bilbo08831's Q&A profile

• .NET Development What is better for local 3-level .NET system -Remoting or Web Services ?

  In local network is need to create 3-level pure .NET system, and for connecting levels we need some technology: Remoting or Web Services, We have different voters in our organization: so I need advices of "visible advantages" criteria is following: - easy to develop - easy to change - easy to connect to WinForms GUI - OOP model keep (transfer Objects and connect) - easy to deploy - speed ... - any else practical comparisons. I ...Show All

• Visual J# Need help: try/catch using combobox

  I'm attempting exception handling for a combobox. I wish an exception to be raised if the user does not select an item from the combobox, but I'm not sure of the correct code. Here is what I have now: try { if (cboDwellingType.get_SelectedItem().ToString == null); { MessageBox.Show("Please select the Dwelling Type from the dropdown menu."); cboDwellingType.Focus(); throw new Exception ("Error updating Local databas ...Show All

• Visual C++ problem in explicit linking of DLL

  I have made a sample Win32 DLL(not MFC) without using .DEF file(I do not have to include a header file thus).To test that i have made a sample application.It loads the DLL using explicit linking(using LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress()).To make it work I copied the dll to the folder of the exe.Now, the dll is being loaded(the handle returnd by LoadLibrary() is not null).But the GetProcAddress() is returning a null pointer.I have run the dumpbin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Image size in milimeters

  Hi, How can I get image (bitmap) size in milimeters Thank's Alexei Hi, I didn't mention that I want to make millimetres to pixels, sorry. How is that working I must have a small mistake. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Chat app connection problem

  Hello Im' making a chat app(based on some source code I found for one), but I have a problem. I can only connect to it through a lan ip, not over the internet. This is the server code: (2 files) --------------------------------------------------------- Imports System.Net.Sockets Module Module1 Const portNo As Integer = 500 Dim localAdd As System.Net.IPAddress = _ System.Net.IPAddress.Parse( "127.0.0.1&qu ...Show All

• .NET Development Can Table Adapter be Created in C# Express Edition?

  Hi! Is is possible to create table adapter in C# Express Edition for SQL Server, if so kindly tell me how. regards. Thanx PJ but I was actually looking for way by which I can create Dataset and then table adapters for SQL Server from C# Express Edition which later I discovered. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Intellisense and templates

  Hi, I've declared a MFC control template like this: template < class BASE_TYPE = CWnd> class CTemplateCtrl : public BASE_TYPE { ... DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP() }; For the message map definition, MFC provides the BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP_TEMPLATE macro: BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP_TEMPLATE(CTemplateCtrl, BASE_TYPE, CWnd) ... END_MESSAGE_MAP() Because it is a template, this definition has to go into the header file. Unfor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to use CDO object with C#

  How to use CDO with C# to access calender data from the MS Exchange server. if possible provide example.. Hello all; Ok, here is the story... CDO 1.2.1 is not supported or advised to be used under any .NET thread. Same goes for anything MAPI. Watch-out for third-party APIs which do this under the covers - they are not supported. CDOEX should work fine - set a reference to generate an interop from Visual S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Viewer and Datagridview to change data shown in report BUG!

  I posted this on the crystal reports we site, I apologize for the double posting. ----------------------- I have a crystal report viewer on a form with a Datagridview. The idea is that when a user selects a row in the dgv then the contents of the report is changed. The changing is fine, the problem is that after changing a row the user must double click the row they want to change to in order to switch rows (The double clicking is neccesary ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Search Work Items in VSTS

  Is it just me, or does the lack of a Search feature in Team Explorer make it extremely cumbersome to use We have been using VSTS since Beta 2 to manage and track our projects.  Of course, the number of Work Items has been steadily increasing over time, and we now have over 1500 Work Items (Task, Bugs, Risks, QoS Reqs, etc...).  With so many Work Items, finding a specific Bug/Task/whatever is a tedious process.  Since there ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) GridSplitter seperating Rows

  Is there a way to have a splitter for rows Here's the xaml I am trying to use: < Grid VerticalAlignment = " Stretch " HorizontalAlignment = " Stretch " > < Grid.RowDefinitions > < RowDefinition Height = " * " MinHeight = " 0 " /> < RowDefinition Height = " * " MinHeight = " 0 " /> </ Grid.RowDefinitions > < StackPanel Grid.Row = " ...Show All

• Visual Studio reusing reportviewer control with a second report causes "data source instance has not been supplied error"

  I have a web page in which a user can pick a report from a list. When the user clicks the "run report" button, I set the LocalReport property using the LoadReportDefinition() method, and the report runs correctly. If the user then selects a different report, the report appears to load fine (stepping through the code), but the error "A data source instance has not been supplied for the data source "..." is displayed. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploying VB.NET with reference to Excel 9.0 Lib

  I have a window form application built with VB.NET (VS 2003). In the application, I have used reference to Excel 9.0 Library (I did not use Excel PIA). In addition, I have used some other traditional window libraries such as advapi.dll and winspool.drv. I need to distribute this application to a few individual workstations (WIN XP). Can anyone give me some help regarding how to deploy it (or how to build a setup) Thank you very much in advanc ...Show All

• Windows Forms the first C# program and the error

  I just installed VS.NET and wrote the simple C# hello world program. I got following error. 'DefaultDomain': Loaded 'c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\mscorlib.dll', No symbols loaded. 'ConsoleApplication1': Loaded 'C:\Documents and Settings\Jihwan Kim\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\ConsoleApplication1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Re-run of recorded web test fails

  I have recorded a webtest . The webtest involves uploading an image. After recording when I try to rerun the test, it fails giving an error "RequestFailed: Could not find file...". The path of the image file it mentions in the error is not the one I have entered through UI. Instead it is the path from where my web test is run i.e \Path of the last web test run\out\ImageFileName" In the generated code it shows a call to ...Show All