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• Windows Forms Property Grids

  I attended a presentation by Microsoft last night in London about Property Grids. I use them a lot and was hoping get answers to a couple of questions. But the presenter could not help. Can anyone  1. By default, the property name is displayed in&n ...Show All

• SQL Server Merge Replication with SQL Mobile 2005

  We are using SQL 2005 (SP1) and mobile agents with SQL Mobile. We are seeing an excessive number of updates after a device's database is reinitialized. My understanding was that if I generate a new snapshot or reinitialize all subscriptions (from the server), the devices would only get what the database looks like right now (inserts only) after syncing and/or reinitializing, but they are actually getting the right number of inserts and a huge nu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Border with corner radius

  When a stackpanel with grey background is in a border with a BorderThickness of 1 and CornerRadius of 5, the corners of the stackpanel overlap the border at the corner. Tried ClipToBounds but no effect. How do you make the border cut off the stackpanel Yep, eburke's code can work pretty well. Sheva ...Show All

• Visual Studio Printing Reports: Layout help

  Hello, Having created a report and set the page size and layout without any problems when printing the report each page is divided down the middle. This results in the report effectively separated into two smaller tables. I am unable to find any options to change the print layout either in the preview pane or anywwhere else. Thanks For landscape printing, set: Report.PageSize, Width: 11 or 14 ...Show All

• .NET Development SerialPort SerialDataReceivedEventHandler

  Hi, I can't figure out how to get the event handler to work when data is received on the com port. I've looked around the forums here and I downloaded a console sample program that I tested on my computer and it works. But when I try and apply the same Idea to my C# windows form program I can't get the event to fire. Am I doing something wrong Some other post on the forum were talking about using different threads for the SerialDataReceive ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem Understanding ADO.Net:SQL Connection Manager

  I'm working on programming SSIS using Visual Studio 2005 and C#, and SQL Server 2005. I'm running on Windows XP SP 2. I've found examples of setting up packages w/ OLE-DB connections to SQL Server 2005. I've been able to build these and they appear to run. I've found the magic "DTSAdapter.OleDbSource.1" ComponentClassID and several other SSIS component classes in my Registry and by running the sample program in the docs: ms-he ...Show All

• Visual Studio Text Lines OverLaps in the Help Menus Display Window

  Hi, When i am crusing the help files I keep running into sections of text that have overlaped in the display.  Is it just me (MyVidCard) or has anyone else come across this, or do you know the fix Thanks in advance for any help. Steve This is a bug in MSDN Online, and the fix should be rolled out in the next couple of weeks. So after Feb. 15 or so you should not see this problem any more. Michael Blome - Visual C# Documentation ...Show All

• Smart Device Development prog working on win2003mob.

  i want to create a prog for pda.it will read a barcode via a barcode scaner,and print to the pda screan the specs of the material that has this barcode.all the specs will be stored and read by a text file that contains all the materials and their specs.i know c,but have no idea how to do this prog.please help me,with some simple steps. Do you know how to do that in VB.Net on desktop If so, you all set, just get VS 2005 STD or above (o ...Show All

• Visual C# sorry for this dumm question (noob)

  I dont know what is SDK Sorry i think i the dummest question but i really dont know Thanks hi, sdk = Software developer's kit http://www.answers.com/SDK i'm beginner and i don't know what does it mean exactly but when i visited C++ forum i found them use it alot , when i read about C# i found they talk about 2 types of coding managed and unmanaged , i know this sdk is full of the source code of all the framework if you want to ad ...Show All

• Windows Forms FindControl.

  Hi everyone, Does anyone know what would be the similar of FindControl method from Web library to from Windows.Forms library I need to get what controls do I have inside a panel, like TextBox, etc. Thanks in advancing. Doria Apparently this method was left out of windows forms. Too bad, I can see cases where it would be useful. You will just have to iterate recursively through the Controls collection of your for ...Show All

• Windows Forms Usercontrol with a DataSource property (winform!) ???

  I'd like to create a control that has a Datasource property that can be set at design-time, like a ComboBox has, for instance. It appears that there are numerous usefull attributes in the system.web.ui.design namespace, but i cannot find any good al ...Show All

• SQL Server Row and Cell Segurity

  I am trying to implement row-security in SQL 2005 but i make a query to make a view CREATE VIEW vwVisibleLabels AS SELECT     ID, Label.ToString() FROM       tblUniqueLabel WITH (NOLOCK) WHERE ID IN --Classification (SELECT ID   FROM tblUniqueLabelMarking WITH (NOLOCK)    WHERE CategoryID = 1 AND IS_MEMBER(MarkingRoleName) = 1) AND --Compartments 1 = ALL(SELECT &nbs ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Memory (Emulating SD card)

  I wanted to install a program on my emulated Pocket PC, but the program told me I had insufficient memory. Is it possible to emulate an SD card or to emulate more memory than "normal"PDA's Thanks in advance, DJGIzbo Thank you so much. I had the same problem. Have been trying to emulate a pda, but (palm as well) but couldn't find a simple solution to get lot's of storage. Thx Marcel ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DXUT and D3DXLoadMeshFromX

  Hi ive used the DXUTIL to initialise my prog and load an animated X file(Tiny.X) but when i call D3DXLoadMeshFromX to load my map mesh it fails. help ... How about some more detail What is the error you get What SDK version are you loading Etc. Please read this before posting more questions: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=69462&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I set PIN programmatically to disable raising a dialog asking for a smart card pin?

  Hi, I want to decrypt a data using a private key, stored on a Smart Card. I want to disable raising a dialog asking for a pin. There is my sample code: CspParameters cspp = new CspParameters (); cspp.KeyContainerName = "MyKeyContainer"; cspp.ProviderName = " Schlumberger Cryptographic Service Provider "; // My Smart Card PIN is "1111" System.Security. SecureString ss= new System.Security. SecureString (); ss.AppendChar( '1' ); ss.A ...Show All