In the white paper Designing Data Tier Components and Passing Data Through Tiers the following is stated: Data access logic components typically access data from a single data source. If aggregation from multiple data sources is required, it is recommended to define a separate Data Access L...more >>

Hello I want to create a distribution CD for a very simple application (50K executable) that I can give to another person so they can load on their computer. Nothing fancy - I just need the procedure to create a basic distribution CD. Can anyone help by letting me know what the procedure is or ...more >>

H I have developed crystalreports along with other forms in VB.NET, but when I am trying to run on the computer which doesn't have .NET installed, it is not running. Can anyone clarify me what exactly do I need if I want to run my application on other computers wich do not have .NET installed Than...more >>

How can I stop sentences in datagrids from wrapping? I have set the wrap property to false, but it makes no difference. Thanks for any help, Paul....more >>

Hello. I created an application using visual basic with an Access database. My family wants to use the application on their computers, but they don't have Access on their pcs. If I copy the mdb file to their pc without them having Access on their pc, am I violating any licensing agreements? Is there...more >>

I want to deploy a Visual studio.net windows application. This application uses MSCOMM32.OCX control. This application works fine on a development machine. However, if I deploy it on a non-developer machine, the application fails to load. It throws an exception, class is not licensed for use. ...more >>

Consider a webapplication existing of 3 pages: p1, p2 and p3. The default navigateGraph is: p1 -> p2 -> p3 The alternative navigateGraph is: p2 -> p1 -> p3 I want previous/next buttons on the pages. For the default graph there should be only a 'next' button on page p1. But for the alternative ...more >>

Hi, Can any body tell me about good book on Distributed Application. I have 8 years experience in VB 6 development. and learn VB.NET my self. Sohail ...more >>

Hi all, I am developing a simple one page application in ASP.NET which takes an input in a text box and print in a label. But when i uploaded it to the website i get the following error: Server Error in '/WebApplication2' Application. --------------------------------------------------------...more >>

hi i have a login page. as soon as the user logs in, am moving the User_id and Session Id to a log table. The problem is that if i use the back button of the browser and login again. am getting the same session ID. but i want it to be an unique one..... any help... wud be useful... Rea...more >>

Hello guys, I'm working for a project with the .NET Framework. The first version of the application is in the end, but has a lot of problems because it doesn't use a layered approach. Now I'm planning the next version and I wannt to use a layered architecture. I'm planning a three-tiered archi...more >>

Hi, Big Question : My solution is composed of SIX projects. I'd like to know if it is possible with WI to allow the user to choose the projects he wants to install. (From one to All) in fact, I'd like to know if it's possible to add a form like "Microsoft Office Selection form" (Treeview (All ...more >>

Hello All, I have a Windows application that uses Crystal Reports 9 (bundled Version) developed using VS.NET 2003 on a windows server 2003 m/c. The application has to be deployed on the client machine that has Windows XP installed. Before deploying we make sure that .NET framework 1.1 is insta...more >>

Hi, Was not really sure what groups best to answer this so have posted it to a few that seem relevant. I am trying to roll-out and Outlook add-in which was coded using VB.NET and am having a few problems. I have tried to automatically roll-out the MSI package on a Windows 2000 Server/Wind...more >>

Hello, I've read that it's possible to customize the CLR in order to be able to change the politic for searching for an assembly. If you don't change anything the first thing it does is looking in the GAC, then uses the Codebase method , then application path and finally proving method. I thin...more >>

OK, let me re-post this same question again, but worded differently. The way I had worded it before, one MSDN user was "barking up the wrong tree", as we say in Ireland. I am developing a web application using ASP.NET - this is a new application, never previously developed in ASP. This ap...more >>

Hi there, I have an client app running on client side and communicating with the iis webserver by http. I just wondering what kind of certificate i should apply to the webserver or sign the distributed code to make sure everything is secure? any comments are highly appreciated. cheers, Jack...more >>

Hi there, I am at a point where I want to display pages dynamically - that is have a single page, but allow users to display it as they wish. In other words, if it were a airline registration page, if a person chose "single destination, no stopovers", the SAME PAGE would display a ...more >>

I am trying to remote the objects using .net. I used TCPPort 8081 and i received following error messgae. any idea please let me know. Also where in IIS , I need to set up http port as i see only TCP Port in default web site properties 'DefaultDomain': Loaded 'c:\winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1....more >>

Hi all I got this error when I run the scripts Script: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Application Blocks for .NET\Updater\Code\InstallQuickstarts.vb Line: 35 Char: Error: File not foun Code: 800A003 Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime erro I am run VS .NET 2002. and window 200 Thanks...more >>

I am getting this error: Server Error in Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ConnectionString property has not been initialized. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please r...more >>

Hai there, Can any help in the following issue? I am new to VB.NET, and i have created a test application in it. I want to deploy in other system where dot net is not installed? How to go about with this? what are the necessary things to be installed/downloaded to run the application in ano...more >>

Has anyone used HTTP compression of SOAP calls? I haven't been able to find any good documentation on the web or newsgroups on this topic. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, Don don.mcnamara@REMOVEdovestar.com ...more >>

I've just started looking at the UIP application block and am concerned that the WebFormViewManager uses Response.Redirect (client-side round trup) every time there is a change of view via the ActivateView method. Does anybody know why they went this way (very bad for performance) or tried ch...more >>

The documentation (ie. examples) are pretty thin for the Cache Application Block. Does anyone have a sample of an application which uses the OutProc service? The sample which comes with the CAB download is based on an InProc and uses the Aggragation and other Blocks. I am looking for a pure OutPr...more >>

Hi, I have modified my app using the self-updater example. The process, however, does not seem to complete and I can not work out why. Here is a copy of my log file. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Adam [DownloaderManager.RunDownloader] : Checking on updates for applica...more >>

Anyone running this successfully on Windows NT 4.0 Workstation? Stacey ...more >>

Hi: I have a component, which encrypts and decrypts the data. There are public key and private keys in code. If user uses "ildasm" tool to view the contents of the component. The public and private keys are visible. How can i restrict the user to use ildasm tool on my assembly. My aim is,...more >>

When my app tries to open my app.config file (in Init() of UpdaterConfiguration.vb - line is: _configuration = CType(ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("appUpdater"), UpdaterConfiguration)) I get the following error: ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("appUpdater")Run-time exception thrown: System....more >>

Hello, Forgive me if this is too basic a question, but I am a bit confused on a couple areas of the UIP App Block. Specifically, what is the difference between Navigate and StartTask? I realize StartTask goes to a different navigation graph, but is that the only difference? Also, I am curre...more >>

Hello, Can anyone point me to some good references on physical deployment of an ASP.Net Application. I was hoping to get the pros/cons of a 2 tier / 3 tier physical deployment, with some performance comparisions. Thanks CR ...more >>

I am trying to display a large number of data records with a few records distributed throughout containing significant values. Because the records all need to be displayed in a particular order, I cannot simply place the significan values at the top (or bottom) of the screen - they need to...more >>

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, or one of its dependencies, was not found. File name: "CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine" at BillingSystem.FrontEnd.ReportViewerForm..ctor (IDictionary ReportParameters, String ReportPath) ...more >>

Hi folks, I'm new to .NET and recently came across these useful application blocks that are provided to the developer community. I'm looking for advice on how people have used the Data Access Application Block to design Data Accses Layer when the data they want to encapsulate can come ...more >>

I cannot get fuslogvw to display any logs. I have double checked the registry entries at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion and set the ForceLog to 1 and LogResourceBinds to 1 and LogFailures to 1 and LogPath to c:\logs. I also verified that the correct version of the framework is being used (...more >>

BITS is unable to download the execuable from the server. Actually this happen because .NET exe get excecuted when it get accessed from server. it is not showing me the save as option and that happens only for .NET executables only. Can Anyone help me. *** Sent via Developersdex http://...more >>

Does anyone know of any links for distributed .net WinForms applications? I'm looking for 3-tiered development examples, other than TaskVision. Several ASP.NET examples, but I'm looking for WinForms. And please no lines about the architectures being the same. Your help is appreci...more >>

I have an MSDE database running on a PC, and i want users to be able to connect to it via my app. At the moment, the only way they can successfully connect is if i give them full admin rights to that machine. Could someone tell me specifically what i need to give them access to to allow ...more >>

I would like to know how reuse can be facilitated between different ASP.NET web applications. Web user controls and page templates faciltate reuse of code inside a single application, but for reuse among multiple applications there is custom controls and code libraries. For example let's say ...more >>

hi, I am trying to use Exception application Block the vb version and can't seemed to register my custom publisher correctly. if i specify exclude="*" in app.config and add my custom exceptions in include, my custom publisher never gets invoked. I did some digging and find out there proba...more >>

Maybe someone can spread some light on this problem. I have created a Web Application which uses the UIP App Block. The APP runs fine on the development server where the WEB App is in a Sub-directory of the root like "/MyUIPApplication" When I deploy it to our staging server where the WEB a...more >>

Hi to All, Pls someone post a _working_ MDI sample project, which can be loaded and debug and run in VS.NET. The simplest working sample would help many of us who are open to apply UIPAB: Without working samples it takes 2x-10x more time to understand a programming concept. The 3 samples p...more >>

Hi all! We're in the design phases of an application that we're going to roll out this spring. I'd like to incorporate the Updater Application Block in order to provide the users a more seemless approach to keeping the application current. For those of you that have "been through the fire"...more >>

Hi, I am getting following error when using Oracle data provider provided by Microsoft. "Distributed Transactions require Oracle9i client software" I am using following configuration or components. Windows 2000 ..NET 1.1 C# COM+ (Serviced Component) Oracle client 8.1.7 On Micros...more >>

We all know that the currently released design of the Updater Application Block downloads all of the assemblies for your application (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/updater.asp) I'm wondering if anyone has made modified the design of the Application...more >>

Hi all, Please let me how can I call my component dll created in vb.net from Biztalk orch. services. The constructor of the dll accepts username and password to get initialise. Please help Thanx, Gagan ...more >>

Hello, I've read there are differents methods to work with dlls or assemblies. 1.- XCOPY 2.- Proving 3.- Codebase 4.- GAC Do you know if it's possible to use more than one method. What I mean is use the GAC for the general DLLs and the xcopy method for the other DLLs. How doe...more >>

Lets says my application display and inputs some decimal numbers. Depending on the regional settings in Windows the decimal separator could be a period or a comma and dotnet handles that automatically (i.e. Decimal.Parse() ou Decimal.ToString()). However how do you usually deal with this when ...more >>

I have installed and am succeffuly using the logging application block from MS. I am now trying to use it to log exceptions. I have created my own exception class that is instantiated when any other kind of exception occurs, and in its constructor I have the following code: public MyExcept...more >>

Hi, I've been developing an remote application which consists of a client application (Windows Forms) and a server application (Windows Service). The client application uses MarshalByRef objects (MBR) to call methods on the server. Most methods called on the server need the ID of the User t...more >>