derker's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Toolbar images

  In the program I'm writing I’m using a toolbar control. Everything are working fine but I would like to change the image from the default image, but I can't find any other images in VB. Are there any other images included in Visual basic 2005 express edition and i there are where can I find them You should be able to find some in the various DLL and EXE files that come with VB... I have VS2005 Pro, so I don't know which files will be the same as yours, but I think VB will allow you to extract icons from those files. If not, there are plenty of utilities (many are free) that will do it. For instance, when you use a toolstrip, you ...Show All

• Architecture General business object requirements

  For those of you who have worked on medium to large sized projects, or anyone who has an opinion , I would like to know what types of logic an application needs in the business layer. If the objects expose properties and collections, is a simple validation on write all that's needed I guess the objects also have methods that do various things. If anyone feels like offering any insight into the kinds of things their business objects do besides store bits of information that would be greatly appreciated. I'd also like to know what types of exceptions are generally thrown when persisting to a database. What about errors in the middle of bat ...Show All

• Visual C++ com/atl attributes broken

  It seems most of the ATL/COM attributes from 2003 -> 2005 have been broken. Im using the RTM. I just compiled a COM/ATL project which works fine in 2k3 but in 2k5 i get lots of errors with attributes. A classic is: [ uuid("xxx-blah-xxx") ] class myForwardDeclaredClass; That no longer works. I find I have to do: class __declspec(uuid("xxx-blah-xxx")) myForwardDeclaredClass; There is no documentation or acknowledgement of this problem anywhere. I wonder if anyone at MS actually tried compiling any COM/ATL projects in 2k5 before it shipped Quite simply, unless breaking changes are documented then a project in 2k3 should compile in 2k5. I ha ...Show All

• Visual Basic No New View menu option under view node

  Hello, I have Server Explorer open in Visual Studio .NET. I have expanded the tree node under Data Connections to show a SQL Server data connection that points to the North Wind Sample Database. I then expand the Views node of the selected SQL server data connection. Now when I right click the Views node, I expect to see an option allowing me to select a New View. The Problem is that no such option is presented to me. The only two options I get from the pop up menu are "Refresh" and "Properties". So what is going on What is wrong I am reading Kalanis book for 70-316. I am stepping through exercise 6.1 on pg. 433, According to his steps their ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Regular expressions SQL replacement

  Is there a way to use LINQ technology to search in a text string Regular expressions are in my opinion not very intuitive. Something along the lines of From astring Select WORDS where WORD like '%hello%' or From astring Select WORDS where WORD startswith '<' AND WORD endswith '>' WORD being a special keyword I suppose there could be other keywords such as SENTENCE or NUMBER Perhaps from word in astring.Split(" ") where word.StartsWith("<") and word.EndsWith(">") select word ... ...Show All

• Smart Device Development MBCS character set problem

  Hi, I created a MFC Smart Device Application in Visual Studio 2005. Default the project was created with "Use Unicode Character Set". I switched to "Use Multi-Byte Character Set" but at compile time I get the following error. Q:\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ce\atlmfc\include\afxv_w32.h(227) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'mbctype.h': No such file or directory It means that MFC 8.0 for Windows CE doesn't supports MBCS character set, or is there a workaround to use the MBCS character set Zoli Hi Multi byte char set is mutually exclusive to Unicode and win CE ...Show All

• SQL Server using an ~ as the delim type

  Hi all, Need some advice on how to handle SSIS imports of txt files that use the ~ as the delimiter. Rows are handled OK just the seperation of the columns is the issue. The setup is from a vendor which has coded the extract routines to use this symbol (not sure what it is called, sorry!) as the the delimiter and other options are unavailable. I have a solution working in Access using these same files however, I want to take advantage of the SQL 2005 functionality. Many thanks, M Hello. In your "Flat File Connection" under "Connection Managers" select "Columns" and you can set your delimiter. Under "Advance ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid and columns sizing

  Hi: I have a DataGrid with 6 columns. The problem is that after dthe binding, all the columns appear very small and I have to double click between each one to expand them. I have tried lots of things to expand them, but it desn't work. Any solution Thanks ;) At design time, create a TableStyle for the DataGrid whose MappingName is&nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Progress reporting

  OK, I'm sort of new to this and am not sure how to go about doing this. What I need to do is to create a "generic" dialog form that has a progress bar that will display the progress of any given process. I've gone through the information on Backgroundworker and the progress bar, but I'm just not really sure how I can make this form generic so that any given application can use this one dialog without me having to code for a backgroundworker in each module that wants to use it. So, for instance, if I have two modules where one allows for user data entry and the other allows for report generation, how would each module use this one d ...Show All

• Visual Basic publisher could not be verified

  I have created a .exe that uses My.Computer.FileSystem and now receive an error "Open File - Security Warning" dialog starting: "The publisher could not be verified." The file is located on a Windows File Server under ADS on a mapped drive. It was created under VB2005 and the .exe was copied using Windows Explorer drag and drop to the mapped drive. If I select to Run the file I get a security error. Same problem happens with new Access MDBs stored on the same file server. I have backed off all the IE zone settings to no avail. MS KB articles have been no help. ADS security properties look like I have perm ...Show All

• Windows Forms Add a button to a DataGridViewCell

  Hello, I'm new to using the DataGridView so my question might seem to be simple for you. I'd like to add a button at runtime to a cell so that the cell has a standard input field AND a button (like a ComboBox). How to do that Till The DataGridView doesn't support hosting of controls in cells. Only when a cell is being edited does it actually host a control (the editing control). -mark DataGridView Program Manager Microsoft This post is provided "as-is" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C# Express 2005 Beta - Is there an "Add Method" in Class View as in 2003

  Can't find any > Add > Methid, Member ... when right clicking on class or Form in ClassView. Is this a "feature" of C# Express 2005 or my install is corrupted (my C# 2003 still installed and working OK) Thanks Mad* You can add methods from the classview digram. Select the view class diagram for the class ,right click and select Add.To override methods,select intellisense from the context menu and you should see the implement and override. ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting "outlook express" contacts...

  Hi, I m working on windows application.In my applicaton i get outlook contacts and use this contacts for some purposes and it works fine. But i need " outlook express" contacts too... I seach google but i didnt find any useful code and tips. Is there way to get "Outlook Express" contact list Any help appreciated... Thanx. I'm up to exactly the same thing you are, and you aren't going to like the answer:-((( The Outlook Express address book is a "Windows Address Book". Do a Start | Run | wab and you'll see the same address book displayed as if you had requested it through ...Show All

• SQL Server CREATE SCHEMA in db A from a stored procedure in db B

  Hi All I have a SP that i create tables and other objects on another database. Creating table work well. declare @s nvarchar ( 2000 ) set @s = 'use db01' set @s = @s + 'CREATE TABLE ABC (recid int) exec ( @s ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ But if i try to create a schema it gives error : 'CREATE SCHEMA' must be the first statement in a query batch. declare @s nvarchar ( 2000 ) set @s = 'use db01' set @s = @s + 'CREATE SCHEMA AAA exec ( @s ) How can i solve it Thanks. declar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem connecting Crystal Reports after password change

  It seems a lot of people have been having similar issues to this so I'll try to be as precise as possible when explaining my problem. I am working on a web application, a simple "Log In, and select your report"..So I am working on Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and had absolutely no problem creating the reports or displaying them, that is, until the password I use to log into the database(via ODBC) expired. Once I reset this password none of the reports connect directly, they all display a login screen no matter what I do. It seems this password I had when creating the Reports somehow got hardcoded somewhere in the report itself because no matte ...Show All