Misswing's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where exactly is MSDN Express Library?

  Does anyone know the link for the MSDN Express Library  I downloaded all the VS and SQL express editions but I can't seem to find where we're supposed to be dowloading the documentation. The Express home page mentions "optional components like the MSDN Express Library" but doesn't have a link to where we could download it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ I have downloaded and installed Visual Web Developer Express Library and found that the .cab files for my MSDN 2005 Express Library are corrupt.  I have tried downloading it from the MS site twice now.  I have ext ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Area Path as parameter on reports

  How does Area Path work as a parameter for reports What type of query would I use to display the values so they don't show as a\b\c, etc I like the tree structure of Area Path, but I am concerned about its usefulness in reporting. For example, if I have a feature structure of Application/Feature Area/Sub-Area: Application A Core Services Configuration Security Data Access Module 1 User Interface Business Services Module 2 User Interface Business Services I would like the user to be able to select a value from any of the 3 levels for reporting. I would also like for it to be possible ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to keep a Form on screen without clicking on a usercontrol behind the form

  Hi, I have a main form with buttons at the top and inside this form, I have a Panel control to host usercontrols. Within the usercontrol, I have a linklabel control that calls a form. What I want to do is keep the form on screen and prevent the user from clicking on the usercontrol on the main form unless the user clicks on the Cancel button. How do I go about resolving this small problem. Regards Dipendra Hello Dipendra, If I understand the issue correctly it sounds like you simply need to open the form modal via Form.ShowDialog instead of just using Form.Show. I hope this solves your pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to assign a Null value?

  There are times when this particular field MUST be blank or empty, how do you do that   Declaration:     Public m_TimePressWasStart As DateTime = Now.ToLocalTime   This code won’t work:         m_TimePressWasStop = System.DBNull.Value.ToString   Neither this:         m_TimePressWasStop = CDate (System.DBNull.Value) Neither this:         m_TimePressWasStop = Nothing Daniel:   Thanks a lot, I had spent all morning searching ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration Benefits Portal

  Hi All Can any one tell me why after all the registration steps and e-mails when I installed the "Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition" the Benefits portal gives me an error msg. that it cannot open the download manager I have been trying to download the E-Book, but it gives me the same error if I try to download any of the Utilities also!   Any help would be great as I am a complete Newbie....!   LD Hi, As noted by Boris Sevo in this post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=142235&SiteID=1 , can you try this link to install the download manager http: ...Show All

• .NET Development How Big an Executable could be?

  In escenarios where tha target is a complex application, the final executable file could have more than 4 o 5 Mbytes size. The size of exe files have impact on client machines   How big exe files could be   Is there some paper with recommendations regarding this topic Or,  are thre some recomendations or strategies to develop complex applications Thanks Campo         The size of exe files have impact on client machines Depending on how you build your EXE; some executables are fairly large like self-extracting executables, but having very small piece of extraction codes insid ...Show All

• .NET Development Translating Percentage to Color

  Hi - I am looking for a function that can take as input a percentage (0-100) and output a color representation of that percentage. This color would start at Green (Or Blue) for 0% and would increase along the color spectrum until it reached Red (100%). If anyone knows how to do this or if there is a function somewhere that already does this I would really appreciate knowing about it.. Thanks - Samy Jelle - Thanks for the help, it worked like a charm. I even multiplied the percentage by 0.4 to keep the colors between red and green. Thanks again - Samy ...Show All

• .NET Development Is Microsoft serious about serialization?

  I've been working through a serialization model have been stumbling over many semingly simple serialization problems that lead me to believe that Microsoft is not serious about serialization. There does not appear to be a unified model or methodology to the serialization within .Net. For example, the latest problem I hit is that the System.Windows.Forms.Padding structure is not serializable. Why is it that Microsoft did not tag this seemingly simple structure with the Serializable attribute Is there some criteria Microsoft uses to decide what is serializable and what is not Another example is the inconsistency of the formatters. They are s ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to fill Specific data in Dataset ??

  Dear Team    shortly ... putting a where condition in the sqladapter  raise error or not works     " there is a uniqe or not allow null ......"    any idea  Thanks for replying   i will give you an ex:   if a form include 2 tables parent and child....like Orders , OrdersDeatils   if the word fill written in the dataset it will gets"select" the whole data   even for more than 2 or 3 years and this is a lot   for ex: select orderno,oerderdate,ordersname,ordersEndDate             where orderEndDat ...Show All

• SQL Server No message in the TargetQueue

  I have 2 instances of SQL on the same machine (arrakis): the default one and the second: arrakis/FOO. On arrakis/FOO I have an InitiatorService which sends a message to the TargetService on the other instance. I defined the services , contract and message type using the code in the MS sample: Hello World and the same code works when the two services are created on the same instance. I changed only the following part, where I inserted the target service id: BEGIN DIALOG CONVERSATION @conversationHandle FROM SERVICE InitiatorService TO SERVICE 'TargetService' , '4B031860-D31A-4452-A766-828954D1BE12' O ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ activeX dll to be loaded on Web client

  creating an axtiveX dll in VB6 for a web browser - which would run on the client's PC was very easy - use an activeX dll project and then use the setup and deploy tool which created the prototype html object to use. I would like to create in visual studio 2005 an activeX dll (not a control with displays) which just has write properties which is loaded to the client's pc. Using the ATL project I was able to create a simple dll - which I can reference it into a VB6 project and run it OK. Using the visual studio 2005 deploy I was able to create a CAB file for it. I have no idea how to get it into my web page as the classid etc. is ...Show All

• SQL Server configuring a database in sqlserver?

  I am learning dotnet thru Microsoft Official Curriculum and I got stuck up at one point. That is I couldn't configure the required databases according to the sql server I have installed and configured. I created a doctors database and while configuring using the below code I couldn't know what is '\ASPNET' in "SELECT @s = @@servername + '\ASPNET'" Also what is 'webuser' ---Configure Doctors USE doctors GO DECLARE @s varchar(50) SELECT @s = @@servername + '\ASPNET' EXECUTE sp_grantlogin @s EXECUTE sp_grantdbaccess @s, 'webuser' GO GRANT EXECUTE ON [getUniqueCities] TO webuser GRANT EXECUTE ON [getDrSpecialty] ...Show All

• Visual Basic Finding the internal Event IDs of a COM wrapped Custom Control?

  Hi all! I have written a simple COM wrapper for the standard textbox control in .NET 2003 and exported it as a DLL. I have then embeded the component as an ActiveX control into another application (SAP ABAP) but this application (as do others ) requires the event IDs to be registered before they can be captured. The control loads and displays correctly - but just does not trigger any events. My problem is that I do not know how to find internal event ids of the events exposed by my custom DLL Do I have to explicitly declare or create the events to expose them to the calling application If I load the TypeLib file in the OLE/COM ob ...Show All

• Visual C++ Array of pointers to Chars

  Anything wrong with these codes //begin question char * f(char *s, int i){ char **ptr=0; // what I wanna do is create array of pointers to chars here //... int j; for (j=0;j<i;++j) ptr[j]= new char[i+1]; //.... return str; } //end question // I want to do something like this (but errors at compile time, // *ptr[i+1] ) I could use a const to define i+1, but I don't know that ahead of //time. // expected constant expression // cannot allocate an array of constant size 0 // 'pttr' : unknown size // I know why I got these errors, but what would be the equivalent // for the codes below char * f(char *s, int i){ char *ptr[i+1]; //ar ...Show All

• Visual C++ Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error question

  I recieve this error when I launch Internet Explorer - version 6.0 OS Windows XP Home edition 2002 Service Pack 2.  Error is as follows: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program C:\Program Files\Internet explorer\iexplore.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for more information. I am not certain where to post this question and problem.  Your assistance is greatly appreciated.  Currently, I am using Firefox as my back-up web browser.  I have seen a similar Problem. The Culpret was a corrupted Mc ...Show All