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• kanand Getting the base class of an object instance

  I want to make sure that an object instance that I have is actually derived from a particular base class before I cast it into the base class and begin referencing members of the base class. GetType() has thus far only returned the type of the instance itself, not its base type. Is there a way to accomplish this You can use "as" operator which does the typecasting for you or returns null if its ...Show All

• Will Harris array of struct

  Hi all How can I make an array of struct this is my struct struct x { int a; int b; } Now I want to make an array.what should I write Hi, you have several types of "arrays", so you can do it like this for example: x[] myArray; ...Show All

• pauleley HELP: Suddenly getting an exception in the Design View with StatusStrip (C# IDE)

  I am using the C# 2005 Express Edition on Windows XP Media Edition. Earlier today as I was going through some tutorials and everything was working correctly. Then all of a sudden, all of my projects that contain a StatusStrip in one or more forms started throwing an exception within the IDE! I have tried the following things: 1. I created a new project, and added only a StatusStrip to the default form, it immediately gets the exception (shown be ...Show All

• MABrandt Compiling my source file with VStudio 2005

  Hi guys i'm an new VStudio user and i've an doubt about as i can it compile my source file using the VStudio 2005. I created an simple source code for it test, but i not find the option for compiling the file. Someone can help me Junio, For help with this code, please try the Visual C++ Forums . -Tom Meschter Software Dev, Visual C# IDE Hi! It can compile, run and debug. Check Debug menu and look here: http://f ...Show All

• alamandra - MCP C# .NET Naming Conventions

  Does anyone know where I can find a list of naming conventions for UI elements.  I found a bunch of places where they have variable, property, method, event handler, formatting style, etc. conventions.  But I am having a hard time finding naming conventions other than the Visual Basic 6.0 Naming Conventions on Microsoft's website. Hi, Yes. I agree completely with that, its more important have a conve ...Show All

• Amit_MSFT Can anyone help me to make a shadow for forms

  Hi, As you know, I all menus in XP have a nice transparent shadow in behind, Window Live Messenger BETA has one. Does anyone know how it apears and how to make it My manager always focuses on beauty of program's GUI. It would be nice if i can use it in my forms Hi, this article at code project tells you how to do it in a popup balloon: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/balloonwindow.asp Thanks alot, I will follow your ...Show All

• arunr2002 Access a SAMBA share via C#

  A search for "SAMBA" in this forum returned no results, so I am assuming that this question is not already covered somewhere else... I am trying to programmatically access a Samba share from a C# application. Is there any way to facilitate this using C#/.NET Or is the only option here to write a Win32 Shell app or dll Any guidance is appreciated... Thanks, Outsideshot You have to ...Show All

• Allen_DSI Is it possible to use .NET controls to VB6.

  Hi, Please any one tell me is it possible to use .NET controls and libraries [ created by C# ] to VB6. If so can you tell me the way and some useful existing articles regarding this query. Thanks, Mattias Sjogren wrote: ActiveX control containers that support .NET controls http://support.microsoft.com/ kbid=311334 Indeed Mattias, i thought you were saying that it wasn't posible... my bad! PJ. van de Sande wro ...Show All

• Keith Ubersys ConfigurationManager

  hi,      i got some confusions with .net 2.0. i'm trying to use configurationmanager class in windows form and couldn't. it was worked fine with web form. i have no idea why i can't call my settings in window project by using that class. when i used system.configuration.configurationsettings...... it showed some warning that this feature is already obsolete.      i've seen sample program in 101 which usin ...Show All

• shawn2005 Is XML Config files for project specific settings the best approach...

  Hi all, I have the scenario where I have a Class (assembly) that applies settings that are specific for each proejct that we rollout. Now, the question I ask is, where is the bet place to store these specific settings For example, we will be rolling out to mobile devices, where each device has its own set of features, so we need to cater for them, as well as project/cleint specific features. Is it best to store these details in a XML config file ...Show All

• Anthony_Sebastian Generics Question

  I am just starting to work a bit with generics and ran into a little snag. I have a list object that inherits from bindinglist and I implemented a constraint of LabeledRowCollection. The code looks like this: public abstract class ItemList <T> : BindingList <T> where T : LabeledRowCollection , new () What I am trying to do now is have ItemList implement the IBindingListView Interface, but I can't get it to work. If I ...Show All

• NG from NEMMCO import file from a remote machine to local machine

  Can we import a csv file from a remote machine to our local machine and after import delete the file from the remote machine in C# Kiran the enduser will not purchase any third party tool..... hi I think this will help http://www.tethyssolutions.com/data-migration-templates.htm r=google&w=database&gclid=CJCW0umwlYQCFRuuEAodaFIAug Thanks. Actually the scenerio is that the database is on the server and we need ...Show All

• KissDaFeetOfSean C# Needs a Property keyword like MC++ has now

  I've said this before, even directly to Anders, and I'll say it again: C# needs a simpler way to declare properties. Don't believe me Check out this video of a John Lam talk about the future of programming languages that espouses dynamic programming langauges like Ruby: http://www.ftponline.com/channels/net/reports/vsliveto/2006/multimedia/lam.aspx About 1/5 of the way into the presentation he gives this example of a piece of code everybo ...Show All

• Paul Hill Specifying and Encoding w/ Trace and FileStream

  Hi ... I would like to have my trace file produced with a Unicode encoding. I'm using a FileStream and wasn't sure how to specify a different encoding. Any suggestions on documentation Thanks! Doug You need to use a StreamWriter instead of FileStream. StreamWriter has constructors that accept an Encoding parameter. For example StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("c:\\mytrace.log", true, Encoding.Unicode); ...Show All

• ski99 Declaring an array

  I want to declare an array that will hold 3 values then i want to add all those three values and divide it by 3....to return the average...how should i start should i declare a method called average with three arguments or should i just declare an array and create and pass all these values through a foreach statement to return the total and then take the total and divide it by the values in the array any help out there Hello.  I be ...Show All