Dear all, What is the best way to handle global variable in .NET? We have for instance a configuration file with certain application parameters. Lets say that sDataBasePath will contain the path of a database file set in that configuration file. Then how to declare that variable in ord...more >>

Hi there, I developed a client server model. The server is connected to a database and I see the contents of the database. I have a Class Library which the Server referenced to. Furthermore I have an interface which should communicate with the client for data exchange. How can I acces...more >>

Hi, What is the status on the "standardization" (outside MS) of the BCLs? Is everything under the System namespace going to be "standard" and everything under the Microsoft namespace custom per MS specific and in general Vendor.* namespaces for vendor specific classes. Is WinForms ...more >>

I have a field in an access database that indicates if a message is new. I have created a listview in vs .net 2003 and set checkboxes to true. when i try to check each row in a datset and set individual listview items state to checked/unchecked i get an error that says index out of bound...more >>

With framework 1.0 the dataset.getxml() method returned the children nested within the parent. This doesn't seem to function this way with 1.1. Is there something I'm missing? ...more >>

Here is the steps I took to produce this problem with VS2003 1. Create a Windows Application. Place a DataGrid control on a the Windows form. Name the control dgCustomers. Set the CaptionText property of this control to Customers. 2. Open Server Explorer. 3. Expand the tree under Data Conne...more >>

I am trying to determine if C# has the capabilities to listen for system events when the application does not have the window's focus. I am writing a windows application that I would like to run in the background when I am using my computer. I would like this windows application to utilize the...more >>

I need to launch an app from inside my VB.NET app as a specific user. I do (VB.NET pseudo code) Dim moImpersonationContext As WindowsImpersonationContext = WindowsIdentityIwant.impersonate() Shell('cmd /C TheCommandToLaunchTheUnmanagedCode') I can verify that the Shell command runs und...more >>

I am creating a totally adminable news system in asp.net (C#, SQL server). what i want to accomplish is allow multiple news templates to be read by an admin area. heres how it works (hopefully): an artist creates a news template (html file), drops it into a specific directory, now a client ca...more >>

Many of an app's classes could read the config file. The config file could contain many elements, and it will be difficult to know which config file entry belongs to which class. I could adopt a naming scheme for the elements. But am I limited to using the <appSettings> element for my setting...more >>

With html buttons, I can say onclick="MyFunction();" and it calls a JavaScript function called "MyFunction", but with the Web Controls buttons, OnClick="MyFunction();" produces an error: Compiler Error Message: BC30456: 'MyFunction' is not a member of 'ASP.wfNI206AE_aspx'. I'm trying to ...more >>

I am in the process of building a Web Setup Project and once I figured out how to get rid of the "The system cannot open the device or file specified" error things were going fine. Then, for apparently no good reason, it just decided that I cannot uninstall the application. I cannot re...more >>

Can anyone help me figure out a regex pattern for the following input example: xxx:a=b,c=d,yyy:e=f,zzz:www:g=h,i=j,l=m I would want four matches from this: 1. xxx a=b,c=d 2. yyy e=f 3. zzz (empty) 4. www g=h,i=j,l=m None of the letters here are single letters, but rather pla...more >>

I need to have a combobox functionality (ie. be able to type and/or select from list). I'm using the combobox control from metabuilders.com. For the most part, this control does exactly what I want it to do. One flaw: when i set the autopostback to true, it seems to have no effect on the co...more >>

Has anyone tried to use the .NET Beep function? The following works in VBA: Private Declare Function Beep Lib "Kernel32.dll" _ (ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long) As Long Dim blVal As Boolean Dim dwFreq As Long Dim dwDuration As Long dwFreq = 1000 dwDuration = 1000 blVal = Beep(dwFreq,...more >>

In VS 2002 I could specify Dim x As System.Windows.Forms.Form() or Dim x As System.Windows.Forms.Form and everything was ok. Since upgrading to VS 2003 it won't let me put in the parentheses in the above sample. After I installed VS 2003 and opened up my 2002 project I answered y...more >>

I get the following error message if I do not install to the default directory... A portion of the folder path '' is invalid. It is either empty or exceeds the length allowed by the system. My created msi project (with Visual Studio 2003 .NET) is very simple it has an application directo...more >>

I get the following message if I try to install to a directory that is not the default... A portion of the folder path '' is invalid. It is either empty or exceeds the length allowed by the system This is a simple structure the application directory and several custome directories unde...more >>

Hi, What is the status on the "standardization" (outside MS) of the BCLs? Is everything under the System namespace going to be "standard" and everything under the Microsoft namespace custom per MS specific and in general Vendor.* namespaces for vendor specific classes. If WinForms ...more >>

What Application Configuration File is? And when/where/how to use it? Any documents on that? MSDN has somrthings scatter everywhere - hard to follow. thanks, ...more >>

I have 2 forms: Form1 calls Form2 via a Form2.ShowDialog(me) call. However, after Form2 appears, I want to set the focus to a specific control, but I can't. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, ed...more >>

Does anybody know how to pass session variables from one window to a new window in an ASP.net web application? Please help. Peace Out Greg...more >>

how come m$Office isn't written in .net? how come Open Office isn't written in j2ee? how come dbms systems aren't written in either? how come browsers aren't written in either? how come RealPlayer, MediaPlayer and all applications that need speed are written in c++ ? (except for Lime...more >>

I have the following line in asp which errors when you run it through the .net complier <%if session("HighRes") = 1 then %> <img height="9" src="../images/ProductColTopL.gif" width="8"> <%end if %> This comes back with the error BC30689: Statement cannot appear outside of a method body ...more >>