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Help with error creating SharePoint list (probably due to privilege issues)

I'm getting an error when trying to activate a webpart. It activates fine in one setup , but fails in a different one. Administrator in both. Seems like it fails because it's not able to create the list. The error is: Message: Value cannot be null. Stack Trace: at Microsoft.Sharepoint.SPRoleAssignment..ctor at ClientRequestHandler.C...

Can I share some config sections in one common app.config file? .net

I have 2 projects that share some appSettinsg and config sections. Let's say : ProjectA has it's own app.config that contains its unique settings/config sections. ProjectB ditto... Now in each app.config I want to point to a third shared .config file that contains some common appSettings AND config sections, used by both ProjectA and...

SQL Server CE checksum changes on SELECT queries

Why when I only do SELECT on a .sdf file, it's checksum changes ? How can I avoid that ? ...

Customize FK hyperlinks in Dynamic Data gridview.

I would like to change the presentation of hyperlinks to related tables in the List.aspx view to show the display name of the associated table, not the raw association property name. E.g. I have the following entity associated with Products, but despite the DisplayName attribute, when I view Products in the standard List.aspx page tem...

Retaining parameters in ASP.NET MVC

Many MVC frameworks (e.g. PHP's Zend Framework) have a way of providing basic state management through URLs. The basic principle is this: Any parameters that were not explicitly modified or un-set get copied into every URL For instance, consider a listing with pagination. You'll have the order, direction and page number passed as URL p...

.NET: How .config files works?

For me it a little bit hard and frustrating to understand how app.config, web.config files work on deep level. Is it any document which can describe format, internal implementation and parsing of .config file. ...

Question about oracle db connection with .NET

I'm trying to connect to an oracle database with .net but i get the error: ERROR [IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified however, when I enter add a new database connection through tools>connect to database. it works fine. even after copying the connection string which is:...

Importing data from third party datasource (open architecture design )

How would you design an application (classes, interfaces in class library) in .NET when we have a fixed database design on our side and we need to support imports of data from third party data sources, which will most likely be in XML? For instance, let us say we have a Products table in our DB which has columns Id Title Description Tax...

Enable debugging in Design mode in VS

Is there any way to enable debugging from within the Windows Forms Designer in Visual Studio (any version, up to and including 2010)? What I mean is, say I have some custom user control, and this control has certain validation that it performs when I set a particular property. I'd like to be able to set a breakpoint somewhere within tha...

How do you run PartCover with spaces in the path?

I have a msbuild file that I'm trying to run from Hudson CI. It outputs like this "C:\Program Files\Gubka Bob\PartCover .NET 2\PartCover.exe" --target "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe" --target-args "/noisolation" "/testcontainer:C:\CI\Hudson\jobs\Video Raffle\workspace\Source\VideoRaffl...

Is Using Tuples in my .NET 4.0 Code a Poor Design Decision?

With the addition of the Tuple class in .net 4, I have been trying to decide if using them in my design is a bad choice or not. The way I see it, a Tuple can be a shortcut to writing a result class (I am sure there are other uses too). So this: public class ResultType { public string StringValue { get; set; } public int IntV...

Can I bind multiple forms to a single model using the default model binder?

I have a complex page with several forms on it. The page is divided into sections, and each section has a continue button on it. The page is bound to a pageViewModel, each section addresses a different set of properties on the model. The continue button makes an ajax call to the controller, and the model binder binds it appropriatel...

Invoking a WCF service using claims based authentication

I have a WCF service deployed in a server machine. We are using claims based authentication to authenticate the WCF service caller. The WCF service is restricted by using IIS Authorization rules. How do I programmatically invoke the WCF service using .NET? The client app uses a proxy generated using SVCUtil. calling the service reads ...

.NET RichTextBox: unable to change Rtf property.

Hey guys, Perhaps I'm missing something real simple here, but I've been struggling to change the RTF property of my RichTextBox in order to apply some color coding to my text. Probably the most straight-forward example of the problem I'm having is setting the Rtf property to include a color table in its header. The default RTF string r...

Consuming WCF Web Service

Hi, I have a simple web service running and I have a console application client consuming the service. I did have issues getting this running and I had been helped by some wonderful people in this community. I have another problem: if I want to call the service from the client in a loop, it doesn't work. It works only for the first tim...

WPF In-Memory Image Display

Im trying to build an Item Template for my list-view and im bound to a list of Entities. The entity I have has a System.Drawing.Image that I'd like to display, but so far I cannot for the life of me figure out how to bind it to the <Image> block. Every example and documentation I can find on the internet pertains to Images accessible vi...

Memory allocation for collections in .NET

This might be a dupe. I did not find enough information on this. I was discussing memory allocation for collections in .Net. Where is the memory for elements allocated in a collection? List<int> myList = new List<int>(); The variable myList is allocated on stack and it references the List object created on heap. The question is wh...

CrystalReportViewer Highlights Fields

I have a .NET Windows application with a CrystalReportViewer on form. I load various reports into the viewer that were created in Crystal Reports 2008. When the user is previewing a report (an invoice), as they move their mouse around over the report each field on the report is highlighted by a thin red rounded corner box as around the N...

Determining TTF Font File Name

If I have a .NET Font object, is there a way to programmatically determine which ttf file in the C:\Windows\Fonts directory it was created with? ...

A viewmodel's role beyond databinding?

I'm a bit confused as to what a viewmodel's role is beyond databinding. I have a menu built in silverlight. The menu has x number of menu items which is determined at runtime. One of the features I would like to add to this is that each menuitem has a different text colour when hovered over. Is it the role of the view to have a colour s...