Can anyone suggest resources for an experienced .NET developer who wants to do some game programming? in particular world building thanks...more >>

Hi all, Can anyone assist me? VB6er trying to delve into the world of .NET... I have inherited a poorly designed database (access).. that uses multi-column keys to determine parent-child relationships. Could anyone suggest how I can handle this using a relation in VB.NET. E.g. Table "A...more >>

C# class library for use by VB6.0 application uses MailMessage object, runs OK on XP development desktop, but can't "create CDONTS.NewMail object" on the WinNT4.0 target. Can anyone explain how to teach the target to speak CDONTS? Thanks for your help! ...more >>

Hi , all I'm trying to write unicode to a file for another app (not developed with vs2003) to read it. I used StreamWriter with unicode encoding.but I was surprised that the streamwriter adds FFFE to the start of the file,which stopes the other app from reading it!! any idea how to stope it fro...more >>

Hello Chaps, Me and a collegue have been talking about where the best place to put business logic is. I think that the best place is where Microsoft suggest - in a seperate business logic layer. The alternative is to have all the logic in with the business entity objects, thus eliminating t...more >>

It's only a matter of time before Gate$ and Ball-me replace you all with robots.... http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040520/na_fin_com_us_microsoft_benefit_cuts_2.html Microsoft cuts worker benefits to save $80 million a year REDMOND, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is reducing prescription dr...more >>

Hi All, I managed to get Content-Type (i.e. image/gif) from file extension (.gif) in Windows Registry, but the reverse way (from Content-Type to extension) is more tricky. Does anyone know a way to do so? Thanks and regards, ...more >>

I have posted this on a couple of Access and SQL Server newsgroups, but with no answer yet. There seems to be very little activity on the ones I have looked at, so I thought I would post here as well, since I have no doubt that many people here also use Access/SQL Server. Anyway, enough of my ra...more >>

Is it correct of me to assume that the design motivation for having a nested class is that the nested class should never be able to be instantiated outside of its parent container a quick example would be if I were creating a ToolChest object, which would contain a ToolsCollection object, but the ...more >>

i have p4 250 with 1g ram, with modern HD (WD 120G and enable caching for system and framework, and another two disks, one for Project, and second for DotNet install) i want to speedup compiler. have a way to work with virtual disk on memory, that all operation of R/W to disk become faster,...more >>

Hi, I'm creating an app. in C# that shows a popup, but it only should if the user is really working on the computer. It shouldn't popup if e.g. the screensaver is running. I the user is working again, it then should popup. But how do I check the amount of user idle time? ...more >>

Hello I am writing a macro in Visual Studio .Net 2003, and I was wondering if it is possible for a macro to access properties of objects that are selected. For instance, assume I have the following object declared (on a different page, but it can still be instanciated) Class rectangl Private...more >>

I have a setup project to deploy our software -- but I have a problem. I want the installation to be system wide, but I also want all users to have rwx permissions to the installation directory (c:\program files\company\program\) The reason is as follows: I have an autoupdate feature that gr...more >>

I am a C# developer in ADO.NET and need assistance with a – I assume – simple question: How do I get all the data from a database in a dataset? I want to be able to open any kind of ODBC database and thus do not have any knowledge of the names of the tables or fields contained in the databas...more >>

My web.config has this line: <authentication mode="Windows" /> My page has a label named MyLabel My page load event has this code: Mylabel.Text = user.identity.name The label is blank when I view it in a browser. What am I missing? Thanks! CJ...more >>

hey all is there a way to change the image of the custom control as it appears on the toolbar thanks in advance ari...more >>

I have migrated a software in Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET 200 I have solved the errors from compilation (AddressOf, ....) but when th program is executed in the call to the DLL (loadnlp) I obtain an error. I says the obj argument is not valid Debuging I have checked the data used for...more >>

Hello, I have a site that uses windows authentication and I demand credentials for files inside a specific folder. (through web.config). My problem is that when I try to read something from my access database with a user that is not yet authorized I always get an error. (I am using a datareader w...more >>

Hi I have an ASPX page that I am using to upload files to our server, I would like to change the default file size set by .NET, any ideas how I do this, I know there is an XML file that contains the settings, I just can't remember where it is? Thanx Kristian...more >>