General .NET discussion - Week 28, 2009

blocked sender all of a sudden

Betsy - 9 Jul 2009 8:17 PM - 2 messages

My sister and I exchange several emails a day with no porblem BUT I have just come back from a vacation where I used a purchased card (a shipboard email service) to send and receive emails to and from my verizon email account. ...

Saving birdeye views from Virtual Earth

pauldebarra - 9 Jul 2009 9:57 AM - 4 messages

How do I go about saving birdseye views as jpegs to my hard drive? ...

ClickOnce Generated Shortcut Folder

Stewart Berman - 9 Jul 2009 5:40 AM - 3 messages

I have a VB.NET simple ClickOnce application. I have defined the name of the publisher and the name of the application. Normally you would put the application shortcut in a folder with the name of the application. The ClickOnce installation process creates the application shortcut (.appref-ms ...

ContextMenu Does Not Work?

Mike - 8 Jul 2009 9:29 PM - 9 messages

Why doesn't the following sample code work? The click event never seems to fire for the menu items. Similar code works for the ContextMenuStrip class but I need the modal nature of ContextMenu. private void ShowContextMenu() { using (ContextMenu menu = new ContextMenu()) ...

windows mail

wusapening - 8 Jul 2009 6:47 PM - 2 messages

i have 2 computers that i operate on..........both have windows mail...................i have figured out to save mail on the server................however i dont like the fact that when i use home computer.................and then open up laptop the folders are not the ...

Displaying Currency on a VB . NET windows form

MS Access Question - 8 Jul 2009 4:30 AM - 7 messages

I have a SQL Server Table, with a Money/Currency type. I wish to display it with a dollar sign and however much it is without any decimals. I tried using the Masked Text box control, but no luck. How do I display this value on a Windows Form in Visual Studio 2008 ? ...

Drag Drop - Move Data Between Apps

Mike - 7 Jul 2009 10:07 PM - 4 messages

I want to drag drop data from one app to another. If the other app chooses to ‘move’ the data, I need to respond by deleting it from the source app. I was reading about the GiveFeedBack event. See: [link] ...

Launch .NET application through notification or windows messaging

Andy - 7 Jul 2009 7:14 PM - 2 messages

Is there any way to launch a .NET application by issuing a windows message? I have two .NET applications, A and B. A writes records to a database, and then issues a message that its finished. The message somehow causes application B to launch which then offloads ...

upgrading from '97 to 2003

bobdre12 - 7 Jul 2009 6:54 PM - 3 messages

I've got office 97 on my pc and want to upgrade to 2003 oofice. Will my outlook still work ?? thanks ...

text

J - 7 Jul 2009 5:16 PM - 2 messages

The web text changes to a large font. To get the default text back, I use system restore but after a few times opening it changes again. My computer is updated with everything it tells me to do. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? ...

cannot add mirror in w2k3

tom.doniphon - 7 Jul 2009 8:31 AM - 2 messages

i've w2k3 Standard Edition and two partitions, C:(system) and F:(Data). I've two disks and i want to make a mirror among these two disk but...for the F:(Data) partition no problem but for the C:(system) partition the option ...

How to Get the Description of an Internet Shortcut

Charles - 6 Jul 2009 3:03 PM - 3 messages

I realise this isn't really the place to ask this, but everyone here is so knowledgeable that I thought I would give it a try. In my Favorites folder I have lots of Internet shortcuts; links with a .url ...

BinarySerialization size not consist?!

Efy - 6 Jul 2009 12:39 PM - 2 messages

Hello all, I have met something pretty odd. I am running a serialization on an object and not always the size of the output stream is the same. I even created a test that I am running the serialization in a loop, ...

Sharing COM Port access between Processes

Lemon Juice - 6 Jul 2009 4:55 AM - 2 messages

Hello All, Is it possible to access the same COM port from two different processes? For instance I have written a DLL that connects to and manages a COM port. Internally my dll uses the .net(3.5) SerialPort component. On the same ...

Vista SP2

Col - 6 Jul 2009 1:13 AM - 2 messages

Since installing SP2 on my laptop my I have been having problems connecting to the internet. when I try to connect it tells me I have local access only. My internet provider says I need to remove SP2 in order to reconnect. Has ...

How do I wait for a BackgroundWorker to finish?

Tom - 5 Jul 2009 8:45 PM - 5 messages

I have a BackgroundWorker doing some work. I get to a place in the application that I am dependent on the BackgroundWorker being done. The WorkerCompleted routine can mark that it it compled simply enough but if it is not compled what are my options for waiting and being notified that the ...