In C# on Form1 I genetate an array of PictureBoxes and populate each with an
image as seen in the code below.
Later on I want to access a specific PictureBox to change its image,  but I
keep getting the error "The name 'PictureBox1' does not exist in the current

Firstly let me be very clear about this, I do not want to create a web
service proxy nor do I want to do anything with web services.
Basically, I have a shrink wrapped desktop application which downloads
data from a web site. Unfortunately the application has a fixed

I would like to create a panel, or other widget, on which I can draw,
say, a triangle, and use the wheel on the mouse to zoom in and out on
the drawing. A vector drawing.
I know this can be done because I have seen apps that do this. They

Why should the following not compile? ( it does not)
interface ISomething
{
        Apples a {get;set;}

I need to keep my app entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MyApp.
(to support for all users).I need to update one key under MYApp.
When I attempt to set value for this key
My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey("software

Hi to all!
I created a VB.Net COM DLL which I can use in VBScript.
I followed the steps in the following article:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x66s8zcd(VS.71).aspx

 Maybe I'm just discovering something late that everyone else knew already,
but it caught me off guard.  In the past I could do an expression like "If 1
<= x <= 10 Then ..." to see if x was in the numeric range 1-10.  So x = 5
would evaluate to True, whereas x = 0 would evaluate ...

I have a sub routine that's passing in a variable.  I need to take that
variable and store it globally...but here's what's happening.
ex: I'm executing my routine: doMyThing(path, "test")
I'm executing that command at least 10 times replacing the word test with my

I have a large number of VB6 apps that I would like to convert to VB.net.
All of them use a standard (here anyway) technique of calling a public sub
and passing the form reference byref so many frequently used subs/functions
can be used without regard to the calling form's name.

What would be the best approach to migrate VB6 ocx project to VS.net?
Is VC++ and ATL the only option?
Or is it better to forget OCX and create .NET object?
What are the pros and cons?

When I try to upgrade a project using the upgrade wizard, I get this
message:
Upgrade failed; Exception occurred: Your project is using out-of-date
versions of the following libraries: mscomctl.ocx (2.0.0)

I have VS 2005 standard and want to upgrade to VS studio professional version.
Can I just buy the upgrade for vs 2008 pro or do I first have to upgrade the
vs 2005 to pro and then upgrade that to vs 2008 pro?

We have an application developed in VC2005 with mixed code, primarily C++
but using a C# dll for database access (DBUploader), the dll exposes a C++
interface. We are experiencing intermittent failure on startup - no errors or
warnings are generated (including in the EventVwr). ...

I want to call a function that takes a void* argument and pass it the address of
a constant.  Is there a way to do this without explicitly defining the constant
and then passing the address of the constant?  In other words, what I *don't*
want to do is this:

We have a program we are building with Visual Studio 2005 for x86.
In the past we used Visual Studio 6, and there was no problem. With Visual
Studio 2005, if we build the executable normally, all is well. If we build it
for debugging, then at program startup we get a popup saying

I have an unmanaged VS2005 VC++ application using the MultiLanguage DLL
IMultiLanguage::GetCodePageInfo method for obtaining MIMECPINFO information
for a given codepage.
I find that the valid codepage of 20127 fails.  See the code below.  

I use the loadlibray("avr309.dll") to call the function in the avr309.dll.
However, the system return the error
"error C2664: 'LoadLibraryW' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char
[11]' to 'LPCWSTR'"

I use the MFC to develop the project and want to call the function from the
DLL file.
I write the header file to access the DLL function as below.
DLLInstance = LoadLibrary(CA2W(AVR309DLL)))

I have just started to develop a class library with VS2005 and C++.  This
will eventually be a library of many mathematical functions.  I want to have
one class in my library, e.g. AstroCalc, with many member functions.  I want
to divide my functions over many source files for ...

I want to use downloaded libfftw3-3.dll in my vc6 project.
I created libfftw3-3.lib file by:
lib /machine:i386 /def:libfftw3-3.def
and added libfftw3-3.lib to be linked to my project.

I'm installing Blackberry Desktop software 4.2 sp2 on windows Vista on
several machines.  For some reason the install program takes ages, up to an
hour, and for long periods it seems that nothing is happening.  Does anyone
else have this problem and know why it takes so long.  No ...

Hello. When I try to open the Task Manager i receive an error that says 'Task
Manager has been disabled by your administrator' and this can not be right
because i am the only one on my computer which means that i am the
administrator. I tryed different ways to repair this error ...

I have an SD Card and I put it on my computer, I was going to same some
pictures put I deleted something else firs and accidently I deleted my
pictures, put when I deleted everything I though by going to by Recycle Bin I
could Restore my pictures put nothing was their, I want to ...

i cant manage to print large mail onto just one A4 from a dell all in one
printer.it is a letterhead from a friend.it will only print the letterhead as
two A4s

The title of my inquiry is self-explanatory, but I will try to explain my
problem further.
I have a frameset with two frames; one at the top of the page with the menu
and a search drop down DIV. The bottom frame contains the content of the

PerformanceCounterCategory.Create() takes 3 minutes to add a new category!!
How come? What can cause this?

I have seen that if I put a radiolistbutton on a page with 3 radiobutton and
the first (as example) is not enable at design time (so server side), i
can't enable it from javascript with something like this
var btlList = document.form1.elements["RadioButtonList1"];

The following will submit a form with a value of "California" for
lstSelectState.  How can I add another coordinate for say "Iowa" and change
lstSelectState's value to "Iowa"
<form name="form1" method="post" action="CPC_NCList_Alpha.asp">