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    - How to display server information in a .NET application Hi, I have a requirement to display the the following information using a .ASPX webpage, basically as a test method that server is .NET ready. I am not able to find the proper controls to obtain this information in VB.NET. Any help will undoubtedly be appreciated. --> Operating System information like type, version etc., of the host Server, that's running the IIS and this webpage. --> Server protocol --> Server HTTP Port (confirming it as 80) --> .NET version --> Server path, meaning the physical directory name in full, where this .ASPX page is on the Server. Thanks in advance, Bhaskar Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105138
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    - Process.StandardOutput buffer issue Hi, I run a DOS command using a Process object. The command outputs a new line of text to STDOUT every now and then as an indication of progress. I'd like to capture that output and present it in a log window as soon as it's written. Problem: Reading from Process.StandardOutput seems to be limited to when the internal StandardOutput buffer is full. The docs state "If the size of the internal buffer was unspecified when the stream was constructed, its default size is 4 kilobytes (4096 bytes).", but I'm not really in control of creating that stream - it's done by the Process object. Is there any way I can lower this internal buffer value? Or maybe there is a better way of solving the problem? Thanks, Christopher Code snippet: Dim sOut = StreamReader Dim ps = New Process Dim s As String ps.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe" ps.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True ps.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False ps.StartInfo.Arguments = "/C " & MyDosCommand ps.Start() sOut = ps.StandardOutput s = sOut.ReadLine Do Until s Is Nothing 'This does not happen until 4K (or the entire buffer) has been read Debug.WriteLine(s) s = sOut.ReadLine Loop If Not ps.HasExited Then ps.Kill() (Btw, I've also tried to use Process.Read rather than ReadLine to specify the length of the char array I'd like to get returned, but that doesn't help as Read does not seem to read anything either until the buffer has filled up.) Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105134
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    - Error 1053 - When Writing EventLog Hi I have a problem that I'm trying to track down third day or so. I have a .Net Windows Service here that used to run on the server. I have updated it a bit and now I cant find a way to make it write EventLogs on the server (it works perfectly fine on my machine and another server I was testing). It gives me error 1053 whenever the service tries to write an entry (EventLog.WriteEntry("sth", "sth"). This is my conclusion after isolating every other parts of the code. So if I have EventLog.WriteEntry("sth", "sth") in the OnStart method then it won't let me start the service. And if I have EventLog.WriteEntry("sth", "sth") in the OnStop method - it doesn't let me stop it for 5 minutes or so. I know that it might be related to the privilages, but I'm sure that this writing event was working before Any Ideas?? Thanks Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105133
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    - add icon to resource and use different sizes Hi, In my VB.NET 2005 application I want to reuse several icons in different sizes. My icons contains images of 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48. The problem is: I doesn't always use the right size: sometimes it resizes the 48x48 image to 16x16 instead of taking the 16x16 image. Is there a way to specify which image of the icon has to be used? Thansk a lot in advance, Pieter Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105130
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    - Binary I/O and structures I have a simple structure that should be 12 bytes long (3 integers). When I use fileput(1,astructure), I discover that 24 bytes have been written. If you look at the structure in debug you see that it has a system.value object. It looks like the fileput is writing this info (which I'm guessing is 12bytes long) as well as the data. Is there some way to stop this behaviour and make it only write the data? Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105128
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    - Calculating download speed from HTTP Stream Hi All, In my app I am using the following code to read from the response stream of a web page. .. do { bytesRead = receiveStream.Read(byteArray, 0, 256); receiveLocal.Write(byteArray, 0, bytesRead); } (while bytesRead > 0) .. where receiveStream is the Response Stream from the HttpWebRequest and receiveLocal is a memory stream. Now I'm just wondering - what is the best way to work out the download speed per second. Thanks in advance... Ann Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105121
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    - Design Question. C/S Threads & AppDomains Hi all, I am developing a client/server application which has to potentially handle a very large number of concurrent users. Each connection is associated with a session object much like ASP.NET. My first wish is to be able to process the sessions in parallel. Obviously I can run each session in a separate thread however I gather that once there is a large number of users the number of threads will be too much of a drain on system resources. So I am thinking I should use a thread pool with a set number of threads and then each thread would be assigned multiple sessions. Is this the correct way of thinking? My second wish is to be able to to somehow secure each session within its own execution boundary. Basically so that if something causes a session to crash it does not take all the other sessions down with it. Is the solution to this to run each session in its own application domain? If so how would this combine with the thread approach? If say I had 50,000 users connected to a server that would potentially be a hell of a lot of threads + application domains which I assume isn't the right way to go about it. Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards, Mark Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105120
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    - Graphics Tool Hi, I really don't know the right place to ask this question... I am looking for a .NET component that will allow users to be able to edit graphics. The control would be something like paint.exe, except that the palette bar would allow me to add custom bitmaps that the user could then drag over to a base image, thereby editing it. Does anyone know if such a component is commercially available, and, if so, who offers it? Thanks. -- John Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105109
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    - copy a project with Configured assemblies Hi, We have a web application that references several strong named assemblies. This application is in a web server that had to replace. We copied the web application to another web server and registered the latest version of all the strong named assemblies. When we tried to enter in the application a binding error was thrown telling us that the assembly with name xx or one of his dependencies was not found. But the assembly was installed in the GAC and added as configured assembly with a binding policy. What seems to be happening is that .NET is searching the version of the assembly that is was originally compiled with. So if our application was compiled with version 1.0.0.0 and later it was updated to 1.0.0.1 it will search for 1.0.0.0 when searching for dependencies even when you add a binding policy to the GAC. In the new web server these old version where not installed so an error was thrown. We ended up installing all of our versions of the strong named assemblies on the new web server. My question is if this is the right way of handling this. Wouldnâ??t be better that when searching for the dependencies it would look for the latest version configured in the GAC, so that when you copy to a new web server you do not have to install al the old versions that are not used. Is this a bug? Thanx, Richard. Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105102
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    - System.Web.Mail - Bad Bug Hello, I can't see another appropriate group to post this in. system.web.mail has a bad bug in it where it is not conforming to RCF822. The old pre-dotnet CDONTS obects did not have this behaviour. The problem is that system.web.mail sends messages with naked line feeds in them rather than escaping them to be a cr and an lf. An lf on a line by itself is invalid in an SMTP message. Repro code is attached below. This message will never be able to be delivered to a qmail server (of which there are many). The code is: using System; using System.Text; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mail; namespace theEmailTest { /// <summary> /// Summary description for Class1. /// </summary> class Class1 { /// <summary> /// The main entry point for the application. /// </summary> [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { MailMessage mm = new MailMessage(); mm.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8; mm.To = "someone@example.microsoft.com"; mm.From = "someone@example.microsoft.com"; mm.Subject = "Test Subject"; mm.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html; mm.Body = "Test Body\n\nEnd"; SmtpMail.Send(mm); } } } The following VBS code does cause the LF characters to be correctly escaped to a CR + LF pair prior to submitting the message to the local mail queue for delivery. Option Explicit Dim objCDONTS Set objCDONTS = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail") objCDONTS.To = "someone@example.microsoft.com" objCDONTS.From = "someone@example.microsoft.com" objCDONTS.Subject = "Test Subject" objCDONTS.Body = "Test Body" & chr(10) & chr(10) & "End3" objCDONTS.Send Set objCDONTS = Nothing MsgBox "Done." Any pointers on getting this fixed? David. Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105100
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    - How to know current user name? In my application I have a file with some information initialized to the author's name. I would like to pick it up automatically! How do I do that? -- Regards, Lloyd Dupont NovaMind development team NovaMind Software Mind Mapping Software <www.nova-mind.com> Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105096
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    - Get Users Group Membership I need to check and see if the user running a c# app is a member of a certain group. I'm querying active directory, finding the user, and going through their list of groups. The problem I have is that if the user is a member of group1, and group1 is a member of group2, I won't find out that the user is a member of group2. Basically it's not handling nested groups. So I have the option of drilling down into groups but it seems like there should be a better way. Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105089
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    - How to convert any local time to UTC My application receives a date/time field and a timezone code such as "EDT" from a database. I need to convert the date/time to UTC using the timezone. The timezone can be from anywhere on the globe. TIA. Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105085
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    - Odd problem with owner drawn listbox and mousewheel This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002B_01C5D404.36948D30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a bit of an odd problem. A couple years ago, I built a little font explorer program in VB.Net. = Nothing fancy, just enumerates all the fonts on a system and prints what = some sample text would look like in each font. I created an owner-drawn = ListBox and each item in the Items collection represented a screen font = on the system. I wanted to revamp it and get rid of this one little minor annoyance. When placed on a form and run, she looks great. If I use the mouse wheel = to scroll DOWN the ListBox, I notice an odd effect. The list items = scroll into position correctly, but if you watch it closely as it = animates, they are scrolling from the TOP-DOWN. The items are in the = ListBox in the right order. Order is not the issue here. If I were to describe what I perceive a little better, it looks like = this: I have 6 fonts in the ListBox. A, B, and C are visible in the client = area. I use the mouse wheel to scroll down one unit and bring D into = view. Watching the animation of the ListBox, D is brought to the top and = quickly animated to the position where it would be expected. --- --- --- --- |A| |D| |C| |B| |B| |E| |D| |C| |C| |F| |E| |D| --- --- --- --- Has anyone seen this before? It's not really detrimental, but it's an = extreme nuisance. --=20 Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Hong Kong Phooey ------=_NextPart_000_002B_01C5D404.36948D30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.3790.2541" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have a bit of an odd = problem.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>A couple years ago, I built a little = font explorer=20 program in VB.Net. Nothing fancy, just enumerates all the fonts on a = system and=20 prints what some sample text would look like in each font. I created an=20 owner-drawn ListBox and each item in the Items collection represented a = screen=20 font on the system.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I wanted to revamp it and get rid of = this one=20 little minor annoyance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>When placed on a form and run, she = looks great. If=20 I use the mouse wheel to scroll DOWN the ListBox, I notice an odd = effect. The=20 list items scroll into position correctly, but if you watch it closely = as it=20 animates, they are scrolling from the TOP-DOWN. The items are in the = ListBox in=20 the right order. Order is not the issue here.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>If I were to describe what I perceive a = little=20 better, it looks like this:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have 6 fonts in the ListBox. A, B, = and C are=20 visible in the client area. I use the mouse wheel to scroll down one = unit and=20 bring D into view. Watching the animation of the ListBox, D is brought = to the=20 top and quickly animated to the position where it would be=20 expected.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>---     =20 ---   ---   ---</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" = size=3D2>|A|     =20 |D|   |C|   |B|</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>|B|     =20 |E|   |D|   |C|</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" = size=3D2>|C|     =20 |F|   |E|   |D|</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>---    =20  ---   ---   ---</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2></FONT><FONT=20 size=3D2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2>Has anyone seen this before? It's = not really=20 detrimental, but it's an extreme nuisance.</FONT><BR></FONT><FONT = face=3DArial=20 size=3D2>-- <BR><BR>Any help is appreciated.<BR>Thanks in = advance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hong Kong = Phooey</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_002B_01C5D404.36948D30-- Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105081
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    - Not a win32 application At times if I send an application developed in C# to a client's to run. After the initial run and I close the application, if I double click it to start then it give a "Not a win32 application error" and would not start. My experience with this has been on Windows XP. Can I have a solution? Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105069
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    - impersonate ? Does impersonate tag works only with .Net framework 1.1 and not with 1.0? <identity impersonate="true" userName="Domain\ID" password="Password" /> TIA Best Regards, Sanjeev Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105066
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    - Vs2005 IDE Sync Solution Explorer w/active file Visual Studio and VS 2003 used to sync the solution explorer by highlighting the currently active file (whatever file is active in the text editor) in the tree whenever it changed. It doesn't seem VS2005 does this by default. Is there a way to set that up? Thanks in advance. -Andrew Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105064
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    - Failures with dynamic in-memory assembly generation Hi! I'm trying to create in-memory assemblies from source using C# 2.0 from Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. The generated assembly should have the same name as an assembly that may already exist on disk in the same directory the assembly-generating executable is running from. The code I'm using is as follows: string Code = "public class PolicyAccess "; Code += "{ "; Code += "public void GetPolicy (out string preferredConnectionType) "; [...snip...] CompilerParameters Parameters = new CompilerParameters (); Parameters.GenerateExecutable = false; Parameters.GenerateInMemory = true; Parameters.OutputAssembly = "Dummy.dll"; CodeDomProvider Compiler = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider ("csharp"); CompilerResults CompResult = Compiler.CompileAssemblyFromSource (Parameters, new string[] { Code }); Assembly TheAssembly = CompResult.CompiledAssembly; When I execute this and want to access the CompResult, I either get a FileNotFoundException in case there is no DLL with the Parameters.OutputAssembly name in the directory. Or I get a BadImageFormatException if I just put some other file (image, text, etc.) with the required name in the directory. Or, if some other assembly with the OutputAssembly name is in the directory, this assembly gets loaded, with the types contained in it but not with the types in the Code string! In any case I never get to see the type "PolicyAccess" with the method "GetPolicy". What is going wrong here??? I was assuming that if one creates an assembly with "GenerateInMemory = true" then there would not be any files involved at all. Is there some "force assembly generation to file" option or something like that? Thanks, Andreas Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105062
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    - compiler going crazy or am I missing something? In my code I have something like that: class RecipeFile { // ..... } class OptionPanel : UserControl { public void Load(RecipeFile file) { // .... } } Now when I try to compile I get the following error message: == Error 2 Warning as Error: 'Cook.App.Dialogs.OptionCurrentFile.Load(Cook.Data.RecipeFile)' hides inherited member 'System.Windows.Forms.UserControl.Load'. Use the new keyword if hiding was intended. L:\AppSource\eCookBook\eCookBook\Dialogs\OptionCurrentFile.cs 19 15 eCookBook == Now, I now there is a method call class Control { public void Load() { //.... } } but there should be no ambiguity at all whatsoever with Load(RecipeFile file) is this a know bug (happening sometimes)? I have .NET 2.0 beta 2 -- There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105050
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    - Thread Limits Where can we find the actual limits on threads, i.e. active threads, worker pools, worker pool threads, ... in a .NET environment? We would like to find information on the limits around general worker threads and worker pool threads. Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105049
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    - Accessing a directory path using different credentials from code in .NEt Hi, I am looking for a way which allows me to access network resources (files or directories) using a different users' credentials in windows. I want to use a network path from within my application to which the logged in User will never have access. My application wants to access this directory but I don't want the user be able to access this directory through windows explorer. I will create a domain User say 'XUSER' who will have full access on this network path. This username 'XUSER' and its password will be stored in the database. Any comments?? I am developing my application in VB.NET Regards, Trivender $ingh 18/10/2005 Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105040
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    - How can I get if the Windows running is a server version? Hi, How can I get if the Windows running is a server version? Is there a property somewhere that can tell me if the Windows version is a server edition (including server, advanced server, web server, etc) or just a workstation (if it's not a workstation, then it's a server). My app must verifies that for security reasons. It should work from at least windows 2000 (Windows 98 and ME, would appreciated to, but if it's not possible, I'll put it in the system requirements) Thanks ThunderMusic Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105039
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    - Strange ThreadStateException exceptions Hi, In my application, I call myThread.Abort() which works fine most of the time. Ocassionally however, this results in a ThreadStateException being thrown which hangs the application. The exception message being 'Thread is suspended; attempting to abort'. Checking the status of the thread before abort was called shows it to be a background thread and not a suspended one? In addition I can't reproduce this problem when running the application from the exe file i.e not through the code in Visual Studio? Any ideas as to what is going would be much appreciated. Thanks Tristan. Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105038
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    - GetProcessesByName and Dispose Hi, I am calling GetProcessesByName, and I'd like to know if I need to loop through the array and call Dispose on each Process object when I'm done. It seems that Dispose is only required in the case of unmanaged resources, but I'm not sure whether this qualifies as unmanaged. thanks, Keith Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105037
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    - server status I have a server utility which uses Sockets.TcpListener to listen to client connections. Clients connect using using s.Connect(EPhost) where s is s = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp ); Now unexpectedly server goes down, but client still get s.Connected property to true. What is best way (less resource intensive) to find out that server is now down so that client can start making reconnection attempts to get updates from server? I need to start making reconnection attempts as soon as server is down. regards Sachil Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105033
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    - /Od compiler option problem Hi I am running a project in eVC 4.0 and I have been running into a bug that only appears in the release build of the project. I eventually found out that when I had the compiler option /Od set the project would work properly but when it was not set the bug would appear. I looked for /Od in the MSDN library but it didn't provide much help. Can anyone help me with what in my code that could lead to this? I.e what should I look for in my project to fix this bug? Is it ok to have this option set in a release build? What are the consequences of that? Thanks for all your help. Best regards. /Babak Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105028
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    - Replacing characters in WEB text Dear friend as a routine to replace special character when one has to output text on a web page (client side) I have used this one as a quick and dirty way: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dim WebSymbols As String() =3D New String() { _ "&", "&", _ ">", ">", _ "<", "<", _ (...Long list omitted...) "=FB", "û", _ "=FC", "ü", _ "=FD", "ý", _ "=FE", "þ", _ "=FF", "ÿ", _ " ", " ", _ vbCrLf, "<br>" _ } 'Note: & must precede all, <br> must follow > < Public Function FixStringForWEB(ByVal Text As String) As String Dim WebText As New System.Text.StringBuilder(Text) For i As Integer =3D 0 To WebSymbols.Length - 1 Step 2 WebText =3D WebText.Replace(WebSymbols(i), WebSymbols(i + 1)) Next i Return WebText.ToString End Function ------------------------------------------------------------- I feel this method is unsatisfactory and ackward. I am wondering if anyone can suggest a method more elegant and especially faster (although the above is not that slow). -Pamela Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105025
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    - Insert file as object in word document with VB.NET Code Hello, Got a little problem, i need to insert some files as objects and view them as an icon in a word document. I need to do this in my VB.NET Code. i searched hi and low , but i can't find a solutions. Does somebody know how i should do this ? Thnx Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105012
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    - As the .NET Framework upgrades. The first .NET Framework Redistributable (from now on I'll refer to as .NET) 1.0 was released several years ago, then .NET 1.1 then now we are one step away from .NET 2.0. I've found some programs (say, Microsoft Student 2006) insisted that .NET 1.1 should be installed though I have installed .NET 2.0 beta 2. When .NET 2.0 is released, would this problem disappear? Will every .NET application run happlily on machines that only have .NET 2.0 installed? I tried to run a .NET 2.0 applicatoin on .NET 1.1 and got a message box said something like "This applicatoin require version 2.0xxxx....". Now I'm just wondering what if Microsoft add an auto update feature to .NET. Instead of the previous simple error message, how about showing this kind of message? "This program requires .NET 2.0, and your .NET version is 1.1. Would you like to upgrade .NET now? Internet connection is required." [Yes] [No] Perhaps this will make the process of developers to make sure users are using up-to-date version of .NET easy. Yes, users can update .NET at the Windows Updates but it's in a Recommended category. Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105011
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    - Console exception after calling PerformanceCounterCategory methods I am attempting to create a custom performance counter category for use by an application I am developing. I have found, however, that after calling any of several of the static PerformanceCounterCategory methods, the next attempt to write to the Console fails with a System.IO.IOException (_message = "the handle is invalid", _COMPlusExceptionCode = -532459699, _HResult = -2147024890). I am developing using Visual Studio 2003 v 7.1.3088 and .NET Framework v 1.1.4322 SP1. The following code reliably reproduces the problem on my system: try { Console.WriteLine("Beginning Performance Counter Installation Test"); if (PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists("testcategory")) { PerformanceCounterCategory.Delete("testcategory"); Console.WriteLine("Called Delete for existing performance category"); if (PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists("testcategory")) Console.WriteLine("Performance category still exists!"); else Console.WriteLine("Performance Category successfully deleted."); } else Console.WriteLine("Category does not yet exist."); CounterCreationData ccd = new CounterCreationData("testcounter", "Test counter", PerformanceCounterType.NumberOfItems32); CounterCreationDataCollection ccdc = new CounterCreationDataCollection(); ccdc.Add(ccd); Console.WriteLine("Initialized counter creation data collection."); PerformanceCounterCategory.Create("testcategory", "Test category", ccdc); Console.WriteLine("Created category and counters"); PerformanceCounterCategory[] allCategories = PerformanceCounterCategory.GetCategories(); Console.WriteLine("Retrieved all performance counter categories"); } catch(Exception e) { int i = 1; } By commenting out various parts of the above code, I have established that this problem occurs: * In the PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists call, but only if the return value was false (if the category _does_ exist, it's fine. * In the PerformanceCounterCategory.Create call * In the PerformanceCounterCategory.GetCategories call. In all these cases, the PerformanceCounterCategory functions do actually execute successfully - the correct value is returned, category is created and categories are listed. It's only the next attempt to write to the standard output that goes splat. It looks a lot like something is closing the standard output stream... I have tried redirecting the standard output to something other than the console buffer, and got the same result. A serious side-effect of the problem is that if you attempt to use InstallUtil to run a PerformanceCounterInstaller, the IOException as InstallUtil attempts to write to the console after actually performing the installation causes the installation to be rolled back (even though the counters _were_ actually successfully installed). As an even better side effect: while using InstallUtil to run an installer that included a ServiceInstaller, ServiceProcessInstaller and PerformanceCounterInstaller, this exception tripped the debugger, then somehow deleted half the CurrentControlSet entries in the registry (everything before my custom performance category in the alphabet) during the rollback. This quite effectively rendered my development machine so much junk (vmware is your friend...). So, does anyone have any insight to offer on this issue? I really don't want to have to choose between my performance counters and my console output, much less between the performance counters and the installation! I have looked at the description for the KB830297 fix, but am uncertain as to its applicability, since we have no J# code at all. Please help! Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105009
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    - please delete Just testing -- Mae Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105008
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    - Cleaning up Isolated Storage for a specific assembly Maybe I am missing something here but there seems to be a little shortcoming of using isolated storage for storing user preferences. I realize there is a utility called 'storeadm' which I can use to remove the isolated storage for the current user (for all assemblies). What I am wanting to do (and I would expect this to be a common scenario), is that when my application uninstalls it would remove all isolated storage for my assembly only. My first guess would be to provide a command line option to my application which would remove the isolated storage data for my assembly by using a call to IsolatedStorageFile.Remove(). In an ideal world, I would go further and would like to be able to cleanup my isolated storage files for my assembly and all users. However I guess permissions play a role in this and may require relying upon an administrator to perform the uninstall. Does anyone know if this is possible? Is the IsolatedStorageFile.Remove() option the correct way to do this? Maybe someone knows a better way to deal with this problem? Thanks, Dave Tag: framework not working right - help! Tag: 105005
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Hello!

My XP box is not running aspx extensions. I ran the framework updates and
nothing happened.

I know I am doing something wrong. Thank you.

-Bahman

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Re: framework not working right - help! by Jon

Jon
Wed Oct 19 13:52:29 CDT 2005

Bahman <Bahman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> My XP box is not running aspx extensions. I ran the framework updates and
> nothing happened.
>
> I know I am doing something wrong. Thank you.

Try running aspnet_regiis from the appropriate framework directory.

--
Jon Skeet - <skeet@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
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Re: framework not working right - help! by Bahman

Bahman
Wed Oct 19 15:20:05 CDT 2005

Jon,

That was exactly it. Thank you very much. Happy Wednesday!

-Bahman

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

> Bahman <Bahman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > My XP box is not running aspx extensions. I ran the framework updates and
> > nothing happened.
> >
> > I know I am doing something wrong. Thank you.
>
> Try running aspnet_regiis from the appropriate framework directory.
>
> --
> Jon Skeet - <skeet@pobox.com>
> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
> If replying to the group, please do not mail me too
>

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