shawn3091's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio VS 2005 Beta 2 - "Beta period Expired"

  I am trying to install the second beta of Visual Studio 2005 from the MSDN discs ordered from MS.  After following the instructions for uninstalling VS.2005 Beta 1, I sucessfully completed the install of beta 2. However, when running Visual Studio 2005 beta 2, I get the error message "The beta period has now expired". Does anyone know what I have done wrong in the uninstall process of Beta 1 or how to get beta 2 to recognise this is a ...Show All

• .NET Development Help needed with cookies and WebRequest

  Hi all, I have to do some web scraping from a client's web site as they can't give me a direct feed of data (for various reasons too long and boring to explain here!) so I thought I'd use the WebRequest class which I've used before with success. However, the data I'm scraping is on pages linked 1 or 2 levels down and they require cookies which WebRequest doesn't seem to handle natively. I added a CookieCollection object to my code but when I cal ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Visual Studio Only?

  Is Visual Studio .NET 2003 or above going to be a requirement for MSN Search API developers   I know it's early yet, however that's the only SDK I see and there's no information indicating anything else will be available. I ask because some of us have been developing API's (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, etc, etc) for a long time now.  You're going to be missing out on an awful lot of really good developers if you're going to have the r ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding a blank top item to bound combobox

  Subject says the problem.  I want to add a blank item to the top of a combobox (dropdownlist style) such that when the form loads, "nothing" is selected.  A databound combobox won't let you alter the Items collection, so how then  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamic Connection String

  I am writing a database application that is using an .mdb file on the back end.  I want the connectionstring property to be dynamic and not hardcoded, so what I have done is binded that property to the .config file and default the key ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating report based on parent-child dimension

  Hi I have a problem to create a report based on a parent child-dimension When I go to reporting services, and I create a new report based on a cube, I drag my parent-child dimension to my data-layout. Then the dimension is immediatily ragged down. Anyone an idea to solve this. Does anyone have an example to create a report based on a parent-child dimensions Thx ...Show All

• Visual C# Some question about messagebox

  1-How can I write more than one line in a messagebox For example I want to write "Hello" in the first line and "Goodbye" in the second line. And If I can't write more than one line in a messagebox what can I do 2-If I can write more than one line in a messagebox how can I write it right to left Hi You can write multiple line message by inserting special character in the message. f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions container?

  hi everyone, this is my first post and I just downloaded VB2005 Express less than a week ago. I have experience in html,css, and php but i`m new to this. my question is, Im workiing on a program that, when started, opens maximized and contains a splitcontainer. At this time I have the settings set up so that Panel1 takes up 100% of the window (settings will be changed when other settings are set by the user). I also have other windows that op ...Show All

• Windows Forms View Data Grid (for xml database)

  Since upgrading to VS 2005, when I right click on an xml database document that contains the schema, I no longer get a listing of the tables and cannot view the data contained in the tables. If I open the document created with VS2005 in VS2003, the grid populates fine. Thanks in advance for any replies. The tables are created and added to the dataset like this. DataTable dt = new DataTable ( "Table1" ); ...Show All

• Windows Forms Region Master Controls and VS 2003

  Anyone have any luck with using the RegionMaster controls and VS 2003 with .NET 1.1 I can't even select any controls after I put one on my form.  I cannot visually manipulate any of the example forms either. Ok, I've got a&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Issue with playing back Web Requests with Body set to XML (Querystring parameters fail also) fails

  I had to use Fiddler to record my scripts because Visual Studio didn't support recording ActiveX controls. Fiddler was placing query string parameters in the webtest file it creates in the StringBody element which loads into the Web Test Request Body property through an StringHTTPBody object in Visual Studio.  When this was executed the HTTP response code was successful (200) but the response XML told us the query string parameters whe ...Show All

• .NET Development DataView reporting incorrect view of datatable: KB831013

  I have a datatable that is cached on a sliding timeout of 20 minutes. I have created a Find method that queries that datatable in memory utilizing a DataView and returns that newly constructed DataView. The find method gabs the datatable out of cache everytime and constructs a new dataview and then applies the appropriate row filters to it before returning that dataview. Dim dv as DataView = new DataView(dtFromCache) dv.RowFilter = &quo ...Show All

• Visual C# How to import a dll made in C++ Win 32

  Hello Everyone, I have a dll which is made in Win 32, as it is not an assembly neither COM can't be used as a refrence, so I have to Import it.... Can someone tell me how to do it...As when i do it asks for the entry point and secondly how to call the functions from that dll.....A brief example will be highly appreciATED... Thanks, Harsimrat Thats simple.. u have to use System.Runtime.Interopservices ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) GridLengthAnimation

  It would be great if MS provided a GridLengthAnimation type out of the box. I would use this to animate the width of a column in a grid. Can't use DoubleAnimation because it's not a double. It's a GridLength. And I can't just DoubleAnimate the GridLength.Value property because it's not a settable property. Thanks. you can get around this by setting up your grid column to have a width of "Auto", then animate the width of ...Show All

• .NET Development How to connect to a Samba share using C#?

  Is it possible to connect a Samba share using C# if so, how <br>Thanks.<br><br>mesh2005<img src="images/emoticons/smile_regular.gif"><br><br><a href='http://golger.freeownhost.com'>GoldenFingers</a> For the most part Samba provides the same sort of network shares that Windows does, because of that you don’t have to write code specifically targeting it (unless there are some Samba spe ...Show All