edwin220's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic populating toolbox

  Greetings everyone. I use VB 2005 Express Edition. If I click a "new project" the toolbox is popouated with the common tools but also with special buttons (registered ocx) I like such as "round soft button". But now I load a VB 6 project and the wizard tries to convert it into VB 2005. The special buttons are now greyed-out and the wizard compains that some tools are missing. However, they are clicked in the "choose toolbox items". If, for example, I click another tool item in the list, it appears again in grey in the toolbox. Now what! I do not know how to make the grey tool items active. Has someone out ...Show All

• Windows Forms ReportDocument.PrintToPrinter

  I am trying to get a ReportDocument to be printed using print to PrintToPrinter I get the following errors when the code runs. The first I get if I use a Try - Catch statement the other I get with just the PrintToPrinter statement and no try-catch. can anyone help me CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LogOnException: Logon failed.    at  . K(String  , Engin ...Show All

• Visual C# How use (c#+API) to modify (REGEDIT) to change the IE Homepage

  How use (c#+API) to modify (REGEDIT) to change the IE Homepage ...Show All

• Windows Forms When/Where should I instantiate the control when placing on the designer

  I'd like to pre-populate some properties of a control when drag'ndrop from the toolbox onto the custom designer. When should I set these properties During the onselection, drag event, or somewhere else Thanks, Alan the link provided for the behavior service appears to be dead. I found this white paper written by Jim Galasyn that is supposed to have info on Behavior services.  I haven't read it yet but i wanted to post the link before I forgot. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/DSExtend.asp You can view Jim’s blog here h ...Show All

• Visual Studio using chart componet outside of reportviewer

  All I want to do is display a simple chart on a web page. I know I can create report file, add it there and display in reportviewer, that's pretty straightforward. But what I am curious about is if there is a way to use charting component directly. Not that there is anything wrong with doing it through reportviewer, but all those frames, scripts and all other verbose output that it generates seem a little excessive for my purpose. I am aware that there are 3rd party components to do that, but I thought I'd inquire about using built-in control first. If anybody can point how to add and reference chart objects directly it is greatl ...Show All

• Visual C++ CComboBox dropdown won't stay down

  I construct and create a CComboBox in a dialog (not from a template) and load it with strings (CBS_DROPDOWNLIST style). I give the box plenty of vertical size (~150 pixels) to draw the dropdown. I want to use the combo box to overlay portions of a list control to allow chosing options for "fields" in the list control. The combo box appears in the proper position, with the proper size, with the loaded strings. When the dropdown arrow is clicked, the dropdown list appears only momentarily and immediately closes up. It doesn't stay "dropped down." I can otherwise select entries in the box by typing or scrolling but I can' ...Show All

• Visual C++ Running a very simple Win32 app on a comp without VC++ 2005 Express

  Hi! I have installed VC++ 2005 Express and the Platform SDK according to the instructions on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx Compiling and running the following program on the dev computer works like a charm: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/simple_window.html I then changed to release-mode, turned off debugging in the project properties and copied the .exe to another computer without VC++ 2005 Express on. I pretty much expected problems, so I wasn't very surprised when I got the error message saying that there was something wrong with the program configuration, like the one here: http://forums ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Sending Message in a network

  Hi all, I'm looking for a way to send message from my computer to a certain computer in a LAN. Any idea how to do that in .Net. Best regards... There are a few parameters by which the scope of you question can be narrowed. 1. If you are using a regular desktop machine, then .NET would be the better place to post this question rather than .NET Compact Framework(NETCF).  NETCF has fewer features than the full .NET framework and is primarily intended for devices. 2. If you want to send a piece of information to a person, you need some way to identify the entity you are talking to. This can be an email add ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to prevent an enabled Button from making clicked movement

  Hi, I have a Usercontrol on which buttons and other controls  can be spawned, kind of like a forms designer. Now, I want to be able to drag such controls around to alter their position on the Usercontrol. I tried this by adding the three mouse handlers (up,down,move) to each newly created control, respectively pointing to three functions in my Usercontrol w ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to initialize an independent display using CreateDC

  I am trying to initialise a second display as an independent display on my machine using:    CreateDC("\\\\.\\DISPLAY2", NULL, NULL, &demode); but I keep getting error code 0x709. The "\\\\.\\DISPLAY2" is the string returned from EnumDisplayDevices The devmode structure has been initiailised with basic information about the display (height, width, freq, color depth) which I know works with ChangeDisplaySettings if I extend the desktop onto the second display. The error code is described as "The printer name is invalid. " in visual studio. I can get everything to work fine if the Windows desktop is extended onto the sec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions BindingSource Navigation

  Hi, I've got a Winform with a number of controls that are directly bound to a bindingsource, I've also created a list box and a combo box that will be used for quick record selection. The problem is that both the list box and combo box, have a custom query source. What I would like to know is how to navigator to the selected record and how to change the other control to the same record. eg. If the user selects a record from the List Box, I want all the bound controls to go to that record and also the combo box to go to that record as well. I've tried to use the Bindingsouce Find method but I get a FormatException error. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Basic FolderBrowser .exe files

  I have got the folderbrowser but it only browses through folder and not applications like exe. files. Anyway how i can make it show .exe files   ...Show All

• SQL Server Date Format

  Hi, I want my query should return a content of date field in 'MMM-YYYY' format. Can Anyone help me to get this There is no built in function to do that. You can use the date functions like datename to get theappropiate results. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I execute an SQL Command with an ODBCConnection and MySQL database?

  I have tried many times in many different ways to get this to work.  When I try to compile the code below I get the error message on this line of code " Dim myCmd As New SqlCommand(mySQL, cn)" then I get the error message "Value of Type 'System.Data.ODBC.ODBCConnection' cannot be converted to 'System.Data.SQLClient.SQLConnection'. When I comment out these lines "D im myCmd As New SqlCommand(mySQL, cn)myCmd.ExecuteNonQuery() " then the error message disappears.  This means that there are no errors with the ODBCConnection.  I cannot test the connection because to do that I would need to be able use an S ...Show All

• SQL Server Slowly Changing Dimension Task CRASHES SSIS

  We have successfully built a SSIS ETL implementation for a data mart.  Most of our dimension loads are using the slowly changing dimensions task.  We successfully built every package and had 1 complete successful load. We have made a modification to one of the tables that now has 16 mil records in it.  I open the dimension's package and it takes 30 sec - 1 minute to validate.  When I go to the Data Flow tab and attempt to open the Slowly Changing Dimension task, SSIS will freeze up.  I will get no response for hours.  I my testing so far SSIS has yet to come back. My CPU usage is b ...Show All