mikeb_'s Q&A profile

• Visual C# Convert string to date

  Hi, I have string in unknown format of the date. I need to convert it to DateTime. How can I do this Thank's Alexei Why do you have a unknown format, then you can never parse it to a DateTime object. Because you need to know what the month, date and year is. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you make a images' background transparent?

  Is there a way to make so that an images' backround color doesn't  show up on a background image Thank you in advance. i believe that is image type specific, like a gif file would do transparency differently than a png file&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Tool tips in statusstrip

  I start working with VB 2005 EE. But I find one trouble.I was put StatusStrip control on design panel and ShowItemTooltips property switch on true. Then I put the Tooltip control on design panel and on the form add some controls. I fill Tooltip on ToolTip1 property with text. I see hint inside popup baloon, but not in the Statusstrip control. What i do wrong As far as i can see, the ToolTip will be displayed in ...Show All

• Visual C++ \CLR Compilation woes!

  Iv compiled my current C++ project as \clr as i want to start putting in some specific C++\CLI code to serialize my MFC objects to .NET equivalents. The program crashes on startup, something to do with the stack frame being corrupted. My first concern is the program has ballooned in terms of the size of the executable image. When it attempts to run it fails and some report about stack frame corruption. Iv noticed any C files have to be conver ...Show All

• .NET Development Unhandled exception when setting Data Source in DataGridView

  We have a larger large solution consisting of several projects (thinking about splitting it...) and every time we visually try to set the Data Source of an DataGridView, ComboBox og ListBox control (by using the dropdown in the Tag property or the little arrow in design mode) we get a Unhandled Exception. The error says: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Probably there is an error in one of the datasets in the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Automating login to website with IIS basic authentication

  Hello all, Can someone point me int the direction of writing a script to automate login to a web application that uses basic authentication instead of a normal post login from a form   Basically what I am trying to do is make the authentication ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid right align cell data

  Does anyone know how I can right align text in some of the columns in a datagrid using vb.net Iam facing problem with this method. I need the Column Header tobe center align and cell data to be right align. How can i do  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Recent Projects

  Just a minor question, how do i empty out the Recent projects list is there a way to do this Delete File1, File2, File3, etc. values from the following key using regedit: My Computer\HKEY_USERS\ systemspecificvalue \Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList Note that systemspecificvalue will be an identifier of your system.  You can find this location easily by launching regedit and then do a Find ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help with VSS

  Hi, Please forgive me for asking here, I realize this might not be the right place to ask but somebody here surely might have an answer for me.  We are using VSS 6.0d.  Here is my question: I have a server where we have all our VSS databases on.  The server has been having 'issues', so we have a new server with more memory, bigger hard drives, and a better processor where I need to move the VSS databases to.  My question:& ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Designer "XML Regions"?

  Is it possible to create "Regions" (as in the .NET VB/C# editors) in the Report Designer XML Editor If so how -Brian ...Show All

• Windows Forms On toolstrip items and tooltips?

  I've been working on a feature-rich desktop toolbar in VB2005. I noticed sometime ago that the toolstripbutton items didn't have tooltips although there is text data in both the .text and .tooltip items. I’ve made the mistake of not addressing that right away. The volume of code is extensive and “distributed” and I don’t think this is a coding error per se.   I’ve read the KB article on Toolstrips and tooltips and every thing in ...Show All

• SQL Server How To Execute an Oracle 10g Stored Proc thru ODBC using VS 2005, for Reporting Services

  Good day! :-) Anybody who knows the syntax for executing an Oracle Stored Proc thru ODBC connection using VS 2005 for Reporting Services I am having a problem about this. I am using the ODBC connection because VS 2005 does not support Oracle Database 10g in its Oracle Database Connection feature (only 7.3, 8i, and 9i), that's y. While using MS SQL Server 2000, I never encountered any problem. But using Oracle Database 10g, I find it har ...Show All

• Visual C# webBrowser

  Can is save the webpage from the webbrowser i mean with all his images not links to the imagest Like Ms Word does in Internet explorer add COM reference to Microsoft Internet Controls. . . use this code: SHDocVw. InternetExplorer ie = (SHDocVw. InternetExplorer ) webBrowser1.ActiveXInstance; object pvaIn = "" ; object pvaOut = null ; ie.ExecWB(SHDocVw. OLECMDID .OLECMDID_S ...Show All

• SQL Server Killer problem with Scheduled Reports

  I'm running on SQL 2000 with SRS. Standard install ( I think, it was all set up by IT) I have reports that run fine in the Report Manager but when they are run through a schedule (email) some of them (albeit most) "rsProcessingAborted" because of a report error. Looking at the logs it seems generally based around comparison failure because of datatypes, eg (from the logs): Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.Rep ...Show All

• Visual Basic Adding menu's at runtime problem

  Hi, I need someone to put me in the right direction as I'm not sure how to do this, I want to add menuitems to my windows form dynamically withh their relevent event handlers. The text for each menu is read from an XML file and I don't know how many menuitems will be added at any given time as it depends on the users choice. I'm using the toolstripmenuitems and I'm not sure if they react differently to the normal menuitems. Can some ...Show All