This is kind of a question about C# and kind of one about the framework. Hopefully, there's an answer in there somewhere. :) I'm curious about the status of 32-bit vs 64-bit in C# and the framework classes. The specific example I'm running into is with respect to byte arrays and the BitCo...more >>

Is it possible, using static properties, to have a shared object in the GAC that can be accessed by differnet processes? If so, how? If not, how can I have a shared .NET object that can used by different processes? Thanks. Amil ...more >>

Hi, I am currently getting System.InvalidOperationException: Hashtable insert failed. Load factor too high error. I noticed that this only seems to happen, when we are trying to do run a Stress Tool with a few users(5-10). I know this is a known issue in .net 1.1, but there seems to be ...more >>

I saw a question from Norman Yuan several months back with the same problem I'm having now. Never saw an answer. My currency that should be displayed as $200.00 is displayed as ¤200.00 randomly when my production server is under load. It doesn't happen on the dev computers. An IIS reset tem...more >>

I can't for the life of me figure out how to check or uncheck a cell programmatically. I've looked in Lutz's reflector to see how the control is doing it and it calling an UpdateButtonState method that I don't have access to. This must be super simple but I'm just missing something. Any hel...more >>

We have a utility that creates a resources.dll on the users computer. Can anyone tell me if .Net Framework SDK tools, like al.exe, can be distributed with .Net applications? Thanks, MattH ...more >>

I have a Custom Collection Editor and overridden some methods - everything works fine... BUT I now want to block the up and down buttons, so the User won't be able to move the Collection Items within the Index. Is there any possibilty by overriding a method so it won't move the collectio...more >>

I followed the following example to create an html text editor. http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/editor_in_windows_forms.asp It works great but when you press enter in the text box the control inserts p tags instead of br tags. So you end up with double spacing throughout the docume...more >>

Is it posible to get/set the cursor position of the webbrowser control? With a regular text box you can use the SelectionStart property. Any help would be greatly appreciated....more >>

I have some Jscript compiled code the works on XP but gets stack overflows on my 2003 server. The Jscript code uses recursive calls. If the nember of levels is more than 4, I receive a stack overflow. On the XP (using same .dll compiled code, .net 1.1) I can have more than 10 levels withou...more >>

hi all, please review the following code snipped, my goal is just to transform a document. The problem is that XmlWriter.Create do not honor passed Trans.OutputSettings. The debuggin shows that Trans.OutputSettings.Encoding is set to {System.Text.UTF8Encoding}, but OutWriter.Settings.Encodin...more >>

Hi All, I have created an App Domain in a process on the first request. Now I would like retrieve the same AppDomain everytime there is certain type of request. Is it possible? -- Regards, Debasish Pramanik Assetlink India. Phone: +91 20 26119531 (226) ...more >>

For some reason the question, "Can I make an EXE that is both a Windows Service and a Console Application?" has come up quite a bit for me over the last few weeks. I've been doing this for years, but for some reason I've never seen it documented anywhere. C# (or VB.Net) is perfectly happy t...more >>

Is there anything correspondant to the iterator for Dictionary<>? For example, something which is similar to std::map::iterator in C++? Reply please. Thanks in advance. Hyun-jik Bae ...more >>

Hi all, I read I can use SMTP channel to send SOAP message. But what is the benefit of using SMTP instead of TCP, HTTP? Hardy ...more >>

Hello, I have a .NET object that's registered in COM+. I'm calling it from a VB6 dll that's registered in COM+ like so: Set objEFV = CreateObject("MyDotNetDLL.MyClass") strResult = objEFV.DoMyMethod(Param1, Param2) I think it's registered correctly. I generated a .tlb file for it on...more >>

What is the interval when garbage collection is run and is there a way to monitor it through Perfmon?...more >>

Does the file system watcher have a why to tell if a file or directory is created. ThaFileSystemWatchernk you -- Jerry ...more >>

Hi, Can anybody please help me out to solve this problem. I try to find the solution of it all around but i m not able to get it from anywhere. I have created on ActiveX control in VS 2005. I have put one Third Party Control(which is created in VB) on that ActiveX control. Now I have deployed t...more >>

Hi, I have a client application that is using remote objects from a IIS. Everything works fine when using this from my code. However. When a word add-in loads my code the request fails with a message that it can not find the a assembly. The assembly in question is one that is reference...more >>

I'm trying to use the StreamReader to read messages from a newsgroup but after downloading several messages it will get stuck on the streamReader.Peek line and never timeout (or at least not after 12 hours) Any suggestions on how to timeout? ...more >>

I have a device application with a database in it.I want to push the tables from this database to the one in Remote SQL Server.I have written the both the devce and the Windows application in VB.net. The methods to accomplish the aboce are RDA,WebServices,Replication. Now i do not know how to wr...more >>

Hi, I design programs starting with the database and once I have a solid database I buikd the classes from these and work my way upto the interface ? is there a name for this development style ? does it fit into top - down , bottom - up design ? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I try to read some data from a server using LDAP with the System.DirectoryServices.Protocols types. I startet with: .... string server = "servername.intern.MyCompany.de:52000"; LdapDirectoryIdentifier ldapDir = new LdapDirectoryIdentifier(server, false, false); LdapConnection ldapCo...more >>

Hi, I want to create a new constructor in a class that inherits from another... in VB.Net I still want to call the base class after some code has 'manipulated' the parameters VB is telling me i carn't as MyBase.New needs to be the first call in the New methd.... But how else could i ...more >>

Any built in framework function that takes a string array and converts it back to a concatenated string with a delimiter? Thanks. ...more >>

I have a website which currently uses an ActiveX component made in Delphi. The ActiveX provides a simple but nice functionality to the website. Recently, it was ported from the old Asp, to Asp.Net 2.0. I was wondering, if I want to replace the Delphi ActiveX component, what could I use to create...more >>

Hi, I'm currently building a little web site for me and my friends where we would like to be able to post big files (10Mb to 250Mb approx.) Right now the ASP.Net UploadFile control can't do it as we are limited 1) by the MaxRequestLength (4Mb) and 2) with big files (such as 250Mb) the server ...more >>

Hello I am having an issue with re-installing a DLL with the GAC. When I modify the DLL, I first unistall the assembly by right clicking on the assembly and select uninstall. I then copy the modified DLL to the assembly folder. Everything looks like it worked fine, except I do not see ...more >>

hi I have a web page with displays informations from an xml. On the same web page is a "save xml as" button and when the button gets fired, I want to display a save as dialog for the user to save the xml in a file on his client machine. Is this possible to do, we have savefiledialog in winfor...more >>

Hi there, I've got an IIS webserver running on a WIN 2000 Pro machine w/ installed NET Framework 1.1 hosting an ASP.NET application for more than one year - working perfectly. No changes to the system or the app. Today calling an aspx page on the local machine suddenly results in a crash o...more >>

Hi, I was testing out a simple project and I did a "setup" project for my simple application. After installed the application, everything went horribly wrong. All my other applications executable has been "hijacked". Whenever I click any program, my simple application got launched. I can...more >>

Hi I just thought of writing my MCTS exam, which targets .NET 2.0. However, i also came across many info on .NET 3.0, now this just makes me to think, whether should i go ahead and do MCTS? Any idea when is 3.0 getting released and is there any new IDE again going to be launched for it? ...more >>

Hi everybody Do you know how to change which framework a web site should use - = programmatically? For example: my web server has both Framework 1.1 and 2.0. My = installation/deployment program has to set a specific web site to run = under Framework 2.0. How to do it through ADSI or else?...more >>

Hi, all I want to customize the column of DataGridView as a DataTimePicker control in a windows form, how to do this? Could you give me several samples of VB.net? Thanks in advance. Steven ...more >>

Do I need version 1.1 and it's service pack if I install version 2? Thanks in advance....more >>

Hi, I want to know if having to many using (imports in VB) statements at the top of a class or page can hit on the performance of the application or on the memory usage of the application. I use ASP.NET framework v2.0... When creating a web page there are about 10-15 using statements at t...more >>

I need to copy Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel from the GAC but I can't figure out how to do that. What happens if I uninstall it from the GAC? Does it disappear completely from the system or is a copy made somewhere? ...more >>

Im creating a app that will go through all the OU's and look for a certain user by username. In doing some testing I noticed that its not filtering everything out exept for user ObjectClass. It seems to be pulling computers as well. Not sure why this is happening but need to limit it to just use...more >>

Hello, Using VS2005, I have a Windows Forms app that uses the default Settings.settings file. When the app is built, the properly-named app.settings file is built into the output directory, and it contains the correct application-level settings. Controls in the app that are bound to set...more >>

I am currently getting the error described in the above kb article. Does anyone have the fix file suggested in the article that can be e-mailed to me? Regards ...more >>

Im creating a app that will pull a list of usernames in a txt doc and then find them in active directory and set the "User must change password at next login" attribut. I would like to limit it to a specific out and all sub OU under it. Im having issues nailing down the scope. I set the OU i wan...more >>

Hello everybody, Until now, our company has not required us to use UML. I am looking for some suggestions of some books that might help me to get up to speed. There are two books I am looking at: UML Distilled (Third Edition) Writing Effective Use Cases (Cockburn) Are there any other...more >>

Hi, I've written a very quick console app to recursive through a directory tree and display directories that have explicit file permissions (code below). It works, but GetAccessControl() fails on some folders (always the same) with the error: The binary form of an ACE object is invalid....more >>

I have a mapping table that I need to query to generate my report. The table structure is as below: Mapping table m_id m_table m_dept org dept id table 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 ...more >>

I need version information from and non-gac based assembly. And I need it at command line. Is there an command line application that shows it? It's a tiny app to make myself, but I still want to ask before I do it.... Thanks for any answers, -pom- ...more >>

I have XP Home Edition. MS Update tells me I need .net framework. I am a casual user, just reading and surfing, no work done on here. Do I need to install the .net framework? Thanks in advance....more >>

Does anyone know if it is possible to return an object from a remoting interface and have it be usable with .NET? I am trying to accomplish what I used to do in DCOM where I would call a function on an interface and it would return a new remote object. I could then call functions on that new...more >>

I'm running service pack 2 on XP I tried to install the runtime files for framework 2, but it is always hanging at the same place the install dialog shows Stopping Services Services: IIS Admin I can't get past this point.... HELP!!!...more >>

thought my post is too long the short version is: i have this tag in my HTML file served by IIS <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> IE show this page correctly but I need to detect the characterset of the response and HttpWebResponse webresp = (H...more >>

Thanks for the useful link and comment. Any way I can force the IIS to send the page in the charset I want when there is no accept-charset in the request header (something like default charset option in the server)? ...more >>

I have my UserControls in a subdirectory called usercontrols. In the code for one of my UserControls I have the following: Public Property adimage() As String Get Return lnkAdvertisement.ImageUrl End Get Set(ByVal value As String) Respons...more >>

What is the CLR class correspondant to std::vector<> or CArray<>? I looked for how to resize object[] (aka array<object> in C++/CLI), but I cannot find it yet. Please reply. Thanks in advance. Hyun-jik Bae ...more >>

I am using ASP.NET 2.0's ImageMap Control to create 2 imagemaps, one directly below the other. When I do this a thin blank space appears between them. After several days of frustration I realized that the difference between what the ImageMap Control outputs and the html on the page I was try...more >>

hello, I just started working with this class at the low level and am having issues. 1) I am instantiating a StreamReader and feeding my NetworkStream to its constructor. the bytes that the StreamReader reads from the server are perfect. however the StreamReader never stops reading / l...more >>

I have a VS2005 migrated web application project. My query is whether my project will get loaded in WIN2000 MACHINES WITH IIS 5.0. without any errors. Please provide your points on this as I have very less time....more >>

Hi all, I'm looking to implement a single sign on solution for .NET applications. This single sign on solution will need to work against a variety of back- end databases (i.e. SQL (mainly), Active Directory (some), Custom Data Sources (XML, MDB, Custom Web Service, etc). Is there any samp...more >>

Does anyone know of a way (without looking through decompiled ASP.Net code) to convert a String to a Type using the generic TypeConverter stuff? I am writing a deserializer, but I would prefer not to have a custom codepath just for String->Type, but the following code throws a NotSupportedE...more >>

Hi I have a byte-array, in which one of the bytes has the value 149 (hex95) which represents a dot ( • ). The same character has the unicode value of 8226 (hex 2022) But when I try to decode the byte-array into a string, that character is not converted into the correct value. If I u...more >>

Hi guys, I need to get a list of the computers with the same workgroup as the one where my program is runing. I want to have the same thing as in Windows XP, when I display all members of my network, but I haven't found anything in the framework to do it. Is there some way with .NET? If...more >>

Hi I have an OU named TempOU set at my domain controller. All my users are getting created in this OU. I have a group policy setup for this OU. Can anyone tell me how to read the values for these settings in C# code. i need to read lockoutDuration and maxPwdAge. Thanks and regards Vikas Man...more >>

I am using DirectoryServices to get all groups and all users from active directory. Now I want to use the filter to limit the groups and users. I would like to remove the builtin groups. I use the code below but the built in groups are still there. The main question is how do I construct the f...more >>

I'm experimenting with the SmtpClient class in c# and I have run into a knotty problem. I'm using the ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem to queue a delegate which creates an SmtpClient and attempts to send an email. Basically, If I try and create a new SmtpClient object in a thead managed by the ...more >>

What is the collection class correspondent to std::set? I know Dictionary<> roles as std::map... Please reply. Thanks in advance. Hyun-jik Bae ...more >>