I'm looking to set up a .NET service (written in C#) that will write events to the event log and use a message resource dll to provide localized message text for the events. The last time I set this up was some time ago (NT4 project circa 1998). I was expecting the API to the event log to hav...more >>

Hi... I was trying to spawn a process and not have it create a new window. No matter how I set CreateNoWindow, it always creates a new window when it spawns. Does this property simply not work? Should I be using windowstyle = hidden instead? ProcessStartInfo pi = new ProcessStartInfo(...more >>

I have .net v2.0.50727 installed on three systems. One is Win2K Pro, win2k server and the other is Vista Home Premium. I built an applications that generates RTF files on the fly and noticed a difference in the output file size from one platform to the other. Not a small difference...bu...more >>

Hi, I have a custom DataGridView and the following simple override: protected override void OnCellValueChanged(DataGridViewCellEventArgs e) { base.OnCellValueChanged(e); string filter = "MyBooleanColumn = 1"; DataRow[] rows = ((DataTable)this.DataS...more >>

I've got an application, and I'm poping up a form modally using TestForm aForm = new TestForm(); aForm.ShowDialog(this); It works fine. If I click outside the area of the modal form on the other form, it does not give the other form focus. Good! It also does an error beep once, also good...more >>

Hello, siince .net 3.0 Uri is highly used for access to images etc. But in the past only there where simple Uri-Syntax, now it's complex and I do not find anywhere in the msdn the describtion of the syntax. For examle Uri u = new Uri(http://mypage.com) ist no problem, but what are things like...more >>

If anyone has any advice...please help! On Sat. my son downloaded "Windows XP Antivirus 2008" and since then it's been a disaster. I just downloaded the Malicious Software Removal Tool and it detected Win32/zlob.gen. After the full scan was completed the report stated that the Trojan was remo...more >>

Hi, basically the subject tells it all :) When we're moving to .NET Framework 3.5 we were planning to completely uninstall all previous versions of .NET Framework (1.1, 2.0, 3.0) on our client's PCs. As there are a lot of our own components (mostly based on .NET 2.0) installed in the...more >>

The Task Manager reflects the PeakPagedMemorySize64 value but GC.GetTotalMemory a totally different. Currently my C# windows service is reporting 596,439,040 for PeakPagedMemorySize64 and continues to rise (the app has been running 2 days now) and the GC is reporting 14,292,520 and fluctuates up...more >>

When upgrading a application from 1.1 to 2.0 3rd party assemblies needed to be rebuilt for the 2.0 framework so they didn't have the performance hit of running in side by side mode. Is there any benifit to recompiling version 2.0 assemblies to 3 or 3.5 when being used in a 3.0 or 3.5 applic...more >>

Sometimes I get an email with an attachment that is called noname without extension. I have tried to open with various programs but no luck. I use gmail and windows xp. Thanks -- John S...more >>

Hi can someone help? I have some code that on startup minimize's the form and puts it in the system tray. This part works fine and i can see my icon in the system tray. If the user chooses to restore the form and then minmize it i get just the title bar of the form at the bottom of the deskto...more >>

I have a question about using the generic Dictionary class in .NET 2.0 with user-defined classes as the key. MSDN says (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xfhwa508.aspx): Dictionary<TKey, TValue> requires an equality implementation to determine whether keys are equal. You can specify a...more >>

I want to use an HTTP client to fetch a web page and then extract bits of information via XPATH expressions. Both the nekohtml and JTidy libraries in java will do this. Is there something in Microsoft Land that will do this? I think I asked this question a year ago and did not get a response....more >>

how to determine what language a c# string is written in? is there any C# method to take a string and return what language it is in? e.g. english, hindi, spanish, etc. ...more >>

I created a regular expression to parse a line in a csv file; (\"(?<word>[^\"]+|\"\")*\"|(?<word>[^,]*)) It is capable of taking a line such as field1,field2,field 3,123.12,"1,234.56" and matching each value between the commas into the word group, so I get field1 field2 field 3 123.12 ...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to have tooltips/title show up in a cascading dropdown list, similar to how it works in a regular dropdown list? If so, how? Thanks, Dean...more >>

(reposted hopefully with proper MSDN info so I get support on this) I'm using VS 2005. I'm trying to use ToolTip's for some mandatory field validation. If a user presses "OK" in my application, it will highlight any mandatory fields with a nice baloon saying that field is mandatory. I'v...more >>

I would like to have a pagination system for a datarepater similar to on that is in datagridview. Can anyone share some idea.Now am using the next and previous buttons. i would like to get a numeric 1234 pagiantion.........more >>

Hi all, ... is there any way to use the new CompilerServices Extension attribute with class *Properties*? Internally properties are just implemented as a pair of functions (get/set), aren't they? So shouldn't it be possible to create Extension Properties? Thanks in advance, - Arthur Dent....more >>

I am currently working on a project using Visual Studio 2005 and I recently upgraded my machine to Vista. One thing I am doing in this project is building all dlls to a common bin folder and then GACing the dlls using the gacutil command in the post build event. In Windows XP this workied fine...more >>

Hi, I've a requirement where in I need to read the data from a csv file and load the data into the sql database. The file has around 1 lakh records. I'm reading 300 records at a time from the file, loading into a dataset. From the dataset, I'm reading the rows sequentially,and updating one b...more >>

Hello everybody, browsing code with the .Net reflector, I found out, that there is an virtually undocumented feature in the PropertyName Changed pattern used, when creating a custom control that supports databinding: A boolean PropertyNameIsNull property, that - if available - will check if...more >>

Dim B As Byte = 150 Dim C As Char C = Convert.ToChar(B) B = Asc(C) And the value of B is 63 Why? -- Arne Garvander Certified Geek Professional Data Dude...more >>

Hi. I've developed an application for Windows Mobile using 3.5 version of CompactFramework. My application generally uses (into the heap) approximately 7kB. Then I decided to introduce a XML configuration feature, but now it needs nearly 80kB!!! Looking at the heap, I found a 64kB sized array a...more >>

This line exectues with an exception: double d = double.Parse(double.MinValue.ToString()); The error message is "Value was either too large or too small for a Double". Is this an error in the framwork? /Patrik...more >>

Using WPF 3.5, I have a textbox with it's TextWrapping property set to WrapWithOverflow. When the number of lines increases in the textbox, how can I make the height of the textbox grow to accommodate the all of the lines? Also, I will need to go in the other direction and make the height ...more >>

In vs05 clickonce only worked with IE. Does clickonce work in xbrowsers now?...more >>

Hi, (.NET Framework 2.0 on Windows 2003 SP1) I'm getting lots of 10004 WSAEINTR errors when I try to do some UDP communication. From a packet capture I learned that my application is responding with an ICMP Port Unreachable after the remote responds to my query. Example: Me -> Re...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to get the physical path where an application lives? What I mean by an application is either a Windows Service or a Winforms application. I know in asp.net Server.MapPath is what's used. I need some type of equivelent for a non asp.net application. The reason I need this...more >>

Hi... I didn't see any pdb files actually in the gac directory hierarchy. Is there anything wrong with putting the pdb files in the gac directory? Thanks Mark ...more >>

I'm looking for the best way to convert a date/time to UTC and back to Local. This has to be built in the Framework, but eberything I try gives me something other than what I expect! I was tempted to do get the current offset from GMT and use that IN ALL CASES to convert to and fro, but ...more >>

Hi all, I am using release version of VS 2008 in projects targeting .NET 3.5, however I just noticed that System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeEnvironment.GetSystemVersion() returns old "2.0.50727" - indicating that the code runs under .NET 2.0. ..NET 3.5 installed just fine - I resorted t...more >>

Using C# in VS 2005 SP1 with .Net Framework 2 SP1, I have the following code: private void MyDataGridView_RowPostPaint(object sender, DataGridViewRowPostPaintEventArgs e) { DataGridViewRow gridRow = MyDataGridView.Rows[e.RowIndex]; // .... and it crashes because e.RowIndex is ...more >>

Can someone show me some instructions on how to automatically create an icon during installation of a vb2005 windows application? Many thanks -- Arnie...more >>

I really need help. I am trying to install updates for itunes and I keep getting an error message. It reads 'documents' is not a valid short name file. I have fixed this once before but I cannot remember how. Thanks to anyone who can help!...more >>

The problem: I'm writting some software to manage a building. All the devices (mostly doors and cameras) run a light version of Linux, with mono inside And we've got bigger Linux server (with mono inside). The server need to talk to individual devices (door/camera). Ideally I like to use re...more >>

Hi... Don't know if this is the best group for this, but didn't see another jump out at me as a better choice... I'm just getting my feet wet with System.Net.HttpListener (actually trying to sort out what a legacy app is doing with it). At first, the whole thing was confusing; I'm used ...more >>

Is there a way to disable the autorepeat keyboard feature that sends multiple characters if the key is held down? Alternately is there a feature that can detect and ignore autorepeated characters? Thx Marc...more >>

Like many others, we recently found out .NET Framework 3.0 breaks multiple copy printing in Excel. Still haven't seen any fix to the issue. KB 944203 doesn't resolve the issue. Anyone know if MS is working to fix it? - Thee Chicago Wolf...more >>

I need to print intreger numbers in several columns. Unfortunately String.Format({0:d8}, i) will append zeros in front of the number. How can I make it append spaces instead of zeros? In the other words I am looking for an analog of printf("%8d", i) Gregory...more >>

I'm using VS 2005. I'm trying to use ToolTip's for some mandatory field validation. If a user presses "OK" in my application, it will highlight any mandatory fields with a nice baloon saying that field is mandatory. I've got this working nicely with, say, toolTip.Show("This field is man...more >>

using c# 3.5, I need to write a form load event in a xaml window's codebehind, but I have now idea how to start this. can someone please advise? Thanks. -- moondaddy@newsgroup.nospam ...more >>

I'm trying to position controls in a window and am having a very difficult time. I want all the controls to be anchored top/left so when I do the final resizing of the window, all the controls sit in the same position. However, as I place controls toward the right side of the form, the left ...more >>

Serialize dataset: MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(); dataset.WriteXml(stream, XmlWriteMode.DiffGram ); stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream); data...more >>

Hi all, I have a mutli-threaded managed app written in C#, from ProcessExplorer, it shows many event handles without name. It also shows as 'handle leak' through windows task manager. I am using v1.1 .NET framework. Can any one tell me in .NET, which class/method can create native event ...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: Under Weak Event Pattern(s) you find, how to implement events when you are not able to know when to remove listeners from the source, - this is fine. But ...more >>

Hi all, I am using Assembly.LoadFrom( ) to load an assembly: Assembly as = Assembly.LoadFrom("C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Windows.Forms.dll"); I noted 'CodeBase' and 'Location' properties from 'as' variable display the GAC path, that is, the assembly was loaded ...more >>

Tried to download the 3.0 Framework and I cannot find it. There is a redistributable...? So the deal is this. From .Net 2.0 SP1 laod the redist for 3.0. Load the SP1 for 3.0 tried to install the VS2005 extensions and they cannot find the 3.0 runtime. This doesn't seem like the methodology sh...more >>

Hi Everyone, I have made a tool, which allows you without the use of VS2008 to download the source code of the framework from the microsoft source servers. I also allows you do debug the .Net Framework under VS2005 without the need of the Microsoft Plugin and offline without any need of co...more >>