Photius's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions running the Personal Web Site Starter Kit

  I created a Webpage using the Personal Web Site Starter Kit that comes with My Web Developers Tools. I know... I know... This guy must be a "green horn" since he is doing all that introduction stuff! Well, yes I am. Got to start somewhere! Anyways, I ran the webpage like the instructions said, before I ran the Configurator. Then I ran the Configurator and then tried to setup a user and give him (Me) administration priviledges. Whe ...Show All

• .NET Development Type.GetType(string) not working after migration to 2.0

  Hi, we are trying to port our (ASP).NETapplication to 2.0/VS2005, and we're running into a lot of problems. We think we are on top of most of them, but we have one that we simply have no clue about, and it happens to be something completely blocking. We use "ajax" techniques extensively. JS on the client uses the xmlHttp component to post an xml document to the url of a page "getXmlData.aspx". The query string includes a fully qualified cl ...Show All

• SQL Server Left Outer Join

  Hi All Dudes and Dudesses Please help... I've got Two tables, Problem and Breach, in DB Support. The main Table (Problem) has a primary key on field Number and I retrieve most of my data from this table but the other fields are irellevant. The Breach Table includes fields: Number & Keyword. I use an Left Outer Join to connect from Problem.Number to Breach.Number and retrieve the Breach.Keyword if any. If there's no records in Breach it s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Typed dataset in inherited form

  Hello. Have anybody solution to resolve this problem I have base form that have typed dataset(protected). When I inherit this from I have a problem. Designer serialise all typed datatables in new form. This cause error - dataset can not contain datatables&nb ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Windows workflow beta 2

  hi, I am learning how to use WWF and i download a video that teaches you how to do your first workflow, the problem is that it was made in WWF beta 1.2 and i have the beta 2 version, in the video it shows how to declare parameters in properties -> activity -> parameter. But in beta 2 it doesn't have that opcion there, so the question is: how can i declare parameters for my workflow in WWF beta 2 thanks for the answers. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Refedit Control for VSTO

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOLanguageMigrationFromVBA.asp The link above talks about a refedit control that can be used with VSTO. However, it does not appear to be implemented in VSNET 2005 Beta2 What is the status of such a refedit control Has anyone on the list found a workaround / solution / alternative As gsbraun was ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to Flash in vb.Express

  Hey , i want to know how to integrate a flash movie in visual basic express edition. Thanks I am note sure if these will work with Express but, here are some examples and tutorials: http://experts.about.com/q/Shockwave-Flash-1515/Flash-VB-6.htm http://www.vbcity.com/pubs/article.asp alias=flashvb http://www.vbcode.com/asp/showzip.asp ZipFile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Evbcode%2Ecom%2Fcode%2FFlash%2Ezip&theID=2544 and for the third one, just ...Show All

• Visual Studio persistent names.dat may be corrupt msg on VSS Startup

  I have run analyze along and with -C -D -F flags a few times to get rid of a persistent names.dat may be corrupt error msg shown on VSS start up, so far no success. The issue was caused by share drive connection failure on files check in to VSS.  Now I see a folder with no name, blank name on VSS and when clicked it shown as a " ` " apostrophe or similar char. We can't delete or rename the folder or the tree the fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Mscomm, Serial ports and bit manipulation

  I have just started to investigate the replacement of some seriously old kit with a Windows XP version. I need to read and write data between either a usb/serial port on a new Windows XP machine and connect it to an old controller via an rs-232 cable. Data is passed between the two in Ascii format and can be as little as one character at a time or up to several hundred characters at a time. I will need to be able to interpret some of the dat ...Show All

• .NET Development Download resume to a word document does nothing

  THe resume page has been set up, and looks like everything is fine, but when the button to download the resume in a word document button is selected nothing happens. What am I missing I'm certainly missing what it is that you're talking about, and the fact that you asked in the general .NET forum gives me no clues. My best guess - you created a web page with a link to your resume, and when you click on it, nothi ...Show All

• .NET Development Adding a row to a child table

  We have a DataSet with parent/child relations set up. We have a BindingSource and a BindingNavigator configured for each table. When we use the BindingNavigator for the child table to add a new record (click the Add button...) the foreign key value in the child table is not getting filled in. When we call EndEdit on the BindingSource we are getting an exception because this field does not allow nulls in the DataSet. The relationship between the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Switching between different editions

  I have installed Visual Studio Team Suite 2005. I have initally set it to Web developer mode. I am a novice learner and want to see the features for the different editions like Architects, Developers, Testers...How can I switch between these modes....where is the setting in VS 2005 Thanks Vinod PMP, MCP USA You can switch the Visual Studio settings by opening the Visual Studio 2005 command prompt, type de ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Evaluating contol name as expression

  Hi, I'm working an a project for a PDA and bumped into following problem: I need to assign text to labels dynamically in a loop. Unfortunatelly it seems like compact framnework does not support the findocntrol function, is there any other way here is an example what I'd like to do (simplified..) ------------------------------------        While res.Read() = True           ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create installer with prouct key

  Hi, I want to create an installer of my application that I developed with Visual C#, but I want to give the installer with product key. What I don't know is how to create that kind of installer, in fact, this is my first project  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Run an external executable file.

  I am a beginner and am using VB 2005 Express. I want to run an external executable file named "setup.exe." I cannot figure out how to do this. I tried Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click FileOpen(1, "setup.exe", OpenMode.Output, OpenAccess.Default, OpenShare.Shared) End Sub If I use that I get the following exception: Access to path 'C ...Show All