smitprabhu's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Change output date format in xmlserializer

  I am using xmlserializer to output an object to an xml file but my customer can not read the default date format.  Is there a way to change the default format for dates   This is an example of a field.  This is a VB project.  <XmlIgnore()> _ Public Property transmissionCreationDate() As string Get transmissionCreationDate = __transmissionCreationDate End Get Set ( ByVal Value As String ) __tra ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System many applications sharing framework projects, and each on a different version

  I have several applications that share a set of framework projects. Each application uses a different version of the framework projects. Can I check out multiple versions to support multiple checked-out applications, or do I have to check out separately It might sound goofy at first, but originally we just created project references to the framework projects. But this assumed that all of our applications would always use the latest version ...Show All

• SQL Server How to reference different databases on different servers in one query

    Hi, I'm a novice to SQL Server, though I have some experience in Access. My problem is this: I have a table on my local database that I want to insert into a remove database on a different server What are the steps neccessary My local server name is 'HOME\SQLEXPRESS' Local database: 'MyDBTest', table name: 'dbo.Courses' (the fields are: ID, CourseName, TeacherID) The remot ...Show All

• Windows Forms HTML Viewer control

  Hello friends, I want to display html contents in a windows forms application these contents should be editable but i dont have any control which can do this. can anybody help me in this matter Is there any freely availeble control which can do this Rgds, Kiran Suthar You need some kind of html editor not just a webbrowser control, and fortunately it's available within internet explorer with mshtml, here's a cou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office When will be shared add-ins for other Office apps available?

  Hi, I am curious to know when will be share add-ins for Word, Excel, Visio and Power Point be added to VSTO Thanks, Doriak This has been an area of interest for some time within the team, and our PDC 2005 session featured early proof of concept demos with application-level customizations. However, surely it is still too early to declare with certainty the feature list etc. or timelines for VSTO v3. Ple ...Show All

• Visual C++ First painful steps with VC++ Express 2005 Beta 2 and DirectX9

  Hi! I am currently making my first experiences with .NET programming and the Beta 2. My first questsion is simple: Is there any way to rename the default "Form1" class/files (which are created when generating a new Forms project) in an easy way I solved the problem by searching for all occurences of "Form1" through the whole solution and replacing them by e.g. "MainWindow". This seems very complicated. My second question is more complex. I tr ...Show All

• Visual Basic Removing directory rights

  Anyone know how to removed a group from a directory i.e. if there was a group called "TempUsers" that had read rights and it was applied to c:\temp how can I remove "TempUsers" from the dir I can add the group.. just can't work out how to remove!! NM Check out this link for information: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.accesscontrol.directorysecurity.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Basic Opening Files of External Programs

  Hi friends, I am a new basic programmer.. I have 2 develop a program which stores files of diff. formats in some specific folder and then when prompted by user it should be opened in respective program. Like :: *.doc in word, *.pdf in Acrobat and so on.. ......................... Plz help mw with logic and basic code outline 2.. Hi Kebians, How fortunate you are to be learning in a vs2005 environment. What you want to do is a a simple file ...Show All

• Visual C# Index of a string within another string

  The ".IndexOf" functionality for determining the position of a char within a string is very useful, but I need to be able to do a similar thing with a string rather than a char. i.e. I would like to be able to say string1.IndexOf("string2") rather than just string1.IndexOf('c'). Is there simple functionality like this that I don't know about (or have just plain forgotten!) If not, what is the recommended strategy ...Show All

• Smart Device Development uninstall device emulator version 1.0 beta 2

  I am uninstalling vs2005 beta 2, and there seems to be an order that I should've uninstalled in but I didn't find out until afterwards. Now this device emulator software is stuck, installed on my computer and I can't get it off because it's asking for an msi file on a dvd that I don't have http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdteam/archive/2005/10/05/477539.aspx has the instructions about removing DMA patch. ...Show All

• SQL Server For loop container help with FTP

  I am createing a for loop which does the following: 1) queries a table, splits out each record into an individual flat file 2) The flat file will go to a specific FTP folder dependent on a field in my table which contains the FTP path to whatever folder it's supposed to go to has anyone used the FTP component and for loop   I am wondering 1) How to setup the loop and 2) How I'll be able to just use one ftp component to output ...Show All

• SQL Server Microsoft Visual Studio is busy

  I get this message in a balloon that pops up frequently when I am trying to work in the SSIS designer. For example, I get it when working in a DataFlow task, trying to open editors for the OleDb Source and Destination. Is anyone else getting this What could be the cause, it seems to get sluggish. Thanks. Have you recently installed any other software that interfaces with Visual Studio ReSharper, for instance ...Show All

• Windows Forms placing images in DataGridView control

  Hello all, Please forgive me, I am rather new to C#. I have a database, and in one of the columns I have fields that contain a path to an image. I would like to show the actual image in a datagridview control. I tried it out with a DataGridViewImageColumn, but it seems that this will not work unless the database contains the actual image data. I imagine that I would need to iterate through each row in DataGridViewImageColumn, and create a new B ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 2 combo boxes with data source - change on changes the other

  Driven me up the wall so far. I have two combo boxes bound to data The dropdown list is there on both. But when I change one it also changes the other - which I dont want at all. Searched everywhere for a solution and none are forthcomming Any and all assistance appreciated You might want to change one so its not bound but rather is connected when you click it which involves some coding on the click event. N ...Show All

• SQL Server Seems SCOPE_IDENTITY() returns @@identity+1 in SQL 2005

  hi, In SQL 2005, seems SCOPE_IDENTITY () will return the next available identity key. This is different with SQL 2000, anybody knows why Microsoft change like this Thanks Bill Thanks Umachandar, You are correct, I have tested on 3 three different servers with different versions. My problem maybe caused by upgrading SQL server to 2005 as stated in BOL. " Failed statements and transactions can change the cu ...Show All