Bob Schaefer's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Check for missing config file.

  Hello, If my application uses values residing in the config file, how do I check before pulling the values out, that the config file present. Thank you. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to load word documents from a memory stream

  All, I know this has been an age old question.  I personally have been dealing with this issue since office 97.  But as new toolsets are made available, is there anyway to load word documents from memory stream rather than from a physical file path.  I have an application that stores .dot file in a database and depending on the application that they select I generate a dynamic form for the users to fill out base on the ...Show All

• .NET Development MSXML and .NET XML implementation

  I have always wondering if the .NET XML functions are a wrapper around the MSXML components. I do not have time to verify this, so can someone tell me the truth Thanks. The classes in the System.Xml namespace are a seperate implementation written in c# and are not wrappers around MSXML components. Thanks, Priya ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem - ListBox/ComboBox Item Duplication

  Gidday from Down Under I'm a new user to VB2005 coming off VS6.  If I add a list or combo box to my form and populate it, when I click an item in the list at run time it shows a duplicate of my selection in the list as well as in the header of the list. For example, a list of furniture items with unique names that appear in the list only once on form load. I select an item in the list, it highlights and fills the combo header ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help needed for beginner

  I am writing a program, of which part is to copy all files, folders and subfolders from a provided source location to destination. When I run the code as shown below, if there are more than 2 subfolders in depth, or the source is on a CD then I recieve the following error: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.UnauthorizedAccessException' occurred in mscorlib.dll." "Additional information: Access to the path 'C:\New Folder\Autorun.inf ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XBAP and default browser

  Hi, I got the following problem since I uninstalled the February CTP and installed the May CTP instead: When I press Ctrl-F5 in Visual Studio for a XBAP application, Firefox is started instead of IE. Since Firefox doesn't understand XBAP, I cannot run or debug the application as easily as before. I know how to change the default browser for a HTML application, but I didn't find such a setting for XBAP applications. Any hint welcomed! Greetings, ...Show All

• Visual Basic Quick question

  I'm running this proejct on vb. net 03 pro. This is a small project sample that i want to developed a little bit more, but i have a problem with the output... code: Module mainmodule Public usernamedatabase(4) As String Public passworddatabase(4) As Integer Public r As Boolean Sub main() Dim objLoginform As frmlogin objLoginform = New frmlogin Dim x As String Dim y As Int ...Show All

• SQL Server try to setup membership with ASP.NET configuration

    When I whant the use the new ASP.NET configuration tool (2005) and I want to define a provider I get the following error. You should know that on installation of VS 2005 SQL-Server Express did not install and I installed SQL-Server 2005 (shiped with VS 2005). So now it seems that VS waits for the Express edition. I changed under Tools/Options/Database Tools/Data Connections the SQL Server Instance Name to "MSSQLSERVER" but this does ...Show All

• Visual C# serial port

  Hi, I am new to C# and wanted to know How do I read data from serial port. and convert that data into integers.please help.. Dear akks, There are so many ways to do this.So don't worry. pls refer this site, http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/SerialCommunication.asp. if you Still have query, pls contact me. Regards, Vinoraja. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Setting the text for a tooltip where the object that it is a tooltip for has changed its value

  I've got 4 linklabels, when I click on each of them, their value changes. When I hover my mouse over any of the linklabels, my tooltip appears. For each linklabel the value of the tooltip is different. Visual Basic Express Edition 2005 refers to this as "ToolTip on tltp_name". The problem is that, once any of the linklabels' values have changed, when I hover my mouse over them, the previous tooltip shows. I want& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions __imp__ShellExecuteA@24 error

  I'm getting these errors while compiling, am i missing an include BikE.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__ShellExecuteA@24 referenced in function _WinMain@16 BikE.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__PeekMessageA@20 referenced in function _WinMain@16 BikE.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__MessageBoxA@16 referenced in function _WinMain@16 &nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms populate combobox

  hi, I would like to populate a comboBox with three text values and assign an ID to each one so that when one of them is selected, then an ID for that text value is used later on ie. combobox1.items.add("value1") combobox1.items.add("value2") combobox1.items.add("value3") tried accountTypeComboBox.Items.Add (new ListItem("Item 1", "0")) accountTypeComboBox.Items.Add (new ListItem("Item 2", "1")) but gives an error on ListItem Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 launch time sucks when disconnected from VSS

  I have VS2005 connected to VSS 8. I'm on a LAN, not even bothering with HTTP at the moment. My project is a web project. Problem: If I am disconnected from the LAN (pack up laptop and go home) and launch VS2005, it takes several minutes to realize there is no source safe available. It appears as "Not Responding" the whole time, and then FINALLY asks if I want to search for another VSS or launch disconnected. This occurrs EVERY l ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Proxy Configuration for Dummies

  Hi, my coworker and I just can't get the proxy setup straight. I started a test setup where I have one TFS and one client. The client can connect directly to the TFS without a problem, now I want to do the same, but use a proxy (we will later do this between remote locations with a slow connection). I have some really basic questions and I guess I just did not understand how exaclty the proxy works. a) Where do I have to install the proxy ...Show All

• SQL Server decimals

  I need to learn to format text boxes in the report design to not have any decimals but to have commas when needed. Any help is appreciated. I dont understand very well your question but to remove decimals you only have to convert to int =Cint(Fields!field.value) ...Show All