Ron Kaps's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms powerpoint automation

  Does any one have a good tutorial on automating powerpoints. I would appreciate any samples or links that can help me in this ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListBox MultiSelect

  Hello, I have a listbox, from where I have say 3 items selected, how can I find which are selected.... Basically you have to cheat everything This is what I did and it works.... ListBox box = new ListBox (); box.DataSource = dsLine; box.DataValueField = "LINE_CODE" ; box.DataBind(); for ( int i = 0; i < box.Items.Count; ++i) { string item = box.Items .Value; ...Show All

• .NET Development Hauppauge USB / WIA?

  Wasn't sure where to post this question, but here goes.. Does anyone know if video capture cards like the Hauppauge show up as a device that the WIA library can communicate with I have a little project that is going to require grabbing some still images from a video camera. I have already create a prototype that works with a Logitech webcam and the WIA 2.0 library. The cam needs to be attached to a tablet PC, so I was going to try out t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PocketOutlook

  PocketOutlook in windows mobile version SDK 5.0 SDK documents the following classes Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.EmailAccount Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.EmailAccountCollection for use in managed code. Can a native application written in C++ make use of these new features and if not how can a native C++ application enumerate the existing email accounts setup on a device. What you nee ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Embedding Explorer window inside an application

  The Shell in Vista build 5270 is great: it lets the user sort and search/filter by metadata like keywords, rating, creation date, and an application can add custom metadata for new file types. It's so perfect for my app, I want to use the existing Explorer UI and not have to develop my own! Is there a way to use a Vista Explorer window as a control or otherwise use it as a child window inside my application Is it possible to change the look o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Question on Mappings

  What exactly is the purpose of the Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.TaskHierarchy server field for There is no equivalent mapping in Project so i was hoping someone could explain it to me. Thanks! Jeff Support for round tripping hierarchies between MS Project and TFS was added in Rosario November CTP. Refer to the following blog posts for more details on this CTP. http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/200 ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to let a dll be found

  Hello, I have a problem and can not find any answer somewhere. I have a project which uses some *.h - files via "#include <xy.h>" But when I try to let it compile, I get a message "the dll "nameofdll" can not be found. How can I tell the programme where the dll is   (set the path) Thank you. A DLL just doesnt come alone, you might have a library to be used with. Probably the library linked with, is ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS 2005 Toolbox Refreshing

  Hi, I have noticed that the toolbox in VS 2005 contains a tab for every projects in my solution that contains a component derived class. During builds of the solutions each of these tabs are being refreshed / rebuild and it can take a little time. Is there anyway of stopping this refresh, or is it a matter of removing the tab from the toolbox Maybe this is a bug that has been fixed post Beta 2 Thanks for your help Graham ...Show All

• Visual Basic Including data files in "Click Once" deployment

  Hi all, I have an application that uses one of 9 different data files dependending on the application requirements at any given time. How do I include these files in the deployment file in the correct directory so the program can find them. Thanks Dick It would be wasteful of time to search the 9 exe file. Is there any settings saved in the registry that you can refer to ...Show All

• Windows Forms General information about Datagrid

  Hi I'm a web developer now switching to vb.net windows programming. I know something about the asp.net datagrid, but not very much about the windows datagrid. I'm learning the datagrid by example, this works, but some things keep looking strange to me. Can&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Remove password policy

  Hello, I want to remove the password policy from windows xp but i cant.... Can somebody help me Greetzz, Sjaakmans If you are looking for a way to program a solution you will have problems as the objects for the policy are held deep inside the registry for a local policy and in the case of a domain they are held inside the active directory. To edit them or remove them you will have to learn how to ...Show All

• SQL Server Error when deploying Report Model

  I installed SQL Server 2005 on my laptop, this also contains my SQL Server 2000, so I couldnt use localhost and I used CreweAlex/SQLSERVER2005 as the hostname. What do I need to fill in the field: TargetServerURL Because when I type http:\\localhost\ReportServer it doesn't work (as mentioned in the tutorial which I am following), also CreweAlex/SQLSERVER2005/ReportServer doesnt work. I tried all kinds of combinations, but nothing wor ...Show All

• SQL Server Analysis Services

  How do you grant just read access to the cube data to an end user Thanks,  Edwina Derrick Are you talking about a writeback cube In that case just disable it in the role the user belongs to. ...Show All

• Visual C++ __stat64, redefinition; different type when including sys\stat.h after wchar.h

  #include <windows.h> #include <wchar.h> __stat64 a; #include <sys\stat.h> __stat64 b; // <-- compiler error Example compiler output: d:\temp\t3test1\t3test1\stdafx.h(20) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'b' d:\temp\t3test1\t3test1\stdafx.h(20) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int d:\temp\t3test1\t3test1\stdafx.h(20) : error C237 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Font Problem

  Hi, I tried to set a post script font to a text field. But the font name itself not coming in the fonts list. (tried for local language atm fonts pfb ) Please clarify how to set this. Hi, Visual Basic 2005 only supports TrueType and OpenType fonts - PostScript fonts aren't supported. Steve Hoag Visual Basic Express ...Show All