How do you determine if a date range startRange1 and endRange1 intersects with another daterange startRange2 and endRange2. I've tried a few different things that appear to work but it just had a real bad smell to it so I was hoping someo ...

I have some large files that I'm loading so I load the files in pieces keeping track of how many bytes have been read which is where the problem comes in. It seems the Readline method swallows the newline and carriage return characters whi ...

How in the world do you deploy a Shared Add-in? I need to create a shared add-in for excel so to get started I went about trying to discover how to deploy it. I used the shared add-in wizard to create the setup project and if i look at th ...

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid Pixelation issues when drawing controls and setting the Region? Drawing with smooth curves is easy thanks to the .Net libraries but it appears that Region property doesn't carry these settings forwa ...

Does anyone have a link(s) to a good article on how to map associations between objects as is pertains to communicating with the database? For example An employee has an office which to my way of thinking would equate to two objects employe ...

I have an application that from time to time starts another application via Process.Start with startinfo set to startInfo.CreateNoWindow=true startInfo.WindowStyle=System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden startInfo.UseShellExecute=t ...

I have a class called Customer with 3 properties CustomerName, CustomerID, CreditRating that i bind to various controls throughout my windows app. However, I never bind CreditRating that is used "internally" to allow certain thin ...

What raises the OnSetComplete of the System.Collections.CollectionBase? I have some custom collections(inherit collectionbase, implement ibindinglist) that are bound to my windows controls and everthing works fine except when I change a v ...

I've been tinkering with the n tier concept lately and have what is a simple question I think for most of you. Where do you actually store the assemblies? Here's what i think presentation layer --> on the client machine business -- ...

I hate asking a simple question like this but here goes. How do you return a TextBox Class. I'm using textbox as an example but there are many other controls I want to use this for. There are certain properties that I use in textboxes ove ...

I'm trying to have a child form open another child form. I don't get errors but I also don't get the form. Here's the code that get's executed Form2 chld3 = new Form2(); Home parentContainer = new Home(); chld3.MdiParent = parentCo ...

I'll be starting on a new project next week and I really want to use C#. But it's a desktop application and everthing I've done with C# so for is web related so I control the platform it executes on. My question does xp have the .net fram ...

Is there a way to "Rotate" the string. I'm working on a chart and everthing is working well... Except on the x axis I don't want to write out the labels Horizontally because it takes up too much space and looks really bad. I w ...