Dock's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Make existing workbook into a vsto solution

  Is it possible to make an existing excel workbook into a vsto solution by adding the 2 properties _assemblyname and _assemblylocation with appropriate values Do I need to do anything else Yes. Quite a bit of other stuff is going on here. A runtime storage control is added to the document and a manifest is embedded in it. More details on this can be found at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/7ydweh ...Show All

• SQL Server General network error. Check your network documentation

  I use sqlclient to connect directly from my mobile 5 pocketpc to a sql server 2005 database on my desktop. I use a sqldatareader to traverse the results of a query that delivers 2 fields: (1) the filespec, and (2) the image field. I use a filestream with a binary writer to write the contents of the image data to the pocketpc's storage card. I have a test table with 10 images, not one more than 4 MB.  I cannot complete a test run prior to re ...Show All

• Visual C# Need help on drawing rectangle on htmldocument using mouse events.

  hey All, I want to draw a rectangle on Html document using mouse event(mouse move,mouse down,mouse up). Infect i am developing a form which contains Webbrowser Control , when this control shows some web site in it , means after documentComplete event. i need to draw a region on this document just like drawing region for capturing some part of screen in many softwares. help me ASAP. Thank you in advance. ...Show All

• Visual C# DataReader not returning any data

  Hi there, I have a slight problem using DAAB 2.0. I have a sp that runs fine through sql 2005 passing in the params manually, however, when I try and do the following i get no data public void() { userToGet = new User() //User struct Database db = DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase("DB"); using(DbCommand dbCommand = db.GetStoredProcCommand("sp_name")) { db.AddInParameter(dbCommand, 'UserLogonID", DbType.String, &quo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions vb2005 exp ed will not connect to sql 2005 exp ed

  I uninstalled the Beta2 version per the install instructions with the release edition.  I have been taking the online learning up to lesson 08 in which we start doing something with sql2005.  I cannot make a database in visual studio 2005 because it will not connect to the current instance of sql 2005.  Starting sql2005 indicates that the default instance is running as a service on my computer.  in lessons 1 through 7, everyt ...Show All

• SQL Server Table control causes pdf Format skipping pages

  Whenever I use a table control a in report in SQL Server Reporting Services. When I save that report to a PDF format, every other page is  blank in a multipage report. Every other page is skipped. Has anyone else run into this problem Hi, I have also this same problem.If multirow table can fit into a single page,It skips a page and renders into the next page.This happens only when we export to PDF. any help would be greatly ...Show All

• Windows Forms Localization and right to left text

  I have a requirement where the text for 2 different locals, English and Arabic have to be presented on the same form side by side. The data is pulled from the database. If I use a single list control I cant  display both type of  ...Show All

• Visual C# Datagridview delete row

  i am new in C#. using datagridview control. but this control is not connected with any recordset. i am just adding some value in loop. i want to delete all rows from datagridview. how can i do this. can anyone tell me, plz. Thank you very much. I was digging more than 2 hours on it. Its works. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Adding XML nodes in run time

  Hi, I am assigned to create a word document where I need to add xml nodes in run time from actions pane using button and later extract data from those nodes. I need to be able add these nodes more than once. Can someone help please! I am using VSTO 2005 and Word 2003. Thanks in advance. - Nick Hi, VSTO does not provide a way to programmatically add XMLNode controls to a docment at runtime. For mo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions read write serial port

  I have found several classes online that say they make using the serial ports easy. I am never able to get any of them to compile. Is there a bare bones example of how to read/write to a serial port all bundled in a project for Visual C++ Express Edition It depends what classes you found. You need a class based purely on the Win32 API. Even than you need to install the PSDK as documented. If you used one using ...Show All

• SQL Server File System Task Problem

  I'm trying to realize a file system task that rename files from a foreach loop container. So that means the task have a variable in the source connection. This variable got the value (as an expression) of "c:\\.....\\" +@[User::ForeachloopVar ]. But an error message appears when i run it.The message is File System Task: An error occurred with the following error message:  "The given path's format is not supported." When i don’t use th ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio all databases . . .

  I see that Management Studio lists all databases, even ones that the user doesn't have access to.  I thought this was going to be fixed so I've been watching it from CTP to CTP throughout the year.  But I can see view a list of all databases on a server even if I'm simply a db_owner on one database.  I've tested this on the September CTP build. Microsoft posted a KB article to resolve this for Enterprise Manager (SQL 2000) just l ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express will not install -- Existing Components- Cannot Resolve - Help

  Hello, I installed VB2005 recently and today I attempted to install SQL Server Express. Installation failed saying that Existing Components Existed. Message was: Existing Components SQL Server DB Series 9.00.1399.06 I believe that is SQL Native Client. It could also be from SQL Books Online. I have Add/Removed the SQL Express Components repeatedly and retried with the same results. I'm not sure if ther ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Foreign keys in business-entities. Should we really hold them?

  Sqlmetall generates properties and fields for FK's. Is it possible to avoid this approach in future versions I think we don't really need this foreigh keys in business entities. I agree with you and we are discussing by default sqlmetal will not generate the foreign key. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Overprint, knockout or trapping in XPS?

  Just wondering out overprint/knockout would be handled in XPS. That is, black text with a cyan background might be overprinted to deal with registration problems. In PDF files, the text object has the attribute of whether it knocks out or overprints. I am not finding a similar setting in the XPS spec. Trapping is another issue, but does not need to be specified in the document. Knockout: by default, XPS uses t ...Show All