Darrell Snow's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Problems with localized UserControl

  Hi i must develop an multilanguage application (german, italian). I have a localized winform with the description in this 2 languages. Now i have a Usercontrol which is localized too. If i would like drag this usercontrol from the toolbox of the vs. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development LNK2019 error about CeMountDBVolEx and CeOpenDatabaseInSession!!Anyone can help me?

  hi everyone!     i wrote a simple program use studio2005 with WM5.0PPC platform. i want to read some contact information from the SimEntries database use some APIs as CeMountDBVolEx and CeOpenDatabaseInSession. i find the API descriptions in msdn. it must include Windbase.h and link the Coredll.lib to use it. i include Windbase.h,then build ,it said CeMountDBVolEx and CeOpenDatabaseInSession not defined. i look the Windbase.h,&nbs ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket Access

  Hello guys, i need to create new Access tables on PPC2003SE then read from and write to them, of course programmaticaly. Does anyine has an idea on how this is possible thanks a lot in advance To be more clear, i have an Access file on my desktop that contains tables that has the .mdb extension, when i transfer it to my PPC 2003 SE emulator with ActiveSync, it gets the .cdb extension. Once on my PPC 2003 SE i need to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista 5231 and VS 2005 RC1

  Hi All, Has anyone tried installing VS 2005 on Vista 5231 They both seem to use the same .Net 2.0 bits... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code Profilter listing function names as hex codes (instead of name)

  When running the VSTS code profilter, the report lists the "Function Name" as codes like 0x60000008, Line Number is "0", and Source Code File Name is <blank>. Any idea why the profiler appears to not be picking up the info from my assembly/project Chances are that when the report is being generated from the .vsp file, symbols can't be found for whatever reason. It's actually a prett ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Hook keybord for pocket pc and smart phone of version 2003, 2005

  Hi all expert, I looked everywhere in MSDN to find how i can intercept the key "phone" (green key). I am a loser cos i can't know how i can do that. I want that when i click the key "phone" in the device, it will runs my application instead of phone application. Can you give me some instruction. I am impatient to hear from you. JulienT There is another way to intercept the Talk button that should work better for you.  See http://blogs ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get the textbox of a combobox control?

  I have a need to operate on the textbox of a combobox control. I looked thru MSDN doc but could not find a way. I wonder if it is totally possible... This is not possible. Contrary to popular belief (and common sense), the combo box does not contain a textbox control within it; the entire combobox is implemented by the operating system as a single control, not a combination of other controls. The only methods available to operating on the ...Show All

• Visual Basic Got NullReferenceException when assigning DBNull.Value to a field in a dataset table

  I have an integer field in a database table, which is Nullable. I bound the table with a binding source and update it with table adapter. When I set the field to null by datarow.Item("IntegerField") = DBNull.Value I got the NullReferenceException. What's wrong What is the proper way to do it ...Show All

• Windows Forms toolstrip.overflowbutton BUG?

  Dear all, I have in C# 2.0-Application of me insert a toolstrip-Menu, something comes to a overflow, and a overflow-button is displayed. Because I have custimize the toolstrip-menu,  I will custimize the overflow-button too. I custimize the overflow-button with the command this .toolStrip1.OverflowButton.ShowDropDownArrow = true ; this .toolStrip1.OverflowButton.Text = "More >>"; this .toolStrip1.OverflowButton.ToolTipText = "MOR ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Strange behaviour when accessing Excel VBA after installing VB 2005 Express edition

  Hi, I recently installed VB2005 Express Edition to try to learn the new features of VB under the .net environment. The installation and registration went like a charm and the program is working as I expect. However, I am doing a lot of development work using VBA running under Microsoft Excel and since I installed VB2005, whenever I access the VBA IDE in Excel, I get a message box telling me that VB2005 is trying to install something. At fi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions vb express SerialPort control error

  When I select the value "None" for the StopBits property on an instance of this control, I get a message <Property Value is not valid> with the following detail: "Enum value was out of legal range. Parameter name: StopBits" This happens when I choose the value from the drop-down list, so it has to be a bug. Does anyone know how I can specify no stop bits I didn't knew that the set function does not allow no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions (newbie) How to refresh text box contents

  Hi Dare I ask another question! I have a second form which opens via a button on main form. This form shows a score table (32 textboxes) The display/saving/loading/hiding for this form all work OK. I now have a new score (4 of the text boxes) to change. The following Sub seems to achieve the resorting of the ScoresTable Collection (the score table text boxes) inserting a new score appropriately. However, this doesn't change the value ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Unable to decompress with GZipStream

  Hi everybody. I'm trying to modify the GZip compression code sample provided in the MSDN Express help for Visual Basic 2005, creating two methods. The first one compresses a file to a new compressed one, and the second should decompress the given filename to a new uncompressed one I'm using the GZip compression,provided in the System.IO.Compression namespace. I'm able to compress files in the way I like. But I cannot decompress.. I'm u ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions No Export Template menu

  Hi, I use VS Express 2005 C++ (not the beta version). I cannot see the export template File menu options. I checked in the Customisation but there is no "Export Template" command in File Category. I try Import/Export setting to reset the setting to basic standard VC++ setting but it changed nothing. I read about difficulties to export from VC++ but at least I should have the greyed option, shouln't I What is this problem Thanks in adv ...Show All

• Visual C# Process

  Ok. In a button_click event, I start a Process to run a program on my desktop. And in another click event the Process method is supposed to start a different program on my desktop. But when I try to run it, I get the error message saying that the Process is already in use. Can someone tell me how to fix this. ...Show All