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generating Excel file error

Hello everyone, I am using the following code in classic ASP to generate Excel file, the code is simple and it works. I run the code under IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista x86. Two issues, there is a weird warning box, here is the screen snapshot http://i27.tinypic.com/2n81udw.jpg All cells' background is white, no border of each cell sho...

Using Stored Procedures in C#

I am working on a database application in C#. I had a requirement to display data on a table and I am now done with that. But my business logic is hardcoded to my code. Now I want to go ahead and use Stored procedures with my code. What are the modifications that I need to do. A simple list of steps would be enough :) SqlConnection myCo...

How to databind to a dropdown list of user defined types?

I have a dropdown list containing the days of the week - Monday to Sunday. It is populated with a user defined type of two values that map the numeric day of the week to it's name. Public Structure WeekDays Public ID As Integer Public Text As String Public Overrides Function ToString() As String Return Me.Text End Fun...

How to determine the (natural) language of a document?

I have a set of documents in two languages: English and German. There is no usable meta information about these documents, a program can look at the content only. Based on that, the program has to decide which of the two languages the document is written in. Is there any "standard" algorithm for this problem that can be implemented in a...

Alternatives to Reflection.Emit for the Compact Framework

It seems that .NET CF is missing the very useful Reflection.Emit. So far, I found this library as an alternative: http://www.codeplex.com/EmitCF. However it seems to be an abandoned early version, so I'm looking for more options. Does anyone know of another alternative to Emit? Or perhaps someone used EmitCF and can comment on its st...

c# - perfect syntax highlighting

Hello, I'm looking for a RichTextBox with syntax highlighting! Sounds easy but I'm searching since months and didn't find that what I need. First I started to do it by myself... No good idea... I tried to use this: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2006/12/14/RichTextBox-syntax-highlighting.aspx but that code don't hand...

pseudo subdomains with .'s in subdomain name asp.net site

I have a .net site and couple of domains with wildcard dns pointing to it. I use pseudo subdomain system where i extract subdomain name from url with below code public static string GetSubdomain() { string domain = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host; if (domain.Substring(0, 4).ToLower() == "www.") // if www exists in the ...

How do I ignore an [XMLIgnore] Attribute

I'm trying to serialize some objects obtained from a 3rd Party .NET Lib to an XML File. When I Go To Definition for the object, some of the Properties of that object are marked as [XMLIgnore] Is there any way to tell my System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer to ignore the fact that some properties have that attribute and that it shoul...

How to send canvas.Children over socket?

I can't serialize it, therefore can't get byte[]. Network whiteboard with .net is impossible?) ...

Get size and location of childwindow with user32

If I know the hwnd of a window, could I get it's position and location based on my screen size. (I mean, size and location in pixels) What I want to do is capture the screen, but only capture the handle's area. Thanks ...

Find diff between web pages

With C# .NET i would like to DL 2 webpages and find the DIFF between the webpage. Then i would like to program my app to allow me to label specific dif areas then parse for a series of urls. What diff lib may help me find each area? ...

How DataReader works???

Hi, I was thinking that the SQLDataReader should not work if there is no connection to the SQLServer. I experimented this scenario. I execute the ExecuteReader then stop the SQLServer Service and tried to iterate through the DataReader. What I expected was an exception, but it gave the results one after the other. Ideally the DataReade...

SwitchToThread vs Sleep(1)

I'm wondering what's the actual difference between calling Thread.Sleep(1) and calling SwitchToThread (if we ignore that it's currently not exposed by the BCL). Joe Duffy mentions in his post that: "The kernel32!SwitchToThread API doesn't exhibit the problems that Sleep(0) and Sleep(1) do." (regarding the scheduler's behavior) Why...

How to get the SSL certificate of a server running a web service from the client app? - C# .NET

Hello, I have a client program written in .NET 2.0, that connects to the web service. I used Visual Studio to generate a class derived from SoapHttpClientProtocol, every method was generated just fine, everything is working. But - the web service is running only through HTTPS, so I was just wondering, how could I get an X509Certificate...

Class Diagram for Asp.net Mvc and C#?

Hi I am looking for a program that can make class diagrams for C#. I know Visual Studios Pro has a class diagram generator but the couple times I used it I found it limiting in the fact you could not tell it where you wanted to generate the class(Ie if I wanted this class to be in the model folder I would have to manually move it their ...

Sending an email in C# .net

I have the following code to send an email: System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient client = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient(); client.Send([email protected], "[email protected]", "test", "test"); Now because I'm sending it from my own work PC, I have IIS 5.0 setup and obviously most email servers on the recipients side will assume this could b...

Sound recording in .NET with some specific requirements

There are a ton of tutorials and blogs about recording sound from .NET. I have read and understand fundamentally the various options, but am not sure which approach will be the simplest while still meeting my requirements: Minimal Start and stop of recording controlled by a .NET program Record from default microphone to file Minimiz...

Timing issues in my VB .Net application

I made a program that opens an application, sleeps the thread for 500ms then takes a picture of the frame's handle. I do this to about 600 files. Oddly enough, every 40 or so files, the process.kill() doesnt work or something, because the application hangs, and the running files program is running, when it should have been killed, then m...

View data in report in Address form.

I've started a directory project in C#.NET where I'm editing an xml file and using a dataset. There are 5 fields in the xml file to make up an Address. I want to display the address, like on an envelope, in a report and put 10 addresses on a page. I've been using Crystal Reports. If Crystal Reports is not the way to go with this, what re...

.NET 4.0 Framework Upgrade Requirements?

What are the requirements for the upcoming .NET 4 release? Searched around for this and couldn't seem to find a definitive answer. Specifically... Will clients have to upgrade their .NET Framework CLR (like from 1.1 to 2.0) to run 4.0-targeted applications? Will ASP.NET require a framework upgrade or will behavior be similar to 2.0 run...