ShaunWilks's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro MyEditor (Edit Control) Validation in VFP-9: STOPPING Menus, etc?

  I'm trying to *stay within myEdit control(s)* until *pProcessing* is finished. I seek *better ways*, per se, from any of you (besides making the form(s) modal). Here are some of my awkward (non-bulletproof) workarounds. In myEditor.VALID ... If pProcessing This.SetFocus * Return .F. Endif To STOP Menus... In _msysmenu: set skip for pProcessing (for every menu bar()... ) OR SET SYSMENU SAVE SET SYSMENU TO ...when pProcessing is finished SET ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error when trying to create new app

  hi when I create a new application I keep getting the following error message. "the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (exception from hresult: 0x8007007B)" I googled it and found somebody to have had the same problem but with C#. Apparently it does not like the "&" in folders of log in names. I have XP SP2 and my login name has a "&" is there a way around it other than creating a ...Show All

• Windows Forms looking for list control

  I'm looking for GUI control to create application with similar look as the screen shot at http://underwar.livedns.co.il/control.jpg. Something like list-view, that allows me to select lines, allows me to add action links on it, and (less important) has cool gradia ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can't directly dim an instance of a tableadapter 2005

  Can't directly dim an instance of a tableadapter I'm creating a sample project much smaller than my whole project to isolate some remaining issues.  Naturally I'm copying a great deal of code. However, there have been several anomalies.  In my regular project the statement Dim cdt As New ConceptsTableAdapter is accepted. However, in the sample project I am preparing, the same statement gives me the message Type 'ConceptsTableAdap ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Beginner Code Help. Not sure where to start.

  I have a .bat file that I would like to convert into an .exe using visual basic express 2005. This is what the bat file looks like: @echo off IF EXIST "c:\network.txt" ( rename "c:\documents and settings\all users\desktop\network.lnk" Mobile.lnk rename c:\network.txt mobile.txt copy c:\away.ini "c:\program files\cad\etc\standard.ini" cls echo. echo Copying Cad Standards Directory xcopy /E /I /Y / ...Show All

• Windows Forms why is c++ completely ignored on these boards?

  well why im having a total mind boggle trying to solve my problems whilst converting from a langauge i dont know (c# / VB) are there any good c++ .net resources out there  most of the things i need are covered on this site but not in ...Show All

• Visual Studio ContextSwitchDeadlock while debugging

  This occurs while debugging a C# VSTO Word application: ContextSwitchDeadlock was detected Message: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x16a300 to COM context 0x16a020 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or processing a very long running operation without pumping Windows messages. This situation generally has a negative performance impact and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Debugger doesn´t stop on breakpoint

  HI! I´m developing a C# application using windows forms. I made a copy of my solution and saved it on another computer. Now when I try to debug my project on this computer I can set a breakpoint and the debugger stops at this certain& ...Show All

• .NET Development Canonicalize XML while Streaming using XmlTextWriter

  Hi. I have a huge XML document (too big to load into memory > 2 GB). I want to read this document in a stream, and write it out to a new file in a somewhat canonical form - that is, I want the namespaces just to be declared at the root element, and not in each node. Here is my current process I am trying to develop : I read through the document once and collect all of the namespaces. I then want to read through the document again, wr ...Show All

• .NET Development Enterprise Library on .NET 2.0

  Does any one know if Enterprise Library (all the application blocks) has been ported to .NET 2.0   If not when would you expect this to happen.  Or does the latest version work with Visual Studio 2005 Thanks in advance ka Thanks Chris.  I would hope it is converted soon because with out the new version we will not be able to port our current application to Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel automation in asp.net 2

  Hi How can I use excel automation within an asp.net 2 project with VB.Net I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and Office XP 2003 TIA Someone recently asked a very similar question about doing this with Word. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=287608&SiteID=1 You can do this but you will have to modify the permissions IIS runs under, reducing its security, and performance will be p ...Show All

• SQL Server Change Parameter Entry View

  Is there a way I can change the look of the field where you enter the parameters. I was wondering if it would be possible to change the display fonts and background colors. Thanks No. The Parameter pane is not configurable. Your request is not the first and is hopefully something that can be made available in the future. ...Show All

• Visual Basic When I open a form "FORM.VB" how do I auto exec a sub in form "FORM.VB" ?

  When I open a form "FORM.VB" how do I automatically execute a sub in form "FORM.VB" Michael   Michael Dyrnaes wrote: When I open a form "FORM.VB" how do I automatically execute a sub in form "FORM.VB" Michael Call the sub you want to execute from the form load event: Private Sub Form1_Load ( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System . EventArgs ) Handles MyBase . Load InitForm () End S ...Show All

• Visual Basic System.InvalidOperationException

  Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition: My app runs fine on my development computer, but, bombs out on the 3 other computers that I installed it on. It installs OK, but, upon execution, it immediately aborts with a System.InvalidOperationException. And these all have version 2.0 of the .NET Framework installed on them ...Show All

• SQL Server Using variables in data flow Script component

  I have a package variable that I set via an ExecuteSQL task.  I want to reference it in a data flow script component.  In the Script component I enter the variable into the ReadOnlyVariables collection, then in the script I reference it as Me.Variables.var.  (E.G.  counter = Me .Variables.var) I'm getting errors when the data flow starts: Error: 0xC0047062 at Provider , Set Surrogate Key [4261]: System.Reflection.Ta ...Show All