Bojan Macele's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms DataGrid and Custom Object (collection)

  How can I supress fields (i.e properties) while binding with Datagrid. Ex: I have 20 properties in my object and I want to show only 7 fields (properties) in datagrid.  thanx here is the code.....         Dim activityLoad As New  ...Show All

• SQL Server Querying Data from Report History

  Can we query data in the report histories So that trend analysis reports can be created. Consider there exists a report, “Shelf Position Product Wise” and it’s scheduled to be generated each day. Now we want to create another report querying the data from the history/snapshots of that report for Product Wise Shelf Position Trend. Hello, One way to do this is to render the historical snapshot using the XML ren ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Intercepting the Message body

  Hi I'm writing a custom channel + binding that can be inserted wherever in the channel stack. Its mainly used for checking some properties of the message body (in xml format). So far I'm working off the "Custom message interceptor sample", but there seems to be no way to read the body without changing the state of the message/invalidating it. Should I use another approach than a custom channel/binding approach What I like about it is th ...Show All

• Visual C# HOW TO USE "FOR UPDATE" in DataAdapter

  I am using DB2 Database. Due to the performance issues I want use "FOR UPDATE" to update the records in DB. Suggest me a way how to use “FOR UPDATE” in DataAdapter. Hi, As i know "FOR Update" is an optional clause in SELECT statement to check if the resultset is updatable or not. I think you need to write the sql command to check how you can deal with it. Any way using SQL commands is strightforward you shouldn't have any ...Show All

• Windows Forms IE Hosted Control loading Assembly/Module built with C++

  I have a UserControl which should use constants from a C++ header file which I've modified to generate managed types (called cppLib). My control is hosted in IE. I haven't been able to build my control such that:     1. The cppLib is  ...Show All

• Visual C# Publishing the starter kit screensaver dont see in screensaver list

  Hi and thanks in advance for any help/ I want to use more than the two default images, how do I do that And once finished and I publish it, and run the installer but I dont see the screensaver listed in my list of screensavers in Windows XP What is the proper way to publish this Thanks Steve ...Show All

• Visual C# How to present a Windows Application on the web?

  Hello, would anybody please suggest ways to the way to present Windows Application when a link (or tree node) on the Web site is clicked This is through VS2005 smart client distribution which install the software to the user's computer, but I do want the pupup Windows Application from the website running on user's machine independently without post back and data transfer. Greatly appreciate your possible help. James ...Show All

• Windows Forms Please help with web Browser

  I need help with my status strip. I have made my progress bar work correctly and it displays "done" when it is done, but i need help; In IE, when you move you mouse over a link, it displays the url for that link in the status strip thing. I would like someone to please give me the code for that in VB 2005 thank you Use the StatusTextChange event. private void axWebBrowser1_StatusTextChange(o ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Passing parameters to services

  Hello All, Hoping for a quick idea of the "best" way to pass simple parameters to services. For instance, I am developing a service that hooks into a SQL database for it's data persistance... anyone know the best way for the service's constructor to pull a connection string out the creating host Thanks, Rick just need more info: you want to read connection information on host side Ever ...Show All

• Visual Basic vb6 convertion

  I am porting a project from vb6 to vb.net 2005 and I cannot figure out one convertion. 'This Function gets the text of the window Private Function GetText(Get_hWnd As Long) As String Dim lenTxt As Long, retText As String lenTxt = GetWindowTextLength(Get_hWnd) + 1 retText = String$ (lenTxt, " ") GetWindowText Get_hWnd, retText, lenTxt GetText = retText End Function The bold function is what I cannot figure out. I kn ...Show All

• SQL Server problems with report

  Hello, I have a report in Matrix form. Now i need a report in a way that when i click on any item in my column ,another report should be generated with all the data related to it. For example below is a matrix report A B C X x1 x2 x3 Y y1 y2 y3 Z z1 z2 z3 Now when i click on 'X' i need a report with data x1 ...Show All

• .NET Development WebClient.DownloadFileAsync method

  Hi, I wrote a program that need to download on demend a file from a given url. I built a download form that gets the url and the file path to save and it shows a progress bar. The path and filename are given to the form on the c'tor and the download itself starts when a method is being called. Here is the code: (It is written in VS2005 beta 2) using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; us ...Show All

• Visual Basic Strange Issue with Excel Interop

  I have recently moved to 2005 Studio Standard edition and after some fighting initally with my laptop and it's issues with VS2005 and left over beta bits and so on, I have totally rebuilt my machine. In short = fresh copy of xp pro and VS2005 std and Office 2003 IIn VB 2003 I used to be able to add a reference to the Excel 11.0 library and then use the following line: Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop However that is not possible a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Accessing TitleBar of Windows Form

  Hi, I would like to display a tooltip for a mouse hover over the title bar of a form esp. when the text is long and is truncated. For this to accomplish, I would need to access the titlebar element of the Form. Please suggest a way to accomplish this task. I was unable to find a conclusive solution for this problem. thank you, Sri There is no "titlebar element". The titlebar is drawn in the non-client ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check out files status

  Hi, Thare is way to get (not with a SQL query) the checked out files status - time that they were checked out Thanks in advance, Shmulik. If a file is currently checked out and you want to see the time that change was pended, you can use Buck's Status command. If it's checked out by someone else, add /user:* If you want to see the last time a file was changed on the server, you're really asking a ...Show All