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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Friends, I made a thread in vb.net and I want to create an instance of a form and display it from the thread the problem is The instance of the form does not stay alive I think its because when the thread quits all the stuff it creates quits as well. This is the code I used. The code in the main...

Hi all, Can any one tell me,What is boxing? What is the benefits and disadvantages of it? I will highly appreciate your feed back. Thanks in advance. intelcs.com

Hi I have a code behind that interacts with my html page for downloading a file. In my sites root folder I have 2 folders, 1 is the application folder for the code behind and the other is the folder that holds the files for downloading. I am using the response.transmitfile method and when I upload...

Can anyone guide me as to how to display on a text box the number of years and months that have past between today and the date from a calendar datepicker placed on a form from which the user will select the account opening date. I want display on the text box "This account is x years and x months...

Hi I want to use an OpenFileDialog box in my main method in a console application. But when I try to show the dialog box, I get the following error: Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has...

Hi, I'm programming in C #, and I have a question about the class dictionary, I know that this work as a hash table, but I would like to know how that hash function uses (or which is the one that could use), and that size is its table, here is an example of Dictionary, and here is my...

hello everybody i'm working on a project in visual basic.net and i need to connect to sql server 2005 from vb 2005 but i don't know how. i need your help thank you

hello everybody i chose to do a project in vb.net (some chose in java ...) but first:i'm wondering if it is good to do a project in vb.net because some told me that it's not a powerful as java or php. second: my project is to manage Travels in a transport company so does that mean that there is...

I need to make a method that receives the matrix values as a string as " " and initializes the matrix ( ex. “ “) I don't how to implement the functions parameters to accept this string... Any help would be appreciated. here's the code:

Visual C# ASP .NET: i have a textbox and a command button. I want to convert integer from the textbox to binary after i clicked the button. is there any keyword/command to convert integer to binary? thanks.

guys, I'm building an ASP .net webpage using Microsoft Visual C#. I have a textbox, a label and a command button. I need to make an error checking code so that the textbox only allow integers to be entered into it. But it should be checked when the command button is clicked which then the error...

Hello! I am having trouble connecting to this Access 2000 file that is password protected. This is the connection string that I use: public static string connectionString = "provider=Microsoft.JET.OLEDB.4.0; " + "data source = " + Application.StartupPath + "\\ADONETTutorialDb.mdb; " ...

I installed this software few hours ago for the first time on my Vista laptop. When I run the application, it says the evaluation day has expired. I thought Express Edition is free. Unless, we don't use it for commercial. Am I wrong?

Hello, I think you are going grate. I am facing a big problem. I need a help from your side. I have a program, which one developed using MFC and the development is going on. Now I want to create the same application using C++/CLI. For that I want to re-create all the MFC class. If any mechanism...

I am writing a web application mainly targeting users for windows mobile. Part of the application is written. Now i need to stream some audio file through my webpage. Kindly anyone have rescources or any ideas, perhaps some URLs would be greatly remembered!!! Thanks in advance!!! :)

Hello All, I'm trying to use the MailMessage object with a SmptClient object to send an email from within a window application. Here is what the code looks like: private void SendButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { MailMessage message = new...

I need to figure out a way to use .NET to create a program that will plot a sine wave. Is this an easy task for .NET to handle? Using VB 6.0, I could find no easy answer, so I gave up and bought Visual Studio .NET which seems to have answers for everything. Many Thanks In Advance! 8)

currently i have the following in my web.config file: <appender name="XmlFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender"> <file value="D:\\Exception\\logs\\TestLog2.txt" /> <layout type="log4net.Layout.XmlLayout"> <conversionPattern value="%-5p %d %5rms %-22.22c{1} %-18.18M...

How can I make it so that this line is drawn over the RichTextBox that is on the Form? I am drawing a line when a user right clicks like this: if(e.Button.ToString() == "Right") { Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics(); Pen p = new...

Hi, I wrote an application where you can create your own graph by adding curve points into a coordinate system grid. I create a Panel and draw everything on it. Also you can pick the control points and drag them to another spot. If I do so, I get such a bad flicker effect (only in the panel)...