Labhesh Shrimali's Q&A profile

• .NET Development How do I detect a connection is present to an URL or not?

  Hi, I have an application in VB.NET which has feature of determining whether a network connection is present or not.The application has certain links to other applications (in form of icons) that are present in other intranets. If network is detected it will enable the icons.  Now, I have an extra feature to add. The icons will be enabled only when network connection is present as well as I am connected to the Intranet. If I ...Show All

• .NET Development Type.GetMethod is incredibly slower in .Net 2.0

  My application uses scripts that are user provided and generated at run-time. These text scripts and appended into a class, compiled with a code provider and then invoked by reflection. This works great with .Net 1.1 but with .Net 2.0 the Type.GetMethod used to aquire a MethodInfo for invoking a script is performing significantly worse. What takes 0.3 seconds in 1.1 takes 20 seconds in 2.0. This is quite unwanted. Why is this and is there a bett ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form at back

  Hi a form that is loaded goes to back behind my main form. My main form loads and does frmUpdateNews.Show() frmUpdateNews.BringToFront() but that dosn't work. I even tried putting it on the main forms click event and still no luck 2 solutions exist try, frmUpdateNews.Parent = this;//This makes frmUpdateNews and owned form of the current form and is guarenteed to work and stay on top secondly try fromUpdateNews. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Customizing the trigger of the workitem alerts based on value in an custom field

  It is possible to use th bissubscribe to customer e-mail alers on the event WorkItemChangedEvent I have been able to adapt the query to different user request but I do not seem to be able to customize the alert based on field that we have added to the template Example of query I have tried but that not trigger the alert "PortfolioProject" = 'LSZ' AND "CoreFields/StringFields/Field[ReferenceName='System.State']/NewValue&q ...Show All

• Windows Forms Redisplaying form childform in parent form

  hello guys i have problem on my porject which a big burden for me to finish this project... this is my problem. i created a vb.net form the main screen which is the parent form and subform which the childform.. i have created menus.. for& ...Show All

• SQL Server Enterprise Manager Tools SQL2000

  I have a new laptop with xp pro.  Where are the client tools for SQL2000 I need Query Anzlyser and Enterprise Mgr. Thanks, Mike Hi Mike, The SQL Server client tools are part of the SQL Server installation and come with the SQL Server CD. See the following KB article: (see section: To Install Client Tools Only for SQL Server 2000) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;Q303747 This is not in ...Show All

• .NET Development Closing an External Program

  Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance.  I have a third party program that is opened daily using Windows Scheduler, which in turn runs a process.  However, at the end of the process, the program does not close itself instead simply terminating and leaving itself open.  Because of this, Windows Scheduler fails on the next attempt to launch the program unless someone manually closes the program daily.  I know a Wind ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office how to insert datagridview into a bookmark

  Is there a way to insert datagridview into a bookmark. In my scenario I have external word document that has several bookmarks. I need to insert this file into master document that is vsto customized, with all of the wording and replace bookmarks with datagridviews at the runtime. I got it as far as adding datagridview to the document, but I don't know how to place it into the bookmark position. Also datagridview overlays all of the text. What I ...Show All

• Visual C# ComboBox - set selected index

  Hi, I have populated a combobox with a dataadapter and set the DisplayMember and ValueMember as required. So, the conents are essentially: 1 Apple 2 Orange 3 Banana (Obviously, only the fruit names are visible in the combo) My problem is, that if I want to display a form with the combobox and set the selected index to the item which has fruit if # 2 (Orange). How do I determine which one I want. Do I have to loop over the contents an ...Show All

• Windows Forms ToolStrip...Outlook 2003 NavBar Style?

  I have just watched the .NET Smart Client Show and Mark Boulter demonstrated the new features of VS2005. He had an app that looked just like Outlook 2003 and he said that the nav bar (that looks like it really is part of Outlook 2003) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel PIA Problems

  Hello, I have a component library that I'm trying to reference Excel with.  I'm referencing the Microsoft Excel 10 Object Library which points to Excel.exe in the correct folder.  But it's not using the Office XP PIA that I installed; instead, it uses the normal reference, which has problems.  How can I reference the PIA to use it in my application   I don't understand why it wouldn't work; I got Word to work this way. ...Show All

• SQL Server Script Table with secondary indexes

  I used the option "Script Table" --> "Create to" in SQL Server Management Studio Express for a table with secondary index (like IX_IndexName), but in the .sql script file there is only the instruction for the primary key and not for the secondary (I expected something like CREATE INDEX). What can I do Hi, its not within the context menu, you have to do it via the script wizard which can be ...Show All

• SQL Server Configure Distributor error

  I am trying to "Configure Distributor" prior to setting up the publications.  When I go through the wizard, at the very last step I get the following error: ****************************************************************************************** SQL Server could not configure 'serverName' as a Distributor. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or b ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to add text+object to a listbox

  Hi, When I was using the System.windows.UI.forms.listbox object, I could do something like: myListBox.Add("title", myObject); or even myListBox.Add(myObject); myListBox.Items[0].Text = "title"; With the System.windows.forms.listbox object, this doesnt work anymore. Is there anyway I can link an object to a title If i'm only adding the object itself, it will take the .toString() of the object to show in t ...Show All

• SQL Server Displayong "Empty string" to a textbox on the report

  Hi All! I was checking the value of a field and if it is empty sending empty string to the textbox  if not only the first few values and it is working but on the empty field something like "#Error" is being displayed. here is the code: =Iif( Fields!Lname.Value <>””, Fields!Lname.Value .ToString().Substring(0,10), "" )   What I want to acheve is : If it is not zero to take the first 10 characters and if n ...Show All