I cannot install Microsoft. NET FrameWork 3.0. This includes the full downloaded version. Does anyone know what the error message, below means and hiow to correct this? Error Message Reads: [12/07/07,21:03:18] Windows Communication Foundation: [2] Error: Installation failed for compone...more >>

I need to download .NET Framework 2.0.50727 to run SyncToys v1.4 but am given three choices, namely : x86 version, x64 version and xIA64 version. Can someone tell me which one I need please? I have Win XP Home. Many thanks Kate ...more >>

Hello, i have a class library, with domain objects (linq based objects, in .net 3.5). i want to have this library use connection strings fro its own app.config. there are some problems: following the model used by Settings : ApplicationSettingsBase, i created a wrapper that should read the...more >>

I have not been able to receive an electronic scanned email, that my supervisor has tried to send me. I have received these messages before, and don't understand why all of sudden nothing is coming thru. My sup. tried several times and I finally suggested she send it to my yahoo email. No p...more >>

I am attempting to print out various infopath views using a print driver that prints to an image via the folowing code: Print(false); //MessageBox.Show("Printing: "+infos[i].Name); bool canAccess = false; ...more >>

I want to serialize a large tree structure of different objects to a xml file. To get a loose coupling design some classes have interface members. At runtime I get an InvalidOperationException: Cannot serialize member XYZ because it is an interface. To boil the thing down to a test example:...more >>

Hi there, If I call "System.Type.GetType()", passing in the assembly-qualified name of the type to search for, how can I go about controlling where .NET will look for the assembly containing the type. Assuming I'm not using strong names for instance (no GAC involved), and I pass the followi...more >>

Hi to all, I have a problem to download a file with httpwebrequest when _ https protocol is used _ the client is behind a proxy that requires authentication For example consider the following code: WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create("https://www.domus3d.com/ws/test.txt"); ...more >>

I have a currently executing assembly with 3 types, they are all decorated with a Custom Attribute. Can anyone show a sample of how to find all of my Types in the current Assembly that have the attribute, and then put a New instance of each type in a List? Thanks. ...more >>

All I want to gain a thorough understanding of how assembly references work in VS/.NET, but I'm having trouble locating an article that exhaustively covers this subject. Can anyone point me at a resource that I can use to gain this understanding? Thanks in advance for your assistance! ...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem. I have some DLLs developped with borland C++ and I want to use them in a project that I want to develop in Visual Studio C ++. This project is only a "conosle" that offer some methods of these DLLs. I want also to create antoher project with Visual Studio C# that is th...more >>

In .NET 2.0 any thread exception breaks the application, as opposed to 1.x where it would not. Althoguh this is a good feature in picking up potential problems and having cleaner code, what if I didn't want that to happen? I am working on a large project, which has a number of applets written i...more >>

I am trying to explicitly cast something "dynamically". The following code is not working, what is the proper syntax? Type foundtype =MyDataTable.Columns[columnname].DataType; object myvalue = (foundtype)inputvalue; The build-time error I get is "The type of namespace 'foundtype' could...more >>

I am new to publisher and I have been trying to download it. However, it will not successfully run when I download it successfully. Any help would be appreciated. ...more >>

I read a couple books on WWF but still have a basic question. If I have a Work Flow for service requests, I will want to track things like who it is assigned to, when it was submitted, when it was closed, the current status (submitted, assigned, closed). This is because we are going to want t...more >>

I am looking for a way to get a Processes "User Name", similar to that found in Task Manager. Whether it be the local logged on user, SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE, or NETWORK SERVICE. using System.Diagnostics; I have tried "StartInfo.UserName" which comes back BLANK and I have tried "StartInfo.En...more >>

Hi! Is it possible to catch all framework errors to a Table?, or is there any link with this information in order to import? Thanks Regards Joao...more >>

How to send a report on ReportViewer to Email? http://www.alvas.net - Audio tools for C# and VB.Net developers + Christmas gift ...more >>

Hello.... On the main thread of an application I create a number(20) of BackgroundWorkers that have on their DoWork event a method that creates an Assembly using this class : public class InvokeDynamicMethod { public void InvokeMethod(string assemblyName, string className, str...more >>

I have a powerpoint presentation, and I want to programatically extract out the embedded audio in the slides onto .wav files on disk (and remove them from the presentation). Given the powerpoint presentation/slides/slide objects, how would I query the slide to determine if it has audio, and to ...more >>

Hi, I have a managed C++ program that needs to check if the .NET framework v1.1 exists each time it runs. I wish I only had to do this at installation time but users have removed the framework and encountered a crash and entered complaints so I have to add the check. I know how to do th...more >>

Preamble: Users table: UserID int, PK, not null .... CultureID int, FK, null Cultures table: CultureID int, OK, not null .... When updating the DB directly, I can set the CultureID column to NULL in an SQL update: e.g. UPDATE Users SET CultureID=NULL WHERE UserID=11 However, whe...more >>

Hi: Can anyone clarify whether I should be using Dispose() on a System.Diagnostics.Process object after I have launched an external application with Start()? The application I have launched is *not* a modal application and should continue to execute even if the lanuching application is c...more >>

Hi, under Vista it is not possible to interact with users-desktop msdn suggests using CreateProcessAsUser and I found a partial implementation of this method in managed code here http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2004/10/28/602.aspx however i do not know how to obtain token of a ...more >>

I wrote a little test to demonstrate. Test 1 - should fail - can not cast null to an Int16 Test 2 - should result in the value 0 - one cast on the value returned Test 3 - should result in the value 0 - cast on each return value Test 4 - should result in the value 0 - normal cast Test 5 - shou...more >>

Hi all, I have the following problem. I have a database table that I want to read using LINQ and being able to access field values by name, like this: var languages = from lg in context.SystemLanguages select lg; foreach (SystemLanguage lang in languages) { // now I'd like to do smth...more >>

Hello, As soon as I know a VSTO (Visual Studio Tools For Office) applications directory must been configured in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Configuration. In the Framework 2.0 the configuration tool will only be installed together with the SDK. Is there another way to configure the secur...more >>

I am looking for the extreme-fastest way to count the occurence of a "\t" character in a stringbuilder. I have a massive, dynamically created one and need to count them without converting the whole thing to a multimegabyte string and then splitting or something equally horrid. Thanks. ...more >>

JTidy is a java library that will populate an XML DOM from an HTML string. The XML DOM has XPATH. Is there a similar library for C# and VB.NET programers that will allow me to perform XPATH queries on HTML? Also, what is the name of the HTTP client that will allow me to fetch the HTML from ...more >>

I own a Dell 4600C and every time I try to install SP 3, I get an authenication message and run the authenication program. It tells me that my system is not valid. However, when I run diagnotics and/or other apps that check the software and OS, I am told that everything is MS. How can I get...more >>

Hi, I've created a class library assembly containing several string resource = files, like: - TableColumns.resx - TableColumns.de.resx - General.resx - General.de.resx I don't know how to address each of these having automatic language = fall-back enabled. If I write... new = ...more >>

The .NET Framework 3.5 installation fails for me. Right after the "Downloading components" stage, it sits for a few seconds on "Setup has finished downloading components, you can now disconnect from the Internet" and then it starts to roll back. I'm using XP SP2. A glance in the log files shows ...more >>