Well, I just read this FAQ, which says no. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948854.aspx So my next question is: is MS going to give us a discount to upgrade to VS 2005 so that I can use Vista? Otherwise, I guess I'll just keep using Windows 2000 until MS prys it out from under m...more >>

Explain limitations of .NET Technology. How Java is better than .NET? ...more >>

how do I code generic functions to return the next item in an enumeration a) sorted by name, b) sorted by value c) sorted by declaration in a round-robin style ? for example the enum is Enum Colors Red = 5 Green = 7 Blue = 16 Yellow = 2...more >>

Hi, I have a C#.NET project (in a Visual Studio environment). In the project, I have a dialog to let the user enter some values to be used as parameters for a DTS package. The idea is that when the user enters required values and selects the button, "Run DTS Package", the DTS package should b...more >>

In windows ME, I am getting an error message saying the device loader could not load the device driver ...more >>

I often use self-closing tags (such as <br/>) when creating an ASP.NET application. However, when I enter them in Visual Studio .NET 2005, it automatically inserts a space before the />. In most cases this does not bother me, but for tags such as <br/> that I usually do not use any attribute...more >>

Please explain Interoperability in .NET Technology. ...more >>

Hourly Rates: Senior Programmer - $85.00/Hr. Junior Programmer - $15.00/Hr. Incompetent Programmer - $15.00/Hr. The Project: Create a simple report. Initial Cost of Project: Senior programmer takes 10 minutes to complete the report. Cost to the business: $14.00 Junior programmer takes ...more >>

Is there a quick way to preload a ComboBox with all values of an Enumeration? Either in VS.2005 Designer or at run time. In my case the combobox is bound to a property of a business object. thank you. herbert...more >>

Hello NG Does anyone knows, how I can design the submenu-style different from the mainmenu? <asp:Menu ID="menu1" runat="server" BorderColor="#000040" BorderStyle="Solid" CssClass="frameworkWide" Orientation="Horizontal" DynamicEnableDefaultPopOutImage="False" StaticEnableDefaultPopO...more >>

HI all, When I add items to a Listview control, then clearing the items and adding more items my program seems to allocate a few KB of data and then not free the Memory. I noticed this about half way through writing a program and it's driving me a bit mad. I have posted a sub function bel...more >>

I'm trying to databind a dependency property in a custom control (CenterX) to the Line.X1Property property of line. If I can correctly do this (and the same for the 'Y' props) then when I drag my custom control the line should follow it (stay connected) I know the dependency props in my cus...more >>

I have opportunity to get involved with a .net project, but haven't done any ..net yet. I'm an expert in VB6, Java, and J2EE. Could someone please recommend some online stuff to read to get me going. I have everything necessary to set up and write applications in .net. What I want to find out ...more >>

Hi All, if i have a implementation of MS CRM 3 in my office. All users of CRM can access it from within the LAN through windows authentication. How can they access it from their home or some remote position. i dont want to use offline CRM/outlook functionality. Can i access MS CRM 3 online from...more >>

Hi I recently installed VS2005 standard edition on my pc which is Athlon 1.4Ghz processor with 512 Mb of RAM with XP Pro sp2 and although the performance of VS2003 was acceptable VS2005 takes an age to load and the IDE is so sluggish to be almost unuseable. I was considering upgrading the ...more >>

I'm having the worst time trying to login to myspace through code. Can someone tell me how to do this? Please try it yourself before replying, only because I have asked this a couple of times in the past in other places, and while the help was much appreciated, it seemed everyone just wanted to ...more >>

Hi, I use FireFox (2.0) and now IE7 also. Both browsers has tab page facilities. This is really nice feature. Both browsers has close buttons on tab page itself. This is also a nice thing (as I don't need to put some strain to remember and search for the button while closing a tab in either...more >>

Hi reg. VS.NET 2005 In my C# project, I've many files (aspx and .cs etc.) in folder hierarchy. When I open any file (.cs or .aspx) the solution explorer is not showing my current file as selected. This makes me bit difficult to find it in solution explorer. Instead if it can show or if t...more >>

Best programmer, My mission is to execute a sql statement in vb.net and retrive the data into a file. I have managed to detect som issues with my code: queryString = "SELECT ...." connectionString = "server=OraOLEDB.Oracle;User id=x;password=x;Data source=x;" Using conn...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with part of my code. I am trying to Cache a Generic Collection Private nodeCollection As New Generic.List(Of MenuNode) If (Cache("MainMenu")) = Nothing Then ... nodeCollection = menudal.FetchMenu() Cache.Insert("MainMenu", nodeColl...more >>

Greetings! I have a simple Windows form for editing. Search results are bound to a bindingsource and shown in a datagrid paired with a datanavigator. The current row's data is displayed in text boxes bound to the same bindingsource. I'd like to present a save / cancel dialog if the user cha...more >>

I am working on Power Point Automation and i just want to disable Delete Slide Option , Is there any way to disable delete slides option from right click menu and using delete key. ...more >>

Good morning. I'm developing a software in VB.NET using MDAC (through System.Data.OleDB) to read and write MSExcel And MSAccess files in a target machine without MSOffice. Is there any rojalty on .MDB and .XLS formats? Can I manage XLS and MDB file without MSOffice license? Thanks in Advance f...more >>

Is it possible to inherit page(System.Windows.Controls.Page), like Visual inheritance on a WinForm. any help is highly appreciated. thx in advance... ...more >>

I have a new digital camera that is downloading .mod files that is displaying video but no sound. It says it is missing a codec. Anyone know what this means. -- MLK Suntree fl...more >>

My co-worker deleted all his default toolbox items under the HTML toolbox tab and we can't figure out how to re-add them. The HTML controls are not under the Add toolbox item dialog and doing a devenv.exe /setup didn't work either :( I even tried adding System.Web.dll in the same dialog bo...more >>

how do I get a list of all components on a form using reflection ?? or is there another way of doing this ?? can anyone help ?? ...more >>

Hi, Is there any (trivial) option to provide a log4net ConversionPattern which contains escape sequences, such as tab? For example (see '\t' within): <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d \t [%t] %-5p %c [%x] - %m%n" /> </layout> ...more >>

I have a class that looks like Public Class Number Public Index As Int16 Public Appears As Int16 Public Ratio As Single Public Sub New(ByVal index As Int16, ByVal appears As Int16, ByVal ratio As Single) Me.Index = index Me.Appears = appears Me.Rat...more >>

Hello friends, I have one folder Named as MainFolder on server. I have one more folder named as subfolder inside tht main folder.Now I want to save some pictures in tht folder but at runtime I m not getting correct virtual path of tht folder. As Server.MapPath() & MapPath methods returns p...more >>

So, I am writing an application in C#, and I have some old C code that I want to use. Now, i tried to convert it to a DLL, and while I easily got it working, it didn't work like it was supposed to. The problem, is that there are global structures, with values that change as you write to cert...more >>

Hi everyone! :) I have project containing test cases and I've added <assemblyname.dll.config> configuration file to [bin\debug] output directory of project.(That way, NUnit has been working with .net 1.x projects ) However, ConfigurationManager in .net 2.0 doesn't even see configuration f...more >>

I am Using Vista with Visual Studio 2005 and when I open a project, it could take a full minute or two before the "start debugging" button turns green on the menu. Also, in the Solution Explorer, the buttons for "View Designer", "View Code", and "Refresh" don't appear. If I am in the designe...more >>

Hi everyone, it happened to my VS2002 that I can't see Output window. I selected view-other windows-output, but nothing happened. It is really nightmare to find errors after build process. No one error message appears. How to have output window back on VS main window? thanks, Sincla...more >>

to use with ReportViewer on end user machine, need to install the Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=8a166cac-758d-45c8-b637-dd7726e61367&displayLang=en Have a way to do that without this installation? ...more >>

Hi, I tried to use the Sort() function of my ArrayList object to sort a list of the following structures: Public Structure myData a as Long b as Short End Structure Therefore, I wrote the following Comparer: Public Class MyComparer Implements IComparer Public Function Co...more >>

Hi, WHen I specify my master page in the page's @Page directive, no problems. However, when I put it ias an attribute in Web.config's page element, the designer fails. It just says "Error Creating Control - Content. Content controsl can only be used in a content page." I know that there's a...more >>

I have some photos i have downloaded from a camera that i can see but when i select them it says "drawing failed" and comes up blank . If you could help i would appreciate it. Thankyou -- simonL...more >>

I have a programming question to generate an ordered list of alphanumeric strings of length 4. >From 0000 to ZZZZ, numbers first, then one alphabet rest numbers, then two alphabets rest numberst, etc. EG 0000-9999 then A000-Z999 then AA00 to ZZ99 then AAA0 - ZZZ9 then AAAA - ZZZZ ...more >>

What's your favorite 3rd party .NET library? I've found some online for NNTP, Bluetooth, serial ports, for example. I'm just looking for some other libraries out there that people find useful. Just trying to learn more about .NET. Free/open-source ones are even better! Marco ...more >>

Best programmer, I have a file with alot of numbers. Example: 10%, 30%, 99% and so on. I want to draw a simple graph and also use time. How do I manage this in Visual Studio? either C# or vb.net. Any start ideas? Maybe make a picture of it, png? Thoughts are warmly welcome! Regards, Mag...more >>

I have a Universal Subscription to MSDN that won't expire for another two months; nonetheless, I'm unable to navigate to the subscriber download page at MSDN. I've found a couple of links to subscriber downloads, but clicking on them ends up with a page not found error. What's with that???...more >>

I'm looking for advice here, and I would really appreciate it if you could help. Is there a VB 2005 book that you like and would recommend (and why)? Would you consider it good for beginners to programming, intermediate, or advanced level? thanks. -- http://www.douglassdavis.c...more >>

Hi All, We are doing development using remote login to distanced development machines. As our profile is local, when we want to do build in the remote machine, it takes long time. So in .NET 1.1 we used to switch off the CAS and do the build. It used to be very much faster. Now, we've upgra...more >>

Hello, I am learning .NET 3.0 and I have such question: what are, in your opinion, the weakest sides of .NET technology? Thanks for your opinions. /RAM/ ...more >>

Hi, I am evaluating 3rd party user interface controls (Grid, Treeview, Explorer bar, Ribbons, and common controls like checked-combo box, calender etc). I have 3 contenders: Infragistics (Window Suit for 2.0) Dev Express (6.0 for framework 2.0) Janus (UI and WinForm Suit) U...more >>

Is there a file or link that details what SP 1 fixes and adds? All I can find is general summary information. Thanks ...more >>

Hi, My requirement is to change "text" content to pdf format and to store in oracle database. But i don't want to create a pdf file in server side every time i need and then to read from it and to write to oracle. I need the above operation to be performed without temporarily storing the ...more >>

Dear all, I have a windows application which works perfectly well on my developement platform. When deplyoing it I get an error : "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" By placing log entry point I figured out that it fails executing the following function: CType...more >>

Hi, I recently converted an ASP.NET project for framework 2.0. I never had any problem using VS 2003 but today, debugging a page, I get surprised when I saw that once debugged the last line, it was automatically debugged another time since the first line and even the "if (!IsPostBack)..." c...more >>