LT Chia's Q&A profile

• Visual C# OpenFileDialog

  Ok. I have a openfiledialog object. On the Form Load event, the object opens. Is there a way for when it opens to select a file and close all by code No, OpenfileDialog is only for prompting the user, i suggest may be use  using System.IO (StreamReader) -Sibusiso   ...Show All

• .NET Development Framesets with ASP

  Hi, I am new to Web development with ASP/VS 2005, and I want to create a website that utilises framesets. I believe that there is no such object as a framset now (or atleast you can not create one in design view) and was wondering what is the equivalent. All I am really trying to achieve is a section across the top, section down the left side that remains throughout the website with only the contents in the middle changing. Thank ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista workflow embedding

  Hi, I am building a .net application which requires workflow to be built. Can somebody help me in jotting down what all .net embeddable workflow are available(i know about skelta and WWF though i don't know which is better). Is captaris and K2 provide embeddable workflow and is it financially viable to use these these tools just for embedding those tools api in .net application. If you can name others, that would be of great help ...Show All

• SQL Server stored procedure that performs a search is too cumbersome

  Hi I am new to this forum. I have a stored proc that conducts a search based on a number of parameters entered by the user. The way I am currently building the procedure is the following, this is one segment of the if/else structure: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --If latitude, longitude or distance are null and ProjectID and AnalysisTypeID are not ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How to make robot send an invitation?

  I am using Conversagent's BuddyScript to set up a robot. When the robot send a URL to the user, it should send a invitation to ask the user if open the URL in the activity window or not. But I don't know how to make the robot send the invitation as the bots encarta@conversagent .com does. Could you be kind to answer my question Think you! Here's code sample from the "W" bot dubyabot@hotmail.com that I ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting Configuration in VS2005

  Hi there, I'm trying to configure the remoting services and channels of an application using the app.config file in VS2005. It keeps giving me an error telling me that it... Could not find schema information for the element 'application' as well an error for every other child element under the <system.runtime.remoting> element. Here is the start of the configuration.... < configuration > <!-- Configiration of t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making a listview thread-safe

  All I have a listview that is populated by a number of threads running in the background. I currently have to use a mutex to make the listview threadsafe. Ie, before each thread tries to update the listview it waits on the listviewupdate mutex, updates it then releases the mutex. Although this works, I'd prefer to make it a little less "bodged" and would like to make the listview properly thread-safe without having to use a mutex. When ...Show All

• Visual Basic drawing lines on form

  Hi, jumping straight in from VB5. First pocket PC app. In old VB, it was possible to draw lines/shapes onto form as objects. now line/circle/etc on toolbox is not there Or do I need to code the drawing of these objects Thanks Simplefi Those controls don't exsist anymore, but look at LineControls sample found here http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/vb/   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office More problems with the permissions (Word, VSTO 2005)

  The last time I had such amount of time lost was using BizTalk 2004, I guess here it is going again with the Word / VSTO and permissions. Ok, here is what I am doing, and the results: 1- I’ve created a word document VSTO 2005, C#. 2- I’ve added a bookmark in the word document. 3- The word document was connected to a web service. 4- The word document loads data from the web service, and pla ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is IIS locally installed necessary?

  I did not want to load personal web server on my XP box.  I have a server farm here at my disposal.  However, I have not been able to use a test web server to create applications.  Everytime I try to create an application,&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Login form using database

  Hello, I have setup my database with an employee table using an ID row, and Pass row. I currently have a login page where Im using a standard IF statement where ID = something and Pass = something, then show next form. How do I set it up so that when the textbox's are filled in and the login button is clicked it will check the database and compare the row, and allow access Im sure it easy, but I havent found any tutorials on it. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with the Visual C++

  Hello. I'm a beginner in C++, and I bought a book to learn it. I reprinted program from this book, and pushed F7 to generate the program, But i saw error: Project : error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'cmd.exe' What is it Is it problem with download, or something else I have screenshot of this, but I don't know how to upload it May we see a code sample I understand you got it from a book, but I would like to r ...Show All

• Visual C# Dynamically changing the icon size based on screen size (mobile UI)

  Hi I am Shyam Manohar. In my project i have to design iconic based UI for a mobile application and i have deployed the code in various emulators available on .NET CF 2005.But as the screen size is different for different mobiles ..i have to scroll for clicking on a particular icon. My question is how can i change the size of icons dynamically according to the screen size of the mobile on which it is deployed.Is there any built in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Ruby Plug-In ?

    Ihave been really impressed with Managed code (C#) and Visual Studio over the last couple of years. But I am now pretty impressed by Ruby (and the RAILS Web fraemwork) Unfortunately the best Editors and few IDEs for Ruby seem to be weak  Java implementations, not a patch on the Visual Studio experience. I know Ruby is a very dynamic language, not so well suited to Visual Studio, but a Ruby Plug-In for Visula Studio, with robust ...Show All

• Visual Basic Xmlreader - Drawing a Blank...

  Hi all, Im really hopeing some one has come across this same problem, or can help me in some way. my problem is sending an xml document to sql server using the XmlReader fucntion. I have tested the xmlReader using a messagebox and the output is successful, so i know the reader is taking the xml value of the file, however once sent to the data base there is just blank row. Im using VB 2005, and sqs 2005 - the database is set up to allow ...Show All