Whenever I create a new windows application from Visual Studio .NET 2003 in either C# or VB.NET upon running the compiled code (debugging or not) I receive a System.NullReferenceException immediately after the application.run command. I'm not changing any of the code created by the IDE, I'm sim...more >>

I have a .net 2.0 project that I want to use click once deployment, however, some of the files that need to get updated from time to time are very big and fat and I need to zip them or compress them in order to deploy them to the client. In my .net 1.1 version I custom built the client login ...more >>

Dear all, My application allows users to switch languages at run time. I use the following code to change the UI Culture but all controls are remaining unchanged. Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("en-US"); Why? Anything that I need to do in order to refresh the ...more >>

How to access a network file path \\foo\bar.txt from an .aspx and from a custom IHttpHandler? How to specify which account that aspx application should use when doing file IO from network paths? When I try to open the file from .aspx the file read throws: Logon failure: Logon failure: unkno...more >>

Hi, When I create a program with a form, the form doesn't go away until I close it somehow. How is this done, can it also be done with a module or a class? What I seek is this: I wrote a program that runs in a sub Main(). At this moment I use a DO WHILE LOOP to have the program do somet...more >>

Hi, I have redesigned our official public government website in .net and it has taken me a few months to redo. I have been the sole designer of the website from its humble beginnning a few years ago when no one wanted to even mess with it. Since then I have been steadily maintaining it and im...more >>

Hi to All, I need to install .NET 2003 on the distant PC. Using RDP I copied CD1+2+Prerequisites on the hard disk, say in d:\source\vs\cd1 d:\source\vs\cd2 d:\source\vs\prereq After I have started installation from d:\source\vs\cd1 , there are many errors pointing to the missing files,...more >>

I'm working (along with my coworkers) on a fairly large and complex application. Something very strange started happening about a week ago and I've been unable to figure out why (to my knowledge nothing changed on my machine at this time). These problems are only appearing when the project i...more >>

I have a sample vb .net 2.0 winforms app and am using Oneclick deployment to a remote server. All of the files (DLLs, EXEs, manifests, configs, etc.) seem to get deployed to the target folder on the client OK and seem to work OK, Except for some additional files I created for the client appli...more >>

Please could anyone give advice on visual basic .net on-line training, i) have you found it useful? ii) is the microsoft site the only place that offers this on-line trainin? Thanks Ben...more >>

Hello, I am attempting to export the contents of a datagrid on my webform (using Excel automation) through ASP.NET. I have added the Excel object library to my VS ASP.NET project but I am lost on how to export my datagrid contents to Excel? I am sure it can be done but having difficult...more >>

right now i m going through a book on dotnet. It says that machine.config contains information regarding the language compilers(ex.about vbc.exe,csc.exe).Could u please tell me the other information,machine.config contains!! ...more >>

VS 2005 / C# I’m writing an application that uses COM interop heavily and also some unsafe code. How can I test my app for memory leaks? ...more >>

Hi all, I'm having a problem with session variables in vs .net 2003. I start by doing this: If Not IsPostBack Then Dim dt As DataTable Me.daAlias.Fill(Me.DsPhysicalAlias) dt = Me.DsPhysicalAlias.Tables(0) Session("tblAlias") = dt ...more >>

I've written code in VB.Net that calls GetEnvironmentVariable. When I execuate the code as part of a Windows Form, it reads the environment variable with no problem. I put the code in a Windows Service, however, and it can't seem to read the same environment variable. I used Microsoft .Net...more >>

Hi, I have an ASP.Net application hosted in a windows server 2003 (IIS 6.0). The application uses a Oracle Database to retrieve some data through an Oledb connection. I've set the IIS application pool used by the application to get recycled when the application consumes too much memory which ...more >>

Hi ALL, In VB.Net, I create an Excel as followed: Dim excelapp As New Excel.Application Dim oWB As Excel.Workbook Dim oSheet As Excel.Worksheet ' Get a new workbook. oWB =3D excelapp.Workbooks.Add oSheet =3D CType(oWB.ActiveSheet, Excel.Works...more >>

I have used a program called chainsaw to split the file into manageable chunks, but with issues as the file contains crlf (carriage return line feeds on every line) and have found chainsaw totally useless as it splits the file in the middle of a crlf (not on the actual crlf - or end of the li...more >>

Hi everyone, I've got an odd problem that I have been unable to find a solution for. The title says it all. The presence of a javascript block on my asp1.1 page is screwing up the formatting of the page - things become off center, divs become smaller, etc... Without it, everything is peachy. ...more >>

Previously I had the same Problem discussed and solved here: http://clariusconsulting.net/blogs/hdl/archive/2005/12/02/410.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage but now I've got the next problem. "application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000142). Click OK to terminate the application."...more >>

I have an application which has a MDI parent form and a simple menu bar. Using reflection I can get access to other assemblies and add an item to my parent menu which when clicked opens up the main form of the assembly. Within this new window I can run my application as normal. The problem is...more >>

Hi friends, I am new to dotnet. I created one page(index.aspx). I have written some code which was explained in msdn (displaying all controls clientID in the page). It executed fine. Later i modified one line (response.write(muenumerator.reset()) saved and compiled. It got an err...more >>

Hi, I'd like to know if the Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library class reference documentation is available for developers and where i could get it. Thanks a lot. ...more >>