jportelas's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Expander control

  I have a couple of questions about the Expander control. 1 - Is it just me or does the expand button on the header seem backwards to anyone else The arrow pointing up is when the panel is expanded and the arrow pointing down is when the panel is collapsed. 2- Is there a way to actually have the content panel expand and collapse It seems to me that the control should behave that way out of the box. Is this a known issue or the designed behavior of the control. Either way anyone have a quick tip on how to expand/collapse the control. An animation example would be great if you have that :D Thanks! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Strange text characters - how do I get rid of them?

  Hi All, I have an VB.NET app that creates word documents. My problem is at the begining of lines a strange box appears. I dont know how it gets there or what causes it. I think it must be some character word doesnt know how to display but where that character comes from I dont know. It tends to be on a line were the previous line was terminated with a VBCRLF or a System. Environment.NewLine. Have a look at it here: http://www.dreamfree.co.uk/df/newline.html Any ideas Danny Some more info that may help. Sorry about the rubbish coding standards. The function tries to make a judgment on whether or not the 'Input' string is a clear add ...Show All

• Visual C# No clue about arrays, everything fails ...

  I want to fill an array in the constructor of my object, and then use it in in another method. But no matter what I try, I can't get this right. It is too different from how arrays used to be. Either it does not compile, or the array remains null as in the example below. How should I do it class Calendar { private static int day,month; private static int [] daysPerMonth; public Calendar() { day=16; daysPerMonth[1] = 31; daysPerMonth[2] = 28; daysPerMonth[3] = 31;  // does not work, daysPerMonth remains null // ... } public static   AddDay() { day++; if (day>daysPerMonth[month]) {month++; day=1;} // ... } ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installation problems

  Hi there, my first post on the forums, so here goes... I recently installed VB Express 2005, and it downloaded fine. Then, when I ran the installer, the .NET framework installed fine, but when it started installing the VB 2005 Express, it just stopped doing anything, saying "Current transfer rate is 0 KB/sec." Does anyone know the reason for this, and how I can get it to fully install ...Show All

• Smart Device Development A sample "Launch" question in C#

  Hi all, How can I launch PIE (Pocket PC Internet Explorer)  and ask it to load a specific HTML file, within my VC# 2003 application (using .NET compact Framework). I'm actually looking for the syntax. Thanks in advance, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with ToolStrip - controls in Content Panel appear under ToolStrip

  I have a UserControl that has a ToolStipContainer, with a ToolStrip in the top Panel, 4 UserControls and a WebBrowser control in the Content Panel. On the ToolStrip I have buttons to select the current control. When a control is selected, it is supposed to fill the Content Panel. The problem is, the WebBrowser and one of the UserControls in the Content Panel are under the ToolStrip! The other 3 UserControls appear under the ToolStrip, in the Content Panel, as they should. All 5 controls have the same position (0,0) and have default layout options (no docking, only left/top anchors). For some reason, two controls are under the To ...Show All

• Windows Forms Looks cool

  I downloaded the terrarium and all I can say is that it looks cool. This is because I'm behind a NAT protected network so I can't get it working, all I can see is the cool starting screen. Maybe I'll try it at home on the weekend cuz I really want to see it working. I've seen the FAQ. The problem is that I'm the&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Page Headers

  I use a logo on the first page of my reports. Additional pages use a 'Page header' which justs give the report name which is also included in the First page. The Page Header area that I use for my second and consecutive pages does not contain the logo and is set to False for printonfirstpage, yet when I view additional pages after the first page there is extraneous white space showing in the top margin that is apparently from the page header area. If I remove the page header the top margin value I set is correct, yet when a page header is used it pushes objects down the page as if a blank field exist at the top of the page, which makes the s ...Show All

• .NET Development ThreadPool and Webclient.UploadValues

  I have an app that listens on a multicast socket for some data then wraps that data in some XML and POSTs it to a web server for storage (the response from the web server contains no useful info so I ignore it). Early on I noticed that using Webclient.UploadValues was taking a fair amount of time and I was missing some of the multicast data coming in. I then tried using a ThreadPool to spawn off a separate thread that created it's own Webclient and and performs the POST for each multicast data item. Is there anything wrong with using ThreadPool with a Webclient this way I mean letting the ThreadPool spawn off as many Webclients as necess ...Show All

• Windows Forms main form losing responsiveness

  Howdy all. I'm building an app and this is essentially how it works. I've got a winform. On the left is a tree control. On the right I've got a panel, which I call ControlHoster. What I do is change the content of the panel's control collection based on various user actions so the form can change dynamically as they work. I've tried creating& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Source Control for Visual Studio 2005

  Hi I am just kicking of a project and am in the project of ordering VS2005 Professional (not large enuff to worry about Team System), which does not come with the new Visual Source safe. Can I buy the new Source Safe separately (my reseller does not seem to think so), or am I restricted to using VSS5   Regards Alec Rimmer Yes, you can buy VSS2005 separately. See the estimated retail price at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/ You should find a link to resellers list on the same page, or you can use a search engine to search on Internet (currently Amazon has a couple more in stock, Prova ...Show All

• SQL Server What component to use for Calling View

  In SSIS 2005 what component can I use inside my Data Flow task to call my View and use it as a datasource I know I've used an Execute T-SQL Task but I don't know what component to use inside an actual task itself. What I'm trying to do is in my Data Flow task, instead of using 3 OLE DB Source components, I want to actually call 3 stored procs and use those 3 components as the data sources to merge on using the merge and sort components later on You've lost me. At the start of the above post you say you want to use a view. At the end of the post you say stored proc. Which is it Either way, a view or a stored proc can be used inside a ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Charts crashes VS 2005

  I have been creating reports just fine in Report Designer 2005 until I tried to drag a report on an open canvas, new project.  I just used a simple bar chart and tried to drag over 3 fields from my dataset to allow it some information.  When I preview the report VS crashes with an unexpected error.  Is this something anyone has come across when trying to create charts    I assume it is not liking something I did but all I did was drag over 3 fields into the appropriate spots.  The error doesn't tell me anything and when I try to debug, it stalls. I was having similar dramas until I worked carefully th ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linker Error with the file atlsd.lib

  Hi all, I am facing a problem when building my code in VC++. Actually i built my code on a machine which contained VS2003. When i copied the same files into my machine which has VS 6 in it gives me a linker error saying, LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "atlsd.lib". What is the reason for this to occur ,I think there will be a simple solution for this. Please look into it and gimme a suggestion. Thanks & Regards, Ravi VC6 is no longer supported. This question is beyond the scope of this forum. BTW: Also I am sure that there was never a ATLSD.LIB/ATLS.LIB under VC6. Maybe you used a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions sendkeys and focus

  Ok i got a bit of a prob. i'm tryin to make vb type in a webbrowser thing tht i got onscreen in a vb form. my friend suggested send keys but you have to set a focus to the webbroweser or somethin like tht. i tried everything he's said but i've had no luck. can anyone out there help me   if u didn't get tht, i want vb to type in a webbrowser bit which is in my form when i click a button.   ok a bit of an update here. i tried what my friend said again except with a textbox. tht worked. But i tried the exact same thing except with my webbrowser and it doesn't work. Why not and how can i fix it so it will ...Show All