My computer currently uess windows xp. I recently found out when trying to download an upgrade that my software couldn't be validated. I am hoping that someone can tell me how to uninstall this software and install valid software. -- xoxoxoxoxox Sistahgurl xoxoxoxoxox...more >>

Hi , I want to do MCAD , so i want to join the MCAD Certification classes , I have little bit experience with Visual Studio 2005 , I am working in Concord (california) , so i am looking for school some where around in bay area , if anybody knows about the schools , i will really appr...more >>

I got the Vista & Xp machine on a wired network and I can access the Xp machine no problem. The trouble is Xp is looking for a Username & password to access the Vista machine. In the network and sharing center, If I select public folder sharing or Printer sharing, it says that a password is ...more >>

Dear all, Reasonably new to .NET I am confused. Some of the .exe assemblies I am creating using VS2005 are requiring User Account Control confirmation on Vista, but some are not. I am not intentionally (could have done it by accident I suppose) specifiying anywhere that they should need Adm...more >>

when turning on computer comes updll user 32.dll was relocated in memory because dllc:\windows\systems32\hhctrl.ock has occupied an address range reserved for windows systems dlls -- thankyou...more >>

Hello I'm wondering if anyone have some good ideas/solution to a problem I'm working on. Target: Give the user a "MS World" like document UI to work with when editing data stored in a object model. The application this will be used in is a rich-client. An simplified version of the model ...more >>

my network card does not have a Passphrase to hexadecimal WEP conversion capability which means when i travel I have difficulty getting on a network. I have found an on line option http://www.powerdog.com/wepkey.cgi but it is useless if i cannot get on. Can I do the same thing in VB6? Where w...more >>

Hi, If I get the ACL of a desktop folder, I do not get the 'right' security settings. For example the right Read is true when I check using the security properties in the windows explorer. The strange thing is that in comparison with a normal folder (say c:\temp) in the code below bReadAll...more >>

Is there a way to force a "traditional" full page postback in AJAX? I have a page with multiple UpdatePanels and I usually call UpdatePanel.Update() to do a partial postback, but I have one condition that requires an update to several controls that are not in an UpdatePanel and it makes sen...more >>

Hi! I am looking for a simple way to validate members in my own System.Collections.Generic.List<> derived class? In CollectionBase, I can override OnValidate - is there a similar functionality in List<>? Regards Niels Harremoë ...more >>

I want to check an emailbox (that does not offer forwarding functions) and forward the mail in it to my new account. That's not a problem. But, I want the mails that I forward to my new email account to look and act like they came from the original sender (i.e. when I click reply, I want the...more >>

I just recently bought a refurb laptop with XP Home Edition (all updates current.) Now in Outlook 2003 as well as Word I get a message when I highlight a block of text to delete. Specifically I get: "Delete Block? No, (Yes)" Then I have to hit the "Y" key on the keyboard to delete the select...more >>

Hello All, I have created a custom "field" object in .Net that implements IOleObject. It inherits from "System.Windows.Forms.Label". It also has several public properties that contain data to be recalled later. I have also provided COM identity by exposing ClassID, InterfaceID, and EventsID...more >>

im looking to buy a new laptop with vista, could anybody tell me which microsoft works software is compatible with vista....more >>

I FOUND MY FIX!!!! I think my problem was i didnt have access to the Documents folder in My Computer. Not sure how that happend. But heres a fix for it and more fixes I have tried that might help someone else... http://www.zunmp3player.com/help/zune-software-installation-error-1317-resolv...more >>

When I first installed VS, there was a different company name than there is now and now I need to change the default company. I'm talking about the default company name that exists in the copyright info when you create a new assembly. Changing the company name on the MSDN subscription is p...more >>

I came across a code sample in a book that I am reading that uses a dependency property. I looked at some of the documentation for dependency properties but, for some reason, the concept is not clicking. Can anyone provide an simple explanation of what they are and why I need them or point ...more >>

Hi, I'm fairly new to Vista and was wondering if it is possible to administer a DNS server on Vista (if one is available) using .Net? I have used the System.Management namespace for DNS administration on Windows 2003 server, but can't find the DNS server anywhere on Vista, nor any rela...more >>

How do I set my mail account to receive and send from Gmail and Yahoo...more >>

Hi, Has anyone worked out a way of speeding this up? I spent over £4000 on licences for my company and installed it first on my laptop only to find it super slow during send/receive and then to learn from all the posts on the web that it is a known and very common issue so i can't roll it ou...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to do some online game that would contain similar thing to one much popular in such game.s I mean the thing when you click some option and then a timer starts and you get a new level or something after the specified period of time. Could you please explain to me how to imple...more >>

New to databinding in vs2005, I always did it manually in 2003. I have no problem loading comboboxes, and a change in that combobox changes the data in the textboxes but I can not figure out a way to get the data in a datagridview to change. For example 2 columns are ID and amount_paid, the ...more >>

I'm using VS2005 Winforms. I want a method to allow the user to be able to interrupt an SQL query if he decides he doesn't want to wait for it any longer. I've used IAsyncResult to open an async connection that runs an ExecuteNonQuery, but this method doesn't allow interruption (EndExecu...more >>

In Microsoft architecture diagrams, I always see 3 layers of application structure: web server, application server and database server. Web server is IIS. Database server is SQL server. What do you use for application server? COM+ server is for COM interface which is not ideal for .NET ap...more >>

Hello, I'm writing my own mini-CMS. Default.aspx has a placeholder which i dynamicly populate with Web User Controls. On of these controls consists of three Gridviews. The Select command doesn't get fired when I click 'Select' on these gridviews. But, when I create an empty aspx page, wit...more >>

hi, I have few projects in my solution and they all access a single Acces Database. I want to create a coonectionString that is unique to the whole solution, however when I set the ConnectionString in the configuration file it is specific to a PROJECT in the solution, not the whole soultion...more >>

Is there any way I can access .net application through mainframe....more >>

I want to improve the response time of my application. I have 3 options: 1. Run both ASPX pages and our business objects on web server and use web farm technology. 2. Move our business objects to COM+ as serviced components. Then run our web pages on web servers in a web farm. And run COM+ ...more >>

I am having some trouble installing Zune for my Xbox360. I see that alot of people are having problems but I can seem to find a fix for me. I download Zune from the website, installs all the way until the last minute, than says an error during the install, close apps and restart PC. Here is ...more >>

Hi, I have the Enterprise Architect version installed on one machine, and the developper edition on another (VS.Net 2005). To my surprise, the performance tools are only available (in the menu system) on the developer instalation. Is that realy so? Is there a way to get them in the Arc...more >>

At the moment i am trying to write into a richtextbox using the Rtf call from another richtextbox. However realising that richtextbox do not have multithreading - i know i need to invoke this item and make it multithreaded safe. But i cannot find a single good example of how to do this. The ...more >>

I am currently working on moving our business objects into COM+ serviced components. But in the process, there are too many changes such ComVisible and serviced component does not support parameterized constructors. So I am thinking whether I should change to use .NET remoting instead. Have...more >>

Hi, Does anyone has a link or sample code of how to use the above two classes. We want to to perform the following: 1. Have a ControlA in Toolbox 2. When we drop it on the form we generate ControlB class as internal class declared in the form and create an instance of this ControlB class...more >>

Hi! I need to parse an input string. The string must consist of 1, 2 or 3 float numbers separated with blanks: Regex r = new Regex(@"^\s*(?<x>[0-9.]+)(\s+(?<y>[0-9.]+)(\s+(?<z>[0-9.]+))*)*\s*$", RegexOptions.ExplicitCapture); Match m = r.Match(intput_str); string x, y, z; if (m.S...more >>

I recently upgraded my computer from Windows ME to Windows XP. Before upgrading I saved my files on a CD. After I upgraded I am unable to decipher anything on the CD. It appears to be in code or something foreign. Is there anyway to decode my CD so I can read its contents? Thanks for the help....more >>

Hello When i add new resource files to my usercontrol project and i compile the project a i get a error message in the event log Activation context generation failed for "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\AL.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorArchitecture="x...more >>

hi, i am mariya. i am working on vb.net. i have created the powerpoint addin. i have inserted the chart on the slide through vb.net code. now, i want to remove the gridlines on the chart and want to remove the y axis. i am not able to get the exact object and properties of the axis . can u plz ...more >>

Hello, I have to submit a file via HyperTerminal using my PC's internal modem on a daily basis. Does anybodoy know how to accomplish this in VS2005? Any language is good, VB preferred. Thanks. Regards, C a r l o s A n t o n i o ...more >>

I'm working on a Web Application where we control access to our Web Pages by using Roles. We assign which roles can view which web pages in our Web.sitemap file. Due the nature of our Application we needed to create our own Cusomt Role Provider that will go out to the database and get the ro...more >>

Picture the cut down scenario... Say I have three datatables (Person, Address, Street) that are linked with datarelation objects using the PK/FK associations... Person -------- PersonId {PK} AddrId {FK} Forename .... Address ---------- AddrId {PK StreetId {FK} HouseName .... ...more >>

I'm ported several existing projects from VC++6.0 to .NET2003. I seem to have a problem with ShellExecute() however, as in: // Opens a browser HINSTANCE rc; rc = ShellExecute (NULL, "open", "http://123.456.789.001", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED); This works as expected w...more >>

Been struggling with the code below for the last couple of days: m_hSerialHandle = CreateFile("COM1:", GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, /*FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED*/0, NULL); With VC++6.0, this executes fine and I am able to establish a connection w/ a device via COM1 h...more >>

Hi folks, We have a dll in the GAC (a dll that we created but lost the source code for). We would like to pull a copy of the dll out of the GAC (to install it on another server). I have tried browsing to the GAC and hitting Ctrl+C on the dll, but that does not work. The GAC utility can in...more >>

Dear all, I have build a library with .NET 2.0 I want to deliver that library for beeing referenced by a .NEt 1.1 project. For that, on the machine where I have .net 1.1 installed and VS2003, I copy my 2.0 library into a folder. then from the 1.1 project I add reference to that library. Doi...more >>

Hi, Can anyone tell me how i can use group policy to set one default font in microsoft office 2003? Or if you have another answer for my problem please let me know! Thanks!...more >>

Hi all. I have very uncommon problem. I am running IIS 6.0 on 2xXEON dual core 3.06 (8 virtual CPUs) with 4 gb of Ecc ram and i get system.outofmemory exception on asp.net website. Thing is that i have big load on site (site is a crawler that visits 500k pages daily). I have optimized the co...more >>

Hello all! This may seem stupid, but here it goes. In my load event I have a bunch of Add Handler statements for a file watch process. Here is a sample. I have 8 of these little gems goin on. Basicly this is looking for a *.rb file to create a another window in the program. I can go into ...more >>

I would like a particular business object to ask for validation when a property is set to a specific value. In this case, I have a TimeStart property and a TimeEnd property. When creating a new object, the default for these properties is Now. However, saving the data with both values set to no...more >>

KeyedCollection is a very handy little class, that unforutnatly has a nasty bug in it. The bug (which I ran across) causes the following code to fail: if (!rooms.Contains(room)) _rooms.Add(room); The problem is that contains returns "false", but then Add throws an exception because...more >>

why is it that microsoft always has to use the word "RICH", everytime they describe some component of .net or new software release? can someone please tell me the company's RICH attachment to that word? I think I'm going to start a new .NET app. It will fire everytime I navigate to MSDN.c...more >>

I have databound a Windows form ComboBox control to a DataSource and DataMember and it is properly showing the data as I navigate through the records. My question concerns the choices in the pull-down list itself. The Field is Priority and the only available choices should be "High", "Low", "...more >>

When I try to serialize an instance of the LocationCell below (note Building field) I get an error in the reflection attempt. If I remove the _Building field it serializes fine. I tried renaming Building._Name to Building._BName in case the duplicate name was the issue, but that didn't help....more >>

Hi, I am a newbie to .NET/Networking if I develop a project in 1. VB.NET + SQL server database 2. ASP.NET + SQL server database 3. .NET ( vb or asp) + Access database Which one is advisable, in terms of hardware, security, cost...? one more thing, my user has just internet connectio...more >>

Hi to all, I have a lot of windows XP 64 OEM wkts and I want to install Windows XP Pro on this wkts. Did the license of XP 64 cover this downgrade? Should I reinstall all the system without bought any licence of XP Pro? Thanks...more >>

Hi all, I have a VC++ project built in VS6.0. I now want to migrate the project to .NET with Visual studio 2003. The only reason being the availability of the function "_strtoi64" in .NET which has a critical role in my project. Also i guess migrating to this environment is inevitable may be in...more >>

Hello, I've installed VS2005 and VBS6, and when I launch VBS6 VB2005 installs many components at every starts ... (20Minutes at least). Does anyone knows why and how to bypass it? Regards, Peter....more >>

Hi Everybody, I am new to Famework Programming and I need your help. In Visual C++ .NET Forms. Labels. If I want to add XXXX to the label, I can do that through the "Text" property in the property editor. But I want to add the XXXX during run time. In other words I w...more >>

I have typed in lots of notes on each power point screen. And when I use my projector to display the presentation all my notes are observable. There must be some way to keep my notes hidden from the viewers and only observable to me on my own computer screen. Anyone got any ideas about how ...more >>

Hi, Is it possible in visual studio 2005 at design time to link a control on Form 1 to another control on Form 2. Regards Charles Mifsud Shireburn Software Ltd....more >>

Hi, I am trying to establish a telnet session to do screen scraping. This device returns some custom escape sequences, which I can ignore, and some standard escape seq's. At your suggestion, I used Ethereal and netcap.exe. On negotiation the server requests ECHO, and also BINARY. When submitti...more >>

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Is there a way to reflect the events in a class that are declared as "Friend"? Dim objEventDescriptors As EventDescriptorCollection = TypeDescriptor.GetEvents(Me, New Attribute() {New ScriptEventAttribute(True)}) For Each objEventDesc As EventDescriptor In objEventDescriptors 'do stuff ...more >>

Hi, I would like to create a script (.bat file) so that I can right-click on a ..sln file and have the extra option "Build" in the menu so that I can execute a build without opening the solution in visual studio. The bat file would be sth. like : echo Building solution... devenv /build...more >>

My free subscription has expired and I want to change AV protection for a new Dell computer with Vista (which is driving me nuts). Do I uninstall McAfee Security Center prior to installing a new AV? Anything I need to know firs? -- Montana...more >>

Ok, I'm pretty new to VB.Net, so please bear with me. Imagine the Load event of one of my forms includes the following: Dim ctrl as Control Dim txtbox As TextBox For Each ctrl In Me.Controls If TypeOf ctrl Is TextBox Then txtbox = CType(ctrl, TextBox) AddHandler txtbox.ModifiedCha...more >>

Hi everybody, I need help. I want to print the current time on the screen. After research I managed to run the codes below in regular C++. But I could not make it to run in .NET Framework environment. Can anybody tell me how to make these codes to work in .NET Framework or sho...more >>

I have read all the posted discussions about the screensavers not working after installing a wireless optical mouse and keyboard. I installed the above "fix" from the Microsoft web site and nothing has changed. I am hesitant to use the "workarounds" because I don't understand what I'm really...more >>

Hi all How can I do "web site" or "Web developer" by using C++. I tried using Visual studio 2005. I could not do it because C++ language not available by using ASP.NET. How can I overcome this problem? Than you. ====================== ...more >>