\SomeDirectory\SomeFile.txt</path> I'm using an XmlDocument and XPath query to try and find a node XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.LoadXml(File.ReadAllText(xmlFilePath)); string somePath = @"c:\SomeDirectory\S...more >>

Hi, I have recently started coding and designing the ,.NET based system using different technology involved in .NET and well from the subject line of this post, it is obvious that I am coming from a VB background. I have many years of expirance in designing distributed system based on ...more >>

Suppose a collection class defined as: public class Friends: ReadOnlyCollection<Friend> {} where Friend implements IPerson: public class Friend:IPerson {} My question: is there a neat+lean way to implement IEnumerable<Person> in the collection class?: public class Friends: ReadOnlyCo...more >>

hi,everybody I use dotnet 2005 and c sharp to deliever a mail to a certain mail address,but it failed with messages such as "invalid parameter,the server response: decode failed". My codes is listed belowed: try { MailMessage mailObj = new MailMessage(); mai...more >>

Hello, For some reason this ImageAttributes isn't doing what I tell it. I'm not sure what I am missing. I am trying to get background of the image to display as transparent. But it draws the image unchanged. Here's my code. Dim ImgColorMap(0) As System.Drawing.Imaging.ColorMap ...more >>

This is a serious bug in .NET 1.1 Using SQL select one field from Oracle table, This column Oracle data type is: Number(18), the field value is: 235312035283022003 which is the correct value. However, using DataReader, (We want the end result is long type, the only way is GetDouble(read...more >>

I recently upgraded from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Visual Studio .NET 2005. I have several projects that I created in Visual Studio .NET 2003, but when I try to open them in Visual Studio .NET 2005 it tries to force me to convert them. for some of these it would be fine, but some of them run ...more >>

I've been struggling for two weeks now to duplicate a VB6 ActiveX control in VB.Net, and also improve it's functionality. The control is used to collect the user's fingerprint and compare it to a stored copy on the server, and if the match is successful fill some hidden fields with values and...more >>

I have found that RSACryptoServiceProvider.VerifyData sometimes hangs for several (typically 6 or more) seconds. This is very irritating since a component that I am using makes this call every time a form in my application opens. The entire application freezes. Obviously it makes my appli...more >>

Hi all, is there a simple possibility to pin down a C# class member (a structure) so that I can use it in an unmanaged DLL? I only found the C# fixed() statement, but the structure is used throughout the whole application lifetime, so fixed() does not seem to be the method of choice... ...more >>

I'm trying to make a simple little asynchronous socket server. It accepts connections, reads and writes, but I can't make it gracefully stop listening. listener.listen(1) listener.beginaccept(...) If before anyone has attempted to connect, I try to stop the listener socket, I get nasty ...more >>

Greetings, We are using an up/down control to facilitate numeric data entry, however, we are noticing issues converting from the up/down value (apparently a Decimal) to the units we are working with (Double) and vice versa. There appear to be precision issues, and then we take those numbers a...more >>

Hi All, I need to have a text box that displays text in different colors. I tired overriding WndProc but I still couldn't. Below is the code snippet I'm using. Would appreciate if someone could help me out with this (wolud appreciate if the solution is done using WndProc) cons...more >>

Hi All, We are currently running continous integration using a server running cruise control.net. This server does not have VS2005 installed on it, only the .Net framework. Previously, we have been using Nunit to write our tests but I thought I would give the integrated MS unit test a go an...more >>

Greetings, We are handling the KeyPress event in an UpDown control, which determines if Enter or Escape has been pressed, then closes the dialog with either a DialogResult.OK or DialogResult.Cancel, respectively. We seem to be having a beep occur when this happens, at some point after the eve...more >>

Hello, I'm using a Stringbuilder to building dynamic HTML, and I was wondering how long it can get before it gives up. I won't know the length of the HTML until it's finished building it. I've read a few articles that suggest setting an initial size when you instantiate it, but will that wo...more >>

....is this possible? Can you perchance provide an entry in the config file which would allow such behaviour? I think it should be possible at least on the local machine, you can always copy those unsigned assemblies to a subfolder of your app, so it's not like it's a security feat. Thanks ...more >>

I'm trying to write the documentation of my library using XML tags. I'm using NDoc but it doesn't support C# 2.0 very well. Any tip on what other product I could use? ...more >>

Hi, How Event Broker actually work? Any simple examples show Event Broker future in simple way? Thanks , Goh ...more >>

Hi, Any component that work like Tab but without the all the tabs for user to click from one view to another view. we will programmatically other button to perform tabs view change from one to another. hope that you guy understand what I trying to explain. I need this bec...more >>

I am trying to install a program which requires Net Framework 1.1.4332. Microsoft has so many different listings for this, I can't figure out which one I am supposed to download. I'd appreciate a link or just the correct title for what I want. Thanks for helping.... ...more >>

Currently I am doing the following to find an one dimensional array type of a type - Type asSingle; Type asArray = Array.CreateInstance ( asSingle , 0 ).GetType ( ); Is there a way to do this without creating an instance? I do not know the array type at design time. Thanks in adv...more >>

I've created my own version of the CreateUserWizard control that gathers up all the information I need when a user requests an account. Once all the data is gathered and validated, the FinishButtonClick property calls a method that does the following: 1. Creates the user account: Membersh...more >>

Running ASP.NET2. Every once in a while I get this error: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.DictionaryEntry' to type 'System.Web.PartitionInfo'. at System.Web.PartitionManager.Dispose() at System.Web.SessionState.SqlSessionStateStore.OnAppDomainUnload(Object unuse...more >>

Hi everybody, I write a VBS script witch uses csc.exe (command line dotnet compiler), but my problem is to detect what version of Dotnet Framework is installed on the server to use the good repertory 1.1 or 2.0 (v1.1.4322 or v2.0.50215 ...) What command line or script can I use to get this in...more >>

I want to set the values for the combobox.displaymember and valuemember at runtime. Its seems simple enough, but after changing them in response to a change in an option group, I can't figure out how to get the combobox to refresh itself with the new settings. I've tried the combobox.refresh...more >>

Hi, I want to use OrderedDictionary to get my objects in same order as they are inserted in. I also want to access the objects using a key. So my question is whether this is the best option or there is some better collection object than OD. The current MSDN documentation dosn't says anyt...more >>

I have an argument in the constructor for a VB form that as a parameter that looks like: ByVal lblHeader As Controls.MGLabel Visual Studio 2005 gives me a warning: Type of parameter 'lblHeader' is not CLS-compliant I am not sure what to do. Thank you. Kevin...more >>

Hi, Just think to get some comment from communitiy regarding best pratice using splash screen. If we develop an application that need loading database to dataset it's we need done it at main page fill up all nessarcy table to dataset. since the splash screen only counter the main pa...more >>

Hi all Existing COM ATL DLL wrapping a C++ library. Interoping from a C# application, passing a large string containng XML (5-130kb). Need to significantly improve performance of both the interoping and the performance of the native functions (performance critical app). Opinions sought on mos...more >>

We have a .NET application which is obviously using nearly 500MB memory and we can't understand why. I created a dump for a different issue and the server ended up creating a process shutdown dump of this size. I have seen the DumpLargeObjectSegments command however I'm not sure what to look...more >>

In my "Add or Remove Programs" list I have the following: Microsoft .NET Framework (English) Update Installed on 3/16/2005 Update Installed on 3/18/2005 and Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Update Installed on 3/16/2005 Update ...more >>

Is there some way to programatically tell if a string is base64 encoded? ...more >>

Is it possible to load a .net 2.0 assembly from a 1.1 app using Assenbly.LoadFrom or possibly some other means? ...more >>

Hi, I creating a custom exception and I'm implementing the best practice with a constructor which is needed for serialization (with Serialization Info info, StreamingContext context). My question is - what’s the use for serializing exceptions when working with web services as my remoting m...more >>

Hy! I've got the following question in VB.NET. How can I access to a particular topic of a CHM file generated by HTML Help Workshop? Some newsgroups/sites on web suggest to use CHM file for help-on-line and the HTML files for accessing a particular topic; but I want to use only the CHM file al...more >>

Hi All, I am looking for XML merging for the following scenarios. I want to = load both the input files and show in the tree viewer and highlight the = differences. Now its up to the user to select the correct node. Any non = conflicting differences should be automatically merge onto the me...more >>

Hello again, I need to convert date to "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss" format. Below code does this, but it appends time twice in date variable. DateTimeFormatInfo dy = new DateTimeFormatInfo(); dy.ShortDatePattern = "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss"; dy.ShortTimePattern = ""; // next set dy to current cultur...more >>

Hello group, I'm calling Java webservice from c#.Net client which accepts only date without time instance. The type of variable should be DateTime. I think c# doesn't support shortdate type. Please let me know if anybody has already come across this problem. ...more >>

Quite often of late I've been asked about when to use the System Threadpool. I finally sat down and wrote a blog detailing the issues in the ThreadPool and why it's unsuitable for use in production grade server applications. Any feedback on this is appriciated! http://www.coversant.net/do...more >>

Hi, As we all know that Asp.net allo DataGridView inside another DataGridView. How can we implement this kind of thing in Win Form. Thanks. Goh ...more >>

Hi all! I want to create a designer for graphical elements such as line or rectangle. This designer should add an object to some workspace and then allow to transform it (change size and position). Its something like ControlDesigner, but ControlDesigner doesn't allow to move the right...more >>

I have a Personal Information Exchange PCKS #12 certificate file that requires a password when manually installing. This certificate was issued by a 3rd party company I need to communicate with via https. Initially I exported the PCKS #12 certificate to a DER encoded binary X.509 certificate an...more >>

So far, as a work-around at least, I'm instantiating a RichTextBox, setting its Rtf property to the rich text I have, then using the Text property to get the plain text. This works, but I expect there's a more efficient way....more >>

I am using reflection to create an assembly (Assembly A) and invoke a method. Assembly A has its own config file, which is set at run time. To read this config file I had to set some binding flags in the code, now this seems to work fine, Assembly A can read its config file. However Assembly A...more >>

Hi, Please help me! I want to get the text of one textbox in a webpage. For example, I compose mail by gmail. After I type content of my mail and click a button on toolbar (created by myself), my function will grasp all this content. Final, I'll create signature from this content. How...more >>

hi all, can I create my own compile-time attributes? e.g. an attribute applied to a method and that will generate a compile time error if the method has the wrong signature? I was hinted twords 'Intellisense API' but cant seem to find it at all... thanx, Picho ...more >>