M.Forsyth's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Child and Parent Form

  Hi. In a mdiparent form that have some child form,i want to manage controls on mdiparent form. for example:A label is on mdiparent form; and i want to change text of it. help me. Maybe is your control private How are you opening the child   In Child form: public frmParent mydad; In Parent form: form.mydad = this;                       &n ...Show All

• SQL Server Newbie Question

  I am replacing the computer expert in my company who just died until we get a replacement. I made some reports using the old database using the wizard. I am trying to get it to kick out reports in HTML and when I try building the program I get this error "The project cannot be deployed because no target server is specified. Provide a value for the TargetServerURL property in the property pages for this project.". What do you think the problem is ...Show All

• Windows Forms Excel Automation + Scripting

  I want to create an Excel automation project (not an Addin). The project will consist of a WinForm app and an Excel spreadsheet. The WinForm will have an embedded fsi.exe, the F# interactive console. Both the fsi.exe instance and the winform controls should have access to the Excel instance. Hope this makes more sense. Thanks, - Luis Hi Luis, I am not familar with fsi. I think you may need to contact the d ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reflector does not install on Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta 2

  Just downloaded Reflector which refuses  to install with Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta, saying : "Setup could not find Visual Studio .NET 2005. Please install Visual Studio .NET 2005 before installing refactor!." Is it not a too serious limitation It's the free version. I guess you can't expect some of the nice extra features... ...Show All

• Visual C# Thread | Invoke Issue

  I am stumped on this. Here is my scenerio. >> = creates >: = event kicked off Class A >> Class B >> Class C Class A >> Class D When Class C creates a graphic object , alert Class A to tell Class D to reset all its data. Class C >: Class B >: Class A Class A has this code: private void Feature_DataChanged( object sender, EventArgs e) { ImageHandler image = ( ImageHandler ) ...Show All

• .NET Development Webservice: "The ASP.NET process identity does not have read permissions to the global assembly cache."

  I'm uncertain what the best forum is for this - I also posted this in the ASP forum. I am developing a distributed application with a client-side java calling a webservice serving a static binary database. The application works well with the VS2005 Development server on XP Pro SP2. However when I publish it to an IIS v5 environment, it fails with these errors.   3.)    .aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 3988) stopped unexpec ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView crashes the CLR?

  Setting a ListView to virtual mode and then populating Text or SubItems() with strings longer than 260 characters _and_ two quotes crashes my application the hard way - the EXE just shuts down. I suspect some problem in the unmanaged part of the .NET framework, but can't really tell. I reported this bug( ) three days ago already in this forum, but my post vanished for whatever reason. Can anybody reproduce this problem Or know a workaround/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Accessing Oracle databases in Visual C# .Net Express

  Can someone please show me / tell me how to connect to an oracle database with Visual C# .Net Express... I have an Oracle 9i databse and I have the 10g client installed. This works fine in Visual Studio .Net 2003 but I can't connect at all in Express. Is it something to do with the .Net Framework 2.0 Any help much appreciated as I'm a complete novice to C# ... I'm a VB programmer by trade ( and VB 6 at that )...   Elton Th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Web Browsing program

  OK, I know what I want in the browser, I know how to make most of it. The only problem I have right now I DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THIS WEB BROWSING WINDOW!! I'm trying to make it in a panel, which probably is the wrong way to do this. I need help with the web browser commands. Oh, and I want it in the program, not external Internet Explorer window. Please help, I'm new at this and I'm trying to make an OS-like program set. Hi, Visual Studio ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Blue Screen on Boot in 5231

  I've been fighting all day with installing the current CTP build (5231) of Vista on my Dell Inspiron 600m. The OS takes forever to install but once it does it boots to the desktop normally until I install the supplemental drivers. On every reboot after that the system blue screens and reboots. It'll boot to safe mode, so I enabled boot logging and looked at the log in Safe Mode. The last file it loads is fvevol.sys. The first one it says di ...Show All

• .NET Development OPENXML: Error inserting xml into SQL Server 2000

  I am having trouble inserting xml data into SQl server using the OPENXML. This is the SP I have. When I pass small XML content the Insert works but not when i have a bigger XML file.  ALTER PROC uspW3TeamList  @doc text AS BEGIN  DECLARE @idoc int  EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @idoc OUTPUT, @doc    INSERT INTO SportsSchedule (TeamName1,TeamName2,GameDate,GameStartTime,InsertedOn)      &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions yo, i am not able to make a deletion using the default Binding navigator.

  Hi, I am a beginner in using visual basic 2005 express edition. And I went through the tutorials. But when coming to 'Connecting to an Existing Database' part, I encounter the problem which I am not able to update the changes to the database. When i tried to delete a record, the change is not made to the database. So everytime when i press F5 again, the data will be get back to the old one. I understand that t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Windows API in VB.Net

  Dear All, Q1) In VB6, there are Win32API viewer for helping us to writing Windows API application. In VB.Net, I can't find that tools now. If I want to write some program with WinAPI, how should I do Q2) After installed Platform SDK, I can use the new and platform api in VC++ program. I want to know How to use them in VB.Net Thanks, Kevin Tang. http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usevb6/l/aa10 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel 2003 automation: setting an array as value of range-object

  I have been working on a routine for saving DataTable to excel (2003), with help from : http: / / support. microsoft. com/ kb/ q302094 This procedures however fails on the line which sets the value of the excel-range to the generated array. I was hoping to accomplish this using late binding, but this yields: "System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMExcep tion (0x800A03EC): Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC. at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Report Errors after rebuild

  Hello, I have recently rebuilt a TFS Beta 3 installation (reporting portion) due to a corrupt ReportServer.mdf database. I've followed the instructions within other posts in this forum to regenerated the data source connections for the reporting piece and verified the warehouse analysis cube is functional (using the warehouse TS guide). Everything looks great; however when I run any report, I get the following error: w3wp!library!1!2/8/20 ...Show All