Mebo's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Stop them from moving a form

  Is there a way to stop users from moving a form What I mean is, I have the main menu form and then they click on a button that fires up another form. is there a way of making the form not moveable http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconmoveablepropertychangesinvisualbasicnet.asp ...Show All

• SQL Server Reading and writing same variable to a script

  It looks like its not possible to both read and write the same variable from a script using the conventional Me.Variables.<variable> syntax. I can only assign a variable as Readonly or ReadWrite and not both. If I assign it ReadOnly I can only access it in the PreExecute subroutine. If I assign it ReadWrite I can only access it in the PostExecute subroutine (in fact doesn't this just make it WriteOnly in fact ). So I can only either rea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions yadda yadda for Dummies -- getting data into my VB thang

  I posted this here , but realized it may have been in the wrong place. WDIK     yadda yadda for Dummies -- getting data into my project. OK, here's another newbie question. I run a third party app.  I've been able to take data from that app, and by "pasting as link" into excel, manipulate the data (yes, "paste as link" was a new dis ...Show All

• Visual C# Inhertied Form

  hey, i created a form with custom borders and stuff... so i want to inherit forms from that custom form... what im doing is the next,, i add a form to my project and inherit from my customForm Form1 : customForm the thing is that in my customForm i have a control on it... and i need to access the control properties from the Form1... and i can select the control and see it properties but i cant edit them how can i do this ... mig16 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Project creation fails by failing in task SharePointPortal

  Hi, after migrating a "full functional" installation of Team Foundation Beta3 to Team Foundation Beta3 refresh containing two Team Projects we cannot create new team projects. The existing projects seem to work. The log points to a sharepoint problem while creating the team web site. The installation is a single server box. The migration was done as described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/b3rmigrate.aspx The sharepoint servi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report Design Help Required: Urgent

  I have a cyclic table having parent child relation in the same table. The snap shot of this table is : m_id   p_id   d_id   name 1      0      5      usb hub 1      0      6      sd card 1      5  &n ...Show All

• Visual C# Parent and Child relationship among Forms

  Hello, I am trying to develop an application which will have the following layout, but running into a little bit of trouble. Let's say I have a main window FORM_Main, which has 2 buttons but1_main and but2_main. If you click but1_main, FORM_1 appears. FORM1, has a button but1_form1, and if you click but1_form1 a dialog window will appear, that will not allow you to go back to FORM_1 untill you close the dialog window.  However, I still want ...Show All

• Visual Basic Copying Files to an Existing Directory

  Dear VB Experts, I humbly ask for your assistance in solving a problem I'm having with copying a file to an existing directory. I'm using the below code to try and copy a file from an OpenFileDialog to a directory that already exists. The source file path is derived from the OpenFileDialog.FileName property and the destination file path is a directory in the users MyDocuments directory. When I run the code, If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDia ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System team foundation server installation error

  hi I tried to install TFS using the instructions on the final stage (server install) i get this error message: MSI (s) (9C!08) [11:41:41:640]: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU -- Error 28938.TFServerStatusValidator: Calling the Team Foundation Server Registration Web service failed with 401 HTTP Unauthorized status. Try installing again. If the problem persists, verify that Internet Information Servi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setup cannot access Reporting Server

  Hi there, i'm trying to install the Team Foundation Server. When setup asked me to enter a user for the Report Server. I created a user TFSReport and added him to Administrator-group and all the sql-groups. I opened the Report-Server Configuration and configured it so that the TFSReport-User controls the service (works without any errors). Near to the end of the setup, i get the following error, that setup cannot access the SQL Report server. I ...Show All

• SQL Server bug installing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services

  ENVIRONMENT Windows 2000 Professional (Build 2195: Service Pack 4) Previous version of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services CTP was removed using Add/Remove Programs Visual Studio 2005 Professional is installed WARNING MESSAGE (should it be an error message since what was requested did not take place ) --------------------------- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup --------------------------- Warning 28123.Warnin ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add connection wizard fails with Access database

  I have the RTM version installed. I am quite puzzled at this wizard. It works fine with SqlClient. But for Access databases, this wizard completely fails. In this wizard, I only have one option to do - setting the ConnectionString. I set it to Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=D:\path\abc.mdb, which works fine in my code. But when I click OK, it complains: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- ...Show All

• Windows Forms Password input ?

  This maybe dumb but I have to ask; Is there a dialog in .NET I can call up to do password entry  Windows app only not web app! I mean something like InputBox but that has the text box in the dialog show up ### or such instead&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Any document about extensibility of profile, coverage and so on?

  We will try to support profile, coverage and so on , including Visual Studio Team Edition for COBOL Users. I heard that there is VS 2005 Team System Extensibility Kit , from a person in charge of VSIP , who is working for MSKK. But there is no document about how to extend Profiler, Coverage, and so on. Are there any documents about how to extend Team Edition. Best Regards Hi Shinya, Exclude (and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Common Dialog Box and Save- newbie question

  I want to save an array of UShort integers in any chosen directory, using a Common Dialog Box. (There seem to be big differences between VB6 and VB Express.) Can anyone help And I need to load back the values, again using a Dialog Box. Thanks, David. Hi David, You can add a new MDIParent form into your project and take a look at the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog sample in there. Here's a copy o ...Show All