Strandberg's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms using treeview to display disk drives

  I'm using vs 2005, how can I use a treeview to display diskdrives For example on my computer I have a partitioned hard drive with a C and X drives, and I want the treeview to display with the C, D, and X drives as the root nodes. Can anyone tell me how to do this Thanks, smtraber You'll have to iterate over the logical drives creating treeview nodes. Use the static Environment.GetLogicalDrives method to return the drives of yo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Home Screen in CF2?

  I've done some searches on creating home screen plugins and everybody says to look at this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/todayscrn.asp Well that article is pretty old, are there any updates on the ability to create a home screen plugin or is that still the best way does anybody have microsoft embedded that could build that unmanaged dll for me I tried to conver that project to vs20 ...Show All

• Visual Studio format picture (loaded from DB)

  Hi, I'm using CR with VS2005 B2. I have a report in with a picture is loaded from a DB. I have add the field to the report layout and it was recognized as blob field. So far, so good. When I add it it gets a fixed size (square 2,54x2,54cm). The pictures have a rectangle shape. When I try to resize the field container to match the picture size, it keeps changing the xx and YY zoom factors. I've also tried to manualy adjust the zoom but it updates ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 User database Properties

  Hi, I seem to be having an issue with our SQL 2005 x64.  When I go to the properties of the any database on a server I get: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Cannot show requested dialog. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Cannot show requested dialog. (SqlMgmt) ------------------------------ There is no row at position 0. (System.Data)   And w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Build Form Application From Scratch

  I'm trying to create a form application from scratch and I have some questions: 1. Do I create an "Empty CLR project" or an "Empty Projet" from the "General" tab of the Create New Project dialog I've tried both. 2. namespace System is not recognized and I've try to add references under the Project>>Properties dialog, but none show up to choose. What am I doing incorrectly Please advise and thanks in advance.  ...Show All

• Visual C# Constructor Chaining in C#

  Dear All, I am actually new to Object Orientated Programming. I was just studing about Constructors  and I came across the concept of Constructor Chaining.Can some 1 explain me about what is this constructor chaining.I know it means that we can call one constructor from another constructor. I have tried 1 example which is as follows: class Class1 { private string e_name,e_JobTiltle,e_Address ; private Class1( string name ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do you make an invisible OCX?

  Hi, I'm using VB express and I cant seem to find a way of making my usercontrol invisible I can do it with VB6, its easy, But I want to make a control that doesn't have location and other visual properties, I've seen them but I cant make them. Am I missing something PS. Please dont post the obvious set visible to false, thats not what I want, lol, I want the ocx to only expose the methods and properties I set. Thanks. Sounds to me li ...Show All

• Visual Studio Advice on setting up vs and vss projects

  Hi. I have been using vss with vs2003 with varying degrees of success and frustration for the last couple of years and am now evaluating whether to continue with vss when our projects are converted to vs2005. I would like some advice on the best way of setting up visual studio solutions and projects. Most of our web applications use the following kind of design: Application Specific Class Libraries (Business Entities,Business Layer,D ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Assembilies for VSTO files

  Hi, Just wondering when you build a Project with VSTO (excel) do you have to pass assembilies with it for it to work correctly Reason for asking is that i was accessing SQL Server data, displaying it in Ms Excel using a Host Combo control and some text boxes. When I tried to save it and tried to work with it from a different path while the Visual studio was closed it didn't even allow me to access anything. It seems just a snapshot of the Exce ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I write my SQL Connection for my application?

  Hi I have been developing one database application in VC++ .NET with SQL Server 2000. The Software have more child forms for the related databases and its record navigation functions. Now I want to make SQL Connection as global for all the child forms to avoid connection while loading the child form. Because its taking more time. Please give your sample code and suggestion. Where I can get sample code Thanks Joseph TA Email: joseta@vsnl.com Te ...Show All

• .NET Development File or assembly name Oracle.DataAccess, or one of its dependencies, was not found.

  Help!!! I do have this file and when I try to use it in a web app I get this error. I can compile but not run. Hi, Try reinstalling the Oracle ODBC Drivers. http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/windows/odbc/index.html Also make sure, you have the DLL mentioned in the bin folder of your application. Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2003 Emulator connection problem

  Hi Everybody Is was hopeing, that somebody in here would be able to help me out with my problem, since I haven't had much luck solving my problem my self. The problem is pretty common as far as what I've read in this forum. I run Visual Studio 2003 on Windows XP SP2 US in vmware ACE. I've installed the following software. SDK for Windows Mobile 2003-based SmartPhones SDK for Windows Mobile 2003-based Pocket PCs Windows Mobile 2003 Second Editio ...Show All

• SQL Server Passing parameter using .SQL

  Hi all I need to pass parameters when I call a .SQL file. Is there a way to do this in SQL Server thanks!!!! How do you call the .SQL file Do you use a command line utility, like bcp I need more details to figure out what you want to do. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System parameter '$HIDDEN1.__VIEWSTATE' not found in test

  00:04:55 ESTACION15 WebTest1 Scenario1 http://estacion15/GescomDllo/Protected/01_Administradores/parametrizacion2.aspx Exception WebTestException Context parameter '$HIDDEN1.__VIEWSTATE' not found in test context view - I got this error thousands of time is that dangerous, how can I solve that Thanks Please read the following forum post. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=145622&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Saving the ink image for an inkedit control

  Hi, We have an inkedit control on a windows form 2.0 We need to save both the text and ink mode values for this control in a SQL server database. Is this possible or do we have to use an inkpicture control to get the ink rtf display Thanks in advance. Vishal Yes, you can concatenate all ink objects in the loop to one single ink object. Then you can store this in your database (as image or ...Show All