JLF's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Proportional scrollbar

  I want to add proportional scrollbars to a window: ie a scrollbar whose visible bar length is proportional to the amout of the document or image which is being displayed (like the ones on this window in fact). I have added scrollbars to my window and can move the document around with them but I cannot alter the length of the bar to reflect the size of the document. Also I cannot reach the very end of the document because when the scrol ...Show All

• Windows Forms Notify

  Hi ALL I want to make my application receives events from the system that a specific process has been started or ended how to do this Thx all Hi, Could you please tell us what type of events would you like to receive from the system Thank you, Bhanu. ...Show All

• .NET Development FindForm always returns null

  Hy I am using a UserControl Which is hostet in a MFC CDialog!  It's Create via Ole Mechanism CreateInstance(__uuidof(ToUserControlInt)); and the Parent Window is set via ::SetParent((HWND)poUserControlPtr->HWnd,this->m_hWnd); So far everything works fine! But knwo I want to open a Modal Form out of the User Control. But I don't know how to set the Owner Property of the System.Windows.Forms.Form. I ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to Programetically Enforce the Password Complexity?

  Hi all, i have a problem in enforceing password complexity programmetically. iam able to set other password setting like min len, min age, max age, account lockout. please help me out, if any one new regarding this issue. thank you. This forum is for C++ language issues. There is an MSDN discussion group for security programming issues: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.platformsdk.securi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SDK for low speed connection?

  Far from the town, i have a low speed connection.. :-( For me, 1 Go is a dream I will never reach .....!!! Is there any other way to get the Last SDK You have two main options: Download the SDK using a download manager that can stop and resume if you have internet connection issues. Many will also allow you to set the priority of the download, so that it will not affect the total speed of your internet connection Download ...Show All

• SQL Server Version Control for Stored Procs, Views, etc.

  Does VS SourceSafe provide version control / tracking for stored procs and the like If not what can I use besides a manual log Database Hi, Of course it does. Source Safe can handle any files. But you have to handle the check outs etc manually via SourceSafe, it's not integrated with QA or other tools. Regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reporting DataSet Using Crystal Report in VB.NET 2005 App

  How can I report un-typed DataSet/DataTable using Crystal Reports I can’t define a schema at design time as my DataSet/DataTable is build dynamically and number of columns varies with each run. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is it possible to use a text from a previous page for the Form Post Parameters for another page

  Hi, all. Is there a way to use text from one of the previous pages as one of the Form Post Paremeters for another page Here's what I'm trying to do. Whenever there's a new record created by my application, there's an internal number that gets assigned to this record and that's how it's referenced through out the system. I have a web test that creates a record and then needs to search for it based on the internal # assigned to it. Every ti ...Show All

• .NET Development Why develop in 64Bit

  Hi! > I have a kind of naive question. I now have the ability to develop on > XP X64 (i.e. Windows X64, VS 2005, AMD64) but if I'm writing a fully > managed app in C# why should I bother using Windows X64 Do I get any > advantage in doing it this way, I mean a managed app written on a > 32bit OS is the same as one written on a 64bit OS isn't it If you do no interop, then managed apps are executed on the native CLR. So it does no ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista UI Graphics Application and Guideline Release Date

  Hello,     We are working on updating our application for release in early 2006 and we would like to update our UI to follow guidelines of Windows Vista. Is there a beta for the guideline or when is the official release of the guidelines      We noticed that the icons appear to be generated from a 3D based graphics application. Can you give any insite on the system used It doesn't appear to be Illustrator or an ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Console application in 'Running Programs' control panel?

  Hi, When I create a Forms application for Compact Framework, it appears in the Settings->Memory->Running Programs control panel. However, when I create a console application, it does not. Is there a way I can 'register' my application in this way, to indicate if it is still running, and if needed, to kill it No, you can not. Your application needs to have a window for that. Consider creating another appli ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Apply VSTO to all Word and Excel documents

  Hi, I'm developing an application that show document information in a Task Pane. I did it with a VSTO but I have the problem that this solution only applies to one document, but i need the application loads for every word and excel document opened. How is the best way to solve this situation 1- Create directly a shared add-in that handles events related with Open/Close/New Documents and show the Task Pane 2 - Leave the VSTO sol ...Show All

• SQL Server Converting Integer values to datetimes

  We have inherited an appointments database that has a table tblAppointments Within this table there are 2 fields, ApptFrom & ApptTo, these are the appointment start & finish times. My problem is, the values in these fields are held as integers ranging from 0 - 288. I have worked out the scale for the integers, it is based on a 24hr clock with each segment representing 5mins Eg: 0 = 0:00 12 = 1.00 24 = 2.00 36 = 3.00 ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Performance compared to DTS

  I'm new to SSIS, and trying to feel my way around but I've got some questions about performance. I've used DTS for a number of years, and I read in Donald Farmers blog that SSIS was about 7 times faster than DTS (mileage may vary).  Well, I may be doing something very wrong, because I'm getting about 7 times slower! I have around 40 dimension tables, most of them have less than 100 rows.  Only two have 60,000 rows.  Then I have a ...Show All

• SQL Server MDAC and SQL Server 2005

  In the SQL Server 2005 upgrade advisor help file it states the following... "Upgrade Advisor detected an older version of MDAC. MDAC versions before MDAC 2.8 SP1 do not support named instances. To allow application connections to named instances, upgrade to MDAC 2.8 SP1." I've installed our application which uses ADO (not ADO.NET) to connect to an SQL Server named instance on a client machine.  Our application installs MDAC 2.6.  ...Show All