R. Brian Lindahl's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Populate a listview from a datatable

  Hello All, I was wondering if someone might be able to point me in the right direction when attempting to populate a listview control by means of a datatable Could anyone provide a working example of this kind of iteration Cheers, sfx1 Loop through the datatable and add your items. In this example you should set the Listview to show details. At least it will get you started: <begin loop construct> ...Show All

• Visual C# Web Page using C#

  I created a new web page in VStudio 2003.  Then I drag a control (any control) over to the web page.  VS snaps the control to the top left corner of the page and when I try and move it, it snaps it back to the top left of the page.  Before you ask, yes, my page layout is GridLayout. Any suggestions Thanks hi may be u can reposition these type of controls by editting the html code example u can i ...Show All

• Visual Basic Modifying App.comfig programmatically from an application

  I am a developer moving up from VB6 to Visual Studio 2005 (VB of course). I really like the concept of the app.config file and want to use it. However, I need to be able to allow users to update the app.config file from the program to change the databases that they are using. For example, I have a multi-company accounting application. I would like to store the connection string for the Database of the first company in the app.config file. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cursor in a textbox window

    I have a complex class full of controls including a Rich Text box and a regular textbook. The class is designed as a tab page to be added once or multiple time to a tab control. This class inherits Windows.Forms.Form.   When the page is added, I want the cursor to be in the ordinary text box.     It isn’t. There is a prescribed way to do this:   To programmatically click the right mo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Denied. Moving TFS to a new server doesn't work

  After following the arduous and kludgy procedure for moving my TFS server to a new machine, I'm faced with a totally broken system. OK, that's not entirely true, but it might just as well be.  The new server seems to be running fine.  A Team Client installed on the new ATDT machine can connect to and interact with the new team server just fine. If the old server isn't running, existing clients insist that they cannot connect to t ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro VFP to show UPS tracking info.

  Hi; I have a place in my app where I populate a grid with various info including a txtbox that stores a UPS tracking #. I'd like to make this 'clickable' so it opens up a web browser to show the ups tracking info from the UPS site. I would need to do the same for fedex. I have no idea where to begin. Any pointers and ideas would be greatly apreciated. Aleniko. put a hyperlink on the form.... ...Show All

• Windows Forms databinding combobox AFTER combobox has been displayed, has no effect

  If I do the combobox databinding during form initialization time (c'tor), things work OK, I see the column I specified in the DisplayMember, and the values are the expected ones.  However, I don't always know which table, or even database a user&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Outlook Add-In Sample Code?

  What is the status of the Outlook Add-in sample code for synchronizing TFS Work Item tasks and Outlook tasks Is the sample code in the Oct drop of the VS 2005 SDK Thanks Scott Hmm.  Wherever that info came from, it's not accurate.  The Outlook Starter Kit definitely does not include that functionality, although you could figure out how to do it by looking at the way the OSK interacts with the work it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Please Help! PLK Request Page Keeps Erroring

  Hi Everyone I am hoping someone from MS can help me out   I have been trying for a month now to obtain a PLK for my VS Package but the site keeps erroring.   I fill in all requested information and then I get the following error when I hit submit: "An Error Has Occurred.  We are sorry for the inconvenience" When I refresh the page my product appears in my product list and when I click on the PLK request icon aga ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Media Compression support

  By supporting the next wave of high performance media, won't there be a need for a new way to compress video/audio streams Our current system is flawed, rendering entire videos into raw streams would require vast amounts of hard drive capacity. I propose a solution to the media storage problem. Given that Media currently is stored in a playable format, meaning you can click it and instantly start playing it in media player, or whatever player ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Something Besides Sql Server

  I understand how nice Sql server express is, but I need to find a different way of storing data. I am trying to create a program that I can distribute without forcing the user to install a bunch of stuff (except the framework, of course). I also understand that I could use xml, but I would need to learn a new way to program (I already know how to program against an SQL database). Does anyone have any suggestions on what kind of database I could ...Show All

• .NET Development Populating A Combobox

  Well, what should be a simple task is turning out to be a nightmare. I have a simple combobox on my form. I have a simple database with a table in it and some data. All I want to do is populate this combobox, but nothing works. I setup a dataset, the bindingsource, and tableadapter, in preview data comes back, but when the project is run the combo box is always empty. I've tried a bunch of other stuff, but the results are the same. I've searched ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Were do i create a menu?

  Were do i create a menu |: tnx In the design view, you drag over a menu from the list of components in the toolbox. Then you just click on menu items and type to add them, and set their properties as you would any other item on a form. ...Show All

• Windows Forms listchanged event of child table´s dataview?

  I have a dataset with two tables. One is called "Article" and the other "ArticlePlan". "Article" is the master table and "ArticlePlan" the child table. Then I created two seperate dataviews for the dataset tables as follows: viewArticle =& ...Show All

• .NET Development change internet explorer proxy settins

  Hello everybody I would like change the internet explorer default connection proxy setting. How can I do this in .NET 2.0 Is there a possibillity to safe the current setting and restoring when my application close Thanks   Best Regards Karsten http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wininet/wininet/setting_and_retrieving_internet_options.asp ...Show All