Matthew.S.Davis's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic else

  ok, imagine this: u start up the program, click on the menu and there is a space for you to add your own app (like notepad). so you click on settings (another box appears) and you type in the filepath now this is what i want to know: if they havent entered a filepath and they click on the blank space in the menu, i want a msgbox to come up saying 'no app selected' also once they have entered a filepath, i want there to be a button that saves changes, so the app remembers always to go to that place Thankx! Private Sub TestToolStripMenuItem_Click ( ByVal sender As System . Object , ByVal e As System . E ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions the code has some problem

  Hi, I am using VB express 2005 to create an interface to retrieve data from Excel spreadsheet then store it into my Access database. I am able to retrieve data and store it in a dataset then display it in a dataGridView. But I am not sure how can i store the data into an Access database. I tried to connect VB to Access by opening a connection and then create a table in Access. I created a DataGridView and bind it to this table. I can do normal insertion, deletion to the table. But when i change the content of the dataGridView to my spreadsheet by writing some code then do the normal save as usual, the content in the ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Problem with Excel

  We had this ActiveX Task in DTS SQL 2000 that updates an Excel File and saves it. ================================================ Function Main() Dim xlApp Dim Desc Set xlApp=CreateObject("Excel.Application") xlApp.WorkBooks.Open DTSGlobalVariables("ExistingBOM_Path").Value xlApp.ActiveWorkbook.RefreshAll xlApp.ActiveWorkBook.Close True 'xlApp.Quit True Set xlApp=Nothing Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Success End Function ================================================== We need to do this in SSIS Script Task since ActiveX Task will be deprecated. We successfully did an update with OLEDB to update the excel file but it needs ...Show All

• Visual C++ implementaion of unwinding

  I have troubles finding information on this subject, so I'll try to ask here: What kind of unwinding mechanism implementation is used by VC8.0 Is it the same old and slow 'update structure on the stack while we go' (like it was up to VC7.1) Or MS finally decides to go after GCC & others by separating successfull execution path on compile stage (which is significantly more efficient) Bye. Sincerely yours, Michael. (1)(a) " __try/__catch instead of range checks " -- just as before: I hope you know what you are doing. Invalid data usage results not only in AV or DIV -- it could also results in memory ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C# Express Edition not installing behind a proxy

  Hi,    I connect to the internet via a proxy.But when i run the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition setup , it tries to download the Visual  C# 2005 edition files and results in a runtime error. I tried installing BitTorrent(Background Intelligent Transfer Service) 2.0 ... It still does not work .. i am sure the setup uses the proxy settings. Please help! Bye Hi, I have shifted your thread to the VC# Express forum, so that you get a better response for your question. Regards, Saurabh Nandu www.MasterCSharp.com ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Replication and compatibility levels

  Hi There, We have been using SQL 2005 in our dev enviroment for a few weeks, and I have just completed migrating our production server to a 64bit instance of SQL 2005 standard. I have 3 publications, 1 snapshot, and 2 transactional. All go to SQL 2000 databases. Our dev enviroment is in compatibility level 90, and our application is working fine. My concern is, will changing the production compatibility level from 80 to 90 affect / break replication to SQL 2000 Servers Thank you. Hi Justin, One thing I can think of is that user-defined data types are scripted schema-qualified by the snapshot agent if th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Tabbed Layout

  Well basically I need help with doing a tabbed layout on my app. I am making a form that if I succeed will, Show all of my other forms via clicking the appropriate tab button, and will start up in the main form filling it. What I need to know is how to show my forms within the tabbed form, and make it so they're not an extra window, but glued to the form and I also need to know how I could start up the tabbed form in my main form, and make it so it cant move around like a normal MDI Child would either. I'm not sure this was ever intended to be done but because the Form class inherits the Control class, ...Show All

• Visual C# Costumizing the MessageBox

  How can i costumize my messbox like the background title bar text color and orther..   I dont want to make a new form, is there another way Actually, if you want to create you own style(Not only background and title color) something like winamp, I think it's better to create your own dialog format. and I don't think it's too different and take time work. if you want to make a fixed style messagebox you just need to create a form then set 1 label and 2 buttons.  Buttons DialogResult set to Yes, No or OK, Cancel and create a text property for label display That's all. ...Show All

• Visual Basic immed?

  In vb 6 I could use the immedaite window to do something like form3.DataGridView1.Width to see the width of a column... then form3.DataGridView1.Width = 800 to set it and see if it looks right.. then I'd write a procedure to set up data grid appearance. How do I do that in vb.net Getting furstrated... Brian I'm back (or, most of me, anyway -- part of me is still 11 time zones to the east ). So, anyway, when you pause the application (if I understand correctly what you're doing), you're pausing it at an arbitrary location. The immediate window and watch windows are scoped to wh ...Show All

• SQL Server DatePicker Control RS 2005

  I have read in a previous thread that some people have found the datepicker control slow to load up on a report. I have the same issue. It takes 2-3 seconds for the datepicker control to load in after the report opens up. You can see from IE that the report is loading up something like... http://server/reportserver/Reserved.ReportViewWebControl.axd obType=Calendar This seems to try to load up when the report is first opened, if you leave the report a few seconds it does load up the calenar control and everything works ok. Now I have noticed the "Report is being generated" animated graphic to be also rather sluggish. ...Show All

• .NET Development about Metadata Physical layout(#Blob)

  In the PE file, there is a #Blob Heaps, which I do not understand what it is. And I read the book which say If the first 1 byte of the "blob" is 0 bs , then the rest of the blob contain the bs bytes of actual data. etc.... I really do not understand what that means. Does it means that if 0XXXXXXXX (2) , it has XXXXXXX(2) bytes of data then 1st 2 bytes are 10bs. Does it mean that 10XXXXXX YYYYYYYY (2) will have XXXXXX time 256 and plus YYYYYYYY bytes of data Thx Sounds like you got it right. You can look at the decompression algorithm in the function CorSigUncompressData in Cor.h included with the .NET framework SD ...Show All

• Visual C# Working with controlls on different forms

  Hello. I have 2 forms. On form1 I have a button and on form2 I have a checkbox. When I press the button on form1 I want to check the checkbox on form2. Of course, assume that the checkbox form has already been shown. I am really stuck on this. Any ideas ! You can better create a property on your Form2 to encapsule it. public class Form2 : Form { private CheckBox _chkPriorityShipment; public bool PriorityShipment { get { return _chkPriorityShipment.Checked; } set { _chkPriorityShipment.Checked = value; } } } Now, you only have one extra property and nobody ...Show All

• Visual Studio What's New in Automation for Visual Studio 2005

  There is so much goodness happening in Visual Studio 2005 that I had to blog about it here . Also feel free to visit the Visual Studio Extensibility Center and let us know what you think. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to find out when a user last logged in

  Hi There I am in the process of cosolidating sql servers. One of them literally has hundreds of sql logins, obviously i need to clean these up, however i a not sure how to determine when a user last logged in How can i find out the last login date of a user Thanx Hi, AFAIK this is not stored in tables in SQL Server, but it is either stored in 1. The event log if you turned on the Audit feature in the server properties. 2. In the c2 audit logs (if turned on) 3. In the profiler trace (if you are running one and are wathing the Audit events on the server) HTH, jens Suessmeyer. --- htt ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista going to be available through MS Action Pack subscription?

  Can anyone tell me if Microsoft will be making Windows Vista available through their ActionPack subscriptions, as they have with Windows XP & MCE 2005 Thanks! ...Show All