Hi, I have a class with custom attributes. Aka [MyAttribute( "Joe")] I try to get value of my attribute, but inside the class where it's declared with this piece of code: string _ClassType = string.Empty; Type _object = Type.GetType( this.GetType().ToString() ); object[] _AttributeM...more >>

Hello, I have a web application that doesn't use SSL at all. We need to integrate it with another third party web application which only offers secure web services. How can I connect to a web service that is https? Is it sufficient in VS 2005 to just create a reference to the web service lik...more >>

(VS.NET 2003) I've been using 1.1 and just installed the Framework 2.0 and am trying to use the System.Net.Mail space and it doesn't come up. I check up in the Help->About Microsoft Visual Basic .NET... and it shows the current framework as 1.1 (version 1.1.4322, precisely). What do I nee...more >>

Hello, I hope I got the correct group about security issues I am having for an ASP.NET 2.0 application. I have a web app hosted on a server with Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6.0) which is on a seperate workgroup outside of the domain. This webapp needs to access a resource located on a server w...more >>

I have an IBM iSeries that lets me use part of its file system via Windows. I wanted to write a file monitor for files put there from the as400 side. However, after writing and testing my code with a local DOS directory, I find that events aren't raised when I do something like copy a file...more >>

Hiii I open a file download dialog from a modal dialog...From the file download dialog i can either save or open the file.. Is there a way i can let the modal dialog that opens the file download dialog know whether the user has clicked on the open button or the save button of the file downloa...more >>

I`ve downloaded messanger live 8.1, but after just one day the plus options was gone. Anyone who get a solution on this? ...more >>

Using C#, I have a screen that allows the user to enter a ZipCode. When focus is lost, the field is configured to do an autopostback to make several calculations and pre-populate several other fields based on the zip code. Then comes back to allow the user to manually supply any missing inform...more >>

Hi, As a .NET developer I want to run SQL Server 2005 and IIS on my laptop. I've already upgraded to Office 2005, and now I'd like to explore Vista (Ultimate). I've not been in the beta program, so I haven't used Vista yet. Question... is Vista Ultimate the appropriate platform for develo...more >>

Is there a WPF newsgroup anywhere? Marco ...more >>

Hi all, When I am creating a dataSet and add a data table within the designer, I am encountering the following error message: "failed to add datatable exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation." I know some user ahve already encounter this kind of problem but no solution f...more >>

Is there any way to use My.Application.Log. and have it NOT go to Application log file, but my specific application log file? Any way to set it in the config .app? Thanks,....more >>

I'm having trouble setting up offline folders with encryption under WinXP. I've followed the guidance provided here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312221 but when I try to synchronise I get "Access denied" errors - the folder structure is setup ok, the files are not copied over. The user h...more >>

Hi, I have a C#.NET project on my local computer where I use a third party library, "acPDFCreator.Net.dll" and "acPDFCreatorLib.Net.dll". I added these two .dll files as references and the program works well on my local machine. FYI, the output of the program is a service. Just now I copied...more >>

Am I missing something? Selecting the discussion group for posting questions is much more difficult than it should be. I have to scan through the entire list every time ... there appears to be no organization to the list .......more >>

I've successfully used System.Convert.ToBase64String to convert my files to Base64. Now I want to do the same for Quoted-Printable but I can’t see how that to achieve this. Can it be done? ...more >>

Is there a way to quickly determine if the key pressed was from 'A'-'Z' or '0'-'9' range? I really don't like to write switch with every Keys.A, Keys.B, etc key listed Paul...more >>

Hi, I want to create a mailto link from data coming from an SQLDataSource. How do I have to change the following code to get it working? The mailto works, outlook starts with a new message, but the email address has not been filled in because I don’t know how to pass the email variable in...more >>

I need to call a console application from my code. How can i do that? Thanks, Aiman Ashraf ...more >>

I've got an incrementTimer()-Function, which is called on mous click. It increments Windows.Forms.Timer interval and starts the timer... No problem so far. Now I want to do the same when IR-remote button is pushed. Therefore I've got a component in my project, which fires an event when user p...more >>

//Hi there, //I need help. //If I run the program and entered 100 at the prompt, I will get 45. //Which is a random number found in memory. Can anybody tell me what //am I doing wrong? #include "stdafx.h" #using <mscorlib.dll> using namespace System; using namespace Syst...more >>

I have a word doc that i want to convert over to a Pdf file How??? I have acr reader 7 but don't know how to convert it from there.......more >>

I submitted a question on Monday 5 February 2007 about the size of my file increasing when I save a file from my designer and now I can't find it?? -- bertie...more >>

hi, I have an Access database that uses some queries that call a function for formatting purposes. They work just fine. I am starting to develop an application in asp.net (VS 2005) using this database. I would like to call one of the queries that calls a function. I didnt think this was a b...more >>

Can both versions of Visual Studio be installed on a PC without any conflict between versions? ...more >>

1. Is there any good examples of writing custom rules in vb.net? 2. I have created a simple one, including the xml file, but when loaded in fxCop it says it cannot find the rules.xml file in the manifest. How do I get it there? 3. I want to check for hard coded email addresses in code, anyon...more >>

I have a web service. It creates a email and attached a file sitting one the network drive \\servername\filename. I tried UNC format and also try to mapping drive (eg. g:\text.txt or g:\\text.txt). I also check the permission of the file and file sharing (grant to everyone), I still got the ...more >>

Hello I have a managed class library (written in C#) that is used both in ASP.NET and Windows applications. How can I determine which platform has been called a class method in this library. Thanks in advance. Hamed ...more >>

....from a purely technical/benchmarking standpoint looking 10-15 years out. The concern being to best preclude/mitigate the situation currently facing VB6 migration issues right now. Concern is not with training $, existing developer knowledge, etc. If we are given two choices which langu...more >>

Hello There, I need to page a pager whenever an error event takes place in my app. What is the best approach in this? Should I use and modify the SerialPort class to talk to the modem. I hope someone wants to help me or has an example for me Thanks -- Regards, @win...more >>

Is there a way to save a custom layout in the Vb,net IDE. Other people use my machine an rest the layout to the default settings ...more >>

Morning group, I am relatively new to VB.NET programming and have a question that I hope this group can help me with. I am putting together a VB.NET component that will be accessed through collections and objects, like the VB6 treeview and/or listview. The component will be created as ...more >>

Some sage tech told me, in an online discussion on how to keep my computer clean and working smoothly, that it was ok to delete all of the "downloaded program files" that reside in that internet options, browsing history, settings, view objects, place....(i have IE7, so to get to them is a lit...more >>

Can you help me find a free, easy to setup and easy to use bug tracking database? I tried to run Bugzilla but it is a nightmare. I needn't have full features, only the ability to sumbit a bug and change its stauts would suffice. Thanks in advance....more >>

I have a dll that requires some configuration data. I put the configuration data in a custom configuration section in a config file that is loaded in the installation folder of the dll. If I install the dll to the same directory as the exe which uses it, everything works as expected but if I...more >>

Hello All! This seems pretty easy, but I'm missing something. In my app config file I have <add key="HL7File.Path" value="C:\Planes\STB" /> Then in my code I have below Windows Generated Code Protected HL7File As String = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("HL7File.Path") Then when I...more >>

Dear experts, There is a lot of talk these days about .net. I'm considering buying the software to pick it up. Yet something else to learn! I notice that you can get older standard version ..NET 2003 on the web. Much cheaper than the 2005 version. How much different is 2003 standard edit...more >>

Is there a way to grab the connectionstring value from the web.config in another project? I created a DataAccess layer to store my typed dataset and it automatically created settings.settings and app.config. The settings.settings grab the connectionstring from app.config. The problem I have is...more >>

Hi, I’m new to aspx and asp.net. We have a huge web based application developed in ASP. I started working with ASP.net and discovered the strength of this language. The idea is to start rewriting our asp based application page by page into asp.net. I rewrote one page in asp.net and the pa...more >>

Hi... Just want to clarify something here... Someone added in log4net to a bunch of our projects, adding external references to the .dll in the tree that they downloaded. Log4net is obviously set to generate an xml documentation file (1.3 meg). The thing that seemed odd to us is that...more >>

I have a listbox and auto generated lb_SelectedIndexChanged event that handles lb.SelectedIndexChanged. The event obviously fires when I change the selectedIndex visually with a mouse and also when I do lb.selectedindex=1 (any different value from what it was before) in various different su...more >>

I built a small application that took export files from a sales application, and transformed them into the format necessary for importing by an accounting application. Both the Sales and the accounting application are server applications. I built the conversion tool using .NET 1.1 on a Windows...more >>

Not sure this is the group I should ask my question. I have this string: [[_src|_alternate]] and I would like to have a RegEx pattern to replace it with: <a href="_src">_alternate<a/> (wiki way) I know so far to process [[some info]] <code> function ParseContent(byval sText as string) Dim...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know a good book about WCF? Thanks, José ...more >>

Hi; What is the correct syntax for checking for a file's existence based on it's extension ? Example: Imports system.io Dim path as string = "C:\myDirectory\*.txt" then If file.exists(path) then msgBox("File exists") end if The *.txt is ignored. Thanks for your help ...more >>

Hello, I need to open an excel Workboot from an existing excel file, but I get the following error: Old format or invalid type library Here is my code: Dim oExcel As Excel.Application oExcel = New Excel.Application Dim oWorkbook As Excel.Workbook oWorkbook = oExcel.Workbooks.Op...more >>

Hello everyone. I have a small class that encapsulates some functionallity to work with the RSACryptoServiceProvider. Here is the code of the class i'm using: public class dsRSA { private RSACryptoServiceProvider objRSA = null; public dsRSA(string keyContainerName) { CspPara...more >>

I want to call a Activex exe from .NET Webservice. I want to configure the server of activex exe in the web service (if tomorrow that Activiex exe is moved to some other location I do not want to re build my web service). I know one solution, of using tblimp to make a dll of the exe and use i...more >>

Hi have a table of customers in Access and wish to add a primary key and unique customer ID. Have been warned that adding customer ID field will corrupt existing data. Is there a way it can be done?...more >>

My designer has created a Word document with some graphics on his Mac. When he emails them to me they are normal size but when I change them and resave the file size goes up to 9Mb. I am workin gin Word 2003 on a PC. I am a very novice user so pls keep advice in relatively lay terms. Any help...more >>

I accidently unistalled my sonic cd and dvd burner file on Jan. 19. It says that you can restore a file that has been deleted anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks. I located the files and attempted to restore them. The computer goes through all the motions, but it says that it cannot restore the files. ...more >>

Cannot configure fonts in outgoing messages. Font color defaults to white, signature block does not appear - ideas?? ...more >>

Hi, Reading about WCF I had this feeling that .net remoting has been left behind. There's a lot about webservices but nothing about remoting which suprises me as MS was encouraging to use it in non-heterogeneous applications before .net 3.0 was released. This is not a technical question, it...more >>

Hello everyone, I would really appreciate if someone helped me in this matter cause I am going to lose my mind... I am using a Sony Vaio Laptop with Windows XP professional (512MB Ram, 1,7 GHz CPU clock, 50GB Hard disk) and for the past 10 days i have noticed that my hard disk space is decrea...more >>

I cant get i tunes/ quicktime working on the computer, I had both of these before but they are not working now for some reason. Advice given on Apple site was to uninstall and then install again. When I did this got the message: "The installer encountered errors before iTunes could be con...more >>

I downloaded and ran the New Window Vista Adviser to see what I needed to do to install the New Windows Vista, afterward, I went to Control Panel, then to Add/Remove Program to remove the Adviser, the Change/Remove button was not displayed,how can I return it to the site?...more >>

I ned know how set the number of rows obtained from a interbase 2.0 query, hi have tried with instructions has fetch rows, limit, top... but i didn't have found a correct result, Please if somebody can help me! (for example... i need get the rows to 5 to 10 from the sql sentence select field1...more >>

Well I must be the only one that cant print in office 2007!! lol.. I cant find the printer icon in office word 07????its nowhere!! i cant even find the file tab!! please help!!! i feel so stupid!! tks shannon l b...more >>

I just got Vista and it works great, but.... I connected my 360 through media center a a few days ago and it all worked fine but I noticed that my signal strength through my wireless network was very week. So i purchased a Linksys Range Extender and that really boosted my signal strength ho...more >>

I've a number of objects (classes) defined in an application which I'm using to model packets on a network. I have a class hierarchy of Packet (inherited by) EthernetPacket (inherited by) IPPacket (inherited by) TCPPacket. I've some control logic which takes in a data stream and determines wh...more >>

HELP! Upon logon I get a blue screen/fatal error. BTW, I am fairly tech-wise. I tried safe mode, etc. Can I use the CD that came w/my Inspiron to resolve? B Blake...more >>

My OS is: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2 I get the following error every time I boot up. Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. In the event log, it has the follow...more >>

as you know, when we input a formula in cell of axspreedsheet, it will become its responsed result. But I need it display the formula rather than its results! -- marxi...more >>

Hi all, I have written a UserControl for the use as a mini shopping cart/basket on my website, I am saving the items in a Session variable. My problem is that when the add item button is clicked the Page_Load event in the UserControl is fired before the add button_click. So the page has to...more >>

Is there a way using SMO to find out if an object exists? I want to find out if this sp exists on the server [dbo].[spGetActiveEmps] I know I would have to use something like: theserver.Databases.Item(DBName).StoredProcedures.Item([dbo].[spGetActiveEmps]) ...more >>

Hi, I am getting this when I run it on asp.net 2.0 but works find on asp.net 1.1 Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that <machineKey> configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot ...more >>

Hi, My case is simple: I use a httpwebrequest to authenticate to a web site (using POST method) and I get the auth cookie in a cookiecontainer. I can then re-use this cookie container to make requests to protected areas of a web site. Now what if I want to open one of these protected pages in...more >>

Hi, I created a COM object using C# and I installed it with a batch that looks something like this - ECHO OFF PATH = C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 set target=C:\mydll.dll echo * Unregister %target% with v2.0.50727 regasm.exe /u %target% // Delete mydll.dll and compy new d...more >>

i am creating a formula editor and would like to provide intellisense feature to the textbox in formula editor. does any one know how can i do that? thanks...more >>

I was basically wanting to know how to use the System.Configuration namespace to be able to load an arbitrary number of unknown attributes on an element in a custom section in the .config into a NameValueCollection. Basically I want to do something similiar to what occurs with a System.Conf...more >>

Hi All, Let me present you with list of consultants currently available. Name / Job Title Summary Ramchandran/Java =B7 7+ years experience in the field of Software Development. =B7 Expertise in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) =B7 Expertise in J2EE architecture and applicati...more >>

Hi , i'm looking for code/method to get process list AND order of these processes in task manager. For instance , in task manager ( or on the windows task bar ) you have 5 applications , i would like to recover the order of these applications ( 1 to 5 ) I fould process list in System...more >>

My app sends a couple of eMails per day using SmtpClient. Infrequently the mail-server returns "Sorry, over your relay limit". I don't understand why relaying is an issue here. Is SmtpClient acting as a mail-server itself? All I would want it to do is to log into my provider's mail-server and...more >>

I have a gridview on my form which I have populated using a datareader. What I would like to do is to be able to remove specified records from the gridview, without affecting the source of the data. I'm a bit confused about how to go about removing the rows - all the google searches I have don...more >>

Hi, I have a GridView and a SqlDataSource controls on a page. The SqlDataSource object uses stored procedures to do the CRUD operations. The DataSource has three columns one of which - "Modified" of type DateTime - is hidden since it should not be edited by a user. The system handles the ...more >>

Hi, We are trying to encode to ISO-8859-1, but we have problems doing it using the encoders in .NET. We get some unknown characters in some culture which comes out fine if we post (from IE) from a page in ISO-8859-1 to another page using ISO-8859-1, but cannot take a .NET string or a UTF-8 st...more >>

Windows xp: When I try to open a word document, I get the message that "a dialogue box is open, close the dialogue box and try again." I don't know what to do. I don't have word, but I have downloaded the software allowing me to read word. please give lost of detail I am new to this. ed...more >>

Hi, In a .NET 2.0 winforms application, I've got a textbox that, when updated, uses the validated event to cascade the change to another textbox (along with another value). This works well if the user does indeed move the cursor to another textbox, but if the user clicks my "done" toolstrip...more >>

hard drive crashed...new one installed and most programs up and running fine again. problem is that although parental controls appear to be functioning...I can't see them ro change anything. When I click on the link to set the controls, or change the controls , it navigates to the page and i...more >>

I'm fairly new to C# although I have been taking some classes. Regardless I am attempting to create a form that essentially has a scrollable window where users can enter information in a table format, similar to excel. Also need the capability of radio button/checkboxes generated for each line...more >>

Hi! I use tcp remoting channel and I need to perform user authentication via Kerberos. As I understand, tcp channel uses NegotiateStream that tries Kerberos first and if it falls NTLM is used. Only thing that is necessary for kerberos authentication is that service principal name has to be sp...more >>

When I right click on My Computer, manage, I get a pop-up with the title "SQL Server Configuration Manager" In the pop up appears the following message: "MMC has detected an error in a snap-in. It is recommended that you shut down and testart MMC" What should I do to avoid and solve this p...more >>

To all, I was wondering if someone has sample VB.NET code that will help me send rows of a gridview into a body section of an e-mail. My goal is to present multiple rows within a gridview to a table like format within an e-mail message. Thanks for any help, Michael...more >>

I deleted an account with payments linked to it, but clicked the wrong button to delete the payment transactions linked to the account. The transactions that where linked to the account still show in my cashflow forecast and I cannot delete them, so hence my cashflow forecast is wrong. i have...more >>