Ian Heyns's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Debugging in VB.NET

  My application is in VB.NET (upgraded from vb6.0 to VS 2003) and interacts with the data access layer to access database. I have put breakpoints in the application for debugging. One of the breakpoints is on 'Public Sub Main()' of the application which is the entry point for the application. When the application reaches this breakpoint, it displays an error message found in a method 'GetValue' in data access layer though t ...Show All

• .NET Development new Part2 "map to the same server" error message

  Hi again, Trying to start up Visual.NET for first ASP web application coding (am still a learner....) This is the error message I am being present when I select 'New Project' then ASP Application: Unable to create Web project ‘WebApplication1’. The file path ‘c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebApplication1’ does not correspond to the URL ‘http://localhost/WebApplication1’. The two need to map to the same server location. HTTP E ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help on layout please

  Hi all. I am need of some help with layout of the detail in my report please. I have a report that displays only 4 columns in the body. "Date", "Ticket", "Grade" and "Tonnes". The total width of these columns takes just under half the full width of the report. What I want to try and do, is... Say there are 40 records... Then I would like the first 20 to display on the left half of the page, and the other 20 on the right half. So essentially, my ...Show All

• Windows Forms Research on Terrarium...Please Help me ASAP!

  Hello to all the developers here! My name is Logas ... I am a student in Malaysia doing my Final Year Project for my Degree.. Well basically my research is on Terrarium....indepth research. but i am stuck .... so here i am looking for help! basically i&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Find the first empty MaskedTextBox...

  I've searched through the forum, and I haven't been able to locate any code that is similar that I could modify, or find a thread close to what I'm trying to do, so any suggestions would be appreciated. (I'll get a book when I can get some time off) I have a form with ten empty "MaskedTextBoxes". I would like to go through them starting from "MaskedTextBox1" through to MaskedTextBox10" in that order, find the first ...Show All

• SQL Server how to append windows login name to table name

  hi, I want to append the windows login name to the table that i created  in the stored procedure, Is there any command , can any one help. Advance thanks I don't know the whole story but it sounds like you need to keep similar data unique to a specific user. I've done this by creating one table that has a UserID field.  Then you can easily manage 1 table by passing the UserID into the SP.  This works well for inserts as ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ windows Application Executable file Crash

  I have a problem, i created a windows application in visual C++ with which i made an executable file and when i open the executable it crashes. Does anyone know how to solve this problem Lilly Brian Kramer wrote: As Set Project Properties->C/C++->General->Debug Information Format->Program Database for Edit and Continue (/Zi) Just a small correction: Use /Zi as Brian wrote, but the ...Show All

• Visual Basic HScrollBar and AutoRedraw

  HScrollBar From the toolbox, the HScrollBar does not seem to be working (as it did in VB6) It does not fire on "Gotfocus", no matter where you click There is no "Mouseup" event for ending the scroll. Is this tool being phased out, or are there known bugs Related to this problem is Auto-redraw. I use the Scrollbar to help make a selection. As the user pulls the cursor, I have a floating tex ...Show All

• SQL Server Stored Proc Output Parameter to a Variable

  I'm trying to call a stored procedure in an Execute SQL task which has several parameters. Four of the parameters are input from package variables. A fifth parameter is an output parameter and its result needs to be saved to a package variable. Here is the entirety of the SQL in the SQLStatement property: EXEC log_ItemAdd @Destination = 'isMedicalClaim', @ImportJobId = , @Started = NULL, @Status = 1, @FileType = , @FileName = , @FilePath = , ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems to see xoml graphically...

  I installed Visual Studio 2005 RC and on top of it the Workflow SDK from the PDC disc 4. After this I can create a workflow project. However when double-clicking on a xoml file I see the xml rather than the graphical representation. Any help is appreciated. Hi MetroP - Please note that WWF Beta1 is not compatible with Visual Studio RC build you found on the PDC "The Goods" discs. Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Drillthrough Functionality via Excel Add-in

  Hi, I'm using the Analysis Services Excel Add-In to query a Cube built with partitions. When using the drilldown functionality for my current\default partition the function seems to work fine. However, when I try to drilldown on data in the other partitions, the following error message appears: "Unable to Drillthrough on this Cell" Would someone please be able to shed some light on this Many Thanks Jonathan Derbyshire     ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to resize tabpage title?

  Is there a way to resize the tabpage title I couldn't find this option in the IDE. Thank you, I found the option when tabcontrol is selected. however i can only change the height a not the width. any suggestion ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I develop a design time only control?

  Hi, How do I develop a design time only control  I mean a control like a timer or the FileOpenDialog. Visual Studio places them below the form and you can edit properties as a "normal" control. But on runtime thos control are not visible. Thx&n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How can ISV report appcompat issue with Vista 5270?

  Hi, I work for an ISV developing solely for Microsoft Windows. Our main application (which hosts the WebBrowser control) works fine with IE7 Beta 1 on XP, but crashes on Vista build 5270 (although it worked fine on earlier builds). We posted the problem on the MSDN managed newsgroups and were referred here. I then asked the MSDN online concierge, who said that "There isn't any technical assistance for the Beta products." Thi ...Show All

• .NET Development No connection cold be made.. Final resolution needed.

  Now after all the technical issues are resolved, the socket is created, the parameters are set I am facing a fundamantal issue. I kind of suspected from the outset that this could be the case and now I actually hit the wall. I have a subscription to a stock information service which gives me an up to minute update of the market. I invoke this application which is a set of GUIs and try to tap into the actual PORT to divert the datagram tream ...Show All