Fixed it. It turns out, fields are serialised before properties and my code was actually like this:

[Serializable]
public class Request
{
[XmlElement("Type")]
public string Type
{
get;
set;
}

[XmlElement("Id")]
public int Id; // <<<--- Note this is a field, not a property
}

I am using c# serialisation to write some xml. For some reason the output is not necessarily written in the order it appears in the code. How can I order the elements? For example:

[Serializable]
public class Request
{
[XmlElement("Type")]
public string Type
{
get;
set;
}

[XmlElement("Id")]
public int Id
{
get;
set;
}
}

Would write

<Request>
<Id>1</Id>
<Type>Get</Type>
</Request>

(Note this example is very simplified and doesn't actually write it wrongly).

Can you not make your service depend on the SQL 2008 Express Server? Check out the Dependencies tab on the control panel/services/properties page.

I doubt you bought a license for OpenSuse.   You MAY have bought a DVD, but that's not a license. Anyone can download and use it legally for free. Anyway, all Linux distributions are built using the GNU toolchain (gcc etc) which are GPL (or similar). Who decided you couldn't use GPL code?   Do they know what GPL software means?

If you can't use any GPL stuff, you can't use Linux, or GNU, or X-Windows. How about you write your own OS, compiler, Windowing system etc?

That's the one. Thanks very much.

Can I get the special xml strings (< & etc) directly instead of being translated? For example, given the data "RCI>", the code: xmlReader.ReadStartElement("DATA"); data = xmlReader.ReadString(); xmlReader.ReadEndElement(); Gives: "RCI>". Can I get the raw "RCI>" and if so, how? Thanks

Sorry, forgot to tick the ignore HTML box: Can I get the special xml strings (< & etc) directly instead of being translated? For example, given the data "RCI>", the code: xmlReader.ReadStartElement("DATA"); data = xmlReader.ReadString(); xmlReader.ReadEndElement(); Gives: "RCI>". Can I get the raw "RCI>" and if so, how? Thanks

Have you looked at http://www.openobex.org/

What do you need the dongle to do? As long as it appears in the Device Manager, then all it's capabilities are available. If it's a network device, then it should act like all the other network devices, if it's a sound device, then it should appear in the sound device list.

I wonder if Windows is expecting you to call CreateFile on the filename before you delete it? Have you looked at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363875(VS.85).aspx[^] which gives an example of creating and using a temporary file?

I have seen this when the array doesn't contain a indexing property. return users[0]; // Doesn't work I seem to remember this being the default behaviour for non generic Lists in early .net (2?).

Ah, but that's the problem. By the time I can click on Attach To Process and then select the process and press Attach, the program I'm trying to trap has already run the function I want to trap. I can't modify the source to the program I want to attach to. I need to find a way to set breakpoints in the launched process via the application I am writing. Something like: { CreateProcess("newprogram.exe", ... CREATE_SUSPENDED, ... ); SetBreakpoint(newProcessHandle, "FunctionToDebug"); ResumeProcess(newProcessHandle); }

I am dynamically loading a second process (via CreateProcess) and would like to automatically set breakpoints in that process. VS2005 doesn't automatically set the breakpoints even though the code I want to break on exists in both projects. Is there an API I can call to set a breakpoint on a function in another process?

That won't work, it will just delay the code. You need to tell Windows to redraw the label with : label1.Text = " method1"; label1.Refresh(); method1(); label1.Text = "method2"; label1.Refresh(); method2(); label1.Text = "method3"; label1.Refresh(); method3() From the help for Control.Refresh: Forces the control to invalidate its client area and immediately redraw itself and any child controls.

I'd just got to that point, but I'm using : System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location Thanks.

I am writing a C# console program that needs to read a file from the same directory as the application. I can't use the current directory as that is not the same as the application directory. Normally I would use Application.ExecutablePath, but console apps don't derive from Application. Ideas?

I have a populated data set (loaded from an XML file) that I want to put in a SQL database. Most of the tables in the DataSet are related, so I can't use a DataAdapter to update because I don't know the update order. All the examples I've seen about updating an SQL database only target one table or know the 'reverse-order' in which to update. Is there an easy way to store a .NET multi-table DataSet to a SQL database.

I have a populated data set (loaded from an XML file) that I want to put in a SQL database. Most of the tables in the DataSet are related, so I can't use a DataAdapter to update because I don't know the update order. All the examples I've seen about updating an SQL database only target one table or know the 'reverse-order' in which to update. Is there an easy way to store a .NET multi-table DataSet to a SQL database.

I have generated a .cs file from my .xsd file using the command line program XSD. The xml file contains many nested tables, so several of the generated classes have columns with autoincrement=true. If I add a new child row then I would expect the autoincrement column to be set to a value after I add it. Unfortunately, it remains at DBNull. This means it becomes a root level item rather than the child it should be. Any ideas?