I have learned a great deal creating applications in Access 2002 with Visual Basic code. What is the next step to create applications that can be used as a more stand-alone app or possibly with a web front end? There seems to be many choices from Visual Basic Studio and .net framework. Even...more >>

I have an object that I'm serializing (binary) that contains other internal objects that are also serialized. The Object contains two other member objects (let's call them source, and depend) one of which has a state that depends value is derived from source. My question is (if this can be gener...more >>

Hello, May i Know about the SEO(Search Engine Optimization). can i have any code for the SEO. Thanx, regards Shun ...more >>

We are moving from a Windows 2000 Server to a Windows 2003 server. Our ASP.NET web applications work fine on IIS 6.0 on the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server. All of our no touch deployment .NET Windows applications work fine on Windows 2000 server but when we move them to Windows 2003 ...more >>

Hello, >From time to time my vb2005 form disappears and is replaced by the following errors. Rebuilding the application never helps. However the errors never affects the operation of my application that I notice, but it is very anoying. To get rid of the errors I must close the form, close ...more >>

Hi All, When trying to install a performance counter via InstallUtil I get the following exception: Creating performance counter category Enterprise Library Caching. An exception occurred during the Install phase. System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryExceptio...more >>

How many partial classes can a class be broken up into? Can it be more than 2 -- moondaddy@nospam.nospam ...more >>

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have 2 design questions for ya'll. And this pertains to developing an ASP.NET application. Question #1 Which is the correct way (and why) for designing class methods? 1. Use reference (input/output) parameters to return multiple pieces of information to the c...more >>

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10775311/ Outsourcing's Endgame Guess what? Supply and demand still works "Already, wages for Indian workers ranging from call center operators to programmers to engineers are increasing at rates of 15% to 30% per annum. The Journal cited a McKinsey & Co. report sh...more >>

I am trying to install Visual Studios 2005 on my win server 2003. It fails at the beginning of installation after attempting to install the .Net 2.0 framework. It does not tell me why it fails. Anyone know how to correct this? I checked knowledge base, and FAQ's, but could not find anything...more >>

I was pricing VS.NET Professional 2005 upgrade and found a good price on Amazon -- but then I read the customer reviews and they were terrible: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BT8TRG/ref%3Dpd%5Fkar%5F3/103-1460775-6910259 For example: "Lots of nifty features, but unfortunatel...more >>

I have the Enterprise Architect version of Visual Studio 2003. I am looking to upgrade to VS 2005. The closest match I can see is the plain old VS.2005 Professional Update http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/product.aspx?view=22&pcid=b171ab31-2771-41f6-8243-17654838fd72&type=ovr Is ...more >>

I'm comparing all the Visual Studio 2005 editions, and I see that Office development support is only in the Team System and VS Tools for Office editions. What is "office development support" defined as? Does that mean that I cannot include a Word/Excel/Office reference in a VS.NET 2005...more >>

I call a web service using a dynamic assembly. Because of this, I have no way of knowing in advance, what the return object type of the service is. It may be an integer, it may be a string. The way the method that invokes the service is written, it returns an object, and then I have t...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to write an application which will eventually use SQL Express running on a server, with a client app running on several client machines. I'm developing it with an instance of SQL Express running on my local machine, however. I want to use the built-in data functionality of V...more >>

I get a 'divide by zero' exception when I scroll in a subdirectory of 'My Pictures'. This subdirectory is full of .ico, .bmp, .png files that I use for button images in my Windows Forms projects. No viruses are found. This has been occurring for a year now... I don't know if it is a specif...more >>

Iam just a novice trying to learn .net. I have programming background, but is completely new to microsoft technologies. Pleas advice me where to start? ...more >>

Although lots of people described how to workaround the lack of ability to hide and show tab pages on a tab control, I couldnt find a code example so I made one. Create a class that inherits from the tabcontrol and then add the following Private htVisibleVal As New Hashtable Private ...more >>

Hi, Trying to run the asp.net 2.0 quickstart tutorials I get the following error: "Server Error in '/QuickStartv20' Application -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Failed to access IIS metabase. Description: An unhandled exception occurred dur...more >>

Hi, I am using VB .Net. i have 2 forms.. one is windows form and I have a lable there that i do want to control from class1. I thought I could send a referense to the label but I don't know how to do that in VB How do I declare the referens in class2??? I need to change color+text from c...more >>

I've just installed VS 2005 pro. Trying to run the .net framework 2.0 sdk asp.net quickstart tutorial, I get the following error "Failed to access IIS metabase. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace f...more >>

After I used installshield to pack my program, then I tried to install the program into other computers such as window XP, window 2000. It shows the following error: Error 1931. The Windows Installer service cannot update the system file C:\WINNT\system32\msdxm.ocx because the file is protecte...more >>