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Score Server Side PDF Tool HELP!!!
KT - 16 Dec 2006 10:47 PM - 2 messages
I am looking for a server side PDF tool that provides various PDF services to ASP.NET applications. We have a common need to programmatically open, manipulate PDF files on the web application server for output to the web.  ...
Score PDF with .NET HELP!!!
Yoda - 16 Dec 2006 3:08 PM - 2 messages
I have an app with 100's of PDF files that I open in a .NET app.  When the PDF opens, it opens in Adobe. Does anyone know how to grab the text field where users entered values from ...
Score Bugs, bugs ...
PawelSokolowski - 16 Dec 2006 3:01 PM - 8 messages
Hi all, Is there any place where can I report bugs in Microsoft products in a way that gives somethings ? I mean anyone there cares ? I was coping with bugs in Visual Studio for years, but I have enough. After installing Service Pack 1 for .NET 2003 I just cannot stand it. ...
Score How to send Lotus Notes Email Via C#
navyliu - 16 Dec 2006 11:07 AM - 5 messages
I want send Lotus Notes Email automatic in my Application.I googled this topic but I can't find the solution. Does anyone have ever use this function?Can you give me some advice? Thanks a lot! ...
Score Simple GUI questions
James - 16 Dec 2006 2:04 AM - 4 messages
I'm making a very simple slideshow application.  The issue I'm facing now is the application (by design) has no menus or max/min/close icons.  It's basically just a rectangle as far as the end user is concerned. ...
Score What triggered this event?
Daniel Manes - 15 Dec 2006 10:41 PM - 2 messages
Something is causing my DataGridView to raise a SelectionChanged event, but I can't figure out what. It's definitely not a user action, and it's not something I programmed directly. It's obviously some side effect of something else I'm doing ...
Score DrawString on to an image (text on an image)
JR1 - 15 Dec 2006 9:36 PM - 4 messages
I would like to add text to an image.  I have tried to use DrawString and it works on some images but on others it is very very small.  I am pretty sure it has something to do with the size of the image but I have had varying ...
Score How can we extract assemblies from GAC?
vinodmishra - 15 Dec 2006 9:15 PM - 2 messages
I have a small query. How can we extract assemblies from GAC? Regards, Vinod Mishra ...
Score Handling of different return code correspondingly in a stored procedure
Fir5tSight - 15 Dec 2006 5:00 PM - 6 messages
Hi All, I have a C#.NET code as follows: private void ScanInput_KeyPress(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs e) {     try     {     Row lRow = this.Connection.InsertScannedFile(ID);     }     catch (Exception /*lException*/) ...
Score DataGrid and text box
JRD - 15 Dec 2006 2:54 PM - 6 messages
Greetings, I was wondering if anyone has come across a scenario and like this and what solution did you use. I have a datagrid that is populated from the database with the list of drugs and their associated dose and so on. ...
Score MSSOAP errors
Doug - 15 Dec 2006 2:53 PM - 4 messages
On a server that we run automated apps on, that has VB code that uses the MSSoap tool kit to access a web service, we periodically get these errors: Soap error: XML Parser failed at linenumber 1, lineposition 0, reason ...
Score nvarchar vs varchar in .net application
stuckish - 15 Dec 2006 1:36 PM - 5 messages
My collegue is saying that you should store text data in Sql Server i unicode fields (nvarchar) beause that .net (asp.net website) is all unicode and therefore you save some time not having to convert the data from ascii to unicode. ...
Score Gridlayout
Mitesh - 15 Dec 2006 11:53 AM - 2 messages
Please tell me how to go into Gridlayout from FlowLayout in Visual Studio 2005? ...
Score Debug Settings VS2005 - "Break on All Errors"
iKiLL - 15 Dec 2006 9:48 AM - 2 messages
Hi all I am still pretty new to .Net and C#. I have come from a VB6 Background. I am using VS2005 to develop an C# Windows mobile 5.0 application. What I am looking for is the setting that is equivalent to the VB6 "Break on ...
Score How to convert .xls file into text file.
gujarsachin2001@gmail.com - 15 Dec 2006 5:36 AM - 3 messages
Hello friends,        I want to convert .xls file into text file.So can anybody pls help me out. Thxxxxxx, Sachin. ...
Score Page render
Ed - 14 Dec 2006 11:37 PM - 2 messages
HI All, Iam using Visual Studio 2005  VB.net to develop a web application.  I am having some issues with the page display. I have to actually move the mouse to get the web page to display . If I dont move the mouse I dont see anything ...
Score Optimal Workstation for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2005
karlag92 - 14 Dec 2006 10:03 PM - 5 messages
We have a very large C# winforms client application that is constructed as a single solution currently with 75 projects.  We're currently using VS 2003 but will upgrade to 2005 some time next year. We've noticed that Visual Studio is terribly inefficient about a lot of ...
Score DateTime Local to UTC Conversion
Mike - 14 Dec 2006 6:32 PM - 2 messages
I execute the following code in both frameworks; Server Time in Central Prevailing Time: DateTime dt = new DateTime(2006, 10, 29, 0, 0, 0); System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(" ; Local Time ; UTC"); while (dt.Hour < 5) {     System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(" ; " + dt.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH")); ...
Score App.Config: using doctype and entity blocks
Harold Howe - 14 Dec 2006 6:15 PM - 2 messages
When .NET loads an app.config at runtime (myapp.exe.config), will it honor an entity declaration? Based on what I am seeing, the answer is no, but I think, or hope, that I am doing something wrong. I tried this: ...
Score DataGrid question for C#
Mike at Quadrem - 14 Dec 2006 5:55 PM - 2 messages
I hope this is the correct forum for this. I have a Datagrid I'm writing in C# in VS 2003. The rows in it are NOT editable. User does have  ability to Remove rows, but that is not relevant. My problem is in the Footer. I have a ...
Score How Do I Access the Windows Error Dialog That Has a "More" Button?
abock - 14 Dec 2006 4:13 PM - 8 messages
Hi, I've been trying to find the Windows error dialog that has not only the standard OK/Cancel buttons, but also a "More..." button that, when clicked, expands the dialogs, showing an additional section (usu a noneditable textbox) with more information. ...
Score How to create a shortcut to Wifi connection programmatically ?
Michel Schawann - 14 Dec 2006 3:14 PM - 7 messages
I need to create a shortcut to the wifi connection on the XP desktop. I cannot use the "right-click / create shortcut" because this process must be integrate in a setup.exe and deploy in a silently mode without users ...
Score Using DateTime
Marco Shaw - 14 Dec 2006 1:24 PM - 3 messages
Does DateTime have a built-in feature to just give me "Dec" or similar for "December"? Marco ...
Score Question
Don - 14 Dec 2006 11:47 AM - 3 messages
what is the differences between the word MyBase and Me ...
Score how to extract excel file data into text file.
gujarsachin2001@gmail.com - 14 Dec 2006 9:10 AM - 5 messages
Hi friends, I m just stuck with  extracting excel file data into text file. So can any body please help me out. thx, Sachin. ...
Score Keys.Oem1 etc to real character
Pieter - 14 Dec 2006 8:14 AM - 6 messages
Hi, How can I convert KeyCode's to the real character? For instance: the row of keys on a keyboard under the F-keys return as Keycode the Keys.Oem1, Keys.Oem2 etc... Depending on the keyboard layout it is another character ...
Score Automated tool to examine code against industry coding standards
John K - 14 Dec 2006 12:25 AM - 2 messages
I am looking for an automated tool to analyze C# and VB.NET(2005) source code in regards to industry coding standards.  I know FxCop exists, but that doesn't, to my knowledge, check code against standards like "MISRA-C" (Motor ...
Score ReadChar works where Read fails
Michael Conroy - 13 Dec 2006 11:25 PM - 2 messages
In short, arghghghg. public bool Init() {             _port.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(_port_DataReceived);             _port.DiscardNull = true;             _port.ReadTimeout = 1000; ...
Score Returning all tables in a SQL Server 2005 Database
Sherwood - 13 Dec 2006 10:08 PM - 3 messages
Greetings, I am attempting to loop through all of the tables in a given database using VB.NET 2003.  However, all that is being returned is a "-" and a "1" in my "For Each" statement.  Here is the code I am currently using?  Any ideas? ...
Score Is .NET 3.0 Vista only?
DXRick - 13 Dec 2006 8:43 PM - 3 messages
I am learning .NET 2.0 now.  I see that .NET 3.0 is available along with a new Windows SDK for Vista.  So, it seems that .NET 3.0 components are for Vista only.  Yet I can download and integrate the new 3.0 assmeblies into the ...
Score Can't remote debug! :o(
M O J O - 13 Dec 2006 7:53 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I'm trying to debug a remote server using msvsmon.exe. I've copied the whole folder with msvsmon.exe to the server and runs it from the server. But when I attach to the sever vs2005 gives me this error: ...
Score I apologize For A dumb Question
NewAndDumb - 13 Dec 2006 7:21 PM - 7 messages
I sure there is a simple answer to this. i am a VB6 programmer learning Vb.net.  Where and how do you view debug.print statments.  I culd not find them in the immediate window ...
Score How the (*&^ do you report problems with the VS / .net doco?
Al Christoph - 13 Dec 2006 5:56 PM - 4 messages
First let me state my prejudices. I'm keeping "a little list" and "come the revolution" the "first ones up against the wall" are: 1. The folk who write MS documentation 2. The folk who rearranged things so that it is nearly impossible to report ...
Score Create Setup Program that copies large number of files
MrTea - 13 Dec 2006 4:45 PM - 2 messages
Hi Folks Hopefully a simple question... Using Visual Studio 2005, what is the easiest way to create a setup for my Windows Forms App that can copy a large number of required PDF files to the installation directory when the setup is executed. ...
Score keypress event on textbox
windy - 13 Dec 2006 3:27 PM - 4 messages
I got a question about keypress event on textbox:     I found that the keypress event doesn't invoked when i press the "." button on alphabetic keyboard, however if i use numberpad's "." button keypress event is invoked. ...
Score Cross language programming
Jesper, Denmark - 13 Dec 2006 1:39 PM - 3 messages
I’m a C# programmer and new to Visual Basic. I’m using a class written in C# from a Visual basic program. I can’t get access to a public enumerated type in the C# class. Does VB support enumerated types. ...
Score Which hardware ???
calderara - 13 Dec 2006 8:28 AM - 5 messages
Dear guys, In your dayly developement work whcih hard ware configuration did you use for Vista and vs2005 ? Portable or Workstation ? Is there suitable laptop configuration for developmeent I need to ask for my company for a new machine but do not know which one ...
Score Any examples of using an Access DB in VS.2K5?
AppleBag - 13 Dec 2006 6:37 AM - 2 messages
Hello I have found examples of using an .mdb file in VS2K3, but apparently the components in the toolbox are different than the ones shown in the 2K3 examples. I have google'd and searched high and low, and for the ...
Score Is it safe to start now ????
calderara - 12 Dec 2006 8:36 PM - 5 messages
Dear all, Vista is out for enterprise already and soon for public. As a developper I am wondering if it is safe to start develop under Vista or should I wait for a year. We have actually a complete supervision application running under Windows ...
Score looking for reputable free spyward download
Mary J - 12 Dec 2006 8:22 PM - 2 messages
I currently use Lavasoft AdAware.  It will expire soon.  Can anyone recommend another good free program? ...
Score data grid
mitesh - 12 Dec 2006 7:50 PM - 2 messages
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Score Detect SQL Server Service
Derek Hart - 12 Dec 2006 7:41 PM - 2 messages
I am running a winforms application as a scheduled task in Windows, but I want it to wait to make sure the SQL Server Service is running before it runs the app.  Can I detect this in vb.net code? ...
Score Tool Tab gone Hay Wire
Burrows - 12 Dec 2006 3:03 PM - 4 messages
HI all turned on VS2005 this morning and had a shock. My Tool Bar has gone hay wire The General tab has renamed itself  #13119 and my Report Item Tab has replaced all the reporting controls with text boxes when I ...
Score intellisense not working
chris - 12 Dec 2006 3:00 PM - 2 messages
Does any one else experience intellisense not working when you start up VS 2005? I'm required to open one of my web project forms and switch to design view, then intellisense starts to work??????????? And this is an existing ...
Score Loading Managed DLL's
Lee - 12 Dec 2006 2:32 PM - 2 messages
How can I dynamically Load / Unload Managed Code DLL's from a Managaed VB.NET App? ...
Score Extracting XML
Helen Trim - 12 Dec 2006 1:51 PM - 2 messages
Please help!  I am wading through the documentation on XML and I can extract a single element by it's tag using GetElementsByTagName.  But how do I extract a nested tag. For example: <Order>   <Name> ...
Score NUnit versions...
Peter Kirk - 12 Dec 2006 12:50 PM - 2 messages
Hi I have written some assemblies which are compiled using nunit version 2.2.8.0 These assemblies are to be included in an application with other assemblies written by other companies. The problem is that the other company used nunit 2.2.0.0 ...
Score TcpClient
gad - 12 Dec 2006 11:39 AM - 2 messages
I am using TCPClient in order to connect to a remote TCP host. Everything is working good and the connection is fine, but I cannot disconnect from the TCP host, I am using the close()  sub but it is not ...
Score Desktop icons
O - 12 Dec 2006 4:21 AM - 5 messages
My files I have on my desktop have disappeared from the desktop.  The strange thing is that when I go on my computer they appear to be under desktop, and i Can access from there. but there not in the desktop!! help me! ...
Score How to express .net Event in UML?
modenl - 12 Dec 2006 12:13 AM - 2 messages
Anyone has any ideas? ...
Score Can Run Application Outside of Development Folder
Tony Van - 11 Dec 2006 11:34 PM - 2 messages
I rewrote an existing VB6 app in .NET as a learning tool. Works good. The problem is, it won't run in any folder except the folder that it was build in.  I get an unhanded exception error telling me it couldn't load a form because it couldn't find ...
Score GridView Pager Settings and Editable Field Width
JDRaven - 11 Dec 2006 9:33 PM - 5 messages
I have a GridView that is binding and sorting and paging all very nicely, but when I try to control the PagerStyle and PagerSettings I seem to be running into trouble.  I want to use some icons for paging back and forth - and while ...
Score Windows Application - attach to the existing console
Oleg.Ogurok - 11 Dec 2006 8:15 PM - 4 messages
Hi there, I wrote an app that has GUI but also accepts command line parameters for automated execution. When the app is started from command line with parameters, I'd like the application to behave like a Console Application, e.g. ...
Score Attach to exe in VS2005
Bakunin - 11 Dec 2006 5:11 PM - 3 messages
Hi,    I want to attach to an exe that is invoked from a command line. How is this done? It doesn't appear on my list of things that I can attach to and there doesn't appear to be a browse option to locate the exe. ...
Score OT: Power Collections
Merk - 11 Dec 2006 5:05 PM - 3 messages
I just discovered the Power Collections library ([link]), and I'm wondering if any of you have used it. If so, would you recommend it to others? If you have evaluated it and decided to NOT use it, I'd like to know why if you don't ...
Score Out of Process .NET Server
MC-Advantica - 11 Dec 2006 2:04 PM - 4 messages
COM had the notion of an out of process COM server, whereas a DLL would run in its own process space or a client could attach to a running server; does a ..NET class library have similar capability?  Do I have the choice of in ...
Score Creating application pool for ASP.NET 1.1 in IIS7 running on x64 V
Vlad Hrybok - 11 Dec 2006 1:36 AM - 4 messages
Hi all, I recently installed 64 bit version of Vista hoping to make it my primary development setup. I was able to do work with IIS7 and ASP.NET 2.0/Visua Studio 2005 combo, but hit a roadblock trying to work with Visual Studio .NET ...
Score Secure way to share session between ASP and ASP.net
Chris - 11 Dec 2006 12:49 AM - 2 messages
Hi I have to share session state between asp and asp.net. I am looking at code examples and it looks doable but my major concern is most of the methods that grab the ASP session involve posting to an asp page and looping ...
Score Databinding a control to the negative of a bool property
Naveen - 10 Dec 2006 1:17 AM - 8 messages
I posted this message to another board and have hardly had any views on it, leave alone answers. So I am cross-posting here. This may be a very simple  question but I can't get my head around it. ...
Score Street & Trip down load to PDA
dtcat - 10 Dec 2006 12:39 AM - 4 messages
Please direct me to information on S&T download to a PDA. Will 2007 let you down load a bigger Map size to fill a 1 or 2 gig compact flash card. Even last year MS autoroute europe limited the map size. ...
Score prevent multiple instances of an application
Job Lot - 10 Dec 2006 12:19 AM - 4 messages
How can I prevent multiple instances of a C# windows forms application. VB.NET provides My.Application.StartupNextInstance Event to do this. Is there any C# equivalent as well? Thanks ...
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