Hello friends, I want to convert .xls file into text file.So can anybody pls help me out. Thxxxxxx, Sachin. ...more >>

HI All, Iam using Visual Studio 2005 VB.net to develop a web application. I am having some issues with the page display. I have to actually move the mouse to get the web page to display . If I dont move the mouse I dont see anything displayed. I am not sure why this is happening. At fir...more >>

We have a very large C# winforms client application that is constructed as a single solution currently with 75 projects. We're currently using VS 2003 but will upgrade to 2005 some time next year. We've noticed that Visual Studio is terribly inefficient about a lot of things, and my testing w...more >>

When .NET loads an app.config at runtime (myapp.exe.config), will it honor an entity declaration? Based on what I am seeing, the answer is no, but I think, or hope, that I am doing something wrong. I tried this: // myapp.exe.config <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE conf...more >>

Does DateTime have a built-in feature to just give me "Dec" or similar for "December"? Marco ...more >>

what is the differences between the word MyBase and Me...more >>

Hi friends, I m just stuck with extracting excel file data into text file. So can any body please help me out. thx, Sachin. ...more >>

Hi, How can I convert KeyCode's to the real character? For instance: the row of keys on a keyboard under the F-keys return as Keycode the Keys.Oem1, Keys.Oem2 etc... Depending on the keyboard layout it is another character (and also depening on the fact if you have used Shift or Alt Gr). ...more >>

I got a question about keypress event on textbox: I found that the keypress event doesn't invoked when i press the "." button on alphabetic keyboard, however if i use numberpad's "." button keypress event is invoked. Any idea and solutions? Thanks. ...more >>

I sure there is a simple answer to this. i am a VB6 programmer learning Vb.net. Where and how do you view debug.print statments. I culd not find them in the immediate window...more >>

Hi Folks Hopefully a simple question... Using Visual Studio 2005, what is the easiest way to create a setup for my Windows Forms App that can copy a large number of required PDF files to the installation directory when the setup is executed. I have tried manually adding the PDFs to the Se...more >>

Dear guys, In your dayly developement work whcih hard ware configuration did you use for Vista and vs2005 ? Portable or Workstation ? Is there suitable laptop configuration for developmeent I need to ask for my company for a new machine but do not know which one thanks for your comment? ...more >>

Hello I have found examples of using an .mdb file in VS2K3, but apparently the components in the toolbox are different than the ones shown in the 2K3 examples. I have google'd and searched high and low, and for the life of me cannot find any examples on how to add/read/write to an access db i...more >>

Hi I have written some assemblies which are compiled using nunit version 2.2.8.0 These assemblies are to be included in an application with other assemblies written by other companies. The problem is that the other company used nunit 2.2.0.0 This causes an exception - saying that one or ...more >>

I am running a winforms application as a scheduled task in Windows, but I want it to wait to make sure the SQL Server Service is running before it runs the app. Can I detect this in vb.net code? Derek ...more >>

HI all turned on VS2005 this morning and had a shock. My Tool Bar has gone hay wire The General tab has renamed itself #13119 and my Report Item Tab has replaced all the reporting controls with text boxes when I chose for a reset all it does is add another text box in the tab. So I reinstalled/...more >>

My files I have on my desktop have disappeared from the desktop. The strange thing is that when I go on my computer they appear to be under desktop, and i Can access from there. but there not in the desktop!! help me!...more >>

I rewrote an existing VB6 app in .NET as a learning tool. Works good. The problem is, it won't run in any folder except the folder that it was build in. I get an unhanded exception error telling me it couldn't load a form because it couldn't find a control that I used. The control is a cu...more >>

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Hi there, I wrote an app that has GUI but also accepts command line parameters for automated execution. When the app is started from command line with parameters, I'd like the application to behave like a Console Application, e.g. * the command prompt should not return right away but only o...more >>

I just discovered the Power Collections library (http://www.wintellect.com/PowerCollections.aspx), and I'm wondering if any of you have used it. If so, would you recommend it to others? If you have evaluated it and decided to NOT use it, I'd like to know why if you don't mind sharing. FWI...more >>

Hi I have to share session state between asp and asp.net. I am looking at code examples and it looks doable but my major concern is most of the methods that grab the ASP session involve posting to an asp page and looping throght the cookies which doesn't seem very secure. Does anyone have any ...more >>

Hi all, I recently installed 64 bit version of Vista hoping to make it my primary development setup. I was able to do work with IIS7 and ASP.NET 2.0/Visua Studio 2005 combo, but hit a roadblock trying to work with Visual Studio .NET 2003 on ASP.NET 1.1 app. The problem is that I can’t ...more >>

I posted this message to another board and have hardly had any views on it, leave alone answers. So I am cross-posting here. This may be a very simple question but I can't get my head around it. I have a textbox's enabled property bound to the IsNew property of an object. this.txtPhone1...more >>

Please direct me to information on S&T download to a PDA. Will 2007 let you down load a bigger Map size to fill a 1 or 2 gig compact flash card. Even last year MS autoroute europe limited the map size. Or is there a work around. Just want to use the PDA for 8 hr driving trips. -- Thanks...more >>

How can I prevent multiple instances of a C# windows forms application. VB.NET provides My.Application.StartupNextInstance Event to do this. Is there any C# equivalent as well? Thanks ...more >>

It seems to me that the MSDN code for synchronizing a producer and consumer thread at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yy12yx1f.aspx is completely wrong. There is no reason to assume that each call to NewItemEvent.Set() will release a consumer thread (as explicitly mentioned in the A...more >>

Dear all, I was wonderaing if you guys have already install VS 2005 under Vista. In fact when installing it Vista wrn you abour a known compatibility issue but you are still able to install it. Then each time you try to run it , you will get the same warning even launching it under eleva...more >>

I cannot run aspnet_regsql.exe on a remote machine. The remote machine is running MSSQL 2000 and is behind my local network. Its basically a sandbox machine. I specify my remote machine's name (Nightcrawler), SQL Server user name and password at the "Select the Server and Database" scree...more >>

i have .net installation problem i start the actual install with disk-1 and everything goes fine until a DLL named vdt70vcs.dll is being used/installed A message box pops up asking me to insert "Visual Studio ..NET Professional 2003 - English Disk 1". when i copy all dics to hard disk under one ...more >>

I have to display a checboxlist with someitems when each item in a listbox is selected. I have a listbox with a list of categories and when i click each category from the listbox, the checkbox list should populate the list of services in the checkbox list.My problem is due to postback i am not...more >>

Hi all, i have a problem. I installed Visual Studio 2005 English version and the following files to use the web application project instead of the web site project: - VS80-KB915364-X86-ENU.exe - VS80-KB898904-X86-ENU.exe - WebApplicationProjectSetup.msi - WebDeploymentSetup.msi The fac...more >>

Hallo zusammen, Immer wenn ich per Select Statement ( SELECT ObjectId FROM tblArtikel WHERE ArtNr = paramArtNr ) (paramArtNr ist ein String Parameter) über einen TableAdapter absetze bekomme ich folgende ConstraintException: "Einschränkungen konnten nicht aktiviert werden. Mindestens e...more >>

Does anyone know if a chart or cross reference list exists indicating the type of memory cards different digital cameras use. Example - some cameras say they use SD cards but don't give an indication which type memory card they use or the maximum capacity of of the camera. any help would be ...more >>

Hi , We have developed a number of plug-in .NET Library Components that we typically deploy with our various applications by installing them into the GAC. Each of the applications contains an app.config file referencing arbitrary versions of the plug-in components they wish to consume. ...more >>

I am attempting to send an email using ASP.NET 1.1's Mail.SmtpMail.Send() method. My code contains all of the following: Dim mailmsg As New Mail.MailMessage Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("smtpserver") mailmsg.BodyFormat = Mail.MailFormat...more >>

http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515 Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic "Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any other development language, according ...more >>

I am trying to generate c# class out of schema files. The problem I am having is the schema file is very completed and it imports other schema file as the child objects. The related schema definition files are more than 5 most of the time. I try to use xsd.exe. It won't work. Does anybody h...more >>

In my app.config file there are various user settings for printers, etc that the user may customize. When I publish an update using Click-once and the app installs the latest version to the user's computer, the config file is overwritten and the user's modified settings are gone. How do I prevent...more >>

hello i want to use round buttons in my vb.net application how can i change rectangular buttons to round buttons thanks ...more >>

Is there any point to making classes or interfaces public in an EXE project? Executables can't be referenced by other applications so why would you ever need public classes? Do people leave them public simply because that's how VS.NET's code generator produces them or are there other advan...more >>

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition. I have pulled down a solution containing several web projects from TFS. When I open this solution from my local drive I am prompted with a message (for each project in the solution) every time that informs me that the projec...more >>

Below are three classes for a console application. If put into three separate files, the sub main() will launch multiple threads adding and removing the same value. At the end we expect the value for all Balances to be 0. When using an Integer things work fine. LONGS do not. We are using ...more >>