Robert Phillips's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms RichTextBox and Printing RTF

  Hi, I have made a WordPad in Visual C# using RichTextBox control. I also used Color and Font dialogues to make my text look good. I have also implemented Printing/Preview and Page setting controls in my WordPad. It works fine for PLAIN TEXT. But when i use richTextBox.RTF property to get text inside the text box with all formatted codes of RTF then&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic Treeview Node Search (also node level)

  The code I use to search for a particular treeview node obviously works because no error arises.  However, when I try to show that 'searched for' node by displaying the treeview's selected node in a message box, nothing happens.  It's as if my code did not find the node. Any suggestions By the way...  Of what use is node.level if I cannot use it in code to manipulate a node   I haven't found a way to even search for a node using level unless I write a recursive loop.  It is as if level is for information only, not manipulation. It's a mystery. We might be able to guess ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums More than 300 contacts in list?

  I'm currently working on a BOT wich users can add to their list. Only problem is: the BOT can only handle 300 people in it's contactlist like any normal user. In the future this could be a problem. Is there a way to lift the 300-contacts barrier in Messenger Perhaps someone at MSN who I can mail about this problem This forum is for the MSN Messenger Games and Activity's SDK, which you can learn more about by visiting Techmonkey -> http://www.techmonkey.co.nz/ p=12 (the stupid thing isnt letting me attach a link >.<"") ...Show All

• .NET Development Common Language RunTime Debugging Service

  Hi,      We have built application in C#. This exe works fine with small Reports. But failed and give following error message whenever we try to run a big reports/processes:                ReportGenerator.exe Common Language Runtime Debugging Services               Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.               Process ID=0x14 (1300) ...Show All

• SQL Server whats the simplest way to set up replication through firewall?

  whats the simplest way to set up replication through firewall depending on your environments and security requirements, you have following choices: 1. Open the SQL ports through firewall. 2. VPN 3. The Web synchronization option for merge replication If you have further questions, please elaborate your senarios. Hope it helps. Wanwen ...Show All

• SQL Server Maintenance plans - Feedback please !

  Many thanks to all of you, for taking time to post feedback in this forum. We consider all feedback valuable and we use it to make the product better meet the needs of our customers. Recently, there were several postings related to the Maintenance plans feature, which let us know we had some problems in this area. We categorized the postings into 2 buckets #1. Dependency on SSIS(SQL Server Integration Service), for Maintenance plans to execute successfully For SP1, Maintenance plans will run successfully if tools or SSIS is installed on the same machine where the SQL Server relational engine is . This dependency is pa ...Show All

• SQL Server Resources in SQL CLR Project

  Hi, I have a Sql Project in VS 2005 with some triggers ans SP. I'd like to add some resources containing the strings used for error messages. Unfortunately sql server project seem to lack this feature. Opening the project properties I can't see the Resources Tab. Can someone help me You may wish to take a look at the HelloWorldReady CLR sample which demonstrates how to store and use string in resource files, and how to create and deploy satellite resource files with localized content.  If you follow the instructions in the Books Online topic "Installing Samples" then you will typically find the HelloW ...Show All

• SQL Server 2005 mgmt studio -> 2000 clustered instance

  Is there any way to connect to a SQL Server 2000 clustered instance uinsg 2005 Management Studio I have not been able to get this to work. Is this a known inability of 2005 mgmt studio Hi, got no problem. Which error are you getting Didi you connect to the virtual adress or a node adress. In some cases the direct node adresses aren’’t accessible due to network restrictions. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to make shortcut of program

  Hello How can I create a shortcut of program on Desktop, Start menu, Program Menu and Start Up Menu   Thanks & Regards When you create your deployment project, you can right click on the project output and choose create shortcut. You'll need to make one for each location. Rename these appropriately. Then you'll need to make folders for each location and move the shortcuts into these folders. Search MSDN for "Deployment Projects" for more information. ...Show All

• SQL Server is it possible to have variant condition clause in procedure?

  i want to use OLEDB to build a COM for my app in the case, i want to execute a select statement which the where-clause is variant. ex, select * from db1 where code='abc' select * from db1 where name='mike' As it's very difficult to change sql-command in oledb, i want to build a procedure like this, create procedure viewDB @filter CHAR(20) as select * from db1 where @filter go but failed! i tried EXEC( select ), but i cant get the variants when building a oledb consumer No, you cannot pass the whole WHERE clause as a parameter. You could pass only values. In your case if this is predefined set of the t ...Show All

• .NET Development Exception: "...The connection was closed unexpectedly." (sometimes)

  RE: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=209544&SiteID=1 I have a windows app connecting to a webservice. In some situation(s) (haven't narrowed it down enough), I get the following exception: The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly. When this exception is thrown, it is calling a method of a web reference. The SOAP data transfer fails. Now the situation that we experience this is on a laptop in the field that is using a WWAN connection in at least one location. It works fine in the lab at the office. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this Wrapping the method c ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem deserializing response from an Axis web service

  I have a VB.NET application that calls an Axis web service. WSDL.EXE gneerates this class from the WSDL provided by the AxisPeople organization (names have been changed to protect the guilty) '<remarks/> <System.Xml.Serialization.SoapTypeAttribute("Thing", " http://thingservice.axispeople.org ")> _ Public Class Thing '<remarks/> Public amountOne As Decimal '<remarks/> Public amountTwo As Decimal '<remarks/> Public amountThree As Decimal '<remarks/> Public statusCode As String End Class When a call to the thingservice.getT ...Show All

• Smart Device Development 2019 Linker Error

  Howdy folks, I am using the embedded Visual C++ 4.0 and receive the 2019 error whenever I attempt to link my project.  I have checked Gangadhar_MSFT's blog posts on the subject.  I tried to do what was suggested and nothing seemed to work.  I'm honestly at a loss on how to fix this.  I've checked online and everything seems to be based on VS2005. I tried to include windbase_edb.h and the compiler tells me it doesn't exist.  "Fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windbase_edb.h': No such file or directory"  I cannot find a place online to download the header file. I can't figure out how to do one of the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Set wait cursor for word document

  I have a long running VSTO procedure running. During its processing, I would like to display hourclass as the cursor. Please advice how to change the word's cursor. Thanks, Yuhang I don't have experiance with Word, but in dealing with Excel, I had to place my operations on a seperate thread and then invoke back to the main thread to do the windows update for hourglass and a progress bar. The reasoning for that is that is, the hourglass operation request is asynchronous; the user would never see it changed until the work was done. (It gave the impression that Excel was locked up, even though work was ha ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to establish project item DependentUpon other item?

  hello all, is there anyone can give a hand to tell me How to establish project item DependentUpon another item like "form.cs" to "form.designer.cs" and so on. thanks a lot. Hi Matt, Which project system are you using VB C# Your own In the later case is it based on any of our samples (which one) This should help us provide your the correct answer. Rusty ...Show All