I understand visual programming languages to be those languages that allow the programmer to to manipulate graphical--rather than textual--objects onscreen to build functionality. The closest thing I see in C#, VB, etc. is RAD controls, but that is just composing UI and the very simplest functionality -- it has nothing to do with the la...
Is there any improvemens or new features in .NET 3.5 Windos Forms in creating MDI Forms as compared to .NET 2.0? ...
I want to set the LastPasswordSet attribute of a user in Microsoft Active Directory. The .NET UserPrincipal API exposes the LastPasswordSet property as readonly. Is there a way around this, to set the value (perhaps using ADSI)? Edit: MSDN provides the following example code: usr.Properties["pwdLastSet"].Value = -1; // To turn on, ...
I am using the Elmah Logged event in my Global.asax file to transfer users to a feedback form when an unhandled exception occurs. Sometimes I log other handled exceptions. For example: ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(new System.ApplicationException("Program code not found: " + Student.MostRecentApplication.ProgramCode)); // mo...
is there a way to retrieve possible state values for a workitem using .net api? ...
I'm building a password box that holds three text areas. Each text area has one character. After I type the first character of the password, I have to press tab or use the mouse to get to the second text area to type the second character of the password. I would like to make this happen automatically (cursor movement) just right after I ...
Hello, I'm working on .net project and writing an application that interacts with database. I currently have some SQL statements in the code and I want to put these statements in separate file with solution. So, later when the application gets deployed, and if I want to update SQL statements, I could just update the statements in the ...
WPD does not work correctly on Windows XP (SP1 if that matters), even if Microsoft states it does. Problem with WPD: IPortableDeviceManager.GetDevices call does not find any devices on Win XP while it finds all connected cameras on Windows 7. A few other people had this same problem with WPD not working on XP, no solution: 1 2 I hav...
I want to get all the fields of a class without getting the underlying implementations of the class event. type.GetFields(BindingFlags...) returns the nuderlying delegate for event fields. Does anyone knows how to filter them out ? ...
Can anyone advise on how to convert a timespan or int to an ISO8601 duration string? 1hour and 30 minutes would result to PT1H30M e.g. int duration = 90; string isoString = duration.ToIsoDuration(); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations ...
I'm just in the process of upgrading a ASP.Net 1.1 application up to .Net 3.5 and one of the changes I've made is to use XslCompiledTransform rather than XslTransform. I was running through some test XSLTs to ensure all was well when I found an XSLT that failed using the new method. After a bit of investigation I found that the XSLT had...
I need a control that acts like a combobox but has checkbox items in it. I don't see any tool like this. What's the best way to 'roll your own'? ...
Say I have a struct: struct MyStruct { public int X public int Y } And a method in some class that is iterated over many times elsewhere: public bool MyMethod( MyStruct myStruct ) { return ... } Is changing the MyMethod signature to the following an acceptable optimization? public bool MyMethod( ref MyStruct myStruct )...
In .NEt C# How can I tell the compiler to use a Type from a particular class when a second Type exists with the same name in my project references? A class I wish to use exists in 2 project references. The namespace etc is identical. I require both references in the project, but for this particular class I wish to use the one from one o...
Hello world. My team is starting a brand new ASP.NET solution which will probably become large. Inspired by ASP.NET MVC, we currently express all data access objects in a model project. We, however, do not have good conventions for organizing ASP.NET ascx's and aspx's. We have already reviewed DotNetNuke and want to avoid the com...
According to both Intellisense and MSDN doc on string.Split, there are no parameterless overloads of string.Split. Yet if I type in string[] foo = bar.Split(); It compiles. And it works. I have verified this in both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. In both cases intellisense does not show the parameterless overload. Is there a reason...
I have created WCF and I have used wsHttpBinding and MTOM as message transport with authentcation as "Windows". Now my service is not current SECURE, its plain HTTP, running on custom port. Is Windows Authentication of WCF's wsHttpBinding secure? can anyone see the password or guess through network trace? Environment Information: H...
is it possible to include a library created in python/php in a .net application. In this scenario the library handles authentication for an API. ...
I see .NET has the option: SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly which helps me to limit the file list retrieval for just the selected directory, not subdirectories. I would like to know whether .NET CF has any options to do so? ...
I'm trying to change the value of an entity in a document's DocumentType.Entities XmlNamedNodeMap but according to MSDN, it's read-only. How can I set one of the entities? ...