Act_of_Bob's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro Form clattered at design time. How to change pages?

  With many controls added to a form I am beginning to sense a problem. During runtime many controls will be invisible on the first page but when subsequent pages are chosen they will appear. It is determined programmatically. I do not see an option to choose pages at design time. It would allow me to see some controls much better. In Visual dBASE Plus such convenience if taken for granted and much appreciated. How can I do it here Thanks. Hi Alex, You talk about controls on a form but then you mention "pages." Are you talking about a form that has a Pageframe and then working with controls on the pages of the Pageframe On the pa ...Show All

• Visual Basic Public Const issue

  I converted a VB6 project to .NET. The 2 .bas files in the project became .vb of course. The mainline .vb module declares a group of variables as public. The procedures in the other module (.vb file) thinks these variables are undeclared when they are used. How do I properly declare these variables so they are globally accessible in the whole solution Public Module Public Const Foo as integer = 42 End Module ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Application Design

  Ok I'm new to VFP all together so I am looking for some reassurance in a design issue I have currently. So far- I have to pull info from an ODBC connection (SQL server) yet that doesn't contain all the info that my boss wants for a personnel database. Nor is it normalized in my opinion. Yet I can work with some of the info that is in it. So I created a table that contains the info that doesn't exist in the ODBC table & then joined the two tables. I did this to eliminate double entry of the same info YET if I started over from scratch with my own tables, I would know that my database would be normalized & would “flow” easier in the ...Show All

• Visual Basic vb and outlook

  Hi I have made an extra butto witch apears when the rightmouse button is klicked, it apears when I press it in mail and my agenda, but I only want it to apear in my mail becouse tis an button to archive mail so my question is is it possible that the button only apears when an e-mail message is selected As you are proposing to use Outlooks internal VB which I'm fairly sure is VBA and not VB.Net - these forums are for VB.NET questions. VBA is a very different product from VB.NET. Y ou may find more assistance in following which specifcially deals with MS Office development. · ...Show All

• Windows Forms Developer enabled

  Why not allow, the users use a control to use the desingher features Hi, I've managed to get the DesignSurface working, including the ISelectionService. But I can't figure out how to disable the DesignSurface on-the-fly... Is it possible to do this, and if so, can someone point me in the right direction Thanks in advance, Marcel ISelectionService example: ---------------- ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Selecting the lowest Integer

  Hello again! The program is coming along great... I have a situation where I randomly generated 4 integers between 1-50 What I want to do next is have the program select the lowest and highest numbers from the 4 different dim integers. Can anyone out there lead me in the right direction thanks! Hi, You could write your own implementation of a sorting routine but a neat little thing I found was that you can use the properties of the List class to do your sorting for you like so: Dim ranGen As System.Random = New System.Random() Dim int1 As Integer Dim int2 As Integer Dim in ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Xaml Intellisense

  Hey all, I'm having trouble getting XAML Intellisense working. I downloaded the Feb Orcas CTP, installed it, etc., and I am getting the new project templates and everything compiles fine when I use it - but I'm not getting any of the intellisense that I see so commonly in the videos and screecasts on MSDN TV and Channel 9. Can anyone help Thanks lots. :) Hey Rob, Thanks. The files you listed were present in the Schemas directory. After some fiddling around, I came across a blog comment someone made about not getting Intellisense in some other xml-based feature. He mentioned catalog.xml, so I figure ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ? Bug report, "Area" classification - how to add new classifications ?

  When you create a bug (using the "Agile Development" template), in the classification group there is a drop-down list item called "Area". The only thing in the list is the name of the root project. How do you add other things to this list Is it through editing "Development Project Plan.mpp" or "Test Development Plan" with Microsoft Project If so, is there any way to add items without using Microsoft Project Thanks for any help! Hi Matthew - Within the Team Explorer, right click on your name and select the "Team Project Settings" submenu and then "Areas and Iterations".  This will bring up a dialo ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity Properties and Conditions

  We have created a Login activity. It currently has two properties, AllowedAttempts and Authenticated . AllowedAttempts is like any other property, but the Authenticated  property should be read-only and its value should only be changed inside the activity as part of the activity execution. What is the proper way to implement this After adding the property through the designer, I could go into code and remove the property Setter. But since the property is read-only and not meant to be modified by the workflow, I should remove the dependancy property definition as well right If I'm correct, this should be a simple C# property w ...Show All

• SQL Server display images with Reporting Services

  hi all, i'm very new to Reporting Services and i did not design a report containing images before. i have all my pictures in an image column in an SQL Server database table; i have a report that queries this table. when i run the report i get the following: Build complete -- 0 errors, 0 warnings The value expression used in textbox ‘label’ returned a data type that is not valid. Preview complete -- 0 errors, 1 warnings can anyone tell me what settings do i need to make in order to see the pictures displayed in the report thanks, kowalsky I'm probably infringing some copyright here.. but... How to add ...Show All

• Windows Forms The best way to communicate with a windows service

  I have an Idea of creating an application. The application sould be a windows service. But what is I whant a windows forms application to comunicate with the Windows Service, what is the best way to do that Actually I was talking about using it on a local machine. I know the thing by sockes, but I though that there maybe was an  ...Show All

• .NET Development AD Authentication

  I have a windows application and I want users to authenticate using the AD domain. If the user is currently logged into the machine using an AD Account then my application has no problem authenticating. My issue is when the user is logged in using a local account then I get an error saying the domain can not be found. What do I need to do to authenticate users whose machines are not logged into the AD domain but do have accounts on the domain and is on the network I know it is possible because these users use outlook and log into the exchange server using these domain accounts. Below is my code for authenticating: DirectoryEntry entry = ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Combine Accounts

  Quick question, Don't know if this is possible or maybe a future enhancement. I have a live id that i use for messenger and spaces. It is my primary id; however, I do not have it set up for hotmail since it is an email account for another domain. I have another live id that i use for email only (hotmail). Is there a way to link the live id for email up to my main live id so that on live.com i can see my email from hotmail without having to switch between the two accounts. Thanks! You are doing a great job. Hi Exempo, To answer your question: no, you can't do that today. We know this is a problem ...Show All

• Visual Studio .net framework unable to install.

  [07/13/05,17:37:48] Starting Install.exe [07/13/05,17:37:48] Parsing switches from commandline: C:\DOCUME~1\Desktop\LOCALS~1\Temp\IXP000.TMP\Install.exe [07/13/05,17:37:48] SourceDir: C:\DOCUME~1\Desktop\LOCALS~1\Temp\IXP000.TMP\ [07/13/05,17:37:48] Install started [07/13/05,17:37:48] Checking system requirements [07/13/05,17:37:48] OS: Win NT [07/13/05,17:37:48] Ver: [07/13/05,17:37:48] SP: Service Pack 2 [07/13/05,17:37:48] Checking Internet Explorer Version [07/13/05,17:37:48] Looking for 5.0.2919.6307 [07/13/05,17:37:48] Found Internet Explorer Version: 6.0.2900.2180 [07/13/05,17:37:48] Internet Explorer Version is OK... [07 ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Reporting Services problems... urgent

  Hi Samba,   Can you or your friends  give some ideas on following douts.Please pass it to your friends who knows SQL reporting services also.Here is..           I have a requirement like this. I have 3 tables: . county table(state table), City Table and voter table.I need to generate report like this.All the voter information from each city and each state.   I did like this:   In the dropdown I populated all the  counties like adams,bergen,phily.. I am getting the reports for what ever the state user selected.that is fine.   Problem Area: But say if Ad ...Show All