Hello, because there are no news group for window presentation foundation and one has told me I can use this, here my problem: I have a bitmap in wpf for example using BitmapImage. Now I want to change brightness, Colors etc. In gdi+ this was done by using a color-matrix, in windows pres...more >>

When I go to reinstall vista I cant activate the key code because it says it has been used already. Please help...more >>

I'm running Vista Ultimate 64-bit. Whenever I start up the .NET Framework 2.0 Configuration tool, it always crashes on me before I can do anything with it. It crashes immediately after it starts up. How do I get around this? Thanks. ...more >>

I am trying to install internet secutiry software but keep getting a message saying I can't remove or install this program with Windows Mail running. I have tried just signing out and closing windows mail but continue to get the same message. How can I turn it off completely?...more >>

Hi, Please can you help me, i want to create Compiled html help file for my Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition's project. Can you advise me please? Thanks so much Tvin ...more >>

there seems to be some overhead between SQL Server 2005 and a CLR function written in C#. Why is this? I have a simple wraper around System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() : public partial class UserDefinedFunctions { [Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction] public static lon...more >>

What is the best possible resolution that C# timing tests can get? milliseconds? nanoseconds? ...more >>

Hello, all. Can anybody point me to documentation about how can I programmaticaly (via C#) iterate through the global assembly cache on Mono? I know how to do it using Microsoft .NET on Windows by using a bunch of P/Invokes against some COMs. However, that's obviously not a portable so...more >>

Hello, I wrote a Windows Service is VB.NET and it works like clock work every night. The problems is that the driver I am using to connect to a datasource become inactive at a period of time. I destroy all it's dependencies and recreate the connection every time the Windows Service need...more >>

Hi, we're trying to get to grips with using ClickOnce installers and are having some problems. Once installed, the majority of the application will reside in the following directory: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Apps\2.0\<x>\<y> \<z> where <x>, <y> and <z> are seaming...more >>

I don't know where to report a bug to MS. Here is the bug description: I have an activeX created by ATL/C++, which shows a tree view with multiple state checkboxes and icons. It works fine to embed the activeX to the main form of a C# form application. If I create another subform to host the...more >>

OK, let me try one more time before I give up... We have an application for .net 1.1 framework. Now I am converting it to .net 2.0. All our assemblies are strongly named. We are using the same public keys in .net 2.0 as we did in .net 1.1. We are using application block but since we have m...more >>

Hi I have a situation wherein I need hashtable type functionality and at the same time, the collection must preserve the order of the items. In other words, if I add items Key Value "a" "Val - A" "X" "Val - X" "b" "Val - B" When I enumerate over the collection, I ...more >>

Operative Systen WinsowsXP-Pro SP2. IE 6 or IE 7 Normally you get the choises "Open Home Page" and "Start Without Add-ons" when you right click on the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop. On 3 different PC's I have experienced that these choices disappears. It means that when you try starti...more >>

Hi, I have created a windows application to send emails using vs 2005 in vb.net. I am having problems sending the emails. The operating system on which this application is run is windows vista business. we have an exchange server 2007 that is in the same network. I am trying to send the e...more >>

easiest way to upload a C# class library to a SQL server 2005 and deploy as CLR function Do I have to upload the .dll and then run sql command to load it into sql server, or is there a more integrated way to do this in visual studio 2005 with a SQL Server Project? or do i have to manualu up...more >>

EventType clr20r3, P1 perfws.exe, P2 1.0.0.0, P3 47151b11, P4 perfws, P5 1.0.0.0, P6 47151b11, P7 32, P8 2b7, P9 system.exception, P10 NIL. I am running a Windows Service application that does multithreaded asynchronous HttpListeners and Socket calls. I am catching all exceptions in my cod...more >>

One more try since I don't have the option to remove PublicKeyToken as somebody pointed that here.. We are using enterprise library (EL) in our application. We want to upgrade our application from .net 1.1 to .net 2.0. Since we have changed code in enterprise library, we can't just go with...more >>

I hit this bug last night in some test code I had written. It took a few minutes to figure out what the root cause was, and it left me thinking, "Wow. That was an interesting one that doesn't come up very often!". So, for fun, who sees the bug and can explain why it's happening? List<Threa...more >>

I am receiving REF errors on a spreadsheet where I track hours for drivers. How can I correct this error without copying and pasting a new column for each person?...more >>

Howdy everyone. I've been looking online for the past few week about calls to the garbage collector in .NET. Current I'm using code that through inheirtance is using a class that invokes the GC.Collect call every 10 minutes. I'm working on a dataserver and the genius that put in the GC.Collect...more >>

We are using enterprise library (EL) in our application. We want to upgrade our application from .net 1.1 to .net 2.0. Since we have changed code in enterprise library, we can't just go with the newer version, we will have to keep the old version. All out assemblies are strongly named! I ...more >>

Hi, When to use class and when structure in our application? Thanks, Bhuwan ...more >>

Hi there, what happens if I write a multi-threaded application and run it on a multi-processor or multi-core machine? I mean: are all the threads executed on the same core/CPU the same? Or can they be executed on different CPUs/cores? Can you link me any documentation abou this issue? Th...more >>

I have an application that starts the default browser by using Process.Start(URL). The one time that I get a file not found exception is when Firefox has crashed and comes up with the "Firefox - Restore Previous Session" screen. It does seem to start up but for some reason an exception is thr...more >>

How to create a CLR DLL for Sql Server 2005? Is it just any .net class library that you can load into Sql Server 2005 or is there some special project type that I need to start with? ...more >>

whenever I leave my PC , I get the warning "could not find the flash.ocr" and the screen saver deos not load. Operating system Windows XP media player how can I fix this? ...more >>

Hi, I am using C# with framework 2.0 and creating PDF files on-fly, along with this I am using Windows 2003 Server. I am using Byte[] to take the data input and then save into pdf format on harddrive location. Now after creating few successful pdf files, I am getting "System.OutOfMemoryE...more >>

Hi, I'm looking to build an application that fires off a number of processes. I have created a class (process wrapper) that contains an instance of a Process and some associated information like a friendly name, enum flag for status (e.g. started, not started etc). This class will manage th...more >>

Is LINQ to SQL supported in the 3.0 Framework or is it only available in 3.5? Thanks, JP...more >>

I have a class that has a generic method that looks something like this: Public Sub Initialize(Of T As MyBusinessListBase(Of T, C), _ C As MyBusinessBase(Of C)) _ (ByRef dataSource As MyBusinessListBase(Of T, C), _ ByVal reportName As String, ByVal keyProper...more >>

Hello, I have a questions regarding the issue "Does .NET 2.0 contain .NET 1.1": We want to install .NET on a machine that has only 1 GByte Flash Harddisc. At the moment, there are developement teams that already have Visual Studio 2005 and use .NET 2.0 language features, but also teams tha...more >>

After looking at some of the videos on MSDN on WPF all I see are spinning stars and other neat graphics. Is it possible and is it smart to write business applications in WPF using datagrids and all of the common widgets. Are there any demos of real applications using WPF? Is there even one r...more >>

I built a vista image and installed vs 2008 beta 2 in anticipation of using SilverLight. After reading up on silverlight in the forums I find it doesn't even have basic widgets, data access, or much of anything other than animations. Likely a year away from being useful. So, given that, w...more >>

Hello, friends, The following function works fine if the classSource has relatively smaller number of properties. However, it would give an exception when its number of properties gets bigger, say about 100. Any ideas? If this does not work, then, what is the better way to copy data from...more >>

whats with this it has been working for almost a year now nothing. I am able to use my hotmail email account to send emails with no problem but now i cannot use my windows live messenger for IM's and that is all my relatives have to use in Europe. Uninstalled and reinstalled still nothing My y...more >>

I'm trying to centralize some initialization routines in my web application by placing logic into a 'base form' that all web pages inherit from. In the class for the base form, I would like to be able to reference in some event (Pre_load, perhaps), the inheriting class without having to expli...more >>