Recent content by SBGibson

Hi everyone, I'm developing a small ajax functionality and it works well in IE6 sp2, IE7 and Firefox. It only have to call a webpage in background, nothing special. With IE6 SP1 (I'm still investigating if it's some particular version) when I call Send the browser freeze, for a couple of...

Hi guys, I asked in another forum and I've been redirected here. I need to open e popup to show an attached document that the user have selected. The problem it that I need to perform some check before opening that document so I placed a button that on postback, after some operation, writes a...

Thanks, I'll try with other forums but I don't agree completely with you. I agree that a way to bypass popup blocking makes useless popup-blocking software but as the problem is generated by the required postback to make elaborations (cause if I make a window.open directly on button click it...

Hi guys, I've a big problem. I need to open e popup to show an attached document that the user have selected. The problem it that I need to perform some check before opening that document so I placed a button that on postback, after some operation, writes a window.open to show the document. The...

Hard to explain. When I develop a custom control I've to override render methods in order to change the output. But, if I only want to change the rendered value? Let's say I want to build a textbox that takes it's "value" attribute not from "text" propery but from ... Tooltip, without having to...

Hi guys, As many of you should know M$ has released a patch that generate problems with active contents in IE. Reading MSDN articles the patch should block activeX contained in OBJECT and EMBED controls in HTML. The user can click to activate the object at it should work, but I found that the...

Hi guys, I talk about a well know problem. Sometimes happens to necessary have to manage word documents with an asp.net application. We know well that M$ suggest to avoid using MSOffice as a server and aspose.word costs 10k $ for royalty free license. What we can do? There's some cheaper...

Hi to everyone, I need to interact with a server using the vt220 protocol. I can simply interact but the best would be to offer e complete vt220 terminal emulator. I searched for opensource components but I found only commercial components. Make a component of my own seems to be an heavy...

It seems to work well, thanks :-) This let me think that is not possible to handle a timeouted automatic unlock handled by Oracle :-/ Btw this i s a solution. Stevie B. Gibson

Hi guys, I've a strange situation using oracle with the .Net provider. 1. I open a transaction 2. I LOCK a table 3. The network have a failure (I force it unplugging the cable from the adapter) 4. The transaction and expecially the lock remains there for an indefinite time and I can do nothing...

Hi guys, I've an access programs that makes MSword mail merge using DDE actions. It works on many PCs but suddenly, on one of them, now I get a error 285 " Error: The other application can't perform the DDE function or retrieval you attempted. The other application doesn't recognize the data...

Hi guys, I've deployed an application in a win2003 server. This application works with system.drawing namespace for editing images in memory. I had an error in event viewer saying that network service user was not allowed to use a dcom object and the class id points to paintbrush or paint.image...

Hi guys, There's a way, an editor or something to change the content of a .suo file? I tryed to converting it from unicode but without success. I need to change it in order to have 2 different versions of a project pointing to the same web folder. If I open a second project it prompt me for a...

Hi guys, I'm using acrobat reader with commandline for printing in background pdf documents. I put options for printing, opening minimized and closing the window after printing. Now with the new acrobat 7 the window start opening minimized but after that it raise, print and doesn't close...

I'm modifing my app to work as many services I've seen. Starting from service manager it runs only the core, when the user log on the service is called with a command line parameter that awake the GUI. Now I've a problem with the context menu doesn't appear if I don't run the GUI in a separate...