Dorkboy's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Modal Forms Question in Web Application

  I have two web forms:  Form1 and Form2 Form1 calls Form2 using showModalDialog var WinSettings = "resizable:no;dialogHeight:600px;dialogWidth:600" var result = window.showModalDialog("Form2.aspx",null, WinSettings); Form2 has a ListBox, a Label and a Button.  The listbox is&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Set Syste Locale in web test

  Besides, HTTP language header, the web page I am testing looks for system locale (from control panel) to decide what language of page to load. How do I simulate this in Web Test Hi Bart1, I'd suggest converting the web test to a coded web test, and programmatically set the system locale before executing the web test. Then on test completion, restore the previous value. See this walkthrough for more info on creating a coded web test. ...Show All

• SQL Server Analysis Services Migration Wizard

  I backedup an SQL2K OLAP database. Learned that I can not use the cab file to restore it to an SQL2005. So I've restored it to another SQL2K. Now I am trying to migrate this to my 2005. Here are my tests and results. 1. Welcome screen works fine. :) 2. I have severel SQL2K servers here which have their OLAP services running. a.) SQL 2000 Source Server: xxxxxxxxx  (no such server)      SQL 2005 Destinat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot connect to server

  I can download the ~3mb files, but when they are run and they are trying to download and install everthing, it says that the transfer rate is 0, then goes to say that it is trying to re-establish it's connection with the server. It can't do this, and when 5 attempts to do this fail, it exits. Any ideas It happened to me too.  The setup thing downloads, but running that it tries 5 times to download and then says it failed.  I'll ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Massstorage Driver

  Hi. I have trouble with installing Vista. I have a highpoint 374 massstorage controller. But it seems so that vista is not supporting it. Is there a driver for the HPT 374 under Vista Thanks There is no inbox support for Highpoint controllers. The drivers for this controller would be available from http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ or from the website of your motherboard manufacturer (if it’s an onboard con ...Show All

• SQL Server How to implement digital signing on ssis packages?

  hi everyone, I'm just a whole newbie for that. I imagine that at first is needed a certificate commited for a company. Any link or whatever will be very appreciated. cheers, Hi, I've read the MSDN articles (referenced above), but still have a problem with digital signing - whenever I open the SSIS/Digital Signing menu item, and click the 'Sign...' button I'm presented with a 'Select Certificate' dialog box that has no entries in i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Extending ComboBox

  Hi all, I have inherited the task of maintaining C# code that was developed on NT. I am currently trying to build and run it on XP. It is building fine but isn't running. The problem is down to a combobox. The developer has extended the standard ComboBox to add some functionality but it appears that this extension has broken the ability to assign a datasource to it.   When I try to assign an ArrayList to it the value of DataSource is = ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking with extension dll

  hi, I am working with a old project using VS 6.0. The exe uses an extension dll. I dont know how the exe is linking with the extension dll. I checked for the following 1. If the client exe has AfxLoadLibrary - for explicit linking. 2. If the import library is included in the client project settings linker option. 3. any # pragma statements which do the forceful linking. None of the 3 methods is used. Is there any other method t ...Show All

• Windows Forms data storing in c# windows app

  I've always been curious about how this is done in windows application. Let's say I need to develope a c# windows app that let me manage my CD collections, I don't want to use MSAccess as database backend because user can open it directly ...Show All

• Windows Forms multi-column combobox in datagridview

  Dear all, In order to flexible to use combobox DataGridView, i perform customize DataGridViewComboBoxColumn to show multi-combobox column. i got it when i customize multi-column in combobox control, however i fail when i apply in DataGridViewComboBoxColumn. Please tell me your ideas, if possible give me demo code. Thanks for your collaboration. Hi khiemvo, Did you manage to create your own multi-col ...Show All

• Smart Device Development GenerateMember always true

  When I try to change the GenerateMember property of any control in a form of my C# Smart Device Application project to false, the member is removed from the Form1.Designer.cs file, but if I reopen the from after and check the property GenerateMember, it's set to true again. More than that, if I try to change the GenerateMember of property of another control in the same form, the member of the other control reappear. This problem make the Ge ...Show All

• Visual Basic Call a New form from within an Existing form

  Being new to the MVS2005 and visual basic it's self, I cant seem to find anything about calling a form so I can ask questions and then read data from it back to the main form. Any links to places where i can find this type of help would be nice or just a simple explancation below would help out alot. Thank you. If there's a FAQ for this forum, it would certainly cover this, as it gets asked most days. ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with detecting a barcode scanner event

  Hi, I am a .NET programming newbie. It is my first time posting here so i apologize in advance if i got the wrong forum. If it is the wrong forum, maybe you could point me in the right direction :) I am developing a desktop Windows inventory application using the .NET framework. The user will be scanning barcodes into a TextBox on a Windows form. The barcode scanners that are used in the company are not programmed to automatically send ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 sucks!!

  I have been using vS2003 for a couple years now. I upgraded to 2005 thinking I'd be getting a better environment with more up to date libraries and tools. What I ended up with is an environment that takes 3 or 4 minutes to open for me to start working. Another 4 or 5 minutes to open my tiny PDA application with 4 forms in it. Errors that make no sense about such and such not existing as a function of a class, yet the editor itself finds every ...Show All

• Visual Basic Focus not setting on text box

  I have a sub that goes off when a tab selection is changed.  The only part of it that doesn't seem to work right is the part that sets the focus on the text box. It seem to be a trivial thing to do but I can't seem to get it to work.  I have other focus objects which work in other places but this one doesn't seem to want to work.  I know the Text boxes are correct and do not get any errors.  I have walked though the code in ...Show All