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• Jay Luttrell Problem with adding child controls

  Hello! I am developing custom control. This control contains panel (System.Windows.Forms.Panel) inside. When designer is open, and I am trying to add controls into my control`s panel -  problem occurs: controls are added to the form, but not into my cont ...Show All

• Rusty Naumann Having Problem to display form with UTF-8 charactors

  It worked all fine on my laptop computer with English OS XP, but after moving the project folder to my desktop computer also with English OS XP, VS 2005 no longer displays the forms with UTF-8 charactors in recognisable Chinese but some gibberish strings... wondering what I haven't done to make it right. Any advise please Hmm... are Chinese fonts installed on the laptop Probably the answer is "yes" b ...Show All

• P.V.Shanthi Create setup which contains database file

  Hi, I'm creating a setup using visual studio 2005, the application contains a database file which is 575 Mb .When is create a setup it show error Error 1 Could not find file 'K:\Current_Working\...\..\ZZZ.mdf' 'Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.' How do i continue.. . Thanks I'm getting the exact same error with an MDB file of just under 490MB. Anybody gonna take a stab at this ...Show All

• crystal report printing problem Reading text file, bottom up

  I have tab delimited text file which gets populated on daily basis via automated process. New entry is written at the bottom. I need to create a utility which makes a copy of this file with 10 most recent entries.  When I read line us ...Show All

• pneumahagion777 How do you get the My Documents directory?

  This may be an obvious question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. I'm writing an app in which I'm providing the ability to export data to Excel. When I display the Save Dialog box, I want to set the default directory to be My Docu ...Show All

• jamvir DataBase .gdb

  I've got a data base with a .gdb extension and i don't know what can i do to read the data inside.Also once reading the data i should update an Access data base. What can i do  Please can you help me.  PS. Now i'm using a&nb ...Show All

• Johan Normén - Nsquared2 Pixel colors found using GDI+ are different!!!!!

  I have .jpeg image with dimension(2000 * 1500), scanned with 200 DPI....When I check pixel color of some (x,y) in Photoshop and retrieve same pixel in GDI+ using bitmap.GetPixel(), I found the difference of 25+ in each color(R,G,B). And When I use&n ...Show All

• David N.4117 Display User Control while accessing data?

  I have a modal user control that is opened on w/an onclick event on a button.  This control has a listbox that queries our network and populates it with users.  It takes about 10+ seconds to populate the listbox, and while doing so,&n ...Show All

• c_add_nine Microsoft Outlook 10.0 Object Library

  I am trying to execute a c# windows application(on windows 2000 professional) which retrieves data from MS outlook and store it in an XML File.  When i tried to execute it, an error occurs saying that the reference is not found.   I f ...Show All

• MatthewRWatson No Touch fails in internet zone after installing .Net 2.0 runtime

  I have encountered a problem with NTD failing to launch under ieexec for an internet zone application after installing the .Net 2.0 runtime. The problem occurs for both .Net 1.1 and .Net 2.0 apps that are deployed in this way. If I change add the site to the intranet zone then iexec is launched as expected. What I cannot find is any documentation for this change in behaviour. I did wonder at first if it was because I have both VS 2003 and ...Show All

• bmgun79 Automating Interaction with Remote Sites using the WebBrowser Control

  We have several remote customers who, in order to save time, require us to interact automatically with their web sites (automated data entry, data retrieval, etc.) yet will not allow us direct access to their databases or web hosts. And these customers do not provide Web Services. In the past we have used the AxWebBrowser web browser control to build 'wrappers' around our customer's web sites - this worked well UNTIL we migrated to VS 2005. ...Show All

• CHASE10541 the value of datagridviewcomboboxcell is invalid error

  I get the above error whenever I use a comboboxcolumn in a datagridview. I set up the datasource, displaymember and valuemember properties properly. But, when I run the app, I get this error... what is the reason of it  anyone who knows the fix of&n ...Show All

• Bren42006 Obsolete properties from forms designer

  Just installed Beta 2 of VB Express, having been using beta 1. Now getting warning messages about obsolete property AutoScaleBaseSize. But this is in the Designer part of the VB - which (in theory) I shouldn't mess about with. How can I get it to put in the correct property (which the error message says is AutoScaleDimensions) The code inserted is: Me .AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13) I ...Show All

• brokenrulz A little puzzle with passing ID and displayed fields from form to another in combo box i VB2003

  I have a combo box populated by OleDbDataAdapter in a form. And I have to pass the selected value to other forms for display. But I also want to pass the ID field (which is integer) so that I can sae the ID of the selected item rather than the text itself. I use a OleDbDataAdapter in, oledbconnection and data set in my forms. I also use Display member to display the right column (text in my case) and and Value member to associa ...Show All

• Gareth D For consideration

  Some of these would be better suited to the VS.NET team, I'm not sure how much the winforms team and the VS.NET team work together. 1) I know this would be difficult to implement, and not even sure if you guys have control over VS.NET,&nbs ...Show All