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Finalizers accessing managed stuff

I am well aware that finalizers are typically used to control unmanaged resources. Under what circumstances may a finalizer deal with managed ones? My understanding is that presence in the finalizer queue will prevent any object, or objects strongly referenced thereby, from being collected, but it will not (of course) protect them from...

VB.NET - Using Directx to decode, but can't write to WAV

Hey SO. Building a little audio converter which uses Directx to decode the audio (under assumption that the end user has the decoders installed) and I want to write the loaded audio to a wave file in C:\Temp\ to send to the audio compressor because the audio compressors only support uncompressed WAV format. I'm having a bit of trouble th...

How to make a vb.net see a vb 2005 class assembly

I am a java developer that inherited a vb.net web application. This app relies on a VB class assembly that builds in to a dll. I have made some changes to this class assembly but I cant seem to get the vb.net app to pick up the changes. I thought that using regsvr32.exe or regasm.exe would do the trick but after reading a bit more they d...

Is it bad practice to access a data member directly?

I recall being told by a professor the following is bad practice. But it makes stepping through code a lot less tedious. I'm just solicting comments on pros and cons: Friend Class MyClass Private isEmpty As Boolean Public Property IsEmpty() As Boolean Get Return isEmpty End Get Set(ByVal Value As Integer) isEmpty = value ...

Optimize Linq to SQL query, Group By multiple fields

My LINQ query contains the following Group By statement: Group p By Key = New With { _ .Latitude = p.Address.GeoLocations.FirstOrDefault(Function(g) New String() {"ADDRESS", "POINT"}.Contains(g.Granularity)).Latitude, _ .Longitude = p.Address.GeoLocations.FirstOrDefault(Function(g) New String() {"ADDRESS", "POINT"}.Contains(g.Granularit...

How to enable "Caret Browsing" functionality in WebBrowser control in C# or VB.NET

Hi, I have IE 8 installed on my machine; and trying to integrate the "Caret Browsing" (navigation using Keyboard) concept into application which i am planning to develop. My sample application in VB.NET as follows: A Form - Form1 A Text box - TextBox1 A Button - Button1 A WebBrowser control - WebBrowser1 Added following line of cod...

.NET (VB): Runtime is initializing a variable to an Instance of the wrong class

Something is munged-up here, I just don't know what. I've got some code that looks like this: If ediFileGroupAbbr = "NIPDSINV" OrElse ediFileGroupAbbr = "WWPDSINV" Then Dim p As New PrivateBillingAdapter_ForN(ediFileGroupAbbr, businessLocationID, mode, EDIJobItemLogID, BusinessUnitID) Return p.ProcessEDI(True, False) ElseIf edi...

how make groups(sections) based on column values in gridview?

In my grid I have data in two columns same for couple of rows. Then again couple of other rows will same with different data.I want make them into alternative sections with colors In below example(image). Rows no 1 to 4 has 'High', 'High'. I want make them gray bgcolor for those rows. Rows no 5 to 8 has 'High','Low'. I want make them ...

How do I copy from, erase, then paste back into the clipboard?

I have to automate a program that is outside of my control. The way I'm doing this is to use SendKeys.SendWait("keys") to the other program. The problem is, there are multiple fields that might be active and no way to select a single one with confidence. The fields are all different lengths, so my solution is to copy something really lon...

When removing an item from a ListView, how do I highlight the item that relaces it in VB.NET?

I have a ListView in my project that has dynamically added/edited/deleted items. When the user deletes an item, I want the item that replaces the deleted item to be highlighted. I tried simply storing the deleted item's index then highlighting the item there (list.Items(index).Selected = True). This works well unless the item deleted was...

visual studio 2010 with c# like namespaces in vb

Is it possible to have visual studio 2010 automatically add namespaces to classes within folders just like c#? ...

Writing my first VB.NET Class

I am trying to make 2 variables available throughout my site. I am parsing the URL in order to retreive both of them. This code on the page itself works fine. Dim countryLanguage As String countryLanguage = (Request.ServerVariables("URL")) Dim langVar = (Mid(countryLanguage, 2, 2)) Dim countryVar = (Mid(countryLanguage, 5, 2)) I have...

ASP.Net Button in codebehind that calls codebehind function

I'm using Telerik RadControls, in my codebehind I have the following function, a portion of which adds buttons to the footer. Protected Sub RadGrid1_ItemCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridItemEventArgs) If TypeOf e.Item Is GridDataItem Then Dim editLink As HyperLink = DirectCast(e.Item.FindControl("EditLi...

How can I set ContentPropertyAttribute to a Content Presenter?

I have a Usercontrol: SnazzyForm, which in addition to a couple of borders and and a header area and whatnot, also has a Content Presenter which under .NET Framework 3.5 presented content passed to it in other forms that used the control just fine. However after moving the project to 4.0 I am greeted with "Cannot add content to object o...

How to find duplicates in arrayList?

I have to check duplicate records in ArrayList. In ArrayList each item should have atleast 2 times before insert new Item. Per example Example 1: AL(0) = '1' AL(1) = '1' AL(2) = '2' AL(3) = '2' AL(4) = '2' Method has to return = True, because each value has atleast 2 times in the list. Example 2: AL(0) = '1' AL(1) = '1' AL(2) = '2' A...

How do you read a full table from a SQL database in VB.NET?

I hate to ask this question on this forum, but I'm having a lot of trouble finding it on these online tutorials. Basically, I'm learning about SQL, VB.NET, and how to glue the two together, and I've learned about using SqlCommand.executeScalar() to get the first entry in a table. But that's all it's really good for, right? Or is there...

Gridview binding with combobox's in header

Hi all, Could anyone please enlighten me about how one might go about binding to a gridview in ASP.Net 4 in a scenario where the first row of my gridview should be the headers, the second should be a combobox for each column and the third is the beginning of my actual datasource. If you can imagine what I am trying to achieve is an abi...

Prompt user to recover Db files if previous version is installed

hi all, I want to make a setup project for dot net, which should Install application and during instillation if it found application was previously installed in different location then it should ask for db files from that location else new files will be used from new installation. ...

Looking for master-detail (hierarchical) control for VB.NET

Hi, I'm looking for such control in order to represent a hierarchical list that I can sort separately each set of master (parents) and his details. Something like that: http://www.microsoft.com/Global/project/en/us/PublishingImages/ProjPortServ-scrn-2-lrg.jpg I think that such a control does not provided in .NET Do you know for a good ...

Double-columned in ASP.NET

A dataset will be shown in 2 different columns. Can I use for this the repeater-control or is there a more appropriate control ? Does anyone know a good example? ...