H In VB6 I used Ambient.Displayname of an usercontrol to get it's name in the form. How can I do this in VB.NET Thanks in advance...more >>

I was trying to get hold of VB6 to write plugins for an application which has this as a requirement for their interface (I guess because it's written in VB). I couldn't find a new one anywhere so I asked Microsoft (UK) where I could get it. They told me I could use VB.Net for non .Net application...more >>

Hello, I have managed dll which I want to register as LocalServer, I am under the impression that using regasm is registering the COM component in InProc. Is there a way to register the COM components as LocalServer instead of InProc? Thanks, ...more >>

Dear friends, I have implemented COM componet from .Net Assembly to be used by my old apps by creating a class and compiling it as an assembly and also regestring it. How can we implement the same component as DCOM? I have tried "DCOMCNFG.EXE" to setup DCOM. But My Component does not s...more >>

Open VS.2003. Click on a control on an aspx page in the HTML view. Does it tell me the pixel position on the page? Nooooooooooo....................more >>

If I edit the native HTML in Visual Studio, and add the STYLE attribute to an ASP.NET control it has an effect. But Style doesn't appear as a property in VS.2003 Only Cssclass appears......more >>

I have a class library (DLL) that I created and have been using for sometime in my various .NET applications. Recently, I have been having problems with what I believe is corruption (or a bug) of the DLL. The problem goes something like this: - I add new classes, methods, types, etc to the class l...more >>

We are developing a fairly simple database to be deployed on the internet. It consists of an artist's works (approx 2600 of them) based on references to books from which his ideas came. Relative fields will be fairly few, data related to the books, a pic of his initial sketch, and a pic of t...more >>

I am curious. If I save an id that points to a users information in a cookie, is it possible for a hacker to create a tool to set a million different cookies on his local machine and hit my site until a cookie value works? Thanks in advance. If there is a better newsgroup, let me know. Ji...more >>

What is the difference between OleDBConnection and SqlConnection? Or better expressed, what is OleDB? -- cody [Freeware, Games and Humor] www.deutronium.de.vu || www.deutronium.tk ...more >>

A couple of months ago someone posted a link to a sample HTML editor demo written I think by someone at MS. I think it was on the MS site as a "personal" or research page for an individual. I've spent about 45 mins googling and searching MS site and cannot find it or the post. Does anyon...more >>

I am using a Required Field validator control in a web form. If the control is /triggered/ can it change a property in the field? What I want to do is: If the value in the INPUT is not valid, set the background color to yellow based on the required field. ...more >>

Hello Today when installing .NET on Windows XP Pro with all critical updates, etc. installed, I noticed I never had to use the Windows Component Update CD. I successfully got through the installation and rebooted with no problems. Does this mean that I have all the components installed that I ne...more >>

Hello I see that .NET is big on security, so does it include any support for software license management, such as time-limited demos, or functionally-limited demos, or license revokation Microsoft has made sure that their software is protected from piracy, I'm curious to know if they e...more >>

Hi, I'm developing a community/discussion/collaboration/groupware/bulletin board type application which will be ASP.Net based, using RDBMS for persistence. I'm looking for any standard frameworks or toolkits that I could take advantage of, especially open source stuff. I can't re-use a whole...more >>

How does the DataView.Sort method really work under the covers? I know that it sorts a dataview, but what kind of sorting algorhythm is actually used? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi all, i need some techinal advise. i have create a windows service, this service is made todo a simple task Replicate data between several SQL servers. in this service, i need to have 5 instances running at the same time. some thing like this Table 1 - > running 10 minutes Table 2 ...more >>

Hi All, I have an xml file as listed below. This is a list of scripts. Some of the scripts depend on the output of other scripts. I want to sort this xml in such a way that the scripts are listed in the correct order of execution. I created an IComparer class and implememted the Compare method...more >>

i'm trying to convert names to their proper case (e.g. "todd" -> "Todd") using the following rountine: Private Function ConvertToProperCase(ByVal stringValue As String) As String Dim ci As New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US", False) Dim properCaseVal...more >>

I created a windows service, it compiled and installed and started without error on my own (winXP) machine On any other machine, it installs without error, but I get "Error 193: 0xc1 Could not start service on local computer" when I try to start it. The service compiles to a dll I've tried instal...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to save a page/some data(read variables) as a .pdf files without using 3rd party components? Any Sample code would be really helpful. Thanks in Advance. Regards Manoj Das ...more >>

I've got a simple HTML page containing a form and a few hidden variables. This form post into a .Net application (that lives in a seperate directory). The first thing I do in my codebehind is grab the values of the form fields, however .net is unable to see these values. The entire Request....more >>

Hi all i have made an aplication, that uses Eventlog object, my problem is i need to open the eventlog in my aplication with all entrys how can i do this ? thks JSB PS : i need to open the window in my aplication with all events that i have written .. :D ...more >>

Does anyone recommend a good source code control software other than Visual SourceSafe that integrates well with VS2003? One specific requirement we have is to require that comments be entered on an edited file before it can be checked in, which through our experience, VSS does not have a confi...more >>

What is the proper way to cancel a pending BeginReceive/EndReceive ? Can it be done without generating an exception ? Currently I shutdown and close the socket. The blocking "EndReceive" throws System.ObjectDisposedException. I try to avoid throwing exceptions when ever possible, and reserv...more >>

Hello group, I use Forms Authentication in my web application and I am not sure I understand the way the cookie works. I use the SetAuthCookie method with a database identifier as userName, as I would like the website to remember who is logged in (and I guess it doesn't matter wether ...more >>

Anybody tried that Thanks Ildar...more >>

I have a business object (c#) running on an app server that talks to my sql server 2000 (2 separate physical machines). If sql server gets restarted (i.e. someone kicks the cord out of the wall on the db server and it needs to be restarted), the connections that IIS is maintaining seem to be invalid...more >>

I am trying to build a VB.NET Windows application in which I want to create an XML file from data collected from the user and stored in arrays. I am looking for any pointers to information on how to accomplish this. TIA Wayne ...more >>

Does anyone have any advice on which type to use for a business entity in the following situation.. If I want to populate a form with Employee details (windows or web) , I will get a business entity from the Employees class and use that business entity to fill all the textboxes etc. Using VB6, I...more >>

Hi, how can I get the type of what was entered into a textbox? I want to validate the user inputs, so I would like to know if what the user entered was a number or not. thanks, Stefan ...more >>

I always though =2ENet monitors were meant to be similar to the= java synchronisation mechanisms=2E The code below proves me= wrong=2E When run under the debugger, it produces just "Thread 1"= lines, as I expected=2E But when run without the debugger it= produced both "Thread 1" and "Thre...more >>