TheMagic's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Set colour of ListView Items(rows) or even columns (or ColumnHeaders)

  Hi all, I have searched the net but to no avail. Is it at all possible for me set/change (programitcally) the colour of ListViewItem rows, and/or Columns and/or ColumnHeaders Thanks Tryst Please check if the following posts may help ...Show All

• Visual Basic Very slow speed on displaying controls in a form

  How to improve the display performance on dynamics create controls on form load event The following code is very slow.   Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Me .Location = New Point(0, 300) Me .Size = New Size(800, 300) Me .Refresh() Dim but As Button Dim x As Integer Dim y As Integer Dim bHeight As ...Show All

• Visual C# how to Create an aplication which will store data in XML instead of Database

  Dears, Can you peoples write codes, i like that you people past complete code thanks hi, the easiest way to do that is to add a dataset to your solution and to design it in design viewer add the tables that you need , columns to the table relations between tables ... etc like you design the database tables add instance of this dataset to your form in your form load event handlers use mydataset.readxml(@"filepath.xml ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Serial ports, Bytes, Hex reading and writing, ASCII control characters.

  Hopefully the subject line will help other people doing a search to find some answers! I've been struggling for a bit to write simple bytes to a serial device which then returns an acknowledgement of 7 bytes. My aim was to run a program under windows which when I clicked a button would send some bytes of data, the serial device would then send an acknowledgement back to the user. For some reason after a while I selected VB Express. As i ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessdatasource query builder error

  Hi, When I hit the query builder button in de configure data source window of the accessdatasource control ik get the following error message : "object reference not set to an instance of an object". I use VS 2005 with sql express. Someone got an idea I have solved it myself by reparing MS Access. Probably the MDAC adapter was corrupted. Good luck! ...Show All

• SQL Server setting variable value

  hi ! I am trying to set the variables value through Execute SQL task and create directory through the FileSystemTask by setting the user variable as source. The User variable has the Directory path to create the directory, but when i set the source as the user variable it complains that its value is empty. Execute SQL TAsk happens to work correctly when i check the watch window the user variable is set correctly . but value is not setting ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Next CTP of WinFX scheduled for when?

  I'm having the runtime throwing exceptions on any application I compile, some BAML parser exception that's related to a FPU stack overflow (or whatever). This issue showed up in the December CTP already, was promised to be fixed in the next release (which would be the January CTP) in a thread on these forums, yet it's still there. I'd like to be able to continue with the development of this WPF based application, without buying some new rig beca ...Show All

• .NET Development Security Permissions

  Hi, How I can protect a non-public class members by means of System.Security.Permissions classes so that it was impossible to access through reflection Thanks There's no way to make it impossible too access low visibility members via reflection. You can make it slightly more difficult by verifying the call stack for outside callers (at least for members other than fields), but even this would not completely prevent access from a high ...Show All

• Visual Studio Split Container - VS2005 Beta2

  Anyone know why I can't rename my Split Container ( or the 2 panels within it ) via the property grid in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 I'm stuck with names like splitContainer1.Panel1 & splitContainer1.Panel2 Obviously, I could edit the generated code and change it there, but everything else can be renamed via the property grid. Thanks. Hi - I'd recommend posting this in the Visual Studio General forum.  T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Updating a DataBound DataGridView & Database

  Hi, I’m experimenting with (and trying to learn) VB 2005 Express, but I can’t find a way to programmatically enter data into a data bound (bound to Main1database) DataGridView. Basically, I have one edit box on a dialog box with the DataGridView control and a button. The user enters some a sentence into the edit box then clicks the button. The button-click event is supposed to add the sentence to the DataGridView and then update ...Show All

• .NET Development error try project only build - 2005 beta , build type x64

  receving the dreaded "operation could not be complete - unspecified error" message box . I see that another user has the same problem and is reporting it in the   Microsoft Technical Forums Visual C++ Visual C++ General VC2005 Beta2 Crashes I'm going to cross reference my issue to that one as I have done here . Maybe someont at MS can help ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Profiling with instrumentation errors out when showing results

  I've run a few profiling sessions with Vs.net 2005 both instrumented and sampling. However in my latest round of profiling with instrumentation Vs.net 2005 displays the error below as it completes report analysis. "Value was either too large or too small for an Int64" Looking at the performance output pane I see this error message: "Failed to load view 0 with error 'Value was either too large or too small for an Int64.'.\nComplet ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Daily wise resource allocation in MS Project

  HI All, I am trying to fetch dailywise allocation of resource. Where do I get no of unit resource assigned on daily. I am using OLEDB.11(MSP 2003) to access values from tables. Assignment table contains only cumulative quantity of resource allocated. But in AssignmentTimephasedByDay , i can see datewise allocation. But I couldnt get unit assigned dailybasis. Please help me Thanks in advance BBN BBN, As yo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS on same server as Project Server?

  We have a dedicated server that has Project Server 2003 running on it. It has extra capacity so we would like to install TFS on it if possible. In reading the installation instructions for it, there are a couple of concerns I have as to whether this is possible. SQL Server - Project Server is not using the default SQL instance. It seems like TFS expects to use the default instance. In this case, they do not seem to conflict. Is this correct ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Report From Field Definitions Only

  Hi, Can any body guide me how to create a report from the Field Definitions Only datasource in crystal reports using VB.Net in Visual Studio 2003. I tried it by creating a test field definations file and then pass the dataset to the report but the report  does not display the data, it just displays the empty report only containing the report headers and footers, and I am not able to understand the best way to pass the data to this report. ...Show All