It was PEBCAK. Somehow I ended up with this.Close in the FormClosing event - And for some reason even stranger, it worked on some computers and not others!

Basically in one room the office is shared by 8 computers. On 7/8 computers the application crashes when the snooze button is hit. This doesn't write anything back to the SQL Server, only to local DataTables. Only one of them works correctly, all are up to date with Windows Updates. It appears to be computer related, as when I use my local user account (I haven't tried my domain administrator account) it carries the same error. I use the same login on my Developer PC (I know, not a good test) and it works fine. I have a rough idea of where it fails, but I have no experience with StackOverflowExceptions, so where do I go from there?

G'day people, I was wondering if I could get a point in the right direction on how to squash a bug. The app I am writing is basically a control panel type thing, and it brings up notification boxes if something needs to be actioned. On certain computers, if the user clicks "Snooze All" in the notification box, the application crashes with a StackOverflowException. All the "Snooze All" button is doing is manipulating DataTables and closing the notification box. I was originally wondering if it was a DLL issue, but I can't see why it would happen whilst running - not opening or closing any forms at all! The error information is listed below.

Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: afns gui 3.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 4fe2c742
Problem Signature 04: System.Windows.Forms
Problem Signature 05: 4.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4da3cf4e
Problem Signature 07: 3e23
Problem Signature 08: 0
Problem Signature 09: System.StackOverflowException
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Information 1: c51c
Additional Information 2: c51c01e8afa2e7706a621e0a166b392d
Additional Information 3: a841
Additional Information 4: a841e87d6b8fde0994c2a1134b39ab43

Is there a better way of doing it? I would like it to slide out smoothly, but also at a decent speed! Thanks, Brendan

G'day, I am writing something to deal with logged multi-user access to our social media accounts, and what I want to do is add a second textbox when the message goes over the Twitter maximum - 140. What I have at the moment is a form with the controls anchored to their spot on the page. When the second textbox is needed, i call a timer with a 1ms trigger time to expand the size of the form by one 1 px until it's at the "large" size. The idea behind this is to have the second textbox slide down from behind the first one. However it is not fluid. Any ideas how I can speed it up or a better way of doing it? Thanks! Brendan

Basically my app is a monitoring application for status codes on alarms. The reason I need fast refreshes is that the application needs to see when the other operators do things - i.e. acknowledge a status code, etc. Ahh, bugger. I was hoping the apps could talk directly to the SQL server itself. I'll look into your suggestion though! Thanks!

You could write an API as an application to sit in front of MySQL and then a macro or application to sit in front of the Access database to consume the XML, but it would be... interesting, not to mention the deadlocks you would probably get would be a nightmare to sort out.

Hello, I am developing an all which requires me to update the screen rather often. At the moment it is set to 1 second, I can change it, but i wouldn't want to move it much past 5 seconds. At the moment I have a BackgroundWorker doing the TableAdapter.Fill(), and then I am clearing the DataSet and Merging it for the final outcome. However, this is slow enough to block the UI, making things very jerky. I tried moving the clear and Merge to the background thread, however when I did that it throws errors when you try to interact with the DataGridView whilst it's updating. Any ideas? Thanks, Brendan