Thanks to Bob Powel (http://www.bobpowell.net/onebit.htm) I'm able to compress an image. However, this method takes a long time to compress an image. Does anyone know a quicker way? (The images I have to compress are already in black and white). Code used: Bitmap bmpOrig = (System.Drawi...more >>

Hi all, I am new to .net 2003 and learning fast. we are planning to do our coming projects using .net 2003 and sqlserver 2000. but i feel the coding is different when compared to vb. I am not getting any idea like how to start with datbase programming. Pls help me to find some sample d...more >>

Hi all, For all these i am a vb programmer and now our company is planning to go with vb.net and sqlserver 2000. Pls suggest me some good ebooks for beginners and as an advanced programming for vb.net and sqlserver 2000 Thanks in advance.... ...more >>

I'm trying to recover MSVC.net to a new laptop to run an open source flight simulation program and have suceeded in building the required plib and simgear projects. I am nearing completion and have recieved the LNK 1104 error, "cannot find glut32.lib" file. when the file is actually located i...more >>

I created a web method to insert data on a DB2 database. It runs well, except every time I call it, it opens and closes the ADO connection. I think it would run faster, since I send it hundreds of records, if I could just keep a connection open at the point the web service starts up an...more >>

For web services, is there a way to have VS.NET '03 automatically 'switch to code view' when clicking on a asmx file in the solution....more >>

We have two (2) workstations and one (1) server. All are running Windows 2000 Professional (not "Server"). Have NOT loaded Visual SourceSafe Server yet, but intend to. Loaded VS.NET and IIS on the server. (Note: I realize that I didn't have to install VS.NET *on* the server, but I wanted the...more >>

We have two (2) workstations and one (1) server. All are running Windows 2000 Professional (not "Server"). Have NOT loaded Visual SourceSafe Server yet, but intend to. Loaded VS.NET and IIS on the server. (Note: I realize that I didn't have to install VS.NET *on* the server, but I wanted the...more >>

Suppose I have a windows service, with a FileWatcher class. A file appears, and an event is raised -- but then the server is rebooted or crashes. When the server is rebooted, I want that event state to be where it was. So, can an event be serialized? And can it then be 're-raised' on...more >>

I build a system where a Windows service iterates through a file and sends each line in the file as a record to a database, by calling a web service asynchronously. It runs on a w2k server. What I notice is: When the web service gets called, there seems to be a slowness and potential...more >>

I know that you can format a grid and its columns using DataGridTableStyle and DataGridTextBoxColumn in VB.NET. But can you change the format of the individual rows, or even cells, to something other than the default? For instance, I have a datagrid displaying a list of products in stock. I ...more >>

Hi I've spent the last day or so debugging a problem with a CustomValidator and am now totally stumped! Basically I use a number of CustomValidator's on my page, but have cut this down now to only 2. When the page is first loaded the CustomValidator are made and the generated HTML contains ...more >>

How can you retrieve the exe name of the program? ...more >>

In VB, to know the field type of a column stored in a recordset the command I use is If rsQuery.Fields(k).Type = adCurrency Then How will I achieve the same in ASP.net. I could not find a currency data type in asp.net and the type is idenfied as decimal. I have two fields defined in...more >>

I am writing an asp.net applicaition using VB coding. In a function, I am opening an excel file with the following code, Dim objExcel As Object Dim objWorkBook As Object objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") objWorkBook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open(targetfilename) * targetfilename is...more >>

Hi, I have written a component in c#. But when I recompile this component, all other apps which includes my component can not start correctly: An exception "System.IO.FileLoadExceptio" occurred. Only when I compiled the app (with the new version of my component) it works. Can it be because my c...more >>

Hi all I have written a small app on my machine that I have passed on to a colleague for testing. The problem is, as soon as he steps through in debug mode and reaches try { conn.Open(); <- HERE The error message 'There is no source code available for the current location ' pops up...more >>

Hi Guys, I got into trouble again in debugging the web service developed before. Got the error message "Unable to start debugging on the web server.", I have met this problem before and solved by information's on Microsoft support homepage. I suspect that this problem occur again is due to ...more >>

Hi, Anybody know if there is a Text Services Framework sample in VB.NET or C#? Thanks, Wencheng ...more >>

I am currently writing an application (VB.NET) and I was thinking about all the hype that seems to be given to security and if I should pay it any attention or not. My first thought was, nah, no need to worry about security because my app will not include WEB services, thus won't be hosted,...more >>

Hi! My question is if it's possible to adjust DataGrid control's columns' width by code (runtime). I have a DataGrid control that displays table from dataset that contains two fields. The first one is just an ID, which is 4 digits long, while the other field is a long text field. I don't w...more >>

HI Am trying to retrieve the cpuid of the system from web application and am geting the followng exception can anybody tell me how to solve this problem its very urgent for me i got error in the follwoing line of code Dim moc As ManagementObjectCollection = mc.GetInstances() Exceptio...more >>