Woot! :-D

I haven't seen much about testing anywhere on this site, so when this forum emerged, I was rather surprised. However, if you want to suggest a change, you'd better post in the site suggestion forum, that's the one Chris reads. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get - use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets

9.61, 9.63, and 10.0 Beta Edit: Seems most of them work in 9.6x except the link tools. There are more problems in 10, but that is a beta.

supercat9 wrote: nearly all would require first converting it to a normal String, which would in turn throw security out the window. Correct, which is why I was messing with the idea of wiping the string itself. I basically decided the idea was pointless once someone mentioned interned strings. If a string is interned, there is no real way to know how many references it has, and since an interned string will live for the duration of an applications execution, you'll definitely end up with problems.

I still really think there neeeds to be a split. The volume of WPF threads in there is growing, and will most likely continue to grow, faster than all the rest. It doesn't make sense to have all three together anyway, although I could understand it if there just wern't enough posts to warrant separate forums. At the very least, break off WCF/WF into its own forum, and let WPF grow in its own.

Thanks, will do.

Well, for anyone who runs into the same problem, the solution is simple, if odd. Seems you can't directly pass a Guid to a stored proc using an ADO.NET parameter. To get the stored procedure to work, I had to do the following: cmd.Parameters.Add("@param", SqlDbType.VarChar, 40); cmd.Parameters["@param"].Value = myGuid.ToString("D"); This sends the guid as a string value in the form {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}. You must be sure to explicityly set the varchar length to 40, as setting it to 38 (which I did when I originally tried this, since I thought the bounding { and } would be invalid) will still cause the call to fail. You can keep the type of the parameter in your stored procedure as uniqueidentifier. You do not have to change it to varchar, and in fact, if you do, the stored procedure will fail since varchar(40) won't match the uniqueidentifier type of the column.

I'm kind of desperate at this point. I've done everything I can to get my compiled program to work, but it keeps telling me hte resources are missing, even though hex-editing the .exe shows it there.

There were nulls in the arraylist. I was populating it by traversing a RedBlack Tree (similar to a B-Tree), and I forgot to check for the nil nodes. Once I added the check for nil nodes in, the problem was solved. I guess that if you add nulls to an ArrayList, adding a watch on that ArrayList will only show the non-null components. The thing that I still don't understand is why I keept getting an exception when I tried to retrieve the elements. Even if the element was null at a given index, I should get a null result, not an exception. Regardless, the problem is solved now. Thanks for all the replies. :)

Hmm....I think I am more confused about the situation now than before. Why would adding a transaction to the process in QA increase the processing time by so much? Originally it took a minute, after adding the transaction it took much longer. Anyway, I'm adding SET NOCOUNT ON in each sp. I'll play with table locking and see how it helps. I don't think I've run into any deadlock situations, since the queries are all run sequentially, one after the other, and there are currently no other processes happening on the server.

Thanks for the reply. I assume the GetDC() function is in gdi32.dll? I use C#, not C++, so I have to DllImport it to use it.

Well, not really. I know how performance counters work, how to create them, etc. etc. My question is how to I get a performance counter, in say the .NET GC category, for the "current", that beeing the key word, process. The process that I'm actually instantiating the performance counter from? This is not a web application, its a windows forms application. I'm not trying to recreate the perfmon application, I don't want to view performance counters for "other" processes....I want to view them for the process from which I instantiate the counter. I've looked and looked, but there doesn't seem to be a site on the net or a single word in the .NET documentation that says how to get a counter for the current app, the one that instantiates the performance counter itself. The current instance is what I'm inclined to call it, but there doesn't seem to BE a current instance, only global instances and specific instances for some apps.

You might find this interesting then. http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/windowsforms/appupdater.aspx[^] It gives some details on using AppDomains. Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall." George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." Unknown wrote: "I love long walks, especialy taken by those that annoy me." Paraphrased from TMNT: "Cricket? You have to know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket."

Well, I'm using String.Compare as part of a quicksort algorithm. It sorts strings, but when there are numbers in strings, they are treated lexically, rather than numerically. For example, strings with numbers are sorted the following way: string1 string10 string11 string2 string21 string3 string4 string45 string489 string49 string5 string6 string7 string71 I need strings to be sorted "properly" when they have numbers in them, like follows: string1 string2 string3 string4 string5 string6 string7 string10 string11 string21 string45 string49 string71 string489 I havn't been able to find an efficient way of performing such a search. While I have found numerous web sites that refer to "natural" string sorting, in which number values are taken into account when sorting strings, I have found no examples of such algorithms. My first attempt created one of the most inefficient sorting times I have ever seen, and I'm sure there is a better way. Thanks for any help.

When the image is drawn on the screen, it is essentially painted pixel-by-pixel. So modifying the alpha value of each pixel would be no different from changing the alpha value of the entire image. The only way I know of editing a picture is one pixel at a time. Sorry I didn't have the answer you were looking for.

They are siblings on a form. After more testing, this seems to be a .NET issue. By default, .NET seems to shift focus when the arrow keys are pressed down. Focus is automatically taken from one control and moved to the next until it hits a control that can keep the focus. For example, if you put a button, a checkbox, a textbox, and a radio button on a form, in top-down order, you can try this: Click the button. Press down arrow three times. You will see the focus shift from the button, to the checkbox, and stop at the textbox, never reaching the radio button. Somehow the textbox is keeping the focus, although how I do not know. I need to figure out what .NET does that prevents a custom control derived from the Control class from keeping focus once it has it. Well, rather, keeping focus when the arrow keys are pressed, it keeps focus for all other key events.

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