What would be cool as hell, would be a designer interface like Dreamweaver - with drag and drop elements like frames and such. Why isn't ASP.Net as easy to use as Dreamweaver. Certainly Microsoft has looked at them (if nothing more than as competition for FrontPage). What would be the rea...more >>

I get this error message from time to time in my new app: "CallbackOnCollectedDelegate was detected Message: A callback was made on a garbage collected delegate of type 'System.Windows.Forms!System.Windows.Forms.NativeMethods+WndProc::Invoke'. This may cause application crashes, corruption a...more >>

hi I have got a strange problem. May I know any solution for this. Here is the detailed description about the problem We have got a mainframe system and also production and developmen server. There was an application in the production server since 3 years and wa working fine. Recenl...more >>

Hi, I need to use unmanaged arrays but I don't know how to use them. How do I initialize it? I've seen Marshal.AllocHGlobal(int). is it the right way of doing it? How do I write in it? do I have to use Marshal.WriteByte and write what I have to write byte by byte (what I need is an array ...more >>

I'm not sure where to post this.... We have a program written in Visual C++.net. When it starts, it verifies that it is loading the correct files by running a MD5 checksum on the resources directory. We have a small percentage of users who get an error that the checksums don't match the ex...more >>

Hi everybody, How do you monitor the connection if it is still open or close for a dial up and internet RAS connection? I used both dialup and vpn RAS. The dialup is for modem connection and vpn ras is for remote internet connection. What methods to use and how to use them? I used RASDial a...more >>

I can't get past this - I am inserting a record into a db and I keep getting the same SQL SYNTAX ERROR MESSAGE. Below is the statement i am using with test data. All fields in the database are text fields with no restrictions. Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement. INSERT INTO Student(FI...more >>

Here is what is going on: 1) I create a Crystal embedded report (Windows Forms Application) and I follow all the help to the letter on how to do this. 2) On my development machine every thing works fine. 3) When I deploy the application to a users machine the reports will not display an...more >>

Hi, I was thinking about joining the MSFT Empower program which includes "5 licenses to Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition". My question is how do I get the media to actually install the Visual Studo product? The Empower program comes with all sorts of licenses to different products...more >>

I have a list of DateTime objects stored in a collection: SortedList<DateTime,Object> MyDates=new SortedList<DateTime,Object>(); The dates, which can be accessed via MyDates.Keys, are stored in ascending order. What is the fastest way to find the MAXIMUM date within 'MyDates' which is LESS...more >>

How much of a transition is it to port a desktop .net smart client to a PDA? ...more >>

My company uses a 3rd party ActiveX control that has presented us with a number of memory corruption issues The control is critical to our application and the provider of the control is very slow in fixing issues. To combat the problem we started hosting their control in an ActiveX EXE so ...more >>

Hello, I work with a third party control that provides the ability to load within it Winforms controls and providing a multi document interface such as the one in the VS.Net IDE. I find that adding a handler to the user control's got and lost focus works when the user control does not have ...more >>

I think it would be nice if we could have a SQL engine available on the client side. I primarily do Windows Forms programming and it seems that I have to make alot of calls accross the wire to manipulate data for display purposes. I am a FoxPro guy but I have been in .NET for 1 year now. ...more >>

Why has Microsoft turned it's back on ASP developers? .Net makes it extremely difficult to * Post to another page * Make a side navigation menu * Conditional formatting of a table based on a dataset * Upgrade ASP to ASP.Net Why would they do this? I am seriously considering jumping...more >>

Hello, Is there any way to count source code lines within a .NET 2005/2003 solution files? Thakns! Tom. ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to use the acm APIs in VB.NET. acmStreamOpen always returns MMSYSERR_INVALFLAG. Here's how I use it : declaration is : Declare Auto Function acmStreamOpen Lib "MsAcm32.dll" (ByRef phas As IntPtr, ByVal had As Long, ByRef pwfxSrc As MPEGLAYER3WAVEFORMAT, ByRef pm_wfxDst As ...more >>

All, I have a Windows Service and it has one System.Timers.Timer that fires every 500 milliseconds. Now I have noticed that there's a bug in System.Timers.Timer when it's being used combined with Windows Service. That is, the Timer won't fire again once it's stopped (Timer.Stop() or Timer....more >>

Hi all, I have switched from VC 6.0 to .NET 2003 about 6 months ago. I regret it every day since. It's uncomfortable, it breaks all habits from VC6.0 (Class Wizard, I will miss you forever). It's buggy, I am never sure what's going to happen, especially in resource editor. It produces some ...more >>

Hi all, I want to create a small function to monitor the keystroke. For example, if user key in a comma, I want to replace it with a single quote(etc)... In vb6 I an simply check the KeyAscii in the keypress event and re-assign the value to it, however how do I achieve this result in .net...more >>

Hello everyone and happy holidays! I have a situation where I want to parse on the fly a stream of binary data. I am developing an httpmodule for asp.net for file uploading. I do not whant to use the built-in control because it's inadequate. In theory I would use a que and feed data as it ...more >>

At first, I was trying to encrypt ConnectionStrings in my app.config and still be able to modify my datasets. So, i had to modify the Settings.Designer.cs file to handle the decryption aspect in the GET properties. This works great to run the application but there are two problems with it wh...more >>

Is there a way to log the domain username of a user who deletes a file from a network share? -- Jeff...more >>

What is the point of including obsolete documentation? why, in studio 2005, if i search help on Start Page do i get topics on configuring the Visual studio start page (2003) and also the same for 2002 but not 2005? (it is there much further down) i didnt spot the 2003 at the end of of the firs...more >>

When programming reads of the Windows Registry, do the registry keys and values need to be localized for international use? For example, do I need to convert the key name L"\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows" into Japanese, Korean, etc., for use in those markets? Thanks experts! ...more >>

Question: I am attempting to display database information in a datagrid control. When I use the datagrid control in the Windows Forms area, the "data source" and data member properties are not native to the control. I believe they should be? However, they can be found in the "advanced" area i...more >>

Hi everyone! I have a problem with calling .NET assembly dll function from VB6 program. I created an assembly in Visual studio .Net 2003 with framework v1.1.4322 installed, exported type library, processed registration for assembly and got reference to it from Visual Basic 6. The created V...more >>

We have an ATL COM server developed with VC++ 6.0 which acts a a server . Then we have VB6 modules Acting as clients and interfacing with the server . We want to migrate the ATL COM server to .Net platform and host it as a web service . The client modules are can then be redevelope...more >>

Hello to you all In my .Net application, I want to import document images (Tiff images), having same format, in a batch, For e.g. I have a document folder containing mixed images like 'Participant Registration forms', 'Team Registration Forms', 'Event Details', etc. I want to process ...more >>

I want to know whether it is possible to use MS Project in a .Net Application. And what are the ways to be followed to incorporate in .Net Application. We are using Microsoft .Net Framework 1.0 and sybase 12.5. if anybody know about this give me suggestions -- Anusha...more >>

is there an example of how one would go about selectively deleting items in IE's history based on URL names using VB.NET? i have checked every resource i know and come up short. ...more >>

Hi, I am having difficulty accessing my web application over the internet. I dont have any problem when I connect using localhost. I have created an account with no-ip.com. The web site is accessible thru port 6000. Since my machine is behind a router, I am using port forwarding to route everyt...more >>

I'm writing some file upload code using C# for users on my website. If the image is too large I want to resize it smaller to a thumbnail size. It's working fine for jpegs but the thumbnails of the gifs look pretty bad. I assume it's something to do with the color palette. I don't know a whole...more >>

When I ping my server over the internet connection and the server isn't responding due to the connection not working properly is it possible in .Net to reconnect the connection if the ping is unsuccesful? Thanks. ...more >>

When I create a gridview in code and use these as my event handlers my server crashes. Can anyone point me in the right direction? protected void gridview_OnSorting(Object sender, GridViewSortEventArgs e) { gridView.Sort(e.SortExpression, e.SortDirection); } protected vo...more >>

When I install .NET 2.0 on a Win2k machine, I'm not seeing the configuration MMC in the control panel. I do see it when I install on WinXP and I see it when I install the beta? Anybody else having this problem? Is this a bug or is configuration done elsewhere? Thanks. -Mike ...more >>

I've developed a WinForms application that allows users to create a number of child forms within a larger parent form. The child forms can be dragged around within the bounds of the parent. They can also be resized. When the user closes the application, I want the size and position of the c...more >>

Hi, In ASP.net 2.0 I make a control which add the same controls dynamically. In the oninit event I add the controls to the controls collection. After that the loadviewstate event fills in the information on postbacks. The control can add and delete controls that is why on the postback I don...more >>

Has been trying to get an ASP.NET DLL's modification date/time for the "release date/time" to be displayed on the page's footer Using: System.Reflection.Assembly asm=System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); appVer = asm.GetName().Version.ToString(); // get the locat...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem regarding the threading issues in .NET. Actually I have a application in which i execute a process by invoking the thread in the background and at the same time I want to display a modal dialog which will only block my UI. It doesn't have to do anything with my thread...more >>

Hello all, Does anyone have any tutorials on interfacing .NET and remote desktop. I am just learning C# so I don't want to have to deal with anything too complicated and was hoping there were some good tutorials on the remote desktop client and RDP in general. The kind of thing i am talk...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to convert a byte to bit pattern? e.g. Byte b = 1; after conversion = 00000001 Tedmond ...more >>

Hi Sorry about silly question but i cannot share 1 file folder among 2 projects within single solution so it would appear by reference (as link) without to be copied into each project (in order to avoid duplication). Thanks Yuri ...more >>

I have this for example: Dim iSeconds as int32 = 3600 '3600 seconds is one hour How do i convert it to "01:00:00" ? Please help. Thanks in advance! ...more >>

I had placed three controls on a UserControl and had them all perfectly docked together filling up the UserControl. I needed to add a fourth controls docked to the top. So I dropped it on the UserControl, changed the new control to Dock = top and changed the taborder of all the other contr...more >>

Hello: I am in involved in the creation of a .NET application and was wondering if there are any "rules of thumb" in terms of the percentage of time typically required for each step in the development process? Are there any good websites that discuss these types of issues? We have logic...more >>

I need to develop reports for internet users accessing my aspx (2005) pages hitting sql server 2005. I originally developed them in Crystal Reports but now I have learned that asp.net hosting providers do not support Crystal due to high licensing costs. Can you please recommend an alternativ...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem regarding use of a usercontrol in .NET. My usercontrol consists of two listviews which I say as source and destination lisviews which contains the files and folders. I select files from source view and transfer it to the destination view.The problem arises while dis...more >>

We have 5 to 6 projects .net running on production, in which each one has its own virtual direstory, however we need to add up two more and link them all together so they can share same single session state. we are doing this for some Authentication and Role identification purposes. We dont wan...more >>

I would like to download a text file on a web server, and use the contents of the file as data input. The file can theoretically be accessed from internet explorer using the address http://home.att.net/~rs_abq/GetText.txt Also, I have not as yet accessed the file using FTP protocol and feel t...more >>