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how to read the url under the mouse WebView2

Installation

Installation related issues with Visual Studio itself (this is not for application deployment discussion)
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Visual Studio 2010 ISO image

IDE

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visual studio does not increase the lines of source code

.NET Framework

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multiple currencymanagers?

.NET Core

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Resolved Upgrade .net7 to .net8 in my devexpress project?

Security/Obfuscation

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System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path "" is denied

Localization and i18n (Internationalization)

Discussion on localizing and internationalizing
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Adding Multi-Language Support to an Application Program

Accessibility

Developing applications in compliance with accessibility requirements/mandates
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Third Party/Add-Ins

Discussions on Third Party Add-Ins for Visual Studio's IDE, Code Libraries, etc.
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What Disassembler|Decompiler|File Viewer|Hex Editor Do You Use For Viewing Binary Files, Paid Or Free?

Web Resources

Add your favorite web resources, code libraries, links and more...
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Win 32 API

Training, Conferences, Events

Resources/Discussion for VB.NET Training, Learning, Conferences, and Events, etc.
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Question Need a Trainer

Testing, Quality Control, Debugging

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How to use a Unittest project?

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

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Answered Minimize WCF Console On Start Up

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

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Umn WF has me so completely lost.

Expression Suite

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Writing to file problem...

Silverlight

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How to MS SQL Server Connection ?

VB.NET

VB.NET General Discussion

VB.NET general discussion area
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Resolved Detecting If A Drive Is CD Rom

Windows Forms

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LoadBitmaps error

Windows Services

Windows service development discussion
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How to play a sound from a service in Windows 7

Remoting

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bodHOST
File Access Through RDP?

Console Application

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I can see the Excel Workbook, but the WorkSheet methods etc don't work :(

Component Development

Development of components with VB.NET
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Allowing Focus to a User Control

Add-In Development

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How to implement plugin?

Security

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Change Privilege?

Deployment

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Third Party Products

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cjard
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AI development

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ASP.NET

ASP.NET General Discussion

General discussion on ASP.NET development with VB.NET
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Problem reading .ini file --> "Attempt by security transparent method"

Web Forms

Discussion on web forms related topics, web form development, techniques, etc.
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Rythorian77
Folder with files not accessible to the public

Web Services

Anything about web service development with VB.NET
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What's the equivalent of Web.Services.Discovery for a REST service?

Caching

Discussion related to caching, session and state management, etc.
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Maintain Session or Cookie for 30-days on a web farm with SQL Server state management

Web Configuration

Discussion of all .config related files
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Save web.config. Terribly slow page load suddenly responds quickly

Web Component Development

Discussion on developing web controls
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Bootstrap carousel with a Repeater

Using Components/Controls

Discussion about server controls and related components for ASP.NET development
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Updating GridView with Database Changes

Web Security

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Question MVC policy groups and users privileges

Web Deployment

Everything related to packaging and deploying ASP.NET applications and components
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refrence not set to an instance of an object

IIS

Discussion on any IIS configuration and related topics to ASP.NET development with VB.NET
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Trying to publish site. 500 internal server error. Godaddy = Useless.

E-Commerce

Discussion on building ASP.NET e-commerce solutions
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vb shopping cart

Hosting

Anything related to hosting asp.net sites, providers, considerations, troubleshooting, etc.
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Bress1969
Looking for Windows ASP .NET Webhost

Third Party Web Tools

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Answered Get service interface (Message Formats etc) from Swagger Definition

Design / CSS

Web Page Design, Cascading Style Sheets, etc.
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Online tutorial

MVC, MVVM, etc.

Discussion about using MVC, MVP, etc. (pattern development)
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JohnH
Disposing Data Tables

ASP.NET Core, Razor, and Blazor

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Question Why will ActionLink not take a variable piece of data for id?

Mobile Development

UWP

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Run other apps with your own developed Windows Phone App?

Xamarin iOS

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.NET MAUI

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Database

Database General Discussion

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cjard
Column does not allow Nulls eventhough AllowDBNull is set to True

ADO.NET

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FYI TableAdapter and Stored Procedure / Function Return Values

MS Access

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Mustafaawd
Question excel file to OLE Object column?

SQL Server

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jmcilhinney
Question how can i retrieve pdf files in sql?

XML

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Question Issue Getting XML Element With Namespaces

Oracle

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Question Issue with sending Swedish characters in Oracle

MySQL

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how to make vb.net and SEQ workbench online ?

OLEDB

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Database slower than datagrid it seems

ODBC

Discussions on ODBC and VB.NET development
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Question Reading data from a progress database

LINQ

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JohnH
Suggested method to insert sub-child into child that already exist

Sync Framework

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Administrator
Question Simple sample of syncing two Datasets?

Entity Framework

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'Add' function adds two objects instead of one. Is this a bug?

Components & Controls

Menus & Toolbars

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Changing appearance of all menu items during runtime

Grids

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GUI

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Are there pre-existing dialog boxes for constructing data connections?

Non-GUI

Discussion of non-GUI components such as compression, encryption, registration, activation, etc.
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Speech recognition program - need conceptual approach

Reporting / Printing

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Resolved Can't get ReportViewer working

Charting

Discussion on charting components for .NET
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Get Time and Date on X-Axis

Data Analysis

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datavisualization charting functions

Listviews / Treeviews

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jmcilhinney
Resolved How to Expand RootNode

Editors

GUI components such as masked edit, calculators, up/down controls, calendar, time, color pickers, etc.
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find and select multiple words in richtextbox

Archiving

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jmcilhinney
Resolved View zipped image directly

Schedule / Time

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JohnH
Resolved MonthCalendar BoldedDates bug

Net / Sockets

Components for network and related use
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Data Layer / Abstraction

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FYI Layergen

Suites

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Infragistics, ComponentOne, Xceed, DevExpress, Janus...

Other

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SAP competitor for ERP?

Books - Reading List

General Learning Resources Discussion

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Advice for learn to design database tables

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New Windows App Programmer

ASP.NET Reading

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Learning ASP.net

Jobs

Running a Business

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Need advice on selling our applications

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Small and medium sized business software

Job Postings

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Experienced C#/.NET Developer (Germany, remotely)

Looking for Work

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have a project for me?

Self-Employment

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What skills does one need to become self-employed?

The Break Room

Programmer Chat

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Save VB.Net and your Job.

Articles of Interest

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FYI 5 Part Post to Microsoft from former VB.Net PM Anthony Green

Intellectual Property Discussion

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Question License model

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code questions?

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Communication question

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