SandieM's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Translating Basic into SQL starments

  I was wondering can VB get into a SQL database ok If so I wanted to be able to do something thats easy to do in VB, but I am new to SQL. That SQL tutorial is way too fluffy, better would be the Bachus-Naur syntax statements to get exact syntax and then I can look for the methods I need. SQL is pretty verbose. My view is, how hard can it be, now that I see the balance of parentheses I can fix sicko methods easy enough. SQL does not come a ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to Read RitchTextBoxFormat

  hi every body in using a ritchTextbox i want to read the format of the selectedrtf it s appear like "{\rtf1\fbidis\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033\deflangfe1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fprq2\fcharset178 Simplified Arabic;}} \uc1\pard\rtlpar\qr\lang1025\b\f0\rtlch\fs56\'cf\'e1\'ed\'e1 \'c7\'e1\'e3\'d3\'ca\'ce\'cf\'e3 \fs44\'c7\'e1\'da\'d1\'c8\'ed} can any one give me the decoding Of this format Hi, The way I read rtf fo ...Show All

• Visual C# bage brakes in asp.net with a richtextbox

  we need to insert a page brake in the middle of the rich test box the problem is that the rich textbox is in HTML and there are no functions to return the number of lines we have tryed everything from counting the <p>, <br> and <tr> tags to reading one line at a time they do not work. we want the page brake the be displayed when the user clicks a button the main problem is that we do not know how the find the locait ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with portmapper to localport 3389

  Hi,   I've made a portmapper in VB.NET that listens on localhost port 5100 (on PC1). If a connection has been established it sends all incoming data to 127.0.0.2 port 3389 (RDP port) and all data comming back from 3389 is send back to the other side (PC2). If i use 'Remote Desktop' (mstsc.exe) on PC2 and connect to port 5100 on PC1 i get the Windows logon screen from PC2.   This means the portmapper actually wor ...Show All

• SQL Server Missing Labels in Chart

  I have a line chart that has several series, and it routinely leaves off 1 or 2 point labels on the last X-axis. Is anyone else experiencing this If so, does anyone know what the cause is, and is there a fix Thanks! BobP They are both set to 1 and still no labels. BobP ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Help!. regarding Visio SDK layout

  I am trying to generate a visio diagram through the visio SDK and would like to know if I can generate a diagram programmatically. I did read little about the SDK and I was able to create a visio drawing and add shapes and connect shapes programmatically. My biggest question is that how to automatically layout the shapes so that it looks structured. This is a hight level diagram - Cluster A consists of two web server boxes - Cluster B c ...Show All

• SQL Server setting up sqlexpress

  My OS is WinXP home edition. I just want to run the sql server on my computer. Should I have the sql service accounts run as "local system" or "local service". Also, should I install sql express prior to vb.net express. Thanks for your help Ken Hi Ken, Unless you have a specific scenario for changing the default service account, I would suggest you stick with the default. Also, VB.NET Express will actually inst ...Show All

• Windows Forms First visible row number

  Hello, this is my first ever posting! I need to know the number of the row visible inside the data grid, this is exactly like what the  DataGrid.FirstVisibleColumn property does, but I want to do it for the “FirstVisibleRow”. This is NOT necessarily  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databinding across multiple forms?

  Hi All, I'm fairly new to .Net Windows Forms development and I'm curious how one would normally accomplish the following:    - Assuming an assembly created by another developer has a few methods that returns a dataset containing a single datatable.  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom WorkflowScheduler issue - Timed workflows are being scheduled twice

  I have implemented a custom WorkflowScheduler to give me control over threading. I am running into issues with timed activities. My sample workflow has alternating code activities and delay activities. When I reload the workflow after the delay has expired, a call to my scheduler service is made to schedule the workflow with timer information. A second call is also made to schedule the workflow without timer information. This causes the ...Show All

• Visual Studio data set name is missing in the data region 'DataSetName'

  hey guys.  I got this error when working with reportviewer in local mode.  Using a connection string and Dataset which is new I created another viewer with a .rdlc.  Everything was working fine.  I check in to source safe, close up, and re-load visual studio and now I get this weird message coming up saying:           ...Show All

• .NET Development What's win32 and 64-Bit?

  Hello, I am so so so lost with this stuff!!! Can you please explain to me what's 64-Bit and win32 Is there relation between the two things or not Anythig else I should know Your help is appreciated. Win32 is the API set that was introduced with WinNT as a transition to 32-bit code, used in Win95 and lives as the Windows API to today. 64-bit Windows has the Win32 API at its core, with pointer sizes (and pointe ...Show All

• .NET Development adding a dynamic environment variable to my project in visual studio.NET ?

  Hi, my application use a dynamic environment variable, let call it FOO. how can i add the FOO environment variable to my project or my solution, so  every time the user of my VS.NET projetc want to change it's value , he will change it in the IDE  and not in ControlPanel--> ...-->Environment variables , and without using Main args[] array shortly, is there anything like in java VM parameters the user must be ab ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista New Workflow In VS2005

  Hi, I'm facing very strange behaviour of VS2005 while adding new sequential workflow (with code separation) to the project: I've got 2 new files added: WFlow1.xoml and WFlow1.xoml.cs as it would be, but instead WFlow1.xoml.cs being added under WFlow1.xoml, it appears just like another file in the project, not related to the WFlow1.xoml. Somehow, it depends on whether the project resides on virtual (mapped) drive or not: i'm addi ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListBox Bug On Selected Item

  Hello, I guess this problem may have been reported to Microsoft, but I wanted to know if anyone else had a similar problem or may have a workaround. If you click on one item in a listbox, then move your cursor to a different item before&nb ...Show All