Looking at MVC frameworsk, it seems we require more of classic ASP knowledge then ASP.NET postbacks and Viewstates. Are we moving backwards to complex UI + code logic in the actual HTML? ...
We are currently thinking of building a cache-system to hold data pulled out of an SQL database and make it available to a couple of other applications (website, webservice, etc). We imagine the cache to be running as a windows service and basically consist of a smart dictionary which holds the cache entries. My question is, is there a l...
I've created a VSTO in C# that is supposed to hook Outlook 2007's NewMailEx event. However, it doesn't fire sometimes when I do a manual send/receive, or when there is only 1 unread mail in the inbox. It almost seems as if it fires on the inbox BEFORE the message actually arrives. Is there a better way of monitoring for new messages eve...
I am building a C#/ASP.NET app with an SQL backend. I am on deadline and finishing up my pages, out of left field one of my designers incorporated a full text search on one of my pages. My "searches" up until this point have been filters, being able to narrow a result set by certain factors and column values. Being that I'm on deadline...
We have implmented a REST-style get service Using WCF in .Net 3.5. This service retrieves research documents. The string 'synopsis' indicated in the code bolow contains non-english characteres which the browser deliveres as "????????". private void ReturnSynopsisInfo(IApiWebOperationContext context, OutgoingWebResponseContext outgoingR...
I came across an issue that makes me think there is bug in the 3.0 framework. When I try to use extension methods I get the following error: Missing compiler required member 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute..ctor' When using this simple code: public static class StringUtils { static void TestExtension(...
My question is the following. I have xml that is versioned by a namespace. I want to serialize this received xml into the appropriate object, but the only way I know to do this means I have to process the xml two times. First to discover the namespace, and then in order to serialize to the object of the proper type based on the discov...
I am invoking an external process by using System.Diagonistics.Process and passing two filenames as parameters. Now some time this process terminates due to exceptions and it seems that files handle are not being released by the process. How can i release the resources occupied by the process. ...
In an application that is hosting several WCF services, what would be the best way to add custom configuration information for each service? For example you may want to pass or set a company name or specify the connectionString a service or some other parameter. I'm guessing this might be possible by implementing IServiceBehavior. i....
Can I safely download and install .Net framework 3.5 SP1 without requiring my customers to upgrade their .Net Framework distributable? EDIT: And without changing my build script EDIT: I'm currently running 3.5 ...
I'm using C#, .NET 3.5. I understand how to utilize events, how to declare them in my class, how to hook them from somewhere else, etc. A contrived example: public class MyList { private List<string> m_Strings = new List<string>(); public EventHandler<EventArgs> ElementAddedEvent; public void Add(string value) { ...
Running VISTA 32bit. I am trying to install c# Visual Express 2008 - but it requires .NET 3.5. One of the prerequisites during the install is .NET 3.5 ... it attempts to install it but fails, with no real error message. So I downloaded .NET 3.5 standalone from MS website and tried that.Again it fails with the error [10/17/08,23:17...
I have a WPF project defined like this: MyApp.sln MyAppWPF MyApp.Domain In one of my xaml files in the MyAppWPF project I'm trying to reference a class defined in MyApp.Domain project. I have a project reference in MyAppWPF to MyApp.Domain. I am trying to create the reference like this: <Window x:Class="MyAppWPF.Window1" ...
What is the best way to localize a collection (IEnumerable)? From the BL I retrieve a collection of entities which still need to localized, I figured I write a method which extends the IEnumerable and returns the localized list. How can i get the code underneath working? Any ideas? Maybe better options? public static IEnumerable L...
I want a method of the class: "One" ("AccessibleWithinSameNamespace") to be accessible by the class: "Two", without having "Two" extending "One". Both classes are in the same namespace, so I'm thinking that maybe there's an access-modifier that emulates the "protected" modifyer, but for namespaces. Some code: namespace Test { clas...
What's the simplest way to join one or more arrays (or ArrayLists) in Visual Basic? I'm using .NET 3.5, if that matters much. ...
Control.TabIndex Only allows me to overide the Tab order of controls in a given container. Is there a way to specify this across all the controls in, for example a UserControl, regardless of the contains used to arrange the controls. Cheers, Jan ...
I could probably find this out from somewhere else but thought it would be a nice question to have on stack overflow. .NET 2.0 by default stopped managed exe's running from network shares despite the fact you can run unmanaged exe's. I have seen mention's that this was changed in .NET 3.5 SP1 Is this true? Would that include any dll...
I am getting a warning when trying to include the .net 3.5 sp1 prerequisite for my setup project. The warning states Prerequisite could not found for bootstrapping. Any suggestions? Thanks ...
What is the preffered method for creating a byte array from an input stream? Here is my current solution with .NET 3.5. Is it still a better idea to read and write chunks of the stream? Stream s; byte[] b; using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(s)) { b = br.ReadBytes(s.Length); } ...