DarkShurik's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms DataGridView - doing update/add/delete

  I've been mostly doing asp.net the last couple of years and now need to do a new project in windows forms using the new DataGridView control. I have my 4 basic CRUD stored procedures written and have added a DataGridView control and bound it to the sprocs. My question is what work is involved in getting a basic grid to handle add/delete/update It seemed like the new control could add a lot of the functionality automatically for simple grids but ...Show All

• Windows Forms UserControl Design Support

  I have created my first UserControl in a Windows App (I mostly do ASP.NET). The control consists of a panel that contains a label and a text box. When I drag the control from the toolbox to the forms designer, it shows as intended. However, I am only able to resize the control itself, but not the controls that it contains. How can I add the ability to resize (by dragging an edge) the label and the textbox too ...Show All

• Visual C# compile from your app

  Hi I have an app .. with a richbox in it.. the user puts some code in c# there I was wondering .. can i complie that Sure, you can use the CodeDom to dynamically compile code at runtime. Here's an example: http://www.csharpfriends.com/Articles/getArticle.aspx articleID=118 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Latest build for Vista

  I am using build 5112, can someone confirm what number the latest build is   And how did you get your copy of it   I don't remember getting anything later than 5112 from Technet.  Thanks.   Not to pile on, but I loaded 5112 on VPC and then tried to load VS 2005 and had the same issue (croaked loading .NET 2.0). Surely someone on the VS team has loaded VS on Vista and has a clue... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio .Net 2005 Beta 2 - can't access MSDN

  Just installed VS 2005 Beta 2, it's great.  Like the new features. Unfortunately, I can't seem to access any help system.  The only help I get is "help on help".  Nothing on MSDN or VC#.  Tried reinstalling MSDN and that didn't help. Has anyone else experienced the same problem   Or is it just me   For what it's worth, here's another manifestation of the same problem. In my case I c ...Show All

• Visual C++ Program runs slower when compiled with Visual Studio 2005 (in Release with optimization)

  Hey, I have a performance problem with the new Visual Studio 2005. My code (which is a genetic algorithm) is 3 times slower when compiled under Visual Studio 2005 compared to when I was compiling it under Visual Studio 2003. With Visual Studio 2003, it used to run in 3.0639 seconds, and now it runs in 9.0031 seconds. I run both code in Release. I tried every optimization option, and adding the /D_SECURE_SCL=0 compiler command to the project opti ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums 3rd Party IM Clients

  I thought I would start this new thread, as a follow up to a question posted by Bezel about 3rd party IM clients: What's about existing 3rd party instant messenger clients It's been always a confusing moment for me. I do not see anywhere a clear answer about "legal" aspect of it. For example Trillian and Gaim are very popular 3rd party IM clients that connect to MSN Messenger network as well. But it does not look clear if these produc ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I change the skin color of my forms and controls w/o thrid party tools?

  I know there are third party tools to change the windows forms & controls skin colors. How can I do similar to my forms and controls using visual studio (c++ or c# or vb) I am unable to change the color of menu, toolbar etc. Thanks, The menubar you can change with Interop: http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/menus.html The toolbar takes on the backcolor of its parent so long as it's Flatstyle is set to Flat. If you don't want the toolbar to hav ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions getchar() issue

  Hi!Does anyone know how getchar() works exactly A very simple example would be of great help as neither local help of C++ nor the MSDN online lobrary gave me a clear idea of how it works with the info they give about getchar().It's like gets(),if I understood well,with no need to worry for buffer overflows.Also,whats that EOF condition Finally,if I use char to store a value for getchar() to return it will I get an error ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Running a Workflow from an ASP page

  I was going through the ASP.NET example and was able to get the example working. I was able to get a workflow with an embedded webservice working in console, but when I tried to run the Web Service from an ASP.NET page the service does not run. Can anyone give any advice about running a web Service workflow in an ASP.NET page Ok, I preface this by saying this was my first time trying to work with workflow on ...Show All

• Visual C# Using dll files

  Hi All, I am trying to access a method (OpenCD) from a library dll file . The signature of this method is public virtual new System.Int32 OpenCD ( System.Int32 lCD , System.String bstrPath )  Member of FTool.FToolsClass where lCD- number of the CD to open and           bstrPath - full path of the CD (Null terminated) Return values:                  0 - routine completed ...Show All

• SQL Server Default Schema and Synonyms

  database0.User1 has a default schema of database0.Schema1 and also belongs to database1. I have the following synonyms in database0: Schema1.Customers - points to database1.dbo.customers dbo.Customers - point to database2.dbo.customers User1 has execute rights in database0. I have a stored procedure in database0 that says select * from Customers I thought since User1's default schema was Schema1, it would automatically see ...Show All

• .NET Development How to encrypt messages without X509?

  I need implement custom security with WSE 3. I wish to implement following scheme: 1. User enters name and password. 2. Application sends user's name and password to security web service. 3. Security web service authenticates user against database. 4. Security web service sends back user's identifier (from database) to application. 5. Application sends user's identifier to other web services to autorize user. I have some ideas about im ...Show All

• Visual C# Trouble understanding threading

  I've got an application written in C# 2.0, and am trying to speed up my reporting a bit. On the main form, I have a button that will create a report that can take quite some time. While this report is being created, my main form goes unresponsive. The button doesn't even pop back up while I'm waiting on it. I figured I'd spin off a thread and have it create the report. It worked, but the second the form is loaded, it goes away. How can I get thi ...Show All

• .NET Development Data Row Collection

  Textbox Control  and btnSubmit Control, now When i enter Student ID in textbox control i only want the data to come thru that pertains to that StudentID but i get an error in my code when i envoke Dim drID as dsStudents1.ClassNameRow Dim currRow As Integer drID = DsStudents1.ClassName(currRow) txtID = drID.StudentID   my textbox control is not binded to the ID's in the column, would that be, because the Studen ...Show All