Garry W's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Enable adding existing controls / component to a collection property

  Hi, I need to enable the users of a control to add existing controls / components in the form to a collection. For example, adding some of the existing buttons in the form to a ".AffectedButtons" property in the control, at design-time obv ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to make a custom composite activity unexpandable in the designer? (another question)

  I created a custom designer for my activity, inherited from SequentialActivityDesigner. By setting its Expanded property to false, I can initially hide the content of my activity. However, users can still click on the Expand/Collapse Rectangle to expand/collapse my activity. Is there a way to disable this The CanExpandCollapse property is read-only so I cannot set it to false. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development DataReader already open on connection - Error

    Hello all, VS 2005 Beta 2 C# Class Library Component with DataSet instance and SqlTableAdapter instance. My code is calling table adapter .Fill() from two places (one in code during processing, another on WinForms binding to a DataGrid). I get this : A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.Data.dll 'this.Adapter.Fill(dataTable)' threw an exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationExcepti ...Show All

• Visual Basic please help, problem with vb6 and crystal report 9 viewer

  i had a database program that calls a crystal 9 report using the cr viewer control. the problem is when i change to another form then return to my report form assuming that i had viewed the report earlier i got a "memory cannot be read error" with numbers on it. this is my code... Dim miReport As CRAXDDRT.Report Dim miCRApp As New CRAXDDRT.Application Set miReport = miCRApp.OpenReport("c:\2307\2307.rpt") With crview .ReportSource = miReport ...Show All

• Windows Forms Basic Application Design Question

  I am new to windows forms as all of my previous work has been web applications. With that said, please forgive what may be a simple question. I am building an application that looks as follows: Toolbar TreeView DataGridView TabControl Based upon the node selected in the TreeView, the right pane may display as above or it may contain a different set of controls. In addition, based the row selected in t ...Show All

• Visual C# Loading form in main form

  I'm trying to create an application that has a main screen and when i push a button i would like to load a new form into the main screen, without opening a new screen. Every new screen i open would have to open in the main screen. I tried using a panel and adding this new form into the panel but i get ==> Top-level control cannot be added to a control. Is there anyone who knows a solution to my problem Greetz ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add keybindings to OleMenuCommand!?

  In my package I'm dynamically adding my menu items via OleMenuCommandService.AddCommand function. It's working with no problem; but since it is not a named command, users can 't assign keybindings to command. How can i add keybindings to my OleMenuCommand and/or allow users to set keybidnings! Hi, The key bindings have to translated to an appropiate command and hence cannot be bound to the command at runtime via the OleMenuCommand infra ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cell formating in DataGridView (vb 2005 beta 2)

  Hi again! I have a little problem with the format of a cell in a DataGridView. I want to apply a Money Format (0,00 €) to the "Total" column. I try setting the format in the properties in COLUMNS in the DataGridView and setting the DefaultCellStyle of the "Total" column. This is the setting DataGridViewCellStyle { Font=[Font: Name=Microsoft Sans Serif, Size=8,25, Units=3, GdiCharSet=0, GdiVerticalFont= False ], NullValue=0.0 €, Forma ...Show All

• Visual Basic R

  Hi, I am using VB.Net 2.0 and have connected to Microsoft Access but having trouble running a query as it uses * as a wildcard, but when I run it in .Net it returns nothing as needs to have %. The solutions I can think of are: 1) If I was able to extract out the actual SQL string from the MS Access query from my code then I could do a Replace("*", "%") then would work - but don't know how to extract the SQL string. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Datagrid with Combobox column - Null values

  Hi all, I've done some programming before but am new to VB 2005 and to databases. Up until now I've managed to solve all my problems by gleaning information from MSDN and other web sources but this one has get me stumped! I have a DataGrid bound to 'WireList' table in a database. One of the columns in the DataGrid is set as a ComboBox bound to 'Terminal' table in the database. The idea being that the user can select an item from the Com ...Show All

• SQL Server tsql book

  Any recommendations for a complete good tsql book Any free e-books anywhere thanks TANSTAAFL ;) If you're on SQL Server 2005, you probably want to wait for http://www.sql.co.il/books/insidetsql2005/ -- Frank Kalis Microsoft SQL Server MVP http://www.insidesql.de ...Show All

• Visual C# Events, how it works?

  Hi, Let me just start with two questions, 1) Microsoft say custom EventArgs (eg-: TestEventArgs) must derive from the EventArgs base class, why so What benefits are we going get by using a class inherited from the EventArgs base class rather than using a concrete class (Test class) as EventHandler parameter 2) Now the most important one, a) I have a delegate declared as below, public d ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2005-Connecting Windows CE.NET Device

  Hi Guys I am trying to install a Visual Basic 2005 application on a windows CE.NET device. I cannot see a CE.NET device in the list so I tried selecting Windows CE 5.0. It gave me a message cannot create a file as the file name already exists. Is there any option to connect to a Windows CE.NET device Any inputs will be highly appreciated. Correct. Keep in mind VS 2005 does not official ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Certification and Training in MSF 4

  After Rafal's OUTSTANDING talk at TechEd, I'm kind of jazzed up about MSF 4. A few questions: 1. What training in MSF 4 will be offered by MS I assume an up date to the current MSF Intro course (1846), plus possibly some training on how to import it into VSTS and customise it. Of course since 1846 is 'formal' so there may need to be two (agile and formal). What are the timescales for any such training 2. What is the certification going to be ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Linking a Word doc to an MS Access Report

  I have an existing form in word document and would like to find a way to link it with other Access Reports and be able to insert data from an existing Access form to the report. Also being able to Print the report Search any data from the report I appreciate your help in advanced. Thank you Thank you for your reply I am using Access 2002 and VB 6.3. I have no knowledge of VB programming but would ...Show All