Scott.Anderson's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro Combine records into 1 text box using ALLTRIM

  I have a table that has City, State, & Zip in separate fields in a table. I want to combine those fields to fit in a single text box on a form. So far I have learned that I need to add this ALLTRIM(City) + ", " + ALLTRIM(State) + " " + ALLTRIM(Zip_Code) .  I thought I could put this in the expression builder but I get an error saying "The data source for this object must be a variable reference."  What am I doing wrong Thanks ...Show All

• Smart Device Development OnKeyDown - How do I cancel a key from being handled.

  I've overridden OnKeyDown, and I'm setting E.handled = true, yet the key is still handled by the listbox (which has the function that I've overridden). Appreciate any help. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Customizing the menu in VSTS Project Team Portal

  Hi Is it possible to customize the VSTS Team Project Home Page left Menu. How do i add modify and delete items from the left menu. The left menu contains items like Documents, Process Guidence and Reports etc with Submenu. I am able to add/update a submenu What i would like to know is how do i add/update/delete the mejor menu items in the left menu   Thanks The easiest way to customize the Quick Launch menu in Windows Sh ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services in SQL Express?

  Is SSRS available in SQL Express   The feature matrix here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx says that the Report Server is available.  However, SSRS was not an available option in the setup I used.  Any help is greatly appreciated! The version of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition including Report Server is not yet available. We are working on it but have ...Show All

• .NET Development Stopping WMI Event Watcher

  Hi Everybody! I have run into a problem that has me perplexed and could use some help. I am simply trying to register for printing events using WMI. The following code works fine except for the "Stop" method. Anytime that I call "Stop" on the watcher I receive a "No such interface supported exception". I cannot seem to figure out why the exception is happening. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Brett Code sample: // set up event query usi ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get rid of a Control's/Form's culture setting?

  I happened to set a form's "Localizable" setting to true the other day and that was the start of much agony. I only wanted to try out the inherent localization capabilities of .NET 2.0 but since then I haven't been able to get rid of the effects. Here's the details: I built a small "log on" form that's using a composite control (I need the "logon GUI" in other forms as well). I then set the "Localizable" setting of the form to true which result ...Show All

• Visual C++ Communication between objects

  I am using a main form created with CLR, Windows forms (Form1) with 2 child forms ( A, and B).  I want to have B send A some information to act on (I need to pass it an integer).  How should I do this   (I posted a similar question and it was bumped to another forum, but no answers in over a week) Yep the windows forms forums might be a better place as descibed ...Show All

• Visual Basic Generating thumbnails for video files?

  OK, I posted this same question previously and have gotten no replies, so perhaps I was too vague and need to rephrase it.  Everyone is familiar with the "thumnails" folder view in Windows 2000/XP, and how thumbnails are generated for movie files   Well, in an application I'm trying to develop (and unfortunately am about to hit my deadline), I have a need to generate a "preview" thumbnail when a video file (avi/mpeg/etc) is selected in ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Beta2 Installation problems

  I am trying to install WWF Beta2 (in fact i have been since last Friday). Anyway i manage to load all the components until i attempt to install WWF beta 2 it fails with the message : " the following platform components failed to install and will need to be manually installed before setup can proceed: Windows Workflow Foundation: The installation source for the product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can acces ...Show All

• .NET Development How C# performs sql procedure?

  Assume there are three tables in one database created by MSDE, and they are related by using "id", for example: the structure of these three tables are as below: table A: a_id, name, date table B: b_id, a_id, message table C: c_id, b_id, position what I want to know is how to use C# to delete one row in table A and delete related rows in table B and C at the same time Must I delete related rows in other tables one by one or is it C# ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Install ok but error messages connecting to TFS from client

  I have installed a single server (WORKGROUP) setup of TFS without any issues in the installation routine The only non-standard selection I made was not to enable the Team Foundation Alerts. However when I try and connect a TFS client, I get the following error message in the client window :- TF30291: There was a problem on the server of unknown cause. See the Team Foundation Server event log for details. Time 2005-10-14T10:09:53:562 Looking i ...Show All

• Visual C# MessageBox

  I kno I have posted this before, but I didnt get the response I was looking for. I have a messagebox, and when it pops up, I want every part of the computer to be inaccessable until the user presses ok in the messagebox. Can someone tell me how to do this I'm faily new to c#, but from what I've learned you can only make your application inaccessable with a messagebox not the entire computer. Thats what managed code is all about, so that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can Anyone Relate To This???

  Hi There http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/oopbad.htm Cheers Bronco Billy "Beer and Fast Women are Ok... No Cigarettes or Hard Liquor Allowed" Hi, we live in a free world where erveryone can express his opnion. I know I like OOP. You should try both worlds and see whats best for you to use. ...Show All

• .NET Development Getting Byte Array address

  hi friends, i have a doubt in c# , i required to send a array(BYTE) address to a vc++ dll function plz provide solution to me.......... Thanks to all, pavan You can also use the MarshalAs attribute, that in your dllimport signature will look like: DllImport("Sample.dll", ...)] static extern bool SampleFunction ([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)] byte[] lpBuffer) HTH --mc ...Show All

• Windows Forms TreeView not behaving as I expected

  Hello, I have a class that derives from TreeView.  I tried overriding the base class method OnPaintBackground so that I could draw a gradient over the client area of the tree view.  However, it seems that this function never gets called. I&nbs ...Show All