Hi An app which was working fine has started to bomb at start-up.. It prompts to send report to Microsoft. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app and the .net 3.5 but no luck. The error seems to mention win32.componentmodel or some such. What could be the problem and how can I fix it? ...more >>

Hi NG, In hunting down my .NET Framework issue I had a failure of eventvwr.exe. The two MAY be related, however eventvwr.exe does not use MSCOREE.dll nor does the error message seem to relate. When I execute eventvwr.exe it loads, but then gives me the following error dialog box: MMC ca...more >>

I have a very simple WPF Application (code inline below). If, as a user, I click "Web Frame" then "Nothing" (then, optionally, "GC.Collect") A Frame object has been created and removed from all hierarchy yet it stays in memory (as a memory profile will tell you). Now, what can I do about th...more >>

Hi, i have the following scenario and i am struggled to fidn a solution. I have made an app that i want to distribute with ClickOnce. That app enables the use to change some settings and these settings are saved in a file. The app when loads, it loads that .xml file and updates some data stru...more >>

This is on a client's XP-sp3 machine... can't install, uninstall or repair framework 2.0 without immediate error. It seems to not be finding something. Does anyone have advice? TIA. ====================== MSI CA LOG ENTRY INFO: ====================== CA NAME: ============...more >>

Hello, I have installed .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 but I would like to find the setup files (seem to be 54MB) to install it at home. Does anybody know where are these files downloaded? Thanks....more >>

[This is kind of long.] I don't use threading much, and so I wrote a small test app to make sure that what I was going to do in my larger app would work. In the process, I ran into a problem that I would like to understand so that I can deal with it in the future. ** Overview--code will ...more >>

I migrated succesfully a project from 1.1 to 2.0. In this project, the System.Drawing namespace is not found by VS2005 designer (system.drawing has been added in the Reference section). The project compiles correctly though ... If a create another project from scratch, the namespace is corre...more >>

I have two threads which are asking for a tool to check the health of .NET Framework. No one has come up with one. There are many, many tools to check out all parts of Windows. Is there NOTHING to look into .NET Framework? ...more >>

Hi, I am writing a WPF application with C#.Net. In the application I have windows propertygrid. I want to show a dropdown list for the user to select a value for a particular property in the propertygrid. I want this dropdown to be populated at run time as I am not sure of the string values i...more >>

Not sure where to post this, but I have a vbscript that is dying and I do not know why. It runs for a while then disappears (dies.) I know that vbscript has no decent error handling, but that I can do if err.number >0 ...., It isn't a problem with the script, however, and I believe it is dying...more >>

It's rare that you see someone simply posting a solution rather than posing a question, but this one caused enough stress that I thought everyone should would at least appreciate this as a reference (considering that Crystal Reports has zero documentation). We had a form that contained a Cryst...more >>

Hello all, I have .NET 3.5 installed and I'm running VS 2008. I have a C# project that's configured to use .NET 3.5 (in the project properties the "Target Framework" is 3.5). The following line of code: Console.WriteLine(".NET Version: {0}", Environment.Version); prints: .NET Version: 2....more >>

Hi, My application needs to be configurable for sql server, oracle or anyother DB and also xml file. Will enterprise library suitabel for me? or do i need to create custom solution. PLz suggets me. Thanks...more >>

Is there a way to auto-update my app? I need to deploy an app using SMS - I can't use ClickOnce - and I'd like to be able to make it check for updates and download and install them automatically. There used to be an Application Updater block for 1.1 but I can't find anything for 2.0 or later....more >>

I'm just wondering if a "public interface" would be something associated with a namespace and/or a class? Marco...more >>

I have a URL like "https://aaaa.aaa/bbb/bbbb/ccc?dd=44&ee=55%c2066 And I wan to put it in an XML configuration file. Trying to use HttpUtility to HTML encode it is not enough, I need to "XML Encode" it, how can I do that? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I am very new to C# and NET framework. I am trying to hash (using MD5CryptoServiceProvider) a source that is split into several files. Now when the source is in one file I can produce the correct md5 hash. My issue is how can I reproduce the correct hash when the file is split in...more >>

Hi NG, I have spent the last two days downloading, installing, and trying to view the results. As my other post indicates, I loaded an old Beta of VS 2005. I have since loaded the correct live version, but it has problems. OneCare does not work and issues a CLR error: 80004005. For the m...more >>

I am a little confused by DataView. The Item property returns a DataRowView. However, the object returned by the enumerator used by For Each is apparently Object since I can specify any kind of object and don't get a compiler error: Dim dv as DataView For Each xx As Integer In dv Is t...more >>

Hello All, I had written a piece of code for working with the BackgroundWorker.Following is the code for the same: BackgroundWorker ^ defReportWorker = gcnew BackgroundWorker(); defReportWorker->WorkerReportsProgress = true; defReportWorker->WorkerSupportsCancellation = true; defRep...more >>

Hi NG, I tried to install an old VS 2005 beta on my machine. Not only did it not install, but it seems to have installed an earlier version of .NET on my Vista Ultimate system. Now programs like OneCare are failing with CLR error: 80004005. From reading KB I understand that Vista uses .N...more >>

I have a console app, that creates a xml file, I need to escape the data before dumping it in the xml file. I would use Server.HTMLEncode if it was ASP.NET. I tried System.Xml.XmlConvert.EncodeName("a&b") this gives me a_x0026_b I was exspecting a&b Maybe thios is ok. the xml file ...more >>

I know this is pretty esoteric but if all you have is a bunch of static methods, which is the most efficient - a struct or a static class? Or are they about the same? Thanks Mark ...more >>