Hi, We had an existing application in ASP.NET 1.1. After migration I tried to utilize MasterPages. The test showed that format for most of labels is treated differently e.g. TextBox'es are much toller, Label's do not have fixed length as they used to, etc... After some testing I discovere...more >>

So far twice while playing guild wars my computer will stop and the screen goes blue no message just blue just installed a new video card Radeon 9800 and the drivers are new and good.Card is instelled properly I believe what could be the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated....more >>

Does anyone know how to create an image (JPEG) from an HTTPResponse object? I am working on system that has a map pop up from our GIS department. I want create an image at runtime from this popup and display that image on the main page instead of opening a new window. This image will be a memo...more >>

I believe it is a feature in VS 2005 you can write VB and C# in the same project. It is ture if the project type is a web project. However in a libary project that compile to a DLL, once I select a language to start up, I cannot have a class of another language compiled. Anyone know is it ...more >>

I have been unable to locate an answer for this question because (1) it is late in the day and my eyes are tired of looking at code and documentation, (2) I am new to this area of the .NET framework, or (3) a combination of (1) and (2). I am looking at using messaging in an application I am...more >>

I need to resolve Windows special folders. From what I have read it would seem that using CSIDL's and SHGetSpecialFolderPath and SHGetFolderPath was the way to accomplish that in VB6 and VB.NET. Is this still the best method in VB 2005? If so does anyone have a working example of how to dec...more >>

I think I'm going nuts... Put a scroll bar control on a form and in the form_load method, initialise it as follows: vScrollBar.Minimum = 0; vScrollBar.Maximum = 10; vScrollBar.SmallChange = 1; vScrollBar.LargeChange = 10; vScrollBar.Value = 0; vScrollBar.Visible = true; In the vSc...more >>

Hi All; I am looking for an editable drop down control that can be used on a web page using ASP.NET. The reason I need an editable DDL is that on my web app. (using ASP.NET) I have a DDL that has a list of materials, if user cannot find the material that he/she wants they should be able ...more >>

Hi All, I've been using the original (non-event based) asynchronous design pattern using delegates. It works fine but performance wise I know using the ThreadPool is supposed to be far better, so I wondered if anyone had any examples of the best way to do this. I've obviously had a look mys...more >>

I have a routine that logs on to an FTP server, and tries to get the filesize, to determine whether the file exists or not. I am getting inconsistent behavior between 2 internal ftp servers; one is a windows2003, the other unix. The attached code shows what I am doing. If I log to the window...more >>

Hello! I need to get the user groups in a machine, because i need to verify dynamically what's the name of the group "Everyone" in different windows. For example, in windows in portuguese the name of the user group "Everyone" is "Todos", so i need to know what's the name of this user group....more >>

Hi, I am working on an app that will display the list of all scheduled call records in our database to the users. All users of the application will see the same list of call records and will select any record and try to call the contact person for that record and edit the record. Now, my q...more >>

MS Virtual Server 2005 (not R2) with .Net 2003 I created a Console App and A windows form both with Timers in it. For the console i used system.timers and the windows form i used system.windows.forms.timers. Now for the problem, with both Apps the timers will stop for no reason. I mea...more >>

Hi, I got stack overflow errors while using an unmanaged dll from managed c# application. When i use editbin.exe to increase stack size of app , it works. Is there a way to increase stack size of app (or most probably Clr) so that app starts with a larger stack, like using the old /F switch i...more >>

I have a VB.Net 2005 solution that uses an installer project to install. When I do an install I would like the app.config/application config file to be installed only when there isn't one already on the users workstation. I don't want to overwrite the settings every time I update the applicat...more >>

Hi All; I am trying to find a way to make my locked control more visible on a web form. When I lock a control and display it on a web form (ASP.NET) the control is barely visible and it is hard for users to see it. Is there a way to make the control bit more visible? A locked control on...more >>

Is it possible to use the <% %> tag to embed a variable from page_load into a meta tag in the aspx source? Somehow I am not getting the value out of my variable properly - probably not using quotes correctly or something simple, but after a full day of trying every possible syntax under the s...more >>

Hi, I'm currently writing a .net (VB) windows forms application that consumes a (also VB) .net webservice. The access to this webservice shall be secured by SSL and authentification - and here I encounter a problem: How can I use/retrieve the local user's credentials (user name and passwor...more >>

This may be a really dumb question but is there any way to manually read the data in a datasource???? Is binding a datasource to a control the only way to see and manipulate the actual data?? If I want to read a value from a database in code, is there any way to do with a datasource? Or...more >>

Hi! I use a regex (?<!\\?)('|\\+|:) to split a string to a String[]. The String[] i get after splitting is correctly splitted but contains all the delimiters i use to decide where the string should be splitted. Do I have to loop through the array and find every index containing a single ...more >>

C# Visual Studio .Net 2003 I am trying to create a custom DataGrid. I have written the code, but how do I add this to the Visual Studio toolbar? Steve...more >>

Hi Friends, I'm planning to use .NET to develop my websites for 2007. Unfortunately I have about 5% of Mac users and about 1% of Unix users. Anyway, I cannot ignore them. My question is, if I develop my websites with ASP.NET can my Mac or Unix/Linux client still able to access my...more >>

Has anyone written or using an identity mapper design pattern in an enterprise framework? The identity mapper pattern is described in Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. It means that subsequent loads of the same object from the database will result in the s...more >>

Hallo NG. Within Framework 1.1 we send SMTP-mails the following way System.Web.MailMessage mail = new System.Web.MailMessage(); mail.BodyFormat = System.Web.MailFormat.Text; mail.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8; System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(mail); If I no...more >>

I get this error while reading my config file but it is only occasionally and not all the time. I'm not sure why its happening. Does anyone know what could be going wrong? Thanks. [28/03/2006 14:52:06] The process cannot access the file 'C:\GCC Business Layer\GCCBL.config' because it is bei...more >>