Introduction In my experience I found that people starting to learn a new programming language find it hard to accomplish this by reading “complicated and sophisticated” books written by the experts that developed or helped maintain the respective language. They find easier to...

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Dear sir, i am new to ASP.NET programming ,through c#. In my web project,i am inserting into SqlServer Database through Command.Text method.It is working fine. Below i am giving the code for SqlServer database table. ... .... using System.Data.SqlClient;

How about this one. I want to detect if there is piped data waiting in stdin when my prog starts. But it seems that stdin does not even contain an EOF until there is input. As a result I get a block... Example of several things I/ve tried:using System; using System.Text; // for ReadKey() using...

I can use 'new' to allocate memory to the same pointer more than once. I don't see any way to free an allocation before requesting another. Is this taken care of by this 'garbage collection' stuff I keep hearing about? If so , I still haven't recieved the bill. What is the billing cycle? Seriously...

I am learning Visual Basic 2008, and I am having a hard time understanding function procedures. Can someone help me write a function procedure for the transaction? Public Class Form1 'Declare module-level variables for summary information. Private TotalNumberDepositsCountInteger,...

I am having problem when retrieving a column, I do not have a problem when retrieving an entire table here is my code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using...

I know that Windows CE 3.0 is supposedly not compatible with the .NET Compact Framework. Does anyone know if there is some kind of backdoor way to get it installed on CE 3.0 or is it impossible? Thanks, fakepoo

Hello. I have class "A" that needs to creat another class "B". In one case, class "B" needs to have one attribute/field and in another case two attributes/fields. I thought to split class "B" into two classes "C" and "D" that one will have one attribute ant the other one two. constructor of "A"...

Hello all, I am trying to redo a code in C# but I have a small mistake which I can't figure out. The error is: Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'bool'. I do not have a bool which confuses me. The error occurs with the hasRemainder function at the if statements. I have seen some good post...

I have a very simple website that is accessed by a link in a portlet. It is an ASP.Net 2.0 application coded in VB.Net 2005. IE is the "preferred" browser. On inital load, the website displays a report. The user can click a button to perform a Mime download of an excel file. Before the report...

Hello all, I need to access the URL of the web service during the deployment of it. Can someone please tell me if there is a variable somewhere holding this value? I intend to create a text file that contains this URL and an authentication string that can be used to connect to this web...

I have a bitmap that I would like to display in a Windows form as an icon. I need to convert it to an icon before I can use it. The best solution that I have found is: string bitmapFileName = openFileDialog1.FileName; // Retrieve the bitmap from the file. ...

Hey guys if anyone could help me this would be extremely appreciated. My homework assignment is to take a checking account program that we've already written and add function procedures to it. The exact instructions are: Write function procedures for processing deposits, checks, and service...

Hi Every Body I tried to write phone index Application,but i got a problem with the serialization of my object,and i don't know why can some body help please and below is my code in detail and i attached the error message main form code using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using...

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: The files '/apps/App_Code/cep/clsCEPCourse.vb' and '/apps/App_Code/common/clsFormatFunctions.vb' use a different language, which is not allowed since they need to be compiled together. but both of the files are VB, i don't get it, p,lease help!

In .NET windows forms, I need the ColumnHeader location (at least the Left value) for a ListView. Does anyone know of a way to get this?

Since C# is so COOL and all... Are there cross-platform tools in C# to 'handle' character mode graphics? Or do you have to still go to either MS API or ncurses. Know a good reference for any methods? ('course now I have to watch how I use 'method' (What are they skaters? dude , I took a...

Hi there, I am using visual C++, using visual studio windows forms. I have a bitmap which shows different colours which relate to different temperatures ranging from blue(cold) through green yellow orange and finally red (hottest). How can I make a grayscale function/algorithm to mimick this to...

Please forgive what is surely a stupid question: How do I use .Net Reflector to find out which namespace a class, method or property is in, or to see parameter lists? There's no way to enter a character string to tell it what you're looking for.

Within a C# program, is there any way to tell if a file is a text file or not? I mean a real way, not just basing your conclusion on a file name extension.

The documentation I've found is a little hazy on this subject, so it's time to fire off yet another no-doubt ignorant question: Is "throw" intended exclusively for the following scenario: Control is transferred out of a try block via a method call, and code in the called method then detects an...