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• SQL Server Winforms ReportViewer printing error

  Hello, I've used the Winforms ReportViewer control to display and print reports. Displaying reports and saving them in the different formats works well, but when I want to print a Report I get a Win32Exception which says something like "The System could not find the specified File" (translated from German, so it may vary a bit from the original english version). To get the original error message open the Errorlookup Tool(shipped ...Show All

• Windows Forms Instantiating a datagrid fill

  Hi, I have a form (Form1) with a button on it, which when pressed displays a dialog (Form2), which contains a datagrid. My question is, how do I start the process to fill the datagrid after the dialog has finished initialising (e.g. displayed), but without any user intervention. I could use a thread, but I want to make sure the initialisation code is completed and th dailog is fully displayed before the fill commences Is there an event that I c ...Show All

• Visual Basic Post-deploy error 0x80070005 returned - What to do?

  Post-deploy error 0x80070005 returned after calling '\Windows\wceload.exe /noui \Windows\System_SR_enu_wm.cab'.  Device Connectivity Component  This was a program that ran on windows ce 2003 and is not running on 2005 after conversion.  I can find no help on what to do here.  Any help would be appreciated I should add that I am running this on a Dell Axim X51 Microsoft Windows Mobile version 5.0 OS 5.1.1702(Build 143 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing a control over custom control's boundary

  Hi, I am creating a custom Bread Crumb-type control, and am running into a little bit of a problem when trying to add an intellisense-type functionality to it. The control is pretty much a textbox, but I want a list box to display below it when the user types something in, similar to how VS.NET does it. However, since the listbox's boundary is actually outside the boundary of my control, it cuts it off and I don't see it. Is there any way to "ov ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linking the microsoft platform SDK to VS 2005 express

  Hi, i have read through various threads regarding methods to link the microsoft platform SDK to visual studio 2005 express beta 2. Personally i have tried changing the express.dll.config file to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\..." where I include the path to where my microsoft platform SDK is located. Well that doesnt work. So i tried the "create a PlatformSDK folder under VC folder" method. N ow afxwin.h is located in C:\microsoft ...Show All

• Windows Forms Collections and Properties

  Quick question, right now if I wanna say change all the columns in my datagridview to notsortable, I am itterating through them, but what I am wondering is if there is anyway to set a property on collections of the same items without itterating. I have no idea if this is possible but if it was, I would have to think it would be more efficient. Just interested thanks Arrays and List<T> support ForEach() whic ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView in c#

  Tell me how to add a vertical scroll bar in listview in c#. There is a horizontal scrollbar and if i move that the contents are scrolled in vertical manner and not in horizontal manner. Tell me how to add a vertical scroll bar in listview. Willfin David. 1 - you'd have to make it owner drawn and draw the items yourself 2 - not sure 3 - By setting the focus to another control 4 - create you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to use Application Verifier?

  The Application Verifier did work fine with Beta1, but I can't get it to work with Beta2. When I try Debug -> Start with Application Verifier I get the message "Application Verifier could not be enabled. Please refer to the release notes and supporting documentation". I tried installing the Application Compaitibility Kit (tried both 3.0 and 4.0), but that didn't help. I did remove some features from the default installation. Mainly VB, J ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS Add-in Missing after Installation

  I have installed Visual Studio 2005 RC1 and VSS 2005 RC1 on a machine that has never had a previous beta.  The VSS add-in is not available from within VS2005.  I did it on another machine and it worked fine.  I also uninstalled and re-installed VSS with no effect.  VSS works fine except that it is not integrated with VS2005. Has anyone seen this problem   How can I install the Add-in manually Thanks, Steve Wright ...Show All

• Windows Forms c++ sharing data between forms

  Hi As far as i know i cannot declare a global form cuz the compiler complains This causes me all sorts of problems with sharing data between different forms i have a main form A which has form B in it Inside form B i want to access data from form A how do i do it i had a look around to find an answer to this but either i am dumb or the answers were not for this case... Hi, If your using C++/CLI, then you could ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I am going into development of games(help needed)

  Hi there all, I am a programmer for Windows 32bit and now due to a new project issued by a friend of mine, i had to go into Game Development. The following are a few questions that i am going to ask so that i understand more about Developing games. 1) What programming language am i going to use 2) What IDE environment will I be using 3) How will the graphics be supported Tips and tricks welcome too. ...Show All

• .NET Development Generate xml element name from arbitrary string ?

  Is there a function in .net that will take an arbitrary string (input by a user) and return a valid xml name that I can then use as the name of an element or type within an XML schema I need to strip out all the invalid characters (spaces, apostrophes etc. ) that a user may have input as a visual display name, and generate a "behind the scenes" element name that is acceptable in XSD. Andrew, Up ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Server side scripting ?

  Just a little question, I could not find out if server-side scripting is allowed with the World's Best App competition. If so, what kind of server side scripting will be allowed ASP, ASP.net PHP, MySQL - joost Ps. congratulations with the release of this great idea!   joost g. wrote: Just a little question, I could not find out if server-side scripting is allowed with the World's Best App competi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error: "Reference mscorlib.dll was not found on the References path."

  I just installed VC++ .NET 2003, and am working through the tutorials in the book included with the product, "Getting started with Microsft Visual C++ .NET version 2003." I'm on page 20, and trying to build a new "Console Application (.NET)", but receive the error, "Reference mscorlib.dll was not found on the References path." and my project is not built (animals.cpp is not built) so I can no longer follow along with the tutorial. I've run ...Show All

• Visual C++ aspell compilation problems

  Hi, I tried to post on the forum but it kept coming up with an internal error so i was wondering if you could help me with the following:I have recently been trying to compile aspell (a spell checker written in c and c++) in visual studio .NET (2003) which has taken forever but i managed to get it to compile a dll now. When i come to add this dll file into another project which will be using the methods from this dll it keeps giving ...Show All