Patrickk's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Listviewitem height

  I'm using a ListView in list mode, and I'm trying to customize the appearance of the listviewitems. I need the listview items to be a little taller and the text larger... I've tried using a DrawItem event to make the text larger, and this results in overlapping text. (I haven't been able to figure out how to change the item bounds to reflect the height change.) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Exception while running macro

  Hi All, I am trying to run a macro using the following code. Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel Dim ExcelObj = New Excel.Application() Dim WorkBook As Excel.Workbook Dim WorkSheets As Excel.Sheets Dim WorkSheet As Excel.Worksheet WorkBook = DirectCast (ExcelObj.Workbooks.Open( "C:\Honey.xls" ), Excel.Workbook) WorkSheets = WorkBook.Sheets WorkSheet = DirectCast (WorkSheets.Item ...Show All

• Windows Forms Thanks!!!!! But you are wrong...

  Hi! Since TaskVision doesn't follow any of the Microsoft Patterns (as a matter of fact it doesn't follow any pattern at all, it doesn't even follow the  ADO.NET  API or WindowsForms.NET API) and so many people is downloading it, using it, and&n ...Show All

• .NET Development ConfigurationManager, WebConfigurationManager and class libraries

  Hi, I know about the new ConfigurationManager classes, and when to use either one. My question is, if you are writing a class library that can be used in a Web or Windows application, how will the class library know when Manager to use Does anyone know what the 'official' solution from MS is Thanks Andy I agree... from the looks of it though the WebConfigruationManager offers a more granular approach to deali ...Show All

• Windows Forms Character equivalent of elements in an Enumeration

  I have an enumeration as follows  Public Enum Delimiters    Tab    Semicolon    Comma    Space  End Enum  How can I return character equivalent of the elements in the enumeration   Should I write a Function which checks each element a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Another 3200 Error during setup

  Hi Almost out of patience (and time) now. Thought I had it made since I managed to get the Report server up and running (finally sic!). But then this popped up (again) almost at the end of the FS installation. Product: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation App-Data Tier Beta 2 (English) -- Error 32000.The Commandline '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Server\BISIISDIR\bisdwserver\bin\SetupWarehouse.exe" -n -s "<Ser ...Show All

• Visual C# get the next value of identity

  Hi how can i now in sql.. what will it be the next value of identity try: SELECT MAX(ID_COLUMN) FROM TABLE_NAME This gives the current max, so add 1 for the next value. ...Show All

• Visual C# using the Delete method

  OS: Win XP Pro Languages: ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server 2000 Program: ASP.NET WebMatrix Hi again, I've been working on this for a while now and I don't understand why I can't seem to delete records. Can anyone please help Thanks in advanced This is my event method when the Delete button is clicked: public void dbSongDetails_DeleteCommand(object source, System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridCommandEventArgs e) { ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. hlsl pixel shader branching

  Maybe this is a little off topic: I'm really interested in why the branching performance of my geforce 7800 gtx is so poor. I'm using hlsl shaders and I get huge performance boosts when I remove branching that should actually save a lot of work for the GPU. But the opposit is the case. Does anybody know if this is different with ati GPUs Nico GPUs process pixel in blocks called batches or threads. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Uploading Process Template

  I have created a new process template from the existing Agile development one on our test foundation server. I would now like to take this template and load into another team foundation server we are setting up that will be used for production. When I try to load the above template it fails with this error message in the log - ---begin Exception entry--- Time: 2006-06-06 10:17:13Z Module: Template Importer Exception Type: System.Net.WebEx ...Show All

• Visual Basic problem with the application

  Hey I have recently had a problem with VB.net. I can design form, view and write code, the program works fine until compiling. An Error Message Comes up that says, "Debugging cannot be completed: Machine Debug Manager Service has been disabled" It was really close to that anway. This has never been a problem until just now. It has been able to successfully compile and run when I first installed VB. So I don't know what to do to fix this and need ...Show All

• SQL Server CLR Performance

  We had a CLR function that was running in seconds under the April CTP - now it takes over a minute in the new Sep CTP.  We've determined that the bottleneck is in the following line: Dim SqlConn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection( "context connection=true" ) Is there a new recommended way to open a connection Yes, you're sample is pretty much what I did to test the UD stored procedure.  I j ...Show All

• Visual Basic Call java class from visual basic

  Hi, how can i call a java method from a visual basic application Any idea is wellcome 'cause i really don't know where to begin searching for this... Thanks. Hi, If its J# .net that you are using then you could simply create a class that exposes this method and compile it as a dll and just reference it in your VB.net app...     cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• SQL Server Deploying a Model

  I have a report model that I'm trying to deploy to a report server. When I deploy it I get an error that says Maximum request length exceeded. How do I fix this error and get the model deployed Take a look at this article. You are most likely hitting the asp.net limit as well. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479405.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Basic I get an syntax error when I run this to copy a folder.

  Sub FileCopyExample() Dim oFSO As Object Dim sSourcePath As String Dim sTargetPath As String     Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")     oFSO.CopyFolder ""C:\PNTTEMPL\CustomDoc\*",""C:\PNTTEMPL\CustomDoc\TEST\", True     Set oFSO = Nothing End Sub   I've tried taking out the double quotes and that doesn't work either.. any ideas ...Show All