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Score sound problems
Su neil - 10 Mar 2007 10:54 PM - 3 messages
I have media centre on my pc, I have perfect sound on headphones when they are plugged into the socket that the speakers would be in but the speakers have no sound, I have now tried 3 sets and still nothing. Has anyone out there got any ideas. Thanks ...
Score Windows XP SP2 Error
Mark - 10 Mar 2007 10:45 PM - 4 messages
Ever since the release of SP2 I have not been able to install it. After I download and install when I do the restart to finish I come up with a blue screen with this message "Stop C0000221 Unknown Hard error SystemRoot\system32\ntdll.dll" ...
Score no sound whatsoever
Orion18 - 10 Mar 2007 7:35 PM - 3 messages
I tried to play music on my windows media player yesterday and couldnt. a little red x appeared to the left of the music file and it said," Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound ...
Score Receiving but not able to send messages??
Stumped! - 10 Mar 2007 7:26 PM - 4 messages
Hello, I have no problem downloading my message from Netscape, using the new Windows Mail for Vista.  However, I have not been able to reply to a single message once it is downloaded to Windows Mail? Please help me with this exasperating situation. ...
Score .Net Application on share with permission List Folder/Read Data not allowed results in .Net Framewor
Bill Fallon - 10 Mar 2007 3:22 PM - 3 messages
I have a VS2005 VB.Net windows form application deployed to a share drive. The windows explorer security permissions for this application (.exe) file is set for Everyone with List Folder/Read Data not allowed.  This is done so ...
Score Charting and graphing libraries
Jon Harrop - 10 Mar 2007 3:07 PM - 5 messages
What are your favourite (free or commercial) .NET libraries for charting and graphing in 2D and 3D? ...
Score xbox live vision compatible with pc?
shrfsch - 10 Mar 2007 3:29 AM - 2 messages
first post, so i hope this is the right group... i have an xbox 360 live vision camera, came in a bundle pack with the headset, 12 month subscription to live, etc. i can't use the camera with my pc, even tho i was told i could.  i did not ...
Score Auto logoff
Rudy - 9 Mar 2007 11:09 PM - 2 messages
Hello all! Any idea how I ca set up a Auto logout.  If the program is inactive for 3 minutes or wahtwerv.  I know I can use a timer.  But what declartionon the form would be best used?  Or maybe there is a better way? ...
Score connecting two computers by cable
diggitypoo - 9 Mar 2007 10:05 PM - 2 messages
How do you connect two computers if one doesn't boot up correctly?  I have one computer that has an issue with System Registry Hive being too large, and I think there is something else wrong with the hard drive.  I just want to ...
Score Two basic Icon() questions.
Allan Michaels - 9 Mar 2007 9:21 PM - 3 messages
Hello, I have some basic questions regarding Icons. The ms-help page for System.Drawing.Icon ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.NETDEVFX.v20.en/cpref8/html/T_System_Drawing_Icon_Members.htm says that "Icons can be thought of as transparent bitmaps, although their ...
Score Popup Menus
EdB - 9 Mar 2007 9:19 PM - 7 messages
I am porting an app from VB6 to VS2005 (VB/Win Forms).  It uses a context sensitive pop up menu.  You know, you right click on something and an appropriately placed menu comes up.  I can not find this control. ...
Score High level overview of dot net technology
b.avinash - 9 Mar 2007 9:08 PM - 2 messages
Hi All, I am searching for a book or online material (I'll prefer this) which gives me the high level introduction to dot net world. The target audience are Managers and not developers. It should be for the managers who wants to make decision on choosing the platform for ...
Score Creating a .NET Assembly in VS2005
wheresjim - 9 Mar 2007 8:53 PM - 4 messages
I have a project I inherited that was originally written for VS .NET 2003.  I was able to create a .dll that would work with a third party product that would allow us to communicate with .NET webservices from ...
Score .NET 3.0 breaks ie7
Carpadum - 9 Mar 2007 6:47 PM - 3 messages
When accessing web interfaces on many network equipment vendors equipment ie7 displays HTTP 400 errors after installing .net 3.0 framework.  Removing 3.0 relsolves the issue.  Firefox and ie6 do not have the same issue.  Equipment vendors I have experienced the problem when browsing to the web ...
Score Public Member not found error
Erica - 9 Mar 2007 2:11 PM - 2 messages
Hello all. I really hope someone can help me solve this error: I am getting the following error: Public member 'PlanID' on type 'DataRowView' not found. Here is the relevant code: <ItemTemplate> <tr>                            ...
Score Postbuilding .NET applications? Pros? Cons?
Marcel - 9 Mar 2007 9:04 AM - 4 messages
My collegues and I are considering to start working with .NET (again), but we do not want people to learn all about the structure and secrets of our application by reading the intermediate language (with ildasm.exe). We do not like to use obfuscation because that messes up stacktraces in case of ...
Score How to roll #region automatically
mamin - 9 Mar 2007 8:39 AM - 2 messages
Is there any shortcut to roll #region in VisualStudio 2005 or in Resharper ? Or maybe there's somewhere an option that causes that after openinig cs file all regions are rolled? ...
Score Excellent opportunity for job seekers in .NET
anu - 9 Mar 2007 6:14 AM - 6 messages
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Score public member not found error
Erica - 9 Mar 2007 2:01 AM - 2 messages
Hello all. I really hope someone can help me solve this error: I am getting the following error: Public member 'PlanID' on type 'DataRowView' not found. Here is the relevant code: <ItemTemplate> <tr>                            ...
Score Validating TextBoxes
clintonG - 8 Mar 2007 9:45 PM - 9 messages
I have to get to this later tonight or tommorrow...and wonder... There's two TextBoxes in a Wizard Step posing an either-or situtation. Only one or the other TextBox may pass data. The application also uses MasterPages. Which tactic would you implement for the required validation when there's ...
Score windows vista backup question
Lorenzo - 8 Mar 2007 8:35 PM - 3 messages
hi i just got windows vista ultimate and the way my pc is set up is i have 2 hard drives 1 with xp pro and one with vista ultimate but i wanted to go make a back up of vista the entire image one and when i went there it wants to ...
Score Form design view with Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A2B45A2) (0)
Li Weng - 8 Mar 2007 8:23 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a window application in VS2005. I can build and run it. But when I open a specific form with design view, the Visual Studio crashes and closes without error message! the error message on my PC's event log: ...
Score Cant get the timer working with windows Service.
dhulapati - 8 Mar 2007 7:37 PM - 3 messages
I cant get the timer working with the windows service. I have the timer set to 3600 ms. It polls only for Start and Stop but not at intervals. The timer1.tick event handler is called at the initializecomponent() OnStart () enables the timer1 and OnStop() disables the timer1. ...
Score system.Diagnostics.Process Problem
gmyers - 8 Mar 2007 7:26 PM - 6 messages
Hello, I am attempting to start a cmd.exe process and pass several .vbs scripts (with additional parameters) and then read the output from the scripts and make "notes" in a DataTable (the "notes" not being the issue).  Beginning with... ...
Score Detect Operating System Service Pack
Mike - 8 Mar 2007 3:21 PM - 2 messages
Dear Support, I'm not an ASP programmer, however so far by searching the web, I have created this working code: <html> <body> <p> <p> <b>School IP address:</b> ...
Score Make form deactivate itself?
Andrew Morton - 8 Mar 2007 10:03 AM - 6 messages
Is it possible to make a form deactivate itself without minimizing it? I have written a small utility which copies selected files from CDs (hundreds of them). I put a CD in the tray and click a button on the form to ...
Score broadjump client foundation
too-old-for-this - 8 Mar 2007 8:04 AM - 2 messages
i don't think it's windows software but i'll ask anyway... has anyone heard of a program called 'broadjump client foundation'?  i'm running an abit nf7-s mobo, a radeon powercolor 9250 video board, xp home, and works suite 2005 ...
Score Text editing annoyance
Flomo Togba Kwele - 8 Mar 2007 2:20 AM - 14 messages
For some reason, using Ctrl-leftarrow or Ctrl-rightarrow does not move the cursor in VS2005. Opening the same VB file in Notepad, this function works by skipping (or reverse skipping) to the next word. Is this the way it's supposed to work, or have I mangled some option? ...
Score test
Mythran - 7 Mar 2007 10:54 PM - 2 messages
test, this newsgroup is specifically giving me an error when I try to post...test ...
Score A design question about format provider
Nick nkw - 7 Mar 2007 8:06 PM - 2 messages
I am building an asp.net application. However, it had to use a lot of Convert.ToDatetime or Parse. And I had a lot of the following code: IFormatProvider provider = new CultureInfo(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("culture")); .... DateTime.Parse(lblDate.Text, provider)... ...
Score Reporting Services Web Service Programming
A. Robinson - 7 Mar 2007 7:37 PM - 4 messages
I have been looking high and low and can't seem to find anything a little more detailed on the whole RS utility. What I'm looking for specifically is some type of programming reference. Also, I created a new VB project in VS2005, but yet when I write any code, ...
Score setup project in VS 2003
John - 7 Mar 2007 6:30 PM - 5 messages
Should I post this message here or is there a different group. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------- I created a setup project in VS 2003 to deploy a windows application. I'm able to run that installer in any windows xp m/c, when I try to install ...
Score Inserting rows into datagrids
J Streger - 7 Mar 2007 5:35 PM - 3 messages
I have 2 methods activated through a context menu that insert and delete rows from the dataTable linked to a datagrid. I can delete rows the selected row with no problems, but when I try to use the insertat method of the dataTable class the row is inserted at the bottom ...
Score .NET 3.0: looking for the most basic examples
Marco Shaw - 7 Mar 2007 3:07 PM - 2 messages
I'd like to see some basic examples of WCF, WWF, and WPF. Anyone have any links they can provide?  I'd like to demo them using Windows PowerShell. Marco ...
Score "an existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"
Jim Hubbard - 7 Mar 2007 11:38 AM - 2 messages
We are using a .Net 2.0 app that connects to a SQL 2005 Express DB and we keep getting this message on the clients. Has anyone seen this error or a solution to it? ...
Score Trojans and Reinstalling
Andy - 7 Mar 2007 10:29 AM - 3 messages
i got given a computer, after 12 months and many downloads my kids have mananged to get a trojan on it. i have tried doing what my knowledge will let me do, with no success. it has taken away dll files and every time i try ...
Score RE: 0x0074006e. The memory could not be read
Ana - 7 Mar 2007 9:33 AM - 3 messages
Hello there, I have a Windows XP with SP2 installation, I recently installed the following software on the machine (Ms SQL 2005, .NET Framework 2.0 and asp.net 2.0). On my laptop when shutting down I get the following error message; ...
Score Eclipse
John Bailo - 7 Mar 2007 8:19 AM - 2 messages
Can I use Eclipse to program c#.net 2.0? ...
Score safe mode
rb - 7 Mar 2007 5:09 AM - 2 messages
will not start up in safe mode when i hit f8 help ...
Score profiles in pop3
Vinki - 7 Mar 2007 4:32 AM - 2 messages
Hello Everyone,   I really need help in this email. I am using pop3 service to connect to microsoft exchange. I have two profiles defined in microsoft exchange. One is west1 and another one is west2. When I am trying to connect to west1. ...
Score excel
jackie - 7 Mar 2007 1:47 AM - 2 messages
My excel program has just started to divide every number I enter from the keyboard by 100. This does not happen with Word or other programs. I switched to Microsoft One Care two week ago and wonder if I have let in a bug> ...
Score Error 50--The Request is not supported
Rache E Falk - 7 Mar 2007 12:47 AM - 2 messages
I have a friend with XP Dell using dial-up.  She can connect to her server fine until she disconnects; then when she tries to reconnect, she gets this message.  This is a home computer.  I've noticed most comments seem to have ...
Score volume icon
nancygirl - 6 Mar 2007 10:54 PM - 3 messages
please help!  dont know whats happend but i have lost my volume icon and all sound on my pc.  any ideas on how i can re-install it or a download i can get from microsoft? ...
Score OE 6.0 and Hotmail
Clorey - 6 Mar 2007 10:05 PM - 5 messages
When I try to open an attachment in Outlook Express 6.0 Hotmail I get the following message. "this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder options control ...
Score Open Source Advice from a Former Microsoft Employee
John Bailo - 6 Mar 2007 9:38 PM - 4 messages
[link] In the first post, Walli suggests Microsoft start by releasing the source code for SQL Server and repackaging the product licensing into a subscription for SQL Server Network, similar to the subscription-based ...
Score Low cost VS 2005 -- is this a valid copy?
John Bailo - 6 Mar 2007 9:35 PM - 2 messages
I was looking at prices for VS.NET 2005 and I found some super low cost vendors selling it for around $100. It says professional and not academic. Do you think it's for real?   Because Orcas is coming out soon? ...
Score Type of .sln file
Curious - 6 Mar 2007 8:06 PM - 3 messages
Hi, When I save a solution file, there are three options: UTF-8 Solution File (*.sln); Unicode Solution File (*.sln); ANSI Solution File (*.sln). Which type shall I choose? Thanks, -Emily ...
Score Question Regarding Const Strings Versus String Pooling
DLN - 6 Mar 2007 6:25 PM - 2 messages
Hello all, I have a quick question regarding how best to use static strings in my C# code that I'm hoping someone can help me with.  Is there any advantage/disadvantage from a performance standpoint to declaring all my ...
Score vbNullString
Lou - 6 Mar 2007 5:43 PM - 12 messages
What's the .NET equivalent Dim strTmp as string If strTmp=vbNullString ...
Score Problem with new 24" monitor and cursor
BocaBoy - 6 Mar 2007 5:16 PM - 2 messages
I have an interesting problem I haven't been able to unravel. I installed a new 24" widescreen monitor which is working perfectly. However, my cursor disappears below the taskbar instead of stopping there, as if there is more screen real estate than there actually is. I've checked the driver for both ...
Score windows\system32\config\system??????
jamesdbowman - 6 Mar 2007 4:55 PM - 5 messages
hey guys...i'm having an absolute nightmare and i genuinely have no idea ...
Score Delayed loading dependent assemblies when start an .Net application
wzhao2000 - 6 Mar 2007 2:29 PM - 3 messages
Back in COM time, it's possible to use #import statement in cpp to load COM object type info and use it at coding time. When the application is started, the underlying COM DLL will not be loaded until that part of code is called. ...
Score windows/system32/config/system??????
jamesdbowman - 6 Mar 2007 1:59 PM - 2 messages
hey guys...i'm having an absolute nightmare and i genuinely have no idea ...
Score how can i play .Vox file
bhaskar - 6 Mar 2007 11:48 AM - 2 messages
Hi, How can i a play a .VOX file using vox player in visual basic 6...can anyone tell me how can i do that... is there any components available ... ...
Score run function from string
Jan Heppen - 6 Mar 2007 9:35 AM - 4 messages
Hi, I've a question. I'm developing a windows application and for the application i need to run functions and procedures that are stored in a database. Here is an example that i tried to get working. How can i execute the function that is stored in the string expr ? ...
Score A question about a stuck label
Rudy - 6 Mar 2007 6:36 AM - 4 messages
Hello all! I'm having a problem with a stuck label.  I have two applications, one that runs on a server, the other a client.  The server application controls all of the forms that open on the client side. they close either by the user or by a ...
Score Favorite URLs for Latest Features?
Siegfried Heintze - 6 Mar 2007 4:49 AM - 5 messages
What is the schedule for visual studio, C# and .NET framework? I get the impression C# V3 is not released yet. I found some good web pages for the various new features of C#. What are some favorite pages for the latest features of winforms, asp.net, ...
Score Private - Protected
Morten71 - 6 Mar 2007 4:28 AM - 3 messages
Just curious. In VB, if I, from design-mode in vs2005, double-click a button (or any other control), the code-behind file opens and the default declaration is automatically inserted with method visibility Protected: Protected Sub btn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ...
Score PostgreSQL with .NET
Penelope Dramas - 5 Mar 2007 10:37 PM - 8 messages
Hello, We have decided to change our database back-end from MSDE to postgreSQL. Would anyone please share his/her experience with this database as far as speed, functionality and security concerns. Thanks, Pen D. ...
Score Easy Transfer Error in Vista 64 Ultimate, trans from Home premimum
MattK - 5 Mar 2007 7:40 PM - 2 messages
Okay, just when I thought I could exhale a sigh of relief... an error gives me a show-stopping problem. I was running Vista 64-bit home premimum and needed to create a dual boot vista ultimate 64 /32 machine on my laptop.  So, while running vista home ...
Score Problem with the crystal report:
amiga500 - 5 Mar 2007 6:56 PM - 2 messages
Sometimes not always but the crystal report gives me this error: Error in File C:\DOCUME~1\erohr\LOCALS~1\Temp\temp_026628e2- a30b-4dcd-966a06724d692bc6{6834D9C8-7B43-4CCE-9842-8A4DB2F06E67}.rpt The request could not be submitted for background processing. ...
Score Throw an exception
Fir5tSight - 5 Mar 2007 4:51 PM - 7 messages
Hi, What does "throw" do? I understand that it throws an error when certain exceptional situation happens. My guess is that this *ignores* the error and *continues* so that it prevents the program from crashing. I just don't know where it throws the error to? It makes sense if it ...
Score Request.Browser.Platform can determine what? UNIX or Linux?
clintonG - 5 Mar 2007 4:48 PM - 3 messages
Does the documented property value UNIX [1] mean the Request.Browser.Platform property determines requests are being made from a Linux machine? <%= Clinton Gallagher          NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com          URL [link] ...
Score windows\system32\config
jamesdbowman - 5 Mar 2007 3:30 PM - 2 messages
hey guys...i'm having an absolute nightmare and i genuinely have no idea why, if anyone can help i'll be forever grateful. when i try to start up my computer it says file not found or corrupt windows\system32/config\system...it says i can try loading up from the ...
Score Tidy HTML in C#
Rasmus - 5 Mar 2007 2:47 PM - 2 messages
I have a large collection of html pages that i need to transform to xhtml (need to load them into a XmlDocument). I was thinking of using the popular Tidy HTML ([link]), but a n easy-to-use .net wrapper has not been ...
Score Get the bound field of a control
BD - 5 Mar 2007 2:32 PM - 3 messages
Hi, How can I get the name of the bound field from a control that has binding to a BindingSource at runtime. For example: txtID.DataBindings.Add("Text", bdgSourceTest, "ID"); txtID is a TextBox and I want to get the bound field "ID" from txtID. ...
Score reading Image Property for button from a XML
doubts - 5 Mar 2007 9:44 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a query regarding reading Image Property for button from a XML file . I read XML files to Generate Screens using System.Windows.Forms.Controls .The XML file is read and properties are set using Reflection a sample representation of it is given below ...
Score Resizing pictures/Vista Home Basic-can't do it anymore?
nordy200 - 5 Mar 2007 1:49 AM - 2 messages
The first bunch of pictures I downloaded to my computer I could resize by right clicking and the drop down menu would have an item that seaid resize. I resized to a large email format, saved that resized picture in the pictures ...
Score IE7/DSL/OE
Errol - 5 Mar 2007 1:31 AM - 3 messages
WINXP/SBCDSL: System has slowed to a crawl in all areas(Startup,Internet signon,Rcvng in default program-OE) Per SbcYahoo this is an IE7 created problem. Pls help ...
Score Confusion About Assemblies - Ownership and Initialisation
Kevin Frey - 4 Mar 2007 11:23 PM - 3 messages
I have an ASP.NET application that references an Assembly called Model. This assembly contains model-centric classes for dealing with database operations. The Model assembly contains a lot of classes which are derived from base-classes in another assembly called DataAccess. ...
Score CLEAN UP UTILITY
NANA MARSHA - 4 Mar 2007 10:34 PM - 4 messages
Everything I have read about my problem tells me I need to install Windows Installer Clean Up Utility.  I have tried unsuccessfully to do so.  I get to the downloading screen and then it disappears as if it were installed.  I am ...
Score Windows - No disk
Jo - 4 Mar 2007 9:51 PM - 2 messages
Hi, Whenever i boot up my computer i get the error message: "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive ." Below is the info i got from the Event Viewer. I've already checked that my ...
Score How do I use another class
Cub71 - 4 Mar 2007 9:47 PM - 2 messages
I have downloaded some code that i need, but I do not know how to make use of it in another project. When i unzipped it, it looks like a full 'project'-folder from Visual Studio 2005 with a sln-file, a dll-file, a csproj-file  a couple of ...
Score How do I use another class
Cub71 - 4 Mar 2007 9:47 PM - 2 messages
I have downloaded some code that i need, but I do not know how to make use of it in another project. When i unzipped it, it looks like a full 'project'-folder from Visual Studio 2005 with a sln-file, a dll-file, a csproj-file  a couple of ...
Score Detect form state when application is launched
nagar@community.nospam - 4 Mar 2007 12:29 PM - 2 messages
Is there a way to detect if my application has been launched as minimized or maximized (this before showing the main form). Thank you. Andrea ...
Score How do you copy a Graphic to a Bitmap Image?
icepick72 - 4 Mar 2007 7:39 AM - 2 messages
On an academic note, I want to copy a Graphic to an Image (Bitmap). I have the Graphic object but not the origin image from which it originates; this is because I'm overriding the PrintDocument class OnPagePrint method which only provides me an e.Graphic (see code ...
Score Correct use of _CRT_SECURE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_NAMES?
Mark Findlay - 4 Mar 2007 2:28 AM - 2 messages
I am using the #define for _CRT_SECURE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_NAMES in my Windows MFC App, (Visual Studio 2005) and yet continue to receive compiler warnings about various CRT functions. It was my impression that setting the #define of _CRT_SECURE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_NAMES to 1 would automatically adjust the ...
Score wallpaper
survivor - 4 Mar 2007 12:41 AM - 3 messages
when I go to my windows folder and find the folder which contains the wallpaper it shows about twenty different scenes but how do I get them to show in my display box so I can change wallpaper? I am using windows xp pro ...
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