Angele's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio .cs file for crystal report is not generated

  I am using vs.net 2005 crystal report. When I created a crystal report, the .cs file is not generated. therefore, I can not use the strong type crystal report. could anyboy tell me what am I missing I tried this a few days ago, I did see the .cs file created once. But now, I just can't get the .cs file showup anymore. please help! By default the CS file is hidden. Try selecting the report in so ...Show All

• Windows Forms Finding/Modifying Code

  Is there a way to find a certain string of code in a specified file that is inside/loaded into the project and then change this to the text string of a text box For example, if I wanted to change a piece of code in form1, how would I find the code and then replace it with the text string from a textbox on form2 You only can when you have the source files. Get the current stack and then find the associated method, when you found it. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Attribute 'Class' not found error when debugging on Beta 1.2

  Hello, I am getting the error "Attribute 'Class' not found on the Root Activity" when trying to run a workflow in debug mode using VS2005 RTM, WF Beta 1.2. It happens on all workflows I have tried including the SimpleSequentialWorkflow. Also, after getting the above error, the workflow will no longer successfully complete but instead gets a Workflow not found exception. Finally, I am finding a ton of temp files being orphaned in the Temp directo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent Draw the image yourself in a paint handler, and use the imageattributes class to make 255/0/255 ( magenta ) transparent. ...Show All

• .NET Development Parameterized queries

  When using a parameterized query such as: SELECT LocationID, StreetNum, StreetName, rowguid FROM tblLocations WHERE (StreetNum = @StreetNum) AND (StreetName LIKE @StreetName) Is there a way to automatically add % to the beginning and ending of the parameter I've tried the following command: SELECT LocationID, StreetNum, StreetName, rowguid FROM tblLocations WHERE (StreetNum = @StreetNum) AND (StreetName LIKE '%' + @Stre ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to start Windows mobile 5 emulator

  Hello, I'm not a developer, so sorry for these questions: I want to test html-files with the Pocket PC Emulator. I've installed Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the Windows Mobile Pocket PC SDK. But I don't know how to start the emulator to test my files. Thank you Bene Hi, Go to Tools->Connect To Device. From the platform select Windows mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK. Now start Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Emulato ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Spanning a Transaction Across Workflows

  Hi, I have a situation where my app receives a message and determines a (short) list of workflows to invoke based on the content. The message itself is the unit of work, so I need to setup a transaction that can span workflows. I had a couple of ideas about how to do this: Create a dynamic "surrounding" workflow in XOML that declares a transaction scope that invokes the dependent workflows in a sequence. The problem is that WW ...Show All

• Windows Forms Editable Combobox in a datagridview

  I'm a little new to this .net stuff so I'm sure this question will be pretty easy. I'm trying to make a combobox editable in a datagridview.  Can anyone lead me down the right path thx If you right click the grid at design time and select Edit Columns, the Column Editor will appear. Select the column that you want to have appear as a combobox and change the ColumnType property to DataGridViewComboBoxColumn. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Ho do I pass a query to a running instance of WDS ?

  Could some1 please help. Thanks a lot in advance. I wanted to pass a query to a running instance of WDS (i dont want to launch a new UI window. my code snippet below starts a new UI which i dont want). And how do i pass parameters to a running instance private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { // string fileName = @"C:\Program Files\MSN Toolbar Suite\DS\02.05.0001.1119\en-us\bin\WindowsSearch.exe&qu ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums MSN Messenger Web Presence

  Hello, I need to build a web site where I can check wich MSN Messenger user are connected. I would like to know if you plan to add (in a short time frame) a Web Presence solution to Messenger like the AIM presence. I would like also to know if it's possible to develope this functionality using your new API. Best Regards, Cristiano Yes, I made a plugin using MSN's API (not the Activity API) which runs in the backg ...Show All

• .NET Development Thread context switching

  Hi I want to raise events from an object that executes on different thread, to the main process. Is the best for doing it is by raising the event on the main thread context by using SynchronizationContext object class mainprocess { //register is my method that passes the context to the object   MyObject.Register(new SynchroniztionContext()); } class object {   //within async callback   & ...Show All

• .NET Development Looking for something other than Ping class...

  Other than the Ping class in the System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace, is there a way to tell if a computer exists on the network Thanks... Scott I appreciate the response, but that method is obsolete in .NET 2.0. However, for your information, the new method is called GetHostEntry. Scott ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I get value from data flow control?

  How can I get value from data flow control when it returns to the Control flow I want to use values in the data flow to decide what I'm doing next - using an expression  on the 'line' (i.e. @Step == 10, 20 , 30 ...) @Step  - is user defined variable. How can I set @Step according to the data flow It seems to be that I can't change @Step in the data flow. Seems like you are editing Script Task  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Another Initialization failed for plugin(s): "Microsoft.Pcw.wss"

  i got this when trying to create my first team system project, attached is my creation log. any help greatly appreciated! Cheers, Craig 07/20/2005 08:44:49.130 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | URL for eLead web service retrieved as " http://dev-test1:8080/bisserver/EleadWebService.asmx " from the registration service | Completion time: 0.0200288 seconds 07/20/2005 08:44:51.023 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | eLead web service proxy constructed ...Show All

• SQL Server Authentication Issues

  Current Setup: Windows 2003 Server SQL Server 2000 w/ SP3 Windows Sharepoint Servics Problem: I have created a group on our Domain (INT) called Domain Users. Inside this group I have added individual users that need to be there. On the SQL Server when I try to add INT\Domain Users I get an error stateing that the user does not exist. Next I tried typing in INT and selecting the browse button. The window opens up listing all Domain users and grou ...Show All