I only know a small amount about .NET MVC and haven't used it barely at all so far but I was wondering how would you create re-useable controls that can be spread across different applications? We have various controls that have been created in external libraries and we reference the assembly if we want to use them. An example would be ...
I'm trying to do a JOIN in Linq using lambda expressions ... and running into some problems. I have two entities, Comments and CommentSources. CommentSources are associated to Comments. I have the following code, which does work: 01 IQueryable<Data.Comment> query = ctx.DataContext.Comments; 02 03 04 if (criteria.IsDeleted == Delete...
I need to read the color of and draw to a calculated point on the screen What is the VB.NET equivalent of the old Peek and Poke, or PointSet and PointGet, commands in older versions of VB. Or in the alternative, is there a way to use a label as a Cursor object, so that it does not erase my picturebox contents as I move it around. I ca...
I'm looking for a free templating engine to generate simple reports. I want some basic features such as : Ability to Write Loops (with any IEnumerable) Passing Variables Passing Templates Files (main template, footer, header) I'll use this to generate reports in HTML and XML. I'm not looking for a ASP.NET Template Engine. This is fo...
We use a modified version of the IE engine (the COM version in a C# wrapper) to display a lot of the formatted content in our application. The problem, however, is you don't have a lot of control of any printout of such documents. For example, you can't force a color printout without accessing the registry or directing the user to thei...
Not sure exactly how to word this question ... so edits are welcomed! Anyway ... here goes. I am currently use Crystal Reports to generated Pdfs and just stream the output to the user. My code looks like the following: System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(); stream = (System.IO.MemoryStream)this.Report.ExportTo...
Hi, I'm creating a plugin to a software that skins the form I created. However, the button are not skin based on them and a standard gray button is shown. Asking on the software forum pointed me that .NET forms control are owner-draw and therefor my button won't redraw with the correct style instead of creating a non ownerdraw button. ...
I would like to keep a list of a certain class of objects in my application. But I still want the object to be garbage collected. Can you create weak references in .NET? For reference: Garbage Collecting objects which keep track of their own instances in an internal Map Create a weak reference to an object Answer From MSDN: To e...
I understand what the .Net Client Profile is, but what does "PREVIEW" mean? (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8CEA6CD1-15BC-4664-B27D-8CEBA808B28B&displaylang=en) Is this like a beta release? Is it safe to deploy alongside my application? Thanks. ...
I have recently started learning F#, and this is the first time I've ever used WinForms. Here is my code. #light open System open System.Windows.Forms let form = let temp = new Form() let ms = new MenuStrip() let file = new ToolStripDropDownButton("File") ignore(ms.Items.Add(file)) ignore(file.DropDownItems.Add("Test...
I saw a link to find out if AD was running, but am not too sure if the same applies to AD/AM. One caveat is that I should be able to check about any AD/AM instance (any domain) assuming I have permissions. ...
I want to write Html format, but I can not even get a simple MSDN example of it to work. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tbfb3z56.aspx Does this console app, a clipboard round tripper, work for anyone? using System; using System.Windows; //Need to add a PresentationCore or System.Windows.Forms reference class Program { [...
I am just learning about Unit Testing. I am using NUnit to build tests for a VB.NET project. The project I'm working on is part of a framework which will be used by people who build ASP.NET websites. It includes a base class (which inherits System.Web.HttpApplication) that users of my framework will inherit their application class fro...
I want to see a basic project to learn how to organize membership and role management. Can you give me some open source project link about it? ...
I'm fairly new to ASP.NET MVC, and I'm having a little trouble with scripts... in particular, I want to use jQuery in most pages, so it makes sense to put it in the master page. However, if I do (from my ~/Views/Shared/Site.Master): <script src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.2.6.js" type="text/javascript"></script> Then that is literally wha...
How would you test this scenario? I've just started looking into NHibernate and having my first bash at TDD. So far I've really enjoyed it and have been using fluent-Nhibernate for my mapping of the classes. However I seem to be hitting a dead end when it comes to using the VerifyTheMappings method on PersistenceSpecification. Essenti...
I come from a mostly web and a little bit Windows Forms background. For a new project, we will be using WPF. The WPF application will need 10 - 20 small icons and images for illustrative purposes. I am thinking about storing these in the assembly as embedded resources. Is that the right way to go ? How do I specify in XAML that an Imag...
Imagine a .NET application designed using a Layered architecture. Is it possible to use something like the trusted subsystem pattern when deploying all layers of an application to the same machine? Is this design insecure by default? ...
I am using ngen.exe (the .Net Native Image Generator) version 2.0.50727.312. Is this the latest version? If not, where can I download the latest version? This page on msdn... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6t9t5wcf.aspx ... does not appear to have a link to a download. If it matters, I need ngen.exe for .Net Framework 3.5. Th...
OK that does it. For the umpteenth time my laptop just shut down in the middle of my game because my power cable had disconnected without me noticing it. Now I want to write a little C# program that detects when my power cable disconnects and then emits a nice long System beep. What API could I use for that? ...