How can I customize windows installer to run osql command and install Internet Explorer, when user runs setup.exe file. Thanks ...more >>

hi friends, just curious why is my start page only storing 4 solutions in its history ? there should be more there's like a whole page worth of space yet only 4 are stored in history why is that ? Thanks Tom ...more >>

HELLO is there anything like the inetcontrol(vb6) in vb.net, i need to upload and download files from a vb.net application, why is it so hard to find an example of this with .net GATMAN...more >>

I'm trying to automate Excel 2003 from Visual C# .Net. Is it possible to export an picture/image file from c# to excel? If so, how do you do this? Are there any code examples available? Thanks. Mansi ...more >>

I want to access to MessageQueue from a remote machine, the path ".\private$\myQueue" only works locally, and the path "\\myServer\private$\myQueue" doesn't works. Do you know how can I access? some example? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all, I wanted to add metadata in my wave file. I've read something about streams but I don't know which is the common usage of them for my purpose. I wanted, for example, to add the lyric of a song in my wave file but I want to remain its compatibility with wmplayer and other players......more >>

I have a Windows service that is having trouble starting up at boot time. It requires SQL Server to start up. I have added MSSQLSERVER to the service dependencies (as explained in http://tinyurl.com/5s7kx) but that doesn't help. I changed the dependency from MSSQLSERVER to SQLSERVERAGENT which ...more >>

Hi, I need to a way to find the 7-bit code from a character. Or a function like Asc() but that will give the character code based on the 7-bit ecoding (I needf it fo convert text to GSM 03.38). For exemple: in ASCII (what I don't need!): "é" -> 233 (= Asc("é") -> 111010...more >>

Can some1 pls help me with this I have recently installed .net framework bootstrapped plug in to include mdac and .net framework in my custom application setup. Now the problem is, MS Windows Installer 1.5 is getting included the package? I was trying to install my app on a computer runni...more >>

Hi all, Not sure if there is anything, but I'm looking for direction on how I might track the topmost process on my PC. Basically, I'm looking to build a service that would monitor for any time a different window was fronted with the idea being that it would be a quick estimator of where I'm ...more >>

We have merge replication system. In a table, there is a insert trigger. When a record is inserted from SQL analyzer, the trigger works fine. When a C# application insert a record, the trigger did not fire. I even can not trace the insert from the application with profile. Where I missed? ...more >>

I'm trying to open an instance of the default browser and browse to a URL. I'm seeing an issue with the process class where if i execute my process using this code Dim p As Process = New Process p.StartInfo.Arguments = "www.starwars.com" p.StartInfo.FileName = "iexplore.exe" p.Start() p.Clo...more >>

I created a Windows Service (written in VB.NET) that uses a FileSystemWatcher to monitor a directory for file creation. When files with a certain extension are created in the directory, the file is opened and read (something is done with the contents). Then the file is moved to a backup di...more >>

I created a Windows Service (written in VB.NET) that uses a FileSystemWatcher to monitor a directory for file creation. When files with a certain extension are created in the directory, the file is opened and read (something is done with the contents). Then the file is moved to a backup di...more >>

Hi I am trying to serialize an assembly into a byte array. I am using a BinaryFormatter to serialize the assembly into a stream. Once in the stream, would then save this to the database in a byte(). I have come across a few issues with deserializing the stream so I decided to strip out...more >>

Hello, I have a textbox that needs to have red font. I also want it set to enable=false, or else 'read-only'. When I change to either of these settings, the font turns black. Is there a way around this? Thanks in advance, Amber ...more >>

I'm trying to multiply two doubles and assign the result to a double as well. But it seems the result is rounded up. x = 907.18474 y = 2.2046226218487757 the result I calculate 1999.999999999999902722818 But this is calculated to be 2000.0. I looked up double and it is specified as follows; ...more >>

I have a large soultion 20+ projects C++ MC++ and C#. When I hit F5 no matter what. It checks to see if it needs to build every project. "projectX" is up to date. It takes like 10 seconds. I know other people must of had this problem. Does anyone have a solution, Aside for turning off projects ...more >>

Hi, I added a few buttons to the Mdi form, to call the child forms in the button click event. But when the child window opens, all the buttons are displayed in front of the child window. Any idea on how to fix this. Thanx, Debi...more >>

Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached. This has only happend since upgrading to .net 2003. The application worked perfect prior to the upgra...more >>

Hello I want to create a MSI file programmatically. Do you know of any third party .NET component which can help me with that? I'm going to use it like a self extracting zip. So it is not for a VS.NET setup project. Zip files will not do because these shall be distributed via System Man...more >>

When someone refers to a Windows form applications, are they just talking a plain o'l vanilla Windows application written in .NET? Thanks Ralph Krausse www.consiliumsoft.com Use the START button? Then you need CSFastRunII... A new kind of application launcher integrated in the taskbar!...more >>

I have created a simple user control. On the parent form i would like to display n instances of my usercontrol based on how many the user wants. How would you do this in vb.net or c#.net. If this were an asp.net application i think i could use something such as the repeater control. Than...more >>

Hi, is there a simple way in .Net to determine if there is already an instance running of an application ? I want to avoid that a user starts an application twice. Thanks, Koert...more >>

....newbie warning... I am looking for a way to trap (and process) keystrokes before they are passed to the foreground/active application. Something similar to how, for example, the Alt-Tab key combination switches between applications, without the apps ever seeing that particular keycode....more >>

Hi, I am trying to use System.DirectoryServices for quering Active Directory, I am getting the following error Compiler Error Message: BC30002: Type 'DirectoryEntry' is not defined. Why I am getting this error ? Any Help will be appriciated. Thanks ...more >>

I would like to upgrade from XP Home to Professional. However, I get the following error message: "Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the CD". Ultimately, I want to upgrade so that I can install IIS for the purpose of develope...more >>

Sometimes I'll need to generate a new solution much like an old one. I'll generate a new solution. Then copy the project from the old solution into it. Then do an add project. Then change the projects name. Then modify it. I've noticed that when I do that the GUID of the new project is the...more >>

I have some data that i want to present in a hierarchial display, but with this data i also want to have two buttons assoicated with each item. The perfect solution would be a treeview where each treenode allowed me to use a datagird to display the data. Here is an example of what i am tryin...more >>

hi, i have a form with some textBoxes in array. how can i know to which textBox to permit the "undo" becase when im using the "textBox.canUndo" there is more then one possibility ?? what can i do?? For i = 0 To 9 If arrTextBox1(i).CanUndo = True Then arrTextBox...more >>

I've a really strange problem, in some part of my code I compare two strings (through object), and while I *know* that they equal each other, and in the watch window they do equal each other, then the comparision return false. See here for details: http://www.ayende.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,...more >>

Can someone give me a quick summary of what this does? static $S = array('/javascript:/si', '/about:/si', '/vbscript:/si', '/&(?![a-z0-9#]+;)/si'); static $R = array('javascript:', 'about:', 'vbscript:', '&'); $C = preg_replace($S, $R, $C); What does "/si" look for? ...more >>

> i have a file named CDSEncoder.cpp, and i wanted to create a member variable > of this in KNNDlg.cpp...so i wrote the following under my KNNDlg.h file > > protected: > CDSEncoder m_encoder; > > but there showed.. > c:\Documents and Settings\MVP\Desktop\KNN\KNNDlg.h(25): error C2146: syn...more >>

I have noticed a difference in the processing of XSL transforms between dotnet and MSXML. Dotnet formats the resulting output differently, and since we use the <pre> tag in the HTML output it makes a big difference. What is in fact correct here? I don't see that the XSL transform engine s...more >>

I have created a custom log for my apps to write to. Writing to the log seems to be no problem, it's when I go to read it I get unexpected results. I have an application that reads the log and displays it's contents in a grid, and it also receives event notification from the log when it's upda...more >>

Just a quick question - I'm an ASP developer having little or no experience with ACTUAL Visual Basic. I recently purchased a tutorial on .net, but it: A) Seems geared twards (assumes I know) standard visual basic B) Focuses mostly on "drag and drop" I'm not a big fan of drag and drop, I l...more >>

Hi, I'm creating an AppDomain and creating an instance of a class. This works fine unless I use caching, which I need to use. The exception that I get is of type "System.IO.FileLoadException" which message is: {"The given assembly name or codebase, 'MyAssemblyDisplayName', was invalid." }...more >>

Hi I'm new to c# and .net from a vb6 background and i'm having issues with the debugging of applications I am trying to create a watch on an expression aString.IndexOf(",",0).ToString() but either in the watch window or the immediate window I get an out of scope Error however if ...more >>