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I posted a message sometime around the 5th and 7th of July. Somehow, I have LOST all messages between Jun 10th and July 7th. Is there somehow I can recover these. Or can someone check for my post and forward me any replies. I "Think" you can seach for Julseth. Thanks.... Bruce A. Julseth

Help! Ever since I have upgraded to .Net 2003, my config gets deleted when I run the following line ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("value")

Does anyone know a good method of preventing keyboard and mouse events from interrupting processing? My situation is: 1) I need to track and handle all key and mouse events 2) I need to perform processing on certain key/mouse events 3) If key/mouse events interrupt processing, the events should not be discarded since they need to be...

I have a string looked this "2003-07-08T13:04:00.0000000" How do I convert it into a System.DateTime object? Regards

How does garbage collection work in C# and VB.NET for data returned from COM object? For example, a COM object written in C++ returns a SAFEARRAY to C# or VB.NET, will this SAFEARRAY (mapped to type in C# or VB.NET) be garbage collected? Similarily, if C# or VB.NET pass SAFEARRAY to the COM object via COM method invocation, will this...

When i submit a form from the client side using document.all.RateManForm.submit(); in the code behind, changing text in a text box or trying to prompt the user with a response.write("<script>alert('something croaked.')</script>"); and/or or Label4.Text = "something died"; doesn't show up on the form. If i remove the submit() call, then...

Hello all, I'm trying to determine if I can access and read information with a web application/service from a PDA attached to a remote client. From my searches it seems like the answer is yes, but with the obvious need for an ActiveX control on the client machine. Any idea on the feasibility of this? I found a number of products but...

I created, on my PC, a web application that connects to an Oracle DB; it basically has three buttons and several forms. Now I want to try it out on another PC that does not have .Net. I copied the whole dir from my PC to c:\inetpub\wwwroot of the other PC and tried to access it (http://localhost/WebApplication1/Assistance.aspx). I can't see...

Please any help will do!!!! I have several issues implementing serviced components with .NET framework. Please stop a few minutes to read the issues found on my application. This is an academic project emulating an online billing software for a health care facility. My application is divided into different projects which they map to the...

Hello, I need to read the excel file using Odbc, but when I run my code, I got the following error: "Error: ERROR Data source name not found and no default driver specified" Could someone please tell me what is wrong with this?. Here is the code I use to read the file. I already include the Microsoft.Data.Odbc and add reference to...

Hi all, In VB.NET you can use default parameters to stored procedures using the Nothing keyword, as described in: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q321902 I used to use the default keyword in old ASP. How do I do this in C#?

Hi, I have an exe that I've created with C# and a dll that was previously developed on VS C++ 6.0. I'm attempting to debug both applications concurrently. I have both the code for the exe and dll loaded up in individual instances of the VS .net ide and both the exe and dll reside in the same directory. I can't seem to find a way to step...

Hello Everyone, I have been asking around about how to set the database path dynamically in my Windows Application and people keep asking me to update the .DataFiles and .ReportFileName during runtime in order to solve it... But i could never find those property neither in the Crystal Report instance nor the Crystal Report Viewer... Is...

I'm looking for a good book on building distributed apps in C# (and .NET overall). Emphasis on when to use Web Services, Remoting, COM would be great. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Tom

Hi all, I have a strong typed dataset. The client may do something like my_dataset.my_table.Columns.Add(column_name) I want to capture this event. So I try to derive a class from DataColumnCollection. But it fails to compile saying that "no overload for method 'DataColumnCollection 'takes '0' arguments. Then I found that...

I'd like to set the permissions on a file (directory) so that a user (and only that user) is granted full control for that file. Using c++, I was able to use the BuildExplicitAccessWithName, and SetEntriesInAcl calls. Is there a native c# way to do this? Aryeh

Good Morning, I need to write an e2k event sink that responds to the arrival of a message to a folder using outlook as client. How can I do this ?, which event do I have to use ? Any documentation will be higly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ricardo Trujillo Intergrupo S.A

Hi All, I am developing a Windows based application that consists of several different modules. These modules are effectively separate from each other yet share information in a common database. I would like to be able deliver specific modules depending on what the needs of the client are. Some clients may only need Module A and B, while...

Does anybody have any idea how do it a virtual cable for application that communicate via serial interface ?? I have an existing application to program PLCs that use a serial interface (COM1 or you can choose). I want to develop a PLC simulation able to communicate with the application using another (COM3).

Hello Group, I'm a VC++ programmer who recently working on C#. I have a question about web programming using C#. Please let me know what I do need to do web programming using CSharp? What I need to know is from A-Z! Should I have IIS installed ? if so, what type of connection should I have ? Or please drop me a link.

Hi, First implementation of WebDAV protocol is here: WebDAV .NET 1.0 from Independentsoft. Go to http://www.independentsoft.de The WebDAV .NET is WebDAV protocol API for Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. Built from same source code all classes and methods support Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft .NET...

I'm working with C# ASP.NET... What could I do if I wanna popup my Outlook and create a new message that contains HTML content??? I know there is a javascript function "mailto" that can make use of Outlook and fill the Subject, Body, etc... But I find that the body can only contain pure text and it cannot be HTML encoded... what can I do???...

hello everyone. My problem is as follows : my application keeps a hashtable with Outlook.MailItem objects. I need to save and load this hashtable (with those objects inside) when starting and terminating the application. I can't "serialize" them because Outlook.MailItem objects do not implement

I have a loop which goes thorough a recordset until a particular value in the recordset changes. In situations where the value doesn't change, I would like to use a timer to check whether 60 seconds have elapsed, in which case I exit the loop. I'm not really sure how to do this as I'm new to C#. I've tried to use the Timer.Elapsed, but...

I have an application which today loads some XML files onto the hard drive. We have been acked to change the application to instead keep the data files on the CD. I have fixed the install, but now am trying to fix the C# code to look at the CD instead of the folder on the Hard drive. Here is the code that exists now. public String...