mikeparris's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Tooltip redisplay issue

  I have an issue with tool tips being redisplayed once a checkbox is checked/unchecked or a radiobutton is selected.  The tips display just fine initially. Steps to reproduce: Create a new form Drag a checkbox on the form Add the following code to the Load event of the form: ToolTip tip = new ToolTip (); tip.IsBalloon = true ; tip.ToolTipIcon = ToolTipIcon .Info; tip.ToolTipTitle = "Sample ToolTip ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataRepeater question

  I have a datatable which is the source for a DataRepeater. In this datatable I have returned 3 fields - one field lists the number of days, the next the users name and the other the users department name. I then present the information in a DataRepeater - which works fine. I now need to put those DataRepeater row in italics, if the number of days field is 0.5. Is there a way to do this i.e. have certain rows in italics and other ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System glimport - "Global lists import complete"

  When glimport completes sucessfully, it should display "Global lists import complete" (just like the other work item type authoring commands do: glexport, witimport and witexport) Hi Yes. It is supposed to display the import completion message. I will file a bug on this. Thanks Sagar ...Show All

• SQL Server AS2005 September CTP Memory Error

  I get "Memory error: While attempting to store a string, a string was found that was larger than the page size selected. The operation cannot be completed." while executing query set with cube browser in SQL Server BI Dev Studio. The same error I get while executing query with VB code (via ADOMD). The source of the error is AS2005 OLEDB Provider. One important information: I have installed Sept CTP on clean Windows XP Pro, there were no previous ...Show All

• Visual C# renaming a file in c#

  i use: fiFileInfo.CopyTo(Path.ChangeExtension(fiFileInfo. FullName + fiFileInfo.Extension, ".enc"), false); to rename a file (eg: ***.ppt -> ***.ppt.enc). if the file is really big (400mb), this take 6-7 minutes. is there a better way to rename files regards meeeeeeeeeep File.Move will rename a file for you. Not sure how much faster it is than the above. There's no File.Rename, to my surpris ...Show All

• Visual Basic why so many issues with ADO to load databases! Help

  I have logged many hours trying to do something so simple I used to do with Access database macros, that is to automatically read a text file and load it into a table inside the database Access, but now I installed SQL database express and in VS 2005, I created a database with one table called Stat and it looks like is up to me to write code to load it. Here is the simple code I managed to dig up and it has several issues. Issue; why doe ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I use spelling checking and grammar checking in my windows application

  Hi Friends, I'm now creating an application to check spelling and grammar like MS Word can do. I don't know how can I use these features in my application, could you please help me. Regards, You have three options 1 - write the code to do the checking yourself 2 - use Word to do the checking for you ( which means your code will require Word on all target machines ) 3 - find another existing compo ...Show All

• Visual C++ passing commandline arguments to an external exe

  hi there everybody, i 've got a problem with passing commandline arguments. i prepared an exe in C for test, which take some arguments and puts them back on screen with printf. now when i call this exe from my c# program no matter what i did, the first argument is always the adress of the exe like c:\documents and settings .... how can i prevent my program to send this argument. or can i rearrange arguments.by passing this as t ...Show All

• SQL Server public server role

  In exploring permissions that users have, I find that they all have VIEW ANY DATABASE permission which they inherit from the public server role. You can see this by selecting the Permissions page on the Server Properties dialog and highlighting "public". The permission shows as having been granted by sa. This is listed as a server role. However, it does not show in the list of server roles and I can't find any documentation for it (RTM ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error during setup

  It seems I'm getting one error after another... my newest is the error 29112. -- Dialog -- Error 29112.Team Foundation Report Server Configuration: Report Server is not properly configured or the Reporting Services Web site could not be reached. Use the Report Server Configuration tool to confirm that Report Server is configured properly and that the Reporting Service Web site can be found before running the installation again. For more informat ...Show All

• .NET Development Best Practices: Generating Serial Numbers which contain informations?

  Hello Forum Users, i am working on a Software which can be registered by people and companies for variable period like 3 months, 6 months or one year and so on. For example, we receive the order from company X, purchasing the software license for 6 Months. Now we would like to use our own Serial number generator and pass in the name of the company and the period and generate a serial number, which will be delivered to the custome ...Show All

• Windows Forms SelectedValue DGVComboBoxCell??

  Hi! please help me, how can i select a value in a datagridviewcomboboxcell i'm using a dataset as datasource . . ex combobox contains: Display member        Value member       ABC                         1       BCA    &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to Reset Form and Delete DataSet

  Hi everyone, I have a form that gets filled with all kinds of goodies (listboxes, treeviews, textboxes, labels, etc). A dataset also gets created programatically with a single table (6 columns and probably 100 rows). I'm looking for a way to quickly reset the form back to its original state and delete the dataset. I found: Application.Restart() which looks like it resets the form like I want it to. Two questions: Any repercu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot start debug?

  Hi, I've just installed Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, and have now started learning the C# language, I already know C and C++. When I try to start my program with debugging (F5) I get this error: Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.  The binding handel is invalid. Does anyone know how I can fix this You are likely running into this problem  which has a couple possib ...Show All

• Windows Forms Non-responsive IExplorer 6.0

  well then, since I am new to this forum, could you please direct me to the right forum for this question I can't seem to find it on the list of numerous categories. Thanks, Devin ...Show All