d0mufasa's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms adding a control to a derived control

  hello everybody i want a datetimepicker that has one field for handling a date and one for handling the time. so i created a datetimepicker derived from the original datetimepicker.  now ic want another datetimepicker to be drawn right besides the other  ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) dragging control will immediately crash visual studio

  Problem repro: create a new windows application fx project, create button on the grid, drag it to another location. After about 0.5 seconds visual studio throws an error and asks me if I want to debug. If i choose yes, I can get to this call stack: > ntdll.dll!7c901230() [Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for ntdll.dll] milcore.dll!53216a95() milcore.dll!5316ba53() milcore.dll!530d9318() milcore.dl ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ Application Deployment

  Hi, Is it possible to create an application with the "Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition" that can be deployed on another PC running the Windows operating system without the .NET Framework 2.0 already installed on that PC Thank you, Robert Yes, that is possbile as long as your application is completely native (no managed code at all).  That is to say, you are not compiling with the /CLR compiler ...Show All

• Windows Forms Textbox updated by listbox selection

  Perhaps a silly question, but I have a datagrid, textbox, and listbox on a form.   All of which are bound to a table in a database.  I would like the texbox to represent a field in the table.  This field will be selected&nbs ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Serial Port Q .NET CF 2.0

  Hi. I realised there was a serial port component in .NET 2.0, which is cool I haven't touched it nor played with it but will do. But currently have a question. Serial Ports are Comm Ports correct Would I be able to use the IR comm port/serial port to send data using this component (without connecting to a device for example) Nope however Andrew (MSFT) has some great insights into it and has helped me: http://forums.micro ...Show All

• Visual C# getter and setter, get{} I need help understanding

  Could someone help me out. I am trying to understand something. Look at the get methods in this class. (I think it is called a getter). This is confusing me, because I am working with data binding and in the example code, they never seem to explicitly call the get method to return the examNumber and examName. Instead these methods seem to be called implicitly somehow. Anyway, can someone help me to understand this more. Thank's in advance, Will ...Show All

• SQL Server Install RS with SSL handled in firewall

  Hi, We are trying to install RS in an unusual environment.  The Web server's SSL and public IP address are installed in the firewall.  The communications between Web server and other servers such as database server are not encrypted; all the servers have no public IP addresses. My question is if RS can be installed and if it will work properly.  Any other advice Thanks Yes - we call this SSL Off ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting (PerformanceCounterCategory class)

  hello: i want to get the Performace counter categories of the remote PC. i am using the PerformaceCounterCategory.GetCategories(string machineName) method for retrieving the desired info. But every time i get an error of "Access Denied". I don;t know why it is so I have tried remoting for this problem but this time i got an error that "PerformanceCounterCategory is not marked as serializeable". Is there any solution for the problem (either by u ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Using Caching Application Block

  HI Every one i want to use caching application block in my application. What expiration policy should i implement in my application to accomplish following requirements  i want to place data table in cache and that item should expire when the underlaying db table which is corresponding to this datatable is updated. keeping in mind application is distributed as well and i dont want to a round trip to db server on every f ...Show All

• Visual Basic stop watch using vb.net 2005

  how can i create a stop watch using vb.net 2005 i am performing a data extraction job using windows forms and want to display time elapsed on the form. how can i do it Thanks I tried your code and it worked fine. Of course I don't know how you declare stopWatch, tmrMain and what CreateReport does; so I just created standard components and commented out CreateReport. It is strange that you did not hit a break point in tmrMain_Tick. Did y ...Show All

• Visual Basic AnalogTVTuningSpace and MSVidCtl

  I´m trying to develop a decent tv tuner/capture application (since there are no such apps, nowhere, I say) in Visual Basic 6.0. I´m using the MSVidCtl component together with the AnalogTVTuningSpace and IChannelTuneRequest object to achieve this, as desc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clickonce deployed database overwrites existing data when upgrading

  Hi, Im using Visual Basic 2005 beta with a database 'books.mdb'. When I publish using clickonce, then run the setup file, it install/upgrades over the previous version I have installed. However, the empty books.mdb deployed with setup overwrites the existing books.mdb and all the book data I have entered using my program disappears. Is there a setting to control what happens to deployed files/ database files in the upgrade situation, as opp ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I am going into development of games(help needed)

  Hi there all, I am a programmer for Windows 32bit and now due to a new project issued by a friend of mine, i had to go into Game Development. The following are a few questions that i am going to ask so that i understand more about Developing games. 1) What programming language am i going to use 2) What IDE environment will I be using 3) How will the graphics be supported Tips and tricks welcome too. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I reach the Tag of a checkedListBox-Item??

  Hi! I created a CheckedListBox. Every contained item got an unique Tag: ListViewItem baItem = new ListViewItem(bauabschnitt.BA_Bezeichnung); baItem.Tag = bauabschnitt.BA_ID; listBA.Items.Add(baItem.Text); Now I want to loop through the selectedItems and retrieve the Tag of each item. But I only can do something like this: foreach (int indexBA in listBA.CheckedIndices) { string baBez = (string)listboxBAS.Items[indexBA]; ... } Isn' ...Show All

• Windows Forms How To Get Grid Current Cell Text

  How can I get the DataGridView cell contents in the Current Row Column 1 I tried this but it doesnt work TextBox1.Text = CType(ProductsDataGridView.CurrentCell.RowIndex, String) & CType(ProductsDataGridView.Columns(1), String) Wouldn't ... ProductsDataGridView.Rows[ProductsDataGridView.Curre ...Show All