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Sequential GUID in Linq-to-Sql?

I just read a blog post about NHibernate's ability to create a GUID from the system time (Guid.Comb), thus avoiding a good amount of database fragmentation. You could call it the client-side equivalent to the SQL Server Sequential ID. Is there a way I could use a similar strategy in my Linq-to-Sql project (by generating the Guid in code...

C#: Why Func<T,bool> instead of Predicate<T>?

This is just a curiosity question I was wondering if anyone had a good answer to: In the .NET Framework Class Library we have for example these two methods: public static IQueryable<TSource> Where<TSource>( this IQueryable<TSource> source, Expression<Func<TSource, bool>> predicate ) public static IEnumerable<TSource> Where<TSo...

string is immutable and stringbuilder is mutable

can any one explain with examples Related Discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21078/whats-the-best-string-concatenation-method-using-c ...

How to use XML documentation files

When using an external assembly which comes with an XML documentation file, how do I get visual studio to find it? When having an XML documentation file, is there a program or xml transform file or something I can use to look at it in a nice way? Not necessarily as complex as the msdn documentation viewer thingy, but at least something ...

Bind to specified XML-element

In short: I want to define what XML ButtonSettings element to use for a XAML-Button, and to use the childs of the selected ButtonSettings-element in a style applied to that Button. Is this possible? A sample of the XML: <Buttons> <ButtonSettings ID="Bye"> <Text lang="NL">Doei!</Text> <Text lang="DE">Tsusch!</Text> <Tex...

panel access

I have multi level panels. where i need to set the outer panel as enabled false and inner panel as enabled true. how can i do? ...

How can I add a VC++ DLL as a reference in my C# Visual Studio project?

I want to add a VC++ DLL reference into my C# Visual Studio project. But when I try to add it I see, "It is not a valid assembly or COM component". Please suggest how I can use the VC++ DLL as a reference in a C# project. ...

How can I programmatically check in a C# installer class if IIS supports Application Pools?

Hi, I am writing an installer class in which I am creating a new Application Pool. This obviously is not going to work on IIS <6.0. How can I safely check (programmatically in .Net) if IIS supports application pools before I try to add one? ...

Convert a RTF document to Image or print RTF on server

I have a situation where I want to convert a RTF document to image for archiving and printing. I am using .NET. Are there any libraries out there that could help me with this conversion? I need to convert a RTF to image on a server set the paper size that needs to be adhered to when creating the image A commercial library is an op...

C# code analysis - VS 2005

I have a C# user control project which causes intermittent .NET run time error, a generic error, and wondering if there is any code analysis tool that I can point at my .sln file which would tell me what may be causing my error ...

Scan a bunch of Word documents for a given phrase

How can I scan a bunch of Microsoft Word (2003) documents? I am searching for a certain phrase in the documents and want to return the file names of those which contain the phrase. A code sample would be especially helpful. ...

WebForm_InitCallback is not defined

Weird issue going on. .NET 2.0 site using the System.Web.Extensions Version 1.0.61025.0 for some little AJAX stuff. We have a Web Farm with 2 load balanced servers. The site has been up for about 2 years now with no issues. Currently the hosting company upgraded the Framework to 3.5 and now a page that is using an simple asp:Panel is...

Map entities to database with Entity Framework

Hello, I've made a quite big domain model with entity framework. I wanted to know if it is possible to map it so i create automaticly the tables in the database wanted? I've looked up edmgen.exe but still couldn't find the right command. thank's for helping! Edit1: I know the tool LightSpeed from Mindscape ofer this features that's w...

Does SQL Server cache LINQ to SQL queries?

As far as I know, in MS SQL Server 2000+ stored procedures are compiled, and run faster than normal non-compiled queries. I wonder if MS SQL Server also compiles LINQ to SQL queries, and caches that compilation, for performance purposes. ...

Does the free Team Explorer client work without Visual Studio

We are about to setup a cruise control.net with and NAnt and TFS, do I need visual studio 2005/2008 with team explorer installed or can I make this work with just the free Team explorer client ...

How can I convert extended ascii to a System.String?

For example: "½" or ASCII DEC 189. When I read the bytes from a text file the byte[] contains the valid value, in this case 189. Converting to Unicode results in the Unicode replacement character 65533. UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(b); Converting to ASCII results in 63 or "?" ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(b); If this ...

Making Excel 2002 use .NET v2.0.50727 runtime

Good morning, I have a .Net 2.0 runtime DLL that I am trying to load from Excel (it's correct regasm'd). I've verified with the Fusion Log Viewer that it is trying to load with the 1.1 runtime instead o 2.0, which explains why it's failing. One solution is to put an EXCEL.EXE.config file next to excel that looks like this: <?xml vers...

How to check what URL a RedirectToRouteResult will make?

In my asp.net-mvc project I do a redirect from a post request to a get request. In between my redirect and my arrival of the method I expect it to arrive, one of my parameters magically turns into null and I can't figure out why. Probably it has something to do with my global.asax (route defenition). The only way I can come up with to d...

.Net, cobol, copybook

I have a project that is requiring extensive use of a data source that only exists as what appears to be a copy book. For instance, 01 CMT-COMM-MSTR-EXTRACT-RECORD. 05 CMT-FIXED-AREA-1. 10 CMT-COMMUNITY-RECORD-KEY. 15 CMT-ALTERNATE-KEY. 20 CMT-ALTERNATE-KEY-STATE ...

Localization Problem Decimal Seperator

Is it possible that .NET uses on server A ',' as decimal seperator and on another server B '.'? + How can you detect this? When converting strings to doubles, on server A everything works fine, but on server B we have problems. Example: server A : 20,4 --> 20.4 server B : 20,4 --> 204 We would need to detect this so that on both serv...