I am just starting to use asp.net and I do not have the ToDecimal function. Do I have to install a library to get it?...more >>

I want to cut and paste an Excel spreadsheet into a web page and then update my SQLServer database - it's basically an import function but using cut and paste rather than reading the file from a directory. So far I have managed to open a new page as a blank worksheet and cut and paste an existin...more >>

Anyone have an example on how to stream a crystal report in pdf format from a webservice? Thanks in advance. Mike...more >>

hi, i want to make a calc control in C#. i already did it but i had to add 10 buttons (button0..9) and another 10 event handlers. in VB (at least 6.0) i could declare an array of button from the desginer. could someone tell me if there is another way to do it in C#? thanx. ...more >>

How do you detect a string's right 3 charaters, say string "abcde". I'd like to detect if the right three charaters are "cde", then proceeding doing something. Anyone know which method shall I use? Thanx....more >>

Hi, I have an ASP.Net application. I have an aspx page with a button that submits the page. In my codebehind I check if it is a postback and instantaite a class and use a method of the class. On coming back from the class I instantiate it hits the End If of where I check it is a Post...more >>

I am trying to populate a combobox with a lisy of items. I want the 1st item to be "Make a Selection" and the following items will be names from a table in my DB (See code below). When I run the project, the combox box initially displays an empty selection. When I click on the drop down arrow ...more >>

Hey all, have a dategrd and am storing a url to an image in it. I have no idea how to show the actual image. Can anyone give me a hand or point me towards an example they know of. I have searched the web and haven't found anything that is of much use. Cheers and have a good one, Tom...more >>

I need to install a windows service that I made but I cannot find installutil.exe. I can't even find it on my install CD's our any where on MS's website. Does anybody know where I can get a copy? Thanks Dan Reber ...more >>

Hi chaps, Does anyone know if the beast is going to release Visual Tools for office to work with Visual Studio 2002 and not just 2003, or are they quite happy to shaft those that supported them when their product just cam out. I can't see why the tools shouldnt work with 2002 seeing as its a...more >>

On my ASP.NET application, restarting the application through IIS doesn't always fire the Application_Start() event. Is there a trick to this? Restarting IIS is not an option since there are other applications on the machine. ...more >>

I am frustrated by the issue, and looking for a workaround. I have a dropdown list, and a button and some other controls on the page. When the button is clicked, I need to ensure a valid dropdown list item is selected, (e.g. selectedIndex > 0, as the 1st item in ddl is dummy record). Also, I n...more >>

Hi, I have a class in .Net which I instantiate in my code behind on one of my aspx pages. When I am finished with the instance, what is teh best method of taking it out of memory. Should I set it to nothing or can I dispose of it? Thanks, Carl....more >>

We are developing ASP.Net apps. We would like to use the Deployment project to create MSI files that would be installed on to the production servers. This will allow us to have our operations department do installs at night easily. The problem I have encountered is there seems to be no way...more >>

I felt silly to ask this question, but since I don't know the answer.... So here it goes. Is there a server control for the html <map> tag? Thanks Qin Zhou...more >>

Hello all! I´m going to develop a windows smartclient and can´t find the information I need. Where do I store user-settings like paths, background colour and so on. I´ve read an article about the ups and downs of registry versus files but i can´t find it now. Can someone please help me? Tha...more >>

What are the possible repercussions to setting this to infinite..? ...more >>

I have an instance method that takes an ansi string. Dim foo As Object foo(String a) The problem is Strings in VB .NET are unicode while in order for the method to work it must accept an Ansi string. I can convert to an ansi byte array but i can't pass a byte array, the method will only a...more >>

Hi, I have an impersonate statement like this... <identity impersonate="true" name="MyMobile\Gary" password="Test" /> However I dont want the password in a readible format, can I encrypt the password and it still work the same? If so how? Many Thanks Gary ...more >>

My architecture is, (ala Fowler PoEAA) Presentation Layer | Service Layer | Problem Domain (My Business Objects are held in memory) | Persistence Layer | Physical Storag...more >>

- We have 2 aspx pages in a .NET project. The first sets a session variable and has a button that when clicked performs a 'redirect' to the second page which then reads the session variable. Problem: This always works fine on the localserver and through the IDE. But when the applicatio...more >>

Is there another way in which files can be compared within Visual Studio .NET 2003. I am talking specifically of files external to any solution like maybe a database script file that I need to compare, etc. I am currently still using WinDiff to do my file comparisons but I was curious as...more >>

Hi I have a VB.Net DataGrid question. I am trying to show multi-columns on a page but my width space is limited. Is there a way to stack columns? So each row would really take up 2 rows of space. Example: |column1|column2|column3| |column4|column5|column6| |Data |Data ...more >>

Friends! I need to show the dialog "select folder" and get the path selected, using vb.net. The OpenFileDialog control is useless as I want to select a folder and not a file. In vb6 I achieved this by an OCX called DPDLG, but in .net i do not find the solution neither this ocx works in .ne...more >>

Folks! I want to run Excel showing a .xls file through vb.net. How can i do this?. Thanks a lot Pablo...more >>

Hello everyone Can anybody help me out. i want to print two pages per single sheet. a book like printing. that is first page as well as last page of the document print on same side of the single sheet. how can i do this thru C# language Thanks Regards Meenakshi...more >>