.net-2.0

Calling Form.Visible will return true regardless of whether the form is maximized, minimized, or has a FormWindowState of Normal. What I want to know is how to tell if the form is open but "hidden" behind another application's window. If that's the case, I want to bring it to the front and actually make it visible to the user. I tried the BringToFront() method but it didn't work. I also tried calling the Show() method but if the form is behind another application's window, it remains that way. The only workaround I found to the problem is setting the Form's FormWindowState to Minimized

I'm trying to support a legacy app I made a year ago and need to use jQuery AJAX calls to get data from the server. I have a JsonHelper class that I use to serialize DataTable s and DataSet s. This normally works fine in .NET 4.0, but .NET 2.0 there is no System.Web.Script.Serialization library and therefore no JavaScriptSerializer class. I've tried to find another JSON serializer, but so far I can't get anything to work. I tried using JSON.NET 2.0 http://json.codeplex.com/releases/view/13099 but it said it needed a higher framework. So I tried JSON.NET 1.3.1 http://json.codeplex.com/releases

How to distinguish the server version from the client version of Windows? Example: XP, Vista, 7 vs Win2003, Win2008. UPD: Need a method such as bool IsServerVersion() { return ...; } Ok, Alex, it looks like you can use WMI to find this out: using System.Management; public bool IsServerVersion() { var productType = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem") .Get().OfType<ManagementObject>() .Select(o => (uint)o.GetPropertyValue("ProductType")).First(); // ProductType will be one of: // 1: Workstation // 2: Domain Controller // 3: Server return productType != 1; } You'll

I have a large number of (>100k) relatively small files (1kb - 300kb) that I need to read in and process. I'm currently looping through all the files and using File.ReadAllText to read the content, processing it, and then reading the next file. This is quite slow and I was wondering if there is a good way to optimize it. I have already tried using multiple threads but as this seems to be IO bound I didn't see any improvements. You're most likely correct - Reading that many files is probably going to limit your potential speedups since the Disk I/O will be the limiting factor. That being said,

I need to convert unicode string to unicode characters. for eg:Language Tamil "கமலி"=>'க','ம','லி' i'm able to strip unicode bytes but producing unicode characters is became problem. byte[] stringBytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("கமலி"); char[] stringChars = Encoding.Unicode.GetChars(stringBytes); foreach (var crt in stringChars) { Trace.WriteLine(crt); } it gives result as : 'க'=>0x0b95 'ம'=>0x0bae 'ல'=>0x0bb2 'ி'=>0x0bbf so here the problem is how to strip character 'லி' as it as 'லி' without splitting like 'ல','ி'. since it is natural in Indian language by representing consonant and vowel

I have been up and down this site and found a lot of info on the Screen class and how to count the number of monitors and such but how do I determine which montitor a form is currently in? A simpler method than using the bounds is to use the Screen.FromControl() method. This is the same functionality that Windows uses. Screen.FromControl(this) will return the screen object for the screen that contains most of the form that you call it from. This should do the trick for you: private Screen FindCurrentMonitor(Form form) { return Windows.Forms.Screen.FromRectangle(new Rectangle( _ form.Location,