dbeyer's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Repainting Controls

  Why would you want to call BOTH Invalidate() and Update() when redrawing a control   What does one do that the other doesn't that would justify calling them both Invalidate() will (sorry for the redundancy) invalidate part of the contr ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview combobox

  Hi All, have a problem working with comboxbox column with .net 2.0 (VB please) tblEmp - EmpId, EmpName, EmpRef tblrole - roleid, rolename tbluserrole- empid,username,pwd,roleid I need to create a datagidview which displays empname,username,pwd,rolename This is ok. But now when a user clicks on a new row, the empname and rolename columns needs to be a combobox. The user selects the empname from the comboxbox, assigns a username, ...Show All

• .NET Development Help. How do I determine the current user VPN login name in Winforms

  Please Help, I have a problem that I can not figure out. I have logged into my pc running Windows XP pro as a local account ( let's say mypc\abc ) and then I logged into my work using Microsoft VPN ( lets say myworkdomain\xyz ). Now I need to launch a Windows Forms (.NET 2.0 smart client application) in my pc and in that application I need to determine what is the user login I used in VPN (example in this case, -> myworkdomain\xyz ) ...Show All

• SQL Server Testing ODBC connection manager

  I am testing out the ODBC connection manager, as part of my beta testing from my company. I created a new conn manager on the palate (dsn pointing to local  sql server). But I am not sure how this one can be used. I can not use any of the Data flow sources which can use this ODBC connection manager. Using the said conn manager in a Datareader source shows up the error "Can not acquire a managed connection from the run-time connection m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions No My Namespace

  How do i tell compiler not to create My namespace I know it can be done by defining a certain symbol using /define option of command-line compiler, don't remember the name of the symbol. ...Show All

• Visual Studio DSL tools on XP 64 bit

  Hi, I've just installed the DSL tools on VS 2005 .. on XP 64bit. I'm getting the same empty toolbox when I try the walk throughs as a number of others have mentioned. I have tried all the suggestions without success. I'm wondering if it's worth conitnuing on the 64bit platform or to rather revert ot dev-ing on the 32bit ... i.e. is there going to be a lot of issues like this dustyn Hi Gareth, I'm gla ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Does WCF client support http or socks5 proxy?

  Hi, Can a client consuming the wcf service be configed to bypass a proxy something like ie or msn. If can, how Not sure it's right place to ask this question here, just hope you give me some advice on this topic. Thanks. You can set proxy settings at the binding leval(both in config and or you can set binding properties programmatically) please check binding properties in this config EXAMPLE: < xml version = & ...Show All

• SQL Server join problem

  Hi All I am tring to get some data from the customer table and linking it to a view select ca.account_status, cs.code from customer as ca inner join v_customer_status as cs on ca.account_status = cs.description The reference between the tables is the account_status and the description The error I am getting back is: Server: Msg 446, Level 16, State 9, Line 1 Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation. Not sure ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSDN Subcription

  This is probably not the best place to ask, but I haven't been able to get an answer from the MSDN folks... Any idea if we will be able to transition our existing subscriptions over to VSTS for DP when it is available I currently subscribe to VSTS Dev. Not being an expert on licensing, but the Team System license model is either based on seperate SKU's like Developer, Test or Architect; or you are have a Su ...Show All

• Windows Forms Rename CMD ?

  Why do I get the following error msg       Error #: 5,       Description: Procedure call or argument is not valid..  When i try this:       Rename("C:\My Docs\My Pictures\Gromit.jpg", "C:\My Docs\My Pictures\test.jpg") ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Adding an sql connection to vb express

  Hi, I was using sql express with vb express edition. Everything was fine. I removed sql express and installed sql server 2005. Now when try to add a connection from database explorer I get an error: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network ...Show All

• .NET Development Adding to a Menu

  Ive got 2folders: catagories, Programs Everytime the menu drops down it reads the xml's in 'Catagories' and then adds them, Now, i then want the programs to add to the specified catagory in the XML, im not quite sure how to go about this, possibly an ad_handler heres the code used for reading the xml's in catagories: Private Sub loadcatagories() Dim App_Path As String = My .Application.Info.DirectoryPath Dim desktopDir As ...Show All

• Windows Forms Date Time Picker

  Hi, Anyone know how to format the Date Time Picker in C# to shows MONTHS only Hi, Sorry, please allow me to ask more, can you guide me more details on how to traverse the list view items and create the loop Thanks. ...Show All

• SQL Server Transfer SQL Server Objects Errors

  Hi. I'm totally new to SSIS (SP1), and I'm having a raft of troubles transferring DB's using the 'Transfer SQL Server Objects Task', which seems to be the closest replacement for the old DTS Transfer Objects tool. I'm trying to transfer a DB from an SQL Server 2000, where I only have SQL Server authentication (it's a shared hosting environment) to my local SQL Server 2005 server, where I'm logged in using Windows Authentication (although I have ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 and SQL 2000, one Dev server, co-existence

  We have many SQL 2000 servers and are beginning to plan our upgrade path.  Has anyone had experience running SQL 2005 and SQL 2000 on the same machine   This would be in a development environment to aid in our analysis.  Is this possible   Any issues or concerns Hi Marco, I'm not an expert on the CDW. You should post this to: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=84& ...Show All