Hi Luc, thanks for your quick answer. can you please provide me the link to your article. sorry but i have clicked on the link [My Articles] but i didn't find any article about sorting issues can you please redirect me to the right url. thanks again for your help Best regards Fady Sayegh

Hi all, i need to sort a listview based on the item tag property (as a category) in fact, the listview is populated with a folder content from windows explorer. when i click on the column header, i need to sort by name the folders and the after the files Example : the desired result MyFolder YourFolder MyFile YourFile instead of MyFile MyFolder YourFile YourFolder thanks for any idea, snippet code or a link best regards Fady Sayegh

Hi to all, I made a WebService with visual studio 2008 (c#). I need to deploy it on IIS7 (windows server 2008). I made a web setup project deployement but when i tried to run the msi file on the server it gaves me this message : "The installer was interrupted before WebServiceXXX could be installed. You need to restart the installer and try again." does anyone knows why ? how can i do to install my web service on IIS7 (windows server 2008) ? thanks for any ideas. best regards and thanks in advance Fady Sayegh

Hi to all, I'm using the dll iTextSharp to fill a PDF file. My question is how can i select an item in a combobox in the PDF file ? Best regards and thanks in advance Fady Sayegh

thanks a lot Luc Pattyn and Jim Fady

Hello to all, how can i convert an hexadecimal value to utf-8 encoding example : 012b must returns in utf-8 i 0160 must returns in utf-8 Š best regards and thanks in advance Fady

Hi to all, I made an installation project (msi) for my c#.Net winform application. In the installation folder dialog box i have two options button : Everyone Just me (by default) the 'Just me' option is selected by default, how can i select 'Everyone' by default ? Best regards and thanks in advance Fady

Hi to all, does any one knows how to resolve this problem System.Ressources.MissingManifestRessourceException : Impossible to find the appropriate ressources for the specified culture of you assembly. in fact, i have an image liste on a user control, and that's what is causing the problem, because when i delete the image list from the user control than i have no problem. if i try to put a new image liste, the message reappear again. best regards and thanks in advance fady

hi to all, i'm working with xml data. i extract the data from an sql server data base via a stored procedure. the result of the executed procedure is an XmlTextReader. i'm trying to copy the content of the into a physical file on the hard disk. i tried two solution. first one consist on loading the reader into an XmlDocument and save it to the disk the second consist on a loop on the reader and creating the xml file manually. the problem is : when the procedure brings a lot of data, sometimes i have some tags or attributes wrapped between two lines. like this : >mytag first_attrib="1" second_attrib="2" third_attr ib="3"/> or >anothertag first_attrib="1" second_attrib="2"/> >an othertag third_attrib="3" fourth_attrib="4"/> you can notice that in the first example the attribute is wrapped on two lines and in the second case the tag is wrapped on two lines so when i tried to load the reader into an xmldocument, i got an error message. and when i tried to loop through the reader, i also got an error when the reader arrive to the wrapped attribute (third_attrib in my examples) the question is how can i solve the problem of wrapped tags or attributes ? does anyone has a solution to my problem ? best regards and thanks in advance fady

hi to all, i'm working with xml data. i extract the data from an sql server data base via a stored procedure. the result of the executed procedure is an XmlTextReader. i'm trying to copy the content of the into a physical file on the hard disk. i tried two solution. first one consist on loading the reader into an XmlDocument and save it to the disk the second consist on a loop on the reader and creating the xml file manually. the problem is : when the procedure brings a lot of data, sometimes i have some tags or attributes wrapped between two lines. like this : or you can notice that in the first example the attribute is wrapped on two lines and in the second case the tag is wrapped on two lines so when i tried to load the reader into an xmldocument, i got an error message. and when i tried to loop through the reader, i also got an error when the reader arrive to the wrapped attribute (third_attrib in my examples) the question is how can i solve the problem of wrapped tags or attributes ? does anyone has a solution to my problem ? best regards and thanks in advance fady

thanks to your reply, it works fine fady

thanks to your reply, but my xml file is an XmlTextReader that has been loaded from an sql server database so do you have another solution for my problem best regards and thanks in advance fady

hi to all, i'm coding a routing that can read all the node of an xml file. how can i know if a node has one or more child nodes best regards and thanks in advance fady

thanks josh, it works.

hi to all, i'm trying to select all the text in a textbox control (winform) on the enter event. textBox1.SelectionStart = 0; textBox1.SelectionLength = textBox1.TextLength; when the enter event of the textbox si fired with the tab, the text is selected correctly. but when the enter event of the textbox si fired with the mouse click, no text will be selected in textbox does any body knows why ? if yes can you tell me what the solution is ? best regards and thanks in advance fady sayegh

hi to all, how can i upload a file from my client(computer) to the server ? i tried the code below but it gives this error : "Remote server returned an error (405) : Method not allowed". WebClient oWebClient = new WebClient(); oWebClient.UploadFile("http://srvdev/philae\_edition/TestCompta.txt", "c:\temp\TestCompta.txt"); oWebClient = null; any ideas ? best regards and thanks in advance fady

hi to all, i made a little c# program that print a word document and it works. i put the same code in a c# windows service and it does not print the document. it does not generate an error. when i debbug the service, it execute properly word, open and print the document, but i have no output on the printer do i miss something ? best regards and thanks in advance fady

hi to all, i have to move a word document from one directory to another, but if the document is open i can't move it. how can i close the document before i move it (i have no instance of word to this document so i can't use the method close(), all i have is the path and the document name) best regards and thanks in advance fady

Thanks any way Ingo

Thanks to your reply Ingo, how can i fire the paint event ? the statut bar does not have the DrawMode property to set it to 'Variable draw mode'. also, i have no paint event for the statusbar ! best regards and thanks in advance fady