This whole report thing in VS2005 is a joke, right? What an unbelievably really bad piece of crap! Hopefully, they have fired the incompetent team that developed this really non-usable tool. Heck, they don't even have a dedicated newsgroup for this dotnet category. 1. Can't put items in ...more >>

I am unable to insert pictures from My pictures on a business card; How do you do that? Please advise ASAP...more >>

I need the Guid for retrieving the StartMenu path in Windows Vista using the SHGetKnownFolderPath What's the guid value for FOLDERID_StartMenu? Thanks. Andrea...more >>

ever since I installed it I cannot play my DVD's. tells me I don't have a compatible DVD decoder, then for the help, all I can see are purchase one. Why do I have to purchase one? It should be part of the player, it always was before....more >>

Can anyone tell me what the following message mean? "cannot initialize application, unable to open file [25000:2:1] {15034:1:8] I am getting this message when I try to open a video software from my desktop. My operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home edition version 2002 service pack 2 Gra...more >>

When I start my computer I get an error message which says "KEYBOARD ERROR OR NO KEYBOARD FOUND" I then connect a spare keyboard click F1.My computer then completes bootup and I disconnect the spare keyboard and the laser 6000 works fully until I switch on again? Can any one advise me what to...more >>

wich would be best practice for multithreaded apps? I have a sub in a class that is called from a multiple threads, and I found MethodImpl to lock a sub when a thread enters. is it reccommended and best practice way? does it makes lock on sub or on whole class? ...more >>

Using the examples found on the MSDN website, I successfully wrote code that transfers files via ftp. HOWEVER, it does not transfer compressed (zip) files properly. After transfer, when opening the zip I get an error message that says "The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid or corrupted...more >>

Could someone give a hand on how to handle this issue: I need to find a way of removing zeros from files names. The zeros in the names are used to sort the file name, e.g. MAK0080.pci, MAK-0080.pci. What I need to do is to remove the zeros, so the file names become MAK80.pci o MAK-80.pci. I...more >>

Hi People, I have been coding in vb.net and c# for last six months, I am new to coding and we are using 3 tier architecture. In the DAL in each and every method I open the connection and close it in the finally block of the try catch block, if I am not using a DataAdapter. 1. Is this correct?...more >>

Hi, Folks!! This may sound stupid to some people but is there a FREEware integrated developer environment for .NET Framework v1.1 (VB.NET, C#, J#)? I know there is Visual Studio Express but that's only for v2.0. TIA... ...more >>

All I have a bunch of label controls on my form. All those label controls will start with the id "lblEffDt_". (lblEffDateValue_ddlDeliveryMethod, lblEffDateValue_txtPriority etc...) I want to have a common function, which receives the id of the control as a string (which would be the str...more >>

im starting to think everything became A LOT more complicated with .net as opposed to vs6. how can i access a textbox on a form from another form? for example i have a button on form1 and when i click it i want to add text to a textbox on form2. sure was easy in vs6 ...more >>

I've recently experience some trouble with the Crystal designer when using a typed Dataset. I create a report (or edit an existing one) and for a datasource I choose Project Data --> ADO.Net Datasets.. and under there it lists all of the datasets I have defined ... all is well there.. until I ...more >>

We have a web application developed in VS2K5 using C#.NET and have no problem using the Publish Web Site feature to publish to a web server that has FP Extensions installed. What we would now like to do is publish the app to a web server that has SharePoint Services installed. Unfortunately...more >>

Hello all, We have a bit of a problem. We have a form where we have to add controls dynamically during runtime. That part is quite simple. Now, we have to add a ButtonClick event for each of the controls. That's where it becoms tricky. Here is the bit of code we use: -------------------...more >>

Hi, in a .NET 2.0 application, I'm noticing that sometimes the application simply crashes and exists without showing any message. I have the impression this has to do with some exceptions that are generated in a secondary thread (if I'm not mistaken .NET 2.0 shuts down a process if an exception...more >>

I need the ability to send an S/MIME encrypted email from a .NET project. I gather that this is not supported out of the box by System.Net.Mail. Can anyone direct me to a third party component for this? Thanks....more >>

We have a web site (intranet) that was created in VS 2003. The site is made up of mulitple projects. In VS 2003 we setup each part of the website as its own project/solution. In short we have a main root directory where the main website stuff is, then we have sub webs that contain parts/portio...more >>

Using VB.Net .net 2.0 I am looking for an effecient way to delete a directoy and it contents. The issue I am facing is there is one or more files and or subdirectory with files that are marked Readonly. Therefore the system.io directory.delete throws an exception. How does one loop thru th...more >>

Hi, I am using VB.Net version 2 in a web application. I have a Navigation TreeView that is powered by a SiteMapDataSource linked to Web.sitemap file. This all works well. My questions is, how can I programatically hide a node based upon user roles? Thanks....more >>

We use SQL Server 2000 We user VS 2005 How can we use SQL Server reporting Services? Thanks,...more >>

I am developing an application using asp.net 2.0. I created all my business objects in my app_code folder. As of right now, all my classes are public. In my aspx pages, I am declaring the class like so static Person myPerson; The static declaration is working for me, for It keeps the inst...more >>

To all, I have a listbox within a gridview that exists in an update panel. When I try to get the values of each selected item in my listbox I get nothing. When I'm in debug mode I get false for each item that I selected from my listbox. I also get length=0 as a value for each item that I...more >>

Is there any method to covert a pdf file into jpg file in c#? Many thanks for your replying....more >>

Hi, I'm a developer who, in the mid-nineties, switched from programming on minicomputers to PCs. Although an experienced C developer at the time, VB seemed the most logical choice for many reasons, although I don't particularly care for the Basic language. So I now have a "bunch" of prog...more >>

If I have a multithreaded app, and there's one common class for all threads, I (of course) need to syncrhonize access to it... so, if I use AutoResetEvent, question is wich (and why) method I should use to wait for "entrance" of a thread into a common class? ;) is it WaitOne or WaitAll? ...more >>

I have the following piece of code: Directory.CreateDirectory(myDir); DirectoryInfo lDir = new DirectoryInfo(myDir); lDir.Attributes = FileAttributes.Normal; When this code runs, my directory is created fine, but my directory is always read only. At first I thought it was something with u...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to get list of files from a URL folder programmatically? p.s. The 'directory browsing' option is on for that folder in IIS. Thanks ...more >>

To all, I'm trying to bind a dataset to a listbox control that is in a gridview's templated field. However, in the code behind the intellisense does not recognize the ID name of my listbox control....thus not giving me an opportunity to bind the listbox's datasource to a dataview. Can you...more >>

just trying to grasp the insane differences between vb6 and vs2005... 2 buttons on a form. 1 button creates a new instance of a second form, and shows the form. why cant i access this form from the second button? ...more >>

I am using Webclient.download to HTTP download a file from an IIS 6.0 server. It works for all the files I have except for those type .config. If I rename the files to .txt extension, it works. I've added MIME types to support .config files as application/xml but I still get the 403 error...more >>

I have been having a lot of trouble posting to the managed news groups. Can someone please tell me if this post qualifies as one that is in the managed news groups and would be answered within 2 days as part of my MSDN unversal benifits? Thanks...more >>

Hi Guys Is it possible to batch print files as either a list or from a specific directory location? Thanks Rob P.S. Sorry for accidently posting this in distributed apps....more >>

I have installed Office 2007 on my machine and when I open Excel 2007 I still have 256 columns and 65,536 rows. I know in the 2007 version that you have the ability to have more than this. If I add new rows and colulmns it will not insert any additional ones. If I open a workbook that someone ...more >>

I am working on a project where I need to insert the following into an xml document: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="C:\MyStyle.xsl" ?> How do I go about doing this? -Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have several processes accessing files from one folder, but only one process should ever access each file. Once one process has the file, no other process should be allowed to access it, even after the first process is finished with it, except in the case where the first process crash...more >>

Using this code: Dim oConn As SqlClient.SqlConnection oConn = New SqlClient.SqlConnection() oConn.ConnectionString = "..." 'Connection string I got via an .udl file oConn.Open() I get an error here: Request for the permission of type System.Data.SqlClientPermission, System.Data, Vers...more >>

Hi There, i have a requiremet ,where in i have a view which has some alias.so at runtime using an application i will get the info about the view using SP_HELP stored proc,but this only gives me the alias names ,but i need to know the original column name(as in the table defintion part of t...more >>

Have a web site project with only a few pages. The site is in a solution that has about 20 projects that are business objects that the site is dependent on. When I do a build the compiler says "Build succeeded" in about 5 seconds but then the screen is frozen for about 40 or more seconds after...more >>

Hello all, I'd like to know is there a resource editor one could use to create another localised version of Resources.resx? Winres.exe does not work. It reports tons of errors when I try to open the resource file with it. Thanks for you help. BR, GAZ ...more >>

Hi, I have several processes accessing files from one folder, but only one process should ever access each file. Once one process has the file, no other process should be allowed to access it, even after the first process is finished with it, except in the case where the first process crash...more >>

My cat lay along the lower end of my keyboard while the computer was on - which turned the contents of the screen upside down! Re-booting and shutting down have failed to solve the problem. I also tried systems restore but that didn't work either, although I'm not sure if I was using it cor...more >>

Hi NET1.1 / Winforms I have a listbox that I am binding to a table via the DataSource property. However I want to be able to programmatically select values in this listbox so I am using the code below... With lstJobTypes .DataSource = BusinessRules.Common.Jo...more >>

Hi, I have recently written or more exactly copied some code to help me create an FTP file uploader. This all works fine in development and on any test servers i have used. For the live environment the networks guys have given me an firewall path to use as part of the ftp details so i now hav...more >>

Hi I have tried searching around but can't seem to get a definitive answer 1. Is it possible to have .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 installed on the same PC and I can then develop and deploy applications in either of theswe two versions without fear of any cross over (e.g. a .NET2 application link...more >>

If I have a code like: TRY SYNCLOCK Object1 //some code END SYNCLOCK CATCH END TRY If an error occurs in a part "some code", will Object1 be released from synclock or not? shoul the code look like this?: SYNCLOCK Object1 TRY //some code CATCH ...more >>

Hi, Do you know a .NET method to merge two Xml files with the same schema ? Regards...more >>

I have a web service that I've built and is running at a customer's site. We have been having issues with it dying in the middle of the day, sometimes completely silently, other times with errors in the event log. When there are errors, there are always two: 1. Fatal Execution Engine Error ...more >>

I created a page in Visual Studio 2005 with a Crystal Reports web viewer attached to a report. The report previews fine, but clicking the embedded Print button produces an error: "HTTP 403.1 Forbidden: Execute Access Forbidden Internet Information Services" "You have attempted to execute...more >>

Hi, Does anyone knows how to use the CardGames.dll (\system32\CardGames.dll) in ..Net? I'm trying to make a card game, but I don't know how to use this .dll file. I would be happy for any reply....more >>

I am attempting to use AppSettings within an NT Service built with VS2005 and C#. This idea worked ok in v1.1, but seems to fail in v2.0. I've done some searching and have seen similar situations but no real resolution. The AppSettings collection is NULL, although there are two strings in t...more >>

Recent patch for 1.1 did not install from Windows Update. I removed 1.1 and tried to install it afresh. It fails. Is there a way to cure this without removing 2.0/3.0? ...more >>

I have a C# console app that calls methods in an unmanaged C++ dll. The unmanaged C++ dll starts some threads and does some background work. The app is using about 50% CPU, and I think that all the CPU usage is in the C++ dll. I've run the app under a .Net profiler called dotTrace, and that...more >>

i use try..catch in my windows service,and when some exception occurs, i write it to event logs. in webapplication ,if you use a catch to "hold" an exception, and do not throw up, the exception will be ignore if it is available. my windows service is a mul-thread service, which workes for a gr...more >>

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Hi all, I'm trying to use the Trace class to log messages to a simple text file. I need to be able to provide a custom filename to be used. I've created a TextWriterTraceListener and added it to the Trace.Listeners collections but nothing ever seems to get written to the file. The file d...more >>

My computer time reads correctly for me on documents and emails I produce, but when someone else gets a file or email from me, it is one hour off. I've checked "Date and Time" in the control panel and everything seems okay. Daylight Savings Time appears okay for my time zone. How can I corr...more >>

I am getting the message " Task manager has been blocked by the administrator". I am the only user of the machine & didn't do that. Tried regedit also but it failed. can anyone help ?...more >>