rbanke's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Hiding MDI Maximize/Minimize Buttons

  I have an MDI app, where all child windows are opened maximized. I don't want the users to have the ability to minimize or maximize them etc. Can anyone tell me how to disable the mid maximize/minimize buttons on the command bar that are created when the childform is maximized I can't work it out of the life of me, but it cant be that hard! Cheers Mc why not try to change the controlbox property of t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help with formula

  I have had several reports dumped on me and I need to get them integrated into a web based, .net, application. I am using VS.NET 2003 and Crystal Reports for VS.NET 2003. So far, I have been able to change the datasource so that it points to the database on the server. I have created an ASPX page that has a cr viewer. This points to the .RPT file. I can see the file in design mode. When I run the report I get the following error: Error in File ...Show All

• .NET Development HttpWebRequest. "Keep-Alive" header disappears after a while :(

  Hi everyone! I have searched for solving this problem, but haven't yet found the solution for this problem. Hope i'll find them in this forum. So, I have timer and every minute i send a request to the server. First time header "Keep-Alive" displays correctly in the request (i use http sniffer to analyse requests), but in next time it disappears. There is the code of the problem point: Dim oReq2 As HttpWebRequest = ...Show All

• Visual C# Bitwise operations on a thread's ThreadState

  Hello! I'm just playing some with threads and now I want the possibility to pause and resume a thread. I've got a button that when clicked should check if the thread is running and then do myThread.Suspend(); and if not do myThread.Resume(); How should I do that Thanks in advance! Note that Thread.Suspend and Thread.Resume have been marked as obsolete. You should use manual thread synchronization to pau ...Show All

• Visual C# Printing text directly to a printer (NOT as a graphic)

  I can print text if i do a e.Graphics.DrawString(......) My problem is that I am trying to print to a card printer, and usually it checks what text it is printing, and if it hits a '~' it then encodes the magnetic stripe. When i print from Microsoft word, or Access, it works fine because text is sent to the printer. But using "PrintDocument" object and drawing to a bitmap, it is unable to parse the text. Any ideas on how to print text ...Show All

• Windows Forms Viewing a word doc within a Windows Forms Application

  I would like to display a word document within my windows form application. Currently I am using the IE activeX control and passing it the word doc location. There must be a more elegant solution. Yes there is a lot of code I left out of the post...  I only posted the code relevent to obtaing the underlyi ...Show All

• SQL Server connecting to sqlexpress from classic asp

  hi, i'm using classic asp to try and connect to a sqlexpress database on a development server. i get the following error: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (0x80004005) [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. /dbtest.asp, line 8 I'm using the following script which runs fine against a regular SQL server (version 8) on the network. <%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT"%> <% var strCon ...Show All

• Visual C++ Simple Console App

  Hello Folks, Am new to VC++ and dont really know if i am doing the right thing. But here is my question. I am trying to do a simple Console::WriteLine to print. To do that i do the following: 1. Start up VS2005 and create a new VC++ console app 2. Add a line Console::Write( L "Hello " ); in the _tmain. 3. Add using namespace std; and #include <iostream> in the stdafx.h file 4. Compile and successfully see the ...Show All

• .NET Development When to call dispose when using SqlConnection and SqlCommand?

     What is the best practice when running code as follows: //### code start #### SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("xxxx"); SqlCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); //...do the necessary processing cmd.Dispose(); conn.Close(); conn.Dispose(); //### code end #### calling Dispose on the cmd and the connection seems redundant.  Additionally, if I am disposing hte connection should I first explicitly call Close()   The sh ...Show All

• SQL Server Modelling a Time dimension with date & time & time zone info

  Hello, How would you model a time dimension such that data in transactional source can be viewed from different time zones Basically I need not only the date but also the time (minute granularity is enough). for instance, if we have a datetime like 1st jan 2005 at 01:45 AM in GMT stored in the db, a user from US would see it as 31 Dec 2004 at 08:45 PM in GMT-5 time zone and someone in Asia would see the same transaction at&n ...Show All

• .NET Development Standard Person definition schema

  Hi all, I've been working with several industry standards for vertical matters such as Human Resources, Accounting, Billing, etc... However, none of those standards seem to follow a standard definition to declare person information. Do not misunderstand myself, they do greatly the job and I couldn't found any missing information but they just use their own schema definitions. I'm right now working on a project which mainly focus on mana ...Show All

• Visual C++ error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ___CxxFrameHandler3

  Hi, I am working on a project to migrate a program from 32-bit to 64-bit. The program works fine on 32-bit machine under VC 7, but when I tried to compile it in VC 8 on a 64-bit machine, I received the following linking error: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __CxxFrameHandler3 What is the possible cause for this error and how to fix it (i have already tried the suggestions posted  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Structure in a list(of "Structure Name")

  Hi folks, I am having an issue with using a Structure object that I have contained in an list(of object. The issue is using the indexof feature of the list(of object. I need to query the list array for a field that is contained in the structure, once found then i will be able to use the index to gain access to the other fields. Hope this makes sense. Here is the test code I am tiring to make work, the code in the button1 is where the issue i ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add combox in Datagrid 2003???

  Dear Team   DO you have a simple code for adding a combobox in datagid   Thank you very much I have added a text file with some extra comments... The code I have sent assumes you want a databound combobox in the datagrid Let me know what you think and see if you can follow my code... ignore the bits where I build a DataTable... it's just so that you can see data in the table and comboboxes when you run the Form... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Textures from "raw" memory

  Hi, is there any way how to generate textures in C# / Managed DX directly from the memory I'd need to point somehow directly to data I've saved into memory and because it's quite big amount of data and it needs to be repainted really quickly, I need to say the texture to be generated from memory (and so anytime I'd update memory the texture would change). Using stream means twice more fork and it's really slow. Does anyone know how to solve it ...Show All