Will Chapman's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms GDI+: Redrawing Controls Question

  Greetings All, Just for fun I am trying to redraw the command button using GDI+.  I redrew the button using the paint event as shown in code below.  What I learned is that when you redraw the button it loses the hover effect (change of color) and the text doesnt display. My first question is how to show the text   Below (in code) I& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Start Debugging (F5) Crashes IDE Web App

  Greetings, I am creating a website with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. Every time I try running the application with (F5) start debugging it crashes the IDE and wants me to report the problem to Microsoft.  It works find if I start the application without debugging <ctrl>+<f5>. The web project is using location "File Type" using the ASP.NET Development Server on port 1147. The error I get is "Microsoft Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close. If you had files open that contained unsaved changes, these changes might be lost. Restart Microsoft Visual Studio Beta. Send an error report to Microsoft.... blah ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView

  I have DataGridView control with entire first column Check box options. So that I can check whatever columns I am interested by click. I am trying to put a check mark programmatically, whenever I call following code it always assign ‘false’ to the cells. How would I programmatically assigned checked state to the following cells. DataGridView fTable =new DataGridView(); fTable.Rows[1].Cells[0].Value = true ; fTable.Rows[2].Cells[0].Value = true ; fTable.Rows[3].Cells[0].Value = true ; I'd really appricaiate any help Thanks Ok, let's try this. After adding the column t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista need help

  Kind of getting frustrated how to build my first workflow. The design falls into sequential workflow type. My idea of workflow is to define Manufacture, QC and Release that  the Widget in our scope has to go through to be legitimate for next use. Finishing of Release would define that the object has passed all steps. To play with workflow designer I've set up Manufacture/QC/Release as code activities, was able to create an instance of workflow but each time new one was fired up tracking database (got that running too) recorded Manufacture/QC/Release and worflow terminated. I've read writeup on EventSinks and I ...Show All

• Visual Basic Calculation in Visual Basic 2005 express

  I need help please on this question and i could not understand where to begin.The question say, Input Calculate Circumfrunce Area of Circle. Value and surface area sphere. : Pi i = e Pi i square =theda 4/3 Pi i cube = V 4Pi i square = SA please, some give at least some sort of direction i'm just a starter in Visual basic. thanks guys. It seems to me that you don't need to do any integration if I am reading your post correctly. In that aspect you can define as variable for Pi (not sure if this is already defined in Visual Studio) and the rest should work on it's own. I would sugge ...Show All

• SQL Server Move database from SQLS2k5 to SQLS2k5Express

  Hello, 1.) Can I move a database complete with tables, diagrams, relationships, stored procedures, etc. from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2005 Express and preserve all the work I did 2.) Can I do the same from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 Express and preserve all the work I did Thank you, dbuchanan Hi, there should be no problem with either of these scenarios, the only thing to be careful of are the restrictions in SQL Server Express. Most restrictions are around size and performance, ie 4GB database size, 1 CPU, 1GB Buffer Cache, but there are also some others for instance, SQL Se ...Show All

• Visual C# Query Output in C# differs from output everywhere else

  I have a stored procedure that returns a calculated field.  The query looks kinda simliar to the following:   SELECT     ISNULL(udf.SomeID, t.SomeID - 1) - t.SomeID + 1 AS IsHappy     -- SomeID is an integer greater than 0     -- t.SomeID will always exist     -- udf.SomeID is either NULL or == to t.SomeID     -- IsHappy should == 0 if udf.SomeID == NULL and 1 otherwise   FROM     SomeUDF() AS udf,     SomeTable AS t This sp has been used for months by various applications without a hitch.  ...Show All

• Windows Forms ' problem in access db...

  Hi, I'm using an access database to store some data... however some of that data has this char: ' , and when I try to save the data, I get this error: "Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression: ...", I guess this is because access queries use ' to delimitate the queries... How can I solve this Thanks That character sho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Drawing Graphics

  I have a question regarding drawing graphics on a form. I have pasted my code below. I thought the code would draw a filled in rectangle somewhere on the form after Button1 is ressed. But nothing shows. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Private Sub Button1_Click() Dim gr As Graphics gr = Me.CreateGraphics gr.FillRectangle(Brushes.Blue, 500, 500, 500, 500) End Sub Thanks Ian. To elaborate some more on the original question. Some of the older 'help' from Microsoft, (still out there,) does use Me.CreateGraphics in the examples. VB EE has simplified things where this is no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting object from string

  I dont know quite how to word this, but basicly for example i have a string named string that contains label1 , i want to somehow be able to do something like: { string }.Text = "hi"; and that will then act as: label1.Text = "hi"; and change label1s text to hi. Understand is this possible Hi there, Is "label1" a label control on a Windows Form (I am led to believe that it is, judging by the name). If so, you can access/change the label's text if you have the name of the label by doing the following: string labelName = "label1" ; MessageBox .Show( this .Contr ...Show All

• Visual C# How to add a printer

  I need to add a printer to a customer computer. I have the printer address but can't find any component to do this. Any way to do this programmatically Try this: [DllImport("winspool.drv", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)] static extern IntPtr AddPrinter( string pName, uint Level, [In] ref PRINTER_INFO_2 pPrinter); [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet=CharSet.Auto)] struct PRINTER_INFO_2 {   public string pServerName,                 pPrinterName,              ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Shockwave Flash Object

  Hello again. I'm having troubles loading flash (swf) movies in FoxPro. I'm calling the loadMovie method of the Shockwave Flash Object, but It does not start. (the percentLoaded method returns 0). Anyone having ideas Thanks I posted an article on this topic back in 2001 at VFUG. Here's the link http://www.vfug.org/Newsletters/Newsletters2.Afp !_1LU12LYKIDate=04/01/2001#FlashHelp If that's not helpful, try just changing the movie property of the Flash control. That should work. Good luck. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System AD -> SD: Override settings

  Today I am confronted with the following questions.. 1. If application diagram component's overridable settings are changed, system diagram also gets updated. In SD, under what circumstances will I need to override settings (just to make my deployment validation successful ) 2. Since code generation can be done from only AD, why am I able to override the default settings in SD (These overrided values will not be implemented in code) 3. Say, I am a consultant who have a lot of generic applications represented in AD. I will create many systems based on this AD. Does it make more sense if I generate code from SD with all my custom ...Show All

• Visual Basic Do Express editions of VS2005 have support for Addins

  I have an addin that prints the source code of VS.NET projects. I am getting queries from users asking me if the Addin would work with their Express editions of VS2005. I would really appreciate if someone could tell me if the Addins can be integrated with the Express editions. It will save me a lot of time and effort downloading and installing each version. Thank you. Regards, Joginder Nahil www.starprint2000.com Hi Joginder, Add-Ins are not supported in Express.  Add-In support starts with the Standard SKU. Let me know if you have any questions. Joe The VB Team ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql Server 2005 setup error message

  Hi I am trying to learn VB 2005 and I am reaching a step in my studies which requires downloading Sql Server 2005. However every time I attempt to download, I receive this error message. "SQL Server Setup cannot install files to the compressed or encrypted folder: c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\. To continue, make sure that your installation directories are not compressed or encrypted, or specify a different directory, and then run SQL Server Setup again." I have tried saving it to another folder, this did not help. Somewhere in my search for answers, I came across something that said I needed a strong Sa authenticatio ...Show All