I'm having trouble the same instance of a C# class being used in multiple places. I'd like to be able to tell at a glance in the debugger which instance is which, so I've added a field called DebugUID like so: public readonly string DebugUID = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(); and I've also added the attribute [DebuggerDisplay("DebugUID= {D...
Are there any tools which can reflect over Windows Workflow or SharePoint Workflow assemblies and generate a .png or some other image type to present to a user? Dynmically via ASP.NET? Or if there isn't anything like this... how do you provide documentation / end-user documentation? I would be interested in free or non-free tools. ...
I am trying to compile a one-off "script", an autogenerated C# program. This program contains 120,000 different string literals. The C# compiler can't build this, saying: Unexpected error writing metadata to file '<removed>' -- 'No logical space left to create more user strings.' Is there a hard limit in .NET on the number of string l...
My question is simple. What do they do? The accepted answer below is a list of the .NET SDK Tools that come in the framework. ...
I am looking for a third party component that could handle spellchecking for Windows forms (.Net 2.0 or .NET 3.5) I have the following requirement: 1) The component should be able to use Open office dictionary (Need to use a Swedish dic I think the OO is the best one) 2) Be able to underline in the UI while typing, like word. (Don’t w...
I have tried the obvious: var appDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("New Domain"); var engine = IronPython.Hosting.Python.CreateEngine(appDomain); // boom! But I am getting the following error message: Type is not resolved for member 'Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting.ScriptRuntimeSetup,Microsoft.Scripting, Version=0.9.0.0, Culture=neutral, Pu...
I use Model-View-Presentation Model in my application and I am wondering whether I need to create unit tests for the view. (I am on .net 2.0 WinForms) Now typically the view should be so simple that it should not be necessary to create unit tests for it. At least that's the idea I got from the goal of having the separation of View vs. ...
Having coded an extension method (based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723532/gui-update-when-starting-event-handler-class-on-separate-thread/723584#723584): public static class ControlExtensions { public static TResult InvokeEx<TControl, TResult> (this TControl control, ...
I'm writing a simple code generation application to build POCO's from a DB2 database schema. I know it doesn't matter, but I prefer to use type aliases rather than the actual system type name if they are available, i.e., "int" rather than "Int32." Is there a way using reflection that I can get a type's alias rather than it's the actual...
I have the following HTML: <h1>Text Text</h1> <h2>Text Text</h2> I am still trying to get a handle on regular expressions, and trying to create one that would eliminate the spacing between the tags. I would like the final result to be: <h1>Text Text</h1><h2>Text Text</h2> Any help would be greatly appreciated! UPDATE I wou...
Hi, I have developed an console application in C# .net which creates a new excel & performs some operations in it [Interop]. I have added Interop.Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll as reference in my project The code works fine on XP & in Vista too. But if i keep my exe in one of the folder then it gives me excception Retrieving t...
Okay, I just can't get my head around multi-threading scenarios properly. Sorry for asking a similar question again, I'm just seeing many different "facts" around the internet. public static class MyClass { private static List<string> _myList = new List<string>; private static bool _record; public static void StartRecordin...
I am developing a custom Windows service with C# that will manage state for several instances .NET applications. How can I pass data (such as token) to the service through the ServiceController? Is this possible or am I not fully understanding the design intent behind Windows services? ...
Can somebody put a regex expression that will: find a chunk that starts with [% and ends with %] within that chunk replace all xml special characters with: & quot; & apos; & lt; & gt; & amp; leave everything between <%= %> or <%# %> as is except make sure that there is space after <%# or <%= and before %> for example <%=Integer.Max...
I'm using a book for studying for .NET certification, and I'm stumped on the issue of publisher certificates. Background: Windows Vista Home Basic SP2 Visual Studio 2008 .NET 3.5 SP1 Goal: Write a simple C# console application that has its permission to read from a specific text file determined by the application's certificate. Symp...
I am currently a CS student at a 4th year(of total 5). I`m studying and working. At work I use ASP.NET. So, while working and studying, I have not so much time to learn new languages and techniques. What do you suggest to learn first - C++/STL/QT or C#/LINQ/WPF? I mean, C++ and its libraries are stable and do not change as fast as .NET t...
I have an assembly written in .net 3.5. I distributed this file to a bunch of people and so far, no problems unless they try to load the assembly (a dll) from a network share. Then they get security exceptions but this is easily fixed by changing zone security of the local intranet. Currently I am not signing my code with any form of ce...
I have a C# project that uses xml comments. I make chm files from them with Sandcastle via the Sandcastle Help File Builder. One of the member functions in this project makes use of an embedded resource. I want to reference it in the help file. It seems that sandcastle does not support this, but the xml documentation files it parses does...
We received a new code base that uses environment variables all over the place. They point to things like the project root, assets, different tools, etc. Not the most ideal situation but it works. However, when it comes time to try and run our automated build it becomes a giant pain. Windows seems to instance the environment varia...
I have a tabcontrol with several tabpages. I would like it so that when I hit the up or dowm key, the selected tab page scrolls. Im just not sure which event that would be. Thanks ...