Patrick Martineau's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Returning a pdf-file from a webservice

  I am returning a pdf-file from a webservice. I am thinking of just returning it as a byte array, but I am wondering whether there is a better way to return it. Speed is an issue and the pdf-file is quite small, so I have to avoid a solution which requires returning much more data. Treat PDF as binary, i.e., byte array, is the fastest way to get it from web service. If you want faster than web service, you can write a Http handler ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to resize tabpage title?

  Is there a way to resize the tabpage title I couldn't find this option in the IDE. Thank you, ... frmt.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center; frmt.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center; ... See the tips on my site: http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista release date of beta 2

  Any word on when WF beta 2 will be available ...Show All

• Windows Forms Implements IBindingListView Problem

  Does anyone have a VB sample of a collection implementing the  IBindingListView interface. I need to make the filter option availabe from the BindingSource for my objects. Thanks Ken Fair point about declaring unfilteredItems as List<Of T>. I missed that one. Thanks Also, extremely good point about using the proper interface! I guess I've always been a bit rebellious when it comes to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Scenario work item in CMMI MSF

  The process guidance for the CMMI MSF refers to a scenario work item.  This work item is in the Agile template but does not appear to be in the CMMI template.  Will this be added in the final version of the CMMI template   Or will the process guidance be modified Thanks.  I had actually found this just before Christmas vacation and was just now getting back to it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reverse Engineering – Auto Display Class Associations

  When you reverse engineer a project, i.e. show the class diagram, the inheritance tree is presented but class associations are not. It appears that you have to right click on the member variable or property within a class and indicate that you would like to show the association. Is there any way to have all associations shown automatically Wow this is awesome, just what I was looking for. Thanks very much. ...Show All

• .NET Development Best method to format and convert database??

  I’m writing an application that needs to be able to pull information from a Foxpro database, format it, and then store it into an Access database.  At the moment I'm using a For Next Loop to pass through each field in a dataset loaded  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Data Grid View with Databinding

  Hi, I'm having a problem with Data Grid view control. Its is bind to a sql server 2005 table and it is displaying data. The problem i have is that I can't manage to capture that data and copy it into excel file. If someon knows how to capture it so that i can copy it into an Excel file. P.S I have one butoon which is select all, I want it to select all rows and then when i place copy it should export to Excel. Any specific prope ...Show All

• Visual Basic Timer control

  hi all, i have created a form using microsoft access 2003. Now, i want to run this form automatically everyday at a specific time. I plan to use timer control and yet it coudn't be found in toolbox or ActiveX control. Can u pls suggest me the solution Thx in advance..   rdgs, junnies Hi Junnie,   Go to Tool a Startup (in MS Access 2003 editor) and in Display Forms/Page option select your for ...Show All

• Windows Forms New to .NET and UIP Application Block

  I am learning .NET coming from some experience with Java and Struts giving a foundation in the MVC pattern. I'm determined to apply the MVC philosophy to my .NET development when appropriate . I've read through the UIPAB help file a couple of times but I'm finding the documentation to the UIP Application Block to be a little too terse and technical and missing details for beginners. For example, at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag/ ...Show All

• SQL Server RDP & Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The c

  As a starter i tried to modify and translate the Personal Website Starters kit from the VS2005Team SDK. When i'm working on the machine were it's installed , under debugging, all works great. But when i try to develop from my laptop, via RDP on the develop machine, i've got this message and can not debug (connect to the SQLxpres Server) Does anybody now a solution Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in ...Show All

• .NET Development Reading Offsets With in a File

  Okay, I'm making an application to read AND edit certain offsets from a meta file extracted from a game. Okay so I have all the offsets, i just need to know how to get them to display in the textboxes. [code]Offsets: Velcity = 0x00 Velcity - To = 0x04 Variation Area - y = 0x08 Variation Area - p = 0x0C Local Variation Weight = 0x10 Local Variation Rate = 0x14 Damping = 0x18[/code] I'm not entirely sure what ...Show All

• Visual Studio Any class designer in VS.NET 2003 ?

  Does anybody know a good class designer which integrates with VS.NET 2003 I'm already using Visio 2003. Thanks anyway ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot connect with controller Error

  We are getting the following error when attempting to administer the test controller from within Visual Studio ========================================= Cannot connect with controller 'machine:6901'. If the controller service is not started you may be able to start it by clicking the restart rig button. The following error was received A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of ...Show All

• SQL Server diploying reports on browser with custom assembly

  Hi friends, We are using SQL Server Reportin Services 2005 (SSRS) for development of our reports instead of Crystal Reports. As per our clients requirement we want to make all reports dynamic eg. whatever background color user select should appear for that report etc etc. So for this we have written one function and created DLL for that. Now we are refering that DLL in all our reports as Assembly Name in Reports \ Report Properties \ Refe ...Show All