VB.NET 2.0 project... I have an Access database with a table that has one primary key. I have used the Add TableAdapter wizard in VS2005 to create my TableAdapter. Next I added an ObjectDataSource object to a new aspx form, chosen the newly created TableAdapter and selected the parameterised ...more >>

I'm familiar with Spy++ for Windows messages. Is there a similar tool to track .NET events for a particular form? Craig...more >>

Hi @ll, I'm working on a web project which has to use multiple channels to connect to receive several sources at once. The problem is, that I'm not aware of the maximum amount of Threads i can allocate to my channels. Can i open 10 threads, 100 threads even 1000? is there a general answe...more >>

Hi, I was working on an MDI application using Visual C++ 2005 .NET. In a child window, I have an instance of DataGridView control. If I open several child windows, they all work fine. However, if I close one of the child windows and try to add a row to DataGridView control that is active, ...more >>

I am trying to use the OracleDatatAdapter to connect to an oracle version 7.3.4.4 server. I am using an oracle 9i client. When i configure the adapter, the connection works and i can select from the tables. But I get an error after I select a table and the select sql is generated. I get a " OR...more >>

Hi! I've download the simple code here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.irdaclient.aspx when I try to build it,I can't found system.net.irda.dll in my .net framework.I put the dll file with the same name from the CFM,the programme crashed by an exception.Where can ...more >>

hi.. i've created xslt code snippets with shurtcuts, but the shortcuts don't seem to showup on intelisense? ...more >>

How can I clear a text file without deleting and creating a new (empty) file?...more >>

Is there some way in dotNet to get notified when my modem gets connected? Do I have to set up a hook using win32 api or can this be handled by the framework? If thru win32, what api function should I use? Thanks....more >>

I have just opened and tried installing .NET 2003 after uninstalling Visual Studio Express .NET 2005. It goes to item 1 - checking for necessary components. I hav gone to Windows Update - every time it says that there is an Office Service Pack 2 update, which I have installed at least 5 time...more >>

Can anybody tell me, whats the main difference between a BackgroundWorker and a Thread? What are the advantages/disadvanteges? When use a BackgroundWorker, when a Thread?...more >>

Hi, I'm currently developing a .net windows service, but still I've got some questions I couldn't find an answer to: - When will the service be started? When the computer is started - or when a user logs in? - If the service is started when the computer itself is started: What would a c...more >>

In C, printf allows us to specify a runtime (non-constant) field width of a formatted value by using the * character. Is there something like that for System.String.Format? In C#, I find myself having to use concatenation, which is awkward to write and to read: s.Format("{0," + fieldWidth.To...more >>

Hi, I am using crystal's bundled version with vs.net 2003/2005. I want to facilate my user to change report without my help. How can I ? Thanks in advance Hardik Shah. ...more >>

Dear all, I have used Crystal Report Viewer in my .Net application. However, when I run my application in user's PC, I got the error something like 'Can not find KeycodeV2.dll' Why? How to solve it? Thanks for any help! Tedmond...more >>

Please excuse the cross-posting. This question was raised in microsoft.public.dotnet.general but hasn't been answered so I am trying where I can. There are two of us who have the same problem in a service: the Timer::Tick event processor never gets called. We have set the timer interval, ...more >>

I have come across with what appears to be a significant performance bug in ..NET 2.0 ArrayList.Sort method when compared with Array.Sort on the same data. Same data on the same CPU gets sorted a lot faster with both methods using .NET 1.1, that's why I am pretty sure its a (rather serious) bu...more >>

Hello, I posted a question about conflicts between .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 back on March 20, but received no reply.. Did it just fall between the cracks? Here is my original post: I was looking on the Microsoft web page "How to Get Windows 'Monad' Shell Beta" at: http://www.microsoft.com...more >>

We are trying to decide if we should be porting our applictions to ..net. Are there main stream applications that are .net? We like the framework, but worry that if Microsoft decides to go another direction we would have wasted our time moving to .net. Are there any real world examples of c...more >>

I am getting a compile error ("No overload for 'Timer_Tick' matches delegate 'System.Threading.TimerCallback'") on the following code and can't figure out why. Does anyone have any ideas? public partial class CrystalService : ServiceBase { public CrystalService() { Initial...more >>

I dropped a Timer object onto a Windows Service and set enabled=true... however, it does not appear to be firing. Do I need to do something else? ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to write a text parser to group all nonprintable and control characters, spaces and space delimited words in different groups using Regex class. Using a parsing of (?<Commands>[ \x00-\x1f\x7f-\xfe])|(?<Spaces>[ \x20])|(?<Text>[ \x21-\x7e]+) on my sample text of \tOne\ncar red ...more >>

In my app I have a MessageBox like the following: this.MessageBox.Show("Hello"); Question: How do I encrypt the String "Hello" in C# (2.0), so that the user can't "directly" see the String, for example while using Lutz Roeders .NET Reflector? What about using SecureString?...more >>

I need to run a .NET1.1 program in a .NET2.0 CLR. The .NET1.1 exe starts correctly in .NET2.0. Now I want to debug in Visual Studio 2005. But when I try to open the .NET1.1 project, Visual Studio wants to convert it to .NET2.0 what I don't want. How can I make Visual Studio open a .NET1.1 proj...more >>

I am looking to debug javascript code imbeded in aspx page. I would like to attach an ie process and step through js code. The attaching part I am able to do. How do you break and step through in javascript? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi, I'm developing an HTML Editor Control using VB.Net 2003 for an application that used to use the DHTML Editor Control that is no longer supported. Well, it's been fun but I've hit a wall with an intermittent problem working with editing Hyperlinks. As you can see the following HTML co...more >>

HI, Is it possible to deploy asp.net project into websphere,if so how could we acheive ...more >>

I just looked in the folder that contains my .NET framework installations, and I have versions 1.0,1.1 and 2.0. Do I need the 1 series since I have version 2.0? Seems like it might just be a waste of space. TIA ...more >>

Hi, I have set my textbox's maxlength property to 1 , however it allow more than one word. Is there any settings that I am missing ? Thanks in advance Hardik Shah ...more >>

Hi, In my DAL i was thinking of adding a helper factory which will return a SQLHelper class or OracleHelper class. Is this a good idea? If so, can the helper class be singleton? Thanks...more >>

Hi, I want to set tab order for my form in vb.net 2003, Is there any menu or short cut for the task except manuall change the index of the control. Thanks in advance Hardik Shah ...more >>

Hello, I'm developing an application in C# using the WebBrowser control and need to toggle images off and on. After some digging, I found the appropriate registry key that needs to be set and then discovered how to inform other windows that a change has taken place via an Interop call to Sen...more >>

Hi, My Windows application has a time-consuming operation which I'd like to run on a separate thread so that the UI can remain responsive. I'm thinking of using the BackgroundWorker class and have referred to a relevant MSDN article at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.co...more >>

What is the best mechanism/ convention for preventing stacked datagrids from overlapping each other? I'd like to do something similar to a "can shrink/can grow" in an Access report for an aspx page which displays stacked grids. For example: DG_Allergies DG_Benefits It's possible fo...more >>

Hi everyone, I have an app that uses some DLL's that are shared across couple = applications. There are reasons existing that prevent me from putting = them in to the GAC. Each of these app's at some point in time loads a DLL dynamically in = this fashion: =20 System.Reflection.Assembly ...more >>

OK, I know how to encrypt and decrypt data, but here's the deal: I have a large Winforms .NET 2.0 application which is currently storing the connection string in the app.config file unencrypted (currently using Windows integrated security, so there's no password). There are only 3 users using...more >>

If i connect to my database and select all tables and views. Then I drag a few differnt tables onto differnt tabs on the same form. I know that the data isn't bound until the tab header is clicked. Yet is the entire datasource brougth into ram or just the table (or tables that are in the ...more >>

I have received an InvalidComObjectException in my code with the message "COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used". Can anyone explain (in simple terms) what this is trying to tell me? By the way, this exception is being raised in the destructor (Finalize ...more >>

There's a problem in my application that calls a remote web service's method, when it tries to connect to the webservice it displays this error: "The request failed with HTTP status 407: Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the...more >>

Hi, I've been having some frustrations with deleting files from the Isolated Storage directories. Basically, I want my application to remove all instances of configuration information for my application when the application is uninstalled. So, I created an uninstaller class that overrid...more >>

When you host a winforms control in IE using the object tag, do you need to be serving the control from ISS? If so, why? I would think that activation happens entirely on the client side so you wouldn't need any extra processing on the server side? -Ben...more >>

Does anyone know if any of the Windows Distributions are currently shipping with .Net 2.0? I am pretty sure that XP SP2 does not, but I assume that Vista does. Any further insight? Thanks, B ...more >>

C# I have a screen with 2 datagrids on it. The screen is designed for allocating records from one datagrid to the other. Once a record has moved from one to the other, i refresh them both to show the change. To do the refresh though, currently I am sending a request back to the DB to ref...more >>

Hi, I have a text box and DropDownList control and a validation control, When user entering a number in the text box, based on the entered number, the dropdrownlist value will change (document.getElementById('dnn_ctr-1_Register_ddReferral').value = document.getElementById("dnn_ctr-1_Register_t...more >>

Can anyone help me to get the information given if you open the status box of your internet connection? It gives connection speed, duration, bytes sent, and bytes received.Is there some way to read this information from performancelog?thankyou ...more >>

Hi.. Why is it impossible to add a "&" character to item in VS2005 menustrip? In properties, it preserves itself as "&", but in menu, shows up as some small line instead of &. Can you help?...more >>

Hi, I just want to put my comment about large fonts settings (on Desktop, properties, settings, advanced, 120 dpi) in Windows and impact it has to programming. I really don't understand who in Microsoft got this idea to implement large fonts in this way. I don't consider myself as compute...more >>

I have a couple of web servers running Windows Server 2003 Web Edition. I'm using the Load Balancing Manager to load balance these two machines in a server farm. Static content and .asp pages work without any problems. I enabled the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Service extension and I can browse to my ....more >>

I am creating a thread via "new Thread(new ThreadStart(p.ThreadProc))", is it safe for ThreadProc to use GetMessage/TranslateMessage/DispatchMessage instead of DoEvents? What I would like to do is to have messages posted to ThreadProc and have ThreadProc process those messages (similar to u...more >>

Is there a straight-forward way to know when an app is running in the VS IDE (versus the EXE) ?? Thanks ...more >>