YazzyYaz's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms MDI or other option?

  Ok, I’m designing an application that has several areas. Clients, staff, locations and the interactions between them. So, my options are: SDI. Choose one area as the main form and create other windows for the other areas. This will work, but it’s a bit of a mess, as there is no real ‘main’ form as such and some people will be forever working on a second form, it just seems untidy. MDI. Create each area as a child form. There will only ever be one copy of each client, ok I can use a singleton pattern to ensure this, it will work fine but it just seems wrong to use MDI in this manner. Also I get an unwanted bar with system ...Show All

• SQL Server Printing Reports From Report Manager

  AAAHHHH!!!! Whenever I select to print or preview a report from report manager, the margins are not set from what they are in the report. They default to 1inch every time. My report is configured to use different margins than what the print option specifies as a default. How do I fix it so the print option will use the reports default margins Please help, every report being printed is using many pages with partial columns on it and blank pages in between Thank you! Please check the width and height properties of the "Report" and "Page". You may have to play around a bit with it. Once they are proper, you can get rid of ...Show All

• .NET Development Com+ object needs to restart machine every time ?

  Hi Guys,  I have a COM+ component, everytime i create a new object i cannot see the object in the class which is using this COM+. There is an error saying 'Method Not Found' or 'Cannot be loaded'. But if i restart my pc, and run the application again, it works fine, the newly created method can be accessed.  I guess its something to do with the registry. Does any one knw how to solve this abhi Hi, From the perspective of a Web Application, when you say Server Activation or Library activation u need to understand it a bit differently because in a web application everything runs on the server. When you say Server Activatio ...Show All

• Windows Forms Listbox Databinding question

  OK, I know this sounds very simplistic, I've searched all over the net for it, but I can't find anything on it. How do you databind a datareader to the contents of a listbox In webforms, I know how to do it by using the databind method of the control, but how do you do this in windowsforms A very short code example would be helpful........ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express - Publishing Help Needed

  Hey out there. I am an absolute beginner to VB Express and I have what may seem a rather simple question. I have managed to make a couple of simple programmes incorporating data (using Sql Express) but when I install on friends computers the programme which is relatively small wants to install hundreds of megs of additinal progs from Microsoft (SQL Server and Net.Framework) is this absolutely neccessary, can I avoid this in some way Thanks in anticipation Jim I you are developing with express and SQL Server Express, yes you will have to make sure that those programs are installed on the machine. With out the .N ...Show All

• Windows Forms Auto-sized Labels within a SplitContainer

  I have a table where the column headers have a label and picture box in them. The picture box is used as a link for sorting by that column. In order to get both element into a single cell, I need to use some other type of container, so I choose a SplitContainer.  However, it doesn't seem like the SplitContainer honors the size of the objects within it. So if my column header text changes, the split container does not. This is a headache for localization. Is there a way to accomplish this Does the split container pass the width of it's contents up to the cell for auto-sizing and I'm accidently screwing it up Or should I use another con ...Show All

• Windows Forms threading problem updating a dataset bound to a datagrid...

  hi, i'm quickly getting to grips with multithreading, but i'm still a newbie :) thanks for your patience in advance. i have a datagrid hooked up to a dataview, which gets its info from a datatable.  i also have a method to update the datatable which calls Fill on a dataadapter. i always call this method asynchronously (via delegate) because its slow&nb ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums disable bird's eye

  Is there a way I can turn off bird's eye view This option was available in version 2 but I don't see anything in the SDK that allows this in version 3. Thanks, Scott create your own control and don't give the user a birdseye option. The control is easy enough to hide: map.HideDashboard(); Adding a new control just requires you creating the control and adding it to the map: var el = document.createElement("div"); el.style.top ="10px"; el.style.left = "10px"; el.style.border = "2px solid black"; el.style.background = "White"; el.innerHTML = " ...Show All

• Visual Basic Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express - New Project dialog is empty!?

  Look at this screenshot: http://hjem.get2net.dk/dondata/Empty.gif I have allready tried to Repair the installation, and allso completely uninstalled VB and the installed it again, but the dialog is still empty. What is happening here Comon! Am i really the first person i the world to experience this I still haven't solved the problem and I'm still standing here with an ampty dialog. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 1311 during installation

  During install of the Team Tester edition, a message is displayed: Error 1311.Source file not found: \\server\share\contentofcd\_15777_RTL_x86_enu_VSD_Common.cab Verify that the file exists and that you can access it. Options: Retry and Cancel The file doesn't exists - it's not in the .iso image I've downloaded. The file to be copied from the .cab file seem to be esymp_mipsii_hlp.dll to be copied to [installdir]\SmartDevices\Debugger\bin Retry doesn't bring you any further (of course)... Any ideas Regards, Carsten-S Hmmm...  Checked the Subscribers Download page again. I've two choices: Visual Stu ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to launch a Crystal Report en VB .Net

  Hi guys, I've got an easy one. I turns out I'm new on VB .Net and need to launch a Crystal Report by clicking a button. Can you give me a hand. Thanx Hello, The walkthroughs are very helpful in getting you up to speed on adding Crystal Reports to your project.  Since I don't know which version of Crystal Reports or Visual Studio you are using, I'll reference you to the main .NET starting page: http://businessobjects.com/products/dev_zone/net/default.asp ref=devzone_main You can click on the Getting Started link at the top of the page. Keith - Business Objects ...Show All

• Windows Forms use a variable to cycle through textboxes

  I have about 15 textboxes, all of which I want to save in a string array. Right now I just code: array[0] = txtbx1.text array[1] = txtbx2.text.... and so on. Is there a way that I can use a for loop and use x  instead of 1 and 2. so it would look like this:   For( x=0;x<=15;x++) { array[x]=txtbx + x.text; } instead of writing it 15 times Thanks. Yes, you can recursively call down through each panel testing each control to see if it is a panel and then dropping into that Panel's controls array. Thereby processing all of the controls on the form. ...Show All

• Visual C# accessing outlook 2000 using c# with out MAPI & without COM

  actually i want to access outlook in c# application. means i want to access all mail items in all folders with out MAPI. can any body suggest with .NET components. Hi Sivaji, I appreciate your prompt response. : ) If you have any other concern, please feel free to post back. I am always very happy to be of assistance. Have a nice day! Best regards, Peter Huang ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 Beta and 90-Day Trial CDs are no good

  Several weeks back I recieved my VS 2005 Beta CDs. I put them in my CD-ROM reader and nothing happened. Absolutely nothing. I took these CDs to other computers that I have and also computers that my friends have. Not a single computer could read any of the CDs Microsoft sent me. I just passed it off as bad CDs.   Yesterday I recieved my copy of VS 2005 Pro 90-Day trial. Guess What Same damn problem. This time in addition to trying them on all my PCs and my friend's PCs I also took this CD to Best Buy and Circuit City and tried reading it on their brand new computers.  Do I need to tell you what happened Well, it was nothing.&n ...Show All

• .NET Development Null For SqlDBType.Int32 Problem

  Hi! I've field in database of type integer and accepts null. Similarly I declared parameter in stored procedure for insertion. But when I add parameters to command object in C# Express specifically for mentioned above field as SqlDBType.Int, I get error saying parameter can't convert string to integer. When I changed parameter SqlDB type to Nvarchar everything worked fine. It wasted my whole day as I was thinking that I'm doing everything correctly. All the parameters' order and thier types were matching. Container               FieldName      ...Show All