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• Ruslan Inozemtsev looking for Notebook computer suggestions...

  Hello .Net community, I recently attended the MSDN ASP 2.0 intro/training in my town. (incidentially, lots of great new features) The DVD they gave includes a Virtual PC with/of VS Beta 2. Seems the minimum requirements are 1.5 GB of memory and a 2 GHz processor. Seems like a lot but anyway...  Consequentially, (and I just need a notebook anyway) so I am asking...  what are developers using for notebooks these days Any recommondation ...Show All

• amarkant ORDER BY Clause throwing Error in SQL CE 2005

  Hi all, I have the following query using SQL CE 2005 which works, but when I use the ORDER BY clause, the query falls over, but I can;t see why... SELECT tbl_SNG_CommonSnag.TypeUID, tbl_SNG_CommonSnag.ActionByTradeUID, tbl_SNG_CommonSnag.CausedByTradeUID, tbl_SNG_CommonSnag.CauseUID, tbl_SNG_CommonSnag.Description, tbl_SNG_Type.Description AS Type, ATrade.Description AS ActionByTrade, ASubCon.Name AS ActionByS ...Show All

• allenbc Can someone guide me

  I am a programmer working with .Net environment . I downloaded DevForce Express after seeing it highlighted at http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework . I also went to the website and they claim one can write an application in 15 minutes. Now I want to know the following questions Will this really help me increase my programming skills and speed And secondly my friend says I will get more value for writing code myself (because ...Show All

• Mark Doughty Getting Running Object Table in VB

  I am trying to get the Running Object Table (ROT) in an ASP.net app using the .Net library calls. But when I use the code below, it returns an exception " Object reference not set to an instance of an object." when i try to use "instance". How do I set "instance" to a IBindCtx object Dim pp As IEnumMoniker Dim instance As IBindCtx Dim pprot As IRunningObjectTable instance.GetRunningObjectT ...Show All

• Bahman; Fakhr Making fonts the same size

  I'm trying to display all of the installed fonts in a control but I have a problem with the fonts ending up being different heights despite the fact that I create all my font objects with the same size parameter: Font f = new Font(myFontFamily,size); For example, I have Garamond and Haettenschweiler that come out really small whereas Gautami is much larger (and has a lot of whitespace below it). Does anybody know how I can adjust the si ...Show All

• raider74 DataGridView msACCESS

  When will DataViewGrid be debugged It goes FATAL without you needing to write ANY code! If you have one minute try the following... Create a new data source pointing to an existing microsoft access 2003 database (*.mdb don't use connection strings or SQL or anything complex) but do ask for at least one table (prefferably of few columns) Drag one table from the data source onto virgin form1 and magically a grid and navagator will appear. Run th ...Show All

• Joaquin Gracia objects defined with <asp:"object"> not displayed.

  I downloaded the C#, Asp.net CarsSelectorSample from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cssample/html/vcsamcsharpaspplussample.asp The application runs in iexplorer but all objects that are defined in CarsSelectorSample.aspx that start with <asp:"object type"> are not displayed. Could this be solved by configuring IIS or VS.NET, or perhaps by doing something else ;) Hi! ...Show All

• Protrack Error message TCPClient

  Hi I am creating an web application that connects to an tcp server. When i give the command to connect to the server, he gives an response from the server and an textbox and Commandbutton are visible for command`s to the server. When i am sending an command to the server then i get this error: "The operation is not allowed on non-connected sockets." This is my full cource: Imports System.Net.Sockets Class _Default    I ...Show All

• Xavier Divini Accessing shared app.config

  I would like to share one app.config file between several applications. Only one of those applications needs to be able to update the app.config file. The other applications need only to read the information. The application that "owns" the app.config file has defined under Settings: Name: DataLoc Type: String Scope: User Value: C:\Shared Database Location app.config file contains: < xml version="1.0 ...Show All

• Uwe Helmer Exception Details: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException

  What can I do to solve this message I create a form fo edit, delete and insert new data in database. All itens like edit, delete are working with exception insert. When I try inserting a new data the brownser show me this message. Server Error in '/CDASPNET' Application. Thank very much for your help. My provider is IIS service pack 2. Well, i would look at the query and IIS provider spec to confirm ...Show All

• Vasiq ListView - MultiSelect Draw Rectangle Issue

  Hi, The problem I'm having is with listview multiselect. I have a dragdrop event that fires when a user attempts to drag a listviewitem from the listview. I want to disable the rectangle selection that occurs because what happens is this: If the user attempts a drag over the actual text (fullrowselect is enabled), the drag event occurs. However, if the user attempts a drag on whitespace that resides in the label of the listviewitem a se ...Show All

• MAKER01 Binary Serialization of DataSets - bug with DateTime-Columns?

  I just tried to serialize a datatable which contains two DateTime-Columns (I use .Net 2.0). The result of serialize and deserialize a dataset in case if a DateTime-Column has value DBNull is not the same if you use binary- instead of xml-serialization! Here is the result if you use XML-Serialization : **** before serialize **** Date1: DAte2:  11/9/2005 3:03:01 PM ------------------------------- **** after deserialize **** Da ...Show All

• BradWest need help with net framework 1.1 and 2.0

  when i go to windows update it tells me that optional downloads are .net framework 1.1 and .net framework 2.0.  When i install 2.0 and go back to windows update to see if there anymore downloads, it tells me that 1.1 is available.  Why is this.  if i have 2.0 then why is 1.1 available to download.  wouldn't that be downgrading.  also do i really need framework.  im just a regular home user that surfs the internet an ...Show All

• gerrod Converting to Unicode

  I have the following code in vb6: StrConv(sServer, vbUnicode) Can anybody tell me how to do this in c# Post all the code that you are using, and I will see if I can see if anything is wrong. You shouldn't need to do any conversion, having a look at the PInvoke signature on pinvoke.net ( http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/netapi32/NetFileClose.html ), it just takes a standard string, .NET will wor ...Show All

• Jooo Creating a REAL Object

  Hi all, I've a question on Object creation. object obj = new object(); Will there be any sort of heap memory allocation for the above statment If yes what will be the contents of the object Thanks, Suresh. There will be a structure containing the method addresses and a synchronisation entry (though this might be created lazily). Basically all reference types on the heap contain this sta ...Show All