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Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but struggling to find any support for the wix installer. Iv followed the tutorials from start to finish and can successfully create patches in the main application. However the problem comes when I need to create a patch in a dependant dll and...

I am having major .NET rendering issues when veiwing the website in IE10. The wierd thing is the website works fine when publishing localy but get different results when uploaded to the server - but only in IE10! The most obvious problem is that it seems to remove any inline css : if you go to...

After much trial and error trying to get all the functionality of word into a windows form, decided the best approach is the api calls and parenting an instance of word to a panel control. Its more or less working but getting weird redraw issues and also having to close and reopen the active...

I'm writing a jquery plugin that manipulates data passed to it. Is there any way of setting the data on the calling element. For example my calling method would be $('#elementID').myplugin({formData:data}) Then within the plugin I want to do something like this $(this).data('result','value I...

What is considered the norm when changing javascript/jquery code on a live site? Obviously the changes wont be noticable to previous visitors until they clear their cache. Iv had big problems in the past where entire pages have crashed becuase Im inserting markup in the code behind, but the...

I have a gridview displaying various items, one of these being a drop down box for the user to select something. I want to display an icon next to combo box depending on the selected value. I can do this in the code behind on the grids click event but this messes up the tab order of the rows. I...

Is it me or is the file upload control really unfriendly. I need a way of just displaying the button to throw up a dialog box then redirect to another page if something is selected. So far I have managed to slap an image over the fileupload control using css which triggers the dialog box. After...

Does anyone know how to avoid this problem using the file upload control. Everything works fine and uploads as it should, however if a link is clicked to navigate away from the page then click the back button on the browser I get a page expired and a retry message box. If I click OK the file...

I have an Ajax control on the page that is working ok. However when I want to select the previous or next month using the small arrows it display the year grid. Its as though the year in the top row is too wide and is overlapping the arrows so it looks like I'm clicking the arrows but the year...

I have created a custom membership provider to authenticate users on login. This all works fine, the problem now is that the login details are stored in two different tables depending on the type of user who is logging in ie Public access and Business access. Is there a way to pass in a...

I'm trying to build a generic VB.Net function to run a stored procedure using odbc. It would help greatly if I could check the procedure in the database first to find out the parameters the procedure is expecting. It used to be possible in VB6 but is there a way of reading a parameter list in VB.Net

I am using VB.Net to produce a website with database access. I would like to cater for a number of databases such as sqlServer, Mysql, Oracle etc... Ideally I want to have a data access class for each type of database which would have identical functions. Then have something in the web.config...

I have 3 class objects that use the same functions (eg save load update etc..) these classes will be identical but the functionality will be slightly different depending on the database being used. Ideally I want to be able to set something in the web config file to use just one of the 3 classes...

I am trying to print from a datagrid view that is formatted with color coded columns. At the moment I am using the .drawtobitmap function and using the printdocument control to print. This all works but the quality of the text in the grid is poor. Is there any way I can improve the quality other...

I am creating my own control like the old active X control in VB6. In VB6 you could define a property bag that would show up in the properties pane at design time when the control was dropped on the form. Can this be done in VB.Net?

I have just been introduced to Ajax and finding it very useful indeed. However when applying to existing pages it is dissabling the javascript on page load. All the javascript is doing is targeting various controls then applying the relevant CSS style to that control. This has been working fine...

I have an image button that displays an image the user uploads using the fileupload control. The upload works fine and I can see the file in the correct place, however the image on the button doesnt refresh. I have tried Page.Request.Url.ToString() but this doesnt seem to do anything. Even if...

This is a general question on how to create a dynamic progress bar. I've read numerous articles but cant decide on the technology I should be using ie - Ajax, Javascript etc. The problem I've got is a process that imports data from a text file in to a database. This can take a few minutes so...

I have tried numerous examples to display a progress bar on a web page but cant find a suitable solution. What I have is some database processing that is in a loop in a code behind file. This process can take some time to complete so idealy I want to display a progress bar as it loops though...

I have a web site using session variables. The problem is if I dont touch anything for about 10 seconds I lose whatever is stored in the variables. In the web config file I have a Timeout = 100 in the Authentication mode tag. Is there anything else I should be setting to prevent this loss of data.