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• Visual Studio Odd behavior using Help.ShowHelp

  Hi all, I have a CHM file that works just fine when I double-click it to open it -- it displays the first topic (call it First.htm) as the default topic. But if I call the CHM file using Help.ShowHelp, such as: private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { Help .ShowHelp(button1, file://c:\\manual.chm ); } The Help file displays, but the "topic" it displays is an outline-looking thing. When I examine ...Show All

• .NET Development Work with *.mdb by VB2005

  How can I work with MSAcess database(*.mdb) with VB2005 Express I used VB6. Its code : Data1.Databasename = "C:\MyData.mdb" Data1.recordsource = "Table1" Data1.refresh How about this code with VB2005 Express http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=96629&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is this legal for me to do this?

  If not, i will happily stop, but right now, i am having a blast with Terrarium in .Net 2.0. http://tanderson.cbs-posi.com/MyTerrarium/checkmeout.jpg Just don't tell the C# coders They will probably scream blasphemy and other curses. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to modify & insert into XML without loading the whole file in memory

  I am working with large xml documents, over 50 MB. I know how to read it using XmlReader class and Xquery but except DOM I didn't found a way to update nodes, or insert new nodes. There is any way to use XmlDocument class and not load the whole document into memory, can I use buffers, or what I should use into my C# app to be able to load, modify, insert and then save You can load parts of XML into XmlDocument. Alternatively you ca ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 2.0 Redistributable - When Will It Appear on Windows Update?

  Can anyone tell me approximately how long after the release of Visual Studio 2005 will the .NET Framework 2.0 distributable appear as a standard download on the Windows Update website In other words, how long before normal users start seeing it as a Windows Update download Many thanks, Ben S. Starting with Windows Server 2003 (which came with .NET 1.1), we've been shipping the framework with the OS. The Windows ...Show All

• SQL Server creating tables

  I am trying to go through an arraylist and create some database tables for each entry in the array. what I have is Dim ques As String For Each ques In questions query = "create Table " + ques + " (plantid nvarchar(100), Answer nvarchar(100))" cmd = New SqlCeCommand(query, con) cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() Next I am wanting to use the item in the arraylist as the name of the db. I am getting an error saying ...Show All

• Windows Forms Export Unbound DataGrid To CSV File\Excel with WINDOWS FORM

  I've spent hours hunting around the internet to find out how to do this and i can't seem to do it. I've found endless posts on ASP.NET but im using WinForms/VB2005 I would prefer not to have to manuall configure each export process at the time as the DataGridView can be one of at least 4 different structures depending on the options the user selected to fill it. There must be a simple way of taking all records and layout and playing it in ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista When adding a bitmap to a popup menu the item goes black when selected.

  I added a bitmap to a popup menu as a menu item,  however, when the item is selected the area of the bitmap goes black (instead of blue) while the rest of the menu stays blue. Is this a problem with transperancy Laura Since you haven't provided any more information I had to write my own program. Works for me on Windows Vista exactly the same as on XP; I don't see how this is a peculiarly Windows Vista UI question. Sta ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Windows Form lifespan?

  What is the plan for Windows Form. Will it be the new MFC and continue to have a long lifetime after the release of WPF What is Microsoft's plan ...Show All

• SQL Server Migrating from 2005 to 2005 Mobile

  Hello All, I have a database created on SQL Server 2005 and now I would like to migrate the table structure to a SQL Server 2005 Mobile database. Generating the scripts and running them against the mobile database generates a lot of error that I suppose are caused by not supported features or keywords on the mobile engine. I would like to know what are the best procedure for doing such migration. Note that this has nothing to do with repli ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamically Resizing a Control

  Please help guys, I have some NumericUpDown controls that are being populated from values read from database at runtime. I want to be able to resize the NumericUpDown controls dynamically at runtim to accomodate the lenght of the decimal values that are retrieved from the database..is there anyway I can do this... that did it!! I add a default value for the border and spinner size...U've been really helpfull...I thank you from the bottom of ...Show All

• SQL Server I am unable to install SQL Server 2005 on Win XP SP2 box

  I get to the point of starting the services and receive the following message after about 4 minutes of trying to start. I tried in Mixed Mode and Windows Authentication Mode. Message: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup ------------------------------ The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to change disabled textbox fonts color ?

  When the textbox1.enabled = false, the fonts color changed to gray.  Is it possible to change the fonts color to black color when it is disabled Thanks, Terrence You are correct, combobox does not provide a ReadOnly property...  I believe&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Newbie confusion on TFS and VS.NET. Enlightment needed.

  I setup a TFS Team project (under Beta 3). Next I created a New project (not a Team project) in VS.NET 2005, right-clicked the project name, and selected "Add project to source control". I received the message "The current project must be saved before it can be added to source conrol." Huh I want to save it in TFS and it won't let me do. (I forgot to define a workspace... maybe that's what it wanted. But when I attemped to de ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printing margins and grayscale printing in C#

  Hello, I'm trying to set the current printing margins to some very low values (like 2mm, for example - 5mm AT MOST). Now, I have the following questions: a) is this recommendable can the printer head get broken if I make it print so close to the paper margin (I'm asking this because maybe someone has done it before) b) how do I set these margins I tried the following:   pdPrintDoc.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Bottom = Convert.ToInt32(0.2 ...Show All