mperson007's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Sharing classes between projects in a solution in Visual Studio Express Edition

  How do I share classes between projects in a solution As I read misc. help topics, this should be possible, but it seems like menu items for it is missing. Could this feature be disabled in the Express Edition of Visual Studio C# Here's one way: Choose "Add existing item" and browse for the class file. Do not click "Open" button (in a FileDialog) but instead click an arrow just beside the ...Show All

• .NET Development VB.NET 2005 (VS2005), Access databases and saving

  Hello, i'm building an app which will allow users to save the grades they earn on school. I'm using an Access database (Office 2003) to store the information. I've been reading alot about saving the information through OLE commands, at first i couldn't find the specific item for it, but it seems i need to add it myself. (silly me) Could somebody post something about what i should look for, what i should do to accomplish the following, or post a ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you find out the next control or enter event from inside a validating event?

  I have a form, with a master detail data relation. The Parent dataset is customers- displayed in a Panel, which does not cause validation. The children are notes, letters, jobs displayed on tab pages beow. I need to control processing during validating tabs to ask the user to save changes, also on tab_enter i need to reload data, to get current data from datasource. Customer Parent Record displayed in a detailed view customer no, name, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Menu In Outlook, Events Problem

  Guys, Having some headach with Menu in Outlook. With little bit of work able to create a nested Menu. The event is getting triggered as soon as I open outlook and click the menu, MessageBox comes up. If I try clicking the menu item the second time, I am not getting the MessageBox. I am able to trigger the events perfectly at Level #0_1.. Secondly, If I am opening a Windows Form, can I set something in the form that will allow only one i ...Show All

• Windows Forms XP Style Controls

  I am developing a Window Forms application and want all my controls to be XP style, or even Visual Studio 2003 style. I have looked around for how to do this and found info on incuding version 6.0 of the Comctl32.dll. When I do this it works fine when my style (theme) is set to XP Style, but when I'm in Windows Classic Style it reverts to the older control styles. I know that Visual Studio's controls remain with the new XP look when I am in Wind ...Show All

• SQL Server 2005 backup

  I am going through the maintenance plan to create a schedules backup. Everything seems fine until the final stages of the backup schedule setup when the system gives the following error. create failed for jobStep SubPlan. p.s I am not sure how to attached a snapshot of the error message. Thanks ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Anyone with enterprise workflow experience?

  I have spent the last several years primarily working with J2EE and IBM's mq workflow and document management products. I was brought on by my current client to consult regarding these products/technologies. However, they have spent over $100M on MS product licensing, which has led me to recently working with sharepoint and infopath out of curiosity, and I have started lookng at wwf. I have to admit, this stuff is pretty cool! Are there any ot ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hand Cursor in .NET

  I have been searching all over the net for an answer to this and haven't been able to find anything. I know that this probably sounds petty but... Has anyone else noticed that when you change the cursor in a .NET app to the "hand", that it doesn't have the shadow under it Does anyone know a different way of displaying the hand cursor so that it looks like the "normal" link cursor in windows. It just doesn't look right to me when I use that curso ...Show All

• Windows Forms Redraw control after window has hovered over it

  Hi! I'm writing a custom control and have a problem when the controls needs to redraw itself. Specifically, it's when you drag, for example, another window over my application's form containing the control. The redrawing of the control doesn't happen or the redrawing is incomplete. I already set the ControlStyles AllPaintingInWmPaint, DoubleBuffer, ResizeRedraw and UserPaint . I'm overriding the OnPaintBackground to draw a series of lines, ...Show All

• .NET Development Calling .NET Components takes time in Remoting?????

  .NET Components are written in C# and deployed in IIS. Interfaces and .NET Remoting is used. Presentation component calls Business component that resides in bin forlder of virtual directory. It takes 1-2 minutes for 1600 records. Thats the problem. 1. Execution of Query takes not even a second. 2. Presentation layer display of records in grid takes <=1 sec. 3. Data access logic takes <=1 sec - Coping data retrieved fro ...Show All

• SQL Server Connectivity issues

  Hi, I get the following error message trying to connect locally to sql server 2005 dev edition on xp sp2 machine. An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (.Net SqlClient D ...Show All

• Visual Basic (0xc0000135)

  I made a program on VB and it worked fine.But when i sent to a friend of mine the program didn't work and this error was shown " the application failed to initialize properly(0xc0000135 )" I don't know what this is or how to solve the problem. I'm using WinXP SP2 Greek and my friend WinXP SP1 English so this might be a problem.Or maybe a missing dll or something. I just want to tell me the cause of the problem and how i can ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Infinite tee, reduce of performance

  Hi All, I am using infinite tee filter in order to split video stream into 2. In my application I have 4 monitors, 2 of them displaying 3D graphics and another 2 displaying video from a file. I am experience very high reduce of performance on 3D displays then video graph includes infinite tee filter. Frame rate of 3D is going down to 8 frames instead of 29. If instead of splitting the video I just run another stream from same file the p ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can smart clients be deployed without administrator rights

  is it necessary for the user logged into the client machine to have administrator rights on the machine in order to deploy smart client thru a URL link or thru .NET framework update etc. so as long as the assembly to be d ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Express on VISTA

  Greetings! I tried installing SQL Server 2005 Express on my VISTA Beta 2 Box but before doing so, I checked if IIS is already installed and running. During the assesment of my current configuration, SQL Server 2005 Express is still looking for IIS. Are the conflicts regarding IIS 7.0 to SQL Server Express or the feature is not yet available. I will be continuing to do experiments with this one and hope there will be people who can share their ...Show All