I am attempting to build a piece of software which will replicate a guitar's
notes.  The major problem I have is sending the message to the midi output
device which has the correct instrument and note to play.  The midi people
want like 50 bucks for a reference, and as this will be ...

How to decrypt DES using asp/c#/vb ?  Please advise ..

I have a windows service which runs few timers to perform a certain task,
my code is well wrapped with "Try...Catch"s, but still whenever an error
occurs and an exception is being thrown, it executes the code in the "Catch"
section and instead of continue, the service stops.

How do I make it impossible for a user to change the widths in a Data Grid's
columns?
I can't seem to find anything on this in the help file.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.

I have written a program that functions similarly to a stopwatch.
When the user clicks the button, a label on the form starts counting. The
program, however, does not tick once a second. How can I fix this?
The following is the program. It assumes that the forms has a Button named

in an application where a feild (for example Name or item description)is to
be entered in both ENGLISH and the Local language say ARABIC: the two input
locales are installed on my computer; changing from one input locale to the
other is done manually by pressing ALT + SHIFT? this ...

e.g. c:\test
doc1.txt
doc1.pdf
doc2.txt

Hi, i have an application that opens .mdb file. I open it by the usual File >
Open command and then this event will call a function called OpenFile().
What i want now to happen now is that when i right-click on the .mdb file in
windows explorer and open it with my application, it ...

I have a windows application created in VB.Net, at a point in the
application the user can click on a button and open a web page.  Right now
all the button does is bring up the web page where the user has to log on.
I would like to put code so that when the user click the button ...

Hello. I'm using Visual Basic .NET.
How can I make a window inactive when another windows is being displayed?
For instance, if the user clicks a menu item, a button or whatever, a new
window is displayed and the user cannot do anything with the original window

We have an application that is run in many timezones and uses remoting
to access the DB.  I have one screen that will only save if the user is
in the same timezone as the server.  I can reproduce this on my
development machine by simply changing the timezone.  When I use

Hi All,
I don't know how to descrypt DES SSL with asp.net. Please advised !!

I am looking for a way to manipulate a tape device from within .NET. I see
there is the ManagementClass, which I think others have mentioned before,
but it is not clear at the moment whether this allows control of the device.
For example, I would like to be able to issue commands ...

I am an old VB6 programmer, and we have recently gone to VB.NET.  I am struggling to duplicate some of the things I had done in VB5 and VB6 to the new language.
What I need to do is to use VB.NET code to :
#1:  Open an MS Access database
#2:  Retrieve the data from one of the tables ...

    I have two column in database table and I want to show it as a
one column in datagrid. i.e. datagrid column = table column 1 + table
column 2.
How it is possible?