General .NET discussion

Our project goes live in 2 days and we have a big problem! We are using Windows Forms databinding and the Entity Framework (SQL Server backend). Bizarrely, Visual Studio has started playing up, for some reason it keeps unlinking datasource types from bindingsources! It's a pain in the editor ...

There is a remote method that returns a datatable to the client. I a talking of a scenario when there are multiple requests which invoke the same method. I have a synchronized region of code. By that I mean only one thread/request should execute that code; others should wait. ...

I have recently added a new printer and increased the memory on my computer which is running Windows XP.  Now I am getting a message asking me to re-activate windows. However, when I try to do this, a blank dialogue box comes up then ...

basically, what it says in the title. my computer is BSOD with error 'unmountable_boot_volume'. i know i can fix this by going into the recovery console on the OS CD supplied with the computer but i accidentally dropped/stepped on the cd and it broke into several pieces. ...

Hi, In Access/VBA subform controls can be referenced like: Me!Subform1.Form!ControlName. How to do it with vb.net? Also, is there an equivalent to Access's continuous forms in a dotnet Windows application? ...

Greetings, I am using Process.Start from a web app to run an executable that produces a text file that is subsequently imported into SQL Server.  This has been working reliably for over a year. Last weekend we setup Active Directory on our network and now this process ...

I am recieving an error 00000576 on my update. Will not update. Also I cannot get my text size to enlarge, this started today after my automatic update that didn't update. Please help, I did all the troubleshooting. ...

I recently upgraded to a Intel Quad Proc and utilized PC Mover - Worked really good. Office 2007 came over but now Power Point will not give me sound. I have tried all the suggestions and have been utilizing PowerPoint for years. I tried removing and reinstalling the product but got the ...

Alrighty. My computer (Toshiba Satilite, VISTA HOME PREMIUM 32bit...) has crashed recently... It crashed then I restarted it. And it said. "BLAH BLAH BLAH Winload.exe is missing or corrupt". I tried reseting to factory defaults but it didn't work. Soon after that, I changed my BIOS settings and put the cd drive at the top and inserted my Windows Vista Home Premium Installation Disk. After that I got, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. It waas a blue screen thing. I tried many commands in the repair promt bootrec.exe /fixmbr ...

I've used the following for bulk-insertion. However, it throws an exception about the database connection being closed when executing "WriteToServer".         void BulkInsertDataTable(DataTable sourceTable)         { ...

Microsoft, Adobe warn of critical security flaws for further details visit: [link] ...

I have a C#.NET project in which I'll need to load up information about 4000 securities into memory. Each security has 21 days of daily data in memory. Each daily data contains 20 items in memory such as open price (double ...

I try to format a date using following myDateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") Which I assumed would give me a date seperated by slashed, but it gives me the date using '-'. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I export to csv and the goal is to ...

Hi all, I've got a .NET application where users authenticate using Form Authentication and then they're assigned to Admin or User roles. Admins are allowed to modify data and Users have read-only permissions. After data is modified I'd like Admins to be able to preview data in the new browser ...

Can the SMS be configured so, that clients would get their updates with any interference required from users? Currently I'm in a environment where installation of machines goes well, but after first boot we're required to do a lot of clicking OK to dialogs; ...

What is the VB.net equivalent of GetSystemMetrics calls please? ...

Hi All, Im using managed c++ syntax (VS 7) in VS 2005. And i want to implement a generic interface in it. But im getting errors when i try to compile the code. Here is what i want to do:- ...

How to I restore tool bars, they are now blocked out since intalling explorer 8 ...

Hello, We have a .NET application that runs as a service. Our customers have observed, using Task Manager, that handle counts are going up after a period of time and claim it is a leak on our part. I have scoured the code looking for anything that I am not closing or ...

how to connect to sybase database using c# language. Any MS or third party libraries? ...

Favicons show up in bookmark list and address bar, but when I darg a bookmark from list to desktop, it changes to generic and site favicon does not show. Anybody know why or a fix? ps....running XP, and favicons used to drag & drop just fine. ...

I am fairly new to visual studio and am intermediate with C#. In learning more and more, I find that it would be useful to simply highlight a block of code and run it rather than commenting out what I don't want run and then ...