Hi, I want to know if there is a place to learn about Setup Projects, because I'm trying to make one but can't do the things I want to do, like add a registry key or allow the user to select/unselect optional parts. Can somebody help please or supply a link to a place where I could find the a...more >>

Hello everyone I was wondering if anyone has come across my problem? I programmed a Windows Service that uses httpWebRequest and httpWebResponse in VB.NET. Everything works fine until I use the webresponse object. What the Windows Service does is when the timer in the windows service elapse...more >>

Hello, Why is there a choice between build Solution & Rebuild Solution in the IDE. what is the difference? When would you use one over the other? Many thanks for your thoughts Ant....more >>

Hi, I've heard of a .NET Installation Wizard (it most be something to package an app for distribution, but I may be wrong). Where can I find this wizard? because I can't find it in my Start Menu under the Visual Studio 2003 folder. Thanks ...more >>

I have a windows service that when started creates two threads: one thread that runs a TcpListener waiting for TcpClients to connect, and another thread that reads from the resulting sockets. My stop code .Abort()s the threads and .Stop()s the listener. One one of my computers, the service ru...more >>

hi, i'm new to .net. i have a page called productReview.aspx. I didn't develop this originally. in the page, the code shows the following: <FORM id="Form1" method="post" runat="server"> <INPUT id="hdnprodid" type="hidden" name="hdnprodid" runat="server"> **** after the "W...more >>

I want to have two builds of a winforms project: (1) a /reference/ build that I consider "good enough" for distribution (internal app). The idea is that all the functions are QC'd. (2) an "incremental build"...this would be all the new functional requests that I'm currently working o...more >>

I developed a desktop app that reads an XML file into a dataset. (The desktop app has the XML schema built in, so it already knows what format the XML file should be in.) My problem is that I want the desktop app to get the same data from a web service. I have a prototype working where the...more >>

Is there a way to dynamically resize an array along with maintaining its contents similar to VB's REDIM PRESERVE statement in C#? My problem is, the user won't be sure how big the string array (sTest) is initially. As stated in the code below, when the class is instantiated, the string array i...more >>

When adding my VB .NET solution (with two sub-projects) the folder structure in VSS gets an extra level of folders... For example, here's the structure of the solution on my C:\ ....\mySolution\mySolution.sln ....\mySolution\myProject1\myProject1.vbproj -- and -- ....\mySolution...more >>

Hi, I am having trouble with following piece of code: Trace.Assert(args.Length >=1,"Invalid Argument list. Statement Date is mandatory input"); I expect the code to stop execution and exit when args.length >= 1 condition is not true. I am using C#. But whats happening is that i see d...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to download a memorystream to a .csv file on the users desktop. When I go to write out the memorystream through the byte array it seems to truncate at 1024 and I don't know how to increase the size. Here is my code if that helps. Thanks. Dim msw As MemoryStream ...more >>

I have a text box on a web form that a user enters a number in. If they blank out the text box then I want to put a null value back into the database field. I want to return the value to NULL like txtWaterDischargeRate = System.DBNull.Value instead of Nothing but I get an error Can't co...more >>

I need help in structuring a 200 question survey. Each question has three responses, and I want all 200 questions displayed at the same time with the user using the scrollbar to go down. What is the best approach?...more >>

Hi I'm developing a distributed app, of which clients (thin or rich) will need to receive regularly, a large volume of data, (1Mb+) for display My question is, what's the most efficient way of doing this programmtically? Are web-services the best way, or is there a 'quicker' way? Thanks...more >>