I have a older Microsoft trackball that I would like to use., when I tried to install, I get a message that says, XP cannot work well with this older trackball software. So, my question. Is there a way to make Windows XP work with my older trackball? I think I read/heard somewhere that you c...more >>

I have an activex.exe with a public class, in order to be accessed by other apps. the activex.exe was upgraded to .net, and i'm unable to make other apps comunicate with the new version. The activex.exe have some global variables with user input that i want to be accessed by other applicati...more >>

Hi, I downloaded / installed the .net sdk beta 2 however there is no csc.exe. Also the only documentation that comes with it is the readme but no reference guide, maybe I overlooked it? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, I am writing a service which takes a long time to stop after the OnStop call is given by the Services Snap-in. The problem is I cannot cut down on the time that it takes to Stop. The Service snap-in gives me the error saying that the service did not respond to the Stop call in a timely ...more >>

Totally new to this group, so please excuse if off topic or stupid question. I went to my control panel to change a user password, and noticed I have a new user account for "ASP.NET Machine...". IT is a limited account with assword. How did it get in my system? From when I installed the .ne...more >>

I am developing a program that generates a report in MS Word, it seems to me that the same code works faster in a small utility rather than part of a bigger executeable (about 5m) is that possible and if yes I may have to separate it from the program Thank you in advance, Shmuel Shulman ...more >>

Imagine a form with some fields and an OK buttons that saves the information. Each field has validation logic in the Validating event. If the input is not valid, the control's value is replaced with the last value it had before the user changed it. Pretty typical Now, the user types some i...more >>

Hi Everyone, I just had a very odd behavior and was hoping someone could shed some light on this. I wrote a wrapper class around a 3rd party DLL (pinvoke) I use this library in VB (or CS) and was able to re-produce 2 problems. By the nature of the problem I figure it must be this 3rd pa...more >>

Hi, I'm just trying to do something very simple, but I can't find a simple example. In a TextBox and Button on a WinForm, I just want to display some Unicode characters -- specifically, U+2660, U+2663, U+2665 and U+2666 (the playing card symbols). It's my understanding that all strings ...more >>

Good Day, We are developing a Windows application using c# and would like to provide Addin support for our application. I was hoping someone with experience in this field could direct me in the right path on how to approch this task. Any documentation or code examples would be great! Tha...more >>

I am getting the following error when building my application. Error 1706.No valid source could be found for product Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English. The Windows installer cannot continue. If anyone can help me rectify this little problem, I would greatly appreciate it....more >>

Trying to compile this code: <System.ComponentModel.Browsable(false), _ System.ComponentModel.DesignerSerializationVisibilityAttribute(System.Compon entModel.DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)> _ Public ReadOnly Property vItemLocDiscreps As vItemLocDiscrepsDataTable ...more >>

I'm using the OleDbCommand object to build a parameterized query, and I'm curious if there's any way to retrieve the actual query, with the parameters?...more >>

I am building an app that will do online job applications. I am starting my UML modeling of the app and realized that one portion of the app will be only available internally, while the rest of the app will be external through our public website. What is the best method of building the app tha...more >>

I'm new to developing on the .NET platform with VC++. I would like to know if there are good reference sites beside gotdotnet.com and functionX. I would like to go deeper. Should I buy a reference book? If so, any suggestions? thanks in advance... Lovens ...more >>