This is sort of a developer question. I am cleaning up a project by
searching for "obj" in windows explorer search window. It shows many obj
folders. I can delete them one at a time in the search results but if I
select more than one I get "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from ...

Although lots of people described how to workaround the lack of ability
to hide and show tab pages on a tab control, I couldnt find a code
example so I made one.  Create a class that inherits from the
tabcontrol and then add the following

After I used installshield to pack my program, then I tried to install
the program into other computers such as window XP, window 2000. It
shows the following error:
Error 1931. The Windows Installer service cannot update the system file

At first, I was trying to encrypt ConnectionStrings in my app.config and
still be able to modify my datasets. So, i had to modify the
Settings.Designer.cs file to handle the decryption aspect in the GET
properties. This works great to run the application but there are two

I just upgraded from VS2003 to VS2005 (VB.NET apps) an I get a number of
warnings "Name "..." is not CLS_Compliant". All the corresponding "faulty"
code is in DataSet1.Designer.vb, wich is automatically generated code
associated to some of my Data Adapters at design time. So I ...

I am trying to replace my alert message box with a popup page.
In my page behind,
Response.Write("<script> alert('" & MyMsg & "') </script>")
is working fine.

I have a windows CE application, talking to a C# WebService.  In the
WebService project I have created a dataset (dsJobList), and there is a web
method in there which returns a fully loaded dsJobList dataset to the client,
which in this case is a windows CE device.

I have an asp.net web application written in C# which creates a datasource
consisting of a Name and a list of permissable Values. This datasource is
then bound to a simple repeater, the Name being bound to a label and the
Values being bound to a DropDownList. All works fine.

general question in general group.
Can someone help me to find a dll that converts RTF (generated by word)  to
PDF without word or acrobat installed?
It is for a tool that generates RTF (templates from word) and converts them

I am an experienced c++ programmer and I have done most of my c++ programming
with .net as console or directx programs.  I want to learn
windows programming and make quality applications going beyond what
forms can do, so I'm thinking MFC - does anyone know of good tutorials

Hey guys, I have a question for you,
I have a setup where I'm sending files through the POST to a php web page, I
read the file contents, put that file contents as text into the POST string,
and send it on it's way.

Has anyone seen a fix for the flickering effect you get when resizing a
Webbrowser control?
It's really irritating and doesn't make for a professional-looking
application.

I've written sone C# classes to search the active directory for users - see
code below.
The code works fine but is very slow when I'm iterating through the
directory and getting the attributes via the Properties collection.

Does anyone can suggest a good webpage or site, where I could read about how
to use IShellFolder interface in vb .net ?
E.g., I have added reference to IShellFolderEx_TLB.dll, but what next?
How to pass ITEMIDLIST structures

I am trying to figure whether a page exist in the server or not without
parsing the document for a 404 or a for a "error".  I am using the webbrower
control.  Does that return a status code of some sort to indicate if a page
did indeed exist?