I have a DropDownList in Visual Web Developer that is databound to a SQL
Database. Whenever the web page is opened the DropDownList is automatically
filled with the first item in the table.
My question is, how do I set it so that the DropDownList is empty until a

Say Im going to create a new class called "master.cs"
if i created this file , by default file and author information should
be added at the top of the file.
Example

I have an application that has many windows.  One window is used for
order processing.  I would like this window to display the other users
who are also performing order processing (the idea is to prevent a user
from opening an order that is being worked on by another user.

I'd like to create Class Library in VB 2005, which has a property accessible
by external programs.
I decided to include 1 Class with 1 property in this project.
I placed this code in Class:

Hi, I'm trying to print a text report from an application. It works
fine, except in landscape mode, which it seems to ignore. I have a
function that handles the PrintPage even for the PrintDocument, and I
even tried forcing it to print in landscape mode by adding:

I want to encapsulate many files in a DLL.
Is threre a way to create a DLL automaticaly via code not having to create a
project in visual studio dot net?

I have written simple ASP.NET application but during execution I got
unhandled exception. I have checked (debugging): it is not raised in
my code, it uccurs after Page_Unload.
Here's description:

Was hoping somebody might have experienced this before.
I have client-side javascript in my aspx files. For some reason when I
place the "debugger;" keyword in my javascript, Visual Studio no longer
breaks into the code. It used to, and I can't figure out what could

I have an .ASPX page in which a DLL (WindowsControlLibrary) has been embedded
through the <OBJECT> tag. I am able to get the control visually by calling it
in the JavaScript.But I am unable to access the Public property/methods from
that WindowsControl.I am using .NET Framework 2 ...

when programming with VB.Net2005 you quite often need to have more
privileges than the normal office user. In the past, this hasn't been too
much of an issue as I have a user with full admin privileges that I use just
for that. Understandably, I cannot use that login to access ...

Apollogies if this is in the wrong group
I am looking for a way to compile an assembly in VS2005 under framework 2
and then force it to run under framework 1.1 - is this possible?
I have created a simple console application which returns me the framework

I have a DataTable. When the table is validated, I'm setting the
DataRow.RowError text for certain rows that don't match a particular
criteria. This puts a nice red '!' on the DataGrid that is displaying the
DataTable.

Hi Techies,
I have created Setup & Deployment project and installing a windows
application from that.  Now i want to restrict the user to install my
application only upto 3 times.

I happened to delete IUSR_XXX account when I tried to clear an
application. After that, when I run my VS 2003 application, it said
"compile err".
Does anyone have idea how to fix it? I tried to reinstall IIS and .NET

I am writing a MIME parser and i need to convert the Windows-1252
encoded strings to utf-8. For example, the text
"=?Windows-1252?Q?une_beaut=E9=?" should become "une beauté".
Do you know what the conversion algorithm is? Does a "shortest" method