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• John Vivoda ADO.NET and Crystal Reports

  I'm upgrading a custom app from VB6 to VB.NET 2005. It’s a fairly basic app, glorified word processor . In VB6 I used ADO and VB6’s DataReports, in doing so I could bind my ado recordset direct to the DataReport. My question is can I bind an ADO record set directly to a Crystal Report I understand this can be via the viewer. But can it be done via a CR object and not the CR Viewer control Follow up question I’m requesti ...Show All

• AustinStephens Error while setting BorderStyle for Style object in Excel using C#

  following code of VB.NET is working fine : Application.ActiveWorkbook.Styles.Add( "MyStyle" ) With Application.ActiveWorkbook.Styles( "MyStyle" ) .IncludeAlignment = True .IncludeFont = True .IncludeAlignment = True .IncludeBorder = True .IncludePatterns = True .IncludeProtection = True End With With Application.ActiveWorkbook.Styles( "MyStyle" ).Borders(Excel.Consta ...Show All

• abcdefgqwerty2 How to detect an existing window, notify it and pass new parameters to it?

  Hi there, Our company is developing a WPF (Avalon) application called Asset Viewer. This application is to be deployed to the public server through ClickOnce technology. So it can be activated through URL link. Our application is a WPF installed application instead of WBA (right now it is XBAP). We want all URL link (in the calling side) can reach the same existing window (traditionally we call it single instance application). So far, w ...Show All

• Kreuger Load Data designed in another model file

  Hi everybody, I have the following scenario Two diferent DSL models, A and B and I want to show in a property field of B model some data designed in A model. example. I have in A a model class diagram, and in B a model that one element property field that uses the classnames designed in A diagram. Is that possible Thanks Hi Luiz, The main difficulty is keeping them in sync. We don't currently have a general mech ...Show All

• Verna Problem using DTE80a.olb

  Hi, I have migrated my code from .NET2003 to .NET2005. I used DTE.tlb, it gave me build error. However i got sudgestion from VSIP developer to use DTE.olb. But now I can see that this file is not present in VS2005. I used DTE80a.olb as I read in forums that this is just renamed form of DTE.olb. The build is successful but at run time, I get error CreatCustomeProject error at the time of clicking finish of Application settings page and project is ...Show All

• Stig Nielsson Trips to the database

  I have a general performance question that needs clarification. Assuming an object graph of Customer, Orders, OrderDetails and assume I am retrieving one customer with 10 orders and each order has 5 orderdetails, how many trips to the database will be required Is it 3 or 12 Thanks, Dave Foderick Taking a guess I would say 12 as I don't see that complexity implemented. Deferred execution will run more queries, but will only do it whe ...Show All

• MCVapor Customizing NavigationWindow and using Property Aliasing

  PROBLEM: The main window of my application will have 3 areas: 1) A header where there will be diferent controls such as links, menus, images, etc, besides a previous/next navigation button with customized appearance; 2) A footer with more controls on it; 3) A content area where different pages will be displayed. SOLUTION CONSIDERED: WindowsFX provides a build-in NavigationWindow that can be customized using ControlTemplat ...Show All

• NewDBA Rotate Window

  Hello Is it possible to rotate a window with WPF. When i have this on my main window <Window.RenderTransform> <RotateTransform CenterX="0" CenterY="0" Angle="45"/> </Window.RenderTransform> i get Error at element 'BamlAttributeInfoRecord' in markup file 'Window1.xaml' : Transform is not supported on Window.. kind regards Dieter Drew Marsh wrote: That w ...Show All

• hebert Help Filters for Visual Studio 2005?

  Where are the "Help Filters for Visual Studio 2005" In the Contents and Index the only Filters I see are related to SQL-Server, where are the filters for Visual Studio, Internet Development, .NET Framework, etc. Hi, Have you installed the MSDN Library that is on the VS 2005 CD, after completing the VS 2005 install The majority of the Help Filters for the Help Contents and Index win ...Show All

• Aaron Epstein Special network security for srcsafe.ini file?

  I have been asked to get SourceSafe 2005 installed and implemented in a relatively small IT group (10 people). I created databases within a network folder which is shared with that IT group. The network permissions for Users on the database folders is set to "modify". But I am questioning if Users should have modify access to the srcsafe.ini file since it contains global settings for the database. Seems like you would not want Users po ...Show All

• Manjubashini Questions about the new CoerceValueCallback

  The documentation is currently a bit wonky, but here's my understanding of how this new system works: With a DP called X:    - In PropertyChangedCallback for X, you call CoerceValue on all properties that are dependent on X, including X itself.    - In CoerceValueCallback for X, you take the parameter, which is X's current value or desired value, and return what the actual value should be after considering the values of othe ...Show All

• fewfewfew Where can I find some documentation for Microsoft.ComponentModel.Design assembly?

  Where can I find some documentation for Microsoft.ComponentModel.Design assembly Do you mean System.ComponentModel.Design, at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/system.componentmodel.design.aspx ...Show All

• GCF_Pick2 Sample web site printing from Crystal report viewer - print mode ActiveX

  Is there an online site that has sample reports that I could see directly. We are having trouble printing and I would like to see a web site with crystal reports using the Crystal reports viewer, Active X that will allow me to print to my local machine.   JoeBlow wrote: All of the examples in the referenced document utilize either pdf output, server side printing, or html output. Really..I mean ...Show All

• TaylorB Getting the Character Style for a word

  I'm stumped. Google doesn't seem to have the answer so I'm going to ask here... The range's "get_Style()" returns the first style that it finds. Most of the time, this is the paragraph style. However, I really need to look at the character style for what I'm trying to do. There's a way to get the paragraph style explicitly by looking at the ParagraphFormat object on the range, but is there a way to do that for the character style object curr ...Show All

• Splinter Cell Drawing over control children

  Hi, In Windows Forms it is virtually impossible to have a control paint over its children - overriding OnPaint doesnt help, because the children are drawn after the control itself. I've tried overriding OnRender in WPF with the same results. Is/will be this possible with WPF Thanx. A Visual cannot draw over its own children, but a control can create more than one Visual. To achieve the effect that you are lo ...Show All