Hi, Here are the things we have already tested. Installed WinXP MUI pack also, but still showing the text in English only. Could you please help me in this regards to get the text of MessageBox in other locale. Regards Gangadhar Kotu...more >>

Hi On a web page, there is a dropdown list, when you select a country from the dropdown list, info for that country is displayed, can i programmatically simulate this behaviour. can someone give the code for such a download. TIA Barry ...more >>

Hi, string.Format("{0,-20} : {1,-10}", a,b); The above code will output string left aligned, 20 or 10 for string a and b. It true for English, but not for any CJK language. If a or b are CJK string, it will never aligned. The reason is that for Chinese (or Japanese, Korean), each characte...more >>

Hello, I'm looking for documentation on how FileInfo.MoveTo acts when it fails -- in particular I want to know if it's possible to end up with the file in both locations. I've searched MSDN and used google, but apparently my search skills aren't up to the task... -- J. Moreno ...more >>

For any given type i want to know its default value. There is a neat keyword called default for doing this like object x = default(DateTime); but I have an instance of Type (called someType) and something like this cant work object x = default(someType); Is there any nice way of doing th...more >>

Hi there I've been trying to implement an ACTIVE FTP mode in my class. Read tons of great articles about the difference of Active and Passive modes, in particular this one, which I find very good http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html, but it seems that many have tried to actually implement...more >>

I'm testing on web application (.net 1.1 using C#). when I tested the application on local machine (IIS5.0,XP professinal), it return value for Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name However, When I tested the same application on the server (IIS6.0, 2003 Server), it return nothing for Thread.C...more >>

I bought Office Student/Home 2007 with 3 license keys and installed it onto my new Acer Laptop, this notebook was faulty so I returned it to Acer and they replaced it, so I aain installed Office and yes you have guessed it, it failed so I now have a Gateway Laptop which functions brilliantly B...more >>

I would like the objects/methods/properties I create to show informational text in Visual Studio's Intellisense. For example, when a method shows up in Intellisense, you see it's signature, but you will often see a description of what the method does under its signature. I assume there is an a...more >>

Assuming such a thing exists, I'm looking for a way - ideally a Framework function - that would read the serial number or machine ID or system GUID or some unique identifier of the a PDA (Pocket PC or other PDA with the Compact Fraamework) connected to the desktop. Since "Windows" is installe...more >>

I have a dataset called Checklists created with the dataset designer giving me Checklists.designer.cs It has a [Serializable()] attribute, i.e., [Serializable()] public partial class Checklists { .... } In another file, ChecklistsExt.cs I have public partial class Checklists{ publ...more >>

outlook express compressed my emails and now I cant find any from the last 2 months I really need to locate some of them Please can any tell me where have they gone or how to restore them and why has it done this -- denny...more >>

I've installed MMC 3.0 onto my XP machine. When I start mmc.exe and do Help > About Microsoft Management Console I get the new Help > About screen which shows: Microsoft (R) Management Console 3.0 Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254 : Service Pack 2) etc. and yet there doesn'...more >>

Like to keep Office as up to date as possible and have downloaded and installed this update. States has been installed, however Word etc. still report version as 11.3.8. Should it not read 11.3.9 if installation was successful?...more >>

Hi there, I deploy my WPF application with Visual Studio 2008 and ClickOnce. My application runs with the ;Net 3.0 framework, but during the installation steps, the .Net 3.5 component is required... Do you know why ? Could VStudio 2008 need this component ? Oriane ...more >>

hi -- not sure where the best place would be to post this; please point me elsewhere if there's another list more apropos... we've got two apps, one in java, one in .Net, and we're trying to put some glue together to transfer data back and forth between them: - reading data FROM the .Net app...more >>

Hi to all ! For list of all papersize forms of default printer I'm using: Dim i As Integer, cFormName as String Dim oDoc As New System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument() For i = 0 To oDoc.PrinterSettings.PaperSizes.Count - 1 cFormName = oDoc.PrinterSettings.PaperSizes(i).PaperName Next ...more >>

I'm currently working on framework 1.1 webapplication using C#. When I test the application located in my local machine, it works fine to "Directory.CreateDirectory()". However, I test the application use in server machine, it doesn't work. it make security log like below. Anyone has a idea fo...more >>

Hello, because there are no managed news group for window presentation foundation and one has told me I can use this, here my problem: I have one resource-definition, for example in an own xaml file, a large number of objects defined as resources. Now I need these resources (objects) in...more >>

Dear subscribers I have a question related to strong naming (signing) of assemblies to avoid tampering. The reason for this question is that I'll like to investigate the means to protect sensitive data in an application. For starters, one thing that I don't fully understand, is there anything...more >>

Hi, I tried the code below: for(int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) { int a = i; Thread task = new Thread(delegate() { Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Thread start: a = {0}, i = {1}", a, i)); }); task.Start(); } And the output is Thread start: a = 0, i = 2 Thread ...more >>

Hello there, is there a way to override predefined Serializer for LINQ to SQL class objects? MSLinqToSQLGenerator generates classes for accessing Database. I want to create a Webservice which should be able to do certain Operation on Database and should serialize certain objects. Serialize...more >>

I have had this problem for some time now and cant seem to fix it, cpu temp ok, and windows just shuts down without warning and randomly. Last shutdown brought up a blue screen with this. A problem has been detected & windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If th...more >>

In a VB application I have been using reflection to temporarily detach events during serialization (a technique suggested by Andrea Zanetti & Riccardo Munisso http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Article/19835/1763/page/3). The technique involves using Reflection.EventInfo to get the list of events,...more >>

We create a new eventlog for our inhouse apps, and we all our clickonce (C#) apps are writting in the event log, if the user is a local ADMIN. but for non-admin users, our apps are unable to write to any event log. how to allow a click once apps to write in an event log for non-admin user? ...more >>

I am interested in write a client-server application in C# using web services and ASP.NET. I am looking for a good book containing a tutorial on how to do this. I want a C# front-end, not a browser front- end. I have extensive experience with Java fat clients and the tomcat server (author of...more >>

Hi, I am looking for a predefined delegate which in form: delegate void NoArgument(); It's quite useful than other delegate with argument, I found MethodInvoker in WinForms, which defined in such form, but I don't want to add WinForm reference all the time, since my code nothing relative...more >>

I have a disastrous .NET problem after trying to install some fixes yesterday. Now everything I try to do in VS.Net results in a problem. Previous built ..exe's fail. Programs which used to build without errors now get errors. In some cases I can't even open the form designer - I get "res...more >>

I am converting a C++ MFC client-server application to C# dotNet and I would like to switch my TCP/IP messages to use dotNet remoting concepts. I can successfully implement many remoting samples, for example from Wrox Press Professional C#. However all of these find have trivial objects that a...more >>

Is there a tool (command line or otherwise) that can be used to validate the signature of a ClickOnce manifest or application file? Thanks in advance! Jediah L. ...more >>

Hi, is System.IO.Ports.SerialPort supported in 64bit? I'm writing C# application and its worked fine with 32 bit. But in 64-bit, System.IO.Ports.SerialPort never fire up the Event Handler (e.g. PinChangedEvent ). Please, Help? Regards, Bandu ...more >>

I have an application with a C# menu, that calls individual C programs, by starting a thread for each call. This way the program is in one thread, and the menu is in another thread, until they exit the program and that thread ends. The problem is the static data in the program, such as data...more >>