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Hangs with LINQ-SQL Server and TransactionScope

I'm encountering a hang when the program tries to access the fruit database. I've already enabled network access MSDTC on both my development computer and the SQL Server server. Code: (pardon the code coloring...SO's misinterpreting my VB .NET) Using ts As New TransactionScope Dim fruit As New FruitDataContext D...

Generating code -- is there an easy way to get a proper string representation of nullable type?

So I'm building an application that is going to do a ton of code generation with both C# and VB output (depending on project settings). I've got a CodeTemplateEngine, with two derived classes VBTemplateEngine and CSharpTemplateEngine. This question regards creating the property signatures based on columns in a database table. Using the ...

How can I accelerate the generation of the an MD5 Checksum within vb.net?

I'm working with some very large files residing on P2 (Panasonic) cards. Part of the process we employ is to first generate a checksum of the file we are going to copy, then copy the file, then run a checksum on the file to confirm that it copied OK. The problem is, is that files are large (70 GB+) and take a long time to complete. ...

read only property for combobox in vb.net

What will be the code when I try to make a combo box read only? ...

Problem updating values in combobox in vb.net

I have this code, but I have a problem. When I update but do not really made any changes to the value and press the update button, the data becomes null. And it will seem that I deleted the value. I've taught of a solution, that is to add both combobox1.selectedtext and combobox1.selecteditem to the function. But it doesn't work. comb...

how would i create,edit, read,use table in ms access via vb.net

how would i create edit read use table in ms access via vb.net please give me some help ...

How do I convert a windows forms app from C# to VB ?

I've been converting all kinds of other things, classes, interfaces, ASP.NET MVC apps, and WPF applications, but I am stumped as to how to convert a windows forms application, as the whole structure seems to be different. Does anyone have any advice on how to tackle this problem? I see essentially that you have two files, Form1.cs and F...

Setting height of ListView row

My application uses a ListView control to display some data from a database, and I would like to make the height of the row bigger (it is in the 'Detail' view). Here's a screenshot at the moment: http:// www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/01478dd96f.png (Sorry about having to malform it, SO doesn't let me post more than one hyperlink) A...

Format of DataGridView value

I have a DataGridView which is filling from Table in SQL Server Database. One of it's columns is "price". Type of column in DGV is automatically sets as Decimal. In some cases I need to write in cells of this column text like "none", instead of price. How can I do it? DGV.Item("price", 0).Value = "none" doesn't work, because of dec...

Disable Drag&Drop of files in Richtextbox in .NET

Hello, I use a .NET richtextbox and I want to have the EnableAutoDragDrop property set to True. This allows user to drag&drop text, rtf and images around etc. However, I need to process files dropped into the richtextbox myself - I do not want them to be embedded as OLE objects when they are dropped. How can I overcome this? Is there ...

Searching a set of data with multiple terms using Linq

I'm in the process of moving from ADO.NET to Linq. The application is a directory search program to look people up. The users are allowed to type the search criteria into a single textbox. They can separate each term with a space, or wrap a phrase in quotes such as "park place" to indicate that it is one term. Behind the scenes the d...

" addressof " VB6 to VB.NET

Hello, I´m having some problem to convert my VB6 project to VB.NET I don't understand how this "AddressOf" function should be in VB.NET My VB6 code: Declare Function MP4_ClientStart Lib "hikclient.dll" _ (pClientinfo As CLIENT_VIDEOINFO, ByVal abab As Long) As Long Public Sub ReadDataCallBack(ByVal nPort As Long, pPacketBuffer As B...

Random sort list with LINQ and Entity Framework in vb.net

I've seen many examples in LINQ but i'm not able to reproduce the same result in vb.net. I have following code: Dim context As New MyModel.Entities() Dim rnd As New System.Random() Dim gardens As List(Of Tuin) = (From t In context.Gardens Where _ t.Approved = True And _ ...

Specifying different page base classes for different directories in your web.config file

I have a website (coded in vb.net) with an "admin" section (the admin section being a folder in the actual site)... So in every page of the site I'm using my own custom class as the page base (which has been set in the web.config file) but I want to inherit from different class for the files in the "admin" folder... Is there any way to i...

VB listbox cannot be indexed because it has no default value

I have a listbox and I want to loop through each of the items to see if the string im looking for is inside. I know I could do .contains but that wouldnt look at substrings. The code im using looks like this: While tempInt > Listbox.items.count then if searchString.contains(listbox(tempInt)) then end if tempInt+=1 end while Everything...

How to prevent button click 2 times in update panel ?

I have a button which is in update panel. When I click on button then it click event run two times. How can I prevent second time click event? ...

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected: Dealing with these errors proactively, or after the fact.

I'm noticing this error more and more in my error logs. I've read through the questions here talking about this error, but they don't address what I would like to do (see below). I'm considering three options, in the order of preference: 1) When submitting a form (I use formviews almost exclusively, if that helps), if potentially dang...

ASP.Net VB - Gridview, XmlDataSource - handle missing field

Hi have a GridView associated with an XmlDataSource that's structure is dynamic. Essentially, the service that provides the XML simply leaves off an attribute when there's no value, instead of returning an empty value. This tosses an error and I the rows that come after the one with the missing attribute are not rendered. My issue is th...

Oracle datetime in VB.net

I have a Oracle procedure to which I have to pass a datetime value (2/5/2010 11:46 AM) How do I pass this value from VB.net. When I pass the date as shown below it is not returning any records though there are records. With Cmd .Connection = FactsConn .CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure ...

Cannot iterate of a collection of Anonymous Types created from a LINQ Query in VB.NET

Ok everyone, I must be missing something here. Every LINQ example I have seen for VB.NET anonymous types claims I can do something like this: Dim Info As EnumerableRowCollection = pDataSet.Tables(0).AsEnumerable Dim Infos = From a In Info _ Select New With {.Prop1 = a("P...