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    - Using ConfigurationManager/ConfigurationSettings to retrieve settings returns null values Hello, Using VS2005, I have a Windows Forms app that uses the default Settings.settings file. When the app is built, the properly-named app.settings file is built into the output directory, and it contains the correct application-level settings. Controls in the app that are bound to settings in the app.config display the correct values. When values are changed by hand in the app.settings file these new values are correctly displayed when the app is run. In code, the following calls correctly retrieve settings values: global::<namespace>.Properties.Settings[<settingname>] Properties.Settings[<settingname>] Properties.Settings.<settingname> However, the following functions always return null values: ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[<settingname>] ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[<settingname>] ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location).AppSettings.Settings[<settingname>] ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None).AppSettings.Settings[<settingname>] ExeConfigurationFileMap efm = new ExeConfigurationFileMap(); efm.ConfigFileName = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location + ".config"; ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(efm, ConfigurationUserLevel.None).AppSettings.Settings[<settingname>] All returned Configuration objects have the correct filepath and HasFile==true. I can use the Properties.Settings syntax when I'm in the right class, but I need to access these settings from a satellite assembly and don't want to pass around references if I don't have to. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or why these function calls can't manage to find my settings? Keith Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122122
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    - URGENT: How to copy a .dll from the GAC? I need to copy Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel from the GAC but I can't figure out how to do that. What happens if I uninstall it from the GAC? Does it disappear completely from the system or is a copy made somewhere? Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122116
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    - too many using (imports in vb)... does it hit on performance or memory usage? Hi, I want to know if having to many using (imports in VB) statements at the top of a class or page can hit on the performance of the application or on the memory usage of the application. I use ASP.NET framework v2.0... When creating a web page there are about 10-15 using statements at the top, should I leave them there or remove all those the page doesn't use? Thanks ThunderMusic Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122115
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    - searching for a user in active directory by username Im creating a app that will pull a list of usernames in a txt doc and then find them in active directory and set the "User must change password at next login" attribut. I would like to limit it to a specific out and all sub OU under it. Im having issues nailing down the scope. I set the OU i want to start but it seems to go outside that OU and also not filtering the objectclass to just users. This is what i got so far. Also if i could get help checking that attribute to have them change there password too. Thanks. Imports System Imports System.DirectoryServices Namespace ActiveDirectorySearch Public Class ADSearch Shared Sub main(ByVal strUserName As String) Const strLDAP = "LDAP://ou=MINN Corporate,ou=CORP Users,dc=corp,dc=eschelon,dc=com" Dim DSESearcher As DirectorySearcher = New DirectorySearcher(strLDAP) DSESearcher.Filter = ("(objectClass=user)") Dim objResults As SearchResult For Each objResults In DSESearcher.FindAll() Console.WriteLine(objResults.GetDirectoryEntry.Path.ToString) Next End Sub End Class End Namespace any help would be great Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122111
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    - vb 2005 compiler error as per kb 915038 I am currently getting the error described in the above kb article. Does anyone have the fix file suggested in the article that can be e-mailed to me? Regards Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122110
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    - UML Book Suggestions Hello everybody, Until now, our company has not required us to use UML. I am looking for some suggestions of some books that might help me to get up to speed. There are two books I am looking at: UML Distilled (Third Edition) Writing Effective Use Cases (Cockburn) Are there any others that people may suggest? Thanks in advance, cj Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122109
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    - Error with GetAccessControl() Hi, I've written a very quick console app to recursive through a directory tree and display directories that have explicit file permissions (code below). It works, but GetAccessControl() fails on some folders (always the same) with the error: The binary form of an ACE object is invalid. Parameter name: binaryForm I've had a look at the folder properties, security tab for a couple of the affected folders and everything seems to look ok. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Ryan using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.Security.Principal; using System.Security.AccessControl; namespace CheckACLs { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(@"c:\"); DisplayRights(di, 0); Console.ReadKey(); } static void DisplayRights(DirectoryInfo di, int recurseLevel) { if (recurseLevel <= 2) { recurseLevel++; foreach (DirectoryInfo d in di.GetDirectories()) { DisplayRights(d, recurseLevel); } } bool firstRun = true; DirectorySecurity ds = di.GetAccessControl(); foreach (FileSystemAccessRule fsa in ds.GetAccessRules(true, false, typeof(NTAccount))) { if (firstRun) { Console.WriteLine(di.FullName); firstRun = false; } Console.WriteLine("\t" + fsa.IdentityReference.ToString() + " " + fsa.FileSystemRights.ToString() + " " + fsa.AccessControlType.ToString()); } } } } Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122106
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    - need help writing query I have a mapping table that I need to query to generate my report. The table structure is as below: Mapping table m_id m_table m_dept org dept id table 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 Corresponding to tables 1, 2 and 3 I have tables t1, t2 and t3 with the following structure table t1 org dept id desc 1 1 1 table 1 dept 1 1 2 2 table 1 dept 2 Quering the mapping table: Select * from Mapping where m_id = 1 and m_table=1 and m_dept = 1 returns 3 rows as above. Now I need to write a query that would use the above query result and display records from tables t1, t2 or t3 based on above mapping where the org, dept and id is equal to that in mapping table. e.g. above query should return something like this: org dept id desc 1 2 1 table 2 dept 2 1 2 2 table 3 dept 2 1 3 1 table 1 dept 3 Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122099
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    - ApplicationError on mscorwks.dll (1.1.4322.2300) Hello, One of my services, under w2k3 SP1 & .Net 1.1 SP1, stops after several of operation by generating an error not taken of load by the framework. Net: ?Error of queue of report: faulting application xxxx.exe, version x.x.x.x, failing module mscorwks.dll, version 1.1.4322.2300, addresses failure 0x0005088b? The same service functions on several other servers without problem soon very a long time. How then I to find the origin of the error? Thank you for your assistance Stéphane Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122097
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    - unwanted network printer switching We have a small network in our office running Windows 2000 Server. All machines are running XP-Pro with all the updates. One person has her default printer set to the printer on her desk. Occasionally, when she prints a document it goes to another printer on the network. There is no obvious pattern as to when this happens. When she looks at her printer setup page her default printer is now the one where the document went to, i.e. not the one on her desk. How can we stop this? Dan Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122096
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    - Exception in C++ CLR Console Application I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and have a C++ CLR Console Application. It compiles fine, but when I try to run it I get the following error dialog: --- An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in TestProblem.exe Additional information: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E) --- When I press Break, the file shown is "mcrtexe.cpp" at this block of code: --- #if defined (_MANAGED_MAIN) __set_managed_app_type(); mainret = main(arguments); #else /* defined (_MANAGED_MAIN) */ --- The arrow showing the next statement to execute is located at "mainret = main(arguments);" The project is linked with both C# and C++ libraries. It has worked before, but while doing some refactoring and adding some new library dependencies this error started to occur. I have tried to compile and run it on another computer, but get the same error message. /Henrik Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122088
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    - getting the assembly version number I need version information from and non-gac based assembly. And I need it at command line. Is there an command line application that shows it? It's a tiny app to make myself, but I still want to ask before I do it.... Thanks for any answers, -pom- Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122085
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    - string format number of leading 0 in exponent in scientific notation When I format a number to a string in scientific notation: string.Format("{0:E}",20000); I get the following string (culture de-DE): 2,000000E+003 How can I format scientific notation in a way that no leading 00 are inserted for the exponent, so the above would look like this: 2,000000E+3 Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122084
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    - \.Net Framework I have XP Home Edition. MS Update tells me I need .net framework. I am a casual user, just reading and surfing, no work done on here. Do I need to install the .net framework? Thanks in advance. Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122082
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    - Creating a remotable object like DCOM Does anyone know if it is possible to return an object from a remoting interface and have it be usable with .NET? I am trying to accomplish what I used to do in DCOM where I would call a function on an interface and it would return a new remote object. I could then call functions on that new object. When I attempt this with .NET it complains that the object has no channel sink. When I looked into the .NET configuration settings, this scenerio didn't seem to fit the 3, SingleCall, SingleInstance, or Client Initiated. The closest one I could think of was Client Initiated but it is the server that creates the object. Any ideas? Is this just not possible with .NET? Thanks. Jayme Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122077
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    - unable to install framework 2 I'm running service pack 2 on XP I tried to install the runtime files for framework 2, but it is always hanging at the same place the install dialog shows Stopping Services Services: IIS Admin I can't get past this point.... HELP!!! Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122063
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    - Threadpool and Sockets Hi All, I don't know in which group my question needs to be posted so here i go: I know that the socket 'begin...' methods uses the threadpool to call the callback function but does that mean that the sockets can't handle more than 25 concurrent 'begin...' methods that complete since the threadpool only has 25 threads to process the completion? Thanks for any insight in this. Greetz, Richard. Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122057
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    - UserControls in a different directory I have my UserControls in a subdirectory called usercontrols. In the code for one of my UserControls I have the following: Public Property adimage() As String Get Return lnkAdvertisement.ImageUrl End Get Set(ByVal value As String) Response.Write(Me.Page.ResolveClientUrl(value) & "<br/>" & ControlChars.NewLine) lnkAdvertisement.ImageUrl = Me.Page.ResolveClientUrl(value) System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(Me.Page.ResolveClientUrl(value)) End Set End Property In the Page that uses this UserControl I pass it the value "images/bannerad.jpg". However, when I open the page, the Response.Write() and Debug.Write() lines both output 'images/bannerad.jpg' but the value that gets assigned to lnkAdvertisement.ImageUrl is 'usercontrols/images/bannerad.jpg'. Why is a different value being returned by Me.Page.ResolveClientUrl(value)? My main goal is to make the paths I pass when using the UserControl to be treated as relative to the path of the Page containing the UserControl, not the path of the UserControl. What should I do? Thanks. -- Nathan Sokalski njsokalski@hotmail.com http://www.nathansokalski.com/ Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122051
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    - Any way I can do it at server side? Thanks for the useful link and comment. Any way I can force the IIS to send the page in the charset I want when there is no accept-charset in the request header (something like default charset option in the server)? Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122050
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    - Using ASP.NET 2.0's ImageMap Control I am using ASP.NET 2.0's ImageMap Control to create 2 imagemaps, one directly below the other. When I do this a thin blank space appears between them. After several days of frustration I realized that the difference between what the ImageMap Control outputs and the html on the page I was trying to reproduce with ASP.NET 2.0 was the following: Handwritten HTML imagemaps (no whitestrip between them): <table> <tr> <td> <img/><br/> <map> <area/> </map> <img/><br/> <map> <area/> </map> </td> </tr> </table> ASP.NET 2.0 generated HTML using the ImageMap Control (whitestrip appears between the two ImageMaps): <table> <tr> <td> <img/> <map> <area/> </map> <img/> <map> <area/> </map> </td> </tr> </table> In case you didn't see it, the difference is that the handwritten HTML includes a <br/> between the <img/> and <map> tags. However, this is not achievable (at least not using any technique I can think of) using the ASP.NET 2.0 ImageMap Control. What can I do? Thanks. -- Nathan Sokalski njsokalski@hotmail.com http://www.nathansokalski.com/ Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122042
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    - Serious Socket Programming Problems hello, I just started working with this class at the low level and am having issues. 1) I am instantiating a StreamReader and feeding my NetworkStream to its constructor. the bytes that the StreamReader reads from the server are perfect. however the StreamReader never stops reading / listening! even after the last byte has been received! it just keeps blocking and freezing my client app. does anyone know why this is and what can be done about it? 2) as a workaround to 1), I am parsing the server response to find the last byte. when I do I manually stop the StreamReader. is this really a "workaround" or is it basically what the System.Web.HttpRequest object does behind the scenes? 3) using the process described in 2) my client runs fine - but only in debug mode. in release mode the server response is empty. this seems to be due to bad code. I get my StreamReader to read the NetworkStream object directly after my StreamWriter wrote a HTTP request to it. is there a command I should call in between the two? you know, to delay the read until a server response has been received? long questions, I know. thx for your time Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122037
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    - need a grid control such that need a grid control such that 1- the text for the column headers can be rotated 2- I can control each cell's editability (did I use the word right?) 3- does not need to be bounded to a data source 4- allows me to control color, fonts on a cell by cell bases Will the DataView control do all this for me? I'd hate to have to go to java to get this Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122032
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    - Brief Version! thought my post is too long the short version is: i have this tag in my HTML file served by IIS <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> IE show this page correctly but I need to detect the characterset of the response and HttpWebResponse webresp = (HttpWebResponse)(webrq.GetResponse()); ... console.WriteLine(webresp.CharacterSet); dumps this on screen ISO-8859-1 instead of utf-8 ! why? Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122031
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    - HttpWebRespose.CharacterSet Returns charset incorrectly?! I have page with this code is part of it: <html dir="rtl"> <head> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> ... This page is served by IIS (on a winxp SP2 machine). when i browse the page in IE ( on the same machine using http:// request) the page is shown correctly. But when i use this code to get the page the textboxHTMLSource shows characters incorrectly (some garbage between some english text; the garbage is actually some arabic, chinese ... text) private void buttonGetUrl_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Uri url = new Uri(textBoxUrl.Text, UriKind.Absolute); HttpWebRequest webrq = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.CreateDefault(url); HttpWebResponse webresp = (HttpWebResponse)(webrq.GetResponse()); Stream resp = webresp.GetResponseStream(); byte[] data = new byte[webresp.ContentLength]; int len = resp.Read(data, 0, data.Length); switch (webresp.ContentType) { case MediaTypeNames.Text.Html: case MediaTypeNames.Text.Plain: case MediaTypeNames.Text.RichText: case MediaTypeNames.Text.Xml: textBoxHTMLSource.Text = Encoding.GetEncoding(webresp.CharacterSet).GetString(data, 0, len); break; default: textBoxHTMLSource.Text = webresp.ContentType; break; } } I used the debugger to inspect some values in webresp object they are as follows: webresp.ContentType = "text/html" webresp.ContentEncoding = "" webresp.CharacterSet = "ISO-8859-1" can any1 say why CharacterSet is ISO instead of utf-8? how can i fix this? Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122030
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    - VS2005 on Win2k,IIS5.0 - URGENT. I have a VS2005 migrated web application project. My query is whether my project will get loaded in WIN2000 MACHINES WITH IIS 5.0. without any errors. Please provide your points on this as I have very less time. Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122027
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    - CLR class correspondant to std::vector<> or CArray<>? What is the CLR class correspondant to std::vector<> or CArray<>? I looked for how to resize object[] (aka array<object> in C++/CLI), but I cannot find it yet. Please reply. Thanks in advance. Hyun-jik Bae Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122026
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    - VS2005 on Win2k,IIS5.0 - URGENT. I have a VS2005 migrated web application project. My query is whether my project will get loaded in WIN2000 MACHINES WITH IIS 5.0. without any errors. Please provide your points on this as I have very less time. Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122025
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    - VS2005 on Win2k,IIS5.0 - URGENT. I have a VS2005 migrated web application project. My query is whether my project will get loaded in WIN2000 MACHINES WITH IIS 5.0. without any errors. Please provide your points on this as I have very less time. Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122024
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    - Single Sign On / Authentication System? Hi all, I'm looking to implement a single sign on solution for .NET applications. This single sign on solution will need to work against a variety of back- end databases (i.e. SQL (mainly), Active Directory (some), Custom Data Sources (XML, MDB, Custom Web Service, etc). Is there any sample code on implementing a simple single sign on service? The app would need: -Log in Users from the web, desktop clients, custom applications, etc. -Have granular permissions -Be compatible with other web services, desktop apps, and remoting (basically any sort of client/server) -Have the ability to add trusted sites (i.e. servers, viewer consoles, etc) -Work with .NET 1.1 (most of our apps are still 1.1) I was thinking of doing the following: 1. Build a security web service 2. Users would log into a web service to retrieve a token 3. Once a token is retrieve, it is used for all future communications 4. Applications check security against the security service via the Token i.e.: CheckPermission(ByVal Token as GUID, ByVal Permission as String) as Boolean 5. The Web Service would manage a list of valid tokens (time outs, errors, etc) Ecryption would be done primarily on the transport layer - but the token could be encrypted too. What do you guys think about this solution? It's simple... However, how do you handled "trusted" sources? Even better would be for me to find something that was prebuilt :-) Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122018
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    - Using a TypeConverter instead of Type.GetType(String) Does anyone know of a way (without looking through decompiled ASP.Net code) to convert a String to a Type using the generic TypeConverter stuff? I am writing a deserializer, but I would prefer not to have a custom codepath just for String->Type, but the following code throws a NotSupportedException: TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Type)).ConvertFrom("System.String") The problem with the above code is that GetConverter returns the base TypeDescriptor, which always throws an exception on ConvertFrom, but I'm not aware of any gneeric codepaths to do this that don't involve typedescriptors Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122015
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    - Change password giving errors Hi This is my third question today. Seems like I have run into some problems with AD. I am using the native IADsUser interface to change the password. IADsUser dsUser = DirectoryEntry.NativeObject as IADsUser dsUser.ChangePassword(old, new); The password gets changed. Alls fine till there. The trouble comes when I login again. If I use the old password, the error I get is "The server is not operational", instead of a "Logon failure " message. Instead If i use a random string like "abc" to login, I get a correct error "Logon failure". Can anyone tell me how to fix the former case. Thanks and regards Vikas Manghani Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122011
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    - Group Policy Hi I have an OU named TempOU set at my domain controller. All my users are getting created in this OU. I have a group policy setup for this OU. Can anyone tell me how to read the values for these settings in C# code. i need to read lockoutDuration and maxPwdAge. Thanks and regards Vikas Manghani Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 122001
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    - .NET Runtime Optimization Service causing Web Service to stop responding?? I'm hoping somebody out there can help me. I have developed a web service in C#.Net 2.0 and have it running on a Windows 2003 Server (Standard Edition). The .NET Runtime Optimization Service is running on the server every 5 minutes and then every morning the Web Service becomes unresponsive. I'm not really sure where to even begin to try to fix this issue. Thanks in advance for any help / leads you can give. Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121999
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    - Active Directory and DirectorySearcher Filter I am using DirectoryServices to get all groups and all users from active directory. Now I want to use the filter to limit the groups and users. I would like to remove the builtin groups. I use the code below but the built in groups are still there. The main question is how do I construct the filter strings. The code gives me the properties and their values. Do I use these properties and values in the filter or is there other information I am missing. Code: Dim strDomPath As String = "LDAP://cd2k3domtest/DC=CDTESTDOM,DC=adwaresystems,DC=com" Dim dirEnt As New DirectoryEntry(strDomPath) Dim dsgroups As New DirectorySearcher(dirEnt) dsgroups.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree dsgroups.Filter = "(&(objectCategory=group)(!distinguishedname=Builtin))" Dim srGroupsCol As SearchResultCollection Try srGroupsCol = dsGroups.FindAll() Catch domE As Exception Dim str As String str = domE.Message End Try Dim objarray() As String ReDim objarray(35) Dim arrGroup As New ArrayList Dim srGroups As SearchResult For Each srGroups In srGroupsCol 'will get all property names that are available srGroups.Properties.PropertyNames.CopyTo(objarray, 0) Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To objarray.Length - 1 Try Dim strPro As String = CType(objarray(i).ToString, String) Response.Write(strPro & "  " & srGroups.Properties(strPro).Item(0).ToString & "<br />") Catch End Try Next Response.Write("*************************************************************<br />") Next -- Jerry Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121997
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    - Question abt Password Expiry Hi I have to implement password expiry in my application, in the same way as Windows does it. If a user's password at Active Directory is expired or reset, a window is displayed that allows him to change his password. The problem is that if password has expired, then DirectoryEntry.Invoke("ChangePassword", new object[]{old, new}) throws an exception with the message "Logon Failure: Incorrect user id or password." Another complication is that I cannot pass the passwords in cleartext. Do let me know what can be done about this. This is urgent Thanks and regards Vikas Manghani Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121991
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    - Error decoding ISO character 147 Hi I have a byte-array, in which one of the bytes has the value 149 (hex95) which represents a dot ( ? ). The same character has the unicode value of 8226 (hex 2022) But when I try to decode the byte-array into a string, that character is not converted into the correct value. If I use the following code: byte[] b = new byte[] { 147 }; char[] c = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetChars(b); c now contains the character value 147 - which is an illegal unicode value. What am I doing wrong (actually asp.net is doing it wrong as well, because if I enter that character in a text-field, then the wrong value is stored in the database. So the character is not properly decoded when the form is posted to the server) Regards, Pete Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121989
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    - List of the computers from the same workgroup... Hi guys, I need to get a list of the computers with the same workgroup as the one where my program is runing. I want to have the same thing as in Windows XP, when I display all members of my network, but I haven't found anything in the framework to do it. Is there some way with .NET? If there isn't, is there maybe a API call doing the same? Thank you! Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121986
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    - Interesting problem with SmtpClient in background thread I'm experimenting with the SmtpClient class in c# and I have run into a knotty problem. I'm using the ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem to queue a delegate which creates an SmtpClient and attempts to send an email. Basically, If I try and create a new SmtpClient object in a thead managed by the threadpool the application exits without an exception being thrown/caught. However, if I create an SmtpClient in the main program the pooled thread can create the SmtpClient but it then blows up trying to send an email.... Anyone got any ideas..... I'm using the following code public class MailServer { public void QueueMail( string from, string to, string subject, string body ) { MailMessage m = new MailMessage( from, to, subject, body ); ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem( new WaitCallback( MailProc ), m ); } static void MailProc( object state ) { SmtpClient clt = null; try { clt = new SmtpClient( "InternalMailServer" ); // <<---- The application blows up here without being caught !! } catch ( Exception e ) { Console.WriteLine( e.Message ); } try { clt.Send( (MailMessage)state ); } catch ( Exception e ) { Console.WriteLine( e.Message ); } } } class Program { static void Main( string[] args ) { // SmtpClient clt = new SmtpClient( "InternalMailServer" ); // <<--- Is I uncomment this line it blows up at the Send() above.... MailServer m = new MailServer(); m.QueueMail( "from@fromcom", "to@to.com", "This is a queued test message", "hello world again" ); } } Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121984
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    - connecting asp.net with oracle9i Hello All, Can anyone here suggest me some idea for my following queries? 1) How do I connect asp.net with oracle9i? 2) How can I generate a report using Crystal Report with asp.net based on certain user conditions? Thanks in advance Jackfadd Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121974
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    - What is the collection class correspondent to std::set? What is the collection class correspondent to std::set? I know Dictionary<> roles as std::map... Please reply. Thanks in advance. Hyun-jik Bae Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121973
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    - Problems when writing a SMTP client and talk with the hotmail Hi, First, I am not trying to talk to hotmail through the SMTP straightly. I am trying to write some codes to send emails through a SMTP server. I wrote a C++ version using pure socket programming and SMTP protocol, a VB version using CDO and a C# version using System.Net.Mail. Now all of them works great with any email account but hotmail. So here is the C# code: MailAddress from = new MailAddress("Z...@CCC.com", "XXX"); MailAddress to = new MailAddress("S...@hotmail.com", "YYY"); MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(from, to); mail.Subject = "Test only, please don't block me"; mail.Body = "Test only, please don't block me"; SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"); client.Send(mail); here is the VB Code: Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message") objMessage.Subject = "Test only, please don't block me" objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _ ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" objMessage.From = "Z...@CCC.com" objMessage.To = "S...@hotmail.com" objMessage.TextBody = "Test only, please don't block me" objMessage.Send I wouldn't put C++ code here because it's too long. 1. I can use Outlook to send out email (on the same machine where my code runs) and hotmail will receive it with no problem. So I know my SMTP server was not blocked by Hotmail. 2. My SMTP server doesn't require authentication, I know it's bad. But I can't change that. 3. Somebody told me that I would need some strange header to make the hotmail like my email. Therefore I set up a sniffer and get all headers which are used by Outlook. I used all of them in my C++ code but it still doesn't work. Now this hotmail problem drives me crazy and I have wasted 4 hours on it with no clue. Can anybody help me out of here? Thanks Ou P.S It's a little bit ironic to see that MS' product doesn't work well on its own product. Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121968
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    - Reflection and Generics I am writing a function that replaces tokens in a string with property values of a given object. from each token I get a property name and using reflection, I get the value of the property. Some properties are generic lists, I can tell what is the type of the generic in the list (PropertyValue.GetType.GetGenericArguments) How can I cast the value returned by the InvokeMember call to the right generic type? in this sample "ClaimManagerItem" is a base class, GenericType will always be of class inheriting from the base class PropertyValue = SourceType.InvokeMember(PropertyName, Flags, Nothing, Source, Nothing) If PropertyValue.GetType.GetGenericArguments.Length <> 0 Then 'Generic Dim GenericType As Type = PropertyValue.GetType.GetGenericArguments(0) For Each CMItem As ClaimManagerItem In DirectCast(PropertyValue, GenericType(of ??? ) ... ... Next Thanks for the help Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121967
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    - RSA 1024 Bit Decryption with *.Pem Key Hi guys, We have created a key pair (privKey.pem, pubKey.pem) with OpenSSL as our partner requested (they use this format). They encrypted a string with our public key and then base64 encoded the string. We want to use Visual Studio.net 2003 to base64 decode the string, and then decrypt the string with the private key (*.pem format). It seems that VS.Net uses xml keys for this natively. Is there a way to work with the OpenSSL *.Pem key files with the RSACryptoProvider? Any advice/help/guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Ron Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121960
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    - Where is Dns.CancelAsync()? I know that Dns methods are static and CancelAsync() is implemented on object instances but how can i clean up the resources if time out occurs? I personally expected somthing like this: private static void GetHostEntryCallback(IAsyncResult ar) { Dns.EndGetHostEntry(ar); ... getHostEntryFinished.Set(); } private void buttonResolve_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ... if (getHostEntryFinished.WaitOne(30000, false)) { ... } else Dns.CancelAsync(); ... } Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121956
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    - Framework 2.0 compatibility issues with Component Services Hi, I developed a system using VS2003 and framework 1.1. Middleware developed in C# and VB 6.0. Since I have to go through COM+, my application installs fine when the framework is 1.1. However when I install 2.0, the application (proxy) does not work properly. I get an error 80020009. I'm runnning XP. Does anybody know if there is a hotfix or something else to do? Thanks, Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121944
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    - Is there a way we can send a feature request for Visual Studio? Hi, Is there a way we can send a feature request for Visual Studio? When using 'Refactor-->Encapsulate Field', I'd like to have an option for the references not to be updated anywhere in the project. It would be very useful for me (and probably others too) because I use this feature to generate my properties from my member variables. So I type all my member variables and then take them one by one and encapsulate them... When the project is small it's quick and efficient, but when the project becomes bigger it can take many seconds and sometimes minutes because it searches in all the assemblies of the solution to update the reference to a private variable that is not used anywhere because I just created it. Moreover, it would be nice to take a block of member variables and tell Visual studio to encapsulate them all. It would save a lot of time (and money too). So to reiterate my question : Is there a way (or place) we can send a feature request for Visual Studio? thanks ThunderMusic Tag: Animated Toolboxes Tag: 121941

How do I create animated toolboxes similar to the ones in the Visual Studio
IDE? I'd like to add animated toolboxes to the right side of my application
like the Properties, Solution Explorere with my own content. Are there
controls taht I can add to my Form that will give me this capability? Any
examples would be greatly appreciated.

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