Sambuccus's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Offset and Count attributes of a SourceRequest

  Hi there! Thanks for the great service, enjoying it immensely. I've found Offset and Count attributes to be useful in displaying results above and beyond the basic 50. As I could establish, Offset let's you receive results on a search query starting from a particular position. However my experience with Offset was very irregular - in some cases it worked flawlesly. But sometimes the order of results with Offset 0 and Offset 1 was diffe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Navigate to another Form

  Okay, i'm guessing this can be done really easily but I'm having problems trying to figure it out. I am building a VB app and I want to navigate from one form to another. I know in VB6 this was easy you just write myform.show() a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Images do not appear on TabControl when using VisualStyles

  Hello, I'm having a problem with a TabControl and VisualStyles. My tabcontrol contains images on each tab, which appear at design time, but when I run the application the images are missing and only the text appears on the tabs. Does tabcontrol support images when using VisualStyles My alignment is set to "Top" if that makes a difference. Thanks Simon Is this .NET 1.1 There was a bug in that v ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent Draw the image yourself in a paint handler, and use the imageattributes class to make 255/0/255 ( magenta ) transparent. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create the app_name.exe.config file during runtime

  Greetings forum inmates Consider the following scenario: You have created your application and you want to deploy it either via click once or xcopy - emphasis goes on xcopy for my case though. Normally you should include an app_name.exe.config file within the download so that the settings are included and loaded when the application starts. But what if you may have a different set of settings attributes on each deployment situation One sol ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I add a child record pulling in the ID of the master record

  I hope this describes what I am trying to accomplish, on a form I want users to enter information in fields that will be used as header information then enter information in fields that will be detail records and each of the detail records need to have the ID = to the ID of the header record. I created a simple form to try and test this but I need a little help if someone could be so kind it would be most appreciated. Private Sub Form1_Lo ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 has corrupted a custom VSZ file's format for VS 2003

  I have both Visual Studio .NET 2003 Pro and Visual Studio 2005 Pro August CTP installed on the same machine.  I am doing this with the understanding that when VS 2005 is released as RTM, it will be expected to coexist with older versions of Visual Studio, while people are trying to transition from the old to the new. I have made a custom project type with the necessary .vsdir and .vsz files.  Currently, that custom project only works ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting initial values when adding a datatgridview row

  Hi, I have a datagridview bound to a datatable in a dataset. When the 'add new' button on the bindingnavigator is used to add a row I want to use all default values except for one column which has to be set programatically. The default values are fine, they were set up in the column properties of the datatable. But how do I change the one special column If I use the addnewitem event in the bindingnavigator, does this occur AFTER the new ro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to call declare function from a DLL in C#

  Hi, I have the following DLL function which I'm not sure how to declare in C# int CALLBACK gscBsiGcDataDelete( IN int hCard, /* Card communication handle */ IN unsigned char* usAID, /* Container AID */ IN unsigned int unAIDLen, /* Container AID length */ IN char ucTag /* Data container identification tag */ ); In the C Code, this function is called in the following manner lResp = g ...Show All

• Smart Device Development help, fail to connect web service ?

  in my IE of ppc brower the server's web service that content alwyas old.however, it is newest in pc. on well connection status fail to connect server's web service all day.but other days before was right. i guess that problem occured deployment could i set the instance 's url property of Web Service object from a .xml file sample like : MyService.Service1 ws = new MyService.Service1(); // Global.WebServiceUrl read from xml ,for ...Show All

• SQL Server DataBase path

  How can I create a DataBase with smo in another path thanks, Hi, you can do that by specifying the new file path witin the datafile object: DataFile df = new DataFile ( new FileGroup ( "DBName" , "FileGroupName" ), "Logicaldbname" , @"C:\Somepathtostore\somefilename.mdf" ); HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to sort the Library name in Quick Launch bar by character in Sharepoint?

  Hi all, I have created several libraries and set them visible in the Quick Launch bar in Sharepoint. But I find they are not sorted by character, but seem sorted by the creation time. Is there any way to sort them by character, that means, sort alphabetically Thanks, Leon I don't see any way to affect the ordering of elements in the Quick Launch bar in the Sharepoint documentation that I have - it looks like the answer to you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Data UI Property Page Error

  I am having trouble displaying the data source tool box. When I use the menu option it gives the message "Operation failed. Only true type fonts are supported. This is not a true type font." When I go into the options menu and go into the 'Windows Form Designer'  and click on 'Data UI Customization' the pane displays ""An error occured loading the property page". I previously had down loaded the RC version and then uninstalled and loaded t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Creating A connector to CompartMent Items

  Is there a way to create a connector that connects a shape to items in another shape's listCompartment I want to emulate the WWF designer capability that lists the State-Activities events as listCompartment items. These events are visually connected to other stateAcitivities. Regards, Jacques  This is not a good way to do it. Connection points are just a suggestion to the routing engine for ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to make Multiple Views

  We would like to have multiple views of the same store, each one in different document windows. Do you guys support this scenario I know there's a foundation for multiple views so I would imaging that give the document in the RDT would be enough. What would it be the best approach   Thanks, ~fw -------------------- Hi, I would like to know more about support for multiple views of the same diagram inside Visual Studio.  ...Show All