Hi, i am trying to find the user who locks the file (ms excel or word file ) in a shared folder. I have written the code but wmiObject.GetRelated("Win32_Process") returns no process. How can i find the user? Thanks for your assistance Dim mySelect As New SelectQuery("select * from cim_...more >>

Can somebody assist. I build this code on a dev laptop and copied across the entire code to a Windows 2003 server with 1.1 framework. It is basic ASP.NE T that uses web service for SQL Server 2000 DB access. The code works fine on my dev laptop, just not on the non dev machine. Here is ...more >>

I have been offered money to develop an application for a company and I figured .Net would work just fine. But i don't want Microsoft coming after me because I used thier software to build it. I never considered it until now....more >>

I have a situation where a suport person is on site attempting to use a custom tool that is designed to test the validity of a web service URL. The idea is that you type a value into a text box, click a button and get a response that simpy says "Valid" or "Invalid" ... or if there is an error ...more >>

Can I open a StreamReader on type File ( instead of a string filename ) ? ...more >>

The code below does not work -- but is there a way to do this? I want to both read a line and string sline; StreamReader m_streamReader = new StreamReader(fi); while(sline=m_streamReader.ReadLine()) Debug.WriteLine(sline);...more >>

After defining a trace file listener, I wrote a small method for doing logging and put it in the main class for a web service, Service1.cs : public void log(string s) { Trace.WriteLine(DateTime.Now+":"+s); } Now I want to access it from other classes in other files, so that they all ...more >>

Is it possible to call a function from a ImageButton wich I create at runtime? That would be really interesting Many thanks for any suggest. Greetings Patrick Marti ...more >>

I have been banging my head against this one and I'm sure I'm missing something: Got a WinForms app in VB.NET with controls bound to a dataset. For the sake of this discussion, let's use just one text box control. When the user makes changes, the first character change in the text box will ...more >>

I need to search for a string in a text file. I suppose StreamReader would work. But can someone help me on this? Thanks ...more >>

Does anyone know the meaning for the choice of the letters Afx or AFX in MFC? Just that type of person!!...more >>

I give permissions for ASPNET on a top level subdirectory. A windows program copies a file into the subdirectory, however, my web service cannot access the file because it does not have permissions. Shouldn't the file automatically inherit permissions by being dropped into that top level...more >>

Since this issue encompasses so many things - I have to generally post it I guess. I'm building an application for a Wireless PDA - when it is connected to the Network I tested a TCPListener & TCPClient connection from the Server to the PDA. The connection allows me to Send from the PDA to ...more >>

how do you set the default width of an individual column in a data grid at design time? I can only see how to see all columns to the same default width. many thanks Rod ...more >>

I think about an year ago I saw on some webiste where they had a table and a table title like this: ---------Table Caption-------- | | | | |--------------------------------| Basically yhe table caption was wit...more >>

I manage our nightly builds for all of our products. Since we have added our .NET assemblies to our nightly build, it has been a learning process. I have come across a couple of situations that I am not sure how to handle without rebuilding or redeploying some of our common assemblies. First let...more >>

Is it possible to write a C++ DLL in Visual Studio 6.0 that can access .NET services? I'm willing to write some kind of little intermediary layer in ..NET C++ that exposes entry points to the 6.0 C++ DLL and then invokes .NET classes/objects, if that is necessary. If this is possible could ...more >>

How does microsoft word or excel understand that a document being edited by other user. Can i find document's editor (user who opens document with write access) programatically. Thanks for your assistance ...more >>

Hello Developers, I use VC++ .NET v2003. By using Windows Forms .NET, I am developing an application which will work with TCP/IP functions. I can Build my application in Debug Mode normally, but, whenever I want to Build at Release Mode, compiler gives LNK2001, LNK2019 ve LNK1120 errors. I re...more >>

Given an object, does anyone have any sample code for determining the version number of it's assembly? TIA, Richard Rosenheim ...more >>