StevenFowler's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms IDesignerHost Blocks Mouse Events

  Dear all, I'm in the middle of implementing a development toolkit. In order to enable users to design interfaces (forms), a form is shown in design-mode by using an IDesignerHost object. It is very powerful and reliable as I can make use of oth ...Show All

• Windows Forms Divide my page into 6 rectangles

  Can anyone help me to divide my page for printing into 6 compartments. So far I have managed to divide it into 2 (top and bottom) I need to print up to 6 images on 1 page in  3 rows of 2 X X X X X X Dim rect As RectangleF rect = ev.Graphics.VisibleClipBounds() rect.Height = rect.Height / 2 Dim bottomRect As New RectangleF(rect.Left, rect.Bottom, rect.Width, rect.Height) Dim font As Font = New Font( ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error creating cab file with VS.NET 2003 on Win XP Home

  Hi.    I have installed VS.NET 2003 on a Win XP Home computer... Every time I try to create a .CAB file for the installer of a PPC application (using the buildcab.bat batch that came with VS) cabwiz dies with this error: Error: CAB file "C:\<path to my app>\BuildCabs\Cabs\<app>.ARMV4.CAB" could not be created.     I've managed to get compile the application on a different PC, which has XP Pro.    ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to get rid of Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer window?

  Hi, I try to run my WinFX Windows application using VS 2005, the xaml always run inside the Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer runtime window after I install the  Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer (Window that has forward and backward arrows on the top left hand side). Is there any method to get rid of that window (I am using Grid as document root) You need to contain ...Show All

• Visual Studio Text template load a file

  Hi, I need to load a project file from text template and write all lines. The below code work fine, but I need to put complete "path" in property " FileSourceCode" I need to load from "current path". <# if (System.IO.File.Exists(att.FileSourceCode)) { System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(att.FileSourceCode); #> <![CDATA[ <# while (!sr.EndOfStream) { #> <#= sr.Read ...Show All

• Visual Basic try-end try in a property

  I get errors when I place try and/or end try either before or within the property declaration and/or the end property declaration. Is there any way of catching errors within a property or an overloaded property dennist685 Without seeing your code it's a bit hard to tell you what's going on. However, try blocks within properties is perfectly legal: Public Readonly Property MyProperty() As MyType G ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking: libcimtd.lib requested

  Hello, after conversion of a VS6 project to a VS2005 project, the linking broke down with a fatal error as some "libcimtd.lib" was not found. libcimtd.lib is no part of VC/lib (but libci, libcmtd are). After including libcimtd in the list of libraries which are ignored at linking, everything worked. Cheers  Michael Mixing C and C++ I/O should not be a problem. It is mixing old VC6 iostream headers and new s ...Show All

• SQL Server Issue with URL Encoding report's hyperlink value.

  Hello, I've created a hyperlink in a report.  The hyperlink action is 'Jump to URL'   The URL is http://ServerName/SomePage.aspx AccountCode=####&InvoiceLevel=1 The hyperlink works just fine in the designer, it's value becomes http://ServerName/SomePage.aspx AccountCode=%23%%23%%23%%23&InvoiceLevel=1 , however when I run from the web the report's URL is not properly URL encoded.  It's value is http://Server ...Show All

• SQL Server LDAP/ADSI data conversion error

  (i've also posted it in the "SQL Server data Access" forum ) Hi everybody I'm having a trouble with very simple select statement from "openquery" where an actual source is Active Directory. here is my query: SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(ADSI,'SELECT cn,mail FROM ''LDAP://DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM'' WHERE samAccountName=''k*'' ')derived where ADSI is linked server with provider type = "ADSDSOObject". Everything work just fine  ...Show All

• Visual Studio good Help book?

  I read the Official Microsoft book on Help Authoring, which is unfortunately hopelessly out of date to be of any practical use in the current world of Help 2 and various Visual Studio.NET IDE editions. Is there a recommended text for beginners Unfortunately, there is very little on the market that would help you with MS Help 2.x authoring. The best sources for information on MS Help 2.x authoring are the docum ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build - Security

  Hi, we would like to implement multiple team-build types, but only certain users must be allowed to execute certain team-builds. I have not found a way to ristrict which users may execute a specific team-build. Will this be an RTM feature - or must we use alternatives for all restricted Team-Build functionalities The TeamBuild report shows who the build was was requested by. This is in the Requested By row in the Summary section. This name ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I need to count by ascii characters. Seems tricky!

  Hey guys, I'm doing an expirement and I need to basically "count" but using a set of ascii characters. I'm having a heck of time. And using VB.NET Express. For example, in Decimal, you count 1,2,3...8,9,10. As you know, once your first character reaches 9, a new character is added, 0, to the left, and then you start over counting the 1st character such as 10,11,12...18,19,20. Each time the rightmost character reaches 9, the next ...Show All

• Visual C++ Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error question

  I recieve this error when I launch Internet Explorer - version 6.0 OS Windows XP Home edition 2002 Service Pack 2.  Error is as follows: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program C:\Program Files\Internet explorer\iexplore.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for more information. I am not certain where to post this questi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disable the X

  Is there anyway that i can disable the X close button but i still want to have maximize and minimize. I just want X to be either gone or X to be grayed out so it can't be used. hi, I tried out this coding. but i am getting this error. 'User.CreateParams': no suitable method found to override Can u suggest some solution for this. Thanks.. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting up IIS for Web-Deployed

  In every article I've found on no-touch deployment, not one of them says exactly how the IIS virual directory should be set up in order to do this (file permissions/web permissions/properties, etc.)  Can someone provide this information or point me  ...Show All