Hi. Just trying to find out the best approach as I beleive it might give me problems later on down the road. I have an ASP.NET application which references a shared database class which contains methods for serialising and de-serialising objects to the database storage. I put this as a shar...more >>

Hi, I'm starting on a new project to develop Windows application run on the .NET Frame work. Would you please give me some justifications to present to management on why we should use C# over Visual Basic .NET. Right now we don't have any code written for the .NET yet and this would be ...more >>

Problem: I want a table row appear to flash. How might i do this? I tried a do loop with a delay, but of course it is running on the server and the page does not get refreshed. Is there a way to do this without having to go back to the server In the exe world i would just have a thread that s...more >>

Hello all=2E I'm new to =2ENET and I am stuck and I just cannot get= this to work (even after much searching)=2E I have a listbox populated by data from an Access Database=2E The= manner in which I fill the listbox is as follows: \\\\\\\\ dsClosedPos=2EClear() dbAdapt...more >>

I want to develop a application for Windows XP, without any framework installed, so what framework is pre-installed on XP and were can i get a compiler for it(dosen't care if it is Command line)....more >>

Hello We have a web application written in ASP.Net that calls an external C# program (.exe). This C# program needs to access data from a different server and is not able to do so. We use impersonate in the web config for the ASP code to be able to access the network and it is working fine. Bu...more >>

How do I determine the current edit mode within a RichTextBox control? The user may toggle the [Insert] key to turn off/on insert, how do I quer the RichTextBox control to get this information Another related question; how do I change the carat to reflect insert/typeover Any help would be gre...more >>

I need to determine what method called a current method. I believe i need to use reflection to retrieve the calling methods name but can't find info on it. any pointers? Details of what i am doing. I have a base class and will have several classes inheriting from it in the future.I need to i...more >>

I am attempting to display two list boxes. In the first list box is a listing of all entities. When a entity is selected and it has a subentity the second list box displays with a list of the subentities. The code works but I get an error at the following two steps: (Code is VB.Net on a form 'set ...more >>

I'm trying to develop an application (Windows Form Based). The application will be reside on a shared network drive in a Windows 2003 Domain. The user (Domain User) will access the application from his/hers PC. Now everything works fine if the User is a member of "Domain Admins" but if the rem...more >>

Using Visual Studio .NET 2003, I'm intermittently getting the VB.NET error BC30002 ("Type ... is not defined.") when I build a particular assembly that I have written. This error does not occur every time the assembly is built, and seems more likely to occur when a change has been made in the assemb...more >>

Hi all, I have asked this question already, but this time I will ask it a different way. My MSDE service is running fine. However, when I try and browse my list of servers I get two exceptions thrown. One for system.net.dns and one for sytem.net.sockets.socket The servers icon...more >>

Hi all, How can I create a method that returns a copy of an object, not a reference to the object itself. Thanks ! Heinz ...more >>

hi all I want to fix column size of datagrid fixed. How to do that Please help....more >>

Hello I come from the world of C++ programming, and I'm used to writing programs that are actually executed by the CPU, and that run with some semblance of performance. I have taken the time to explore this .NET thing, and found that not only do .NET applications run extremely s-l-o-w-l-y, b...more >>

I would like to display my sourcecode(plain text) in a html page. I found this website that does exactly that. http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/ Does anyone know where I can download the script? or teach me how to write one. Thanks in advance...more >>

Hi I am a new comer of ASP.NET. I want to know how and where to set global variables in a project, such that these variable could be accessed in all aspx in the project? Please kindly advise Yan...more >>

I am running a worker thread that manipulates some hardware setting every so often. My problem is that the hardware manipulation cannot be interrupted once it has started How can I ensure that the entire operation will run to completion even when the ThreadAbortException is thrown Thanks Jeff...more >>

Is there any way to manually install to the downloaded assembly cache? I'd like to write winform controls that run in IE but it'd be a better customer experience to use a plugin installer that puts the assemblies in the downloaded assembly cache rather than having to wait a long time the first t...more >>

Hi All, I am running a VB.NET application which is using ADO to connect to an Oracle 9i database. I have a form which runs a query which can take a considerable time to run depending on the criteria that is entered. This query is run on a seperate thread as I wish to return control to the app...more >>

Hi, my asp.net c# app is trying to connect to an Access database with a password and am I getting the error.. Could not find installable ISAM. . If I connect to one without a password it works fine. I've looked at Q209805 but I don't think that helped. Oledb connection. Here is the one that works...more >>

Does anyone have any information about the .NET Framework v2 release date?...more >>

Hello I was wondering if there was a way to keep a user's session info across multple domains For example, company A owns website www.a.com and www.b.com. A user logs into www.a.co and later visits www.b.com. I would like to have it where the user doesn't have to login again. Thank Le ...more >>

It's the oddest thing... I bought some paper towels at Vons today and accidentally slid my MSDN card through the reader instead of my Vons card. It gave me a discount on paper towels. I'm going to try using the MSDN card to buy gas tomorrow. I'll let you know what happens (although I think I ...more >>

Hi, I have 2 XML files and 1 XSLT file. The second XML file has the following declarative 1st line: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> ....the 1st one (the one to be transformed) doesn't. In the transform file I load the 2nd XML file which contains a load of la...more >>

Forgive me if this has already been covered... I use dual displays and have 2 - 3 Visual Studio .NET 2003's open at the same time, however, without fail, at some point during my session, the title bar and border of one of the VS.NET's copies 1/2 of its height and 1/2 of its width, so I end up ...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to include an #If ... directive in my code to enable conditional compilation based on the framework version? The idea is to be able to compile the "same" code for both the 1.0 framework and the 1.1 framework, something like #If "Framework 1.0 etected" then DO NOT U...more >>

How do I determine the column associated with the current edit location within a RichTextBox? The following code allow me to determine the current line txtLineNumber.Text = FormatNumber(RichTextBox1.GetLineFromCharIndex(RichTextBox1.SelectionStart())+1,0 How do I determine the column loca...more >>

Hello, I have populated an a web form with dynamically created radiobuutons in a table. I wnat some of the radio buttons to fire events when their ..CheckChanged property has changed. I understand and was told this can be done with events and delegates. But my code would not compile. Here i...more >>

is there any way to disable the controls on a form without changing their appearance? i would like to make it impossible for a user to click buttons and edit text boxes while the controls retain their normal appearance. When disabled, the text in text boxes becomes difficult to read also, is the...more >>

Hi, I am trying to access a MySQL Database using VB, with / or without ODBC, whatever is easier... Any ideas? Stefan ...more >>

When I left last night my ASP.Net app was working fine. This morning I had to re-boot the server and then now all i get is the following error message from my custom error handler There has been an error in the Budget_DeptInput application. ===================================================== Er...more >>

Hi all, I am using OleDbConnection for connecting with MySQL.Using INSERT query for inserting images to MySQL db with C# code. The code is given below : string strConn="PROVIDER=MySQLProv;SERVER=192.168.1.8;DB=test;UID=test;PWD=;PORT=;"; OleDbConnecti...more >>

HI All, As we all know, Microsoft is the market leader in the IT Industry. If we were to identify the competitiors for .Net, who could be the competitors ? Regards Sheetal ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <Id>aV7WAL5Z3UOKeEjfaPKk0Q==</...more >>

Greetings!!! What is the possibility of global usage of .Net Framework over any other technology? Regards Sheetal ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <Id>rfj5yic1AEOmBD9AT5NnoA==</Id>...more >>

We are developing applications in VB.Net which might be very CPU intensive. Our problem is that other applications running on the same machine is barely getting any processor resources at all. This is especially problematic when running our application on a terminal server. Other users running other...more >>

Hi, I just started working with MS Visual.Net VB and I would like to use the current Month and current Year as a default in a textbox. Any ideas how that could be done? Thanks, Stefan ...more >>

Hi! I'm migrating ASP to ASP.NET. I've migrated using the 'ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant' tool. On debugging the migrated aspx code,the got an error saying," The 'itrackappln.itrackuser' object is not registered in the migration machine". Fot hris,I'v to register all the COM objects b...more >>

Hi, not too sure if signing is the correct term but I want to extract a signature from a file that will allow me to virify that the file hasn't changed. something that will allow me to do the following: generate and store the signature after a while compare file and signature to dete...more >>

Hi all. I'm fairly new to VB.net, and I have very little experience with Javascript. I'm trying to get a Client Side Custom Validator to work for many interrelated controls. I'd like to check several fields and update the Error Message on the fly, and then have at least one error message sho...more >>

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Dear All, I would like to perform a simple task by program (VB.Net or VC#.Net). When a user logins the windows and try to run my program, how can I use his login information (username and password) to authenicate against another PC, e.g. using DirectoryEntry object? I have these lines of c...more >>

I am trying to create licensing functionality in a .NET application. When the software is licensed then I want it to store this fact somewhere on the user's computer, this way the next time the program is run it will know it is licensed. Does windows provide a secure store for applications...more >>

Hi I would like to know if there was a way to know if you are running in debug or release mode at runtime for VB This way I could execute certain code when debugging and execute something else in release Thanks Le...more >>

Sorry if this is completely newbie, I haven't used Access in a while as my database. When I do this it works fine, OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + @"Data Source=C:\db2.mdb"); But if I move the same access file to my network drive, it ...more >>

It's official=2E=2E=2E=2EConvert blows=2E I ran a number of tests converting a double to an integer using= both Convert & CType=2E I *ASSUMED* that CType would piggy-back on= top of Convert, and that performance would be identical=2E I was 100% incorrect=2E The code below produces the r...more >>

Hi I want to display save dialog box and display that file name in a text box All I want to do is, On click of a button, display save dialog box and display that file name in a text box Later this file name would be used to store some data response.addheader approach does not work in this situ...more >>

I have a new problem with Exceptions: I need to manage the exception but I don't have an error code to compare with, just messages. I can check a message to see if it has "timeout" then instruct my code to try again later, however, if the message is "not found" then I want to rethrow the excepti...more >>

Hi all i have a problem, how can i create the item property the default something like this mycollection(0) as object myCollection.Item(0) as object thks JSB ...more >>

Help!! I have created a .net DLL which is accessed by both a .Net VB Application as well as A .Net ASP Page. The only way I can seem to make it work is if this DLL is in the WinNT\System32 Directory. Our Company Policy is not to permit any custom code in the System32 Directory. I cant get eit...more >>