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• Windows Forms Selecting a ComboBox Item...

  I'm having issues selecting an item once an array of items has been added to a combobox. My code is below. Anyone see any problems  I've tried everything that I could think it would be, but I'm stuck. Do I need to bind the items  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form Refresh Question

  I've created a simple form (VB.net 2003) to process whole bunch of data from a database. The form asks for some basic information and has a button to start the process. As the program is running, I am updating a label control so that I can see that the program is actually processing records (I'm displaying customer name being worked on). Here is where I'm stuck... While the program is running (ie. not waiting for user input), if I minim ...Show All

• Visual C# Calling a instanced method from static method

  Hi all, How to acess a instanced method from a static method without creating an instance of the class public class TestingClass2 { [STAThread] static void Main() { SampleTest2(); } private void SampleTest1() { } private static void SampleTest2() { new TestingClass2().SampleTest1(); } } So you do have an instance ! Why not pass it in as an argument: public class TestingClass2 {     public static void Main() &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Product Review of Aspose.Excel

  Hello there, I welcome your guys to check:  <a href="http://www.aspnetpro.com/art.asp id=389">asp:review:Aspose.Excel</a>. It is a product review of  Aspose.Excel, written by <a href="http://Steve.Orr.net">Steve C. Orr</a>, the author of cover story <a href="htt ...Show All

• SQL Server user-defined function remove and replace accents

  anyone know where to find a function that will remove and replace accents i found a library that does it for access, but now i need one for sql server Not specific to a UDF, but should be easy to translate... http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/02/19/376617.aspx Function removeAccents(str As String) Dim string1 As String Dim string2 As String Dim car1 As String Dim car2 As String Dim newString As String ...Show All

• SQL Server report viewer newbie

  hi, i'm a newbie in using report viewer and having a tough time now building a web app in c# and asp.net.. hope someone can help me on this. i'm using VS2005 and RS2005. i've tried looking at the sample RssNewsReader but i have problem running it. error message : Could not find type 'RssNewsReader.ChannelInfo'. i think this is because i don't have system.ComponentModel in the reference and i don't have this dll file in my system as w ...Show All

• SQL Server "product level is insufficient" message during flat file import

  I'm using the import wizard to create a new table from a flat file source.  The table gets created but no data gets copied.  What's wrong   Here's the report: Operation stopped... - Initializing Data Flow Task (Success) - Initializing Connections (Success) - Setting SQL Command (Success) - Setting Source Connection (Success) - Setting Destination Connection (Success) - Validating (Error)    &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to use InfoPath with VS .Net

  Hi All, I am new to use the InfoPath with Visual Studio .Net. Can any one send Help link. Thanks in advance Hi, Question 1: You can use the XML support in Excel to bind your spreadsheet to an XML file with a schema. Then, you can add logic in your InfoPath form to import the XML by specifying the XSD in your manifest.xsf file. Question 2: The short answer is that you can't.  Controls need to be added to the form at design time.&n ...Show All

• .NET Development Is the method ReadLine in System.IO.Ports.SerialPort a busy wait function?

  The method ReadLine in System.IO.Ports.SerialPort returns when a full line has been received, but what happens if it takes some time before the termination character arrives e.g. in case of a low baud rate Is the CPU released for other jobs each time the receiver FIFO in the UART becomes empty (multithreading) or is it a busy wait function, which holds the CPU until the termination character has been received ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to disable the columns of datagrid from resizing by using mouse.

  Dear friends, How to disable the columns of datagrid from resizing by using mouse. Is it possible If so please guide me to do. Thanks Here is a site where you will find your answers. Keep in mind that it might mean you will have&n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Persistence service exception

  Hi together, I am just playing around with the new workflow framework. I have build an example state machine with three states: [State1], [State2] and [State3] [State2] contains a HandleExternalEventActivity where the problem occurs. Here is some code: [ExternalDataExchangeAttribute()] public interface IMyInterface { event EventHandler<KeyArgs> OnKeyPressed; } [Serializable] public class MyClass : IMyInterface { public event EventHandl ...Show All

• SQL Server Howto suppress FETCH output

  Hello, I'm opening a cursor with the sole purpose to select rows for deletion DECLARE test_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT ... OPEN test_cursor ; FETCH NEXT FROM test_cursor WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN IF -- check some condition DELETE FROM .. WHERE CURRENT OF test_cursor ; FETCH NEXT FROM test_cursor END For each row that is deleted sqlserver prints several lines of text with the contents ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Path Too Long Error

  When I imported the database, some of the foreign key constraints generated errors stating that: Error 4 Path for file C:\Documents and Settings\fritcheygr\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\BoundBooked\BoundBooked\BoundBooked\Schema Objects\Tables\R_InsuranceFormTemplateConditionQualifier.C_PolicyConditionQualifierMsrDefintionType_FK_R_InsuranceFormTemplateConditionQualifier.fkey.sql is too long. C:\Documents and Settings\fritcheygr\My ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Package is "hanging" after validation

  My SSIS package will just hang (do nothing) after validation of the package tasks. I realised that it does 2 validation. It then hits "starting exectuing" and then nothing. I mean nothing. It just stays the same. When I look into the logg file, the same message as in the output window. My package has parallel extract of data from the same datasource, but different tables. I dont know if that the problem but i really doubt it because i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System functional verification points

  Is there a way to add functional verification points to a web test, such as tab order, initial focus, maximum length, and type of field (numeric, characters,...etc) You can specify validation rules to inspect the response of any request. Here's a link to the help topic that describes how to add validation rules to a web test. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182544.aspx There are a few built-in validation rules that you can ...Show All