I have a menu item that does some processing but I need to get a single alphanumeric code from the user before I start. I'd like to avoid creating a new form just for the pop-up dialog. Ideally I'd like something like messagebox but tha ...

I've embedded an Easter egg in an app but to make it work, I store some text in an inactive text box. I can change the font color of active an active text box so it is the same color as the background. However when I disable the text box (t ...

I am using a data adapter to pull data from an access database (see below code). When I run the SQL in the Access database I get the expected data. However when I step through the code the fill method produces only the table definition but ...

I know this has been posted here before but without the search feature I can't find it. I need to make sure that the user can only enter numbers in a textbox and don't want to build a full class for one textbox. I've seen something here ...

I just got my computer upgraded at work and it has windows 7. So while we were upgrading, I upgraded my Visual studio from version 5 to version 8 and SQL Server 2005 to 2008. I have a reporting project that I use to create reports (it cr ...

I want to manually read in a CSV file and use the split to load it into a data table. However, I need to not Split if it is within "". There may be an easier way to do it (if so please let me know) but I'm reading the CSV files ...

I am testing a windows app for compatibility with windows 7. So I am running a virtual machine with a windows 7 install. The app accesses data in Access97 databases (Sadly I can't upgrade the version of Access). Whenever I trigger an event ...

(I can't wait for the search feature to become available because I know this has been answered) I have a checkbox on Form 1 and when the user clicks a button on form2 I want to set that checkbox.checked = true. How do i reference the con ...

I have a windows based application and I am generating an HTML email message and would like to display it formatted so that my users can preview it before sending it. I need it to be on a windows form because I have some other controls I wa ...

I asked this on the old board (without an answer) and don't see it here so I'm reposting it because I found an answer in case anyone else needs to do this. My issue was that I store some paths in an app config file and I wanted the user ...

I'm updating an app that writes a and reads from a CSV file. the problem is that the data in the CSV is sensitive (ie SSN) and I want to either store it as an encrypted file or at least as binary so that someone can't just use notepad to se ...

I have a project that I use to develop RDL reports for another project that uses SQL reporting's report viewer. I convert the reports to RDLC to be displayed in the report viewer but other than that there are NO changes between the RDL and ...

I'm reading data from an excel pivot table into a data table and having an issue with the dates not coming in as dates. Typically when pulling from a worksheet the field type is defined by the data in the first few rows. Apparently this is ...

I'm reading a file with a StreamReader and adding \n\r to the end of each line and appending each line into a text variable. I later use that variable to populate a multiline textbox. The problem I'm having is that instead of moving to the ...

OK, our IT dept updated their antivirus software (Trend Micro Client/Server Security Agent Version 15.1.1142) last weekend and suddenly my application was getting flagged for attempting to inject a library. After further investigation, ...