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A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program
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25 Feb 2016 by J.Starkl
A windows-service which can handle different operations in separate threads and which can be controlled by a small GUI program
19 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84
PSAM Control Library ported over to WPF
10 Sep 2010 by logicchild
An article that explains how to use this library
10 Jan 2014 by Kees van Spelde
This is an alternative for "AutoShut, my first program in C#"
8 Oct 2009 by Syed Hasan Hyder
This article focuses on internal supply chain management systems visibility via chart reports, and provides assessment apparatus to manage and monitor activities spawned during business processes, hence paves the way for timely and precise business decisions.
18 Dec 2012 by Lars [Large] Werner
Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.
19 May 2015 by Yohamnes Hernandez
How to free blocked files, inclusive if they are mapped in memory. Something that many tools are missing.
1 Sep 2009 by PARK Youngho
A tool that enumerates all fonts installed on Windows, and shows you the preview so as to help you code conveniently.
15 Jun 2012 by Timothy Svecz
Amazon AWS: Setting up FTP on EC2 Windows Instances
30 Nov 2015 by Mohammad Dayyan, VahidJafari
A library for creating .Net Serializable Expressions to send via WCF services
29 Jul 2013 by Ordiales
When no XP support is necessary. Better Icon structure arrises and easy conversion is allowed.
4 Sep 2015 by Igor Sorokin
In this article I would like to describe simple WPF application for showing System.Windows.SystemColors list.
16 Oct 2012 by Lex Hegt
This article describes how BizTalk360 fills the gaps left by the BizTalk Server Administration Console and the capabilities of BizTalk360 V5.
10 Jun 2014 by Anamera
This XSLT will output an Excel worksheet containing a CSV type of record collection in a more usable XML format.
9 Feb 2010 by Kythen
This isn't something you can do with C#. I believe you'll need to write a file system filter driver. A global keyboard hook won't work because it won't stop other triggers for write operations like copy/pasting with the mouse.You can start reading about file system filter drivers here:...
11 Sep 2013 by Globin
This is an alternative for "Improved RichTextBox - IRTB". 2.3 is out! Finnaly with some Regex Fixing and Alpha of Alphas in identing!
28 May 2014 by Thava Rajan
Copy and insert data at any postion in your datagridview
8 Dec 2016 by rerhart585
Using SQLite, leverage the create_aggregate(), and SQL's Between Operator to create a Normal Probability Distribution Histogram, or what is more commonly referred to as a Bell Curve.
19 Nov 2011 by User008
Drag 'n Drop asynchronous files from an external server or device
14 Apr 2014 by Ankur .K. Vishwakarma
This tip shows you a T/SQL function to split a string concatenated by a delimiter.
29 Sep 2014 by Rajendra Kumar Sahu
Easy way to show JavaScript Alert Message having Arabic Text
7 Oct 2016 by Paulo Uechi
Uechi APM Web is an APM (Application Performance Management) Open Source Server Performance Monitor written and developed in Java and C # for all Linux and Windows platforms. The Uechi.APM.Web offers a complete resource for unlimited monitoring servers in real time. Have full control of the CPU cons
13 May 2011 by #realJSOP
It should already be there - it's part of WIndows.
17 Jul 2012 by Jake Franta
1 May 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
There is absolutely nothing wrong with installing this SDK anywhere. This is nothing but a library and presents no threats at all. In many ways, it's also much better then Office Interop. Interop operations depends on availability of Office installation, which is the subject of serious license...
31 Jul 2013 by Thomas B Dignan
Getting the text of Win32 Error codes for 99% of cases.
20 Dec 2013 by Mike Meinz
Two links with information that might help you.How to allow remote connections to SQL Server 2005 Express database[^]Configure the Windows Firewall to Allow SQL Server Access[^] Note that there will probably be firewalls and routers that block external access to the SQL Server. Those...
30 Jan 2014 by @donis2014
How to configure IIS Express "applicationhost.config" for handler mappings
20 Nov 2014 by Mathew Soji
Please referhttp://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNETMVC/216_Hosting_and_Deployment_of_an_ASPNET_MVC_Application_in_IIS6_and_IIS7.aspx[^]How can I host my ASP.net MVC application on IIS 7.5...
24 Jun 2015 by maratoni
This is a brief tutorial on how to sign a Windows device driver with WDK 7.1
29 Jul 2015 by LalithGallage
This powershell script is you to monitor windows servers’ free hard disk and populate it to sharepoint custom list.
7 Apr 2010 by elad2109
Hey everyone,I have 2 questions, maybe you could help me out.1. I built a DLL from the following code:using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.DirectoryServices;using System.Linq;using System.Text;namespace AutoAD{ public class Class1 ...
29 Jun 2010 by crackruckles
Days Left Timer VBS self deleting
8 Jul 2010 by MS_TJ
Hi All,[Application & code back ground] I have an MFC application which is executing on Windows Server 2008 R2 in WOW64 environment. In which on user input it defragments the selected drive on the disk. I initiated the process(.i.e. cmd /c defrag –v c: ) of defragmentation using the...
18 Mar 2011 by Eduard Keilholz
Erhm, are you sure your firewall is switched off, or that you've created a rule in your firewall allowing communication over the given port 61137?
26 Jul 2011 by bmwz9
First make sure of sql server namelook at these http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328306[^]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888228[^]http://geekswithblogs.net/AzamSharp/archive/2005/07/27/48416.aspx[^]
5 Mar 2012 by Fred_Informatix
This is an alternative for "Simple Tri-State TreeView"
11 Jul 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Probably you are trying to address the author of some CodeProject article, but it could not work this way. Load the page with the original article and add a post at the "Comments and Discussions" section near the bottom, click "Comments and Discussions" to ask your question. The author will get...
10 Feb 2013 by Guirec
There is no way to change the 'guid' attribute of an active directory object. In AD the 'Guid' attribute is is the one which uniquely identifies your object. This is its id and the 'Guid' attribute is using the GUID format (I know this is a somehow confusing... no one would call a DATE column...
5 Jun 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Such property is not available, due to the multithreading nature of the class System.Messaging.MessageQueue: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.messaging.messagequeue.aspx[^].You can thing of it as of some full-proof feature. Otherwise, what does it mean if you check up...
21 Jul 2013 by Neven Iliev
Is there a compatibility issue or something else that would prevent a Windows CE 5.0 device from accessing files directly from a Windows Server 2008 R2, given a network path like "\\192.168.1.20\myFolder\myFile.exe" ?I have a C# application that's used by a number of barcode scanning devices...
22 Jul 2013 by Neven Iliev
Windows CE cannot access network shares using the server's address. It requires the server's UNC (Universal Naming Convention).For example: \\V-AppServ\myFolder\NOT \\192.168.1.20\myFolder\
29 Sep 2013 by Mehdi Gholam
You are definitely doing something wrong if you are signing a 18gb xml.Try doing things in smaller pieces if it is necessary.The Xml cryptography library is not designed for such usecases.
17 Dec 2013 by Tejas Vaishnav
you need to increase upload file size limit as per your requirement. and its realted to changes in web.config maxRequestLength [^]also refer this like WCF Streaming: Upload/Download Files Over HTTP[^]
22 Jan 2014 by dwayne905
On Window 2008 R2 try using RegAsm from the 64Bit .NET folder if 32bit folder doesn't work for you.
12 Feb 2014 by hari111r
Hi All,I want to create my own remote desktop web access page(RDWeb). I have a task to create a citrix like page that need to be linked with my web application. or is there any option to edit the RDweb pages.It that possible.Please help me comeout of it.
15 Mar 2014 by Michael_Davies
Handling large numbers of application settings
10 Jun 2014 by Thava Rajan
This tip is used to fix a workaround for a bug in double click on checkbox
11 Jun 2014 by Sen Jacob
This is an alternative for "A Task Scheduler Library for .NET Applications"
26 Mar 2015 by Suvendu Shekhar Giri
Typically, these folders are found in C:\Users\{UserName}But you can always find the path of your windows Libraries folders at following location1. Run (Windows+R) > Type regedit to open Registry Editor2. Navigate to...
17 Aug 2018 by Dave Kreskowiak
This is just a guess but it seems like your site code is compiled to target "AnyCPU". The hint I'm using is that you're using a 32-bit Oracle client and you moved the code to a 64-bit server. Go into the Project Properties, Build tab, and change the platform target from AnyCPU to x86. Recompile...
31 Dec 2009 by Leung Yat Chun
Allow users to make virtual directories and use them via a similar interface as DirectoryInfo.
11 Oct 2009 by Jörgen Sigvardsson
To translate a special folder (C:\Users, C:\Program Files, etc) into its localized equivalent (Swedish: C:\Användare, C:\Program, etc), you can use the Shell32 function SHGetFileInfo().How do you go about translating a localized path to a "normalized" path?Normally, you don't have to do this, but th
22 Jan 2010 by Brady Kelly
I've just finished 3 day download (with breaks) of Server 2008 R2, and am very eager to install it on my dev machine (my laptop, an HP Pavilion with a 2xTurion 64 cpu). If I mount the ISO and try and run Setup.exe, I get told Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application. I tried burning the ISO to...
22 Jan 2010 by Tony Richards
Doesn't solve your Boot problems, but one version of windows is currently on your dev machine? If it's 32bit, you can't run 64bit windows setup (the setup program is a 64bit program as well).Best suggestions I can come up with:Make sure your laptop boot order is correct and make sure...
26 Jan 2010 by Brady Kelly
I'm trying to get Server 2008 R2 installed on my laptop. I've followed many instructions to make my USB hard drive bootable, but I keep coming up with a NTLDR is missing error when I try and boot from the USB hard drive. I used ImgBurn, first, and then the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, to...
26 Jan 2010 by #realJSOP
Did you change the bios to allow booting from DVD/removable media?BK> Yes. I'm going to try an mount the Windows 7 Recovery Disk on my flashdrive, boot from that, and then directly run the 2008 setup.exe.
2 Mar 2010 by Abi Bellamkonda
Did you find a solution for this? Should you be using Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System) instead of translation?I suspect Windows might have had English as thier primary language, and every other language values in resource files like structure. If you want to do a...
2 Mar 2010 by Jörgen Sigvardsson
No, I haven't found a better way to solve this. It's been a while since I looked into it, so I won't swear that there are no good ways to do this. It just means that my "clumbsy" solution outweighed the cost of spending more time on searching for a replacement.But if you do find a good way,...
28 Mar 2010 by sector_9
I'm trying to use multiple BlueTooth adapters on the same machine (Windows) in parallel, but Windows only allows one adapter. The BlueTooth stack I'm using supports multiple adapters. Windows allows the driver of only one adapter to be installed. How do I use more than one adapter at the same time?
30 Mar 2010 by DaveAuld
Looking at some of the google results returned, suggest this is possible by hacking the .inf file manually to add the second device. The results also suggest that you should use 2 adapters from different manufacturers.I think you are going to need to investigate this yourself, and visit some...
4 May 2010 by elad2109
Hi,I connect remotely with rdp to a local user on WinServer2008.I have a batch file a.bat which I want to be run when the local user logon.-How do I configure that?-can I configure that for a whole group of local users?Thanks
5 May 2010 by Michel Godfroid
use gpedit.msc.Local Computer Policy -> User Configuration ->Windows Settings->ScriptsThis will be for all users. If you want to vary that according to groups, you'll have to test for group membership in your script.
6 May 2010 by elad2109
Hi,I'm using a rdp control like the one herehttp://beta.codeproject.com/KB/cs/RemoteDesktop_CSharpNET.aspx?msg=3451028[^]I have connected a local user.I want that the control will log off the user (disconnecting the user isn't enough) via c# code after some time-out...
9 Jul 2010 by Ahmed Kahwaji
Use HTTPs in BizTalk 2009 on Windows 2008 R2
21 Jun 2010 by MS_TJ
Hi,I wan search the list of those cities which have accepted daylight saving standard. I am working on platform Windows2008-R2 and language MFC.Please Help.
21 Jun 2010 by Dalek Dave
Not sure there is a library for that.You may have to write your own DLL.
8 Jul 2010 by MS_TJ
Hi all,I am trying to redirect the output of two commands chkdsk and defrag from command prompt to one txt file like c:> defrag c: >log.txt.Its behavior is normal on windows xp. The output is coming sequential into the file.However on Windows Server 2008 R2 chkdsk works fine but when...
8 Jul 2010 by GPUToaster™
use /OUT:
22 Nov 2010 by Member 3640979
Hi1 day troubleshooting and found my solutionvb6, xp sp2PeekNamedPipe does not populate BytesAvail after call'Code:BytesAvail = 0PeekNamedPipe hReadPipe, ByVal 0&, 0, ByVal 0&, BytesAvail, ByVal 0&If BytesAvail = 0 Then Exit Function'BytesAvail is allways 0...
26 Nov 2010 by Richard MacCutchan
If you mean programatically then use XMLWriter[^]. If you mean manually then use your favourite editor.
26 Nov 2010 by Tarun.K.S
well i really don't know what are "Xml Tables".You might want to retrieve data from an XML and then use XSLT to transform it into a html document and represent the data in a Table.If that is so, then its possible.Here is the link where you can gather some...
29 Nov 2010 by narendra999
Hi,I am using c#-4.0 Windows application..here i need to refresh my datagridview automatically when i add a newuser...but my datagrid doesnt refresh automatically...
29 Nov 2010 by Sandeep Mewara
What do you mean by refresh automatically? You would need to write code for that. Whenever you add the new user, you will save details of it somewhere. After this event, write a code to re-bind the data with datagrid.
9 Dec 2010 by Vigneshb6
Hi, I am using Microsoft Index Search for a Website it is working fine in my system and it is showing the correct results. but i am getting Unexpected Results in windows 2008 server r2 (getting the one's which i disabled the index the file option and also i am not getting the...
7 Jan 2011 by Christian Mattix
How-To: Use Wget to Automate the Karamasoft UltimateSearch Indexing Process for Your Website
17 Feb 2011 by Andrew Brock
The C++ compiler will add its own statements to the destructor to destruct any member variables that are a class type.Consider this:class A { public: A() { m_szMessage = new char[10]; } ~A() { delete []m_szMessage; } private: char *m_szMessage;};class B...
17 Feb 2011 by Stephen Hewitt
Thanks for the stack trace. Also, the exception type generated is often of use. In addition, since you're using the application verifier look at the debugger output window as the verifier will tell you what the problem is (via debug strings). To me it looks like you're freeing an invalid image...
3 Mar 2011 by Debojyoti Majumder
I am using Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 system.In Hyper-V I have installed Windows Vista.When I am starting the Vista Virtual Machine Hyper-V is showing error thatit can't start the virtual machine.What is (or are) the problem(s) I might have??
18 Mar 2011 by ely_bob
So I'm wondering if there is a way to expose a Managed Windows Service on Windows Server without IIS?we had a working sample for an admin user, however because this is an ADFS type situation, when any other user attempts to access the SVC they are shot down (500); (links or even...
18 Mar 2011 by Member 4545580
Hi Eduard,Thanks for your response.Port number is changing all the time. Now it's 61137 and last time it was some thing else.I am executing the DLL manually using NUnit in a single box..should I be checking the firewall even if the DLL is not calling any external...
18 Mar 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
First of all: Windows Service itself have nothing to do with IIS at all. This is just a general-purpose Service hosted by OS in a special way — using Service Control Magager, see [^], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Control_Manager[^]. With a managed platform (.NET) it can communicate...
4 Apr 2011 by HrushaIL
i found that when I attempt to connect to Reports or ReportServer from inside the server in http mode it works normally. when I login with the same userid and run it in https on the server, using IE, I trying https:\\servername\reportServername andit is prompting me for a login 3 times...
17 Apr 2011 by ms_kout
I want to deploy my oracle system in a medium business which consists of 4 branches.I have 1 server for AD users and exchange, 2 servers for DB for oracle and sql server, (cluster servers), and 1 for the applications.Also I have a web server for the website.I also need to connect my...
17 Apr 2011 by Wendelius
Sounds like you require more features than the free Oracle version can deliver. Because of this, I'd suggest that you contact Oracle sales representatives to get the best licensing model for you. Oracle has several options in licensing so to make the right decision, the whole environment and...
22 Apr 2011 by snkscore
I don't know if this is possible, but I got this same error from NUnit when I actually had an infinite loop going in one of my tests.I had some overloaded assert method that ended up looping back on itself. When I ran the code using the TestDriven.Net tool I saw the stack overflow exception...
13 May 2011 by stevenandler
Can someone please send me the instructions for installing the WMI (Windows Managment Instrumentation Service) on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-Bit?Thank youSteven Andler
9 Jun 2011 by TorstenH.
Do you give the JVM enough RAM?Is the garbage collector on the servers app working? Or is the RAM overflowing? Tried to log the network communication? what's happening there? Any network malfunctions possible?that's what I would check first.regardsTorsten
22 Jul 2011 by TheCodeKing
Windows Remoting works perfectly for same domain situations, but has some gotchas in mixed domain scenarios.
26 Jul 2011 by koolprasad2003
I have SQL Server 2005 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2.Now when i connect to database from my application which is installed on Windows server 2003 it gives me following errorSQL Server does not exist or access deniedI have already disabled my windows Firewall.Thanks In...
2 Aug 2011 by thatraja
There are so many reasons for this error. This bunch has the solution(s) so have it.Steps to troubleshoot SQL connectivity issues[^]SQL Server 2005 Connectivity Issue Troubleshoot - Part I[^]Troubleshoot Connectivity Issue in SQL Server 2005 - Part II[^]Troubleshoot Connectivity Issue...
1 Sep 2011 by aeschli666
Hi ThereWe just moved one of our .Net applications from a Windows 2003 Server to a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 (64Bit, VMWare). This application is a simple console application running on .Net Framework 4.0, 32Bit, that runs different jobs to select, modify and save business data to a...
2 Sep 2011 by Mehdi Gholam
From what I gather from your description you are running your tests in a VM now, if this is the case a slower time is to be expected.
2 Sep 2011 by Wendelius
One place to look at is the SQL Server profiler. Check if the statement is the same from both 'clients' or does it have differences. If both clients generate the same SQL statement then you could also check client side settings. For example, if you're fetching lot's of data, the network...
22 Sep 2011 by Mario Luis
Hi All,I have a problem where an enterprise web user utilizes a ipad ( safari browser ) to connect to our intranet and browse pages. The page is a simple collection of cascading dropdowns which populate a list which then populates a small section of the page with data and a image.My...
22 Nov 2011 by Pete O'Hanlon
At the end of the setvibration line, you don't have a semi colon. You need to add one so that it looks like the following:if (yourmum = buttonState.pressed) setvibration(playerindex.me,1,69); // This line needs the semi colon,.else { redIntensity++; }Next, you terminate the...