When I am testing web applications on my local machine which is running IIS. I seem to have problems with session variables being lost. I have narrowed the problem down to my firewall protection system, ZoneAlarm. If I shut the firewall down, then the app runs find again. If I am running t...more >>

I am trying to create hyperlink controls based on records returned from database at runtime.. I am new to .net. I am able to create the object but I cannot find how to position it on the screen, no top or left properties. Any help would be extremely appreciated. Dan...more >>

I have a web app that needs to parse through a file that is located on the client machine. I get the file string from a query string & then parse it. It is working fine on my development box but when I put it out on the test server the application is looking for the file on the server & not ...more >>

Here is an odd issue. I am trying to shed some light on why this is causing a problem. I have an ArrayList. I am binding it to a ListBox control with has its Sort property set to True. If the ArrayList only has one element in it everything works ok. But as soon as I have more than one eleme...more >>

Hi, I am having problems with rollback using the SQLTransaction object. I am trying to insert records in two tables in a transaction. I want to rollback all the changes if any exception occurs in any of the inserts. But the SQLTransaction object only rolls back the inserts that happen before ...more >>

How do you dispose of an user defined external class (CS file) after youve finished using it? Ive tried IDispose but i feel I may not be using it correctly. -- JP ..NET Software Develper...more >>

I have a usercontrol that I am trying to use as an ActiveX Control on a WebPage, however it refereneces an Assembly that whenever the first call is made to anything in the Assembly a Security Exception is throw. I am having a lot of trouble debugging this, because I cannot catch the exception in...more >>

hi, I just created a class, that sometimes needs to contact a webservice on the internet. Now, as the network connection of the local computer isn't always available, I need this call to be asynchronous, in a way that it doesn't block the whole program. That's why I tried to implement so...more >>

Just curious if VS links everything into a single exe which will run on any machine that has .net runtime on it? Assuming any misc dll's are shipped as needed, but I'm referring to a simple Hello Word app. What about 3rd paty components? Are they linked into the exe or will we have to sh...more >>

This is my code. If the value coming in from the database table is null, I wish to place a 0 in the column or otherwise the value itself. Everything I try this code I get an error. Am I doing this wrong that a null value cannot be converted to any other type? If Not Row("Mont...more >>

:I Created a Pocket PC application for iPAQ 5450. Every thing went fine even installer creation. I could run the setup and install it into the actual device and worked fine. The application enables syncronization with remote database using merge replication. I found contradictory results w...more >>

Hello I am trying to change the color of individual entry in the listbox control based on some custom event. Can anyone please give any idea how to do it? Thanks...more >>

I would respectfully suggest that if Microsoft has an update to a bug that Users have to contact Support to obtain, requiring the Users to generate a charged service request ticket to get the fix is poor form. This KB documents .NET's IDE problem in the Help | Check for Updates that gener...more >>

why does the \t (tab character) not work in a textbox or listbox, but does work in a MessageBox? Example: string strText = "ABCD\tEFG"; textBox1.Text = strText; the above displays as a black grahic, any help?? -- spribob...more >>

I'm trying to do an item count of a datagrid but my problem is that the datagrid is paged and I only get a count for the number of rows in one page as oppose to the whole dataset which has been bound to it. Is there some easy way to count the items in a dataset instead or another way aroun...more >>

Sorry if this is the wrong group. I tried to find the one I thought would be most relevant. I'm an old PHP guy, who knows little about asp and NOTHING about asp.net, but need to learn at least enough to convert a favorite PHP script to work on an ASP.NET site. I'm experimenting with simple ...more >>

Hi I am building a dotnet 1.1 app, in VB.net ... I would like to have several config files corresponding to multiple envirronment (Database, local Machine, Application, User...) and overloads each, in order to have, by the way, one config. So I would like to load a config file (app.conf...more >>

Hi all. I need help....I have lost my project build on Visual Studio 2003 VB.NET now I have only the final setup that I have already deploy to my customer machine. I need to modify it. There some one that can help me on how to recover the original project? Thanks a lot for your help Bonat...more >>