I am currently trying to teach myself .NET (specifically vb.NET). I have been working with VBA in Access 97 for a few years now, and consider myself to be quite proficient. At present, I have an issue with the concept of detecting keypresses. I use this frequently in Access 97, generally for...more >>

Can you guess what this is? http://www.blueboard.com/phone/apache_sept_2003.gif It's a history of the IIs "Titanic", which is being slowly and painfully sunk by the open source Apache web server. In September, Microsoft's IIs web server again continued to lose marketshare dramatically to ...more >>

Hello Everybody, I am using Datagrid in VB.net. I don't want the auto generation of rows in the datagrid (last row shouldnt be the new row with empty values)..in addition to this the datagrid should not be readonly..that is I should be allowed to edit the values in datagrid. You help...more >>

My system clock tends to lose (or sometimes gain) time and I am running some time critical processes so I need to keep the clock synchronized. I wrote the code to get the time from a time server but I can't find how to set the system time (DateTime.Now being read only). Any suggestions? Tha...more >>

I'm working on a VB.Net DLL project. It has 6 classes. One of the classes has the properties for the database path, database name and server name. The purpose of this class is so that the DLL can be tested on different servers. Without using the keyword "Shared", how can I share these data to the...more >>

Hello, I recently wrote a survey application. Each question is very similar. The first questions gives me a problem when there are multiple people taking the survey (The Database connection Timed out) I am using the Data Access Application Blocks as ASP.NET (using VB.NET) and SQL 2000. I...more >>

I am trying to install a windows service written in .net 2003 on my Windows 2000 computer. I have followed the walkthru given in msdn but the service fails to install with 'requested registry access is not allowed' (using both InstallUtil or by creating an installer). I have tracked the reg...more >>

How to add strong name for my class library in Studio.NET 2003?...more >>

Hello, I posted yesterday the same problem, but now I want to be more specific about it. My intention is to create a windows service to process some Word documents. If I use CreateObject to create a reference to a Word object everything is working fine. If I use GetObject to get a ref...more >>

Is there a way to determine which resource file the resourcemanager GetString method utilizes in a fallback situation?...more >>

Hi all Is there a way to catch all property requests and resolve at runtime internally within the class? I ask because I'm looking into creating a dynamic CrystalReport web service, and all the sections are explicitly named properties in the generated asmx rather than being indexed. Thanks...more >>

I am automating an Excel Spreadsheet from a .net windows app. I have no problem automating various Excel cells based upon the following declarations. My question is how do I open an Excel Form from a .vba.net form, and how do you " fire" an event on the Excel form (for example " button ...more >>

I want to pad out a hex value with leading zeros, e.g. I don't want 7B I do want 0000007B. The best I can do is Return New String("0"c, 8 - Len("7B")) & "7B". Can anyone do better?...more >>

Hello all Haven't worked with Crystal since the VB 4 days. Now for the first time I'm trying to create a report in a .net/vb project using SQL 2000 for the Database. When I add the Crystal report to my project and right click, go to database, then select Add/Remove Database, I get "no ite...more >>

We are trying to create a search page using .net and Microsoft Index Server. We would like to customize the search to filter certain documents and also customize how the results are displayes. Unfortunately the documentation for Microsoft Index Server is not easily found and the documentat...more >>

I am wondering how i can put an ampersand character into the value attribute of a key in the appSettings section of my web.config file. If i try to simply type it in, then run my web app, i get the following error: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----...more >>

Hi, we have a multithreaded application (win service) written in C# that is running well on all but one box. The only difference we see between the problem box and the good ones is that the problem box is a dual processor system. MS professional support has analyzed a Dr. Watson dump, ...more >>

Hi all, I have to prepare a webservice (framework 1.1, C#) and winapp client (fw 1.1, C#). The service will prepare a file and soul send it to the client. Any help in that direction, how to implement file transfer between webservice and client? Thanks Sunny...more >>

I have created a side application in VB.NET which reads rows from a DB and builds an email message. when i have a long string the the mailmessage.body or the mailmessage, it puts in an "!<linefeed><space>" at about every 980th space. I have confirmed that these characters are not in the ...more >>

Friends! I have to load an image in a Crystal, but its path must be passed as a parameter or sth like that so as to allow to show a picture dinamically. Example: i have a table 'Personnel', each person has its own ID and in a directory, i have a every JPG named with this ID. What i need is...more >>

Hi, If I bought a visual studio.net, is the licensing for VS.NET is good for visual studion 6.0? In other words, is the VS license is backword compitible? Thank you, Sam...more >>

Hi, May I know how to change the default port number to other number (default is 80) when I start an asp.net web application using VS.net? Thanks. Regards, Seal...more >>

Dear all, I have define a configuration file for my application with different section groups and settings belonging to each individual group like as follow : ===================================================== <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <configSections...more >>