I have a web application I'm deploying at multiple clients. Each client will be consuming a web service that was developed by a third party and is hosted at each client location. The soap.location will be different for each deployment.
I am looking to avoid having to do separate compiles foe each client.
This blog post has a potentia...
I am building a Web service using WCF as a way to provide access to data within my VB.Net application.
When building web services hosted on IIS, there is a helpful test page as part of the service that allows the webservice to be invoked with parameters there and then. It's very helpful for testing.
Is there a way to configure a WCF ho...
I'm looking for a generic method to implement a wait screen during long operations. I have used threading a few times before, but I have the feeling that I implemented it either very poorly, or with way too much hassle (and copy/pasting - the horror!).
I want to keep this as generic and simple as possible, so I won't have to implement l...
Hi
How to add new record to datagridview control in VB.net, I don't use Dataset or database biding at all, all I have is small form with 3 entries, when the user click OK, that will be added to the datagridview control as new row.
Thanks
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I have a ComboBox inside of a cell of a DataGridView Row on a Windows form. I need the following to happen:
click on the ComboBox
pick a value
recalculate a total & display inside of a lable that is sitting
outside of the DataGridView.
Currently, the following is happening:
Click on the ComboBox
Click it again to open the ...
This is a weird problem I have started having recently. My team is developing a COTS application and we have a few people with their hands in the code. A few weeks ago, I received an error message when trying to debug (and run the compiled EXE):
"Windows cannot access the specified
device, path, or file. You may not
have the appr...
I have a collection of collections, all the child collections have the same number of elements. The parent collection does nothing other than hold the child collections.
[0] [Child_0] [ID: 1]
[0] [Child_0] [Amount: 4]
[0] [Child_1] [ID: 2]
[0] [Child_1] [Amount: 7]
[1] [Child_0] [ID: 1]
[1] [Child_0] [Amount: 2]
[1] [Child_1] [ID: 2]
[1...
Ok, so after spending a good portion of a day debugging a stupid typing mistake inside a piece of code I am curious as to why the specific actions occured rather than an exception.
First of all the problem code.
Public Sub InstantiateIn(ByVal container As Control) Implements ITemplate.InstantiateIn
Dim hl As New HyperLink
AddHa...
I'm not at all familiar with VB.NET or ASP. I need to create a simple page which makes a call to a remote web service. I used the wsdl utility which comes with the DotNet SDK to generate a service proxy and write it to a VB file. Unfortunately I have no idea how to reference this code in either my ASPX file or the code behind VB file so ...
I want to get the VB.NET or VB code to access the hard disk serial no when starting the program. It's to help me to protect my own software from people who try to pirate copies.
...
Hi,
I was wondering whether overriding conversion operators is only applicable to numeric types?
If not in what instances would the implicit or explicit conversion operator be applicable to other value types or reference types. An example would be great.
Thanks
...
Nested If or single if with And operator, which is better approach?
Single If with And
if (txtPackage.Text = !string.Empty && txtPackage.Text == "abc")
{
//
}
Nested If
if (txtPackage.Text = !string.Empty)
{
if (txtPackage.Text == "abc")
{
//
}
}
...
Hi
I have a datammodel in linq to SQL that includes a type "Party" which is sub classed twice for "Company" and "Individual". I am trying to bind two repeaters to linq to sql queries as follows
Dim oComp As IEnumerable(Of Company)
Dim oInd As IEnumerable(Of Individual)
oComp = From oP As Company In ERM.Parties _
...
I need to open a password protected shared folder on a network to gain access to an Access 97 database. How do I open the folder and pass in the password?
Thanks,
...
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to center a form in VB.net. Instead of centering the form, it ends up about halfway between center and 0,0(upper left).
I am using the code
Me.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen
Which is called from the IntializeDisplay Method, which in turn is called from the Form Load method.
I assume I'm se...
Hi,
I am trying to generate some code at runtime using the DynamicMethod class in the Reflection.Emit namespace but for some reason its throwing a "VerificationException". Here is the IL code I am trying to use...
ldarg.1
ldarg.0
ldfld, System.String FirstName
callvirt, Void Write(System.String)
ldarg.1
ldarg.0
ldfld, System.String Las...
I have see code like this
Dim s as something = new something
Dim s as new something
what's the difference? is there any?
...
I am trying to 'swap' two cells' contents, and their mappings. To do this, I need to drag and drop a reference to the cell as opposed to the string value itself. I can then use this reference to update a Dictionary as well as get the value. It allows allows me to do the swap as I will have a reference to the old cell to add the value nee...
I have the following in a program (written in VB.NET):
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Public Class Form1
Dim eApp As New Excel.Application
Dim w As Excel.Workbook
w = eApp.Workbooks.Open( "path.xls", ReadOnly:=True)
.. Processing Code ..
//Attempts at killing the excel application
w.Close()
eApp.Work...
Hello all, I'd like to know whether this approach is correct or if their are better ways of doing this.
I have what is basically a Person class which has a number of other classes as variables, each of the custom classes is instantiated by passing the Person ID and then that class retrieves the data it needs using that ID. I expose the ...