Come on everybody - lets piss our pants with excitment about *text files* I am so fucking sick of the hype in this industry. How on earth did everyone get fooled into being excited about XML. Its a fucking text file that holds data for christ sake - BORING !!!! I wonder if 10 years ago eve...more >>

Dear Sir, i'm new to asp.net i'm looking to How to get values (Variables) pre Declared in web form & pass it to a batch file coz i've to get this values to be added to the batch file to Automate the process of creating records & Zones in our DNS server May you Help ? ...more >>

Hi All Now i am using VB.net 05 write a window form application, and i have using serveal web service resource. In VS studio 2005, I need to add web reference before i access the web service in program. However i would like to control connet different web service by switch program. I w...more >>

Hi, I need to add contect help in my application. in the paste I used vb6 and shalom helpmaker. that worked fine contectid was the same as the pagenumber Now with the helpprovider i can't figer it out how to do it. almost no examples wher i find(or i don't look fine) who can help me. i ...more >>

Friends and MVPs, I have enjoyed taking part in these public forums. For years I lurked on the sidelines, scavanging the technical information I required for my own projects. Perhaps my own fear of making mistakes kept me from participating. But now that I have provided a few feable answers...more >>

I have 2 datagrids When I select a line in datagrid one, the second datagrid is filled. How do I hide the header in datagrid two until it is filled reidarT ...more >>

It sounds a piece of cake but I was suprised how frustrating it is to do it. I have a winform which receives data from database and present them as Excel chart and spreadsheet. It is required by the client. I can use Office Web Control to generate chart. However the chart can only be export to a...more >>

This is my connection string, the syntax is I think quite correct. The name of the computer is my local machine, the database exists and I can connect to it with the enterprise manager, data source=WINXP1;initial catalog=SGIIMSTransNetPartner; Integrated security=True The error I get back ...more >>

Will Vista come with file system transactions, or was this only a consequence of the now not-shipping winFS? i.e. will I be able to: Try FileSystem.BeginTransaction() File.Delete ( myFile ) File.Copy ( fileA, fileB ) FileSystem.CommitTransaction () Catch Ex...more >>

I am rewritting a vb6 application and Iam stuch on how to replace the textwidth command. Any suggestions?...more >>

I am playing a Windows Media File which is protected by their DRM. I want to be able to automatically fill in the form asking for payment with my saved parameters. Is there any way to do this? Note, this is not on the web - this is a desktop app that has an embedded player or using mciSen...more >>

Is there a good explination of what would cause a CLS warrning in .NET 2.0 out there anywhere? like list of reasons and examples of what cause an object or type to not be CLS complaint? thanks! ...more >>

In a sub procedure how do I recall/restart the sub and maintain the position in a loop? Eg (this doesnt work how I need it to work)... sub Get_Language() 'code here to prompt the user to do something '... dim i as integer dim k as whatever for i = 1 to 3 if whatever <> "someval...more >>

Hi, I've problem with button click handler. In a short brief my program looks like this: there is form invoice with is base class for invoice_edit form. invoice form has public button "save" with modifers option set to public invoice_edit form has method which handles save.click and ...more >>

I'm using Version 8, learning the language and writing some code. It seems every session, especially when programming Crystal Reports, the program stutters and sends a message off to Microsoft. Sometimes I've lost code, other times the system sets off on a build that never finishes. Very...more >>

I have a simple Access database and I'm using VB.net. I'm getting a syntax error on the update line. Any idea what needs to be fixed Dim CX As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source= " & Application.StartupPath & "\zAdmin.mdb;User Id=admin;Password=;" Dim PWConn As ...more >>

On VS2005: I define my own print document class like this Class MyPrintDocument Inherits PrintDocument Private Sub PrintDocumentPrinter_PrintPage(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles Me.PrintPage e.Graphics.DrawRectangle...more >>

The following code is what I have been using in .net 1.1 for years. Now upgrading to .net2.0 and Crystal reports for vs2005, it no longer works, although as far as i can tell it is still supported. The error I receive tells me that I did not provide @Location parameter with a value. Also to no...more >>

Is it possible, in a VB'2003 ListView control to hide specific ListViewItems? I have a ListView that I've loaded with stuff but it would be useful to be able to view these items as (a) the complete list, (b) a subset that matches a given criteria, or (c) the complementary subset that doesn...more >>

How to add css in asp.net 2.0 aplication. On label control I have some property named CssClass, but if I add some class name, it doesn't work. How to add css class for label control? Thanx ...more >>

I've been asked by senior management to create and deploy a keystroke logger application (log to a local or network folder). Active directory already blocks the target users from opening task manager (they won't be able to see it running) so it needs to be straight forward and just capture ke...more >>

Using 2005 VB.net express; I've also downloaded WMP SDK and put a single WMP player control on my (Windows application) form. I'm going to be playing multiple AVI videos in the WMP control, using other controls on my form to select which AVI file is "loaded" (associated) with the WMP contro...more >>

My program has to tables in it. One is the Accounts table with all personal information and then there is also my Memos table with all the notes for each account. My program displays one record at a time for each account in the dataset table. I now want to show only the notes in the memo file...more >>

When running DCPROMO on a "first" server at a remote site, I being told that the forest needs to be prepared. The DNS entry on this server points to a W2003 SP1 FSMO master (all 5 roles). The forest does have Exchange 2003 SP2 installed and the link between the sites is a T1. Any ideas? Tha...more >>

I have a very simple Access data base. No new info is going to be added...the only changes are to existing fields. I have 2 tables both with one row each. I'm using vb.net. I can easily retrieve the data via "Reader"...but how to I update for changes? Thanks...more >>

Hi all, I’ve got a databinding inquiry. I’ve got a very simple example: a VB.Net winforms app, with 3 components: 2 textboxes, and a button. Here are the handlers: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click ...more >>

Below is some really simple code - its just a trivial class used to populate a combo box from which I want to pull out one of the properties of the selected object. I am just curious to know why - or better yet how to eliminate - the need to cast from an object when I have specifically filled th...more >>

There are situations where you want to retry/rerun the same code again (if user wants) for unlimited times for a particular exception thrown. For example in situations like there's no CD in the drive or some file is locked by another process you want to display message dialog to user with "Ret...more >>

Hi all, I have a SQL query that worked fine in my project until it came to testing. I found that the NvarChar fields I have wont accept the use of an ' My code and query is here does anyone know how to change the query to accept an ' whilst keeping the data true. Dim dbCon...more >>

Hello All, I'd like your comments on the code below. The sub does exactly what I want it to do but I don't feel that it is solid as all. It seems like I'm using some VB6 code, .Net2003 code, and .Net2005 code. I'm developing in vb.net 2005. This test sub just reads an input text file, writ...more >>

I use vb code to show information from SQL Server on the screen. I have Russian text in this data. Everything is fine, but when I save this information into file using code streamwriter1.write(...) But when I look into file I see text which is different from text that I wrote. How I can fix ...more >>