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• Visual Studio Formula to view data

  Hi, I have a report, which gets data from Oracle Database to generate report. I have a parameter field, based on the parameter value, the report will view the records. I need to check the length of the Parameter value, if the value is, assume 4, it should compare that value with the records of a field, say field1. if the length of the parameter value is greater than 4, it should view records, comparing that value with another field, say field2. How could i do this Kindly help me in this. I am executing the report from VB 6 application and i send the parameter value from VB 6 environment. Thanks and Regards Deepak ...Show All

• .NET Development Database Diagramming in VS 2005

  I downloaded the Beta 2 and am working on developing a simple app, but wanted to work on the db in the IDE also.  I can't get the database diagram window to come up, in fact I have seen reference to it only in the help: Create a database connection in Server Explorer using a member of the db_owner role to log in. For steps see How to: Connect to a Database from Server Explorer . Expand the Database Diagrams node under the database connection. Select Yes when prompted if you want to set up database diagramming. The diagram node never comes up on the tree.  The database I'm connecting to is a SQL Server 2000 db, and I'm ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing an custom icon in the caption area of a form

  Is there any way to draw an icon, or image in the caption area of a form to the left of the 'X' close button Or perhaps add my own button there instead of an image It would also be cool if I could replace the 'X' close button with my own close button Snickel65 wrote: Is there any way to draw an icon, or image in the caption area of a form to the left of the 'X' close button Or perhaps add my own button there instead of an image It would also be cool if I could replace the 'X' close button with my own close button Override WndProc and handle WM_NCPAINT ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro VFP 9 ReportListener is not WYSIWYG ?

  Hello All, The problem I'm having is that I'm getting different outputs on preview screen and printed output. I'm using VFP ReportListener object with my report. I have a multi line text field inside a box. It looks good on the preview screen, but when I print it, the text goes over the box. The text on the screen is shorter than the printed output. I don't know if it's a VFP bug or I do something wrong. Thank you in advance. Vedat ARAL Hi Vedat I would guess that this is a font issue - since it looks OK on screen but not when printed. Are you using a TrueType font in this report - if not, try ...Show All

• Windows Forms Treeview Bug

  It is not possible to make a single node bold without the end of the node text being clipped.  The work around this problem, I tried setting all nodes to bold and then setting all but one to regular.  The problem now is that the selection box when selecting a non-bold node is too big! This is quite a major problem as it means . ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual C# versus Visual Studio Standard

  Hi there, Besides the extra languages in Studio, what is the difference between Visual C# Standard and Visual Studio Standard The difference in price is not so much, but if I only pay more for the extra languages, I stick to Visual C#. It is CHEAP! Cheers! Reginald Thank you very much. That wasn't too difficult! As soon as VS.NET 2005 is out, I'll be a Standard buyer (don't need a bigger version for now). What I don't get from your link, is that only VS Team Edition has Office Development Support. If you've checked ".NET programming support" while installing Office, that's all you need to do Office Develop ...Show All

• Windows Forms Partial Updates in Clickonce

  Hi all,      I have created a solution which contains a executable(windows forms project) and 2 dlls(library projects reference in windows forms project), I generated manifest files(application manifest and deployment manifest) using MageUI and deployed the applicaiton. The application was running fine.    I updated the exe(windows forms project), changed the assembly version number to 1.0.0.1, is it required to include the other 2 dlls (the projects which I have told in first paragraph) in the application manifest file.     I deployed the updated version excluding the dlls whi ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro editbox programmatic change

  I am looking for an easy way to determine if I've made interactive change in an editor box. The issue is that there are about 16 controls on a container, they are initialized from a table record thus their values at activate time generally are not trivial default. I have to save the changes with a SAVE button if I made any but I want this button's click method to quickly determine which control values have been changed. I do not want to do REPLACE for the fields with values that haven't been changed. In case of simple controls like a combobox I can store the initial value in Tag property and do the comparison programmatically. Sometimes t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30063: You are not authorized to access Microsoft-IIS/6.0.

  I receive the above error when doing a Get Latest (recursive) from the Source Control Explorer.  It occurs when I'm on a remote client (with a fairly high latency) to both a Single Server install in domain or workgroup mode.  If I acknowledge the error and continue to do Get Latest Recursive I do indeed get all files, but I may have to do it multiple times to complete, it seems the more files that're updated in source control, the more often I encounter the error.  Any ideas I get this on the same source file every time for all developers accessing TFS. Any ideas why this would happen ...Show All

• Visual C++ Singular preprocessor definition needed

  This is my first post, I hope to be clear enough (sorry for my eglish) and I hope to be lucky and find the answer to a very big problem. I have a VC++ project and I need to create, during the compilation, a define that has the same name of the file that I am currently compiling. For example, if when I am compiling a file called Main.c I need to create runtime a define #define main 1 I do this by specifying the in Preprocessor Definitions section $(InputName)=1 The problem is that the command above create a define #define Main 1 instead I need the name of the file in lower case . I thought in the beginning to create a custom task in M ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions STL.NET

  Is the STL.NET library included in the February 2005 Community Technical Preview Release   for Visual C++ 2005 Express. Paulos STL/CLR (the new name for the library) is not in the Feb CTP. It will hopefully be included in beta 2, due later this month. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Newbie question with DataSet

  Hello, I am trying to put data into a dataset using cf 2.0. Below is the code. There is valid data in the database that should be returned but I keep getting the null error. Any help would be appreciated. Error: on the catch exception of the try.....Value can not be null.Parameter name: dataSet Code: Private Sub GetCompanyNames() Dim conn As SqlCeConnection = New SqlCeConnection(strConn) Dim strSQLStatment As String = "SELECT id, name FROM companies" Dim dsCompanyNames As DataSet = Nothing Dim command As New SqlCeCommand(strSQLStatment, conn) Try Dim daCompanyNames ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System will they work on the same machine?

  was wondering if team system 2005 and visual studio 2003 will work on the same machine and os Should work, since the frameworks don't run over each other (you can even select for every virtual directory in IIS which version it should run under). ...Show All

• Visual C# Opening a file / stream.

  Hi folks, i've got a file in a System.IO.Stream object. kewl. i have a button on my windows form which, when the user clicks it, the file will open with the appropriate default program. I'm not sure how to 'kick in/execute the file'. examples: 1) If the filestream object is an mp3 (ie. extension is .mp3), the default program for .mp3's will kick in 2) if the extension is .txt, notepade or wordpad (whatever is setup as defaults) will kick in. 3) if the extension is .aaa then the 'Please select the program to run this file default dialog thingy' is asked.   cheers :) EDIT:Replaced FileStream -> Stream. Typo. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report footer limitations, questions.

  A couple for questions for you Rajeev It seems that we cant use data fields (e.g. from a dataset) in the report footer. In effect this means that the report footer is only ever hardcoded. Clearly this is very limiting. Is this limitation going to be removed at any point If we wanted different page footers on different pages, even of different sizes, is this possible. In Crystal you would create multiple page footers and suppress them depending on the page number. Is there equivalent functionality in reporting services Thanks Allen To add to what Robert said, if you want your reported items to appear in ...Show All