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• kalle vanska Capturing KeyPress "Always" !!

  Greetings... My Form needs to capture the KeyPress and KeyUp events. I did set the KeyPreview property to true and it works almost all the time ! When the application starts, it doesn't work... I fist need to touch something (i.e. give the focus to a control) so that the key press and up events could be treated properly. How can i go around this Thanks ! Acoquinar   Forms cannot have the input focus themselves ...Show All

• Chook_rl How to ping a server

  Hi there, I'm looking for an easy way to ping a server. I found another thread, telling that "System.Net.NetworkInformation" would be the right source to look at. But I can't find this class! So how can I ping a server Thanks, Finch82 Namespace is  System.Net.NetworkInformation Unfortunately - this is 2.0-only feature. For .NET 1.1 you can check how people use raw Sockets http://www.co ...Show All

• ashwinv some "struct" to "byte[]"

  Hi people, Im new in C# and Im having some problems with language. The problem is that i have a function I want to call and one of its parameters is "byte[]" I have to pass an structure to this Byte array... let me show you... The structure is.... ****************************************************************** private struct TEXT_PROVIDER_SPECIFIC_DATA { public IntPtr dwMessageOptions; public PROVIDER_SPECIFIC_ME ...Show All

• bruceainthehouse API

  Does anyone know where I can get examples of c# code using winAPI I tried using the msdn but since Im a beginner to any kind of programming language, it seems they cater mostly to higher level programmers, either that or I couldnt find the beginner's section. Thanks http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/doc/Interop/PInvoke_Simple.aspx Here are good places in the documentation to start http://m ...Show All

• Christian Jørgensen Transparent background

  Hi, Is it at all possible to give a label or another control a transparent background I want to display text, and in most cases the ability to click on it, without spoiling the background image of my panel or form. Regards,   Guido When you have a transparent background, the mouse events fall through to the control behind. However, it should be possible to dynamically generate the background for your ...Show All

• Intern GDI form transparency problem

  I'm trying to draw a transparent form using GDI, by overiding the OnPaint and OnPaintBackground event handlers. This technique works well enough on the first draw,and it produces a nice result, however, on subsequent draws, it works less spectacularly. For some reason, the screen is never cleared, and when it redraws the new things are composited ontop the previous draws, making the transparent images darker and darker. Here is the contents of ...Show All

• Mike Duke What is My.Resources equivalent in C# ?

  Hello, I would to access one image resource in my project, How do address resources, like My.Resource in VB, i've been trying 'This', but it has no resources childs. Thank you You can use the Properties.Resources method, this equivalent to the VB.NET My.Resources. See http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2005/06/14/429092.aspx for a My library. Thank you ! ...Show All

• Alexander Stoyan help me -- sound project --

  hi i want to record sound and save it as wav file A full working example with article can be found here: Dictation Recorder with PlayBack Program using C# . thank you but i want devlop tool like sound record ("sndrec32.exe") can you help me i want to record voices that come out from speakers and also that we want to enter by micophone. and the examp ...Show All

• Mike Tupker Recognize COM files with .dll extension !

  Dear friends, How can I find that a DLL file is a .NET Managed class library or a COM activex library.I have a DLL file and I wand to Register it if it was a COM unmanaged library.How can I recognize that Best Regards, Dear Karthik Krishnaswami , Thanx for your instant reply.It was a cool method. King Regards, XironiX How to tell if a DLL is a managed assembly http://geekswithblogs.net/rupreet/archive/2005/11/02/ ...Show All

• stongej2007 How to make a method in a windows service.

  I made one windows service and i can control the OnStart, OnStop. example protected overwrite void OnStop() { //DO something } my real question is, how to make an own method in windows service and how do i send a string to it.. i would like it like this public string getPass(string tempUser) { string tempPass = ""; //do something do something, return tempPass; } anyone who knows where ...Show All

• SimuAndy Keep getting exception message that Type is not marked as Serializable

  Hello, I a pretty sure that I am on the right track. I am trying to serialize a object which has a multitude of member variables. Some are collections of graphics based objects ie objects which are drawn in a view (TabPage derived). The object to the serialized also is drawn in such a view. It is like a parent object that contains other objects. I have separated code from data so that I am not trying to serialize anything like the Ta ...Show All

• Bertan Aygun - MSFT Chinese words in DataGrid

  Hi, I use a DataGrid to display data drawn from a database. And I set CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo( "zh-CN", true ); CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo( "zh-CHS", true ); But, I changed some field data as chinese words, then called command 'update' to update the database, the field in DataGrid changed to show instead of the input Chinese words. I checked the database, it also has data . How to solve this prob ...Show All

• Costin Trifan Multiline Search and Replace

  Is there an Add-in available for VS.Net 2005 that will do multiline searching and replacing In other words, what I would like to do is search for: line 1 line 2 line 3 and replace it with: line 1A line 2A line 3A etc. Is there a tool that does that Thanks, Chuck Cobb Hi, Regular Expressions is what you need to accomplish your task, especially with tagged expressions.  The expression you ...Show All

• haydxn VS not responding to keyboard keys (arrows ,enter ..)

  the issue may seem stupid enough, but not mystical. The behavior started to show self after I set "Visual Source Safe" as "Source Control" tool. As you check out the item you're not able to use any of the above typed keys, but others and mouse. You can achieve NORMAL_EXPECTED_BEHAVIOR of the keyboard as you close and start the Visual Studio again. And here is the mistical point that should explain. Where is that magical option box that I sh ...Show All

• wbstvnsn Passing array into Constructor

  Hey guys, I'm using C# 2.0 and thought I would take advantage of the new params keyword (I might not even need it if someone can show me another way). I'm making a custom class that handles files that our customers upload via the upload control. I want to only allow certain types of files to be uploaded, and was going to leave this up to the consumer of this object to specify in the contructor what file types they would like to allow from a p ...Show All