How to programmatically show the dropdown of a combobox in vb.net? please help. ...more >>

Hi, Not too sure if this is the write place to post this, im sure someone will correct me if im in the wrong place. I have been developing a C# DLL component based on the WBCustomizer object from microsoft. The problem i have reached is that i want to be able to fire KeyUp, KeyPress a...more >>

I have a datagrid, populated via a SQL dataset, and I want the user to select a row by clicking on it and then using the value in the first cell as my key for my next query. Using CurrentCellChanged works unless I want the row which has a cell selected and I click on that cell, obvious answer ...more >>

I have just completed a project and everything was run nicely and then I decided to change the project name, assembly name, and add another Blank Solution and add the project into that new solution. I'm sure evrything was done correctly and has change nothing inside my code. But when I run my p...more >>

Hi, I am using Windows 2003 Server. The VPN works fine, but I want to FTP through the VPN so the connection is encrypted. The problem is each of my IIS sites has a real Internet address specified, w.x.y.z. So when the VPN comes up using a private IP, I can't connect to any of the FTP sites u...more >>

Hi All, I am seeing a very strange issue with a winform I have. There are a few statements in the code, that at one point were working just fine. I had compiled the code a few days ago and everything was working as desired. Now all of a sudden I am getting errors in some places, and some...more >>

I am trying to build some utilities for our internal development. Is there any way I can programmetically find out the original source file for a given class? Say I am inspecting a CLR type in our own application and I would like to know where is the source file defining that type. Which AP...more >>

I can't get mouse events to fire in this new version. Is this a bug or limitation of the beta or am I missing something?...more >>

Hi anyone. Does anyone know of issues regarding impersonation in VB .NET with regards to accessing remote WMI information? I have a wrapper class which encapsulates various WMI calls, this appeared fine under .net 1.1, but since sp1 it appears to not work. I have switched on the debug l...more >>

Please help. My bread is at stake. How do i know if a event has a handler associated with it?. I dont want to keep counters myself. Please , if any reader can reply, sedn a direct reply mail also to shunya@vsnl.com Mahesh Naik...more >>

Hi all, I have to debug an exe with the VS studio .NET environment. but first my exe has to be started using another exe. So I arranged my project properties to start this first exe. Doing so, my breakpoints are not working. It seems that the debugger cannot attach itself to my program s...more >>

I am trying to write a Wake-On-LAN utility for a local subnet. I can do the Wake-On-LAN, but before this I need to find the MAC addresses on the local LAN. I had planned to query DHCP on the WAN to get the MAC addresses, but there are security restrictions in place that will restrict this. ...more >>

Hi I have an application written in VB.NET that needs to trigger an action on a Webpage. For other actions in communicating I've been using WebRequest.Create / WebRequest.Method, but I dont seen to be able to trigger an action (such as create a file) on a Webpage in that way. Can anyone ...more >>

I have created a simple Windows service in VB.Net which installs fine using InstallUtil.exe to install it to, for example "c:\test", or "c:\Windows\YellowBanana", but if I install it to "c:\Program Files\Test" it installs ok but will not start (no useful error message is given other than the usu...more >>

I'm trying to write a url as a hyperlink in the Eventlog, does anyone know if this is possible ?? I have found the following site that confirms this can be done, but he doesn't say how !!! http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/evtvwr.asp...more >>