Hi, I used VB2005 (VB.Net Apps) for about a year without problem. And all at a sydden, nothing works now : When starting a project in VB.net (debug mode), I get a strange message : "Error while trying to run project : unable to start debugging. Handle de liaison non valide" (The last sente...more >>

For no apparent reason the search function has become inoperative. When clicking on the search button the button depresses but nothing else happens. I use this function a lot and am lost without it. Can anyone help? Many thanks Jack...more >>

Bob, You said that all Groove users need to be licensed but I was told by Microsoft that I as a manager, I would be able to invite non-Groove users to a workspace. They would not have admin capabilities but they would still be able to collaborate in workspace. Is this false info?...more >>

-windows xp -dell dimension 9150 The computer starts normally, loads up the blue login screen. I can move the cursor around the screen and type on keyboard. Then after roughly 3 seconds (always this amount of time) the cursor freezes, the mouse inoperable and the keyboard locks up at the...more >>

Hi, As I understand, if a code section inside a sub called with threadX.Start is between BeginCriticalRegion - EndCriticalRegion, it should complete (at least that portion of code, not the whole 'sub'... even if a TreadX.Abort is used, if this portion of code is running when you call that ...more >>

I am running Vista Ultimate and have had no problems with Windows Update until recently. For some reason I am now unable to install the latest 4 updates and consistently get the above error code . I have searched high and low and can find no reference to this code either through Microsoft Hel...more >>

encountered unknown error while downloading movie from a license Filipino tv channel (ABS-CBN filipino tv channel). note: I can download few video but cannot download most video from them. media player version: 10.00.00.4036 Windows OS version: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version...more >>

I guess it doesn't get any more basic than this: I just loaded MS Visual Studio 2005 to my computer. I want to start using it to write some VB.net code... ....But for some reason the install did not put a Visual Studio 2005 shortcut on my desktop and I have no idea which file I would click ...more >>

Is it possible to use Server.MapPath in a Public Shared Function? Using the following code in this context - shows "Sever" as not declared - Public Shared Function Back_End_State() As Integer Dim FILENAME As String = Server.MapPath("SomeText.txt") - what can I do to fully qualify...more >>

In C#, you can determine if text has been entered in a textbox by: if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter) Anybody know what the equivalent would be in Visual C++? Thanks. ...more >>

Anyone know of a proper .NET way to get the state of the user's "hide extensions for known file types" setting? Or should I read the value from the Registry directly (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\HideFileExt)?...more >>

I have an object of a class. Now I want to know whether this class implements a particular interface or now. How do i do that. Interface ISomeInterface { } MyClass objCls= new MyClass(); //how do I check from objCLS whether MyClass implements the ISomeInterface interface or not? Tha...more >>

....and can't get it back. I think there may be a bug in Vista. Twice now, when drawing the cursor across an Icon in the "Computer" window, the cursor has picked up the Icon and when it slid under the frame of the window, the file and/or device disappeared from the computer. It did not go i...more >>

I can say SELECT "HELLO" and it returns HELLO But say I want to return a table HELLO GOODBYE Is there a select statement I can write? ...more >>

Hi, I've an ASP.NET web service that consumes other web services as well as sends data to client using TCP blocking sockets on a custom thread pool threads. If I use asynchronous sockets to send data to clients, would it use threads from ASP.NET IO thread pool ? Is it a good idea ? Or could...more >>

Hello, I have a SQL string that pulls data out of a database - I then calculate completerates based on Hours and # of Completes. I want to sort this data (FieldID and CompleteRates) by CompleteRate from Highest to lowest. I have tried an array, but luck. Does anyone have some pointers or s...more >>

The tool gives an error saying ipc port not connected when tried to load the applications of servers....more >>

Hi, It is the first time I use Crystal Report and I have a issue. I have a reportfile (Category.rpt) in my winform project. When I work in debug mode I can load this report without any problem. Dim rptDocument as new CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument rptDocument.Load("...more >>

Hi I'm having problem resolving DNS records of a domain using C#. What I want to do is an exact replica of this command nslookup.exe -type=MX [domainname] [dns-ip] i.e I need to resolve the MX record of a domain name using a certain Dns server. I tried calling unmanaged code as given be...more >>

Hello, Here is a summary of my Dev Environment: I use Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 with Crystal Report XI SP1 on a Windows XP SP2 development workstation. I also use SQL Server 2000 SP4. And here a summary of what is the problem: I have a web application that has a web form into which...more >>

i have just upgraded to vista from xp, what i wanted to know was how to do system recovery if i have any problems in the future,i had recovery discs for xp,but all i have got for vista is the acer upgrade wizard and the acer vista upgrade disc,with xp you had acer erecovery but the upgrade rem...more >>

Dear All, I am in problem of implimenting Tripple DES (3DES) (ECB Mode) Encyption in vaisal basic 6.0. Can Anybody help me in this regard. Any Source Code OR DLL libarary. Thank In Advance. Regards, Farooq ...more >>

Is there an inverse of this theod available, such that I can take a String[] s and return one string delimitied by my specified character(s)? I know it is easy enough to write...I just don't want to....more >>

Hi, I have a variable question in regards to my asp .net page. I need to declare a variable whose value is readable/writable to all of the subroutines of a specific page. So far I have one of two problems. The first is if I declare my variable right after the class definition, then I can us...more >>

Can anyone help! I am desperately trying to work out a electronic filing system for our companies emails and I would love to be able to add an automatic formatting to the From field to recognise a word in the email address... basically I want to be able to make all people with the same doma...more >>

I've create a windows service which will start any windows application whose name it finds in an xml file i have pointed it to. However, I also want it to create .net objects from assemblies (dll's) I want these objects run in the background. I have used reflection to find the assembly and th...more >>

Hello! I have another question regarding CardSpace. I have two web sites one where you log in with self-issued-card (this is sts site used for test managed card issuing) and one where you use managed card received from Identity Provider. In my test environment all (IP and RP) sites are pla...more >>

How do i set up windows mail...more >>

Hello, Am getting acquainted with VSTO and Visual Studio. I have been really successful adding references to the PIAs for Word, Outlook, Excel, etc. to Console applications and VB applications. However, I also wanted to investigate add-ins (specifically for Outlook). I downloaded VBTO 200...more >>

If Help & support centre will not open, how can it be found and used?...more >>

My system restore points in XP have been deleted because of something I must have done inadvertently. I did not receive any warning message saying this was about to happen like, “You about to delete all your restore points! Are you sure you want to do this?” Nope, one day just all gone bye...more >>

About the time we installed Windows Server 2003 SP2 on our Web servers, our exports to Excel stopped working from Crystal Reports .NET within all our ASP.NET applications. However, the exports to pdf and Word still work. Is anyone else having this problem and have you found a resolution? We ar...more >>

I am writing a program that interacts with Excel. On my system I have inserted a reference to the Excel 11.0 Object Library. On the client's machine, even though he has the same Excel installed (Excel 2003) he only has the Excel 10.0 Object Library, and the reference gets broken and I have t...more >>

Hi all, All of the classes in my DAL are static, with constants defining the stored procedures and parameters. I've been having some problems with my site which makes me wonder if there's a thread safety issue. Are consts thread safe? Would the following example create any thread safety iss...more >>

Greetings, I have an aspx page where on it is a link that calls my smartclient (a windows form) that opens up. When the user is done in the form, he or she hits a button that saves data and closes the form. I want the smartclient to call the opened browser (IE6 and maybe 7 down the line) and r...more >>

Hello, I have 10 years of experience working as a Webmaster. For about an year I worked on a 3-tier ASP application which gave me a good experience with SQL Server (Stored procedures) and COM/COM+ development using VB. I have used ..NET while working as a Webmaster for developing simple i...more >>

Hello, I am writing an application which uses CardSpace in order to provide Single-Sign-On functionality. After investigating some samples I wrote desired Security-Token-Service. However, I have the problem with restricting issuing security token only to registered relaying parties. As ...more >>

Hi There, Is there a way in which Sqlserver can notify the dotnet application when a new column is added . i believe we can not use Query notifiaction here(correct me if i am wrong) .i am using sqlserver 2005 and dotnet 2.0 . if anybody have an idea of how to do this or know any link in...more >>

I have a chat-type program that automatically highlights URLs. When somebody clicks on one of those URLs, I use: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url); to start the default browser at that URL. This works, but has a security issue I'd like to avoid. Lets say somebody sends the URL: f...more >>

Is there a way to conditionally show the select button. I don't want to show (or at lease disable) the select button based on the data I am retrieving in that row. Any help is appreciated. Thanks -- Tyler...more >>

I have an image control which I populate using an api url. For example http://getimage.com?id=1234 where 1234 is a variable I am passing in. My problem is that the id of the image could be 001234 or 01234. However, I don't know when I am making the call. Is there a way that I can...more >>

Apologies for posting in this forum, I don't see a more appropriate group... I'm trying to understand the timeline for Window 2003 ending mainstream support. I have consulted the MS lifecycle support center for 2K3 and 2K3 R2(http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3198 and http://suppo...more >>

I have a child-class that inherits from a base class that implements an Interface. The child class overrides a SUB from the base class that implements a sub from the interface. (The "MapAttributesForImport" is a sub in an interface that is implemented by the base class marked 'overridable'.)...more >>

Its been happening ever since the last windows update, the pc just switches off by itself, on restarting it says that the pc has recoeverd from a serious error. I manged to get the following error, hope some one can help me! IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0*0000000A (0*8A1CBOO8, 0*000000002, O'S ...more >>

hi ,when i turn on my laptop i have a message that keeps appearing ,The system DDL user 32 dll was relocated in memory ,can anyone tell me what this means ? thanks ...more >>

I was looking at my auto updates and was wondering if I need this. It sounds like a big program for businesses. Is it necessary? It is called SQL Server Feature Pack -- ...more >>

I've been experiencing a problem recently where the debugger hangs for up to ten seconds, even when executing very simple operations (i.e. adding two numbers). During the hang, a little popup appears in the toolbar saying that "Visual Studio is busy waiting for an operation to complete" and th...more >>

In my "My Pictures" folder I always had the name of the folder under each folder when using "thumbnails". Suddenly the name is not showing and as I move down through sub folders they also do not show the folder name. It is not until I get to an acual file (photo) that I get a name under the...more >>

I read that 2 antivirus software cannot be installed together because they will have conflicts with each other, but will having 2 different antispyware software cause conflicts with each other?...more >>

I m using a Packard Bell Easy Note MV preloaded with Windows XP HE with SP2 and NIS 2005 . I have to uninstal the NIS because everytime I am online (via WIFI) NIS keeps poping up with messages for me to download updates because of new findings. I always click on for the updates, but NIS always...more >>

Any ideas what I should be looking at? C#. .Net 2.0 -- --------------------- Thanks Rajiv Das...more >>

Hi, can anyone explain what this fault is and how to get rid of it? Application fault WLanCfgG.exe A message bow pops up on screen every 3-4 seconds, which I have to clear before I can continue what I'm doing. -- pocketfriend...more >>

I was wondering how to manage Virtual Memory usage within a VB app. I have a form with a trend on it that takes ~40MB of virtual memory when it is loaded (depending on the amount of data being plotted). When the form is closed, the memory is still being used (even though I call the .dispose me...more >>

Hello, I made this function so that it can return 1 or 2 where 1 either equal PieIX or Mendonta or 2 equal either PieIX or Mendonta. Let me go further in details...in the program it shows all Inventory information in the datagrid and one column in the datagrid there is a combo box where I...more >>

Dear All, i have a web service client module develope in C# and now i want to convert it in vb6 .Is their any way/tool to achive this goal? thanks in advance. Regards, Farooq ...more >>

I would like to COMPLETELY reset my computer ie. Send it back to it's state when i turned it on for the first time. Delete files and uninstall programs. I have already backed up all important files. My computer is a Fujitsu-Siemens Si-1520 laptop from August 06 and i am using Windows XP ...more >>

Hello,Im running xp pro sp2,and cannot select wall paper, I have a white screen at desktop,trying to use alienguise invader from the skins factory,at control panel/display/desktop it wont allow me to select wall paper(greyed out) on shut down white screen dissappears,wall paper pops up and sys....more >>

Sir,I am totally at a loss.When i installed pocket dvd player on my pocket pc some peculiar files taking 3.16GB of my storage card space came into my SD card.They will not delete through desktop pc or my handheld saying problem deletin file or cannot delete file..a filename cannot contain any ...more >>

I've just done some quick performance tests using various medium-sized benchmarks and it appears that .NET is vastly faster than Mono. Can anyone confirm this? For example, my ray tracer benchmark from the shootout (in C#): 32-bit .NET: 13s 64-bit Mono: 123s I was expecting Mono to be ...more >>

I am trying to install this Mahjong program on my HTC TyTn Pocket PC. The installer is run on the PC - it installs perfectly under XP and Active Sync. http://www.smartmahjongg.com/index.html I am now running Vista Home Premium and Mobile Device Centre and when I try to install it, it tell...more >>

Hello! As long-time Visual Basic 5 and 6 developer, I am quite familiar with the Hungarian Notation and used it in most of my programs. Now that I finally got into the .NET world and learned VB .NET and C# (and am currently learning C++), I decided to give up HN as recommended by Microsof...more >>

i have xp home sp2 and a lite-on dvd-rw. in my computer it shows as this until you place dvd+r disc in and then it chngs to cd-r. it will play dvd+r movies, been using same disc before and tried diff brand disc and diff lite-on recorder, same problem. any ideas?...more >>

Every time i boot up i get a message saying date and time is wrong. I keep having to correct this when i open up to the desktop. Could this mean i need a new cmos battery, and is there anyway i can check the battery to see if it is the problem....more >>