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• SQL Server Indirect config through SQL table ?

  Hi, How would you set up an environment variable to do indirect config from a SQL db table I couldn't find any clues in the BOL or on the net. Basically, we have one variable but it must contain three things: 1)Connection to DB 2) table name 3) filter (config name in table). Right What is the syntax to specify these Thanks I posted the smae question in a reply to an old thread. Sorry. Please use the following format: connection-manager-name;table-name;filter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System custom rule to identify com objects...

  Hi,   My query is : can we write a fxcop custom rule to find out whether or not a com dll is being referenced and used in my dotnet assembly using introspection engine. If so, how to implement that rule. To be more specific, how to identify a com referenced object in my c# class and check whether this object is disposed properly. any valid pointers   Thanks, Vijay Hi, Thanks for your response. Actually my requirement is , when a method is using any com dll, then a finally block should contain Marshal.ReleaseComObject(object), so i want to parse to that location and find whether the method ...Show All

• Windows Forms Locking down the desktop

  I am writing a custom web browser that will only allow users to view a particular website while taking an online test. While the user is taking the test, I would like to limit their desktop funcationality (ie. prevent them from running other applications like internet explorer, email or chat.  I would also like to prevent them from using Alt-Tab, acces ...Show All

• Windows Forms Simple Drawing Question for Windows Forms

  Hey, I have been working on this for a long time, and so far, no one can help. I have a Windows Form Application written in C++. On the Windows Form is a Button called "Draw" an Up and Down Box, and then a Panel called "Screen". The Up and Down Box has the items "Line" and "Rectangle" in them. The user  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent Draw the image yourself in a paint handler, and use the imageattributes class to make 255/0/255 ( magenta ) transparent. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Web Developer: keep in within 6.5in---is that the only thing I can do ?

  I tried to export my one page report ( 8.5” X 11” ) to PDF file, and I got two pages. Some of the columns of my report go to another page. How can I export my one page to one page PDF file correctly Thanks in advance.   Long Hi, Victor, You need to change two kinds PageSizes, one is report PageSize , the other one is body PageSize . When you change the margins, you play around the report properties. After you set up the margins ( say 1in, 1in,1in,1in) and PageSize (say 8.5in, 11in ) of the report , you can click the report body , then body properties appear. Make sure ...Show All

• Windows Forms HELP! Problem with Installation .NET Framework 2.0 on Windows 2003 SP1

  Please help me! I have Windows 2003 EE with SP1. Installation of .NET Framework 2.0 (version 2.0.50727.42) require Windows Installer 3. I've loaded WindowsServer2003-KB898715-x86-enu.exe that must install Windows Installer 3.1 on Windows 2003SP1 correctly. (look http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898715 ). When then I am trying to install .NET Framework 2.0 - nothin ig going! And msiexec begining use all memory! . What's a problem How to install .NET Framework 2.0 on Windows 2003 SP1 Thank you. Sorry for my English. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Serialport in c# System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs

  Hi I’m trying to get my c#.net app to work the problem is that when using SerialDataReceivedEventArgs it echos all bytes/strings that is sent to the port. If I send the AT command it always echoes the AT and OK I just want it to echo the OK. BR Jeppe Put E0 in your init string. Look on the web for Hayes Command set. RMJR ...Show All

• Windows Forms Export/Import Data

  How do Export/import data from excel/word to SQL server 2000/or Access 2003 using VB.NET. HI Jebat, One way of transfering data from sql server to excel is to user the DTS. The following article explain it. http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx kbid=319951 Cheers, VJ ...Show All

• Windows Forms MSI and product upgrade ideas

  Here's my thought, I just want to see what the community thinks of it. I have a tiny little application. but it has a number of dependencies. I can't use a single assembly, and I can't really rely on pulling the latest assembly from the web (a-la "no touch" deployment). So here's the idea I came up with. I want to put a web service  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Creating a VSTO customization for Online/Offline use

  I'd like to have my Word VSTO customization (deployed to an intranet IIS web site) run in both online and offline scenarios. My install doesn't install any files on the client, but simply adds the security policy to allow addins from my intranet site to run. (See "Code Access Security configuring installer" by Mads Nissen 2005 - http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen). The equivalent commands would be: gacutil -i "%programfiles%\Microsoft Office\Office11\Addins\Msosec.dll" caspol -m -ag Machine -url "http://mysite/*" FullTrust -n "My Group" -d "desciption..." Everything is working online, and I even ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error loading Subreports - The report definition for report 'xxx' has not been specified

  I am getting "The report definition for report 'xxx' has not been specified" error when I run a subreport. The sub report runs fine by itself, as does the parent report. When I try to reference the sub report via the main report, I cannot reference the parameters defined in the sub report, and the sub report errors when I run the form. I saw some postings that mentioned problems with accessing reports in subdirectories - this is the case here. The form containing the report viewer,the report and the sub report reside in a subdirectory of the project. The postings seem to say I should either specify the path (not too cool for dep ...Show All

• SQL Server removing replication table

  Hi all, Can Enterprise Manager remove a table from replicating to another server I've tried looking at the article tab of the property of the publication but couldn't find a way to delete a table from the article. Any idea Thanks! Hi Alan, In SQL Server 2000, if there is an active subscription or the publication allows anonymous subscriptions, you will not be able to drop an article either through Enterprise manager or through scripts. This has been relaxed in SQL Server 2005 and you can freely add/drop articles and in some cases you need to reinitialize the subscriptions. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Changed the COM signatures....using ildasm.....

  Hi, I have a .exe COM which I used in .NET but some signatures got changed....so I opened it with ildasm and changed the signatures so that it should return something from the function....This is the error I'm getting now.... The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0x79e8aff6, on thread 0xb4. The error code is 0xc0000005. This error may be a bug in the CLR or in the unsafe or non-verifiable portions of user code. Common sources of this bug include user marshaling errors for COM-interop or PInvoke, which may corrupt the stack. Any Ideas.... Thanks, Harsimrat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Dynamically attaching an assembly to a Dot file

  Hi, I'm using a VSTO 2005 solution to create a customized dot file that uses the assembly created with Visual Studio 2005. As a deployment solution, we have chosen to place the assembly in the GAC , so that it will be accessible from every location the document will be opened from on the client's computer, regardless to the installation location of our product. As a part of the whole product, I need to supply more than one dot file. The dot files should all "use" the same assembly as the one compiled using VS. I've written a small tool that recieves the original dot and a target dot, and "copies" ...Show All