Christina M's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Updating Access from Data Table - slightly confused

  I'm using vb2005 to create a front end to an access database. Being new to this I'm slightly confused over what the wizards will create automatically as opposed to what I have to code. I've used the table adapter configuration wizard and specified that I want it to create methods to update a table called 'Categories' in the database. This is a simple table with a text field for the category name and an autonumber field (CategoryID) as the primar ...Show All

• Visual Basic Column width of MSFlexGrid control

  Hi, I'm trying to use a MSFlexGrid control in VB6 to display tabular data to the user. At default, the Column are too small to display the full Headers in Row 0 and I tried to adjust the Column widths to the control width with the following Code: fgTable(i).FixedRows = 1 fgTable(i).ColWidth(0) = (fgTable(i).Width / 3) - mySysInfo.ScrollBarSize For j = 1 To 2 fgTable(i).ColWidth(j) = fgTable(i).Width / 3 Next j The pr ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Business Scorecard 2005 Installed - Just cannot connect to Analysis Services database

  Followed the readme for installation step by step. Installed the Server and the Builder on the same machine - db is SQL Server 2005 April CTP.  - Will the Business Scorecard work with the April CTP  - Launched the BS Builder and when trying to connect to a ADOMD.NET datasource, in server specified the <Servername>, the database dropdown always comes blank.....error "could not connect to data source" (Analysis Services is run ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to capture the event (minimize)

  When user click on minimize icon on the upper right hand corner of the form. Which form event get fired Thanks Private Sub Form1_Resize(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Resize       If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then MessageBox.Show("Iconized")    End Sub ...Show All

• Windows Forms OnKeyUp event doesn't fire

  hey folks, this is strange. I need to know when a pressed Crtl key is released, I used in my controls the added event handler MyControl_KeyUp(...), MyControl is sitting on the main form. It's partially kind of a flexgrid clone, and the Ctrl enables  ...Show All

• .NET Development HTML to Image

  C#, .NET 2.0, Windows App Simple question... open to any ideas... I have an html file on my disk. I want to create an instance of an Image (or Bitmap) object that represents what that HTML looks like when it is rendered in a Browser. I know the size the Image has to be. I know IE7beta does this and also AOL's browser... Any thoughts, ideas Thanks Rob Ultimately I wish to draw a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Howto stop TeamBuild from deploying, if tests fail

  Hi, in TFS B3r a TeamBuild gets deployed, even if tests fail. Since I am also using TB to deploy to our production environment, I would like to let it deploy only, when all tests pass. How can I achieve this thanks for the tip! I will try the OnError. If I'm correct I could set the value of a variable which I can check for in my custom-deploy target, right ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I select a cell in DataGridView ?

  Hi, I want to select a cell in dataGridView and use this code : dataGridView1.Rows[j].Cells .Selected = true; that i , j are not out of range but this exception occured: Operation is not valid because it results in a reentrant call to the SetCurrentCellAddressCore function. after that I derived a class from DataGridView and use SetCurrentCellAddressCore( i, j, true , true , false ) to select cell but this exception occure ...Show All

• Smart Device Development termination

  I'm developing an application with several modeless forms. The project starts in SUB MAIN which calls the first form. Each form closes itself and starts the next form. All that works except I can't get the application to terminate properly. Is there a single call I can use from within the last form to execute that terminates the application Is there any other way I can do it Thanks for the speedy reply. app ...Show All

• Visual Basic emulator for barcode Scanner

  I need to research about the barcode scanner. but i have not got this device. Is there any emulator for barcode Scanner . If there are emulator for barcode scanner. please show it to me. Thank alot. I believe most barcode scanners work as a keyboard replacement whereby the value that is scanned is entered just as if it were entered by a keyboard. It may depend on what kind of scanner you have. Jim Wooley ...Show All

• Windows Forms Starting an Application

  I would like some tips and tricks about starting an application that needs a splash screen because of the size of the main form.  Many of the things that I have tried gives me too much flicker or loads chunk by chunk.  Is there&n ...Show All

• .NET Development creating texture Visual Studio .Net not working anymore!?

  Few days ago, I reinstalled Windows XP and installed MS VS .Net but in my C# programs texture creating no longer works and reports an undefined error! No metter if I load my code or sample code that goes with my Tom Miller's DirectX 9 book, it does not work! In my previous instalation of VS .Net it all worked perfectly and I did not configure anything, so what could it be now Please help! Then either you did in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Case Select - Not the best way ..

  I am trying to look up data in a grid.  I am using a Select Case statement, see below.  My question is there an another way to do this.  I have another table/grid of data that has 30 rows and 30 columns and my Select Case statement will be very big.       IMO the most elegant way to do that sort of lookup is to build a dictionary/hash table/map that links some sort of uniq ...Show All

• Visual Studio Package 'Visual Web Developer Trident Designer Package' has failed to load properly.

  I've been using VS 2005 Beta 2  for a few weeks now on a win2K machine, with nothing else installed at all. It's been working fine every day for three weeks, but today I get the following error message whenever I try to open an .aspx file. "Package 'Visual Web Developer Trident Designer Package' has failed to load properly. ( GUID = {30AE7E2B-6CO2-496D-8E43-85F7A90AEFF1} )..." I have not had any previous versions installed, and instal ...Show All

• Visual C++ Intrinsic functions

  Hello, I started a new Windows Forms application, but i'm not able to insert intrinsic function to manage bits operation. The following example http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wfd9z0bb.aspx says that i must compile with /EHsc. I cannot compile, because /clr and /EHsc are incompatible. Is possible to use intrinsic functions in a clr project like windows forms Sorry for my english, I'm italian... Thank's all Andrea ...Show All