Please advise how do I solve this problem. I have tried to install the actualizations without positive result....more >>

Hi. I'm a VB.NET developer learning C#, and I have a simple syntax question. In C# whenever you invoke a method you need to include the parentheses () after the method name even if there are no parameters. In VB.NET you don't have to do this. For example - IDataReader oReader; while (o...more >>

Hi - I have a situation where I'd like to use a lambda, but I'm not sure how. Basically, I have a collection of objects and I want to set a property on each object that meets a condition. Right now, I have this: IEnumerable<VariableCode> codes = variable.VariableCodeList.Where(c =...more >>

Hi, I've a requirement wherein I need to close an opened file programatically. How can I acheive it/ Thanks Vijaya ...more >>

Hi, my local machine is XP Pro. when I built the WCF hosted in IIS, it works fine. (create virtual directory on IIS and open that website and coding.. that's it.) but When I try to built the WCF hosted in IIS in server machine, it causes error. (create virtual directory on IIS and open ...more >>

Hi... We've implemented a server process using HttpListener to get and process certain requests, but we've been noticing some odd serialization that reminded me of a quirk in the client code. We recently discovered an odd behavior of HttpWebRequest in the client code where mixing sync an...more >>

Hi... We're building our assemblies Any CPU and just now trying to throw them up on an x64 box. I was using Process Explorer to look at something else, and I noticed something peculiar. All of our assemblies were in the Framework64 temporary assembly cache for the running process but Proc...more >>

This seems like something that should be possible, but I am having trouble setting up a function to accept a generic type as a parameter. A basic function that shows what I am trying to do: Public Class BaseRecord(Of T) Protected _id As Integer Public ReadOnly Property ID() As Integ...more >>

Hy everyone, I have a little problem doing socket-programming. I've made a console-application with a socket listening on a sertain port to accept connections from other clients. The only thing my application has to do is accept the incomming clients, read the data and send it to a data...more >>

My computer runs Windows XP. I have a perpetual automatic update message for an Express Install. It is trying to install .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1. It fails, says simply it was unable to install, and then goes back into the windows update queue. I have read on other posts to try an...more >>

Hi, Is there a logic in .net to send 1000 emails per second or more ..? And Can I use multiple servers to send mass emails at the same time using one database. I know one server won't handle it :o( Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Sonu ...more >>

Hi there, I'm writing a client app, connecting to a web-service over a https:// connection. Everything seems to work fine but... where does the .NET fw load the proper SSL certificate from? From the remote serer (just like a browser)? thanks in advance, Giulio - Italy -- OnAir: ht...more >>

In our .Net 2.0 web service we need to insert/update data records into SQL Server 2005 that have been uploaded to us in XML documents. There could be anywhere from one to literally thousands of records in each uploaded transaction, and there are several dozen destination tables. Since performa...more >>

hello. i'm trying to setup a website on my local server when compiling it VS 2005 i get the error "is not a valid virtual path" from what i've read on the net, this is due to the fact that the site is using IP:Port, which is no longer supported in VS 2005. I have to use the IP:Port setup 19...more >>

I have created a shared assembly(adoio.dll) I have set the parameter to local copy = false, but when I run my installer, I still get a copy of this dll in my directory. The intention was to have a single copy in the GAC so if I wanted to update it, it would be done in a single place. Wha...more >>

I need a method to write a string on a graphics pretty similar to DrawString but instead of specifying the (x,y) of the upper left corner of the imaginary rectangle that surrounds the string, I would like to specify the (x, y) of the baseline of the first caracter. Also, I use graph.PageUnit ...more >>

Hello, It does not appear that dsofile.dll is installed on Windows XP by default. Is it installed on Vista or one of the dot net packs by default? Is there any way of reading office document properties, besides using dsofile.dll? Anything built in to windows xp, vista, or dot net? thanks ...more >>

Can you point me to the statistics about how many computers have particular version on .NET framework installed. I need to decide what version of .NET we can use for the desktop application so that we could minimize downloads of framework redists. -- Regards Yuri, Deep Software ...more >>

A feature I want to test calls a BackgroundWorker. How do I use Visual Studio Unit Test to do this? I can see why the callback method DoWork_Completed (in the sample below) is NOT reached during when running Test1. Is there a way of achieving this? <TestMethod()> Public Sub Test1() D...more >>

I have problems with .NET framework SerialPort class. First I had problems with data received event. Than I have changed form event to thread which checks for data every 100 my. Now after a while the components stops receiving characters. I suspect that the problem is in framework and because ...more >>

I have a .NET 3.5 app (built using VS2008 RTM, no CTPs installed) that uses CSharpCodeProvider to compile some generated code that requires .NET 3.5. When I set the compiler's .NET version to 3.5 (per the MSDN example), I get a "csc.exe not found" exception thrown when I try to compile. Here's...more >>

I need to print to disk with a dynamic output filename. I have read some material that would seem to indicate that the way to do this is to use the Microsoft defined DOCINFO structure and the StartDoc function in the Win32 API. I have checked my Win32 API Bible and found no such reference. ...more >>

I have installed VS 2005. Then I would like to upgrade to 3.5, here are what I downloaded: dotnetfx3.exe (50.3 MB) dotnetfx35.exe (197 MB) dotnetfx35setup.exe (2.73 MB) Are these what I needed? ...more >>

Hi: My devenv.exe process is consuming about 600MB of my RAM memory. Mi PC only have 1GB and I think that memory consumtion is a crazy!. Googling I found that a VS Service Pack implements a solution of that problem and It supuso to happen when, In the solucion, you have incrusted controls li...more >>

Hi All, Dim str As String Dim myParsedInt As Integer str = "3,3,4" myParsedInt = CInt(str) MessageBox.Show(myParsedInt) I get 334 as result but I need it to be 3,3,4 as an integer. Any help! Thanks, Sonu...more >>

Hello I have the following dropdown list... Public Sub DisplayCity() Dim objDBConn As New SqlConnection Dim objDataView2 As New DataView Dim objCity As New clsDBCity objDataView2 = objCity.GetCities ddlCity.DataSource = objDataView2 d...more >>

I have a master class suppose Pubisher which contains UserObject as property. This UserObject has UserAlertsCollection. I execute store procedure CREATE [dbo].[PROC_PUBLISHER_SELECT_BY_PUBLISHERID] ( @PublisherID AS NUMERIC(18,0) ) AS SELECT Publisher.Publi...more >>

Hi folks, I had a look into the source code of the Enqueue(T item) method of the generic Queue class in the .NET framework. public void Enqueue(T item) { if (this._size == this._array.Length) { int capacity = (int) ((this._array.Length * 200L) / 100L); .. ...more >>

Hi, I've got an application that heavily uses .NET HTTP functions, that in turn use DNS resolves - I would like to make my application use specific DNS servers that happen to be more reliable in terms of resolves than average consumer grade network setup, the question is whether it is possibl...more >>

What books on the topic of .NET framework are truely exceptional for a software developer? Read quite a few reviews on amazon lately and the two books that stand out for me are; * CLR via C#, Second Edition http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-Second-Pro-Developer/dp/0735621632/ref=pd_bbs_5?ie=UTF...more >>

Hi I am in need of some code sample to download wepages using HttpRequest / HttpResponse classes from webpages where there is need to input some text (may username and password) and then click on a button (maybe submit), i am not intrested in using WebBrowser controls of .NET. TIA Jacko...more >>

Is there any easy way via .NET to update a DNS entry on a Win2003 server? I need to update either a host or cname based on a web service call. This domain could be either ad integraded or just a hosted dns domain, whichever be easier. Thanks, -Andy ...more >>