Raj Nair's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms ToolStripContainer BackColor

  Can anyone tell me what the background color of a ToolStripContainer should be When I add a new one to my form it's property says Control color but it's not really. Changing the BackColor to say Red and the back to Control seems to correct the issue. Is this a known issue or is it by design Regards Graham You can change this by setting the ToolStripContentPanel.RenderMode = ToolStripRenderMode.System;  The ...Show All

• Windows Forms Selecting distinct values from a view using RowFilter?

  Hi, I'm trying to populating multiple ComboBox controls from a single DataSet with one table.  The dataset has 6 columns and the data is hierarchical so only the last column has unique values. Each combobox on my screen applies to one of the co ...Show All

• Smart Device Development InputPanel ObjectDisposedException & multiple forms

  Using CF2 and VS2005. Problem here.  I have an InputPanel object in both Form A and Form B.  They both register the EnableChanged event to move the tabcontrol size.  After opening Form A, closing it, then going  to Form B, the event is sent to Form A (which is already disposed and had GC.Collect() called) and a ObjectDisposedException is raised on a ClientRectangle object.  What would cause FormA object to still exist i ...Show All

• SQL Server Looping through rows in flat file

  I'd appreciate some guidance on how to solve a problem. I have a flat file of the format Header1 Header2 Header3 Data Record Data Record ... etc. ... Data Record Trailer1 Trailer2 I want to loop through each data record. I want to take a column value (string) from each row, and call a stored procedure passing in that value. The s/p will return another string which I want to use to update the original column value from the flat file. If I can't u ...Show All

• .NET Development Unexplained CryptographicException : Padding is invalid...

  I wrote the following functions to encrypt and decrypt a file, and they seemed to work perfectly. However, once I modify the data being saved 2-3 times, I get the following error: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException : Padding is invalid and cannot be removed. at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.DecryptData(...) at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.TransformFinalBlock(...) at System.Secu ...Show All

• Visual Basic opening a text file

  Dear All, Please help me in opening a word or text file from VB application. When I tried with "Open" command I was able to read and write data from and to a text file. But my requirement is to open a text file ( which is already written and saved) as such. That is if I give filename.doc, that word file must be opened or if I give filename.txt then that text file must be opened. Please suggest me how to proceed. Thankful to ev ...Show All

• .NET Development ADOX column properties

  Can anyone please provide c# example for the following vb ADOX code Set tbl = New ADOX.Table With tbl    .Name = "Artist"    .ParentCatalog = cat    .Columns.Append "Artist_ID" , adInteger         .Columns( "Artist_ID" ).Properties( "AutoIncrement" ).Value = True         .Columns( "Artist_ID" ).Properties( "Nullable" ). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting started with VC++

  Hello! I wanna learn to code with VC++, but i find it hard to learn. I know basics of c++. I have been scripting with EasyUO ( ultima online scripting tool ) for over 3 years, so i know the way, If's, for's, whiles etc works. Its very hard ( only me ) to find up-to-date tutorial for VC++. I have used the microsoft database, but i cant find there any very beginner tutorial for this. I dont even know, what kind of programs should i try to ...Show All

• SQL Server error: 40 with sql server 2000

  Hi I am getting this really annoying error that I cant resolve. I have created a website that accesses a SQL SERVER 2000 database and it works perfectly on my home machine. The error has occurred when I have transferred it to my hosts server. This is the error: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default ...Show All

• SQL Server Connecting through ODBC

  Did anyone try fetching data from any database which is connected through ODBC. If so can you please share the details. In the data flow task of SSIS there is a facility for only oledb and not thru ODBC. From what I understand, ODBC was not implemented by MS in SSIS. See thread here ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System List a user's activity...

  Is it possible to list the history of a certain user's activity in Team Foundation; like [when] he checked in/out [which] files etc. Also, can I prevent certain users from merging code, only one person can merge If so, then what do I do when they want to check in files that are not merged, should they overwrite and the merger rolls back or what Thank you, Sammy With respect to preventing users from "merging c ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Equivalent of SqlDataReader.Item

  I'm new to C#, moving over from VB... Is there an equivalent to VB's SqlDataReader.Item   Here's what I'm trying to do: SqlCommand cmdSelectedRecord = new SqlCommand (SQLStmt,conn); SqlDataReader SelectedRecord = cmdSelectedRecord.ExecuteReader(); txtLastName.Text = SelectedRecord.Item("lname"); txtFirstName.Text = SelectedRecord.Item("fname"); SelectedRecord.Close(); Obviously I have defined my SQLStmt and conn as the connection.&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help me!!!

  I have been trying to make a calculator in visual basic express editopn 2005 and am having some problems. After cursing for hours on end I have decided to plea for help. Obviously you need at least 2-digit numbers and I am trying to do it with buttons. So - I think I need some code and that takes the infornmation out of the textbox and makes that information a variable. I know the code to add the number on the end of this variable and add ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to activate a jscript link with WebBrowser Control

  Hi! I'm trying to navigate in a website, but my problem is: The website doesn't have the "normal" links like <a href="link.html">linktext</a> but rather: <a href=void(vxLoadpage('link.shtml'));"> linktext </a> INFO: before the void there is javascript:  (I don't know why it's missing, when I send my post... So how do I navigate on this link with the webbrowser-control   Thx, Alex ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Creating Excel Report file From VB.Net 2k5 - Help

  Objective Trying to create an output from visual basic, with data containined within a Dataset into an excel workbook. Problem I've got is the Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel issues. I have already written a procedure which creates an excel workbook and populates a worksheet cell by cell from the dataset programatically using the interop interfaces. Problam is this is damn slow. Have tried t ...Show All