Larry Mason's Q&A profile

• Visual C# app.TaskVisible = false

  How is this done with my main form with C# app.TaskVisible = false The D wrote: If what you are trying to do is make your main form not show up in task bar... About half way into this article is some info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp06102002.asp --- Excerpt { --- That now means that I can make the main form disappear. The first two steps to do this are easy. You set the Sh ...Show All

• Visual C# e-mail link

  How can I put in control linkLabel1 link to e-mail, and this link will start e-mail client (like Outlook Express) with my e-mail ( e-mail default in control linkLabel1) Thanks You could run the following code in the OnClick event handler for your LinkLabel: Process.Start("mailto:user@domain.com subject=Some Subject"); For more info, see: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=22 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Help

  I am new to the smart device app side of VB and I have a question. The thing is that I am writting a pocket pc version of the game left right center and can not for the life of me figure out how to call a second form. I can get the second form to load and show but you can not click on anything in the form. Can someone tell me what the problem might be Dim frm As New Form2 frm.Show() 'frm.Visible.Equals(True) frm.NumericU ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express Font Addition/Installation With Deployment

  I realize that the ClickOnce Deployment is not the same as the MSI and that MSI is not part of VB Express. I have a custom true type font that I need to use with my application. Is there any way to add this with the deployment For example, is this possible with the Boostrapper, and if so how could this easily be done Maybe this will help   http://www.bobpowell.net/embedfonts.htm ...Show All

• Visual Basic Snipet Editor Path

  Where is the snippet editor created by default... i cant reinstall it (says there is an network error, even though being on local drive) and i cant see any shortcuts on menu There were some issues with early versions of the snippet editor. I would try using the one on the gotdotnet website . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Enable/disable popups in main menu

  Hi; We have an Add-In where we need to enable/disable a couple of menu items based on the location of the caret in the document. As an example, think of the Cut menu item in Edit - it is only enabled if text is selected in the document. Is there any event or any other method where we can enable/disable the menu items just before the menu is displayed. Possibly an event that occurs when the user clicks on the main level menu that will cause it's ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Query regarding running Windows Workflow

  I have created a custom application which host a windows workflow designer.When i add the activities on to the designer and run the workflow the activities are not getting excuted. Regards D.Ashok Kumar Ashok, How are you running your workflow   Please send in some more details so we can help you debug. Thanks! Arjun ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Setup failed to retrieve the SSL Certificate Name

    When I try to install SQL 2005 Developer September CTP on Windows XP Professional  it returns an error "SQL Server Setup failed to retrieve the SSL Certificate Name" . I was using a certificate from SelfSSL but removed it. Still no luck This appears to be an issue with SQL Reporting Services. If I don't install Reporting Services then I can install SQL 2005. I'm guessing that Reporting Services is now requiring a certificate a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Free VB 2005 Express Edition Tutorials?

  Firstly let me give a big "Wassup!" to all the VB programmers out there! I have recently moved over from the Delphi platform to the VB platform and joined the ranks of a far better programming language... (Sorry to all those Delphi PPL) I have taken the www.learnvisualstudio.net tutorials and found them to be very informative and extremely helpful but I was wondering if there isn't an online community of VB 2005 Express developers where I c ...Show All

• SQL Server Error in the login process when establishing connection

  Hello, I am trying to connect to a database through a web service. I am being able to connect to the databse through the server explorer in Visual Studio 2005, but when I try to do it with code in my application this is the message I get: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host ...Show All

• Visual C++ Using classes from dynamically linked DLL

  I am attempting to use classes that are defined in my custom written DLLs. I am dynamically loading the DLLs using LoadLibrary. I already know how to access functions using GetProcAddress. Is it possible to do something similar for classes No! You can not use class exports via this way with LoadLibrary. A simple approach is to create interfaces like COM interfaces and return only pointers to those interface ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie trying to understand the use of a Timer in Visual Studio VB

  Hi I have copied the example code from the help files. ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/MS.NETFramework.v20.en/cpref17/html/T_System_Windows_Forms_Timer.htm but cannot figure out how to use it. I tried a whole bunch of things involving stuff like: Dim fred As New Timer fred.Enabled = True fred.Start() expecting the included 5000 ms timer to start and count down to zero then show the message as per the example code - b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Pass user-specified parameters from windows form to class. HOW?

  Dear all, I have 2 separate code files in a C# project, one of it is a window form and the other is a c# class file.. I want to pass certain parameters entered by the user in the form to the class for it to proceed operation. How do I do that Thanks alot. Class Form1 : Form {     void button1_Click(...)     {         MyClass o = new MyClass() ...Show All

• SQL Server 64 Bit OLE vs. 32 Bit OLE

  I have a SSIS package that works on Windows Server 2003 32 Bit with SQL Server 2005 32 Bit when I move it to a Windows Server 2003 64 Bit (AMD) with SQL Server 2005 64 Bit it fails with error 80040154 on the connection to an Access 2000 database. The solution maybe Jet 4.0 SP8 however I can not find SP8 for Windows Server 2003 64 Bit AMD (I can find Jet 4.0 SP8 for Windows Server 2003 32 Bit, Windows Server 2003 64 Bit Itanium however). I u ...Show All

• SQL Server How to run only certain tasks

  If I'm in the Data Flow tab in VS 2005, how can I select only certain components to run to test   I tried highlighting the ones that I want to run but it's running all of them in the tab...some of the components I want to take out for testing then maybe put back in later.  If I delete the tasks I don't want to run, then I end up having to recreate them First of all, you need to be clear that the objects in the data-flow ...Show All