When I attempt to create a CMS-enabled project in Visual Studio .NET 2003, I receive the following error: Could not create virtual directory 'http://<site_name>/CMS' in location 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Content Management Server\server\IIS_CMS\'. I have worked on finding a solution to t...more >>

Hi All, Does anyone know if it's possible to grab the raw payload data from a TCP packet, using .NET (C# to be exact). I'm writing a piece of software that communicates to a networked device using a protocol encapsulated inside TCP. The structure of the protocol is such that stream semanti...more >>

I have created a windows service using vb.net which uses a filesystemwatcher to monitoe files in a specifc directory, if images are added to the directory they are resized and saved in a remote directory. The original file is then backed up and deleted from the image directory. The code is ...more >>

Hello, I am doing the below code. for (int n = 0; n < 1000; n++) buffer[n] = data[FrameNumber, n]; Here, buffer is one dimension int array and data is two dimensions array. Is there any better way to copy from two dimensions array to one dimension array in ...more >>

Currently I am generating a GUI program. When I first run the program the memory is 80megs (viewed in the processes in the task manager). If I minimize it reduces to 3megs. Then maximize it increases to 12. Could anyone explain this to me? and maybe suggest a way to reducing the memory ...more >>

Can anyone tell me if there is a separate newsgroup for Team Foundation Server and related technologies? ...more >>

I'm trying to write a c# command line app that runs report dll's at set times. The dll's are written in c# with a common interface so by passing the object name from the command line I can create ao instance ot the object & create the report. In VB I used code like: Set obj = Creat...more >>

I have a vb.net application that emails people daily information. I want to set an expiry for the email so that those who cannot check their emails for a period are not loaded with them when they are finally checked. Please help...more >>

Hi, I have set up a new web site application in VS 2005, and have created a couple of pages which seem to run ok. I then manually added a file called Global.asax.vb, within a folder that I also manually created 'App_Code' with the start code as below: Imports System.Security Imports Sy...more >>

I have a long list of events. I know where each event took place (globally) and when (using the event’s local time). I want to do some comparisons between these date/times. I thought I would convert them all to UTC and thus get them all on a common time-line. But I can’t see how to do this...more >>

Hi all, I don't think a solution exists, but maybe there is some option in Visual Studio that I do not know about. When developping (or debugging), I like to set the "exceptions" option to "break when the error is thrown", even for handled exceptions, because a general purpose error hand...more >>

Hi all, I need to make a scheduling service that will call an exe file. As I understand it, the exe can return a status code from its Main method. My question is, how do I programmatically: a. Call the exe b. Get the status code returned from the exe I anyone could point me in the ...more >>

I just upgraded from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Visual Studio .NET 2005. There are several questions I have about the code differences between them (I use VB.NET for as my language of choice): 1. 2003 used "Public Class classname" and 2005 uses "Partial Class classname". What, if any, diffe...more >>

I recently upgraded from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Visual Studio .NET 2005. Visual Studio .NET 2005 does not create the Global.asax files that Visual Studio .NET 2003 did, which I used for variables such as the location of my database. What is the conventional way of creating global variables...more >>

Hello all In our project we have been using the samAccount name to authenticate users against the active directory. As the samAccountName is limited to 20 characters, we are going to use the userPrincipalName. Unfortunately, i couldtnt make it work until now. I ve got a .Net programm that a...more >>

I recently upgraded from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Visual Studio .NET 2005. I have several projects that I created in Visual Studio .NET 2003, but when I try to open them in Visual Studio .NET 2005 it tries to force me to convert them. for some of these it would be fine, but some of them run ...more >>

Hi I am looking for some .NET blog software which I can use at my own website. I do not have access to a SQL Server, but I do have access to a MySQL database, and I can have an access database, if I want to. Preferably in .NET 2.0 but 1.1 will do... Any thoughts? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi Folks, Just to mention, I haven't got a problem, I haven't done this yet , but I'd like to check up front. I've got Windows XP professional svc pack 2.0 and all the latest updates I have VS .net 2003 (framework vs 1.1) and SQL Server 2000 svc pack 3 Can I install VS.net 2005 and SQL...more >>

I'm having an intermittent problem with IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 installed on Windows XP. The images, style sheets and JavaScript files are not loading to the browser. Sometimes a refresh will fix the page, sometimes I have to delete the cache before it will load properly...more >>

Hello all, We are re-developing a software product that requires push technology (wireless and hardwired). Microsoft used to support this technology in IE but dropped it for whatever reason. The system is a dispatch application. When a call comes in, the operator will assign a vehicle(...more >>

Hello! We are upgrading one of our apps from VB6 to VS2005(VB). Barcode printing is part of the app. What we used to do is send the printer command directly to the printer. Printer.print {long printer command} would work. Since that doesn't exist anymore, how do we go about sending this ...more >>

I have a file with non-ISO extended-ASCII format, but my program only reads ISO ascii characters. How to do? thx ...more >>

Hi! Inline attachments (images) doesn't seem to work. I have a html-document that I know works fine. This works fine in another mailing-product for me. Not sure if to use attachment with dispositiontype inline or like in these snippet, alternativeview and linkedresource? Can anyone see what...more >>

Hello all, I am trying to use the example for encrypting connection strings called: How To: Build And Run the Protected Configuration Provider Example. This is located in VS 2005 help at: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_aspnetcon/html/7ed8b347-c790-4768-9ae3-...more >>

I'm having problems trying to configure MSDE on Windows XP home edition. I think I've followed the advice on kb 841252. I've added the sqlserver.exe file to the Windows Firewall allowables, I've also enabled SQL Server port on the McAfee Firewall (incoming and outgoing port 1433). Also ran svr...more >>

Hi.... I have a windows app with I have deployed to the web server. I know there is a way to monitor the site to see if the version of the application has changed, and to automatically restart the application when a newer version is available. Does anyone know where for find sample code fo...more >>

Hi Guys, I was wondering if someone could help me out with the following requirements <mydocument> <div id="other"> <a href="linkother">linkother</a> </div> <div id="hello"> <a href="link1url">link1</a> <a href="link2url">link2</a> </div> </mydo...more >>

Hello, Most of the examples I've seen with XMLReaders, serialization, etc,. involve a text file on a file system. Does anybody have a start to finish VB.NET example of reading an XML Document object (binary) and parsing it? The object I'm receiving is w3c compliant. I have somewhat of a Ja...more >>

Hello All, My Problem: Dynamic column – Example, if there is an Employee details, I should able to add or remove columns very easily. Selected Model: Meta-data model – storing all the values as key and value pair in a single table and two sporting tables for table name and column name ...more >>

My friend and I are entrusted to develop a small web based application using ASP and SQL Server database. We are using IIS as the web server. My friend has some background in web programming and I unfortunately have none, so I am taking the role of database designer and application tester. The I...more >>

Not sure if this is the right group, but anyway. I've built a setup project in vs2005 to install my program. All works fine, until I issue an update. If anyone tries to install it, they get the error "Another version of this product is already installed". They then need to go to Add/Remove pro...more >>

Hi, I would like to do something like this page: http://www.stocklayouts.com/Products/Postcard/Postcard-Template-Design-Library.aspx?kwid=38 Notice when you mouse-over any of the icons under each thumbnail, a little description will appear to tell you what the icon is for. Okay, so I hav...more >>

I have a vb.net service which copies images and resizes images from a local directory to a remote one. When I drop images into the local directory I get an out of memory error after several images - the exception is on the following line. Dim img As Image = Image.FromFile(path) The machin...more >>

Hello, Here is call for help.... and the answer is probably simple but I do not know where to start! I have a class library that I am building. I want this class library to reside in one location on my network and allow all other departments to use this library to enter their data throug...more >>

I developed a custom file attachments class for an application and from the UI the user can choose to upload attachments. There is a add method that takes a FileAttachmentCollection object, runs a for each, and uploads each attachment. I was thinking that it would be nice to allow it to be N...more >>

I was looking in the new mail namespace but could't find anything regarding receiving email, only sending (SMTP Client). Are there any classes available for IMAP or POP3? I would like to query an email server using certain credentials to determine if there are any emails messages to process. A...more >>

Hi all, I have a VB.NET app that sets up the default tray for reports to print to. Values returned from Papersource.Kind are stored in a table for the user group and report. This all worked fine until the users bought a new printer with four trays, two of which tray 3 and Tray 4 return the ...more >>

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me out. I'm building a vb.net application that has a form with a panel that contains several other sub forms (as a collection of controls). What I'm wanting to do is call a generically named public sub in the top-most sub form in the panel. I have the name o...more >>

How do you go about this. Can some point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance....more >>

hi i am using one dll in my application.in runtime the dll displays a dialog box for output location.but i wont to give the output location through my code. can any body give me suggetion how to do or atleast how to proceed. th...more >>

I have some simple (private) types... Friend Enum Types Value1 Value2 End Enum Friend Structure Detail Dim Type As Types End Structure Friend Class Parser Friend Function GetDetail() As Detail Dim _Detail As New Detail _Detail.Type = Types.Value2 ...more >>

Hi, Suppose I have a class: public class Test { public string a; public int b; } Now I want to access the value of variable a of the instance of the class Test (@_@). public class App { public static void Main(string[] args) { Test test = new Test(); test.a = ...more >>

When I am opening a setup project in VS2005 I get th error : "An error occurred while validating. HRESULT = '80040155'" I dont know how fix this problem. Please help. ...more >>

Using SQL Server 2005 and .NET 2.0; I'm creating a Windows Forms application that will need to display photos of people, along with a bunch of information about each person. In a Web application, there is a generally accepted "best practice" of storing only a string (the path to the .jpg fi...more >>

Hello all I am working on creating a Web application I am using C# code behind ..NET1.1 Rather than navigate to a new window, I want to open a seperate IE window when the user clicks a button. Addionally, I want to send a (query ?) string to the window to be displayed. This will be used to ...more >>

Any idea why the following code is giving me the error "CS0246: The type or namespace name 'SeminarDataAdapter' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)" It looks like Ive declared an instance of the OleDataAdapter object type for SeminarDataAdapter c...more >>

When I put < pages smartNavigation='true' /> in my web.config windows requests the user to authenticate to the server. Is there anything I'm doing or settings that I have which would cause this? TIA, Marc Miller ...more >>

Hello my manager has a question in regards to being able to give access to a file to a computer only. This file will be either sent to or downloaded from the client computer. For example we are a pharmaceutical company selling formulas to our customers(paper-based). If we are to put up our fo...more >>

Hi there, can anyone tell me what the message "Method x can not be reflected" means in English? ...more >>

I don't want the users to type in any new items but select only what is on the list. Here's my code to load the ASP:DropDownList: '---------------------------------------------------------------------------- '-- ADD ITEMS TO THE TYPE DROP DOWN BOX '----------------------------...more >>