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• Windows Forms Floating Form within a Form

  Hello, For the past couple of days I've been perplexed as to how to create a certain effect with Windows Forms. Basically I'm looking to create a floating form within a form, so to speak. A user interface similar to the one employed by MS Access and NetTools is what I am trying to emulate. Screenshots for NetTools can be found here: http://users.pandora.be/ahmadi/nettools.htm and everybody is familiar with Access. I appreciate any help. Thanks, ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Opening Serial Port more than two times this error occures “The Port ‘COMx:’ does not exist”

   Hi all! This is my first post here, but I am really baffled by this issue, so here goes, I hope someone can help. The hardware this is running on is an Axim X50 with WM 5.0. I am using a CF+ Serial Card as a com port. I have access to CompactFlash cards from Quatech as well as from Socket and Ratoc and have this problem with all of them. This program runs fine twice then when I start it a third time I get the error “P ...Show All

• SQL Server Periodic backup issues..

  Just recently I've started getting errors 7694 which states that the backup command was not able to pause the fulltext catalog. How can I address this problem I'm looking into trying to pause the ft service manually during the backup routines, but it seems like I shouldn't have to go to that extreme... This error returns when SQL server fails to communicate with sql fulltext service(msftesql) service. Have ...Show All

• Visual Basic Appending lines to a text file

  Hi I got a program wich stores some values and every time it saves it ads another line in a txt file but I want that when there are 3 lines in it.   so how do I make that the next time you save it saves on the next line and when there are 3 lines it exports al the lines to a new file, but when i exports again it adds them to the previous 3 If you are writing the method My.Computer.FileSystem.W ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Run time error 1004

  I am attempting to delete a range of cells in an Excel spreadsheet using a Macro. The range is one row by 8 columns. However, when the line of VBA code actually doing the deletion is reached I get a "Run-time error '1004': Delete method of Range class failed." The actual line causing the error is: Selection.Delete Shift:=x1Up where I have previously selected the range. All of the cells in the range do have data a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Why The H*ll Doesn't This Work

  Hi There Module Module1 Sub Main() My .Computer.Printers.DefaultPrinter.WriteLine( "Hello World WithOut a Printer" ).Print() End Sub End Module Cheers Bronco Billy "Beer and Fast Women are Ok... No Cigarettes or Hard Liquor Allowed Hi, In Visual Studio 2005 we've tried but could not find a good enough solution for My.Computer.Printers. Due to the resource constrain, this fea ...Show All

• Smart Device Development need help in opening point to point GPRS datalink

  I havea problem in mention above i have seen MSDN but nothing to find plz send me the code of C# ASP.net thanks basharat If you mean a direct connection from one device to another over GPRS like you can do with two normal modems that is not possible. You might be able to establish GPRS connection to the internet from both devices and establish TCP/IP connection from one device to another assuming your carrier allows for incoming ...Show All

• Visual C# Threads and Windows Form UI

  I am having trouble figuring how to asynchronously tell a forms user controls to write to the forms UI. For example, I'd like to take 2 labels on a windows forms and infinitely change their lable.texts property asynchronously while also maintaining the forms functionality such as moving, resizing, minimizing and maximizing. I have tried this process - Start a new windows application Add 2 labels to the form On load, create two threads and a gl ...Show All

• .NET Development runtime error

  I hope someone can help me out here. Since a few days my website gives a runtime error. I haven't changed anything, and my provider says he didn't change anything, and he can't solve the problem. Take a look at www.gratisverlanglijstje.nl/default.aspx Hey, It's impossible to tell because your app does not allow us to see the stack trace prior to the termination. You can try and reproduce the problem on y ...Show All

• Visual C# How to loop through System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut Enumeration

  Hi, I have to loop through the System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut Enumeration for set up automatically (reading from a database) the MenuItem shortcut. The following method will return a shortcut: private System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut GetMenuShortCut(string strMenuID)         {             System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut shrcutSalida = new Shortcut();       ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using VB.NET Compiler as an older version

  Is there a way to make the VB 2005 Beta 2 Program compile to an older version e.g. VB6 The MSBuild Compatability Toolkit allows you to replace the "standard" MSBuild files (which tell Visual Studio how to build you application) with versions that can target .NET 1.0 or 1.1. The scenario where this would be useful is if you are using Visual Studio 2005 to develop your application, but you want to build application ...Show All

• .NET Development Where is mscorcfg.msc(beta 2)?

  I've installed dotnetfx from vwd.img and now I don't know where to find mscorcfg utility.I'm using windows xp(sp2) What's wrong with configuration utilities looks like they are trying to "shed some pounds" from the framework download (since Java is about half the size) i believe that my mscorcfg came with .NET 1.1 which was a critical hotfix for SP2 via WinUpdate - there does not appear to be one associated with ...Show All

• Visual C++ Type casting question

  I need to convert one legacy C++ type to .NET type.I would like to know which is the preferred one.I am writing code in managed C++. int a; 1)System::Int32 i = (System::Int32)a; 2)System::Int32 i = Convert::ToInt32(a); Thanks in advance Jimmy Martin, This actually confused me.This syntax looks like legacy C++ casting.Is this preferred in C++.NET What is your reason for using the same ...Show All

• SQL Server Notification Services - Chronicle does not get updated

  Hi, I'm currently developing a NS application warning subscribers when their pay day is due for paying the rent of their student home. I have an external database containing contract data. My application should monthly send an email to the student 10 days before he/she should pay the monthly fee. Following the example provided in the book of Shyam Pather, I created a Chronicle, making sure that only contract data of newly inserted contr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Properties.Settings gives error :"0, 0 is not a valid value for Int32"

  Happens everytime, don't know why... Take a form... In properties: ApplicationSettings...Location...new...opens up a standard window to pick a New Application Setting...Take the default value 0;0 or make that anything you want and then somehow that 0;0 turns into 0,0. Now when I edit it in the Settings.settings and type in 0;0 instead of 0,0 ...pop-up says cann't convert 300;00  to an instance of System.Drawing.Size... Am I missing somethi ...Show All