How can I start a new process with an argument in this form <D:\cd\Data.prc> ? string args1 = " <" + prozessFile + "> "; Process.Start("C:\\Direct.exe", args1); Ist this correct ? It works only under WINXP but not under Windows Serve 2003 ...more >>

Hello everyone, I've run into a peculiar road-bump that I'm hoping someone can clarify. I'm building a database application (ASP.NET 2.0, MSSQL 2000) and have implemented data source caching via polling without a problem. Basically what I have is a GridView bound to an ObjectDataSource that ...more >>

I have a user control that includes a StringCollection. I provide my users with a property that retrieves a reference to the string collection so they can add and remove items from it, just as you would do if this were, for example, a listbox. What I can't see is any way for my user control...more >>

Can someone tell me in which of the four security zones a windows service running under a domain account would run? I have a windows service installed under C:\Program Files\blah blah blah... so at first I figured My Computer, but since it's a service I figured the security zone might be some...more >>

Hi everyone, I am trying to build a small library ( in C# and VS2003) that accepts a PDF file and converts it to a word document. During this process all alignments are to be kept. Is there a way to deo it through code, I am playing with the microsoft.office.interop.word dll but importing t...more >>

Hi all, How can I know if the session ID that a certain process is running on is actually the active session that he consol is connected to. I can get the session id of a process by Process P = Process.GetCurrentProcess(); And then check P.SessionID property. Anyone has an i...more >>

any tips to avoid trouble in multi-user environment? specifically how one can control overwriting changes between the time one gets the row to worked on and the rows one is ready to update the original> or does the merge method and acceptchagnes take care of that automatically? from the b...more >>

Hi All, When VS 2005 visual designer attempts to open an inherited windows form it attempts to instantiate the form. Unfortunately, this does not work under certain conditions/needs to the form's constructor. You get a nasty error something like: "One or more errors encountered while loadin...more >>

Hi can anyone tell me why a class library i generated, compiled and installed does not show up as a reference in the ".Net" section of add a reference to my application. -- Thank-you Foxman34...more >>

Since we converted our application to C# 2005 and .NET 2.0 our "no-touch-deployment" mechanism is broken. The whole deployment is based on a bootstrapper (NetRun) that loads our main application using Assembly.LoadFrom. When a client machine downloads the application for the first time, ...more >>

Hi, I need to implement in my application a function that, shows the wi-fi connection available on the notebook (running winxp), allows the user to choose one in order to copy a file on a folder though the wi-fi connection If any wi-fi has been established, the application must tell the us...more >>

Hi. I am trying to set up a TcpListener to listen for incoming TCP connections, and one thing I have been wondering is whether there's a good way for finding an available port number, say, from a given range of ports. Of course I could just loop over all ports, try to open the listener on it,...more >>

I can't believe I've stumbled on a simple problem such as this. After all these years, that too. Anyway, it goes that I just realized that I could not iterate through my hashtable and print out its contents. On further probing, I realized that the hashtable didn't implenent IList, which really...more >>

I paint into a PictureBox with the help of its Graphics object. How can I save the painting into a bitmap file (not a metafile) ? Thanky in advance for any helpful hint....more >>

Hi, I've just posted this into the microsoft.public.dotnet.VB group by mistake - Just reposting it here... Have hunted around on the groups and can't find anything, hence. I've tried this against 2 mail servers (mailtraq and hmailserver) and it occus with both. The problems seems to be...more >>

Hello How can i detect if my application is allready started? if it is started, set focus to it else start it? Thanks -- You're not paid to think. A mindless worker is a happy worker. Shut up and do your job! - Tata Feudalac! --------------------------------------------------...more >>

Hi, I'm starting from my application simple bat data...test.bat. This file (test.bat) should start another aplication app.exe. I'm starting the test.bat from my application with Start() method of Process class. With proc.WaitForExit I'm waiting for end of the process and I must check the ret...more >>

Hi all: I use "gacutil /i myComponent.dll" to install my component. But I can't find it in the "Add Reference" of IDE. What's wrong? Enosh ...more >>

I have an interface where I would like to have some static functions. When I add "static" to any of the interface functions I get the following error: "The modifier 'static' is not valid for this item". Why is it not possible to define static functions in an interface? Thanks ...more >>

I have an interface for which I want to define a particular constructor. I want to force the user to implement this particular constructor. Even better would be if I could make sure there is no default constructor. That might be a bit messy because the implementer of the interface should have th...more >>

What questions would you ask when inteviewing a programmer for a dot net ap? I want a few simple things I can ask over the phone just to weed out people who have no idea what they are doing. Then I want a few more questions that are a little harder to seperate the above average people from ...more >>

Ok I am new to RegEx and what I am trying to do is find a substring. I have a string that constantly changes. This string is pulled from an Atom feed from a blog. I need to strip the HTML formatting from this string and just grab the inner text. If this is my string: "<div>Hello my name i...more >>

I really hope someone can give me some ideas. Sorry for the long post. Problem (Using .Net 1.1): We have a current asp.net application that a user uses to submit work and when it is finished view the results. It is implemented using .net remoting. The user submits a form which in turn cal...more >>

Hi all, I want to publish my application under GPL so it is open source and everyone could modify it. How could I prevent my users from installing "unauthorized" versions by fault? Someone might add malicious code and my application is then blamed for it :-( I use already strong names to ...more >>

Hey all, so I've noticed that when I load assemblies dynamically in my own custom ResolveEventHandler that their Modules do not get returned when I invoke Process.GetCurrentProcess().Modules Here is some pseudo code to show what I'm talking about: public class Foo { public Foo () {...more >>

Hi everyone, I have a long-running application (sits in the system tray waiting for something to do and interacts with the user via form and some hardware) containing an object (a reference to the aforementioned hardware and its associated functionality) that occasionally will become 'nothi...more >>

I use ReaderWriterLock to protect the internal state of a class instance from multi-threaded access, should it be declared as private member or static member of the class?...more >>

Hi I would like to know the compatibility of .NET Framework 2.0 and VS.NET 2003. Will everything work fine in this combination? What might be the framework factors, which would not be available, as we are using a 2003 IDE version? Need your help in this Prem...more >>

I am having difficulty in setting up a solution with a PDA application and a PC application and a common shared dll. Is there an easy way to achieve this? Many Thanks Gary. ...more >>

Hello, In visual studio, is there a facility that allows you to mark a line of code in the IDE so that you can come back later to that line later if you have to look at the source code somewhere else. Normlaly i notice the line number then Ctrl+G to jump to the line, but there are multiple ...more >>

I have a 31gb file that was exported from a unix box. I was trying to bulkinsert it into sql but there seems to be something wrong with the file. In order to isolate the issue I have tried splitting it into smaller files. I get an out of memory on the 7th chunk of 10,000,000 lines using the...more >>

Hi I have added a MS WebBrowser control to my winform. This adds references to Shdocvw.dll and Axshdocvw.dll . However I am using strong named assemblies in my application and hence these also need to signed with my public key. I used tlbimp and aximp tools to do this but in both cases I ge...more >>

Hi Folks, I made aninteresting discovery today in regards to the Visual Basic .NET 2.0 The My namespace My.User.Name returns the username in a Windows form application but does not work in a Windows Console Application. Not sure why. I suspect for security reasons. However I can use most o...more >>

I am running a c# application on WM5 using .NET 2.0 CF with the latest SP. The code was written in VS 2005. I have tried this on multiple devices and get the same results. Upon hitting the following line of codes the application unexpectedly terminates. The below code snippet is part of a c...more >>

In vb dot net, what is the syntax to see if something is a string? For example, if I read FieldX from a table I want to do something like: If FieldX is string then 'Do something end if except I know "is string" is not correct. What is the correct syntax? ...more >>

I create 2 data OleDbDataAdapters, one with the wizard, and one in code. I know the adapter created in code is OK because I use it to fill a data table and I then look at one of the fields and the data is there. However, when I try to use the same SQL insert statement in the two adapteres, t...more >>

here is another issue i found. When i try to show an openfiledialog in my application withh panda antivirus activated it blocks indefinitely. when i pause the debugging and look at the call stack i find that the last entry of the stack is about the PavSHook.dll, a dll of the panda antivirus ru...more >>

hi im trying to create and show an openfiledialog to let the user selecta file but the control is too slow. When i call showdialog on it it takes too long for it to appear on screen and when i move between folders it takes too much time to update it. Whhat can be producing this behaviour????...more >>

I want to obtain programatically the folder where the executable of my applicationj is installed. I want that path to find other files which are located related to the path where my application is installed. Is there antway to do this? For example i want to create a fileinfo object to retriev...more >>

Hi, I would like to obtain a list of a function's parameter's and their values dynamically at runtime from within the function itself. Currently, I record these when starting a function by 'hardcoding' them into a collection. Please see my code snippet below. I use the collection in my e...more >>

I have the following class defined: [DesignTimeVisible(false), ToolboxItem(false), Designer("Agrovision.Data.Design.CommandDesigner, Agrovision.Data.Design, Version=3.0.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=27bbda75f3eecde7", typeof(IDesigner))] public class CommandClass: Component { p...more >>

Hi i have an application wich have to retrieve information of files. I have an openfiledialog on which i cans elect a file and then i retrieve the path to the file selected on it by the user.I create a FileInfo object with that path Well when i later try to create a new fileinfo object passin...more >>

Hi, What is the best approach to deal with My.config and assemblies. When I compile an application the app.config is generated but not the assembly.config. I tried to add those setting in the application.config but this is not working. How can this be done? Thanks Bart...more >>

I have a need to run a function on my dot net 2.0 web server every xx minutes forever - whether or not a client is logged on. Anyone have suggestions or examples of good ways to do this? Thanks Bill ...more >>

I notice there is not ClickOnce forum so where is the proper forum for those issues? Here? Windows Forums? I'll post my first one here anyway for now... Thanks, T ...more >>

Hi, I am having a issue I couldn't figure out how to solve. I have a function that does WebDav Request against Exchange Server 2003. I can do about 3000 request and afterwards I get a StackOverFlowException on HttpWebRequest.Create(); This is only a stress test that is causing this issue b...more >>

Hi, Just for information, might help someone: One of our partners installed a new SSL certificate, and suddenly our HTTPS connections to them using C# .NET 1.1, started failing with this exception: ---> System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish se...more >>

You guyst might find this website useful, there is a lot of different utilities/add-in's that make a programmers life easier. You can also share your own tools or tools that you use. The tools are freeware so that should make it easier on some of us who dont have money for utilities. http://w...more >>

I already have a colleciton class that implements IEnumerable but I also what to be able to implement this inteface: MyCollectionClass["somestringkey"]. EX: //MyCollectionClass is s collection of MyObject objects MyObject mo = MyCollectionClass["somestringkey"]; or string mypr...more >>

Hi, This question probably went back a couple of times, but I didn't find anything about it on google, so I ask here... What is the best way to use the DataSource/DataBind pattern in a class? I would like the user to be able to set a data source and I'd like my class to be able to use this...more >>

hi, I am Working in a plugin Architecture for Windows application and using which i create a menu inside a parent form.for MDI Child Windows in which i need to create a MENU SEPERATOR to differentiate between two different groups of menu items. Share your ideas on it..................more >>

Hello, how can I put two byte in one String , and I want that this one byte be behind second? Like this : Dim b1,b2 As Byte ("b1=2D") ("b2=52") Dim s As String = b1&b2 ("2D52") Did this code put first byte behaind second in "str" (string)? ...more >>

hi, i am working on visual studio 2003 and i dont have any idea on how to enable source control to a solution can anyone suggest a solution for that ...more >>

Hi, I am getting weired problem all of sudden for CPU usage going to 100% for aspnet_wp.exe. This problem started after installing (CLRProfiler - 86x). I am using Framework 2.0. Before installing CLRProfiler,my application was working fine and to my strange the same application works fine on ...more >>

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - Release Candidate http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19e21845-f5e3-4387-95ff-66788825c1af Pre-released WinFX Runtime Components Uninstall Tool http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AAE7FC63-D405-4E13-909F-E85AA9...more >>

Hi, I only see beta versions and some cause terrible problems when uninstalled. Anyone know? -- Thanks in advance, Juan Dent, M.Sc....more >>

I am sorry if this is not completely business-like, but the day before a weekend it was just too funny not to post. I am working on getting a custom principal working in VS2005. The following line: CustomPrincipal test = (CustomPrincipal)Page.User; Brought up this trouble-shooting tip in ...more >>

Hi, I'm running the .Net 1.1 framework on XP Pro. I am finding some occasions where a call to Directory.Exists never returns when passing in a network share. Most of the time the call returns properly, but if the machine is really busy or if there is a network problem (or if the server's Se...more >>

My company has a large filesystem that holds hundreds of thousands of documents related to the business. Sometimes I have the need to keep metadata for some of the documents. This data could be comments, or the document's status in a process, etc. The simplest way to do this is to keep the met...more >>

Hello, is it possible in C# to create a file which is unreadable (i.e. no program can open it at all) and also at a later point to delete it? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hello, is it possible in C#.Net to get a path to a file in the form "\\Spain\Madrid\readme.txt" from a relative path i.e "readme.txt" or from a absolute path in the following form "C:\Madrid\readme.txt" where "Spain" is the name of the machine that the file is on? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi I had a small doubt about the working of DirectoryEntry. I create a DirectorySearcher and search for a particular user on my domain using ds.Filter = "sAMAccountName="+username; Then using SearchResult.GetDirectoryEntry() I get a DirectoryEntry object representing the user, say de. The ...more >>