Hi everyone, I have a little question. In Visual studio 6 the MFC is based under API WIN 32. In dot net, the MFC of dot net, are based on API of dot net or on API WIN 32? And my last question, when i writte a application in dot net with mfc of dot net, can i use the application on w...more >>

There's a Crystal Reports hot fix for a particular but that I am experiencing in .NET -- DIV's get screwed up when you embed a Crystal Report in a web page. The bug is ADAPT00170558, the patch is 35395142. There's absolutely no documentation on a work-around, and the patch from CR is for...more >>

This is my first course in VB using the Visual Studio.NET 2003. Here is my question. I have a text box that I want a user to enter a dollar value in. I want to use the value in that box and this is the line I have to type intAmount = Val(txtInput.text) This works, but if my user puts ...more >>

I am moving a site to windows 2003 and after using REGASM to register this object on the new server I get this error. error '80131418' I can not find it referenced anywhere? Thanks Brent...more >>

Hi, Are there any differences between C# and VB.Net besides syntax? Performance-wise, how do they compare? Thanks, Dan ...more >>

Hi Everybody, I've upgraded the dot net framework from 1.0 to 1.1 onto the server and everything seemed fine when it comes to sending attachments etc . However just recently all emails that has attachments would not send properly.What I mean is that the attachments are there but its only (64B)...more >>

Hi, I have an ASPX page which has a datagrid and this datagrid is bound to a Custom Collection. sample code this.DataGrid1.DataSource = UserManager.Users; this.DataGrid1.DataBind(); Everything works fine and when the page is loaded, the datagrid displays the list o...more >>

How do you get the text value of a DataGrid in a WebForm? I am doing all of my DataBinding @ runtime. ...more >>

I am working on a DotNet Web Application and have some internal users "testing" my application by accessing it through my PC Name (example: http://MyPCName/Folder/Folder/home.aspx). How can I turn off access to my Local Host Files in DotNet ?...more >>

My server is randomly restarting every few minutes or so, and I can't figure out why. What would cause this to happen, aside from some evil person sitting at the console? I did manage to catch it in the act, and get a stack trace, but it doesn't really tell me a whole lot. Anyone know what cau...more >>

Can someone spot my error in this code? I get the error message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." when I attempt to read from the OleDbDataReader. Thanks BTW, I posted this yesterday, but I don't see it in the NG. My apologies if this turns out to be a second posting...more >>

Is it possible? Here's the opening block of my datalist in the ASPX page, and I was wondering if there's a way to sort the output by a particular field: <asp:datalist ID="dgProducts" runat="server" Width="100%" Border="0" HorizontalAlign="Left" EditItemStyle- HorizontalAlign="left" ItemStyl...more >>

Hi guys, Anyone knows about how to save a picture from a html page to the hard disk either in C# or VB.NET? What I have done so far is the following and it doesn't work. I got an empty image created on the HDD. _webRequest = CType(Net.WebRequest.Create("http://wdz.whereis.com.au/gns?user=d...more >>

General seems the most appropriate place for this question. I have a tool (for .NET of course) I'm releasing with a product name that uses the word GDI+ in it, with the subtitle that includes the words PrintDocument and .NET. Would I be in violation of a copyright / trademark if I do this? ...more >>

Hello All, I have a large WSH Javascript script that I want to convert to .Net Javascript. How do I accomplish the same functionality as - var args = WScript.Arguments; within the .Net Framework. One would think that the System.Console class would handle this, but it doesn't. Is the...more >>

This problem has had me stuck for weeks now... I have an ASP .NET application on a machine running Windows 2000 Server. It connects to an ODBC data source using the ODBC Data Provider. The connection takes about 5 seconds to create. It takes 5 seconds whether I load the application locally ...more >>

I've recently installed Visual Studio 2003 on my development computer. But so far I've yet to use VS 2003 and .NET Framework 1.1 in any real projecs. I have several projects and customers running both WinForm and ASP.NET applications that were developed in VS 2002 and are running on .NET ...more >>

Hi guys I have in my application many collections (HashTable and ArrayList)loaded with configuration data, that means they are loaded at startup and then they are accessed only for read-only (items are only retrieved, never added, removed or replaced). To be thread-safe after startup do I nee...more >>

I am using the PerformanceCounter and PerformanceCounterCategory classes to build my own version of perfmon. The problem is that my computer has categories called "Indexing Service" and "Indexing Service Filter" (I assume that they were put there when I installed MSDE or MS Access). ...more >>

Hi, I am developing an application for my school project and would like to build in a functionality, wherein whenever the application is run, it checks whether another copy of the same application is running. If so, it would pop an error. Could anyone please guide me as to how can i do thi...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to integrate an application with MSN's Messenger service, such that the application can show whether a user is online. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nitin MS.MBA - Boston University Email: nagarwal@bu.edu ...more >>

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Hello, I am creating a windows application with a data grid contained on it. I want to find out the number of columns contained in the data grid at runtime, but I am not sure how to do this. I know that when using ASP.NET the data grid control has a class called datagrid.columns.count ...more >>

How do access shared folders and files on windows server 2003 using C#. I have share name(s) user id and password for the server. ...more >>

I have a couple questions/comments concerning dot net and the future of dot net development. If someone could address these, please do so. First of all, with the advent of .net and the use of namespaces, why can't I reference a public class that is contained in an EXE from another EXE? It se...more >>

Can anyone help?....... I need to grab an XML file from an FTP server for use in a VB.Net application. I have been scouring the web to no avail. I have found a few VB 6.0 examples but don't know if or how I can use them in a .NET application. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciat...more >>

Hi I have a Add-In por Office and i need to detect what applications is running during installation. ...more >>

Where can I get the standard icons for vb.net(save, delete, etc.) I remember in VB 6.0 the standard icons were installed with the program. ...more >>

Hi All, I have a component that is used to do all file access operations. I have this component hosted in COM+ as a server application and runs under a specific id. One of the methods on this component returns a FileInfo[]. When I try to use this FileInfo object or object array on the cli...more >>

Hi, everyone! Is there any built-in function in VB.NET (or VB 6.0) for creating .DBF file easily? Any suggestion or advice would be deeply appreciated! Thanks! Tianji Yu .. ...more >>

Ok folks, I have Windows XP. I installed .Net and developed some VB.Net components that I want to use in ASP.Net applications. At this point I realized I didn't have IIS installed on my XP machine, so I installed it. I then created a ASP.Net web project pointing to "localhost". I was able ...more >>

am new to ASP.NET and IIS web applications, but not to SQL databases. I can successfully build Windows apps using Visual Studio that use ADO. However, for Web Forms, I created data connection and sqladapter to my SQL Server - Northwind - which I dragged from Server Explorer. I generate a ...more >>

Greetings, I'm working in VS2003.NET using C#. I need to download a few rows from an SQL Server database table and then be able to page back and forth through them. I don't need to make any changes nor post any updates. In the past I've downloaded the rows using a datareader, copied th...more >>

I'm working in VS2003.NET, with C#. I use app.config to store the connection string to my SQL Server. This works fine. Lately I've been taking work home where the connection string is different. I deal with this by having app.config.home and app.config.work files which I copy over th...more >>

Hi I try to import file in a dataset. How I can do this ?...more >>

I've been developing using PHP and am just about to start ..NET. From what I can tell, ASP no longer exists as a stand alone language in .NET, so I wondered what language to focus on for web development, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#.NET, Visual C++.NET, or Visual J#.NET. I've never done ASP be...more >>

Has anyone seen this message when creating a new project in .NET. I am running on Win2000 SP4. I have received this error ever since I installed .NET. When I hit OK, it creates the folders, but no files are created for the project. If I attempt to add a new item, then I also get an e...more >>

Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance. I am writing an application in Vb.Net that queries a SQL Server database and then builds a text file for submission to a vendor. However, the vendor requires that the file be sent via dial-up modem. This is where I am having the probl...more >>

Hi Here's my question, I have to read a CSV file and import data in DataSet. How I can do this in VB.NET ? Is it possible to have import method to import file directly in dataset ? Thanks...more >>

Is there any difference between these 3 ways of using the NEW keyword? Which is prefered? Dim xlApp As New Excel.Application Dim xlApp As Excel.Application = New Excel.Application Dim xlApp As Excel.Application xlApp = New Excel.Application...more >>

Hi, I have a web-based application and some of the UI I want to incorporate is just too complicated for javascript. Instead of using a Java Applet, I would like to have the user download a .net assembly containing a form and run that in a browser. I'm happy for the form to run in an applet-...more >>

Hello How can i simply convert from date format "dd/mm/yyy" to "mm/dd/yyyy" using cSharp. ...more >>

I created a form with a list box item .when a user logs on in that page and clicks three times on diferent items in the list box , if he clicks the back button on the IE the browser will bring him one step before . i need to know how can i catch that back event of the IE so i can move the u...more >>

I need to retrieve email addresses of users from the AD store given the domain\usernames, any guide to directoryservices and or sample code is appreciated Thanks ...more >>

How can I find out the names of all the attributes that are intrinsic (pre-defined, or standard) in the .NET framework ? I saw in a presentation that there are supposedly around 178 pre-defined ones. I know that it is possible to define your own, but I want to know what the standard ones a...more >>

Hello. My program has to use third party components located in several external libraries. Those components, also as my program, are usually been changed. The problem is to make my program use newest versions of external dlls, when they were during my program compilation. As far as I know, ...more >>

i create form A(with 1 button set modify to public) and form B , form B inherit form A. from Form B i change property of button visible to false and run form B ,but when I run the button still showing. ...more >>

Here's the deal - I'm working on a project in which a customer will be sending us orders in the form of an XML file, which we'll then parse, complete the work on and then return as an XML file. I've already completed the part of the project that needs to parse the XML and found that to be prett...more >>

Hello All, I'm trying to deploy my windows-based application using crystal report. i package the setup by including the crystal report file, the exe file, and two merge modules for the crystal report (crystal_managed2003.msm and crystal_Database_Access2003.msm). when i installed it on a ...more >>

I am currently getting a small box titled shit with connection failure written into it, appear whenever i switch on my work laptop. It happens after windows xp boots up. I've never encountered this before or ever heard of anything like this before. Can anyone tell me if this is a virus or not ...more >>