I start in debug mode and set a breakpoint on the page load event for the startup page. The browser opens and the page renders. The breakpoint turns to a "?" and says the breakpiont cannot be reached. Here is my output and I notice the aspnet_wp.exe is exiting. No idea how to fix this. Ye...more >>

Provide me the links where I can find the information regarding automation of Power Point by VS.Net within Office 2003 ...more >>

In a multi-user environment, how would I prevent users from adding Orders with identical OrderID. For instance I have following tables in my database Order ================== OrderID Identity field CustomerID OrderDate DeliveryAddress OrderDetail ================== OrderI...more >>

When I try to run my VB.NET executable outside of Visual Studio, I never get my opening form. In Task Manager I see the app running under "Processes" and hovering around 98% CPU utilization. I made a deployment project and installed from that, as well as just copying the EXE over to the pro...more >>

Hi. I have a Sub that calls a Boolean Function and exits the Sub if the Return value is False. The problem is it's exiting the Sub even if the Return value is True. Here's my code. Private MySub If Not DownloadFIIDSFile() Then Exit Sub '---- Other code here End Sub Private...more >>

Reading the http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/winforms/ I'm trying to see the advantage of using "simple data binding". Let's say I have a treeview loaded from a collection called moList. On form load, the treeview is loaded. And I bind my textbox to one on the property txtLength.DataBi...more >>

Hi all. Using Visual Studio VB.NET and SQL Server 2000. When I drag tables from the SQL Server Explorer into a dataset I am building I get the table, fieldnames and types. But, why doesn't it put in relations, defaults and all the other information from the SQL Server. It takes time to do this ...more >>

Can someone please try this, and tell me what happens, cause either I've got a weird bug in my VS2003, or I'm going mad... C# public void UpdateComments(string customerId, string comment) { string firstPart; string secondPart; int lengthOfString = comment.Length; if (lengthOfString...more >>

Hello all, I've been developing primarily in Delphi for the last 3 years or so. Before that, it was VB 5-6. C# looks pretty interesting, but of course, VB.net will be more familiar for me although I have not written a line of VB code in 3 years or so. I've also heard rumors that vb.net ...more >>

I have two SQLConnection objects having the same connection string and two corresponding SQLCommand objects for each connection object. I am using SQLTransaction with the first SQLConnection object but the second SQLConnection object does not have any SQLTransaction object. I am inserting some...more >>

Hello everyone, I'm pretty sure this question has probably been asked many times before. I just couldn't find the correct answer. I have a VB application that was designed using the 6.0 version. Now my client would like to take the same application online. I was told that VB.NET is the way ...more >>

I dont know if this is the correct newsgroup to post questions on Windows Service. I am trying to install and uninstall a Windows Service programmatically. As far as I know, there isnt a class in .NET FCL which supports doing that. The ServiceController class starts/stops an installed servic...more >>

I have a text box and a label in a UserControl. I want to give the user the ability to resize those controls within there but cannot figure out how to do it. I am unable to override the Height, Width or Size properties to do this as it says those are not marked as virtual, abstract or override...more >>

If I have a path, for example \\server\FolderA", how can I make sure that this path is accessible? There could be several reasons - server is down, wrong folder spelling, permissions, etc.. There is File.Exists method but it only works with the files... Thanks, -Stan ...more >>

I've created some Windows Control Libraries. They work great. I've implemented them inside both Windows forms and inside web pages. But, I'd also like to insert them as objects into Word documents, Powerpoint slides, etc. With an ActiveX control written say with ATL, this is possible. Bu...more >>

Any idea how to make this work? Currently the text comes out as ?? It should be the Chinese Characters. =========================================== <%@ Page Language="VB" ContentType="text/html" ResponseEncoding="iso-8859-1" %> <script language="VB" runat="server"> sub page_load(obj as obje...more >>

I have an application that I need to write, this app will control a piece of hardware connected via comm port on the client pc. I would like this app to be web based because of what will be done with the data generated. This will be on an intranet so security is not an issue. I can do it us...more >>

Hi, I am wanting to create a DLL on WindowsXP, though I normally work in Linux. The application is to run on another machine, currently without ..NET. I have installed VisualStudio.NET 2003, but I am now worried that DLLs created using it need .NET installed to work. Is this correct? The...more >>

I have the following stored procedure below and I was wondering if I will be able to bind the restuls to a datagrid for the first select statement and display the results of the count in a label for the count. I wasn't sure if i should have written two stored procedures to do this or if I'll b...more >>

Hi, I'm facing a problem when I have to deserialize an XML into an object. The typical scenario is as follows: The XML that I have to deserialize has multiple elements of the same type (lets say multiple occurences of <abc />) with different inner texts. Now if I use the already available d...more >>

Hello, I am new on Microsoft Visual Studio 2003. Several questions : 1) How can I compile an HTML page, and check it syntax (suppose I have a button, that when onClick event occurs, there is some code behind (alert a message) - so there can be some code ). 2) How can I link objects to...more >>

Hi. I am trying to use the Microsoft Hierarchical FlexiGrid ActiveX control in ..NET on a Windows Form. The problem is, however, that it seems impossible to get at the Cols property, which I have been using quite extensively in previous projects in VFP and VB6. Can anyone confirm, and do...more >>

Hi=20 I have a small query in ASP.Net on windows2003 server platform.. I built an Application in ASP.Net.... This application is hosted on the system where that system has = Windows2003 Operating system (with IIS6.0). In my application relative paths are not working after hosting in = wi...more >>

Hi I use MMIT to render XHTML pages. How do I disable client caching? I've tried the following commands: Response.CacheControl = "private"; Response.Cache.SetNoStore(); Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); Response.Cache.SetMaxAge(new TimeSpan(0)); Response.Cache...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know how to get selected text outside the .NET application? For instance: 1) In Internet Explorer, MS Excel or any other, I select some text 2) I perform a mouse click holding a key down 3) My .NET application gets the selected text that was under the mouse cursor when t...more >>

Hello, I am new on using visual studio dotnet 2003 (before that, I had the experiment on developing dotnet with notepad). I need to know about some elementries : 1) Is there any tuturial (step by step - not specialy on .net, but specifically on the IDE of visual studio dotnet 2003) ? 2)...more >>