.NET Framework Forum

hello, i know that with the version of crystal that ships with visual studio.net, you can't create your own style, so i was wondering if there was a way to modify one of the styles that comes with the software and save the changes. thanks indera

hi, somehow i messed up the properties window. it no longer has the push pin and little x in the upper right hand corner, like the solution explorer window has. the properties window is also missing the tabs at the bottom. how can i get it back to it's original state? thanks indera

I'm using a button (an HTML control) on IE6, windows xp. The problem that I'm facing is that the caption of the button is not being displayed.

Hi all, I am building an HTML to PDF converter using dotnet. I am using a printer driver to convert HTML to PDF dynamically. I am printing my documents using that Printer driver so it converts it to PDF. But when I tries to print it gives an error which says "Data area passed to a system call is too small". I tried with too different printer...

I am having problems uninstalling/reinstalling VS.NET. For some reason, Setup got confused and thinks that I have a hard drive D: (probably from some out of date registry entry I think) which it finds that a null is being returned for the amount of space I have left. It then issues the error: Setup has detected that there is not enough...

Dear Microsoft, The current "Windows.Forms" controls included in the .Net Framework are good, but in many ways they're pretty basic, and I think it's time that you take Windows.Forms to the next level. I really think that the menus and toolbars used in Office 2003 should be added to the .Net Framework as standard controls in the next...

Hello all, I have an middleware that has to be accessed from two different applications, win-form and asp-form. the middleware uses a file to store and retrieve information. I want to economize the IO and to read/write to the file only when the application stops, and meanwhile to store the information in memory data structure. My program has...

Hi there, I'm searching for a "convinient" way to compile my source into a multifile assembly (multiple files for one assembly). I need this to optimize performance while loading the assembly over the internet (I want to keep the files small and to download only the things that are needed). Is there a way to define inside visual studio...

Hi all, I am having some problems with Crystal Reports 9 for Visual Studio .NET ... I have a multithreaded application that prints reports in several threads (based upon incoming requests on a queue ...), 1 report per thread. When multiple threads are launched, I get the following error:...

Does anybody know when these very old and extremely productive feature "Edit and Continue" will run like it did in VB6? I mean this is what a tool makes really RAD - fixing while debugging in contrast to spend hours in debugging, stopping execution, changing 3 lines, building code, debugging again ... that's really old style programming. In vb...

Hi Please help because I'm really stuck: I'm trying to write an application in C# which can be used to track the mouse pointer position on any window. I'm trying to use a Global mouse hook to do this but with limited success. According to the documentation (as I understand it) you can only do Global hooks in ..Net if the delegate...

Hi Guys, I am still searching for an answer to this question. Can you help me? If I have a field on a .aspx form, the classic Textbox1. How do I send the Textbox1.Text to an .Asp page and assign it to say rs("Name") variable. Because I have used Request.Redirect("writetodb.asp") in my button click event, I thought I could use rs("Name")...

How to print any document in .NET? There are PrintDocument and PrinterSettings classes available in Framework class library but it requires that we implement a PrintDocument_PrintPage event handler and we have to write the code to print the document. This works fine if we have to print simple text but what if we want to print RTF and DOC...

I think I read somewhere that if you link 2 tables together in a dataset then a datagrid will automatically create a drill down. Is this true? I have a system where people input data based on Company | Date | Price and I now have to make a summary web application where it will display: Each company with a total.... drilled down into each...

Hi After installing VS.NET in Win XP I have som stranges problems. 1. Form.load won't fire. (a new form started from my mane form) I put a breakpoint in the Form_Load SUB but the code does not got there even if the form displayes ??? 2. Sometime my start-form won't start at all in debug mode, but if I dobbelclick at the same .exe file in...

"You would only need to inherit one time for a given class in order for properties and methods to be made available to your class." "You would only need to import one time for a given class in order for properties and methods to be made available to your class." "You would only need to dimension one time for a given class in order for...

OK, there are billions of posts on dotnet newsgroups about this, and I have read half of them, but I'm still a little confused. First I'll say what I think I've learned and anyone can correct me if I'm off target. 1. User preferences should be saved to the UserAppDataPath. 2. They should be saved as an XML file. 3. Serialization is a handy...

I am writing a windows application in .NET version 2000. My application will link to a dll that is written in C++. Would it be easier to program in C++.NET or C#.NET or VB? My choice resides on the one that would be easiest to create windows applications.

I put together an installation program and it works great the first time. The problem I have is that we want the users to be able to rerun the installation without needing to uninstall the older package first. How can I set up the package to overlay the existing installation without forcing the user to run an uninstall first? Thanks, Rob...

Hello, i have a nasty problem with object identity in hash tables. I try to use different objects as keys. It failed bacause i cannot identify object propperly. Different objects with the same contents have the same hash code. DateTime date1 = new DateTime(2001,11,22); DateTime date2 = new DateTime(2001,11,22);

I have several applications running in a hosted environment and the provider will not allow either a session state service or a session state on the sql server. Is there any way I can add the session state tables to my own database and use that instead? I have tried to put the "initial catalog" in the connect string, but .Net doesn't like...

Hi, I have a datagrid which has many pages (10 rows per page) and when I loop through the rows, I only get 10 rows (the rows that are currently showed in the current page) How can I get the total number of rows in all the pages? Changing the current page and executing teh Databind() method? Is there another way without having to query the...

I am trying to write a custom OLE DB data provider to access to my data, but it is proving very difficult. My data is stored using C++ classes (not in database - but the classes act like one). I need to give third party access to clients who do not know about my classes, but wish to access my data through SQL. Is this task achievable by...

Hi I've got a problem. I try to create new WindowsForm in thread and show them. Everything is ok, but new form after Show() freeze :( Maybe somebody tell me why and how to fix this error.

I was posted this in other newsgroup but i never see in the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------- My problem is... I have an application (Console Application). Every second it use more and more memory, with the .NET memory profiler I see that thousands of (Byte, Regex, String etc) instances I have in...