Yes we had IBMs, and we had ADABASE and NATURAL running on them. I'm not sure if there are any other agencies running them still, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are still out there. We haven't had any running here at the Cape for a while, but the last ones to get turned off were up in Huntsville. -- Steven

Same here, I'm a young guy and I just wrapped up writing some serious bat files to replace the old mainframe JCL we had hanging around; the government agency I work for (hint: we sent people to the Moon that one time) just turned off our last mainframe this month. -- Steven

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Thanks, that code did exactly what I needed it to. With a little customization, I got it so anytime an exe from our old software tries to run, it gets loaded in a tab on my program instead. Very cool! Thank you so much!

-- Steven

Hi there, I was wondering if it is possible to take a windows application and load the contents of the main window inside my c# application as either an MDI window or in a child control of some sort. At work we use some old software where each "module" is a seperate exe with its own window and I wanted to build a c# app with tabs or MDI windows or something to make it a bit more usable. We do not have access to the source code and its not managed code for sure. At first glance, it looks impossible, but I was hoping there was some sort of p/invoke or activeX magic out there. Thank you code project!

-- Steven

Here's one I know we've all seen, but it always give me a chuckle: if ((from i in dc.PRODUCTIONs where i.ACTIVE == true select i.WOID).Contains(getSysId(woid)) == false) If you think this is bad, you should see how the actual software runs! Ever since I started working for this company, I've had to completely strip and rebuild all the code most of it only half works. I'll post more horrors as I find them. Happy coding!

-- Steven

Hey, I think I found the problem, but it still makes no sense. I've been using the Ajax Toolkit in my project and I just put the latest build into my project. Anyways, I rolled back to the dll I was using before and the problem went away. I can only assume that there's a glitch in the toolkit causing it since none of my code was modifying field values including my hidden fields! I'm going to check out their developer section to see if anyone else has had this issue. -- Steven

Hey, I've been trying to fix this and I haven't found anything on the internet about it. I have a text field, and when the page posts back, the value in it has a comma in front of what was typed in. I'm also using asp .net ajax on the page. Has anyone come across this one before? --Steven

Thanks for the help. I also discovered Assembly.LoadFrom(string location), which also looks promising.

-- Steven Hunt

Hello. I am designing an application that will make use of plugins (.net assemblies loaded at runtime containing classes implemented from a common interface). The issue is, i would like to be able to put these DLLs in a folder other than the application's folder, so it could be in a folder like \Plugins\ or something. It works fine sometimes, the problem is that when a plugin references a local assembly, it tries to find it in the application's folder and not the plugin's folder. For instance, if one of the plugins is loading XLS files and I have an XLS file reader class in a seperate assembly along with the plugin, I will get an error since the application is trying to load the assembly from its location and not the plugin's location. Is there any way to get around this without dumping my assemblies in the GAC?

-- Steven Hunt

I'm working on an excel application with data validation in it. The boss insists we use form controls such as checkbox or radio button. Is there any way to integrate these into an excel spreadsheet through COM Interop? If so, please provide an example or post a link. Also, we need to read the excel spreadsheet back through COM, so the controls need to be accessible later.

-- Steven Hunt

Hi. I've been working on a new .net login system at my job and I've been running into many problems. I need to convert the asp page to .net, and the conversion never works because the asp has COM and a lot of SSI's in it, and a lot of it is giberish anyway. So i figured i could pass form data to it to get it to think it was getting data from itself, the only problem is we're adding a "User needs to change password screen" and so there's another asp .net page it gets sent to first. i figured Server.Transfer could handle classic ASP from .net, only it throws an exception every time. So, basically i need a way to pass form data to the asp page WITHOUT response.write() writing out a form with a button and username/password in the hidden inputs. A server-side way would be preferred. Is this possible or should I just start looking forward to the COM and ASP and SSI madness?

-- Steven Hunt

Hello. I am working on a project which involves reading from and writing to an excel file. I'm having a few bugs at the moment. I can only get it to write if there is already data saved in the excel file. Second, after it does save the data, my attempt to re-read it only results in OLE stating that there is only one column of data, even though there is obviously 3. It works if i resave it in Excel, but that's not really a viable option as this program is supposed to automate things. If anyone has experience with OLE and has a solution or at least a suggestion for some of these problems, please post a response. Thanks in advance.

-- Steven Hunt

Hello. For a project i am currently working on, i need to be able to send data, images specificly, between computers using sockets. Unfortunately, i have had some diffuculty making tcp transfer the data. I've been trying to use NetworkStream.read() and NetworkStream.write(), but for some reason the image always gets messed up in transfer. I tried sending the data in 32 byte bursts, but the image still arrives with serious errors in it. What is the fastest and most reliable way to send byte arrays across computers, preferably with streams? P.S. a few lines of code would be extremely helpful -- Steven Hunt

Hi. I'm using the GetListItems method in the List web service for sharepoint to pull a sharepoint list into an infopath document. I have that part of the code working, but how do I get the data to infopath itself? -- Steve

I have just been put in charge of designing an infopath form to integrate into sharepoint services. Since I'm new to infopath, I need some help with a few things. First, I need to be able to load a picture from a link on the sharepoint list without using base64. Second, I have to have a text box which will update the database entries shown as the user types. Right now I have been using conditional formatting, but I'm unsure how to get the text box to trigger it after every character entered in the control. Thanks in advance -- Steve

I keep getting this same exception when i try to connect to a sql database: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [SqlException: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'.] System.Data.SqlClient.ConnectionPool.GetConnection(Boolean& isInTransaction) +474 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionPoolManager.GetPooledConnection(SqlConnectionString options, Boolean& isInTransaction) +372 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() +384 dev.Random1.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in random1.aspx.cs:27 System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +750 any ideas? This is a work-related project so i need to figure out the error quickly. -- Steve

For some reason, left, right, up, and down arrows aren't getting caught by OnKeyDown. Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? -- Steve

Hey. I'm still having problems with uploading. I am using a linux web server. do you think that is causing the trouble? If so, what can i do to get it working? -- Steve

Hi. I am trying to upload and download files to and from my web server. I Keep getting a 405 with WebClient. I understand the problem is that i don't have access. I tried to send a username password with WebClient.Credentials, but it still doesn't work. Is there any way to get permission from a web server to upload a file and then upload it? -- Steve