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• Visual Studio Can't debug ASP in VS2005

  VS2005 doesn't seem to support debugging ASP pages. Is this really so That's a serious problem if it is. Thanks Jeremy What sort of problems are you seeing I can't seem to get it to work either. I get messages saying that the server (I'm developing on the server) is not configured to support debugging, with a suggestion to see some non-existent topics on configuring ASP.NET and ATL debugging in the documentation, ...Show All

• Visual Basic New Project dialog is empty - No templates whatsoever!

  Look at this screenshot: http://dondata.homepage.dk/Empty.gif I have allready tried to Repair the installation, and allso completely uninstalled VB and the installed it again, but the dialog is still empty. What is happening and more important; how to get my default templates back Maby I can copy them from CD or something Perhaps Visual Studios is looking in the wrong place for the templates Check b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Winform cold startup time in .Net 2

  Having just moved to .Net2 and Visual Studio 2005 (release version), I'm porting my WinForms app to the new environment. I'm very concerned about cold startup time for a WinForms app. It's orders of magnitude slower than in 2003. I tried NGEN'ing the app. This made it start slightly faster but still a lot slower than the non-ngen'ed 2003 app. I realize that this will improve when more apps are built using the framework, but that's years o ...Show All

• .NET Development Error while calling MS-Word from ASP.NET

  Hi All, I am using MS-Word from my ASP.NET Application using VBA. It opens a Word document and saves as a copy with some other name and finds and replaces some data. For this I have used "tlbimp" tool and imported some Office.dll, Word.dll, VBIDE.dll from MSWORD9.OLB. Following is the code. Dim wdApp As New Word.Application Dim wdDoc As Word.Document It is giving the following error while execu ...Show All

• Visual Basic No VB6 questions? Where should I go for that, then, please?

  Sorry to bug you guys here - I have had a good look around but can't find a decent forums for VB6 - could anyone help and point me in the right direction, please Thanks for your indulgence. Sorry for the double post - it didn't seem to post and now I can't seem to delete it. Doh - double post AND shouldn't be posting VB6 queries... I'm a baaaaad boy :( ...Show All

• .NET Development XML 2 XLS???

  I have an Excel spreadsheet and i save it as a .xml file...I need to some help on trying to get my sql tables columns to populate the xml and then show it in ms excel and links or help on what object i need to use i see the System.Xml but i dont know if i should use the XmlReader and pass the streamreader with the file name of the xls any help would be great!! Can you be a little bit more clear on what help you need (Some grammar and ...Show All

• Visual C++ Open a word file in Word using my application

  I'm a novice so please give me a break. I'm builduig a little MFC program for my little entreprise wich will open a word document on the clic of a button. I want want my program to open the word program wich will load my .doc file. How do I do that, i've search and all I can find is the CFile class::open wich does not help me at all. Thank you Eric You need to use ShellExecute. See http://www.co ...Show All

• .NET Development Additional information: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

  Hello, I am currently getting this error when attempting to instantiate and remote object. Currently, everything is located locally. Here is a code snippet to further explain. The highlighted code is where the error occurs. Can anyone help Thanks =========================================== namespace ResumeClient { public class ResumeClient { public static void Main( string [] args) { ChannelServices.RegisterChannel( new TcpCl ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error: namespace and Public declarations

  I am a new user of VS 2005 Beta 2, and have a relatively little experience with the indepth parts of Visual Basic. I was transferring my grade twelve computer science project from VB6 to VS2005 when I encountered a problem that said, and I quote, Statement is not valid in a namespace. This error was generated when I typed: Public intCtr As Integer   in the General Declarations section of a standard module. Like I said earlier, I have ...Show All

• Architecture N-tier layer separations and connection/interaction

  I happen to be experimenting based on some examples I've found on the net but I want to be directed to the right path, those samples tend to be incomplete or misleading. In a typical N-tier scenario, which should reference which And is the use of Data Transfer Object in accordance to any best practice that maybe existing Accordingly, how does those layers supposed to connect/interact with one another eg. what does BLL passes to the DAL and w ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need help populating a DropDownList in and EditItemTemplate

  I have a dropdownlist that I have in an EditItemTemplate that I need to populate with a list of files in a directory on my web server. Currently, this is how I'm retrieving the file names: DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(@"e:\web\xxx\htdocs" + strPath); FileInfo[] bmpfiles = dir.GetFiles("*.*"); foreach ( FileInfo f in bmpfiles) { ddl.Items.Add(f.Name); lblMessage.Text += "Name is: &qu ...Show All

• .NET Development Communication Application server

  Hi all, I need to develope a communication layer between a windows application and industry field device. The windows application will read and write values from the device. I want to ask how to develope an application server of the layer that servise the windows application. The windows application will be the client and the server read and write the values. Please help. Best regards... Can ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem in CCheckListBox

  Hi, I have a Dialog based - MFC application in VC 8.0. There is a check ListBox (having property Owner Draw = Fixed and Has Strings = True) in the dialog. We have added some elements in the list box( The number of items in the list box should be less than the visible height of the list box without the vertical scroll). If we select one item and click mouse outside of the list box or in empty area of the list box then selection remain ...Show All

• SQL Server Not able to install SQL express 2005 italina version

  Really no good experience! After uninstalling every stuff regarding  : .Net, MSDN, Sql Beta version, etc. no way to finish the installation starting from this package "SQLEXPR_ITA.EXE". I lose any idea how to solve this Windows MisterY. I left installed Visual Studio 6.0. Please suggest me something new...I would avoid to eliminate everything   Thanks   Eibike After some unsuccessful tentatives to install SQLEXPR ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Mix & Match RDBMS and XML

  Hi, Is there a possibility to combine data coming from a rdbms and an xml file in one operation into a new anonymous type using some kind of projection e.g. Person info coming from db and contract info coming from xml file that has person field with id attribute corresponding to id field in person table. If this is not possible are there plans to cover this functionality in the future Thanks in advance, W. Jansoone IIRC that was part of a ...Show All