Hi I want to automate word from c# program and i used the sample solution from MSDN to see how it works .. I have .NET 2003 / office 2000 the sample solution comes with a WORD.DLL When i executed, i got a run time error : An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' oc...more >>

Jeff Garcia deserves to play!!! Anyway, why has Microsoft eliminated the "Point" and "Pset" functions in VB.NET from what was already a limited selection of graphical functions in earlier versions of VB? Any chance of doing reasonably sophisticated graphical work in a picturebox control or any ot...more >>

What is the release schedule going to be like for VS.net? I hope it isn't going to be once a year, because that could get costly very quick! (csc here I come!) If all they really need to do is upgrade the .net portion, wouldn't it be better to have VS be able to accomodate that change? (Easier...more >>

Hi, I am trying to send Mail from VB.net app but I can not do it. Even I can not do this = Imports system.mail, the mail option is not available. I also have to do more then one atachements. Some one please help. Thanks, mashraf ...more >>

After installed MSDN Library Oct 2003. I got a HTML error "Action Cancel" on the first page and no contents can be loaded. I try reinstall several time and still got this problem. Anyone have this experience before. The followings are the config of my computer which may affect the in...more >>

In VB6 I use to call controls in another form by: With frmTaskList.lvwTask Select Case .Visible Case True .Items(1).SubItems.Add("dd") End Select End With VB.NET tells me "Reference to non-shared...more >>

I installed Visual Studio Version 6.0 with Visual Basic and Visual C++ etc. When I tried to invoke Help in Visual BASIC, it said that I should install MSDN. I installed MSDN using the MSDN library CDs. Now I can look at the Visual BASIC documentation (although after several many searches and cl...more >>

I've been searching for a way to set the system clock using the .NET framework. If anybody knows how to do it, please let me know. Thanks, Mark ...more >>

Dear Team, I am using Visual Studio.NET version 7.1.3088. I went through the four main installation steps and chose to install the help files, in Step 3, as I remember. When an error occurs with in VS.NET, a dialog box appears with a short message and with 'Cancel' and 'Help' buttons. How...more >>

Dear Team, I am running Visual Studio 2003 Version 7.1.3088 on Windows Server 2003. I have written a C# application that must write to the event log. When = it attempts to write to the event log, however, I get the following = message on the browser shown below in bold text: Security Exce...more >>

Why wouldn't c# catch the following problem at compile time (as C++ does)? class EmbClass { public int TestVar; public EmbClass( int i ) { TestVar = i; } } struct ComplexStruct { /* **************PROBLEM************ Not saying here that EmbClass does not have a default...more >>

Rationale to use Linux ======================= - I can't afford paying for $199 for the license of an OS that's arguably better thank Linux for each of 10 computers I have. - I want to be free of Microsoft stigma, and of constant lockdown on Microsoft products. The world is better than that...more >>

I'm using a Setup Project in VB.NET 2003 Standard to install a windows service application. I would like this installer to start the service after install. How do I do that? Thanks, Russ ...more >>

I have seen some examples of client-side code inside an ActiveX control posting data back to the server in ASP. I have tried the code and it works well. However, I need to see how this is done using ASP.NET & VB.NET 2002 without requiring the .NET Framework to be installed on the client-side bro...more >>

Hi, I wanted to ask how i can display the second tabpage within my tabcontrol when a button is clicked. I.e if the tabpage is currently on 1, how do i get it onto the second tab when a user clicks a button? thx ...more >>

Is there some Microsoft website or ftp server that I can point my installer to to download dotnetfx. Pointing user to the Windows update page is not an option, I would like my application to install the .NET framework seamlessly and silently without asking the user to do anything other than agre...more >>

hi, i wanted to display the value of my textbox into my msgbox. does anyone know the correct code for this? i have tried..... MessageBox.Show("You are about to insert the product: "txtProductName.text" at a price of "txtPrice.text" into the database. Do you wish to continue?", "My A...more >>

It seems that if Finalize takes more than 2 seconds during the process shutdown, the process will just terminate anyway. How can I specifically tells GC that this guy's clean up does suppose to take that long so that please wait until I finish my job gracefully?...more >>

Hi, I have developed one window based application using c#. I am using some third party exe's like lame.exe in this application. Now my requirement is i want to create one package which should include my application executable and as well as the third party executables. Can you ple...more >>

I am looking to create a binding policy via a command line. I need to do this so that I can control versioning when running an installer application. Dows anyone have any ideas how or where to find information on this topic. Thanks ...more >>

Hi all ! I=B4m with a problem in VS.NET. When I click the HTML button (in design window), a message=20 appears "Could not reformat the document due to line xxx.=20 The original format was restored." And I lost all the=20 indent tab what I was made... Anybody knows how solve this? TIA, Suki...more >>

I'm hoping this is a simple one. When I'm writing ASP.NET aspx pages (html), saving changes causes the Visual Studio IDE to rearrange the html statements. HOW DO YOU STOP THIS?! It's driving me nuts. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ...more >>

All, Sorry if this is the wrong group, but I could not find a good group for this question, so I chose a busy developer group. When you receive an alert from SHAREPOINT, the ICON shows a BELL on it, I want to-do the same when sending an email from .NET. Sharepoint does use SMTP to send, t...more >>

Hi folks, What is the pro an cons against using the reading/writing methods of stream based classes instead of using the reader/writer classes? As far as I could see, the only difference is that using the stream methods avoid me to create two extra instances to operate on the data stream. Ch...more >>

Setting backcolor for the animation control does not take effect. The BackStyle property is set to cc2BackstyleTransparent. No matter what BackColor property is set to, in run time the backcolor is always SystemColors.Control....more >>

Hi, I'm in C#. I am trying to close a form in the form_load event. this.close(); does not work. Is there another way to do it (maybe cancel this event) Can someone help me. Thanks...more >>

I've got a problem with the scope of a variable, consider the following example: MyCOMObject.MyObjectClass obj; try { obj = new MyCOMObject.MyObjectClass(); returnXml = obj.getEnquiryUsers(); } catch (Exception e) { //handle error } finally { if (obj!=null) { ...more >>

Anyone know how I can do this? No eval function in VB.Net unfortunatley Dim strExpression As string = "itemsPurchased>5 If eval(strExpression) The giveDiscount( End If...more >>

How can I give variables value in Shockwave (director) with a ASP.NET?...more >>

Are you guys using Google to get dotnet answers? Recently it seems that 'Experts Exchange' links are at the top of the hit list. Not only do they require a 'log in' but they also have a Premium ( paid ) part that covers the good content. I wish you could discriminate in google -- free inf...more >>