I am brand new to VB.Net - taking an online class by New Horizons. Having trouble with my first lab. It tells me to go to "Server Explorer/Connect to database" and enter the following: localhost for server name "Use Windows NT Integrated Security" Northwind as the database. Then press "Test ...more >>

Hey there Simple question, has the SortedDictionary<K, V> gone away now? In the latest build of Visual Studio 2005 publically available, this class seems to have disappeared. Thanks in advance Doug Holland...more >>

doing some research on regional settings, .Net & DB I put my machine in Germany(Germany) thus the decimal char = "," the seperator char = "." so I set up the database for a test in .Net I'm using Access. a field (double) contains 45,56 I read the record using DataReader then ...more >>

Hello, i am wondering if there is a simple way to insert a new record into an MS Access db and read out the newly created auto-ID field. Using ASP this was rather simple, but in ASP.NET (VB) it seems to have become rather complex???? cheers, Olaf ...more >>

Server side and client side actions on one button in ASP.NET I am stuck. How do I find a start to a solution. After checking all fields in a form I want to save changes in the database, open a new window without toolbar with a fixed size and close the existing web window. Or change the web...more >>

I need to output some related data tables as XML. I have my data adapters and my dataset with the relations defined. It is certainly simple enough to use the dataset.WriteXML function. However, this writes the data such that each DataTable in the dataset is written one after the other. T...more >>

I. Could some please throw some light on Typed and Un-Typed DataSet. Have gone through couple of articles but still confused. Also, which one is better to use? II. Also I going through a form developed by a team member. Apparently he has created couple of DataSet’s at design time. I am n...more >>

My PC is having Windows XP Professional installed. IIS Server is up and running. I am able to create a ASP 3.0 Web Project using Visual Interdev. Now I am trying to create a ASP.NET project. But it always throws an error as mentioned below. And I am not able create a project of that sort. ...more >>

I subscribe to MSDN, Is it possible to print the entire Developer's guide that comes with MSDN, without having to print Page By Page. Or else does the MS sells them individually in a printed format that we can buy? Thanks....more >>

Hi, When configuring a simple "Client" Sql table sqlDataAdapter, with one = single primary key, I can't generate the Delete and Update command, = although the Insert and Select command are generated. The message is (translated from french...) : Impossible to determine = the columns identif...more >>

Hi, just one question: I'm currently working with VS.NET 2003 on my current project but nethertheless dying to check out the new 2005 version of VS. Can this installation coexist on my PC, without overwriting any of my settings (esp. debugging etc.)? Thanks Peter...more >>

Hi, I'm relaively new to programming languages in general, and brand new to VB.NET. I use/used VBA in MS Access previously to do what I needed. I want to learn VB.NET to stretch my boundaries a bit. Anyway, I'm developing an application to track the progress of tax audits. Originally, I th...more >>

Hello, I have got a specific question on user authentication. My customers usually use their workstations all together as a kind of public terminal. This means one of the users in the team logs in in the morning and everybody uses the workstation during the day (I know this is not a safe w...more >>

Hi, Problem: Return ArrayList where Values are Added using DataReader. Note: My Data Reader returns M Columns and N Rows I am using DataReader in Data Access layer. I want to return this result to Business Layer. But, considering performace and Efficiency, I have to Close the DataRe...more >>

How can I add characters to an incomplete string. I want it: Ex: "12" to "0012" That's exactly what I need, I prefer using string. If there's no way, I'd like to know how make an integer to change like the above example....more >>

I cannot figure out how to: 1. call an Access query from C# and consume the recordset, where the query uses a user defined function. for example select rowid, GetBreedOfCat([rowid]) from tblCats; 2. call an Access function from C# and consume the returned value. For example, how t...more >>

Hi, I have a DateTime in one of my table in sql serveur. The format of the datetime is yyyy-mm-dd. I have an sqladapter in my application connected with this table and when the format of the date is not yyyy-mm-dd (on the local computer where my application is running), I have some problem wi...more >>

Hi Hopefully I am missing something really simple with this question, but here goes. I have two Bitarrays that I would like to compare. At the moment, I am XORing one with the other and checking to see if the result has any 1s in it (if so, the arrays are different). This seems to be faster...more >>

Hi All Can we convert Windows Forms into Web Forms and/or vise versa? I have heard that this is possible through some third party tool, i m not sure. if yes then how much it will cost, i mean, what if my Windows Form contains few codes related to Threads then will it also be the...more >>

I'm reading an XML document and creating a CMS Posting for eacho specific node but i'm trying to save the posting using the title as Posting.Name. For this to work i have to remove all special caracters that the Name propertie doesn't support. Can anyone hellp me? Thanks ...more >>

Hi All, Can anyone please suggest me a C# Opensource tool for PDF conversion? Your help would be of great help. Thanks. -Imaya...more >>

Hi all - And apologies if I'm in the wrong newsgroup. I'm a newbie here and I'd certainly appreciate any pointers to the right forum. To the point... We're running a WebBrowser object (through an AxWebBrowser activex control), and have found that it navigates to a "cannot load" error pag...more >>