I need to create a resource file for a .net project (by hand) and compile it using the ResGen.exe tool provided by the .NET framework. I can't find any documentation for this. I need to write the resource file by hand because I'm in a situation where I don't want to download/buy extra tools (like VS) to generate this resource file, and a...
Is there a way to generate specific Windows events? I'm currently developing a solution to get this events through WMI process, but I need all the logs Windows can generate. I know there is a way to make .net solution to write the events to the event viewer, but I don't want that. Is there a way to code or make a solution to make W...
I have a memory dump that I'm using to troubleshoot a client issue. This is a .NET (C#) application. The problem with my application is that too many instances of a particular class are being created. There are 6300 instances of this class when there should be something like 20. I want to loop through all of those instances and call ...
Hello. I am developing an application in NET 3.5 C# and WPF and from the beginning it took AGES to run at most machines.. Only on my core i7 machine runs within 2-3 seconds... At most pcs tested it takes about 30 seconds to load!!! even from the start when it contained only a button and no code just to load the application... Can i do so...
I have a HttpHandler which queries 3 web services within a single request and store the results in a single cookie. As you would imagine, the results collide. Here is how: Process is as follows: when i query service 1 and waiting for the result, the cookie i m storing the results doesnt exist yet, then result comes from service 2 and v...
Ok I must be overlooking something extremely simple but I am lost. Given this object val = -1; var foo = (Int32)(val); var bar = (Int64)(val); The cast to Int64 throws and InvalidCastException. I recognize this is related to some strangeness with boxing but I don't understand the reasoning. From what I understand val is boxed as ...
Is there any execution speed difference between the following two lines of code? I cannot tell from looking at the IL: int x = MainObject.Field1; int x = MainObject.Public.Fields.Field1; I know from Delphi (native code), there is no difference. ...
I have an array of objects (with just one element) which is sent to a function (IParameterInspector - but that is not important) , the element is an object with a string and an int. In the function (inspector) i need to access the actual string and integer. How would i do this? so : private object test(string operationName, object[] in...
(Microsoft environment) I've been asked to look into replacing our current logging solution : MS Enterprise Library, with something else. We are trying to find something that is not just a "logging" solution, rather we would like to find something that would let us monitor the status of many processes taking place, not just capturing...
I have a web service and multiple clients that will use it. A MVC 2.0 website, a winforms app, and potentially mobile apps. I understand that in the case of the mobile apps, each application will need to access and manage the web service connection internally. But what do I do about the .net applications? I am using composite types fo...
I want to show a tool tip for the element style (the non-editing mode) of a DataGridComboBoxColumn. I have not been able to figure out a good way of doing this. In the example below I can either show a tooltip, or allow edits to the cell by changing the IsHitTestVisible property to true or false. I have been unable to both show the to...
I'm using Visual C# Express 2008 and created a database and dataset by going to Add->New Data Source. I'm trying to add a record to it but cannot connect using the data string provided in the wizard. Please help. Here is my code System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection sqlConnection1 = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=|Da...
Hi All Using the .NET mail api. I have tried using sendmail and sendasync and I am getting a complete application fail. The ASP.NET 2 runtime is failing NOTE I am not getting any exceptions the application pool/Website completely dies HELP!!! The system error log has 2 entries related to it I think and these are the w3p process ...
The windows utility of dumpbin can be used for digging into binary files for .NET exe/dll assemblies, as is explained in this site. dumpbin /clrheader lib.dll Dump of file lib.dll File Type: DLL clr Header: 48 cb 2.00 runtime version 210C [ 374] RVA [size] of MetaData Directory 9 flags 0 entry point token 0 [ ...
I'm developing an add in for Outlook 2010 and I need to be able to retrieve the sender's email address for a MailItem or the email address of the original sender if it is a a forwarded email. Is there any easy way to do that second one besides parsing through the body of the email? ...
I'm going to be giving a presentation a little later to a student ACM chapter about how they can utilize debugging tools to solve problems in their code. Any ideas for a (preferably short) bit of example code I can use to demo breakpoints, variable inspection, etc.? My main worry is that I don't want to patronize them by using "Hello Wo...
I would like to add some variables when my window.open function fires. Example: <a href="javascript:void(window.open('Details.aspx', 'Title'))"><%# Eval("Id").ToString) %></a> I would like to pass the id number to the Details.aspx page. How do I do that? ...
I know with Silverlight you can control the width and height of the Silverlight section within the web page. However, it seems like from what I can tell when you are using XBAP you give the entire browser page area over to WPF. Is there a way to have an HTML and have XBAP be embedded within a rectangle of that HTML page? Or is this on...
Hi Folks Not sure if i will be able to formulate my question quite clear but let me try: So i've written a small piece of code which will give the user the option to select a desired status for his Office Communicator when his PC get locked ( by default it goes automatically on status "away" ) .So here it is the Windows Form wich is b...
A few days ago, I answered an interesting question on SO about HashSet<T>. A possible solution involved cloning the hashset, and in my answer I suggested to do something like this: HashSet<int> original = ... HashSet<int> clone = new HashSet<int>(original); Although this approach is quite straightforward, I suspect it's very inefficie...