Hello, Could you tell me please where I can put my posts concerning Mono? I use Mono and Monodevelop under Ubuntu Linux. Thank you! RAM...more >>

Please Help?? I have an A7v8X ASUS motherboard. Whilst waiting for a new hard drive to arrive to replace the previously failed one (even though it was only 2 weeks old) I changed the CPU fan (and heatsink) for a quieter one. When I plugged i the new one the computer powered up but wouldn't bo...more >>

When I use the following commands I do not get a solid color loks like some dots are in it. Dim bmp As New Bitmap(479, 30) Dim gfx As Graphics gfx = Graphics.FromImage(bmp) Dim BGroundBrush As New SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 64, 64, 64)) gfx.FillR...more >>

Is there a method to replace special characters like Ä (A-Umlaut) with A, Ö (O-Umlaut) with O, and so on? Sure, I could look for each character separately and replace it with its ascii-counterpart, but there are also such special characters in French and Swedish and many other languages which...more >>

Hi all... This is a good one. You'll like this... I am working on a course management tool that allows certain Courses to be cross referenced with Job Roles and, when they are, whether the course is a priority course or not. Simple. Because there is alot of data stored for each course, I ...more >>

Hello I've taken a four days training in C#, very good training, experienced teacher and all that, very positive. Went home spent a week making my first application, slightly more than the usual "Hello world". Took it with me to my best customer, and beleive it or not....It will not w...more >>

Hello, I was setting up a user account on a friends PC, one account for her and one for her children, both would have amdin access, while going through the account process I clicked on hide folders(or something to that effect) for her account, completed the process and rebooted. When Windows r...more >>

I have to instal a firewire card into my Acer laptop. There is a spare slot, but are they all the same size ? Do you just plug it in ? will my computer recognise it ? and will I then be able to connect my camcorder to it and download to Windows Movie ? Thankyou...more >>

Hi, Is there any way to get . TIF, JPEG,GIF compression format. Like i have couple of images saved in my hard drive . i want to get each of these images compression format. any comments on this topic cheers mcimaging ...more >>

I changed the fonts in my computer to CLEAR TYPE. I am not able to switch back to TRUE TYPE. How can I do this?...more >>

hi i had a navman pin 570 which was running windows mobile 3... i have a lot of contacts that i kept backed up on the sd card... the device is no longer working and the backup file which is an .abk extension cannot be opened through windows xp... My question is how do i get the backup and rest...more >>

I am doing a Team Foundation Server Dual-Server Installation. According to Microsoft TFS installation walk-through, after installing Team Foundation Server Databases in the Data-Tier server, I need to Install Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1, is this correct?? I would t...more >>

I have a notebook, and therefore am working on the standard condensed version of a keyboard. I type fast, and with this psrticular keyboard, I have a tendancy to hit the Shift and Ctrl, or some other button at the same time... That said, I am experiences many instances, where by doing this, I ...more >>

Pic size If you use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, you can add an "extension" called "Image Zoom" that allows you to size pics to your liking. Of course everyone on the internet should be able to size pics to their liking in the first place, I've observed that it's easier to just ...more >>

I'm unable to open GWBasic program..Message reads "can not SHELL to BASIC" I am using Compaq Armada 7400 Notebook, using Windows XP professional with service pack 2 Intel Pentium II 365 MHz 128 MB of RAM.. I am able to run this program on my desktop HP with no trouble.. Any Ideas ??? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I would like to have a windows service that other client programs on the same machine can communicate with. All the examples I have seen use some variety of sockets or remoting to connect with the service. I don't have much experience with remoting. Is there any way that I can implement t...more >>

I am trying to decide between buying Visual Studio 2005 Professional and Standard versions. As far as I can tell, there is not a whole lot of difference, but the price for Professional is almost three times. Standard Professional User experience -> ...more >>

Hi everyone, I have developed some software which I would like to sell online. Can anyone please give me some pointers about the best way to do things? Specifically websites which would sell on my behalf (Ebay, Download.com). Things to avoid etc? Thanks in advance Markus ...more >>

I have bought Seagate 80GB external HDD with ENTER (E-25U) casing. The problem i am facing is that when i plugged this HDD in my PC (Windows 2000 SP4) , it detects the HDD but a yellow exclamation mark ("!") appears accross it and when i saw the properties it says "Device could not start (err...more >>

I guess the express edition does not have this configuration file. I had been using a ini file with getPrivateProfileString, but have not found an example that works in VB 2005 ee , so I looked for the xml way and the example at microsoft is for the full and not express edition. It says to r...more >>

I have a gridview with a sqldatasource and an aspx web form that enables the user to search on different criterias. Based upon that I generate dynamic sql and programmitically feed this into selectcommand and selectparameter of the sqldatasource. I get the desired result in the gridview but whe...more >>

Explanation: We have several SP that need to retrieve a single "Default Photo" from one of several Photo tables. The column in question in these tables is defined as an IMAGE data type. I currently have a SP that that return the default photo and other relative information. Several of my d...more >>

I am working on a feature to drag images into a flowdocument, and need the ability to drag them out of the document, or drag them around in the container panel to allow for easy reordering of the images within the document. I have created a DragDropManager to handle this action, and can dra...more >>

Hi I am doing a small screen scraping project and the requirement is to scrape a website which shows search results. I am able to scrape the results of the first search page successfully but since search results are in paging, ( divided into many pages ) I am unable to send a second request...more >>

Hello, I have a stored procedure in SQL Server 2000. When I execute it through my .NET application (OleDbCommand), I can see (in SQL Profiler) that it takes 423 ms to complete. If I run the same exact query in Query Analyzer, it takes 216 ms (in SQL Profiler). There's no other activity...more >>

Okay, don't get excited about the obvious. I need some selling help and I'm looking for your referral to a document or two that explains why hosting on the Windows platform is an advantage to business persons who have never had a website before. <%= Clinton Gallagher NET csgalla...more >>

I have a file server running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and I want to upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise to take advance of the File Server Resource Manager option. This server in a cluster, and I want to confirm if it is possible to upgrade the server to R2 without installing from ...more >>

Visual Studio automatically adds a bunch of references for new projects (e.g., System.Data, System.Xml, etc). Is there any benefit from removing those references in projects where I use none of the types form those assemblies? Is there any "harm" in leaving those in??? does my assembly get...more >>

sorry for off-topic message... i'm searching for ff20m32l.vb or ff20m32l.h can anyone help me? ...more >>

I am trying to extract a zip file in a database image field to disk. For some reason, the zip file is getting corrupted / truncated. I have code in ASP which extracts the zip file no problem, so i know it is not corrupted in the table. Any help would be appreciated. FileStream ...more >>

Is there any disadvantages to having more than one versions of the .net framework installed on the same computer? would that reduce the performance of the computer? or are they just a bunch of dlls sitting on the hard drive could someone clarify this? thanks, Fred ...more >>

Using the .NET framework and some other third party API's I've noticed that objects with a collection property generally don't have a set accessor? That is to say I have not yet managed to find one yet. After searching around I've not managed to find a reason why other than that it forces yo...more >>

Hi, I am developing a messaging form which will use webmail in c#.The mailing list will inherit costomised groups from MOSS 2007 site.So the mailing list may vary in future. I just wanted to know is there a limit of maximum users in mailing list in SMTP server and if so then what is the numbe...more >>

Hi All! How to declare a variable of decimal type with size? In VB we declare as Dim ld_amount as decimal Dim ld_con_amount as decimal How to define precision size in VB in declaration time? In Powerbuilder when declare a variable . Decimal{4} ld_amount Decimal{2} ld_con_amount --...more >>

Hello, I would like to ask programmers such question: I have a class containing a few fields: int i; string a; bool b; int j; bool q; decimal d; I need to write GetHashCode function for this class. Could you suggest me some idea? Maybe...more >>

hi! i've been reading alot about the backgroundworker, but most of the articals only shows that you can use the progress-event to send a message to the form. Im trying to pass a listview with a number of strings (in this case, strings of files and directorys). i thought it could be done like...more >>

Does Msn Messenger work the same if i use it from my mobile ...more >>

Is there a way to work on visual studio 2003 projects using visual studio 2005 without converting, maintaining original code? Thanks AM ...more >>

I've been searching around and also ask for your recommendations for a rating solution, i.e. I'm a small potato and prefer C# open-source at no cost but also seek recommendations for commercial shrink-wrapped solutions. Thanks for your coments... <%= Clinton Gallagher NET csgalla...more >>

VB.net code to turn monitor on and off....... <CODE> Module Module1 Const HWND_BROADCAST As Integer = &HFFFF Const SC_MONITORPOWER As Integer = &HF170 Const WM_SYSCOMMAND As Short = &H112S Sub Main() Dim instr As String = Command() Select Case Command().To...more >>