Gidion's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Were to store user options/data

    What is the best way to store user information.  I know how to save values to the registry but besides that, their has to be a better more secure way to save information from a windows form.  Thanks for your help. If you are looking for secure then you can encrypt using the cryptography class to a db field (and even encrypt the db)or to your own file (ini, binary, text...)... ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Dummy

  I have inherited a vacation request form.  In the start and stop dates there is a macro.  Right now when somebody tabs onto the start or stop date a calendar comes up for the year 2000.  You can change it and select any other date you wish but I would like the calendar to pop up with the current date.  I am enclosing the macro below.  Is there any entry I can insert or deltete to make this happen   Thank y ...Show All

• Windows Forms Manually raising an existing event

  I would like to automatically raise an existing event based on a value that is passed into a form. Note the following code: Private strAutomatedMenuItem As String = strMenuItem     Private Sub frmMain_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office.Core and Interop.Word, manipulating documents without opening word ?

  Hi, we are writing a server app that would check the validity of the signatures on incoming word documents. But apparently this needs Winword to run in the background (and hence it needs to be installed on the server) this results in quite a heavy load, and a potential for memory leaks and security issues. So is it possible to alter a word document without having word opened (so all processing is done by the application using the libraries ...Show All

• Visual C++ message box

  i have troubles with this code: #pragma once #include "gerenciamento_bb_mysql.h" using namespace System; using namespace System::ComponentModel; using namespace System::Collections; using namespace System::Windows::Forms; using namespace System::Data; using namespace System::Drawing;   namespace form_050826 { /// <summary> /// Summary for interface_incluir_papel /// /// WARNING: If y ...Show All

• Visual Basic Migrating from Ms Access to SQL Server 2000

  Hi, Is there many changes need t o be done in order to change my DBMS. Currently, i'm using Microsoft Access in my VB.net program. however, i need to change the DBMS to SQL Server. So what should i do can i still use back the same coding what namespace should i include Hi there, Firstly, I would consider using the Access Upsizing Wizard to migrate your database from MS Access to SQL Server if you have not done so already. If you've mig ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Looking for a working Attached Events sample

  Hi, has anybody either succesfully implemented a custom  Attached Event or seen an example somewhere I can't find any documentation available aside from the fact that implementation is similar to the Attached Properties approach. Thanks I'm posting a sample that defines two things: first a custom control that exposes a RoutedEvent using bubbling strategy: public partial class CustomControl : ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Source Safe 2005 and Visual Studio 2005

  How to configure VS2005 integrated with VSS2005 I have setup the Visual Studio 2005 Team edition for architects and then the Visual Source Safe 2005 . I can't enable the source control toolbar buttons and the files of my project are not recognized as files protected by a VSS2005 project.   Any help Hi Dean, I don't know how to get environment variables in VB. Perhaps someone in VB forums to know better http://forums.m ...Show All

• SQL Server Search

  I have asp.net C# web application I want to search jobvacancy details using jobrole. if user did not select any value I want to select all the details including null values.  this Jobvacancy table has JobRole feild and it allow to insert null values, this is my stored procedure [CODE] CREATE PROCEDURE JobVacancy ( @JobRole varchar (50) ) as Select NoOfVacancies,JobRole from JobVacancy where JobRole LIKE @JobRole + '%' [/CODE] when I u ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Building a cab which should install an app and install it to run at startup...

  I noticed that you can build a cab/cabs within VS 2003. Is there a way to create a shortcut within this cab that starts your app when the device starts I'd like to do this so it would build the correct cab, perhaps by script, every time I run BUILD CAB. Anyone got any ideas, or am I nuts Thanks! I was able to do that it vs2003 (admit, I like vs05 better). Anyway, take your cab.inf file and do something like this (in a .bat file) ...Show All

• .NET Development What would you do if you were me? (2.0 or 1.1)

  Hello to you all professionals out there, I wonder if I can get your professional thought on my question. I have been offered two projects. One is quite new and it will have to be done in ASP.NET 2.0 using C# and SQL Server 2005 in an office which is about 40 miles from where I live, which means I have to drive 80 miles each day. The other is to continue with an existing project which is in VB.NET(windows) and SQL Server  2000 (fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Resizable Geometries

  Hi there, how do I implement resizable geometries Let's say I have CombinedGeometry, which consists of a rectangle and a circle. I use XOR type of join. Please not that I do everything by the code force. Lets say the region for the that CombinedGeometry got resized. How do I resize my geometry appropriately Should kind of 'cache' every element into variables and change the size of those elements or there's a different way for doing that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office get range from excel sheet of separate columns using c#

  hi, I want to get range of separate columns from sheet in excel. for example: I want the entire columns: "A", "D", "F" Can I do it in one line statement or whether I need to do it in three steps: sheet1.get_Range("A",...) sheet1.get_Range("D",...) sheet1.get_Range("F",...) Thanks Koby You may want to ask this of ...Show All

• Visual C# what is ADO.net??

  I know nothing about ADO.net, Is it something about DataBase Access What can I do with ADO It is helpful , say, do I need learn someting about ADO I work on windows client programming mostly. Any help will be appreciated. ADO.NET is a set of classes and interfaces that abstracts the acces to a database. For instance you can work with Oledb* and work with ayn database or you can use Sql* for accessing the SQL server or you can use Oracle* ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Implements Different to VB

  When I create a call such as... Implements Class.Events ...in VB 2005 Express Edition VB displays all the methods and procedures (etc) on the same page it is called. This doesn't seem to happen in VC# 2005 Express Edition (well not that I can see anyway). My question then is how can I have the same methods and procedures appear in VC# Thanks, Ryan Hi Andreas! I tried it again a ...Show All