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• kada 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

• Gokhan Berberoglu IntelliSense features : C++ vs C#

  There is a lot of features available in C# text editor that C++ editor doesn't  provide. Just have a look in the menu Tools/Options/Text editor for C# and C++ ... Many features are not language dependant : all advanced formatting option, generate XML documentation comment for /// There's also syntax coloration for braces under cursor and maybe others. I just can't understand where is the technical reason for that.   Auto implementati ...Show All

• Raghukas Windows Service ?

  Hello All! I have written a windows service. The problem is that when I log off my system account the service stops. I want my service to be independent from the system account. Please help me in this regards thanx Mubashir A Windows service, once started, will continue to run irrelevant of whether a user is logged in or not. That is the whole purpose of the service. However you can't simply ...Show All

• GregE How to Read/Write DBF file In C# use OleDb

  See the topic! Give me an example to show me how to do this ,thx! And my msn is  i_will_communicate_through_this_forum@msdn.com  I can't insert a Datetime Object into the DBF file,why Grap the latest OleDB Provider for FoxPro here: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0. Now you can use OleDB to connect to your database and insert the values: // TODO: Set date value. ...Show All

• golu What is the use of "STTBF".

  Hi, Can any one tell the use of " STTBF ". No problem, thanks you for the fast replies! Please let us know how it worked out and if you found a solution for the problem. But i'm currious, why do you need the file-format Actually, I have generated a document by Mailmerge from the template doument. The mailmerge operation can bound the data from database to the template document mergefields. When merges these data to th ...Show All

• john thom Has anyone been able to make a COM DLL from VS 2005

  Hello Nerds.   I’m trying to make a COM DLL in VS 2005 but without much lock. I have tried doing it manually in C# setting “Make assembly COM-visible” and “Register for COM interop” and signing the assembly using a strong name key file in properties for the project, as described in the examples I found on the Net. Just for testing I made a simple peace of code:   using System; using System.Collections.Ge ...Show All

• Andy Evans Creating A Folder

  Ok. Can someone tell me how to create a folder using code. In a button clickevent I would like to create a new folder on my desktop. Can someone tell me how   private DirectoryInfo makeDirectory(string path)   {    DirectoryInfo myDirectory;    if (!Directory.Exists(path))     {     myDirectory = Directory.CreateDirectory(path);    } ...Show All

• InfoDOG Hexadecimal Question

  The code below (in VB) writes a hexidecimal number to a registry location. Can someone please tell me the equivalent hex representation in C#  I put a couple of the lines that I tried below, but that didn't quite work right. When the value in the registry is correctly set, the C# code works (registry should be all "F's" which returns "-1"). The problem is that I cannot use a string to set this registry value, if I do it will ...Show All

• Margie Open Command prompt from C# program and run sqlcmd utility

  Hi This is with respect to this post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=458786&SiteID=1 My C# program creates db and other db objects. I want to run .sql files from C# program. Basically I can read the files and run the command using sqlcommand. Tjis will take a lot of time if the file is large. I have decided to run the sqlcmd utility providing the .sql file as an input file. For this I need to launch command win ...Show All

• Drew Davis determine if running in IE

  hello, Is there some way for a C# dll to determine if it's running in IE, and, if so, redirect the page This is using the v1.1 Framework. using System.Runtime.InteropServices; [InterfaceTypeAttribute(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIDispatch)] public interface ISimpleEvents { [DispId(1)]//Each event must have a unique DispId void ButtonClicked(); } The interface has a single method/event "But ...Show All

• short-stuff Custom Control Error Message Hell!

  Hey howzit I am trying to implement a new user control...all that it allows is for the user to assign each control to a group.  One group of OurRadioButton's consist of 2 or more radio buttons and if they have the same checkgroup then you can only check one of them in the group. BUT I keep getting this error message: (the error message appears as a message box type message not in VS debug) "Property value is not valid:  Una ...Show All

• Code Writer How can I make the IDE create correct code?

  I implement a component, but I can't get it's paraent (a control which contain the component). So I want to get the paraent from constructor's parameter. But the IDE can't create corrent code for my new constructor. How can I make the IDE create correct code I want to let the IDE automatic create the correct code, because I want to get the paraent in Design Time mode. example: The  illegal code:    &nb ...Show All

• Pravin Indurkar - MSFT Help me to understand better the interfaces

  Hi i read a bunch of articles on articles.. i know exactly how to amke them.. But i dont understand why should i use them .. or for what are they important.. Why should someone wanna make a interface for something... Please help!!! Try this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconbaseclassusageguidelines.asp lets .. take an example.. if i make a server class ...Show All

• fg_garda help with data set

  Hi I have made a data set from a xml file with no problem. However how do you bind the dataset to a data grid Thank you DataGrid1.DataSource = yourDataSet; DataGrid1.DataMember = "yourTableName"; DataMember property can only remember one assignment, since you are assigning a value in a for loop, it is going to remember only the last table name from your data ...Show All

• Game Squirrel Registry

  I was wondering if its possible to benchmark the registry Like total time to read each registry hive. If its possible any hints on where I can find out more information on how to implement this Check out the System.Diagnostics namespace, e.g,. PerformanceCounter class. ...Show All