nba1341's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Wanted someone with a suitable terrarium for herbivore introduction

  Hi. I'm looking for someone who can introduce a herbivore of mine into the Ecosystem. I can't do it because I'm behind a NAT and it just won't get teleported out. If you have a fully working terrarium, run it a lot, your ecosystem is& ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making a form fade in

  Hi, Can I use the opacity property to make a form fade in  (Make it smooth though) Thnx. Thanks so much for posting that code.  I have been wanting to incorporate that into one of my apps for about a year now and never&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Opening a Help File from a C# Application

  I'm using C# Express B2, and I am very new to programming. I'm trying to have a help file (.chm) that I created open when the "Contents" option on the "Help" menu is clicked. I have added the help control to the project and set its namespace property to the location of the file. Now I'm stuck; I can't find the exact steps/code I need to make the menu item click actually open the file. How do I tell my application, "When the user clicks the "Cont ...Show All

• SQL Server Becoming an mvp

  I was reading about how people become MVP's and it states participate in the MSDN forums, is this true     EDIT: Why did you lock this thread, it is specific to becoming an MVP in reporting services.  Kind of ignorant on your part. This isn't the right place to ask those kind of questions as we try to keep it to software development discussion only. You should have a look at this site http://mvp.support.microsof ...Show All

• Windows Forms Change border around UserControl.

  How can a change the border around a UserControl. I would like to be able to add and remove a border around my control. But I want the border to be 3 pixels wide (not just 1) and I want to to be a different color than just black. borders should ideally be on the non-client area of the control, i will try to compile my previous panel control with custom borders and blog about it. it uses the wm_ncpaint message. ...Show All

• SQL Server Import MSSQL Tables

  Is there a way in SQL 2005 Express Edition to import/export data from another MSSQL Server Something similar to the right click/ import table functionality of MSSQL2000. I've read similar threads which all recommend using MS Access but there has to be a better way, right regards, dj Hi DJ, SQL Express, and Management Studio Express, don't include the Import/Export wizard because that wizard is dependent on SSIS, a component that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I load the next GroupBox?

  I plan to have a series of GroupBoxes with RadioButtons in them. When the user clicks the "Next" button in each GroupBox, I want the next GroupBox to appear with another set of choices. How do I load the next GroupBox I ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista HPET timer support

  Does the current vista beta support access to the HPET timers Some of the newer motherboards seem to claim implementation of HPET timers, but HPET timers appear to be hidden from XP and the BIOS settings. We have a simulation need to provide a highly determinstic periodic interrupt at video frame rate (60hz or 72hz) and would like to gain some experience with using the new HPET timers. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Extending the Personal Web Site Starter Kit

  I have read the article on extending the Personal Starter Kit  by Bill Evjen. There are 3 image files that he makes a reference to, that I cannot find.             <table width="90%"><tr>                   ImageUrl="../Images/button_sitecontent.gif"    &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Studio question.

  Hi everyone, I know this might not be the right forum but I do need some direction and any help will be greatly appreciated. I have VS.NET 2003. It all was working fine but after a few months worth of use, it has decided to not let&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VPC Foundation Server installed images - When?

  At TechEd, DVD's with VPC images of Foundation Server (well, everything in Team System) installed were being passed out.  This saves headaches for both end-users and MSFT (who have to answer all the install related issues) The question for the rest of us is: when would this be available for download from MSDN Thanks, I find it very annoying to try to enable alerts in a thread, and not being able cause of the shortage of MSN Aler ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem passing OBJECT to a COM server

  Hi I have an ATL COM Server that accepts an argument of type variant*. With VB6 we haven't problems, passing to VB.NET the server method fails because the data is always VT_EMPTY. // MIDL -------------------------------------------------------------- [id( 6 ), helpstring( "method ResponseArray" )] HRESULT ResponseArray([out] LONG* Slave, [out] LONG* Function, [out] LONG* Count, [in,out] VARIANT* TelegramData, [in] LONG WaitTime); // Server&nbs ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deploying a C# application on a windows mobile 5.0 pocket pc (treo)

  This is my first time developing for windows mobile and for the Treo 700w. I'm working with Visual Studio 2005 and I'm using C#. I've got the latest version of active sync and the smart phone sdk. My basic hello world app works great on the "Windows Mobile 5.0 pocket PC phone square emulator" I'm now trying to get the application to work on the physical treo. What I've done so far is build the application build -- > Configu ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using DPAPI with .NET CF 2.0

  Hello, Has anyone managed to use the DPAPI with the .NET CF 2.0 I'm unable to get my code working through a C# application. It keeps failing on the Marshal method in the following code. private static void InitPrompt(ref CRYPTPROTECT_PROMPTSTRUCT ps) { ps.cbSize = Marshal.SizeOf( typeof(CRYPTPROTECT_PROMPTSTRUCT)); ps.dwPromptFlags= 0; ps.hwndApp = NullPtr; ps.szPrompt = null; } Thank ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making my app the default email client

  I am creating an email client. How do I go about making my program the default email client once it has been installed Hi there, To set an application as the default for Internet or Email requires some registry work. I would envisage that you have an installer or some functionality in your application to set it as the default If you do, then whatever you are using will need to modify the registry. Here is ...Show All