wskyo's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms All Green Lights and No Critters

  I have installed 1.2 Terrarium on 2 machines of mine. (Behind a firewall, port 50000 opened and NAT support checked) All lights are green but i dont get anything coming into my terrarium. I have this thing running for at least 24 hours so& ...Show All

• Windows Forms Detecting TabPages removed from a TabControl

  I seem to have a problem detecting when a TabPage is removed from a TabControl.  I am currently handling the ControlAdded and ControlRemoved events; however, the event handlers rely on the value of the Name property of the TabPage object.  ControlAdded seems to work perfectly, while ControlRemoved seems to return either an empty string, or a null string.  This issue is occuring during design time, and I haven't gotten around to te ...Show All

• Visual Basic ClickOnce and EnterpriseLibrary ApplicationBlocks.

  Help needed please... Have developed a small VB Forms application (over SQL2005) using VS2005. Application uses the Configuration, Data and Logging Application Blocks Application was developed on a local server (rather than on c: drive) All works ok running it on my PC pointing to the server. Now need to publish the application via ClickOnce went through the steps to publish the app - all appears ok (needed to add .Net 2.0, Crystal R ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild functionality

  Does anyone know if you can use MSBuild. For an build project. For example: Code to build an program from multiple programs. And to make startup forms ect. Using the file Not sure what you mean here - but MSBuild is a build engine that is used for building managed applications, and Visual Studio uses it as the build engine for building your applications. MSBuild allows you to also build your projects without having Visual Studio installed ...Show All

• .NET Development Code runs but database doesn't update

  All, I'm new to ADO.NET (used to work in ADO and am really struggling with the concept!)... I've got a web form, which has a dataset and connection attached with 2 text fields that I want to use to add a new record to a table. The code runs fine, but the database does not get updated... the db is Access. Here's the code - I know I'm doing something stupidly wrong, but I can't work it out! Thanks in advance. Dim strPN As String Dim s ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect to SQL Server 2005

  Hello, I have a problem with connecting to SQL Server 2005. I have a small network at home with a WLAN router connected to Internet. My notebook computer and desktop computer are connected to router. My SQL Server 2005 is installed on notebook computer and Microsoft Server Management Studio is installed on desktop computer. I wanted to add login so I could connect to it from desktop pc and a problem came up. When I tryed to add acco ...Show All

• Visual C++ no compile tool is associated with the file extension

  I have been using C++ for a long time, but have just recently been forced onto a new compiler. I've installed MSDN and Visual C++. Now I can't get anything to compile. So I'm back to the basics with a simple Hello World program. I still get: Cannot compile the file 'c:\c++\HelloWorld\HelloWorld.cpp'; no compile tool is associated with the file extension. Where should I be looking for the compiler settings and what should they look l ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF Feb CTP 2006, XAML Designer not available in VS 2005

  Hi, I installed the WPF Feb CTP 2006 version. Apart from the namespace bugs, i have run into a peculiar problem where the xaml designer is not shown in the VS 2005. Is this by design or is it a bug Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated. Thanks & Regards Susheil Kumar System Analyst You should give Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer a shot - http://www.microsoft.com/expression T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Several questions

  Hi, I'm new to VB, but have played with some programming just a little. I'm working on a Windows application that retrieves XML weather for any location you specify. I'd like to know how to deal with XML to use the data I want. If either is possible, I have no preference whether I analyze each line as it's downloaded or I dump it all to a file and deal with it there. I'm totally new to this, so I don't know how it works to specify what X ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databinding ComboBox Woes. AARRGGHH!

  Hope someone could help here! I am binding a combobox to a dataset. The binding is working correctly when I get an existing record; it’s a new record that is blowing up.  <b>Problem:</b> When I create a new record in the data entry  ...Show All

• Windows Forms TaskVision client destroyed my PC!

  I've decided to repost this message as separate thread cos I don't think it's getting the attention I deserves.   Here's the problem... I installed the TaskVision client about a week ago, and immediately after started noticed weird things happening to my ...Show All

• Windows Forms Controlling font width and height independently

  I write on a form using ‘Drawstring’. I want the text to fill out the form, so when the user resizes the form, the text is resized. So if the form is long and narrow, the font width will be wide and the font height will be narrow. How can this be achieved Thanks, The ScaleTransform method can do what I want so it was more simple than I had hoped for. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Access Add-In from the OUTSIDE...

  Hi there, I've got a tough question (I think ). I've made a plugin that works quite fine (excluding some deployment problems, but I hope in the future to solve them)...now, I'd like to make an application that can work with plugin from the OUTSIDE...let me explain. What I'd like to do, when running this application is: first, understand if Outlook 2003 and my plugin are installed (but this isn't quite necessary, hoping my users won't be too stu ...Show All

• Visual Studio SourceSafe from IDE

  I am not being able to see anything from Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 File > Source Countr > (NOTHING IS THERE) please, help!!! thanks "Open From Source Control" has been integrated into the Open Project dialog itself. Go File->Open Project, and then you will see the SourceSafe icon on the icon bar to the left of that dialog. That will allow you to navigate into your SourceSafe stores. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error when attempting to "save as" an existing template

  Here are the steps: Team Explorer is open Expand the Project Expand Documents Expand Templates (assumption is that there is a template here) Right Click the template (in my case it is Vision-Scope.doc) Select Open Click OK at "File Download" message Click OK at Reading Layout message Click FILE Click SAVE AS ISSUE you get the following error [Microsoft Word]_SaveDoc ERROR: 4172:Path not found Any help would be appreciated - thanks NOTE: I ha ...Show All