I have a program that mixes wizard like behavior with random access to the various dialogs in the wizard. I do this by having each step map to a toolstripmenuitem. Users can randomly choose the menu item and get the corresponding dialog. Alternatively at the completion of each dialog, I can ...more >>

I need to show a tick char on an aspx form I cannot see any unicode representation for this. short of using a graphic, is there a better way?...more >>

I'm trying to get debugging working, and I've come across a snag. I've got Visual Basic.net Standard - not the full Visual Studio. From what I can see, it talks about installing the Remote Components in the README file, but it doesn't seem to actually give me an option to install them. Wha...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to install visual studio.net on my home machine (running xp home) to try and get some work done at home. But I am road blocked when I try and install the pre-requesites (as requested by the initial vis studio installation form). I get the error "procedure entry point setupap...more >>

hi I wanted to know, is it possible to write .net code to generate database script? For example, I will give table name, .net code should generate script from the database. thanks kalyan ...more >>

I am using oracle, not by choice. I am getting some errors that I can't debug. I have my db stuff in a module with public functions named database.vb Then I am trying to call the function from a form like this: Private Sub Main_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventA...more >>

Are there are any best practices or guidance on how to share an object between the Web world and the non? Here's my situation: i have one object (a security profile containing IPrincipal + some other stuff) that almost every other object in my system uses (methods have role-based security)....more >>

Hi, just one question: I placed some code in my RichTextBox's keyPress handler (VB.net), and now I want to know at which current position (index) in my RichTextBox.Text the new char would be inserted. Can anyone help? Thanks Peter...more >>

I have a form that I need to post to a popup window. I've done this gazillions of times in Classisc ASP but with .NET as soon as I post the data I got an error. "Unable to Validate the Data". How can I achieve something like this? I know with ASPNet you can't post data to a different page......more >>

Here's a snippet I took of a Java SWING developers blog: <snip> You try telling your users that they need to upgrade to >2Gb of memory when all they want to run is 5 or so Java GUIs of only moderate complexity. </p> Now I'm sure these GUI could have been better written so as not to be reso...more >>

Hello All: I want to encrypt a username/password inside a config file that will be read and decrypted by a .dll. I have discovered many ways to do this looking at Google but was wondering if anyone could recomend one method over another. Any thoughts?...more >>

Hi, how can I automatically change the color of specific words in my RichTextBox (VB .NET). The feature I want to create is similar to the feature that's included in VS.NET: Some specific keywords are colored. How can this be done? Thanks, Peter...more >>

Greetings! I have a web application with basic authentication and i need to read a XML File from the server, to do so i need credentials. So I generate network credential by using the data i get with Request.Headers("Authorization"). But sometimes after the browser ask me for authentication...more >>

Hi, I have a bit of a problem with a sort procedure I need to do. I have a list of items in a listbox, eg:- 2.3%<A other text here> -4%<B other text here> 10%<C other text here> -9.3%<D other text here> 22%<E other text here> How do I sort these listbox items in numerical descending or...more >>

Is it safe to install both Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 in the same machine? Thanks. ...more >>

I am attempting to use the TransactionScope class to manage my transactions. I am running into an issue. My web server [WEB1] is in an NT work group. My SQL Server [SQL1] is in a domain. When my code attempts to execute the Complete method of the TransactionScope object, I get the followin...more >>

If I have an app that has Form1 and Form2. When I open the app Form1 is displyed, I do some stuff then open Form2 and set Form1 visibility to False. If I want to totally close the application now closing all forms how do I do that? Me.Dispose() doesn't close Form1 Thanks Mike...more >>

Does anybody know of a single source of information (book, article etc) on setup/deployment projects? I've got the old Wrox Deployment one, but I'm tired of never finding what I'm looking for. -- Thanks for your help, Kenneth Bohman...more >>

I am running my application using frame work 1.1 in that i am using crystal reports 9.1.5000.0; while generating reports giving the fallowing error "CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.InternalException: "Unable to find the report in the manifest resources. Please build the project, and try...more >>

I have a dataset that contains two tables - Parent and Child. The key of the Parent is called ParentID and is an identity column in SQL Server. The key of the Child is two columns called ParentID - foreign key defined as INT to Parent table - and ChildID that in itself is an identity column. I...more >>

Hi there, My problem is the following: I get the current time on the machine by using Now(), but for some weird reason this machine (happens only on this machine) refuses to show/handle the tt part of the time. Thus all the times I get using anything like Now() or even when assigning a formatt...more >>