If I put an old exe file on a web site and create a link to it then IE will ask "open or save to disk?" when clicked. When I create an exe with VS.NET it does not ask anything, it just tries to run it. Is there a bit I can set somewhere that will tell IE to treat this like a "classic" exe? It ...more >>

Is there a way a .net application (c#) can tell if the .net framework is installed ...more >>

Can anyone point me in the direction of any notes on loading pdf files from within an ASP.Net app Cheers Dave ...more >>

Hi group I have a webform which I want to make an ftp connection for a filetransfer from. The thing is when I use the WebRequest class it says "The URI prefix is not recognized" and my URI is ftp://localhost/ Then I discovered that the WebRequest class has a RegisterPrefix method which tak...more >>

How to write a right click pop up menu in VB.net like Windows could someone guide me and give some hints on that. thank you very much ...more >>

I have a routine that does a standard comparison that I pass two objects to Private Function ColumnEqual(ByVal A As Object, ByVal B As Object) As Boolea ' Compares two values to determine if they are equal. Also compares DBNULL.Value If A Is DBNull.Value A...more >>

I'm currently creating the next version of our company's education product, and it seems that we still need to support legacy hardware & software (Win 95/Pentium-1, MacOS 8). To that end, we've been using C++ and wxWindows to minimize the separate code bases between Mac & Windows. However, we've r...more >>

Does anyone know of a book for C# .NET on coding standards and guidelines? My company is in the process of defining this stuff as we move to C# .NET. I could swear I picked up a book like this in a technical bookstore, but now I can't find one searching Amazon.com or anywhere else. ...more >>

I have a dll that I am deploying to the GAC. I have had 3 releases of the dll: 1.1.5.0, 1.1.20.0 and my current release 1.2.10.0. Now, I have used a publisher policy deployed to the GAC in the past with the following name: policy.1.1.myAssem.dll. As soon as I go to v 1.2.10.0, my publisher polic...more >>

Hi everybody, In my application, I'm planning to use BinaryFormatter to serialize a potentially huge object to file (and, of course, deserialize back to memory later). My question is if there is any hard limit on the size of this object? Is it only limited by the amount of memory or hard-d...more >>

Hi I wanna shown all my Data from SQL server to Visual Basic.net. could someone guide me on that ? is there any object enable to do that. SQL Server 2000 Database - contacts 2 tables - supplies and customers now, i wanna to shown two folder on the screen. name and numbers of the folders ba...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to force an immediate apply of system based registry changes. I have an application written in C# that updates the registry. However I’m forced to logout and log back in for the changes to take effect. I need to figure out how to have an apply button (just like the one in Mi...more >>

Hi, friends What are the major differences between Visual Studio .net Enterprise Architect 2002 (G77-00008) and Visual Studio .net Enterprise Architect 2003 (G77-00406)? What those G77-xxxxx mean? Their prices have big difference. Any reference papers, articles? Thanks a lot....more >>

hi i want to write a windows app that would also be able to control an external device (ie. a fitness device that I should be able to start and stop and set other params for) I have no idea on where to start how I can do sth like this Can anyone guide me in the right direction thanx tom...more >>

Hello, we have a large application, that gave weird behavior. On W2K we're suffering from instable program ececution from time to time, untill now we managed to workaround these problems. On NT4 we were not able to get things working. It stops with the message unable to load MyDll.dll, wher...more >>

I have two assemblies that each consist of several classes. Each object instantiated from those classes can have one or more child- and/or parentobjects that are also instantiated from those classes. Most relationships exist within one assembly, but relationships between assemblies may sometimes oc...more >>

Hello; While examining Microsoft's Framework Class Tree, i saw many classes under another class; for example treeviewnode class appears to be under treeview class. I wonder why it is used, it should be having benefits to code like this. Thank you very much...more >>