I've got a nice little deadline here and have to deal with the dumbest things possible to get it done. I had to create an application that is spliced into another application via an event handler class. When the original program sees the event handler is uses the handler's code to execute my c...more >>

I let the use modify the text of a combobox and then I replace the selected item with the new text (in Keyup event). But if he sets the Text property to an empty string ("") that sets the SelectedIndex to -1. Do you have any suggestion for getting around this problem? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, What is the easiest way to send a string from one application to another? I'm develloping an OutlookAddIn and in some cases I need to make my OutlookAddIn send a string to my other (CRM) application. Any idea? Thanks M O J O...more >>

VB2005 Express. I am developing a solution that involves a windows forms application and a number of class library projects (DLLs). Some of the DLLs require extra data files or third party dlls. I can include additional non-source files in my projects, but these are not always automatically i...more >>

I heard there is some trick to referencing statics in VB.NET CLR stored procedure without having to mark the assembly as unsafe. Does anyone know this? This is usefull as the case of needing a little static shared variable here and there without having to compromise safety in the Sql Server 20...more >>

I resisted for many years but I've just written my first app in .NET2005 and am looking to deploy my app with a third-party installer. ClickOnce and the VS Installer do not meed my needs and I am already well versed in another installer. My question is mainly dealing with deploying the app dep...more >>

I have added Description attributes to several of my Control's Properties, but they are not appearing in the Property Browser. Here is the declaration of my Property: <System.ComponentModel.Description("ID of the control that determines whether validation will occur")> _ Public Property ...more >>

I'm trying to make a button on my form be in a fixed position, I used: <asp:Button ID="butCancel" style="position:absolute"; runat="server" Text="Cancel" /> but I get an error that this "is not well formed" also is there a way in Visual Web Developer to have ALL new buttons, textboxes, et...more >>

I've some textboxes and richtextboxes. I want to keep the user from being able to modify the text that is displayed. So I've set them to disabled. But I don't want them to be grayed out. So I've set the forecolor to black and the backcolor to white. The window is white but the text shows ...more >>

Does VB.NET have any support for inline warning suppression like C#? I am porting a project from VB.NET 2003 to VB.NET 2005 and I have a bunch of warnings that after careful examination are benign. I would like to be able to mark those lines of code so that the warnings to not appear. I do not...more >>

Hello, I want to implement a settings form to my project which consists of some strings and simple codes thus the users will be allowed to have their custom settings/profiles. How can i make settings form in VB.NET and store/recall them? Thanks... ...more >>

I need to add an item to windows scheduler, as part of an installation. Is it possible? Can anyone point me to information on how to do it? Thanks. Al G ...more >>

Hi All, I am a network administrator in a fairly large software company and I would like to write myself a small utility, which would connect (one by one) to all machines on the network and get their current date and time stamps. This is mostly because of coming DST changes and having hundr...more >>

VB.NET 2005 2.0 Framework application is using a DataGridView for SQL data access and user data entry. As part of exception/error handling, the app wants to advise the user when he/she enters a value into a DGV field that is inappropriate; for example, an alpha character in a cell containing an...more >>

Hi All I have an on-screen keyboard within a POS program I have written in VB.net 2005, for touch screen computers I have it set to 'always on top' so the user can move the cursor to different text boxes and type using the on-screen keyboard The keyboard launches via the mouseclick event ...more >>

Hi Does anyone know if there any dotnet software out there which converts a dataset into a collection of custom objects, programmatically i.e. actually creates the class structure and collection class on-the-fly based on the fields in the dataset and then creates and populates the classes...more >>

Does anyone know a newsgroup for general Vista discussions? Thanks Jack Russell...more >>

Is there some way I can "debug as administrator" in the same way I can run as administrator? Thanks Jack Russell...more >>

Under XP the following code returns details of the system moSearch = New Management.ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from Win32_Processor") moReturn = moSearch.Get For Each mo In moReturn sCPManufacturer = mo("Manufacturer").ToSt...more >>

Under XP I used the following code AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetPrincipalPolicy(Security.Principal.PrincipalPolicy.WindowsPrincipal) Dim MyPrincipal As System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal = CType(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal, System.Security.Princip...more >>