Hello, I was developa software and I want to sell it I want to have two version 1) Trial version (30 days of validity) 2) Full version My question is, which is the correct or normal way to implement a 30 day trial software?, so I need to detect the installation date and compare to the curren...more >>

I have an application which needed to use MS Office(Word and Excel). Everything runs well in W2K. But when I deploy the program to WIN98SE. The following errors occur: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException COM object with CLSID XXXXXXX is either not valid or not registered i have no id...more >>

Hi, Today I´m a Delphi developer and would like to move to C#. I installed .NET Framework and .NET SDK, and downloaded the Borland C# Personal to start reading / testing the environment. Reading .NET documentation (from the beggining), I found some references explaining that I (developing i...more >>

Any plans to implement SQL logging in the data adapters? It seems like a very basic feature. It would help with debugging if one could view the actual SQL statements that get generated when one does something like: DataAdapter.Update(SomeDataTable); Or, is the feature there and I have ju...more >>

Im not usre if this is the correct group but I am having major problems getting a compact framework application to connect to a irda printer. It will discover the device without problem but will tell me the connection was actively refused when I try to connect to it. I have tried and used ...more >>

I'm in the middle of extending my Collapsible Panel (http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/CollapsiblePanelBar.asp) control to support XP Themes & Styles. So I need to paint it according to the bitmaps that are stored in the current shellstyle.dll. Using uxtheme.dll I can get the current them...more >>

I have a system developed in VB.NET, need to install it in computers with Win98, are disadvantages when installing NET Framework in Win98...more >>

I have 5000 records in my dataset. On exit of application I'm dumping it to a file using WriteXML method. No errors are generated when writing to a file. But when application is starting it generates system error. When I looked into XML file it looks like DataSet has not been written entirely. ...more >>

Hi, I am developing a remote server application. this has to be service multiple requests at the same time. This is currently being done using the ..Net thread pool. I have no problems with upto 25 clients accessing my server. After that I get an exception on the server , that...more >>

Hello everyone, I am using a 3rd party component that is a managed .NET dll, however the author decided not to strong name the assembly. When I go to strong name my assembly that's referencing it, I get the 'Unable to emit Assembly' error messages. Is there any way to give a dll a str...more >>

Hi all, Is there any way to resize my font in a Listview without changing the column header size? Currently when I change the font size the column header resizes as well. I am using Compact Framework with C#. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi, Does MS recommend any naming conventions or standards when creating namespaces in VB.NET or C#? I found an article (http://www.mastercsharp.com/article.aspx? ArticleID=18&&TopicID=4) that states: "Microsoft is encouraging companies to use their full names to develop components a...more >>

Somewhere buried in the System.Net namespace is a call or method that I really need that I cannot find. Most computers on the Internet these days go through NAT, where an private intranet address (192.168.x.x) gets translated through NAT and becomes visible on the Internet. My entire home network...more >>

is it possible ( via iis or asp.net conf.) to hide form names from the client. for example, I have a web application named MyApp and from the browser I reach the applications start page as "http://server_name/MyApp. and when click a link in the start page that is pointing another webform in ...more >>

hi group, i previously have a single machine development environment on server03 (w2K3, stand alone, SQL2K). i configured it so that my app is using "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" to access to the database it and it worked just so fine. now, i am installing my asp.net app and database to a ...more >>