Lee Hambley's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Check if Word is running!

  Hello, I tried to start Word from a VB.2005 Application. When Word ist still running i will use this Word instance. How do i get the running Word instance Imports System Imports System.Reflection ' For Missing.Value and BindingFlags Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices ' For COMException Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word Public Class Print Private app As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application Private Sub New() ...Show All

• Windows Forms Comparing Types

  I am using Reflection to dynamically load an assembly.  After loading the assembly, I want to make sure the assembly type is a UserControl and more specifically a Button. Then I want to instantiate the control, provide Location data and add the  ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Internal Server Error when accessing MEX

  Hi, I have installed January version of WCF and I have problems accessing Metadata Exchange in the simplest scenario (which used to work in Beta 1). The code is extremally basic - hello world code. Just to eliminate potential problems. When I access: http://localhost:8080/Service1/mex I get internal server error. I've tried also to use directly MetadataResolver to fetch data from this url, but it failed. I also tried to manpulate wit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Reports XI and Visual Studio 2003

  Is there a way to use the prompting style of CR XI in a .NET project instead of the default prompt I'm looking to put all my Parameter fields on the same prompt instead of four different pages. Also how easy is it to use all the new functionality Hello Kyote, What exactly to you mean by the prompting style of Crystal Reports XI To have only one prompting page you would need to create your own prompti ...Show All

• .NET Development How OS Invokes CLR

  i have 2 exe's one is managed and other is unmanaged. while executing how os identifies this is a managed code and we need to invoke the clr Sorry, which is the answer :-) Let us know! Bye, Giulio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Building with multiple projects in different files

  We have 2 Team Foundation projects with their own source control. Data Access - DataAccess.proj Application - Application solution file - Application.proj We are attempting to make a build type for the Application Visual Studio solution. The solution has 2 Visual Studio Projects in it. Application.proj and DataAccess.proj. The problem we are having is that the build type when executed ...Show All

• Visual C# Can not set value to variable...

  Ok this problem is wird to me, so please help... I have an Struct... public struct PointStruct {      public Point FirstPoint;      public Point FinalPoint;      public string Tipo;      public string MuebleTipo; } [in my form] PointStruct [] Lista = new PointStruct [99]; // guide public string tipodibujo = "" ; public string tipomueble = "" ; then ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums paper tray and assigned paper form

  Hello, what I need to do is find out what paper forms are assigned to the paper trays of a given printer. I 'd like to do that either via VBA or VBScript, either is fine. Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated! Herbert Per our support engineer... Can you let me know what you mean by "what paper form assigned to paper tray" Does it mean "A4 is assigned to tray 2", "A3 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Container control refresh issue

  I have a container control that I have written that does custom drawing of it's background. If I resize the control in any way, it redraws correctly, but if I so much as select a control that is in the container while in design time,  ...Show All

• .NET Development Serializing List<T>

  I just read in the help file for the XmlSerializer, it couldn't serialize classes using Arrays or Lists. It says: "Serialization of ArrayList and Generic List The XmlSerializer cannot serialize or deserialize the following: Arrays of ArrayList Arrays of List" But, I just did it. My class has a List<sometype> within, and it serializes just fine. Parts of the code is below: [System.CodeDom.Comp ...Show All

• Visual Basic Unknown Error

  I have this code: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim myFont As Font = New Font("Arial", 14, FontStyle.Regular, GraphicsUnit.Point) Canvas = New Bitmap(Pix.Width, Pix.Height) Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(Canvas) Dim DarkBrush As New SolidBrush(Color.DarkGray) Dim LightBrush As New SolidBrush(Color.LightGray) Dim Mi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to Upgrade to VS 2005 Release from Team System Beta

  I suspect my problem is not unique. I have tried everything i know to uninstall the previous versions but have come up empty . I get a message that i need to uninstall SQL server Express Edition, tools express edition SQL native server Device Emulator 1.0 Visual J# resdistributable. I have tried the manual uninstaller http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/uninstall/ but no luck. It is strange, i can't find any documentat ...Show All

• Visual J# J# and SQL Server Problem

  Hi, I am using SQL Server 2005 b2 and i want to integrate my J# project with SQL Server. .NET Platform compiles it. No problem there. But while i try to create assembly by referencing  produced dll file, SQL Server gives that error: "Msg 6581, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Could not find assembly 'vjscor.dll' in directory 'c:\'." What is the problem Thanks in advance... I solved the problem. There is a pat ...Show All

• Visual Basic (NEWB) Using .split()?

  VB express '05 Beta I have a large string (about 40 pages worth of data) That I need to parcel into smaller chunks, there are repeating markers in the data that I want to use as delimiters.  txtimp is the large raw string, and hand() is the string array that I want to have the data chopped into. I'm using: stray()=txtimp.split("Data")   But, It is only searching for "D", not "Data".  There are frequent D's in the text, so ...Show All

• SQL Server Slowly Changing Dimension Task Bug???? Got it working.

  I am working with the latest build of SQL Server 2005. VS 2005 8.0.50215.44 (beta2.050215-4400) SSIS version 9.00.1187.00 I had a package that was working fine while using the Slowly Changing Dimension Task. However, with the new version the Historical Attribute for the type II change does not work anymore. I’ve created a very simple test and while running the same package twice, without make any changes to the staging table, I ended up with d ...Show All