OK, after searching on the web for half a day on this and finding solutions that were not working, please advise. BTW - the cache cleanup didn't work. I am use VS 2003 and checked out a project from another fellow employee. I loaded the SLN file and got an error on load about it not being able t...more >>

Hello i'm stuck on a seemingly small problem. i'm trying get the default value of a column in a table on a MS SQL Server. i try to use sp_columns. eg sp_columns @table_name = 'addresses' in Query Analyzer this will produce a nice list where COLUMN_DEF contains the default value. but if i ...more >>

Hi all. I have a Web Service that I'm writing that needs to reference a VB.NET dll. The catch is that the VB.NET dll has a dependency on a COBOL dll which I can't load in my development environment (not a COBOL programmer), so when I try to build a setup project for the Web Service I run into ...more >>

Hi I have a MSMQ message queue in a Windows Service. When a message arrives in the queue locally, an event is generated and the event handler handles it. However, if a message arrives in the queue from another machine, the event is not generated. Thus, the event handler isn't executed. ...more >>

I have a string variable that holds the equivalent of a DateTime value. I pulled this datetime from the database and I want to strip off the time portion before displaying to the user. I am using C# eg. - String variable "strMyDate" holds the value "1/1/2005 12:00:00 AM" from the data...more >>

I am having a very stange issue happen to my web application. I am trying to develop a simple shopping cart. The code works perfectly when I run the application under http://localhost/myapp. However, when I try to run the same app under the machine name http://mymachine/myapp I recieve a Null...more >>

Does anybody have recommendations as to the best performing DataGrid in the dotNet world. (Very loaded question...) I work in the financial market where we have a need for a grid to display price related data for stocks. At any given time the client can be subscribing to enough securities t...more >>

Hi group!! I've been making an application in which I need to know if a user changed the time of the system clock. Is there a log where is registered that information or any API to consult? Thanks so much for your help. ...more >>

I'm developing in VB.NET 2002 on Windows 2000 SP4. When I'm running my application in the design environment, it generates = an error at one point that says: "There is no source code available for = the current location." If I click OK, it still runs the code, but it will not allow me to ru...more >>

I'm creating an MDI application with multiple maximized MDI child forms. When a child form is open, the title/caption is merge with the MDI's title/caption. So, if the MDI title is "Parent" and the 3rd MDI child is "Child 3", then when the 3rd MDI child is opened, the title becomes "Pare...more >>

I have a user controls called header.ascx and footer.ascx.. on the header.ascx control i want to put a button that calls a method in another page called details.aspx. How is this possible? also how can you call a method in another page from a different page.. eg: i want to call a method in ...more >>

How can I make my setup program create folders with specific name while installing application? I want to create these folders in application folder. Thanks ...more >>

What are the process for MVP how person can become MVP...more >>

My instructor is an idiot. I'm trying to convert txt to int and things like that. I keeps getting errors on one part. So it has me wondering, can you convert lbl to int or dec?...more >>

I have added an access mdb file as a resource to my VB.Net windows app. Is there a way of reading and or writing to it without first steaming in out and saving it as a file on the harddrive? ...more >>

Is VBA wholly and completely a subset of VB.net? Are there any objects or methods or coding techniques that one could learn in VBA that wouldn't also apply in VB.net? So if I will have learned VB.net, by definition, I will have learned VBA?...more >>

Suppose I spawn a thread from a web method. The thread runs a process that takes 10 minutes. The main thread, running the web method, returns a value to the consumer saying, "message rec'd". Does the thread continue to process? Is this any different from an "asynchronous" web service...more >>

Hi I am looking for a method that allows calling a method that will be executed by the main application thread bu will be called from any thread that I create manually. (I think that technically it is similar to sending a message to the program) I tried the Invoke method but it seem to...more >>

Hi All How can I recode the following so that I do not repeat my code? Public Overloads Sub SetNodeImageIndex(ByVal oNode As System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode, ByVal ImageIndex As String) oNode.ImageIndex = ImageIndex oNode.SelectedImageIndex = ImageIndex End Sub Protected Ov...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how to control another program that is running? Eg: I would like to control the outlook express and tells it to minimize. Thanks. ...more >>

Is there a way in .NET to monitor the clipboard? Specifically, I'm looking to have an event triggered whenever any program pastes anything to the clipboard. TIA, Richard Rosenheim ...more >>

does anyone know if windows scripting host is enabled by default in win2k3? wouldn't that be a security concern? Aaron ...more >>

I was wondering if anyone knows or could possibly point me to a web site that develops software tools for vb.net that are written in csharp. I have been all over the web trying to find such a thing, but have not been very successful. I need to write a research paper for a college course ...more >>

Hello, I was enjoying working in VS for half a year without any problems and now I cannot debug anymore. Without any really reason my Studio tells me that the page that I want to debug has - No symbols loaded. I use VS v1.7.3088 and .NET framework v1.1.4322 SP1. I work with ASP.NET using...more >>

Is there a left add unary operator ( or do I have to overload one ) ? For example: string s1 = "A"; s1 += "B"; Console.WriteLine( s1 ) ....writes: AB But, say I want BA. Is there some kind of s1 =+ B; I can overload an operator, but can I create a brand new operator ? ...more >>

I have a webApp say A,It refernces a dll say B.From B is it possible to get the Assembly name (A).ie..is it possible to get the Assemby name A from B...please help...more >>

Hello all, I have a 1GB XML file that I need to read once a day and I would like to get feedback to find out what is the most efficient way to go about reading this file. The application reading this is in C# and I am using .NET 2.0. How can I read it without loading it all at once into me...more >>

Hi! Anyone have had problems when opening a project after compiling in release mode? My asp.net project can't be opened any more, visual studio 'argues' that my iis aspnet is version 1.0, which IS NOT the case, other failure after release compilation of only this project is that visual stu...more >>

Brain.Save() steve maine's blog "I finished up my sample implementation of an SMTP transport for Wse2. Thanks to the power of WSE, you can now easily call Web Services via email :)" http://hyperthink.net/blog/CommentView,guid,d337a6f5-a0c8-45b8-920e-132391eedc31.aspx -- Texeme h...more >>

I work with DotNet c# I made a frame, with 2 parts. Left are little images and in the right I can see the selected one with a text (and what ever in future). It works, but every time I select a new pict in left for to show as a big in the right frame, it is appending it, what isn't of course ...more >>

We are using ASP.net to develop a new website. The old website uses legacy ASP connecting to an Oracle database (9.2, W2k3, charecter set WE8ISO8859P1). The new site connects to the same database but using ASP.NET. Our problem is that extended characters are printing out as question ma...more >>

2 problems: Example: If a person types in a part number into Yahoo: 1. Is there a way for Yahoo to list your web site as one of the results. 2. If the user clicks on your link, can your web application know the part number the user typed into the Yahoo search box. I would like to use th...more >>

I am displaying a form with a datagrid populated from a select of database records which now exceed 12,000 when I select them all. The form displays just fine with all 12,000+ entries but when I leave the form to go back to the originating program, I get a "The page cannot be displayed" scr...more >>

Hi Everyone, I need to get some components for some tasks and would like to know what you recommend. -Chart Control(Dundas,ComponentOne,xceed chart?) -Flow Chart(Diagram Control) -Image library (leadtools?) If any of these are real bad I would like to know as well. These need to work ...more >>

I am trying to write code that creates groups in AD using the DirectoryEntry object in .NET. (I used to be able to do this easily using VBScript...) Anyways, the following code throws a VEY generic (and unhelpful) error message. The most obvious reason is that I am not setting some required ...more >>

I'm creating a virtual ListView with C#. I've seen a few code posts stating that a virtual ListView will not work if the View is LargeIcon or SmallIcon. Is this true? My project requires the LargeIcon view style, and so far I've been unable to get the images to display. The text (caption...more >>

Hi, After deploymnet web application on web server I can access page on local machine and login fine but when I'm trying to access web site from remote machine I can see login page, but when I'm trying to login with correct credentials it give me error: Server Error in '/PDVMgr' Application...more >>

Hello! I have a friend that has created a VB.NET Windows Forms application that is a very specialized shopping cart. It handles safety ladders. The customer enters a couple of data, e.g. the size of the building .., and the program will calculate which ladders the customer needs and then it ca...more >>

Hello all. I have noticed that when I generate a strongly-typed dataset from an xml schema that the DataTables that are generated have their constructors marked as internal. What this means is when I try to instantiate one of the strongly-typed tables from this dataset from a different as...more >>

I have two forms and there is a button on Form1 which i want to open Form2 with. How can I do this. I 've looked on the net and books with no luck Please Help...more >>

Hi all, I need to use a form from one application to another. I can do the followings: 1. Copy the form.vb file to the new project folder and add it to the project as an existing form. 2. Create a new form in the project and copy the code from form.vb to this new form. 3. Other (your sugge...more >>

could you please give me few information about migration from delphi applications to visual studio. net? thank you, ann...more >>

hi all I noticed that when i m using the browser back button or the javascript history.back() function, I get sometimes (and not always) the following error message: "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet Site Operation aborted" Can anyone tell me what's causing this error, and how ...more >>

While building XmlSampleGenerator code from MSDN, I get missing XmlSchemaSet reference. Here is the screen dump, if needed. C:\Documents and Settings\Dr Sarang\My Documents\MSDN\XML Sample Generator>build Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Dr Sarang\My Documents\MSDN\XML Sample G...more >>

Sapien's Primalscript costs about $150, I believe. If I purchase Visual Studio.NET, I know I can do a lot more than just create VBscript scripts, but can the VB portion of VS.NET be used as a VBscript editor? Would it serve as a good one, or might I be better off with Primalscript? ...more >>

Hello I need a starting point or a tool which will give to the final user the possibility to "build" by drag&drop or otherwise custom reports. The ideea is to be able to add text and data fields. The client is Windows Forms, the server SQL Server. Thank you ...more >>

How can I terminate console application in Try…Catch…Finally…End Try block so that code in Finally gets executed. If I use End statement Finally does not get executed. Following is my code written in Console Application. Module Module1 Sub Main() Call Testing() ...more >>

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Hi, found this code by Sushila B. Patel, which shows the events for the current month, but shows nothing if its from another month since it has e.Cell.Text = "" if .Day.IsOtherMonth =true any idea to implement that part? Private Sub Calendar1_DayRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e A...more >>

OK, so i'm designing a very large business auction website for a customer. It would include such features as: Auctions, search, registration, payment, fees on auctions, consignment services etc.. I just started laying out the design for all the objects to create site, is there any advice an...more >>