Smit's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms How to get to the value of a datagrid column given the current cell value?

  Hi, howdy! How do I programmatically get to the value of a particular column given the current cell value For instance, on datagrid double click, I got this current cell value. MessageBox.Show("Row is " & dg.CurrentCell.RowNumber _ & ", Value is " & dg.Item(dgbyCSR.CurrentCell)) I want to get to a value on another column on the same row. Thanks! private void dat ...Show All

• Visual Basic Upgrade from VB5

  I purchased and installed VB5 some time ago. I want to get back into programming and am currently trying VB2005 Express and like it. I'm considering upgrading to Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. Do I qualify for an upgrade or must I buy the full version I know it's been awhile. Time flies when you're retired. It looks like it. Check out this list ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I tell the character casing in the string?

  Hello, I have a string, and I want to go through the string one character at a time and see if it contains at least one capital letter. I see that the only way to do it is to convert to ASCII and compare to the value of the character. Is there a better way Also, I want to do the same thing with the number. See, if there is at least one number in the string. Thank you Why convert to ASCII ! Use ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista modifying the ccapture graph i 'm not able to render the video camera stream

  hello 2 all. I'm trying to develop an application that performs previewing and capturing from a webcam. I modified amcap application to insert a custom processing filter to the live video only during preview. So when I start the preview graph everything works corrrectly., but when I start the capture filter and modify the preview I'm not able to see in the window the video. The capturing, instead, works fine and after I have a good file av ...Show All

• Windows Forms (partially) formatting radiobutton/checkbox text in vb.net

  Hi all, I've been searching for this for hours and start to wonder if it is possible: I need some basic text formatting (bold/italic) on the text of radiobuttons and checkboxes. Of course I know I can set the font property for the whole text, but how can I format just a part of the text I guess I need I to create a custom/inherited control using rich text, but I really can't find any relevant starting point. Any help would be appreci ...Show All

• SQL Server Volatile parent key

  I get this message every time i start Server Management Studio Express CTP, i have lates download ie 11/11/2005 V2. Can not create a stable subkey under volatile parent key. I click continue and Server Management Studio Express CTP seem to start OK. Can you help with this. Hi, Have you found an answer to this problem I get the unexception error and it states that the "input string was not in correct for ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions finding lesson resource file for absolute begginer video

  I am trying to locate the Resource File for lesson 2. It says to find it where I downloaded the video from however I cannot locate it anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. The resources Jeremy7768 is referring to are the .gif images for the toolstrip icon images. In Lesson 2, Bob Tabor says that there should be a LessonResources.zip file on the same page that you download the videos from. But I have checked both http://msdn.microsof ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Run Unit Tests in VSTS with 3rd Party DLL

  I can't unit test my data access layer in VSTS In my data access layer I use the .net oracle driver from data direct without problems. But when my unit test want to open an database connection I get an error (ORA-03113 ... Communication link failure ...)! Thanks in advance Hallo, I got an Email from Sven Cuypers [Sven.Cuypers@datadirect.com]: >It took me some time to get a valid license for VSTS ...Show All

• .NET Development Underline

  If I am writing a line to a text file through a streamwriter.  Is there a way to get that line to be underlined in the text file.  All I am calling is sw.WriteLine("blah blah blah").  Thanks for the help. If the file you're writing to is plain text, there is no way to do it because plain text doesn't support any formatting. If you're writing to HTML, simply call: sw.WriteLine("<u>blah blah b ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How do I disable ListBoxItems?

  Ok here's my situation. I have a custom control that contains a ListBox. On some some screens, I need the ListBox to function normally with it's rollover and selected states. On one screen however, I need the items to not react to mouse input at all. It is contained inside of a Button on this screen and I need to it pass the Click event to the Button. Also I don't want the highlighted states to show on this screen either. Using an ItemsControl ...Show All

• Windows Forms Kiosk windows forms applications

  I was wondering if anyone could point me to <i>anything</i> about creating windows forms kiosk apps. I am looking to develop a prototype system and this is the only way this can work, yet i can't find anything on it. anywhere... I would  ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to open Local Cube in Excel

  Hi, I have created a local cube (Offline cube) from SQL Server Analysis Services 2005(Using GLOBAL CUBE statement) with a name LocalCube1.cub. When I am trying to open the local cube using MS Excel 2003, it is giving a message "This DataSource has no visible Tables". I am trying to open the Local Cube file (.cub file) as follows : 1. In MS Excel -> Data -> Import External Data -> Import Data. Can any one help me in solving this prob ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Windows Control

  hey ppl, i am having a problem with a control, my control is a background with a label on it, then when i use my control on my form i use the on click event, and it only happens when u click the control itself and not the label, so i was wondering how can i do that no matter where u click inside the control , fires the click event. pls post me some code :( mig16 thx In your UserControl you are handling the Click ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Bug on May CTP: Problem with UserControls and binding or transform

  Hello, I have a problem with UserControls. It sounds like UserControls have trouble with bindings. Here is the sample: <Window x:Class="TestUserControl.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:my="clr-namespace:TestUserControl" Title="TestUserControl" Height="300" Width="300&qu ...Show All

• Visual C# How to convert byte[] to Hexadecimal format?

  Hi everybody,    Is there anyone who knows how to convert byte[] data into hexadecimal data and store it in a text file Or for that matters how to to convert int to hexadecimal In VB, there is method Hex() where you convert data to hexdecimal. I can't find exact method in C#. Advanced Thanks. den2005 Do the bytes contain chars that are hex, or do you want to turn thier integer values to hex string.For ...Show All