TimeZone - the only instance you can get is one representing the local time zone DateTime - cannot represent a time before 00:00:00 1 Jan 1 CE What were they thinking? This is a serious question - can anyone come up with a good reason for these incredible design restrictions? Michael Brumm ...more >>

I just installed mono from ximian on my redHat 9 workstation and wrote a simple program from the interesting book ado.net in c# by Mahesh Chand. mono is fun ( is there ado for linux ? why/why not? ) ...more >>

i want to make an array of a textbox so please who know the answer please send the full code for it and if there is some thing else i have to do kind regards abd el moniem...more >>

I'm getting an error from my .NET application that says "Operation must use an updatable query" when I am trying to write data to an Access table. Any Ideas? If I cut and paste the SQL from the application into an access query, it works. Thanks....more >>

What are the negatives to strongly naming assemblies? Why wouldn't we want to strongly name all assemblies that we ship as part of our products? Thanks Ted...more >>

when will the software such as Longhorn, Whidbey and Yukon be available for download from MSDN subscriber downloads?...more >>

Does anyone know how or know if there exists any documentation for debugging remote windows service...? TIA Dan ...more >>

I can't seem to find a clear example on how to use the FlagsAttribute. In my example below shouldn't both message boxes show? Instead no messagebox displays. I know that .NET will auto-number enum's when omitted. <Flags()> Public Enum Permission Read Write Delete Rename C...more >>

How do I prevent some of my classes in my class library from being seen externally? I have one class that I want everyone to see and use. But that class itself, internally uses several other classes for support and implementation. When I reference my class library from another project, ...more >>

I have a C# assembly for logging messages. One option I would like is to also display the message to the user. It's easy if I know whether the caller is a Client/Server app or a Web app. My question is, is there any way for my code to determine whether the caller is a web app (and has a pa...more >>

In VS.net 2003, my recent files list will not update the Date. If I open a project from the list, modify it and close... the next time I load VS.net, the project shows the same old date. It DOES add new items to the list, but the date never changes for those items either... it retains the cr...more >>

when attempting to edit code in a class file, i see the bug "Visual Basic ..NET compiler is unable to recover from the following error: System Error &Hc0000005&(Visual Basic internal compiler error) Save your work and restart Visual Studio .NET." has anyone seen this bug and can you confirm on...more >>

does anyone know if you can kick off a .wav file and start some amount of time into the file. For example. kick off example.wave and start 1 minute and 13 seconds in the the audio playback? thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi, I have a class can be use by either Web Application or Window Application. Inside of this class, I need to get the application root. I know I can use System.web.HttpContext.Current.Request.PhysicalApplicationP ath to get the Application Path for Web Application, But question is: ...more >>

Dear All, I'm getting junk email with around 140-150 kb almost everyday and it my mailbox is getting full and this emails are full of virus effected attachments. And I'm getting these emails right after subscribing Microsoft Newsgroups, don't tell me that Microsoft Newsgroups can't control ...more >>

Well the title says it all I guess. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks for any help you can provide....more >>

We've a big debate here about exactly what defines being truly DotNet. My take is when you're running on the CLR with a managed language using appropriate .net technology, you're DotNet compliant. Others don't think its quite so clear. I'm wide open to new ideas... Thanx, Garth ...more >>

I'm trying to get a shopping cart button to go to an HTTPS URL instead of the HTTP address it's goijng to right now. The page, in ASPX, has a .VB page that when the button's clicked runs a funtion that does this: Response.Redirect.System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettin gs.AppSettings("k...more >>

I have a client using IE with a .net web application who is getting a Concurrency Violation whenever she tries to update certain records in her database. The strange thing is that I can open up multiple instances of IE an go to the same page and update the same record from all 3 instance...more >>

Hi, I would like to run a windows application without the user interface. Console application is not a choice because it does not allow to use ADO controls. When I start the Windows Application I do not want to see the Form and click some buttons to start a program. The program should st...more >>

Is it possible to pass an argument by reference through an event in C++ managed code? For example, can I do the following? public __gc class MyClass : public Control { public: __event void MyEvent(bool &Cancel); }; The compiler seems happy with thi...more >>

If a shared assemblies interface changes quite a lot, is it worth deploying into the GAC to aid side by side execution etc Any help appreciated Muchos ...more >>

Hi, I have installed VS.Net(Ver:7.0.9466) & .Net_Frameword_1.0 (Ver: 1.0.3705). Until recently, I could develop and run applications using the VS.IDE. A couple of days ago, I downloaded a sample application (remoting example) that required .Net_Framework_1.1. Since then I can only run co...more >>

I have a web site i want to deploy using a VS.NEt set up project. I have no problems with that, that is fine and works no problem. But the web application uses a custom event log to log application messages. The asp.net application will not be running under an account with administrative...more >>

Hello I have to send a string between two applications a sender (VB) and receiver (VC++) on local machine. Using SendMessage I can not send a string, using messagequeue I can send a string, but the receiver will not know that new message have been posted (or there is a infinity loop which...more >>

Hi, I've produced a Crystal Report in Crystal Reports.NET with rounded corner shaded boxes. When I send it directly to the Printer using PrintToPrinter() it is formated correctly. When I view it in the Crystal Report Viewer The corners of the boxes are not rounded and the back colour ...more >>

Hi, I am looking at creating a fax application, on 2000 Professional you can use the Fax api that comes as standard, but this does not seem to be available on 2000 Server, does anyone have any cost effective solutions? Thanks alot. dave...more >>

Hi I installed my latest version of the MSDN library this morning so I removed the April 2003 version and then installed October 2003. However now all my intelli-sense pop-ups are in-correct for classes that I have created???? Anyone any ideas? Thanks in advance Andy...more >>

I've Win XP Pro installed in my PC. when i want to create a new web application using Visual Basic .Net 2003, I got the following error : "Visual Studio .Net has detected that the specified web server is not running ASP .NET version !.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET web application o...more >>

I wrote a c# program that does some file manipulation on a remote server. Testing it from my workstation, it ran fine. When I copied it to another server, and ran it from there, on load, it threw a balloon message: "This application is running in a partially trusted context. Some func...more >>

Suppose I am writing a program that has to execute as series of steps, but at several of the steps, I want to wait for external events to occur. For example ( and this relates to another of my posts ), say I want to execute a method, then wait for a flag file. Ok, someone suggested using Fi...more >>