SQLBob's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Pre/Post Build Events for VB.Net projects

  How do I create Pre-Build and/or Post-Build Events for a (Visual Studio 2005) VB.Net project This is incredibly simple in C++ and C# projects but I've been unable to find how to do it in VB.Net. Someone please point me in the right direction. I'm also interested in being able to do Custom Build Steps (C++) in a VB.Net project. Dave To create Build Events: Go to Solution Explorer, right-click on Projec ...Show All

• Visual C# Help me to understand better the interfaces

  Hi i read a bunch of articles on articles.. i know exactly how to amke them.. But i dont understand why should i use them .. or for what are they important.. Why should someone wanna make a interface for something... Please help!!! Hi! Interface used to implement behavior in any class without specific superclass. Few examples: IList. Any class that implement this interface can be treated like list. This can be .NET Framework ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista Build 5342

  Hi. I'm running my AMD64 3300+ with XP Home. I've been MSN-invited to Beta test Vista and have d/l'd Vista_5342_64bit_Main_Staged_DVD_EN.iso at 3.56 Gb. When I click on the downloaded folder, it becomes a winrar archive that only extracts to a readme.txt folder that states "this disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system that supports the ISO-13346 'UDF' file system". As you might surmise, I can't i ...Show All

• SQL Server Javascript Error When trying url access

  Hi, i have a problem with the rs 2005, using url access to call a report: --------------------------- Error --------------------------- Error: 'RSClientController' is undefined Calling a report from the reportmanager works. The rs2005 runs on a machine with a parallel installed rs2000. I configured the virtual directory to machinename/reports2005 & machinename/reportserver2005. When i debug the clientscript i see that he reque ...Show All

• .NET Development object reference not set to instance of an object

  hi , i want some help from u .... when i try to execute this code this is showing the following error object reference not set to instance of an object... i am attaching my source code here plz reply to me...... it's urgent to me [DllImport(@"E:\PAVANDV\niitflashinc#\Niitinitialize\SFlash.dll")] public static extern Int32 ListCardReaders (long plRDRcount, long pbRDRlist ); [DllImport( ...Show All

• Visual C++ COM problem

  in my application (using Visual C++)i have multiple instance of Microsoft Word document and  i need to close one perticular instance of Word which has no characters in it(i.e. close empty word document out of many instances). it should be a function and return value should be 1 if there is such document of Word which is empty and 0 if there is no such document on can any one help me out with this problem -anku This is a fo ...Show All

• .NET Development How to determine if a lease time expires (on the remote object)

  Hello, I've got an application that use a remote object (.NET Remoting, Singleton object). When this object's lease time runs out, I need release some unmanaged code that this object uses. Any idea to do this Thanks Implement an ITrackingHandler interface. . . I outlined an approach here ...Show All

• SQL Server Need to print barcodes on report

  Can anyone please help me print barcodes on my reports. I am using VB.NET Pro 2003 to develop reports. I have a font choice of "3 of 9 Barcode", the barcode shows on preview, but does not print. It print the raw numbers. ...Show All

• SQL Server Updating database with file feeds from Internet and then parsing the XML, CSV or Excel data for insert/update/delete in Yukon

  Hi, I'm developing an ASP.NET web application with SQL Server 2005 standard edition on the backend. I am looking for a solution to the following problem: Need to have SQL Server 2005 do the following at 3am each morning: 1) Download updated pricelists from URLs stored in the database 2) The pricelists vary in format - some in XML which is ideal, others in CSV which is not bad, a few are in simple excel .xls format which is not so good and some o ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC8 preprocessor problem

  Hi, please look at the following code: #if defined (_MSC_VER) && defined (_WIN64) && !defined(USING_VC8)         std::string fmt("%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S");         std::use_facet(os.getloc(), (std::time_put<charT, std::ostreambuf_iterator<charT, Traits> >*)0, true)             .put(os, os, &dat.tm_date, fmt.begin( ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting data form MS Exchange with C#

  I want to make an application that uses data from Microsoft Exchange. How can I create an connection between C# and my application. Are there some sites where I can find code that uses the same method. Roger, So, to clarify, you have a script somewhere on a web site that sends an email that is received by your exchange server   User Fills out form on web page -> some script runs (ASP/PHP/CGI..whate ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cannot Save a File Locally

  I am working on an application using .NET Remoting and no touch deployment.  A web service is called that returns a remoting configuration file.  Thi file is saved to C:\WinNT\Microsoft.NET\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\appname.remotingConfiguration.config (path is returned  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using TabPage and binding data

  I had a tab wherein there are two tabpages(tabList,tabEditList)...On the tabList there is a datagridview(dgvPatients) which displays all data of a certain coulumn(Name)..The table("PATIENT") where Name is a member had other columns(ID,LastName,FirstName...etc) I make this other columns hidden in the dgvPatients as what i only like to show here are the names...What i really trying to do is, all of other details of such certain name would be ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is "Visual Studio Tools for Office" necessary

  Without "Visual Studio Tools for Office" is there ANY way to access the data (both read and write) in an Excel workbook from VB.NET 2005 You don't need VSTO to work with Excel workbooks. If you add a reference to the Microsoft Excel X.0 object library (of 11.0 for Office 2003, 10.0 if you are using Office XP), you can automate excel. Please not the the 'Microsoft Office Excel X.0 Object Library' is ...Show All

• Visual C# i need help with basic things

  Im new to visual C, but i know the fundimentals of prgramming, and i cant figure out how to make a form pop up or how to change the start screen to another form, any help You've asked in the C# forum, but you say you're using Visual C.  do you mean C# To create a form, you need to call it's ShowDialog method, or it's Show method if it's to be modeless.  Your entry point is static void main, this metho ...Show All