Hi! My company management considering the strategy for new software development using J2EE or .NET platform. Can anybody point to a good article with the list of .NET advantages over Java that I could use in such a discussion? I'm a .NET developer but I have very small Java experience, so in m...more >>

I have a ASP.NET web application. It contains a WebForm1.aspx which extend class Page, and a class in Class1.cs which extend Class2.cs class. Inside the Class1.cs functions, I want to write something out on the webpage of WebForm1.aspx. How can I do that? Since the class1 already extend ...more >>

I have a 'home built' computer that my son in law built for me about a year and half ago (2.5mhz) and the power supply went out slowly over a couple of weeks. (fan made noise then computer stooped) I did some checking around, and it was not too difficult to replace a power supply so I de...more >>

Dear All, I'm new to .NET and it seems that I'm terribly confused. I'm used to program windows applications using C++ and native API. I decided to try ..NET windows Form application. Of course, Visual Studio did everything for me and some empty form showed up on the screen upon starting th...more >>

I wrote two windows services that are slight variations on each other. I changed the assembly name ( .exe ) and the namespace within each other. Both have some static methods that share the same name. I am seeing some evidence that there may be memory crossover -- where one assembly i...more >>

Hello, I've just upgraded to VS.NET 2005 and SQL Server Express 2005. I converted my 2003 project into 2005. Now, when I try to run it, I get the error message: A first chance exception of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException' occurred in System.Data.dll An error has occurred while es...more >>

Hello, How do I register and non .net dll(with the OS) in a .net enviroment? I have a third party dll I need to register(REGSVR32.EXE). What is the best approach to this in a .Net enviroment. I appreciate any help. -- Thanks, Todd Manchester Chronicle Technologies Inc. ...more >>

Thank you interwanderer, i already changed my name following your sugestion Rafael...more >>

Hi. In a VB.Net program I use File.Copy to copy some zipped (and text) files from one server to another. I'm required by management to do a file compare after the copy has completed. Is the File.Copy sufficient and it will error out if there's a problem or do I need to do a file compare to...more >>

I'm using System.Web.Mail to generate e-mails and I'm adding attachments. When I add a ~300KB *.doc file, it works as expected. When I attached a 1.2 MB PDF File, I get the following exception: Any thoughts? ? ex.InnerException {System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException} [System.R...more >>

Hello, I posted this question in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework and didn't get any responses. Maybe somebody here has some input. If anyone knows of a better place to ask these questions, let me know. My group is considering using the log4net framework for logging. I'm hoping someone h...more >>

Hello, this is been frustrating me all morning. Any help would greatly be appreciated I have a site (not my own, not done in asp.net) that will be posting data to my c# page. There is an input type=file in that form. How do I get the value? All the examples I see online tell you to set y...more >>

I have installed an application out to about 15 machines. Some NT (service pack 6) and some Windows XP. They all work......except for one machine. It is an NT machine. I cant work out why it wont work on this machine. The error occurs when logging in. It complains that ExecuteReader is...more >>

I wrote a simple VB.NET program that runs on a computer ONLY if I install Visual Studio 2003 on that computer. The computer already had .NET Framework 1.1 installed. If it is run on a computer without VS, I get an unhandled exception error trying to start the program. I obviously canno...more >>

Hi. I want to walk a certain directory and rename all it´s subdirectories. The Directory class has a method Move but no Rename method. Should I then use Move instead? Gudni ...more >>

Hi, i've written some code that changes the user information (eg givenname, sn, department, ...) from a user in AD. The code runs without an error/exception. The only annoying thing is that the changes aren't executed. here is my code : Dim deEntry As New DirectoryEntry deEntry....more >>

We need to inject information (i.e. server details from where a signed file was downloaded) into a signed file, without breaking the signature or integrity of a signed file. Apparently there are areas and ways to inject custom information into signed files, however, we cannot find the "how to"...more >>

Hi, I have just used the import Wizard to import a VS 2003 app to VS 2005. I have a lot of work to do to enable it to compile successfully with all the errors and warnings it gave me, but as a starting point the compiler can no longer find the function as at the bottom of this posting, th...more >>