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• baharlou Enabling my disabled menuItems

  I have an Mdi parent form called home which has other child forms.  My parent form on form_load disables all the menuItems on it except the file menuItem. The file menuItem has login as one of the items. When you click login submenuItem it shows a new login child form t.  The login form has a button called login.  The click of the login button  should fire an event that will enable all the disabled menuItems on the paren ...Show All

• kalyan chakrarthy The wrong Principal is passed to my remoted object

  Hi there, This article: http://blogs.msdn.com/manishg/archive/2005/04/22/410879.aspx#436192 helped me a lot when trying to impersonate my user to my remote object. But... when I try to access my remoted server object from a web application, the wrong principal is passed. I've got a web forms application authenticating against ADAM, so when i'm logged in to the web site the HttpContext.Current.User.Identity = the ADAM user I'm logged into t ...Show All

• Express edetion user Custom converters not invoked

  I am creating a set of property pages for our company's custom project types. A number of the properties would benefit greatly if they had custom editors associated with them. I have the following code, but it isn't working as it should: [PropertyPageTypeConverter(typeof(StructReturnValueConverter))] public enum StructReturnValue { Default, Register, Memory } The StructReturnValueConverter class ...Show All

• QingY How to use DateTimePicker and then convert to number

  The question is how do i use datetimepicker and then later convert into integer number. say i tell the user to put in his or her date of birth. Then i want to take that to convert into age. So if someone enter 11/11/1955 then my Dim age as integer age = dateofbirth. which right now is 11/11/1955. Well how do i make it so that age = 51 years old. Thnk you and i would like to have a next and previous on my apps. Back button to go back ...Show All

• Tonia Writing to a custom sink

  Hi all, I'm using a modified version of Stephen Toub's secure channel to add compression to the sink along with encryption. Thanks to Stephen I have a very good base to build my sink on and I had no problem adding compression to the sink. Now I want to have compression feature enabled only if the user asks for it. I did'nt know how to send client request to the server. I know that I should write the boolean to ...Show All

• VKT Parameterized queries

  When using a parameterized query such as: SELECT LocationID, StreetNum, StreetName, rowguid FROM tblLocations WHERE (StreetNum = @StreetNum) AND (StreetName LIKE @StreetName) Is there a way to automatically add % to the beginning and ending of the parameter I've tried the following command: SELECT LocationID, StreetNum, StreetName, rowguid FROM tblLocations WHERE (StreetNum = @StreetNum) AND (StreetName LIKE '%' + @Stre ...Show All

• Andrew Robinson DirectoryServices - Get users from active directory

  Hello! I'm using the following code to get the users of a specific active directory, but it also returns the computer names. How can I get the users only Dim myDirectory As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" & directoryName, sAdminUser, sAdminPassword) Dim mySearcher As New DirectorySearcher(myDirectory) mySearcher.Filter ="(&(objectClass=user)(objectClass=person))" Dim mySearchResultColl As SearchResultCollection = mySearcher.Find ...Show All

• Gorbit Suggestion request for winforms app

  Hi, I am developing a port scanner application that displays the open/closed ports in any system and outputs them to a richtextbox. My program works fine, but for the following issue:- I use a function that scans the ports. I tried calling this function using a thread pool as well as the thread class. But using the pool returns an exception at Appllication.run(new form1) and the program stops for ports greater than 50 upto 5/10 ...Show All

• Keith Spitz I need a good profiler for .NET 1.1, any ideas ?

  thanks. Just a side note: The profiler noted below has also beed updated for V2.0 of the framwork. i don't want api, i want a tool for detecting bottleneck. Thanks. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/01/NETProfilerAPI/ Download the CLR profiler from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/tools/default.aspx ...Show All

• Peter Grieg55 XP Home vs XP x64

  I have seen a range of comments here from people with an Athlon 64 processor but only having Windows XP Home installed. First some bad news, Microsoft has EOLed XP Home, they recoment moving to XP Pro or XP Pro x64. x64 was RTM back in Mar 31, 05 so its not quite a year old in the market place, so its not going to be as rich for drivers. I have an Audigy 2 card, drivers for x64 are available, I have a Webcam Live Ultra, drivers are late ...Show All

• PC_Doctor_J Code works with .Net 1.1, not with 2.0...

  Hello,    I have some c# code that works great when compiled with VS2003, but does not work when copied into c# 2005 express.  The 'con.Open();' line below will eventually throw an SqlException with an error message of:  "Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding."  The exact same code, running from the same machine runs perfectly, and qu ...Show All

• hemant kothiyal Installation Rolled Back My PC

  Hiya, This is probably in the wrong forum - apologies for that, but I've no idea where else to put it. Background; Installed Frameworks 1.1 a few days ago. The following morning I turned on my PC and was confused to discover a log on screen. (I only have one profile so it usually skips straight to the desktop.) Something that confused me even more was that the log on screen resembled more a pre-SP1/2 (or even Win98) style plain grey box as opp ...Show All

• Peter Huber obtain phisically connected printer information under .net

  hello, how can i obtain info like model of a phisically connected printer under .net i want to write a script that runs on stations and delete unused drivers (the main goal is to delete spoolers) so that they wont appear in active directory. how can i obtain this info thanx a lot, You can go at http://www.lissware.net , vol 1, Sample 2.16 to 2.21 - WMIPrinters.wsf. This scripts shows how to manipulate printe ...Show All

• macadam Best encryption/decryption for strings

  I am looking for the best way to encrypt and decrypt a password. I looked into RSA but it gets too messy when you can only encrypt one letter at a time and get a byte[ ] back etc... Anyone know anything easier whether it is a built-in encryption/decryption or some class typed up from scratch Pref. something where you hand it a password and it encrypts the password into another string and vice versa but is just about as secure as this built in RS ...Show All

• -andy- Unable to drag/drop strong-named assembly in to the \Windows\Assembly folder with Beta2

  I've got Visual Studio Team Suite installed on a fresh install of Windows XP Pro and I'm running as a member of the Administrators group.  I have a strong-named assembly that I can not drag-and-drop in to the \Windows\Assembly folder.  When I try it I get the universal sign for No (circle with a line through it).  I can drag-and-drop the same assembly to the \Windows\Assembly folder on any other machine that doesn't have VS2005 in ...Show All