back in 1978 (!) the VAX/VMS serial line driver offered everything a developer needs to develop protocols of all kinds: - read x bytes - read to end of line - read to special character - read to one in a set of special characters - and of course synchronous and asynchronous using events and ...more >>

Hi All I am desperately looking for some help in design issues, wondering if you could help me!!! I am desigining an n-tier .NET web application with UI--Facade--BusinessLogic--DataAccess---Database layers.using ASP.NEt2, C#2, SQLServer2000.... I have used Codesmith code generation too...more >>

Could someone explain to me when it is appropriate to call the Dispose() method that is contained in most .Net Framework Objects. The MSDN says that Dispose: Releases all resources used by the Object and or Releases the unmanaged resources used by the Object and optionally releases the...more >>

I have various feedback devices for model railroad equipment (loco tracking) that connect to LPT. How do I read data from LPT using VB.NET 2005? thanks herbert...more >>

i'm using the same ajax method in my codeBehind on about 5 different pages. each ajax method is exactly the same, so i wanted to put it in a module and just call from there, but this gives me a javascript error about the method not being found. does anybody know if there's a way around this? ...more >>

We are having issues with our windows services using memory and never releasing it. We have one service that has a file watcher which takes an xml file, inserts some records into a database, and creates a bunch of PDFs with Crystal Reports. Another service is a remote object which serves as ...more >>

I have a VS 2005 Windows Service with a Installer project as part of my solution. The Service installs fine but I can't seem to make either of these work: 1. Have the service start after install 2. Have the service interact with the SysTray In my ProjectInstaller.vb Private Sub ...more >>

What happened to the Microsoft Vision SDK? I found some references too it on the web but was not able to find more than a mention of it on MSDN. I ran across an old PDF “The Microsoft Vision SDK” versions 1.2 dated May 2000. It describes a library for use with c++ 6.0. Is there any M...more >>

Hi is there a way to take a snap shot image of a winform and save it to a file, simillar to how we can print the image of a winform using the graphics objects. Thanks in advance....more >>

I am using the filesystemwatcher to track the movement of files from folder to folder. I am tracking how long it takes for each file to get from point A to point B. I have been able to do this, but would like to know if the filesystemwatcher signals in realtime? I also noticed when the file...more >>

In a project I am working on, it sounds like resource files are what I need (to group things like error message strings). If I put a resource file in a project, everything will work fine. However, what I would like to be able to do is to put the resource files in a code library of some sor...more >>

Hello all! I'm writing a simple C# application, that should day by day open a particular web site and download a text file (new file is generated by the server daily). I'm using Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX, and I cannot simply provide the file URL in my app, because of: 1) First, I sho...more >>

I have installed the IIS on XP professional ,everytime i try to create a new web application it gives an error sayin that the web server is not started..... I have tried a lot of things.... 1)i checked if the service is working in the admin tools.services.IISAdmin yes its strated on automatic...more >>

Hello, I replaced the calendar control to 3 dropdownlists(day,month and year) coz i want to display the calendar as just like DTPicker in vb.6. But i cant able to display like that. The form ocupies more space. But i am facing another problem. My table structure is staff(empid integer...more >>

I've noticed (for quite some time now) that .Net UIs are not as responsive (see Franklin Covey's PlanPlus for Windows XP or Symantec's .Net Norton Antivirus or even the .Net version of Paint done by Washington University vs good old Paint UIs for examples). They are also not as professional...more >>

Hi EB, What should be the regex query if, my Regex search should be successfull only if, NONE of the words are found in the text being searched. Any gives ? Thanks in advance, Nilesh Padbidri. ...more >>