Topics by ericstenson

Hi, I am receiving a stream of data (a text message) through a TCP listener. It then sends back a stream. Then the first computer (the client) sends another stream of data. Then I send back a response message. The first message is successfully received. The first response is successfully …

Hi- Does anyone have any good code to watermark an image in vb.net? I guess this would be effectively the same as overlaying a 2nd image on top of an existing image. Thanks, Eric

Hi - I was wondering if there is a way to force a postback after the FileUpload1 control has a file... Right now, people his "Browse" select the file then click another button to upload the file. I want to write code on postback to automatically write the file to …

Ok, so here is the problem. I googled this and this is a known issue, but I haven't seen any good solutions. Let's say some clicks a button in an Update Panel (VS 2008). Let's say that button results in a Server.Transfer("somepage.aspx"). It doesn't work. Server.Transfer cannot be called from …

Hi this works in IE6, IE7, but not in FireFox... any ideas? [code] (On PageLoad) ImageMap1.Attributes.Add("onMouseOver", ImageMap1.ClientID & ".src='images/addpatient1.jpg'; window.status='Mouse Over'; return true;") ImageMap1.Attributes.Add("onMouseOut", ImageMap1.ClientID & ".src='images/addpatient.jpg'; window.status=' '; return true;") [/code] The rollover effect just doesn't happen in FF.... grrrrr.....

Hi - This is really annoying. For some reason, the Find & Replace window no longer displays in VS2005. It seems to be locked in the toolbar. Any ideas on how to get the window back?! Thanks, Eric

Hi - At the top of my page, let's say I declare a variable by Shared D1 as String Then in different functions/routines throughout the page I write and read the value of the string. This works just fine. The problem is, let's say the user closes the browser and …

Is there a difference in handling between Session.Add("SOMETHING","somevalue") and Context.Items.Add("SOMETHING","somevalue")?

Hi- Here is my question. People, where I work, friends of mine, other programmers, etc. are always talking about "best practices" in application design. Specifically, people are taught/told to minimize the number of SQL queries sent. Now, here is the thing, I am personally under the impression that it doesn't …

Hi - In Visual Studio 2005, when one drew a table, the cell height was "auto" and if it didn't contain anything, it wouldn't show. One could then manually set a cell height if one was so inclined. It seems in Visual Studio 2008 all of the cells have a …

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has the solution to this. Let's say I have a dropdownlist. And if a particular value of that dropdownlist is selected, I display a textbox. So I set the dropdownlist to cause a postback event, and on the pageload (when postback), i check to …

In classic ASP there is a recordset. In VB.NET is there the same functionality, or must one load the data into a datatable and fill the table with a dataadapter? Thanks, Eric

Hi - Wondering if anyone has built any .net apps (standard windows, not necessarily web apps) that connect to a Filemaker .dbf database. It doesn't seem to be a standard dbase file. Any help appreciated.

Hi- I have a doosie... I think. Maybe it's easy and I am just an idiot, I am not sure. Here's how it goes... On my web form, I have a GridView. I pull selected values from cells on the GridView. Sometimes I change a dropdownlist.selected value, which causes the …

I have a customer with a small accounting/invoice software program (order pro). Not very fancy at all. At any rate, the software stores all of the invoice data in one ".XDB" file. Anyone have any idea what type of database this could be? It seems like the application is an …