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Why does FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage() end with context.Response.Redirect(..., false)?

I browsed the source code of FormsAuthentication, and noticed it ends in context.Response.Redirect(strUrl, false); The 'false' parameter stands for "don't terminate execution of the current page". Why wouldn't a call to FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage() need to terminate viewing the current page? What is the correct behavi...

The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

Hi I'm trying to get the html code of certain webpage, I have a username and a password that are correct but i still can't get it to work, this is my code: private void buttondownloadfile_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { NetworkCredentials nc = new NetworkCredentials("?", "?", "http://cdrs.globalpopsvoip.com/0000069/20091229/2009...

Tools for Silverlight and .NET parallel programming?

An upcoming project at work looks like it might involve Silverlight. We're a .NET shop without all that much Silverlight-experience, but it looks like we need to ramp up our knowledge for this. So I'm wondering, what tools should we get? We are using Visual studio 2008, and will most likely not be able to jump to .NET 4.0, although we ...

Contextual Information in app.config files

Is there an list of Contextual Information (ie ${longdate}, ${level}, ${message}) online? I want to set the log file in a folder the user's AppData\Local. Is it maybe ${appdatalocal}? And how would I access the file to send as an email attachment maybe like message.Attachments.Add("${appdatalocal}\somefolder\Application.log")? ...

Surprising results with .NET multi-theading algorithm

Hi, I've recently wrote a C# console time tabling algorithm that is based on a combination of a genetic algorithm with a few brute force routines thrown in. The initial results were promising but I figured I could improve the performance by splitting the brute force routines up to run in parallel on multi processor architectures. To d...

.NET applications sometimes doesn’t work on Windows CE

Hi, I write applications for Windowe ME and CE in C# .NET 2.0. Sometimes I’ve got problems because applications don’t work on some navigation devices. On Windowe ME it is not problem because .NET can be installed from a cab, but on most Windows CE devices it is impossible because after soft reset all changes disappear. I found out that ...

Can't Get .NET XPathNavigator to work

I am having problems with XPathNavigator. I have a document with a bunch of "topic" elements w/o namespace in a stream. I am using (expression dumbed down to bare minimum, first I thought my expressions were wrong): XPathDocument xmlDoc = new XPathDocument( stream ); XPathNavigator xml = xmlDoc.CreateNavigator(); XPathNodeIterator iter...

Network Connectivity Issues with the .NET License Compiler (LC.EXE)

I've recently moved my dev environment (VS.NET 2008 SP1 on VMWare) over to a new network, using a more restrictive firewall. During subsequent builds, the license compiler (lc.exe) took a long time to complete (several minutes). I assume it was timing out because it was not able to connect through the firewall, but I can see no evidence ...

C# - get Windows association for a random file

In C#, I'm trying to take some random file selected by a user, and determine the Windows Association for the program. I'd like to use this to provide some helpful information to the user about the program which will run. This is a portfolio tool where generic files can be attached to a record. ...

Where MSDTC needs to be installed in Distributed transaction case.

I need to maintain distributed transactions in my application Assume Service1 is installed on Server1 [ServiceContract] IService1 { [OperationContract] Operation1(); } Service2 is installed on Server2 [ServiceContract] IService2 { [OperationContract] Operation2(); } and the client is consuming the two services usi...

suggest me well designed opensource web apps in .net

I found architecture of Blogengine.net good and interesting. Are there other very well designed opensource web apps written in .Net ? ...

How to save email attachments to local hard disk in C#

How to save email attachments to local hard disk in C# ...

How to add global exception handling to a add-in dll?

Here's my context: I am writing a WPF add-in for an application. This Application's main thread is unmanaged. I want to add a global exception handling system for this add-in to handle any unhandled exceptions. Here's what I've tried but not working: I cannot add a try-catch block to my Application.Run() code line. Because I am an ...

SharePoint as a content manager and business process automation engine

We are considering to re-implement or change our product (implemented in C#) to use SharePoint as a content manager and business process automation engine at the backend. This software mainly handles all the mailings, manages organization's various business specific worklfows and documents, and all these are connected (ie. from a mail a ...

Good practices for handling multiple config files with DI frameworks

In my current solution I have 18 projects and most of them have their own configuration files (app.config or web.config). Each project uses single shared BLL assembly. I'm using Autofac to handle dependencies but haven't come with a decent way of managing my configuration. Configuration entries are roughly the same, but values are differ...

Windows installer problem

Hi I've deveoped a windows setup applicaiton using c#. When I try to install it in one of my friend's system it is asking about windows installer is not installed and .net framework also not installed messages. How can I install those two things before I install my application. I want to integrate those values into my setup application...

Read a zipped xml with .NET

Hi! The case: there is a large zipped xml file which need to be parsed by a .NET program. The main issue is the too big size of the file so it can not be loaded fully in the memory and unzipped. The file need to be read part by part in a way that after unzipping this parts they are "consistent". If a part includes only half of a node i...

What's the best way to structure unit tests in solutions?

I'm working on a C# .net project using Visual Studio 2008, so my question is specifically for this case. However, the question should be the same to many other environments, so I'll be glad to hear opinions from people in similar environments. My solution is organized in several projects. All of which have some belonging unit tests. Th...

"Best" way to communicate between .NET 1.1 and .NET 3.5

By best I mean: Cheapest development cost (1.1 project is unlikely to live > 6 months) Easiest migration to WCF or similar By communicate between I mean: Remote communication between computers Most likely no firewall restrictions With .Net 1.1 the options appear to be: sockets, remoting, and various flavours of web service. The ...

Sharing a T4 template between Silverlight and .NET

I am looking at sharing my class library code between .NET 3.5 and Silverlight 3. Since I am mainly developing for .NET, I am looking at auto-generating the Silverlight project file(s) from the corresponding .NET project file(s). Thus, I have a T4 file, which complains in Silverlight with the following error message: Error 1 Comp...