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• Visual Basic DataSet wizard and Connection String

  I used the Dataset wizard of VB NET 2005 to map an Access database. All works fine but with the database selected at design time. How can I modify the Connection string at runtime I need to plug different instances (in different files) of the same database at runtime. It is possible to change all TableAdapters at once if you are using the settings file to store your connection string. There is a Smart Client Da ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Compact Framework and Phone Events

  Hi everyone, very quick question. We're putting a proposal out to develop a Windows Mobile 5.0 application that needs to trap when the person hangs up the phone. When this event occurs we need to show a form, which just records details about the call. We also need to trap when the user receives an e-mail on the device and allow them to also enter details. It's a time-tracking / billing application. $ 50,000 Question: ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Component runs under debug but not compiled - XMLHttp

  I have a webpage that calls a VB component on a laptop that calls an asp page on a remote webserver (sending an xml document) which in turn calls another VB component to update a database on the remote server. I am sending and receiving data to and from the pages and component using xmlHttp - tried and tested formula When I run the VB component on the laptop everything runs fine, I can step through the code, I know the remote database has ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Design Time Attributes of a Custom Component

  Hi all, I'm trying to make a custom Compact Framework component outside of the RTM VS2005 IDE.  The build process at my company is outside of the IDE. My component is nearly fully functional:  I can add it to my Toolbox, it only shows up for CFv2 projects, and I can drop the component onto the Form). However, I can't get the Descriptions of the Properties to show up in the IDE Properties window. I have manually made a DesignTimeAttribu ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid

  hey guys im facing a weird problem, would appreciate sme help: I have created a datagrid that displays user info stored in a Database. The user can also edit his personal info on the datarid right away by clicking on Edit link (this is a button column in the datagrid that ive created, and of course all other columns that contain the info are bound columns that retrieve the data in SQL database. Now I have created this web page in ...Show All

• .NET Development Simulate return data data from WS call

  Hi there, Im consuming an Axis/Java web service, that returns an object that contains arrays of sub-objects. For example a persons details with an array of EmailAddresses. This all works fine, I manage to call it without any problems. What I want to do is stub out the call to the web service to give a client a prototype to use for their integration work (they wont have the java system in place yet!). I wanted to achieve this by giving them a sam ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How do I Edit Word Template in Visual Studio 2005 VSTO

  I created a word document outside of Visual Studio 2005 in word with headers, footers, bookmarks, and tables. I then started a new project and used this document as a starting point for the new project. I now want to change the table add bookmarks etc.. However, my word menus seem to be disabled. I can only edit the document with the word tool bars that are embedded in the content area of the visual studio content area. Is there some ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Latest on ASP.Net & Workflow

  Hi, What is the latest news on using Workflow Foundation to control ASP.Net page flow There is a page in the MSDN documentation that has not yet been completed which I believe will cover this subject here: http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/winwf_gettingstarted/html/dd090d25-dac6-4d39-afda-7fe5736e1075.asp A useful article I found on DevX describes a custom way of managing page flow using Workflow Founda ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket PC/Webservices: Unable to connect to the remote server

  I have developed a Pocket PC 2003 app in Visual Studio .NET and am getting an unusual problem i can't get to the bottom of. My VB.NET Pocket PC App tries to call a simple web method on my webservice from the device using the webserver's IP or Machine name and receives the error " Unable to connect to the remote server". Yet if i point the device's IE browser to the location of the webservice asmx file (i.e. http://192.168.1 ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Reading a .LBD file

  Is there a utility for reading the contents of an Access 2003 .lbd file Take a look at http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0055.htm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Any way to distinguish the test results of same test cases on same build against different platforms

  I have my test cases run at different platforms, but the build is the same build. I want to count/distinguish the test results of the same test cases according to the different platforms. Is there any good idea to separate the test results of same test cases for different platforms Currently I do not find any place in VSTS to support such testing, i.e., same test cases running against the same build on different platforms. Does anybody have a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Nox invasion

  Hi, I was just wondering what type of animal, and why the Nox 3.6 has totally invaded my ecosystem. Thanks  Well I am not sure about this, what I would really like to see is an advanced terrarium and a beginner terrarium. but& ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why will LINQ fail ?

  Microsoft tries to helping object developers to close the gap between the relational world and the object world.And they call this " object modelling approach " Dlinq. Using " custom business entities " in enterprise programming with Dlinq might seem the best thing after " sliced bread " but it isn't. For my part I have written my Mappers and used commercial OR/M tools. They mostly provide the same thing. __Read the table from the datab ...Show All

• Visual Basic Querying a windows registry subkey

  Hello, How do I know if the windows registry that I specified is existing in the registry. Example: ====== -->  If I want to know         if this key:  "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sample", is exist.      Please help me my fellow programmer Some of us here are your sister programmers... ;) Private Function IsFirs ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how change IMEI (and phone number?) in the emulator

  I could not find the way to change the IMEI (set to 14250010001) in the emulator ... anybody can help me please Paolo Sorry, but it isn't possible to change this number. Barry ...Show All