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• Maksim Goleta Encoding with C#.NET

  Hi, I'm sending a string via POST method to a server. I'm using encoding of UTF-8 to send and get response. The problem is the server cannot read any special characters I sent. Special characters like +, &, and some others like UK Pound signs are not readable or cannot be read as what they are. How am I going to send those chars without typing in their equivalent URL encoding Anyone with good idea or suggestion pls. Regards. ...Show All

• Bigcheesegs C# 2.0 doesn't allow me to use System.Void?

  I love generics in 2.0! What a time-saving feature, less code to write! Plus it allows for more code re-use, and thus fewer bugs. I love generics, pat on the back to Anders and the C# team. I ran into a limitation, however, with C# 2 compiler and generics. I wanted to implement a method that would have a generic return type, for instance: TReturn ExecuteSomeDelegate<TReturn>(MyReturnableDelegate<TReturn> serverMethodToExecu ...Show All

• ericsstoll Closing Dialog Box without ending exe

  At the moment I am trying to use a dialog box to put progress messages on the screen as a long process takes place beneath. The box has a close icon (that X at the top right of the title bar)  If the user clicks on the close icon this then closes the exe, but I would like to be able to keep the exe going and do some recovery routine to re-establish a known condition on the running exe. Any ideas would be very welcome. Thanks ...Show All

• RoPo-JP What is significance of upper and lower case intellisence words

  When using intillisence, if I type in a word like string, I see that I can type it in lower case and it comes up blue, or in proper case, and it comes in in light blue. What is the significance Are they both words that are acceptable to declare a string variable Why do they have different colors Brendan Grant wrote: Second... tradition, since C# is based on C/C++ where lower case types were use ...Show All

• Dmitry Okonov Abstract classes and static methods

  Hello there! I was wondering why is not possible to define a static method into an abstract class, well... I was wondering that because I'm trying to force an user who inherits from this class to implement a static class and I just didn't find a way to do that... is there a way to do this Because there's a layer calling static methods and I don't want to change these methods to regular methods just because I'm not being able to solve this ...Show All

• venp Accessing object in form (newbie question)

  Hi, Sorry, this is a very simple question, but I am new to c#. Here goes: I am creating a simple app, which has a class with holds a list of names (say). in my main Form I create an instance of this class: MyClass names = new MyClass(); Then, in the main form I can access this various functions associated with this class (to add or remove names from the object). If I create in my main form a new form that has a textbox to input a name into ...Show All

• OMEGA_ReD DEBUG constant in effect for Release configuration

  folks, i have a web project where the Release configuration shows DEBUG constant defined in various #if DEBUG statements. this is not only visually in IDE but in the actual generated assembly as well. of course, i made sure the "Define DEBUG constant" box is un-checked for Release. has anyone run into this thanks... g While you’ve got the checkbox unchecked to define the DEBUG symb ...Show All

• Phil_Ramos Streching an Image (Not Image in Picture Box)

  Hi I have this image shown on my gui via a picturebox with its size mode set as StretchImage. I would now like to take this stretched image and save it. How do I stretch an System.Drawing.Image object, such that when i save it to disk the streching remains Thanks Ashwin You can’t directly stretch it; instead you redraw it to another image. Take a look at http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/im ...Show All

• ldbfrank Advanced Content Playback on HD-A1

  Hi All, I am having trouble getting an advanced content application to play once burned on a DVD-R and inserted into the Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD player. Video and audio play fine using this method, but once the advanced content object is reached the player stops playback and gives an error. Does anyone have any advice on this We have tried the samples posted here and we get the same results. Thanks. I got similar results to Jeff. My ...Show All

• metaza Error with VS.NET 2003 application

  Hi all, I have an C# app that uses 2 COM files (activex exe and activex dll). I built the app (the exe and the necessary interop dll's located in the bin folder. I copied the files onto another machine where the .Net Framework 1.1 is installed. When I launch the app, I get an error: ************** Ausnametext ************** System.NullReferenceException: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt. at FahrscheinFoto ...Show All

• George Hatoun Can I reference a VS2005 assembly from a VS2003 project?

  I develop library assemblies in C# and have lots of customers who are not likely to move to VS2005 immediately.  When I try to reference an assembly built with VS2005 from a VS2003 project, VS2003 says the assembly is not valid.  Is it possible to do this, or do all of my customers have to move to VS2005 before I can distribute a VS2005 version of my library Thanks for any enlightenment! > Is it possible to do this, or d ...Show All

• Mohammad Iqubal - MSFT How to display image based on user input

  Hi, I am a newbie in C# programming. I wish can display a list of images when user key in images count and image name. If user key in 10 images, program will display 10 images sort by the sequence, if 20 then 20 images...ect. Example: user will enter a list below: no 1 : image1 no 2 : image2 .... .... no 10: image10 then the program will display images from 1 to 10. Hope can get help here. Thanks. ...Show All

• Joe Johnson Dynamic menu bar

  Hi. Your help is very much appreciated. I am building Win app in which I'm allowing the users to add entity-types (i.e. entity-type = client or supplier,etc..) at run time .(I dynamically add tables in the db to support this requirement [I add client table, supplier table, etc.). However, I want to menu bar to reflect the existing enitity types. So I want the menu bat to look something like: Clients | Suppliers .... Find Find Add ...Show All

• Dave_AC Threading in C#

  Hello Everyone, I have a tab application, which initially I made single threaded....I added a dll which has a form. Now when I change to a tab method in that dll gets fired and form comes up, which makes everything else unresponsive.... Whats the best solution to implement thread to solve that problem.... Secondly, I tried doing something this way..... namespace something { public partial class Some : Form { public Some() ...Show All

• Jack Greenfield Fastest possible update of a Bitmap

  Hi Assuming image is a Bitmap, is this the quickest way (outside of hardware) to manipulate the bytes bmData = image.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, image.Width, image.Height), ImageLockMode.ReadWrite, PixelFormat.Format32bppRgb); scanline = bmData.Stride; Scan0 = bmData.Scan0; q = (int *)(void *)Scan0; *(q + offest) = someByte image.UnlockBits(bmData); Thanks No, there is a way that is often faster, and does not require unsafe cod ...Show All