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• SQL Server SQL Express and Templates

  In SQL Server Express, whenever I setup a Stored Procedure, a template appears, which is wonderful. Can these templates be modified (for example, additional information added) and if so, where is this documented Regards, Flavelle Mike: Bug reported as requested. thanks, Flavelle ...Show All

• Visual C++ Ensuring symbol order in object files?

  Is there a way to get the C++ compiler to generate .obj files that maintain the order of the symbols as they appeared in the .cpp file   If so, is there also a way to ensure that the linker also preserves the order A simple example of the behavior I'm seeing from the compiler/linker: .cpp file contains int foo1; int foo2; int foo3; int foo4; when I dump the symbols from the .obj file I get this 00B 0000000C SECT3  notype &n ...Show All

• Visual C# How to convert Image files to stream...

  Hi, How to conver an image files like bmp, jpg, gif, tiff, etc into Stream or MemoryStream. The image may be from local disk or database like Northwind. Cheer. Thank you for your suggestion sir. I will have to create a seperate threat for my doubt about accessing OLE header information. Cheer. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Writing to files

  Hi, I`m learning Microsoft Visual Studio Express Edition and trying to work out how to write a line of text to a file each time the application is closed. Please see my code so far below: '***** Declarations ***** 'Info stored in *.dat files Dim T1 As String = "C:\T1.dat" Dim T2 As String = "C:\T2.dat" 'End Application Private Sub cmdExit_Click(ByVal eventSender As System.Object, ByVal eventArgs As Syst ...Show All

• Windows Forms Please tell about this exception 'A generic error occurred in GDI+. '

  Hi I got this exception while dragging.Could anybody tell me the reason for such an exception.Any ideas to get rid of this Stack trace is here A generic error occurred in GDI+. thrown in Void CheckErrorStatus(Int32) at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status) at System.Drawing.Graphics.FillRegion(Brush brush, Region region) Thanks in advance Hi I was getting that exception when closing the form that i am p ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem dragging documents from my App into Word2003

  Hi, I've been trying to implement drag and drop from my application to other applications. It's a little more complex than usual in that the files first have to be downloaded over the web, but this should not be a problem. When the drop occurs, I download the file over the web to a local directory, and then copy from here to the external application. I've implemented this as shown below and this works fine for dragging my word documents ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reportviewer Export Dropdown not active until refresh or action taken in webform

  Hey, when I run a rdlc file through my webform in the reportviewer, everything works great but the export dropdown is disabled until I either refresh the report or do something like expand/collapse a grouping or something, then its enabled. Any idea why this is   literally i throw a reportviewer on a blank aspx page in my app. I load any rdlc (set the rdlc and datasource thru the code behind of ...Show All

• Windows Forms application... "surroundings?"

  Hi, Look at Outlook 2003 (if you can't: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/otlk.jpg)... See that blue border surrounding the application  hows that done Thanks... My apologies -- I misread the image.  If you're talking about the dark blue border around the contro ...Show All

• .NET Development Converting form from VB 2003 to 2005

  I've installed 2005 on a new computer and moved a VB project to it. When I try to open the main form in the designer, I get this string of errors: The path is not of a legal form. at System.IO.Path.NormalizePathFast(String path, Boolean fullCheck) at System.IO.Path.GetFullPathInternal(String path) at System.Reflection.AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName(String assemblyFile) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.VSTypeResolutionService.AddProjectD ...Show All

• Visual C# Unable to load class library

  I wrote a managed wrapper in C++/CLI and compiled it under AMD64. Now I wrote a client in C++/CLI too and this works well. Trying to do the same in C# I got everything to compile but when I run it it says: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E) at MyClass.Main() This is weird though. I compiled the C# file for 'anycpu' but trying to set the platform ...Show All

• SQL Server null + nvarchar = null?

  I am trying to concatenate nvarchar fields and I have a problem. Lets say I have a table called People with nvarchar fields FirstName and LastName. Lets say that there is only one row in the table and FirstName is set to null and LastName is set to "Smith". When I run this query FullName will be null: select (FirstName + LastName) as FullName from People But I want FullName to be "Smith". Also if LastName is null and FirstName is "Bob", then Ful ...Show All

• Visual Basic Class Library Security

  I have created a Class Library that I need to secure so other developers do not have access to the Public Functions that are contained within. My current solution is, in the DLL file I declare a Public Property (Named Class_Access_Key), this stores the Key that a developer would need to access Public Functions Example: Public Class Secure Public ReadOnly Property CLASS_ACCESS_KEY() As String Get ' The Get property ...Show All

• Visual C# Challenge here

  Is it posible to put in your project a new file like an executable, and with c# to extract(copy) them where ever the user wants to is like making a simple setup... Yes, or any other language you want. But offcoure you do it in C# You can use #Zip to create and extract archives and for the understanding of embedded resources read this two articles: Understanding Embedded Resources in Visual Studio .NET Runtime Embedded Resource Manag ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office IIS5 and MS Word

  Hi ALL,   Win 2000 SP4 MS Word 2000 VFP 7 SP1 IIS5   I created a COM DLL that takes data from Oracle and merge it with a RTF file and then MS Word is used to print the RTF file to PDF file. Every thing is working just fine. However, when a user makes a request through ASP page, the MS Word is not instanced. The DLL impersonates using RevertToSelf API call. All the web requests are processed using a specific ID. This ID ...Show All

• Visual Basic Runtime Class Definition

  Hi all, I need to be able to define a class at runtime from an XML Schema and then populate an instance of this class from data I'm importing from a database.  The reason for this is that the database will not have a static set of fields.  We know how to dynamically create the SQL call from the XML document, but we're not sure how to create a custom class in VB.Net (using 2003 at the moment) at runtime from the XML Schema.  We ...Show All