I have a datagrid that will display data from the database. Each user will specify list of columns he wants to see and in the order he wants to see. User A can specify that he wants to see only columns A,B,C and in the order A,B,C and the user might say I want to see only only columns A,G,H bu...more >>

I have a datagrid object on a form which successfully retrives and displays data, After this teh user is to select a record in this grid and the use menubar command to open another form showing only the select record. how do i do this? -- _________________________ Adam Simmonds Systems Ad...more >>

Hi, I am working on implementing the Aplication Updater block in a VS2003 WinForms application. Using IIS on my local machine I have been able to get it work just fine. However, now I am trying to get it working on a server running IIS. The app can check for updates and can download the n...more >>

Hi, Is there an easy way to work out the size of an MSMQ Queue (i.e. the number of messages currently contained, rather than the maximum size)? It needs to be a way that can cope with queues potentially containing thousands of messages that are regularly checked for size. Thanks Rob...more >>

When is it good to idea to use MSMQ... ...more >>

My ASP.net 1.1 online cinema reservation system is Developed in 3 Tiers: 1-DataAccessTier "Data Repository Class" 2-Business Tier "Set of Business Classes" 3-Presentation Tier "set of WebUserControls & aspx pages" if i want to make a WebService that enables its users to interact with the syst...more >>

IIS6 with all WindowsUpdate patches ASP.NET 1.1-SP1 using identity impersonate="true" and authentication mode="Windows" in web.config Application is not in the local intranet, it is externally hosted for an internal company Web app with a reference to an external Assembly (it has no s...more >>

Hi, I like the features of BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Services). The ones I am interested are in its ability to resume broken downloads and use he band width which is not being used. Can anyone advise me how to go about writing such a solution, the logic behind it and stuff. A...more >>

I have a prototype which I created in MS Access It is a fairly simple model, and I would like to take advantage of VB.NET,ADO.NET and ASP.NET to construct the same model. The search page has only 4 field parameters and I use 2 Tabs, the first, to enter the parameters and the 2nd to show a li...more >>

Hi Friends, I am developing application based on .net Remoting. In my client application i have accessed the remote object by Activator.GetObject function. In this GetObject function, i have passed the second argument as URL, like "tcp://localhost:8384/Container". From my client program how c...more >>

Hi Sirs I have a COM+ Server application where one of the components implements the IProcessInitializer interface because we need some initialization upon startup. According to MS the StartUp and Shutdown methods gets called upon startup and shutdown of the server application. However they a...more >>

Hi folks I am building this distributed app that has a number of Web Service Projects. A common task is to connect to a DB with code that looks like this: Dim cn As SqlConnection Dim strInfo As String strInfo = "server=(local);Persist Security Info=False;pwd=;Integrat...more >>

i need to set this on the connection before i call the stored procedure and am unsure how to do this. Any help would be appreciated. ...more >>

Hi, this is my first application I tried in VB.NET. When I try to put my compiled application to another workstation, it refuses to work. "Error: This Applictaion has caused an error and must be closed" I used some third party DLLs but this does not seem to be the error. Even when I install ...more >>

Hi All, I have a COM+ Web service named NorthwindComWS. When i try to web refer it in my asp.net application, I get the following error "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\NorthwindCompWSWebClient\Web References\localhost\Reference.map(1): Custom tool error: Unable to import WebService/Schema. Unable ...more >>

Hi all, Im about to embark into the development of a 12 month project, the project is basically a WinForms app with a web based server supplying the data and business logic. We are an ISV so the intention is to use ClickOnce to get our winforms accounting package out to our web based glo...more >>

Hello, we have developed a COM+ data access component. It works fine in test (server application installed on client with dev studio) but in production (application proxy installed) several functions throw System.NullReferenceException. our function GetData opens an SqlConnection, create...more >>

Hi, I m sending objects instead of string between sockets. On the client I serialise the object with a binary formatter like this: Dim bs As New BinaryFormatter Dim ms As New MemoryStream bs.Serialize(ms, message) ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin) Dim ...more >>

I know that support for the Configuration App Block has been all but dropped in the 2.0 version of the Enterprise Library in favor of the framework-provided configuration classes. But I can't seem to find a way to do what I was doing with the old config block using the System.Configuration class...more >>

Hi, When I try to load around 17,000 records into a DataSet and return it through a Serviced Component I get the following message from the runtime. Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown. Does anyone know what I can do to avoid this....more >>

Hello, I am starting to plan a portal site that will eventually (hopefully) increase exponetianlly in the amount of traffic to the site. I am planning to do this in a 3-tier/4-tier layout, I'm just wondering of any design considerations before I embark. One thing I was thinking of is origin...more >>

My Company currently hosts a classic asp application. User authentication takes place through forms authentication on sql server database. A client which use this application over the internet has requested if it is possible to automate authentication through their windows login into our web ...more >>

Hi, I am writing myself a "keep organised" app to keep track of all the stuff on my backup DVDs/CDs. I wanted to be able to recognise the dvd/CD when its in the drive, and I figured that the manufacturer burnt serial number on each CD/DVD disc would be a good, unique, non-changing identifie...more >>