john blamey's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System When is Beta 3 out?

  Thanks, Anu The information was not available when the question was posted, but you can find the answer in the following post. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=76313 Buck ...Show All

• Visual C# Data grid scrollbar - how to avoid column headers from scrolling

  i am using asp .net datagrid in my web page to display some data and that data is bind to the datagrid at runtime. the number of columns to bind also determined dynamically at runtime. the grid may contain large amounts of data. so when i scroll down to see the bottom rows, the header is not visible as it also scrolls. how can i avoid header from scrolling. pls help me thanks in advance.. Regards Elizabeth check this li ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TabControl Border problem

  I'm seeing a strange border artifact when setting BorderThickness="0" ... the border is still being drawn on right and bottom sides of the control... How do I get rid of that <Grid xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " Background="sc#1, 0, 0, 0" Width="640" Height="480"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition/> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions ...Show All

• SQL Server Log of rows inserted/updated/deleted

  HI, I am wondering if it is possible to retreive this information without using row count transform. Can I get the # of rows inserted/updated or deleted by destination from the log Thank you, Ccote An OnInformation event is raised by the data-flow task when data flows into a destination. This has free text which contains the number of rows. You would have to parse that information out of the text within the ...Show All

• Windows Forms BUG: ContextMenu Shortcut (Accelerator) Problem

  I've only verified this with .NET 1.0.x, so if it's been fixed in 1.1.x please let me know and I'll quietly go away. It appears shortcuts (accelerators) are not handled properly for top-level menu items in a ContextMenu.  The problem occurs in  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CAB file for connecting to SQL Express 2005

  Hi, I'm having difficulties trying to connect my smart device(Symbol MC50) to the SQL Server Express 2005. I've earlier deployed my application to SQL Server 2000 and after installing sql.ppc.wce4.armv4 onto the smart device. It was working fine. (It can authenticate via AD, retrieve data from server). When I try to do to the same to another server running SQL Express 2005, i'm unable to connect. Please advise. Regards, crab_era ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Have a call with a smartphone

  Hi, I'm trying to make a program in VB using SmartPhone functions. For instance, I succed to dial a call with PhoneMakeCall function : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/APISP/html/sp_phone_phonemakecall.asp I'd like to know if it's possible to take an incomming call, I can't find anything about that on MSDN.. Does someone could say me if it's posible, and how do that. thanks ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual Studio .NET 2003 executable format

  We are building projects consisting of non-managed console applications and COM DLLs using Visual Studio .NET 2003.  We are using Rational ClearCase as our source control tool, but for the time being we need to build all our applications using snapshot views.  Unlike dynamic views, snapshot views do not keep version history of derived objects like executables.  Also for the time being, our process requires that we do a full c ...Show All

• Visual C# Login Control problem

  Hey guys, I have a VS2005 website project on my dev machine. It compiles and runs perfectly. When I publish the project and put it into production, the Login control keeps giving me a "Login failed for user..." error. The web.config is the same, the connection strings are the same. Anyone know what the problem could be Yea that's what I thought, so I created a test app pool that runs as the local system, which has administrative ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VWD Couldn't be extracted

  Hi, I receive an error during extraction of the vwd.img file, it asks me to retry, ignore or quit. I try retry but same prompt re-appears, when I click ignore, files are extracted but installation encounters problems. Please let me know how to fix the issue. Thanks Zubair Yes, the problem was with the download size of the file, re-download solved the problem. Thanks Zubair ...Show All

• Windows Forms Splash Screen

  I am creating a splash screen that will load up initially when my program opens up and closes when the main form behind it opens/loads.  Similar to the Microsoft Office applications.  The problem is I do not know how to close that spl ...Show All

• SQL Server can you build a report model on an Access MDB?

  Simple question, did not see a ready answer on msdn ...Show All

• Windows Forms Catastrophic failure while using ImagetoIPicture

  Hi, I am trying to use the ImagetoIPicture method on one of the resource icons I have in a C# project. However, I get a Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) as soon as I execute the ImagetoIPicture method. I am using .Net 2.0 and referencing the the stdole2.tlb found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\Lib. Thanks, -S Hi, ...Show All

• Windows Forms IDataErrorInfo

  Hi, Is there anybody who has succesfyully implemented the IDataErrorInfo interface from a custom business object which will be bound to some some controls (e.g. txtboxes). After implementing the interface, I'm unable to catch the errors after the exception is thro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Copy Control to clip board

  Hello all. I'm trying to save a DataGridView (or any other control for that matter) to the ClipBoard or to an external file (any format).  I found the methods: grid.CreateGraphics and grid.DisplayRectangle to get the Graphics object and the display portion fo ...Show All