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Binding a structure containing a hashtable to a grid

Hi, I'm trying to create a pivot of a translation table. Basically the table is like that : SystemText(Category, Name, LanguageCode, Text) I have created a model object which has these fields as properties and I'm using NHibernate to get the data from the database. Now what I want to display is a grid to edit the translations that wi...

.NET database calls slow when using COM Interop, fast via VB6

Hi, After searching couple of days (here and here), I believe I've found the problem and it seems identical to this one. However, I have captured two execution plans to compare it but, they seem to be identical except execution time. (The Database server is SQL SERVER 2000) The Query executed in VB6 : EventClass : SQL:BatchCompleted ...

How do I detect frequency of mp3's in .NET?

I want to create a very simple piece of software in C# .NET that I can pass a folder's path to and detect all files with a frequency of below a given threshold. Any pointers on how I would do this? ...

Is there a graphical overview of the HatchStyle enumeration?

A hatch pattern is made from two colors: one defined by the BackgroundColor, which fills the background and one for the lines that form the pattern over the background defined by the ForegroundColor property. The HatchStyle property defines what type of pattern the brush has and can be any value from the HatchStyle enumeration. There are...

Launching a Child Process and the windows 7 taskbar

We have an application that self-updates using a Laucher.exe process which copies down new App.exe and DLLs from a server then runs them in a separate process. This was all working very well until the arrival of the Windows 7 taskbar... Problem is in Windows 7, if the user pins the Launcher.exe to the task bar (by right-clicking the sh...

Stop highlighting selected item WPF ComboBox

Hi, I'm currently working on a WPF UI and I have a combobox on my window. So I want the user to be able to select an item from this combobox but when it is selected I don't want it to be highlighted in the default blue colour. I assume there is some way to stop this in XAML but I have not been able to find the solution so far. Thanks....

Datagridview to Clipboard with formatting

For a VB.Net application needing to output the data to clipboard, with formatting, I am in need of some help. For now, I am exporting data from the clipboard using MainView.ClipboardCopyMode = Windows.Forms.DataGridViewClipboardCopyMode.EnableAlwaysIncludeHeaderText System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject(MainView.GetClipboardConte...

An exception that cannot be caught?

Hey, I have the following code in my files: In Class Customer.Page: Try If Not SiteContent.CurrentUser(False) Is Nothing Then If Not SiteContent.CurrentUser(False).IsAdministrator OrElse SiteVariables.CustomerMode Then SiteContent.PageViewManager.Create(New List(Of Control)) End If Else Site...

c# Socket not timing out

I have the following c# code to query whois servers, occasionally I will hit a server and the socket will never time out the Receive (unfortunately if I hit the same server again all of a sudden the problem goes away). I have set the ReceiveTimeout value though, anyone know what is going wrong here? string whoisServer = "whois.moniker.c...

Ensuring data is in date order using 2 paged lists

I have a 2 streams of data both of which contain date information. I get 10 items from the first which is a SQL database and 10 items from the second which is a Twitter feed. When a request comes in to get more data it then retrieves the next 10 items from each source. The problem I have spotted is that second set of 10 items from t...

Why does my WebService call fail only for one user?

I have a simple WebService method that returns database results as a DataSet. This method fails for one user in the company but works for everyone else Here is the crash: CRASH! GetCustomer - ExtractDomesticCommercialState: Exception:InvalidOperationException Message:There is an error in XML document (1, 877). Source: System...

How to redirect process output to System.String

Hi I am calling Java process from .NET application and I need to redirect console output to System.String to do some later parsing. Please advice. I would appreciate short code example. public bool RunJava(string fileName) { try { ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo(); psi.CreateNoWindow = true; ...

Under what circumstances, we need to call GC.Collect twice.

We have a WPF application, based on Unity with MMVVVM pattern. In application life cycle there can be several project life cycles, after each project life cycle we do a manual Tear Down and try to free all the reference of ViewModels. For event subscriptions with Unity we are using Weak references. So we are assuming that after tear down...

How to get current connection state ? (network cable plugged or not ?)

I need to get current connection state. I found: System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkChange.NetworkAvailabilityChanged event but how can I get current network state ? ...

Try string.Format(...) formatting options online?

I was wondering if anyone knows an online service where I could quickly try out .Net's string.Format() various formatting options? I'm imagining something similar to the multitude of online Regex builders. I guess Snippet Compiler is the next best thing, but an online version would be easier to use. ...

C# serialport and hyperterminal

Hi, i am using c# and Serialport and com0com(virtual serial ports) My problem is that my c# application can't recive data from hyperterminal,the event DataRecived is not fired and if i call manualy the readExisting i get nothing To test this problem you can create a basic c# app like this one that has same problem http://balau82.wordpr...

Accessing Router Config Page (Web UI/HTTP) in Code? How to?

Basically, i want to change settings in a routers settings page as found in common soho routers and i am unable to even get past the first step! that is, going to the page without prompting the user for their username and password (this is a must), you can assume i have the user/pass details. so i tried to access this page for instance....

Is there a better way to form a soap request in C#?

Is this even valid? XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.InnerXml = @"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'&gt; <soap:Bod...

Focus an item in ListView with VirtualMode enabled

Hi I have a ListView in VirtualMode. I need a way to set focus to specific item. The FocusedItem is not good for the VirtualMode, I need a way to set FocusedIndex or something like that, but didn't see any property like that. Thanks. ...

Anyone know how to programmatically change the text of a marquee screensaver?

For an app I'm building, a requirement is to have the state subtly visible at all times. At first I decided to simply disable the screensaver, but now think it would be preferable to use the scrolling marquee screensaver to indicate state. Is this possible? How would I go about it? Since the app will only be installed on a small number...