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• Visual Studio Express Editions Is it possible to connect to SQL Server Express?

  From the SQL Server Express web site it claims that you can use Visual C# Express 2005 with SQL Server Express 2005, but I have yet to find a way to make that happen. When I try to select a data source the only options I get are Microsoft Access Database File Microsoft SQL Server Database File When I try to select the latter, I just go on a wild goose chase where it claims that I don't have credentials with the server. When I use the re ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions TreeView question

  Hi I have a project which works reasonably as expected - apart from one aspect. I have a TreeView which is populated with folders and files in a typical Windows Explorer sort of way. However, in the  TreeView_ NodeMouseClick event handler, where it populates a Folder node with the files in that folder, I cannot find a way to stop it from adding a fresh batch of files to the node each time the node is clicked. eg when I first c ...Show All

• SQL Server Database is read-only.

  Hi I have been learning on how to use the new features of the .NET 2.0, and Well I using VS2005 and everything is pretty straight foward. I did a Membership webform where you log in and create users and roles etc. I installed the SQL Server 2005 express as my Data provider and thats where my Tables are. I used the aspnetsql_reg comand to integrate the server to this application. Anyway my problem started when i decided to copy my project to my ...Show All

• .NET Development client-side/server side cursor

  I'm using VS.NET 2005 (July CTP) to develop a windows application that connects to a SQL Server database.  How can I set my connection to use server-side cursors instead of client-side   I'm going to have some large result sets and I'm afraid some client machines will not have adequate disk space.  .Net Data Provider for Sql Server (SqlClient) version 2.0 does not support server-side ...Show All

• Windows Forms Why doesn't my DropDownList show any values?

  ds is a DataSet with the table Distrikt in it and has two columns DText and Distr and 8 rows when I check the debug. Why doesn't the DropDownList show any values when I execute the code DataView dv = new DataView (ds.Tables[ "Distrikt" ]); DropDownList1.DataSource = dv; DropDownList1.DataTextField = "DText" ; DropDownList1.DataValueField = "Distr" ; DropDownList1.DataBind(); ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem deploying .NET application

  Hi, Can anyone help me by suggesting a solution, I am creating a small application in VB.NET, and the size of that application is approximately 5.00 mb, Now to make it working I have to deploy it with the DOT.NET framework and the MDAC2.7,  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Treeview Tutorial

  Does anyone know or a REAL tutorial on Treeview. Not loading ado, xml, directories, etc. I mean one that explains the properties of the Treeview control. The above is about all I can find on the internet. What I am trying to do is add a node to the treeview in a predetermined location. I then want to add two sub-nodes to the one just entered. Dim oNode As New TreeNode oNode . Name = "Level1" TreeView1 . Nodes . Add ( oNode ) TreeView1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Subcribing to a parent event from a child....form / usercontrol...

  RE: Windows Forms / User Controls and VB.NET From within a user control, how can i recieve notification when the control's parent form is closing. I want the notification before anything is disposed so that i can save control states to the registry, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom task and TLDA

  I have a target involving a custom task that looks as follows: < Target Name = " MakeWrappers " Inputs = " @(WrapperProjects) " Outputs = " @(WrapperProjects->'%(rootdir)%(directory)dotNET\%(filename)\%(filename).cpp' " DependsOnTargets = " ConvertElso;ConvertProjectModules;ConvertWrappers " > <!-- Generate .sln:s for the devices --> < XmlParsePy InputFiles = " ...Show All

• Visual Basic Welcome to the Visual Basic Language forum!

  Hi all, and welcome to the new Visual Basic Language forum .  I'm Paul Yuknewicz - I'm one of the Program Managers on the Visual Basic product team, and starting today, I'll be moderating these forums.  For more info about me, check out my blog .  In this forum we will cover questions and discussions regarding the VB language, compiler, VB framework/runtime.  This includes things like generics, language keywords, My ...Show All

• Windows Forms OK not bad but whats happening with the project?

  I've taken a look at the taskVision and its OK, very limited but I supose as a frame work it works well. Can someone advise on any updates that are happening with the project  Thanks Paul I dont think using TaskVision as a s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows form ??

  Hi, I have a question regarding Windows form application. My application has to implement a feature which is similar to Excel. Here is what Excel does:- I launch two instances of Excel. In each instance I open up the same file. While opening a file in the second instance Excel gives me a choice to be notified when the file becomes available for read/write, I select OK and it opens the file in readonly mode. Then In readonly instance I g ...Show All

• Visual C# Using a Timer

  Hello, Here's my problem, i'll write it in text code: now time = 18.00 turn on alarm = 20:00 start_program(); check_time() if (now time = time to turn on alarm) --> turn on alarm else if(now time = 30min to turn on alarm) --> make a sound else if(now time = 15min to turn on alarm) --> make a sound else if(now time = 5 min to turn on alarm) --> make a sound So I kind of want a timer that know what time it is, so when its ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What causes CommandBinding.CanExecute delegate to be invoked ?

  I have a button that executes a command when it's clicked. I have a CommandBinding instance associated to that command, and also methods to: * Allow/disallow execution * Preview execution * Handle execution All 3 are being called. It's obvious when the last 2 will be called but not the first one. Depending on a specific application state, my CanExecute method will return true or false. When the application starts it returns false which makes the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions If's and Elseif's

  Hello there. I made a menu strip item for word wrap and I want to have it trigger word wrap (on and off) in my textbox1... but I get the error 'Else' must be preceded by a matching 'If' or 'ElseIf'. I also get 'If' must be preceded by a matching 'If'. On top of all that, I am not even sure my coding is right because I am not able to compile with the erros. Private Sub WordWrapToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Ob ...Show All