cramer-creek's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ XP look

  hello, How can I give my application the XP theme if my application uses a separated Dll that hold all resources MON205 wrote: hello, How can I give my application the XP theme if my application uses a separated Dll that hold all resources Your app needs a manifest file (either embedded or external). I doubt whether the fact that your resources are loaded from a DLL would affect anything here. ...Show All

• Windows Forms VB or C#, and why?

  I come from a C/C++ background and never touched VB much until about a year ago. I was amazed at how simple it was to use COM components in VB. It was much easier than doing it in C++. So I can see why people write VB code instead of C++, it is much faster and easier to use. But, now that Microsoft changed VB to VB.NET, is ...Show All

• Visual Basic FileInformation, File Comments from File summary tab.

  If you right click on the file in windows XP or Server 2003 probably other OS as well (not sure) in properties you will see Summary tab. There are in simple view fields Title, Subject, Author, Category, Keywords, Comments. How in VB.Net I can access those fields I need if possible read / write access. I could not find it in System.IO.FileInfo, or in System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo. Any other places I could look have you tried using the DSOFile.dll Try this link, http://support.microsoft.com/ id=224351 cheers V ...Show All

• Visual Basic ToolStripDropDownButton item.

  Well i have a toolstrip1 at the top of my app, i then have a ToolStripDropDownButton1 on it which i have named menu On the menu there are a couple of catagorys: Most useful, less useful etc I want them to be able to there own programs to the catagorys, so i added a button when this button is clicked it brings up the openfiledialog, here is the code i used for that: Dim myStream As IO.Stream Dim openFileDialog1 As New OpenFileDialog() openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\" openFileDialog1.Filter = "exe files (*.exe)|*.exe" openFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 2 openFileDialog1.RestoreDirectory = True If openFil ...Show All

• SQL Server Basic Connection

  Ok. Basically I do not know how to access any database files from the SQL Server. Can someone help me please. How do I access the files from another computer. Hi,   you can easily upload files using the import/export wizard in sql server...and it can be done either on the system database i.e. usually master database or you can create a new database by right click on the system database-->new database and lets say we name it as Nov and in this database or any other u do right click in the options there is one option TASKS--->import files or export files...somethin like that...n then an import export wizard will come and then j ...Show All

• Visual Studio Border questions

  crystal reports for visual studio 2005 im trying to emulate a grid by placing field objects next to each other and turning on single line borders. First question: Is there better way 2) If a field value for a particular row is null the borders on that "cell" dont appear. Is there some way to force this 3) No matter what I have tried there always ends up being a small gap between the verical borders in one row and the horizontal ones of the next row. Any suggestions as to how to deal with this thanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic Get ANSI values for a char?

  Is there a way to return the ANSI value for a char or string   For example, is there a way to return 34 for " or 65 for A Thanks Dave there may be a simpler way, but this works - Dim bChar As Byte = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes( "A" )(0) ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to make a popupmenu of Addin project shows up every time when start up VS2005.

  I followed the example in this link http://www.mztools.com/articles/2004/MZ003.htm which is recommended by Microsoft engineer to build a popup menu in context menu of code editor for my Addin project for VS2005. It works every single time during the time I debug my addin project. However, when I try to use my addin project with ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_UISetup event, the popup menu does not show up in context menu at all. I also tried to use ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_Startup event then the popup menu shows up but not the items because it throws the error "Value does not fall within the expected range." when it executes the line com ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagridview Printing

  I would like to know how to print the contents of a DatagridView control in vb.net 2005(Windows forms).I would like to use printpreview,printdialogbox controls also. Is there any article or source available anywhere. Kindly help me .   I would be also very interested by an answer to this question. Thanks in advance, Joannes ...Show All

• .NET Development Best way to launch a .net application (with parameters) from another .net app.

  I'm trying to launch a windows installed .net application - often with parameters - for instance using file associations - from another .net application. The obvious way to do that is, once you have the path: Process.Start(path, parameters); Although this does launch the app, there are some problems: 1. The lauched app. uses another 'Settings' file than when launching from the start menu. For instance if I save the form's location and size in the settings, it's easy to see the diff. 2. When using 'Process.Start' the ApplicationDeployment .IsNetworkDeployed will always be false. So my question is: What is the best way to la ...Show All

• Visual C# HELP: Not working like it should

  I'm working through the "SAMS Teach Yourself C# in 24 hours" book using the free download Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Beta. I don't know if a lot's changed between the book being written in 2002 and the release of the beta but a few things don't seem to work exactly the same as in the book. Hence, some sections of code won't compile without giving errors. I've gone over the code meticulously and can confirm that I've entered it correctly. Is there a way to get the 2005 Express beta to behave like the older versions VS2002 was the first version of C#.  The second was called C#1.1, aka VS2003.  ...Show All

• Windows Forms VB.NET 2003 No Touch Deployment

  Please give me a link/reference where i can learn the .net 2003 No touch deployment. Here are couple of links to get started. http://www.datadirect.com/developer/net/faq_deploy/index.ssp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchno-touchdeploymentinnetframework.asp Thanks, Sameer ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to hide a SubReport programmatically?

  Hello, We have 4 subreports on one rdlc file. The user can select any number of reports to display. How can we hide or display the selected subreports Since we have all 4 subreports in one rdlc file, the un-selected subreports display "Error: Subreport could not be shown" Please help. Thanks. What you can do is to associate the "Visibility" property of the subreport to a parameter you can set in the report. By assigning true or false for each parameter corresponding to each subreport, you can show or hide each subreport. ...Show All

• .NET Development HTTPwebrequests and cookies?

    I have a class that will do two way interactions with webpages and it will also interact with webservices. I have a client who needs this to periodicall watch a page and gather information displayed by the page. This class would log onto the page just fine, however, cookies are required and I have no idea how they work or how to add cookies because I'm totally unknowledgeable about cookie protocols ot cookie manangement.   Could someone help   Public Class Webpost         Private m_UserAgent As String         Private m_PostDataPrelog As Stri ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Does Beta3 Refresh support Workgroups?

  After discovering that TFS really needs a separate PC as a domain controller I'm considering reformatting all my hard drives and installing Windows XP SP2 on my machines to give me a Workgroup development environment for a small team (5 developers) containing: 1 x Team Foundation Server (2.2 GHz + 1G RAM + Windows XP SP2) for data and application tier 1 x Build machine (1.5 GHz + 512M RAM + Windows XP - SP2) for continuous integration 5 x Developer machines (2.0 GHz + 256M [1G pref] RAM + Windows XP - SP2) - Windows XP for client tier + Visual Studio Question 1: Would you agree with the above spec What adjustmen ...Show All