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• Andrew Clifford Communicate across application instances

  I need to send a signal from one instance of my application to another instance. What would be the best method to do this In Win32 I would just use a named event to do this, but they aren't available in .NET Depending on what you are doing, you may be able to use System.Threading.Mutex (v1.1) or System.Threading.Semaphore (v2.0). Worst case, you could write a little NamedEventType or something that extended ...Show All

• Samantha Low Using namespacing from .NET 2.0 in Visual studio 2003

  Hi all, I need to use "System.Net.NetworkInformation" namespace in .Net 2.0. Can I use it in visual studio 2003. Please help... Hi, No this is not possible. There is no forward compatibility with .NET v2.0. You cannot use any of the v2.0 features from v1.0/v1.1 Regards, Vikram Hi, Let's say that I develope my application in VS. 2003, by declaring an interface and implemete it. If I want to implement it in ...Show All

• oergelmir sql datareader problem

  Hi I have a SQLDataReader set up. When I try to execute it I get an error See Below, I know there's nothing wrong with my connection so I must have done something else wrong can anyone help. Dim comd As SqlCommand = SqlConnection1.CreateCommand comd.CommandType = CommandType.Text comd.CommandText = "Select top 1 txtLeftAvgeMeanIMT,txtLeftAvgeMaxIMT,txtRightAvgeMeanIMT,txtRightAvgeMaxIMT from HACAROTIDSCAN WHERE datescandate ...Show All

• tpiazza55 how to add a network place

  I would like to know if it's possible to add a network place via .net (csharp) or by a command from a console. Yes, I know it can be added through a wizard but I'm interested in the first two possibilities. Thank you in advance. By network place I mean a place in the www that has been mapped as a "network place". ie: localhost:8212/sites/mysite/mylib could be mapped as " ...Show All

• DCady change internet explorer proxy settins

  Hello everybody I would like change the internet explorer default connection proxy setting. How can I do this in .NET 2.0 Is there a possibillity to safe the current setting and restoring when my application close Thanks   Best Regards Karsten Thanks. I would like change the inet explorer proxy settings and not the proxy for the WebRequest class. Have y ...Show All

• TommyB83 ConfigurationManager does not read connectionStrings from app.config

  Hello, I have created a class library with this app.config: < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " > < configuration > < connectionStrings > < add name = " AppConnectionString " connectionString = " Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=mydb;User ID=myui;Password=mypw " providerName = " System.Data.SqlClient " /> </ connectio ...Show All

• Mike Reese How to configure Default AppDomain via Hosting Interfaces?

  The problem is I want to confugure DAD (default AppDomain) when starting CLR Host in native process. I want to set AppBase and execute app.config file for DAD. In function CorBindToRuntimeEx  there is no word about  DAD, either in  ICorRuntimeHost.Start. So DAD is nonconfigurable when starting DotNet from native process When CLR Host started, its possible to configure and start another AD using AppDomainSetup.  Why I can ...Show All

• szembek Is there a way not to terminate the application when unhandled exception is thrown on background thread?

  An unhandled exception thrown on background thread causes the application to terminate in CLR v2.0. It is possible to do anything so that it does not terminate but rather ignores the exception Thanks, Michael James, thank you for your answer. My question was about handling exceptions that are thrown on background threads, so #1 is not applicable. #2 does not work because as far as I understand this is only fo ...Show All

• jason R S using sax to parse large xml files

  I am trying to use SAX for the first time. I got as far as this: this .fileStm = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); reader = SaxReaderFactory.CreateReader( null ); reader.Parse( new StreamInputSource(fileStm)); and i have no idea how to actually get the data from the reader... If anybody has a sample code to parse the document and put data into some kind of a structure like hashtable or an arraylist - I would really a ...Show All

• socklan System.Type.GetType(string) fails on assembly loaded with Assembly.LoadFrom

  I have the following code: Assembly a = Assembly.LoadFrom("c:\MyAssembly.dll"); Type t = System.Type.GetType("MyAssembly.MyClass, MyAssembly"); For some reason, t is null. On the other hand, if I add a static compile-time reference to MyAssembly, the code succeeds. However, in my situation, the I cannot use a static reference because in general I don't know the assembly at compile-time. Can anyone explain why this doesn't wor ...Show All

• Jim Thompkins problem of port for remoted object hosted IIS

  Hi there I try to do something, it makes my head in, I try to host a remoted object in IIS(done no problem) Now I would like IIS to listen to another port than 80 so in web.config I tried : <configuration>  <system.runtime.remoting>   <application>    <service>     <wellknown mode="SingleCall" type="Server.Hello, Hello"           &n ...Show All

• Timothy Tim Scanner interface

  I would like to be able to activate the scanner interface and receive an image from within my application rather than requireing users to scan documents into files and then select the file they have just scanned. Is there a way to do this Yes there is. It's called Windows Image Acquisition (WIA). For a good starting point see: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/wiascriptingdotnet.asp Hope this help ...Show All

• Rupesh Rao MSFT Errors Deploying VS2005 RC1 Web Site on to IIS

  Hey all, I've been working on a simple Web Site in VS2005.  It started in August CTP but when RC1 came out, I ported over the code. I've reached a point where I want to see what it looks like on a non-development server (basically to show progress to the boss ).  So I figured i'd slap it into IIS and that would do it.  I went and enabled IIS on my machine and used the Publish Wizard which comes with VS2005 RC1 to put it on IIS.&nb ...Show All

• MMTech1 Exporting design-time tabcontrol functionality in a usercontrol that contains a tabcontrol

  Hi, I'm creating a usercontrol that contains a tabcontrol, along with some other controls. But when I drag my usercontrol onto a form, I cannot edit the tabcontrol (add/remove tabs, edit the tabpages content, etc.). I'm wondering how I could do this. Any suggestions thanks, Phil I can't see how this has anything to do with the issue I raised http://www.codeproject.com/csha ...Show All

• Kudah VS.NET 2003 to build applications using .NET Framework 2.0

  Can one use VS.NET 2003 to build applications leveraging the .NET framework 2.0 Yes I am. I was doing an exam every 4-6 weeks, for the past 5 years....but we just had a baby and I think that will change! Sorry, are you realy " MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, MCAD, MCSA, CISSP, SCSA " Okay, let me ask the reverse.  Can I build .NET 1.1 applications with VS2005 Hi, Defi ...Show All