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• Bill N Where did my smart tags go?

  Hi, I love the Shift+Alt+F10 smart tag feature for implementing interfaces and absract classes. But I noticed that all of a sudden I can't bring up the smart tag any more. I see the little prompt and tooltip telling me to press Shift+Alt+F10, but when I do so nothing happens. I think it started happening when I installed the latest LINQ Preview, but I'm not positive. I have since uninstalled the preview, but still no smart tags. Is there anyt ...Show All

• Tom0674 How do I test a button when running an event?

  I have a start button which runs a section of code continuously - how do I test the stop button while this code is running The other way I would suggest is using Threading. Create a global thread variable. And in your void, create a threadstart that address of the procedures / functions. Add this threadstart to this thread variable and do a start. In other button, assigned an abort or interrupt action to stop ...Show All

• IanG write a filestream to the browser

  I have a filestream that contains a pdf file that I have changed. I want this pdf file to be written out to the browser so that it can open in the clients adobe reader. I have figured out how to write the pdf to the server and then open it with javascript. But I was wondering if there was a way to just write that directly to the browser so i don't have to deal with extra files being dumped on the server that may not get deleted. ...Show All

• Luis Alonso Ramos keypress style for alphanumeric textbox help plz

  hi, i am very very new to C# and although i am used to VB 6 and a bit of C++ andJava .. i cant seem to find how to control the inputs on a text field. i need a filter for my textbox that only accepts alpha numeric input. i was thinking over the line of having a keypress event and checking at textbox_change that each char is alphanumeric. how to do this. plz can anyone give me a skeleton or the textbox_TextChanged function! I am using Framework ...Show All

• app-o-rama.com .ngen problem

  Anybody know what everything i need to do for regenerate managed .exe file to native .exe file Because i tried to convert some easy program (managed) with ngen.exe (fw1.1 and fw 2.0), and no one works. Why Help. Thanx Well you should still start the old executable, not directly run the one in the native image cache. The runtime will handle the rest. the error message : "error in program" but managed version of exe works properly ...Show All

• mweth Acceptable Posts?

  What constitutes acceptable posts to these ngs Is it acceptable to point out problems with the products Hi Peter, Take a look at the Forum FAQ . You can post problems with products on the corresponding category on these forums. You can also post on issues that you face with the forum itself by posting on this forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=53 Regards, Vikram   Peter, Ideally there would be ...Show All

• Francy ATTRIBUTES

  Hi everyone, Again something make me confused little bit about C# programming. ATTRIBUTES Ok, I understood the usage of predefined attributes in C# suc that serializable, obsolote,conditionally,.. However, I did not exactly understood the usage of Custom Attributes in C# . Why do programmers use Custom Attributes What is ithe main purpose of using our own attributes The reason for asking this is that I can not find any situation that I have ...Show All

• Javicho_ Label control transparency

  In VB 5/6 we used two label controls set one over the other and the label on top set to a transparent background to achieve a simplified 3D effect. Is this possible with C# I've read through the related threads pertaining to labels but could not find anything pertaining to this sort of situation. I've tried to change the backcolor of the top label to Color.Transparent but that didn't get me the effect I'm trying for which leads me to believe ...Show All

• Zische Can I define Array with a defined structure type?

  I want to define an array of structure tryped data. Can I do it and is it same as conventional way of Array define Thank you very much for your help. James Thank you for your info. I didn't see a sample in C# document so I have not tried it out. Would you have any example of this in C# I greatly appreciate your help. James SimpleStruct [] Nd = new SimpleStr ...Show All

• Manena Address bar - locked

  my address bar will to type in the full name of a web site, but once complete it will not pull up the site, it stays on the main msn page. Like typing in www.miamidolphins.com - but while typing it will drop down and offer a list of sites, if i pick one of those I can go straight to the sight or choose from my favourites. but to actually type a new site name in the address bar and click go - it goes no where. how do I solve this i do have ...Show All

• poletnik Asynchronous iterators — take a look at idea in Language forum

  Iterators and anonymous methods had no impact on industrial C# programming. They are cool, but add no real savings for now. But now I have the idea how to get real benefit of iterators. Why For asynchronous execution. Take a look of it at Language forum: https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=180659&SiteID=1   TaylorMichaelL wrote:  Every tried to make a collection that was thread-safe but di ...Show All

• Mrv How to display lenghthy text in dropdownlist box's dropdownlist

  Hi Developers, We are trying to display lenghthy text items in dropdownlist box in user interface. But the texts are not getting displayed completely. Ex: we have an item like " annapragadaChandrasekhar". but we could see only "annapragada" in the dropdownlistbox and as the width of the dropdownlist is 11(it should be in this case), we could not see the remaining text. Is there any solution for this like w ...Show All

• SRSWellnessOne A C# Program Failed to initialize on friends computer, please help

  Hello all, I know this maybe a stupid newbie question, but I need help with it all the same, so please bare with me. I'm a graduate student in psychology who has a BS in computer science. I am currently writing a program in C# that I need to be able to give to other researchers to use. I wrote a beginning sample and when I sent the release .exe off to a colleague to check it out an error appeared when he clicked on it that said the program faile ...Show All

• barnettsab C# net 2.0 send mail SMTP server~~error

  xp2005 Posts 30 C# net 2.0 send mail SMTP server~~error Was this post helpful =========================== Invalid length for a Base-64 char array. =================================== System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Failure sending mail. ---> System.FormatException: Invalid length for a Base-64 char array. at System.Convert.FromBase64String(String s) ...Show All

• ruthie Embedded resource not working

  I want to add a picture as embedded resource to my project. I choose Add Existing Item and browse to the picture, and then select Build Action as Embedded resource. I also select "Do not copy to output dir". Upon recompiling I get: Error 1 No destination specified for Copy. Please supply either "DestinationFiles" or "DestinationDirectory". C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets ...Show All