Phil's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic [VB2005]Q of Serialport ----> Need Help

          I jz start to learn the programing of vb2005, but there is a new plugin of serialport, i reali dun no how to use it, who can tell me how to write the code to achieve a simple network connection, like chating, transfer the text   form1 include: textbox1,button1 form2 ~~~~~: textbox2.button2   how to make tt when i click the button1, the content of textbox1 will be sent to te ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WITIMPORT: Cannot complete the operation. An unexpected error occurred.

  The subject describes the error I get on the client side. But the server Application Logs says that SQL Exception occurred. The exception Message says: Cannot declare more than 10000 local variables. This is occurring when I try to load a WI type Definition that has a <FIELD> with 559 <WHEN> elements followed by another field with 2190 <WHEN> elements. So far I've tried removing 500 out of the 2190 but obtained the same error m ...Show All

• Architecture IntraLayer Communication

  Typically when passing data between various layers normally most recommend use of custom entities because it allows the developer to write code which gives finer control to the data. The other means could be usage of dataset, typed dataset. The way I look at it, custom entities take time to code and at the same time one needs to also write logic for retrieving data from database and looping record per record into an array of custo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with text box.

  You know like on some chat program when you send a msg to the chat it allows you to hit the up and down arrow on the text box you enter your text in to show the messages you already sent. How can i do that hi, you add 2 textbox to your form, every textbox has scrollbar property you can add scrollbars virticaly, also you will need to allow multiline in textbox properties you can use something like this code in your button event handle ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is Team System?

  Hi, I heard that Team System is a new tool from MS for the entire life cycle of Project Management... Can some one suggest me any reference towards Team System source or Trail versions Regards, Chakravarthy Specifically, you should take a look at: Getting Started with Team System Learn what Visual Studio 2005 Team System can do for you and the role it plays in increasing the productivity and predictability of the software development lif ...Show All

• .NET Development Configure URL of web service for different environments

  I'm working with a team to convert a classic ASP web application's middle tier over to .NET 1.1. We are only converting the VB6 middle tier code right now. The setup is as follows: ASP page calls VB6 component which calls a .NET component using COM interop. The .NET component acts as a wrapper for the .NET web service (which contains the new business logic). The issue that I have is how do I set the URL of the web service for each environment (d ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista InkCanvas (WPF) and StylusPlugIns

  I have created my own StylusPlugIn that I am using in conjunction with the System.Input.Controls.InkCanvas. I have placed my plug in before the DynamicRenderer in the PlugIns collection. When I create strokes with my pen (Tera M4) I get the expected behavior where my plugin is applied to both dynamically rendered Ink and created strokes. When I create a stroke using the mouse my plugin is applied to the dynamic rendering but not to the create ...Show All

• Visual C# Help! How to write 'get''set' property for an array of structs?

  Hi, i'm hoping somebody can help me out with this problem which has got me stumped (still new to C#) In my console application, ive created a class called Map which contains an array of structs. To access this array from the main class which contains main(), i attempted to write 'get/set properties' for the array, but it seems to have gone horribly wrong ==================================================================== Here is t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem in Opening Word on 98

  Hi, It would be great if some one help me on this issue. I am facing a problem in opening MS Word through vb.net windows form on O/S 98. I am opening Microsoft Word using Late binding. Installer also contains MSWORD9.olb. But when open Word fro ...Show All

• SQL Server select from the same table

  My table is CREATE TABLE [ARQ_Arquivos] ( [ARQ_ID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , [ARQ_Descricao] [text] COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL , [ARQ_Link] [varchar] (255) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL , [ARQ_DataHora] [datetime] NOT NULL , [ARQ_PastaID] [int] NULL , [ARQ_EPasta] [bit] NOT NULL , [ARQ_Criador] [int] NOT NULL , ) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY] GO I need to make a folder tree in a sql query from that table whe ...Show All

• .NET Development Importing Encrypted Web Data to Local Database

  This is completely outside anything I've ever worked with, so please excuse me if this isn't the right forum for this question: Our company uses an encrypt/decrypt component on its website that functions perfectly provided you only use it AT the website. I've been asked to link an Access 2000 backend to the web data, so I need to be able to decrypt the encrypted strings in-house and haven't the first idea of how to accomplish it. The compo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Some of the registration benefits are missing...

  I don't see the iconbuffet or e-books and articles. Has anyone else been able to access these See the following post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=202376&SiteID=1 -Scott Currie (DDCPX PM - Microsoft) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Help: How to add keyboard shortcuts to Excel Custom Menu and Menu Items

  I can't figure out for the life of me how to assign a keyboard shortcut to a custom toolbar in Excel. I am using C# and have successfully added the toolbar with menuItems but can't find a method or property to allow me to accept the actual keyboard shortcut and execute code. Any ideas I am using CommandBar, CommandBarControl, and CommandBarButton. Hi J, Is there a similar way I can do it in Word 2003 Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development How to find all SQL Server Instances over a network from .NET

  I'm need to show an "Add Connection Wizard" or make similar dialog to config my application database in a production environment. How can i find all sql instances in a network (as osql /L command) .NET 2.0 have any way to do You can use SQL-DMO for that:  // Add a reference to the SQLDMO.DLL file; // usually located in <SQLServerInstallDrive>:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server ...Show All

• Visual Basic PC Clock

  Whats the best way to call and display the system clock as a string e.g. "Twenty Past Four" I basically want to take the variable from the system clock, and use that in my application to display the time, but in alpha-numeric characters which would be everyday phrases like: "Five minutes past six" "Half past three" etc... So if someone could show me how to call the system clock into my application, and then convert that into the a ...Show All