I want to restrict the minimum size of the form. I find that there are properties MaximumSize and MinimumSize. This will help you control the maximum and minimum size the form, when the form is resized. but I find using this will make the controls on the form to flicker more. one can even ...more >>

I am following thru the examples in the book I am studying for my MCSD. This is the web applications book. One example is to use the data form wizard to create a simple data form on the northwind customers table.When I try to run the code after the wizard has generated the form I get several c...more >>

Hi, we have an application with a COM interface (developped in VC++ 6), and one of our customers is currently creating with VB.net a client for this application. The problem is that after the client calls our server application, if the server application is then closed using the usual GUI way...more >>

Our company is moving to .NET very rapidly. Can anyone point me towards some .NET commercial software applications? I know of a few really good ones (Databeacon's upcoming reportingware, Riverdeep's Print Shop, Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite). Our mandate is to use all ..NET applications for g...more >>

hi all.. (this message was also posted in vb.general, becouse i didn't know where exactly to fit it). i work in a company that deals with mainly with hardware devices via serial comm port. up untill most of the software was writeen in plain old dos c. that company is planning to move it...more >>

i cannot store unicode in thie way, please help! Dim souce As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("CHINESE") Dim sSql As String = "insert into tblpitems (fldItmDesc1) values (@a)" g_dbCommand.CommandText = sSql Dim paramData As MySqlParameter = New MySqlParam...more >>

can i use asp.net to capture a screen shot of a webpage? something like this? http://img.nameintel.com/Thumbnails/tn.html?domain=cnn.com Is there a script that does this? Aaron ...more >>

Anyone seen why trace output on remote server goes on and off randomly? thx dave...more >>

I am trying to run a system stored procedure (SP_DETACH_DB) from vb.net application. I am getting the following error SP_DETACH_DB not allowed within multi-statement transaction. How can I fix this? Thanx ...more >>

Hi, I've got a number of textbox's on a windows form in VC++ .NET. I've got it so that when the user presses [ENTER] whilst in a textbox then it goes to the next tabstop. This works fine however Windows play the ding sound as if a invalid key has been pressed. Is there a way to stop this happ...more >>

Hi, I was curious if I could make my webservice work with firefox client webservice functionality. (i got it to work with webservice.htc) I am able to get firefox to see my serverside web service methods (instantiate a proxy and alert proxy.MyMethod to tell its a valid function), but when I s...more >>

1º. Is there a limit for threads on Windows? I have created a test program in vb.net and it seems as if after 160 threads it stalls and does not create new threads. WTF? Natural question I expect is "why in gods name do you want to create hundreds of threads?" I might be wrong and it migh...more >>

I'm running Visual Studio, using C#. Intellisense (Go To Definition: function has stopped working for most objects. It seems to work for class variables, but not for other defined metods and variables. E.g. in the snippet below, if I rclick on the reference to planXMl and select "Go To Defi...more >>

Hi folks, I've tried to use the novell c# ldap library to connect to my unix ldap directory. But everytime i try to debug my application i receive the error message: "unable to load novell.directory.ldap library." I cant register this library in the gac, because it dont have a stron...more >>

Hi! Microsoft commited C# and CLI to ECMA in its first edition, anybody know if Microsoft will also commit C# v.2 to ECMA to become a standard? Best regards Jakob K...more >>

Sorry for the obvious newbie type question. :< And I know doing stuff in Java is not 100% transferable to c#/.net, so I apologize for my ignorance. But I am asking, therefore trying to learn. In j2ee you can create entity ejbs to model data as objects. The benefit is you can use the objects ...more >>

Hi, I'm having some troubles with my Serial-Port application: It always splits the ReceivedData in different parts. for exemple: I should receive "SIM PIN REQUIRED", but I receive iit in 3 different events: "SIM PI", "N REQUIR" and "ED". does anybody knows why this happens? And how I can do...more >>

I'm using a SystemParametersInfo call to attempt to manage the screen saver. All I want to do is modify the ScreenSaveActive bit in the registry and have the OS recognize it (and occasionally set it back to -0-). Theoretically this should be easy to accomplish through the call shown below. If ...more >>

I have tried this with no luck. What i want is to show the selected item on the first post. the selected item is NY but the first in the list shows as selected. If Page.IsPostBack = False Then Dim myConnection As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("Co...more >>

Hi, The company I work for is planning to modify a large financial application running on the mainframe. The modifications include switching from IMS to DB2 and make the business logic accessible from web-based applications. The main orientations for that project are to rely on .Net and to ...more >>

Is anyone familar with these two products? Should they be used together or is there an advantage of one over the other? ...more >>

It seem the color picker is not working the way it should. Usually , I am able to define the color under "Custom Color", however, I don't see the "define" button . Any ideas? DT ...more >>

Hi, Here is the desire behavior, when the user tries to leave a field, that field is validated. If the value in the field is invalid, the previous value is restored - however, the user is allowed to go on to the next field anyway. It seems that the Validating event has the behavior of keep...more >>

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Hi, My stored procedure was working fine but when i made added 2 fields to my table and then made subsequent changes to my sp it give me the following error: "Could not complete cursor operation because the table schema changed after the cursor was declared" it works fine from back end (...more >>

hi, i have a form with textBox(more then one) and i want the user to be able to do the "undo" operation. how can i do that? thanks...more >>

In VB6 I was able to convert a bitmap that was in a Imagelist to an icon via the ExtractIcon method and display the result as a form's Icon. I need to be able to do the same in .NET. Any ideas on how this can be done? thanks in advance... Scott Mead...more >>

I've bound a combo box to a datatable in a dataset. I can't figure out how to access the selected row directly. If possible, I'd like to cast it into strongly typed datarow from my dataset: myRow=(myDataset.MyDataTable.MyRow)cboList.Items[.selecteditem]; ...more >>

I have a DLL created by vb.net using the comclass template. This Dll will be running in MTS on Windows NT4. When testing the DLL from a stub EXE, the config file is located with the EXE. Where should the app.config be located in a MTS environment? And what is the app exe name? Here is a...more >>

Can I use VS 2005 to edit my ASP.NET 1.1 Code and Projects?...more >>

I am creating some controls on the fly (textboxes and checkboxes), I created a custom control and simply coded in FALSE (so it always fails) and added it to my .aspx page. For some reason the custom validation is not working, any ideas? I put output statements in my custom control and it is b...more >>

my database (mysql) would be used to store Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, so i would like to store the text as unicode to the database. I know there is a function Encoding.Unicode.getByte, and i would like to use in this way: Dim source As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.G...more >>

H I want to display progress bar during execution of windows form. When I execute DTS package the form will idle till the DTS package finishes Please help me in this regard. its an urgen Thank owais --- Posted using Wimdows.net Newsgroups - http://www.wimdows.net/newsgroups/...more >>

Hi, I am using .NET 2003 platform. I want to port my code developed in C#, on Solaris 8.0. Currently I am using Bristol Wind/U 4.4 for porting the code developed in VC++ on to Solaris 8.0. Anybody is having idea, of porting the C# code to Solaris platform? What are the other Cross Platfo...more >>