Hi all, Wonder if anyone can shed any light on this scenario. I have an MDI form, Form1, that opens a child window Form2.. - simple enough. However, from Form2, I would like to open a form Form3 (is a 'search and select' type form) and have it modal to form2 AND be an MDI child... i.e. the ...more >>

I have an myPage.aspx with a myPage.ascx user control. The user control is the main header of the page. I have some conditional case code in the user control that I use which depends on a public variable "sectionID" set int he myPage.aspx's code-behind. How can I reference that variable in my ...more >>

Is there any _managed_ way of getting total physical memory installed in the machine Thanks in advanc Michał Januszczyk...more >>

I need to use the HttpUtility.UrlEncode method in a winform. However, the HttpUtility class is not available in intellisense from System.Web. What do I need to do to be able to use this method? TIA...more >>

Hi Our company is in the process of some litigation. Our president heard of a product (but doesn't know the name) that allows someone to view the source code but not copy it. This way an idependant arbitrator could view our source code but couldn't make an electronic copy of it. I have no idea b...more >>

Hello, I have several assemblies that are strongly named and need to be installed in the GAC. In my dev box I can use gacutil.exe to do it, but not in the users boxes. How do I install these assemblies without gacutil.exe ? Thanks ...more >>

Hi all, I have a VB.NET solution with one VB.NET project in it. I am trying to add a "Setup" project to the solution, and I am getting this error msgbox "File or assembly name FxMdacPlugIn, or one of its dependencies, was not found". Anyone know why? -- Thanks for your time Goran Djuranovi...more >>

Which is the right news group to discuss about the smart client application? Thanks ...more >>

I am trying to write a vb form app which needs to copy http pages. It seems appropriate to use HTTPWebRequest for this purpose. However, I need to use HTTPS protocol, passing a username and password. I can't figure out how to force the class to use HTTPS rather than HTTP. Can anyone help? T...more >>

I noticed that pressing spacebar when a listbox has the focus scrolls the listbox to the first selected item. I'm intercepting the spacebar press event at form level for stopping and starting audio playback, so I would like to remove the default behaviour form the listbox, and also from oth...more >>

Hi all, Wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction. Due to time-constraints, it looks lie I may have to abandon using VB.NET development in favour of my more familiar VB6 environment. The issue I have is, that I have to use a .NET assembly (DLL) to access data from a database. I...more >>

Hello, I am writing a small word game, and I need a way to verify whether a user-entered string is a real English word. I know that on most UNIX systems there is simply a large file of english words that developers use for similar purposes. Is there such a database in the .NET framework? And if n...more >>

Hi, Is there any method to prevent the auto scrolling of MDI container form? Autoscroll is not working. Regards Shabeer ...more >>

I want to write a C#/ASP.NET application where a user can go to a web page, start running a job, close their browser, and then come back later and see the results. The purpose for this application is for a user to be able to use a page on our intranet to start running a time-consuming reporting and...more >>

Hello, I have an issue here. Hope someone can help me. Issue: Developer is using a web application from one server (IIS) (say Server A). A second server (say Server B, which is SQL Server 2000) hosts the stored procedures. The SQL datawarehouse is hosted on a third server (say Server C ...more >>

When I bind a textbox to a typed dataset column that allow null values (DataType=Decimal), If I enter nothing in the textbox, it doesn't accept the new value and it goes back to the previous value. Only if the previous value is nothing it accepts enter nothing. I have VS.NET2003. What...more >>

I'm struggling with using the HttpCookie object on a code behind. Used in the page works great I'm getting a: Type 'HttpCookie' is not define I've tried adding the namespace to the vb form but no luck Imports System.Data.Sqlclien Imports System.Dat Imports Syste Imports System.Web.U Imports...more >>

About 2 days ago I could no longer chat in chat rooms. I get to the site, log in, but then the chat window comes up blank. I have spoken to many service agents, and tried many things to no avail. Does anyone know what the problem could be??...more >>

Hi all, Can anyone tell me how I can detect the double_click event in a datagrid CELL. I have a read-only bound grid that appears to only receive the event if you double_click the header or in between a row... I'm basically trying to retrieve the value of the underlying row to retrieve a re...more >>

I have a service that checks the event log for certain types of error messages. It kept locking up so I put in debugging code to see where the problem was. It's locking up when I call the property EventLogEntry.Message. I have search message boards and have found a few people complaining that th...more >>

How do you attach a file to a hyperlink so that it cab be opened when clicked? I am new to .net and web development and I need to attach a file to an asp page so that when click it can be opened it Word, or the text editor....more >>

hi all i'm looking for a kind of event which can hang on when the app runs, if somethings changed , it handle it is there such event? anyone can tell me thx so much ...more >>

Hi I have a scenario where I've created another AppDomain to dynamically load a DLL(s) into. In this newly loaded DLL I want to call a static method on a class. The problem arise is that I have the same class/static method definition statictly linked to my EXE and when I call InvokeMember(...), ev...more >>