Hi, I am new to programming with a hand held. I am working with Pocket PC 2003, .NET 1.1, SQL Server 2000, SQLCE 2.0. I am using merge replication to sync the data between my SQLCE and SQL 2000 database. After the sync I want to start a process on the desktop that will take the rows from on...more >>

how to force a .net application to use .net 2.0 ? this windows service is about 4 years old and im pretty sure is using .net 1.x runtime. Is there soem setting in the installer that says to use .net 2.0 instead of .net 1.0? this windows service is developed in visual studio 2002 ...more >>

Hi, With .NET 2.0 a new Mutex constructor was added that takes a MutexSecurity object as a parameter. The interesting thing is the following statement from the MSDN documentation: If the named mutex has already been created with access control security, and the caller does not have Mute...more >>

Hi, If you use just throw without parameter should preserve the complete stack trace and the exception information. for example: 1. private void Bar() 2. { 3. try 4. { 5. string s = null; 6. if (s.Length == 0) 7. return; 8. } 9. catch 10. { 11. // do some proce...more >>

I already have 2.0 Framework (and VS2005 + SP) on my PC. I wanted to work throught the book "Test-Driven Development in Microsoft ..NET, Newirk & Vorontsov, 2004". I downloaded the source from the author's site. It is an MSI. When I run the MSI it demands the Framework version 1.1.4322 be inst...more >>

Is there a way to modify the UI on Windows Desktop Search? Programmatically or through a xml or css file? maybe xaml? Can I remove or Add an Item to the Other Drop Down. Can I remove the Music search? I don't work for a music company or radio station. As well as the web button can I get rid ...more >>

Hey everyone, I'm working on a project to set up a new user in AD using VB. I have the connection working and I'm able to get most of the settings done. However I can't find the properties to set the password to never expire and the user cannot change password. I'd also like to be able ...more >>

Hi all, I have a XSD file to define the structure of XML. I generated typed DataSet by running "xsd rey_SvcApptView.xsd /dataset" command. Then I run following statements to populate DataSet with XML content, NewDataSet nds = new NewDataSet(); nds.ReadXml(@"c:\temp\rey_SvcApptView.xml"); I...more >>

I am working with a Server 2003 Standard SP2 box with both .NET Framework 1.0 and .NET Framework 2.0 installed. I want to uninstall .NET Framework 1.0 but do not want to break any of the apps that depend on .NET Framework. From my understanding, apps that depend on .NET Framework 1.0 are a...more >>

Trouble in the house. I have a BL-component with different shared get and save methods. When I get my data I put everything in a shared field. When I call the save method my shared field(hashtable) is saying "length=error cannot obtain value". When I call my get method again then the field...more >>

Hi, I am using DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddThhmmss"), but time is displayed in 12-hours format. How can I force .NET to display 24 hours format? Can I do something with the CultureInfo of the current thread. I do not want it to be dependent of the settings of the computer. Any help appre...more >>

I am trying to use DateTime.Now to apply a frame limit to my 3d application. Below is the code involved. In this example I have hard coded it for 60 frames per second (1000 milliseconds / 60 fps). public void Execute() { while(!_close) { DateTime n=DateTime.Now; TimeSpan t=n.Subtra...more >>

I have recently purchased a new computer pre-installed w/vista and fornt page does not work quite the same. I can upload my webs but cannot open (IE Download the web) Can Anyone give me some thoughts as to why? -- Rick...more >>

Is there any Microsoft USB driver support in .NET 3.0. In .NET 2.0 this was a glaring omission - developers having to rely on libusb-win32, which is certainly not perfect. -- Regards, David Harrison...more >>

I have an application that when it is locked I activate a password dialog. I trigger it by adding a message filter. public class AuthenticationMessageFilter : IMessageFilter { private const int SC_RESTORE = 0xF120; private const int SC_MAXIMIZE = 0xF030; private cons...more >>

hi, i'm trying to read out the registry keys in my win application.. but fir few keys..i'm encountering the below error "Request access to the registry isn't allowed". how can i solve it... what settings should i prefer?...more >>

hi, i've a requirement to scan the registry keys programatically in a console application and read the data of the keys.. given a registry key, say,"HKEY_USERS". user should be able to scan the subkeys of the given key recursively(i.e. all the subkeys of the given subkeys etcc..) till the l...more >>

Hi! I recently had to create an application using smart card certificates, but since this was going to be a server application we had to insert the smart card pin from the software. So, I embarked on a mission to use P/Invoke but realized there is a CspParameter constructor that ...more >>

Hi there I'm looking for a good book or a couple of good books for learning C# and the .Net framework. I have a background with C++ programming and I'd say I'm fairly competent, I have also used a bit of managed C++ and little C# but now I need to get a better understanding of both the langua...more >>

is a reader automaticaly disposed if the connection it is associated with is closed? what will happen if an app: while true open connection open reader close connection end while ...more >>

Hi ALL Does anyone know if dotnet 2 is available in an MSI format as I would like to distribute VIA GPO or where I can obtain one Thanks W ...more >>

Is it possible to write a .net Service that would map a remote share to a drive letter. The reasons: Mistake 1 A long time ago someone wrote lots and lots of programs in vb6 that require driver letter type drive mappings. Mistake 2 They would log on to the server with a shared accou...more >>

I want to use VC++.Net 2005 to automate Microsoft word.I have checked the code available online for C# but the code could not be translated as it is to VC++ as the compiler was giving errors for the properties could not be found. Below is the code where i am stuck,Please help. Object ...more >>

I am working through some examples in Workflow foundation and the code uses lines like xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/workflow" xmlns:my="http://schemas.example.org/MyStuff" in the code. These lines are in a lot of places and I can't find much about them. Can you g...more >>

First, I want to confess I am not security expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I have been tasked with securing our dB connection information for our distributed windows applications. Essentially I would like to store the information in an encrypted XML file, but the problem I can...more >>

Hi, I have a VC++ COM DLL which is making calls to C#.net DLL. The C#.net DLL functions which are byte array expecting SAFEARRAY from VC++ DLL. VC++ DLL get called from my VB client where I need to pass this SAFEARRAY as VARIANT to VB. Could anyone help me how to get byte array from C# int...more >>

I have just completed an undelete program in C#/.NET2 for NTFS. Of course to use it you have to have .NET2 framework installed. To widen the potential audience for this program, I was wondering if it is possible to have the clr etc. loaded with the program from a CD. I realise that the registr...more >>

i seem to be having memory issues, will deplying a release build instead of a debug build help with memory usage of my .net process? ...more >>

Hi, Is deployment as simple as copying all files except ..vbproj,vbproj.webinfo,.resx, .vb into the production web server? Need I install VS2003 onto the production server which is going to host my web application? Problems which I'm facing are:- 1) If there's CR involves, error msg like 'c...more >>

Hi all, I'm using Application_Error in Global.asax to send myself an email when a server error occurs on my site. It's been working fine. However I just realized that by using this override, the error message no longer is displayed to the user. So I just want to include some code to replicate...more >>

I have an applaction, that is an addin for Outlook. It opens a form with a WebBrowser control wich then shows a page from a Webserver. It works fine, but when I installed it on Windows Server 2003 the page didn't get shown in the WebBrowser control. I have another application wich uses the ...more >>

Datagrid view bound to datatable, view all fields from table, even I add some column to DataGridView. to prevent it I must add all clolumn to grid and set them unvisible except the column that I want to be visible. Have beter way to do that ...more >>

Hi I am developing one Windows App. I want the user should run only one instance at time of application. But i have also two variant of this Assembly in same code which depends on some file of current application folder. I dont want that user can run same variant at time, but user can run two...more >>

hi, i'm a new bie to regular expressions.. i'm trying to see if a string ends with teh below pattern \filename.xls or \filename.xlsx... I've used the @"\\[\w|\W]+\.xls" pattern but's it's matching hte below string d:\sample\.xls.... can someone help me out with teh correct pattern...more >>

So, is there a possibility not to use at the way: system.net.client(url, file_name) dim b as new bitmap(file_name), but to have some way to load it directly o a bitmap? I tried to find some ways (using streams, etc), but none of it works with bitmaps, only for text files ...more >>

Whenever I Run any spyware removal program (ad-aware, spybot, regisrty mechanic) it will reach a certain point in the scan then i get the blue screen error and have to restart. I am unable to remove any of the problems these programs detect. I have also tried windows defender as well, but it ...more >>

Hello All, I would like to know if it's possible to use SSL on top of UDP message? What kind of a minimum of 128-bit encryption method shall be applied with UDP? Thanks...more >>

Hello All, I would like to know if it's possible to listen or send broadcast or multicast message via TCP-IP channel ? or It 's only possible with UDP ? Thanks...more >>

Went in to accessories to back up my computer. Then I have a blue screen come up and says I have a critical error must shut down and restart? -- ThinkCamping!...more >>