I have a MDI windows forms application that uses a toolbar on the parent form. I've also setup a context menu on this form to be used as the dropdown menu for one of the toolbar buttons. However, the shortcut keys for the context menu do not seem to work for the menus, only clicking on them. I...more >>

I have a project that is being developed and it is mostly done. However there are still various bugs and I've not feature/security tested every part of the project yet. I'm thinking of hiring my own project tester who has good expertise in finding bugs, documenting, mapping out a complete test...more >>

Hi all, I have a long Web page which need vertical scrolling. If I work on the GUI at bottom of Web page, e.g. clicking a button or selecting an item in List box, the page refreshes. After page refreshing, the page is automatically located at the top. This is inconvenient as I need to scrol...more >>

Hi, I've written a type of web spider; now I'd like it to identify itself to servers it crawls over. I'm using VB.NET 2003, XP Home, and a (desktop) Windows Forms app. I'm using the WebClient class to send requess and open read streams. The couple MSDN articles I've found on setting the ...more >>

Hi, Curiosity - when you right-click on a file in the VS.Net Solution Explorer and select "Exclude from Project", it continues to be shown in the Solution Explorer as a sort of ghostly outline (as long as you have selected "Show All Files"). Yet if you open up the project file (which is just X...more >>

hi, i have a program that used reflection to execute methods. now i want to execute the reflected method on a new thread but cant figure out how or if it can be done. take the below code, for instance. // Declare the types. string AssemblyToRun = "C:\MyAss"; string ClassToRun = "MyCl...more >>

Let's say I do the following: Object A lives "forever" and periodically creates instances of Object B. Object B triggers events, that Object A registers for immediately upon the creation of Object B. Object B is later dereferenced. Do my handlers to the now dereferences Object B ever g...more >>

Installed Visual studio.net 3003. Since part of install path is Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 am not able to CD to this folder in a command window to install MSDE samples in XP professional...more >>

Hi group I have been making a windows service to execute an external application. I use a timer control, I can execute the application but does't appear as a normal windows, just I see it in the windows task manager as a local service. I think it must appear as a normal process. Someone kn...more >>

Hello I'm trying to run this code but i get an error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object. " Can somebody help me? Thanks Try '*************************************************************************** ******** objTransact = objConnection.BeginTransaction() '*...more >>

I am new to Crystal Reports and I am trying to set up a very basic report for display. However when the report tries to run I get this error: Error in file <file name and location>: Buffer too small for string or missing null byte I have no idea why I am getting this. I looked for this erro...more >>

Hi guys A bit of curve ball here ... I have a document (Word) that contains a series of instructions in sections and subsections (and sub-subsections). There are 350 pages of them. I need to translate these instructions into something that can be processed automatically, so I have used t...more >>

I need to start an event in a web page. That event triggers the creation of a file, which is placed in a library in that web page. I then need to download that file, but so far I havent found any description of how to do just that. Can anyone give me any hints? Regards Ole...more >>

I have taken over a project and would like to flowchart the entire solution. I have found flowchart programs that work on a single .cpp file, but nothing for the entire project. Does anyone know of a good flowchar program where you can speciry the .sln and it will produce a solution wide flowc...more >>

I need some helpl and this is probably going to be a vage question because I am not even sure how to ask it. I have form made with vb. On that form I have a CrystalReportViewer1. I have made a CrystalReport1.rtp file. Now what I need to do is have a way to open the .rtp file and get ride ...more >>

I randomly got this error: "System.IO.FileLoadException: The located assembly's manifest definition with name 'ClientToolLib' does not match the assembly reference." I noticed that in the production server, there are a few different versions of ClientToolLib.dll (strong named), one for each ...more >>

I am working with a thermal printer that returns it's status in a string. In vb6.0 I would use the MidB,AscB functions to examine the first 32 bits. What can I use in vb.net to do the same. ...more >>

Hi. I know how to use a SQLDataAdapter to execute a query and return a dataset. For example... SQLDataAdapter.Fill(DatasetInstance, "StoredProcName/TableName") But could someone please give me an example of how to execute a query and return a dataset using a SQLCommand? SQLCommand doesn't...more >>

Driving me nuts. Web page calls a function in a different class library that is to return a string. Inside this function, I create a string, give it a value, then try to do a string.replace. Fails. Though I can do stringname.length and get the property, if I try any of the methods (R...more >>

I created a Setup and Deployment project for my ASP.NET app. I added the Primary Output and Content Files, but when I came to install it on my client's machine the Crystal Report files (*.rpt) weren't included. Do they have to be added manually? If so, isn't that a bit lame, given that they...more >>

Hi, I have two questions: 1) If there are more than one attachments, can I still use urn:schema:httpmail:attachmentfilename to get the file names? How? Or I need to use X-MS-ENUMATTS method? 2) After I get the filenames of the attachments, how do I download them to a local folder? Thank...more >>

I don't have the Create Command File menu option available in Database Project I have in Visual Studio. I'm running Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Edition Is it available in this edition? If so how do I enable it? ...more >>

Hi, We maintain a seperate server for files which are uploaded by the user(Clients). We run our site in Production server,we need to Keep our uploaded files in our file server. we use asp.net with c# to create the WebServices for transfer the files.But no effecient solutions found.we ...more >>

Hi. Does anyone know how to use the research pane in Word/Excel to monitor the word a user is currently typing in order to do something useful with that information (e.g. check to see if the current word is a certain name and then display some information about that person in the research ...more >>