hi, i worte an application with C# and i am monitoring the Messages by overloading the WinProc. but when the pc is Locked out no new Message is monitor, ?????? ...more >>

I have this value "07:01:14" And I want to convert it to a DateTime to store it in a SQL Server database. What is a clean way to do that? Thanks. ...more >>

I can turn CA on & block everything including google, but it wont block the first page of Yahoo, or the first page of image or video search options. Plus, if I click on a link in the video search option, it still goes to the origin site & can show bad stuff. How can I kill Yahoo on content adv...more >>

Please someonr refresh my memory and point me to the right document. If I create a strong-named assembly, any assemblies it uses must be strong named as well, correct? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi... I've got an app that's pretty multi-threaded. While I'm debugging, I'm trying to write a log file of events that happen, so I've got a global logger that has g_LogFileWriter = new StreamWriter(new FileStream(file, Append, Write. Share.Read); void Log2File(string format, params o...more >>

I have an aspx page that use absolute positioning. Sometimes there is a 15 seconds delay from the time that the text of the page displayed until all bits and pieces are downloaded to the browser. Until everthing is down loaded the CSS styles will not br applied and my page looks very unprofes...more >>

I maintaining or trying to maintain a relatively simply HttpHandler. The idea is that it takes a request to http://myhandler/url/someURL and creates a request to http://someaddress/someresource. When it gets the response, it streams that response back to the original incoming request. So it's ...more >>

hi, what is the advantage of using two database for a single project. Regards, Raghu Sunkara. ...more >>

hi, i installed .net framework 1.1 and 2.0 in one machine. so, it means two CLRs will be installed right? if i am wrong tell me. the machine has only one clr or two. Regards, Raghu Sunkara. ...more >>

Hi, I have installed .net framwork 1.1 and 2.0. I want to know two CLRs will be installed or only one CLR is installed in the machine. please tell me. Regards, Raghu Sunkara. ...more >>

Hi any body know how shall i disable moving a WPF window when windowstate is Normal....more >>

Hello, This has me stumped (as to the cause and the best fix other than "don't do that"). I have a form with a user control, when the user control is added to Me.Controls an exception occurs (Object reference not set to an instance of an object). I tracked this back to the Font Property --...more >>

I have tab-delimited data ( 300 lines, 2 pieces of data per line) that is in a string (it came from a network stream, not a file or anything else). I have a class with 2 properties. Can anyone show how I can use LINQ to import that string into n entities, mapping the first data element in a ...more >>

I've read in several places on the internet that if you make the same call to LINQ repeatedly (without refreshing or re-creating the datacontext) it will always return an object with the same values. I've seen this myself. I created a WinForm application, issued a LINQ query, used SQL Server ...more >>

Hi I am using OleDbconnection / OleDbCommand to connect to excel file and extract rows using Select ..., i find that OleDbDataReader return the rows but only string data is there all numeric data returned is null, the no. of fields returned is correct, does any know what could be the proble...more >>

Hi there. I've recently converted our .NET application to VS 2008 and started to have problems ( a cross thread call exception that was clearly erroneous ) with a 3rd party ActiveX control we use when running on 64bit Vista. After some research I suspected this was down to DEP and so after ...more >>

Hi, I am developing a C# application (Framework ver 3.0) using MSMQ Queues (target windows 2003 server). To quickly summarize, the application first checks for the presence of a specific private queue and will create it if it doesn't exist. If it exists, it will write the information to the...more >>

Hi, I have been trying to leverage a custom event source, for which I have compiled a message library. The event source gets installed just fine, and when I write entries the category info gets pulled out of the message library correctly. The problem is that the message info seems to be com...more >>

I am using Convert::ToInt32 to convert a string to an integer. On some small number of machines this is causing a System.FormatException. After chucking the problem at Google I found some promising info on a very strange registry problem -- HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Control Panel | International ...more >>

I've got a handheld application (Windows Mobile 2003, CF 1.1) and a server application (Windows Server 2000+, Framework 2.0) and the purpose of these two pieces of software is to send collected data (Orders) from the handheld to the server as well as send updated reference data from the server t...more >>

I would like to write a C# class that can be installed into the COM+ Catalog of a Win2003 server and be object pooled at Windows Startup so a live instance can be used by the web sites and .NET Win32 Services running on the box. Can anyone point me to modern samples how to do that? Thanks. ...more >>

We are about to start serious design on a new app here. I would like to use the Entity Framework stuff that's new in Framework 3.5 and since it's not even officially released yet, I'm sure to have some questions. So my question is "microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet" the best group to ask ...more >>

Hello developers, I am trying to create a simple TCP chat-like communicator. It will communicate with one peer only sending and receiving messages on the same port. I guess, this requirement is important. Once the communication is established it will not receive any other calls, so, I ...more >>

Hello Have a huge XML file with multitudes of "LogEntry" nodes / text lines. A small sample of this xml/text content is below. The file could be anywhere between 200 to 2000 MB. My questions comes in two parts. (A) I would like a solution (or ideas for it), in C#, -- to randomly access ...more >>

I developing a mobile web app using VS 2008. This is a 2-part question. 1. From what I read http://www.satter.org/2008/01/mobile-web-deve.html and other articles, the mobile controls have been removed after asp.net 1.1. Is this correct? I just have to develop regular aspx pages and not use th...more >>

Hi I've a requirement wherein I need to unzip a zipped folder programatically in .net. I've tried out System.IO.Compression namespace..but it writes the content into bytes which I dont need..I need the files to unzipped to a new folder.. HOw can I acheive it..are there any third party dlls f...more >>

Hi, I am experiencing problem using log4Net within a WCF services. In my service implementation, I would like to log messages using log4Net. I host my service inside and IIS and hence my log4net config sits inside the web.config file. Here is a sample of my code: ----------- [ServiceB...more >>

Hello, I am exploring WCF and I have a question a bit out of topic. I can read, for example here : http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0611051&page=1 that HttpBinfing is preferred to NetTcpBinding for internet scenarios. Why ? -- Fred foleide@free.fr...more >>

I've writing an NT service (on Vista) that will perform various housekeeping activities throughout the day. This will be used by others in my organization. To assist in the inevitable troubleshooting, I'd like the service to log various error and status messages - so I can keep tabs on what ...more >>

..net framework configuration files are physically stored in which one of the following formats? (1) encrypted .INI file, (2) INI file, (3) digitally signed XML file, (4) XML file, (5) Binary file i think it is the INI file but i am not for sure. thanks for your help. adam nowlin ...more >>

I have two separate but related requirements. 1) I need to be able to create a shortcut to a app published as a ClickOnce app which would include some command arguments. 2) I need to be able to launch from this first app, a second app, also created as a ClickOnce, sending it command argume...more >>

Anyone know the release date ? ...more >>

We're using dotNetFx35setup.exe with the /norestart option in our installer. A tester reports that they saw a reboot dialog show up (which our installer doesn't do) and the final return value from the exe was logged as 9010. 1. Why would there be a reboot dialog if /norestart is specified? 2...more >>

Hi, We are facing problem with usercontrol in windows application. We have a usercontrol that is placed on a window form. User control contains some code that interact with the oracle database on Load event. But it seems like the code contained inside the usercontrol load event is executed,...more >>

When installing my VS2008 app for "All Users", the non-administrative users require, what appears to be a brief reinstall. However, the reinstall fails with error code 2103. Does anyone have any ideas? Maybe a specific Windows udpate required? Thanks for your time, Chris...more >>

We should consider a SQL Server (2005 – version 9.00.1399.00) database with two tables Parent and Child. Table Parent has one Id Field (type int) which is marked as Autoincrement (Is Identity=Yes, Increment=1, Seed=1), and the Child table has an integer column ParentId pointing via a foreign...more >>