SunSet_SunRise's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Why no outlining

  Should the outlining submenu be populated in Beta 2 Mine is empty when editing in VB. UGH! Regards, Al Flash the giant user error sign over the help desk. My fault Got it working fine. I think a lot of my problems stem from being in run mode without knowing it. Lots of things of course are locked out under those circumstances. I'm more careful to stop the debugger now and have fewer difficulties. Regards, Al ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista What exactly is the point --

  -- of workflows I'm not sure I understand completely what this functionality is useful for. Can someone please either explain, or link me to a document explaining Thanks a bunch. :) Workflows allow you to declaratively implement business processes in software. They take care of the long running aspects of business processes and provide model transparency and adaptability to change. There is a paper describing this here . ...Show All

• Visual Basic A Function To Return Two Values

  Hi, Is it possible for a function to return two "things" or items, i.e. a data item the function is used to get (a string) and a result saying if the function was successful or not (boolean) What I am trying to do is parse through an XML file from a server (where lots of things could go wrong), and use the data in my application by calling a function which does the parsing. I need to be able to display an error message in the application if the parsing function goes wrong. Thanks. Hi It is not possible for a function to literally return two values but there are ways of achieving this. ...Show All

• Windows Forms multiselect listbox producing duplicate index error

  multiselect listbox producing duplicate index error I did search before asking this question. I filled an AuthorsListbox with a list of Authors. I set multiple selection to simple, as an article can have more than one author. The article has already been saved and has a unique ID. Each author has a unique ID. When I select more than one author I get a duplicate index error. If I change mutlipleselection to one, and save the authors one at a time, the database is updatged properly Here's the code:     Private Sub btnSaveAuthors_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSaveAuthors.Click  & ...Show All

• Windows Forms Implementing Keyboard support in windows forms

  I need to implement functionality to support function keys(F1..F12) and shortcut keys(example Ctrl R) in windows forms.User will use just the key board to access and navigate the forms, User will not use mouse.If any one has any suggestions can you please let me know. Note:I tried KeyPressed events. it seems i can't capture the function keys or the modifier  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems passing parameters - Local mode

  I have a .rdlc report where no records appear to have been retrieved though I know they are there. That is: I have a .rdlc report. I have a parameter in this report Called Companys. In the List Region for the form, In the Filters tab I have code like the following: =Fields!Company.Value = Parameters!Companys.Value In the Load Event of the Viewer I have code like the following: Dim para As String = Nothing parameters = New ReportParameter( "Companys" , para) Me .ReportViewer1.LocalReport.SetParameters( New _ ReportParameter() {parameters}) Me .ReportViewer1.RefreshReport() When the form loads n ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Someone mind helping me with Error 426

  I am hoping that someone wouldn't mind helping me out here. I have a macro in Excel 2003 which I use to modify some data and then put it into MapPoint 2004. I noticed the memory usage for MapPoint jumps up to 175-180 MB when I initialize territories so I decided I would create a subroutine to close the program and then reopen it. Unfortunately MapPoint 2004 does not let you close a file, only the entire program (unless you are using "MapPoint Control" objects but I've already done a significant amount of work using the "MapPoint Application" object). When I tell Mappoint to Quit this causes the remote server to quit an ...Show All

• Visual Basic CDO Folder.moveTo function

  I'm encountering some strange behaviour when using the MoveTo function...  here's the code: Dim objSession As MAPI.Session Dim objInbox As MAPI.Folder Dim objMessages As Messages Dim objMessage As Message Dim objFolder As MAPI.folder Set objSession = New MAPI.Session     objSession.Logon ProfileName:="profileName", NewSession:=True, showDialog:=False     Set objInbox = objSession.Inbox Set objMessages = objInbox.Messages Set objMessage = objMessages.GetFirst     Do While Not objMessage Is Nothing               If objMessage. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't repair Microsoft Document Explorer 8.0 - wrong Framework version

  I had a problem installinmg the June CTP of VS 2005 Team Suite, so I reverted back to Beta 2. I now have a faulty Microsoft Document Explorer 8.0 throwing exceptions, and when trying to repair it, I am informed that the Fx is not installed. When looking at the install.ini file in folder "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help 8\Microsoft Document Explorer 8.0" I find it still addresses Fx ver. X86=2.0.50601 when in fact I now have X86=2.0.50215. All the .dll's etc are also of ver. 2.0.50601. Question: Is there an easy way to reinstall just the Microsoft Document Explorer 8.0 to get the correct version I'm afraid i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Commandbars problem in Whidbey Beta2 (System.AccessViolationException)

  It seems a very simple code does not work any more in Beta2. That is, Controls.Add yields a System.AccessViolationException . Here's an example (taken from a very basic addin, referencing the new Microsoft.VisualStudio.Commandbars): Dim cbX As CommandBar cbX = CType(applicationObject.CommandBars, CommandBars).Item("MenuBar") Dim cbpX As CommandBarPopup cbpX = CType(cbX.Controls.Item("Tools"), CommandBarPopup) Dim cbbX As CommandBarButton Try     cbbX = CType(cbpX.Controls.Add(MsoControlType.msoControlButton, _                  , , , True), Com ...Show All

• .NET Development How to read usb port ?

  hi all, Any one tell me that how to read the usb port pls.... ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Virtualizing Wrap Panel?

  I need to have a wrap panel for the ItemPanel with the virtualizing option. Why there is no virtualizing wrap panel. Do I need to create another View control for the ListView to show items one after the other or the wrap panel is the only solution without virtualizing Thanks I'm sure they'd love to provide an implementation of every panel in virutalizing form, but WPF is huge and they have to focus on delivering all the features they already have. They provide VirtualizingPanel as a base class and from there you can implement your own wrapping layout logic. There's a great article on writing a custom ...Show All

• Visual C++ Exception at same memory location

  I am debugging a multithreaded server application that is giving me a buffer overrun error unexpectedly when I run large number of requests through it.  I was able to use techniques suggest by a previous question I posted on this forum.  Now, the debugger is breaking on the following error: First-chance exception at 0x003a4072 (ApxString.dll) in PriceService.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0xbaadf011. void ApxString::SureEmpty() {     if (m_pData != 0)    {       Dword dwRefCount = m_pData->m_dwRefCount;  <-- ERROR ON THIS LINE &nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server

  Hello Everyone, I have instaled SQLExpress September on my Windows Server 2003 Standard. and I work on a windows XP SP2 for development using Visual studio Web Edition (Beta2) which comes with sql server 2005 too. I've built my application and tested it on my computer and everything went fine. But When I copied the application to the server, it showed the following error: "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to failure in retrieving the user's local application data path. Please make sure the user has a local user profile on the computer. The connection will be closed. Description: An unhandled exception occurred durin ...Show All

• Windows Forms initialize a class dynamicaly by name

  i have a menu with many submenus and i want each submenu to open a new form. For this i want to be able to call the same function on each menu click and send as parameter the class name and this function should return the initialized class so this function should have the name of the class as a parameter and return the initialized class& ...Show All