nerdz's Q&A profile

• .NET Development could not find localhost when creating new project

  Hi friends am new to .net and writing a small web service application.am using vs 2005 beta2. i created new project (asp.net web service) and new project dialog box i selected location as "http" and name of project name i entered as http://localhost/customer orders webservice and as soon as i click ok i get following message saying "Could not find a Web server '<localhost>'. Check to make sure that the Web server name is valid and yo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions drop down list

  hi, i have two drop down list on a form (the only form) and i was wondering is it possible to change the contents of the 2nd drop down depending on what is chosen on the first one In the SelectedIndexChanged event for the first ComboBox add code similar to the following: If ComboBox1.SelectedItem = "Green" Then ComboBox2.SelectedItem = "Yellow" Else ComboBox2.SelectedItem = &q ...Show All

• Windows Forms Word 2003

  ok, i'm sure i'm in the wrong place, but i don't know where to go.  i have a word clipart question.  hopefully some kind soul can help me anyway. i'm trying to insert clipart in a microsoft word 2003 document, but almost all the  ...Show All

• Windows Forms "Details" style data binding question?

  I am using VS.NET 2005 Standard edition; My goal is to bind a dataset with one datatable to a form in a way that gives you a table of "overview" with selected columns.  From there the user can select a row and the entire record is display in a data-entry grid below the entier datagridview control. It's a sort of split screen - there are many to many fields to cause the user to easily edit them in the datagridview. So far i have no ...Show All

• Visual C# System.Management.ManagementException: Invalid Class

  During one of my applications running I try and find the volume number of the local hard drive using WMI. Here is my code: ManagementObject disk = new ManagementObject("win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=\"C:\""); //Error happens here disk.Get(); It only happens on 1 machine running Windows 2000. I can't get it to break any place else. Just a minor update: The person that had this ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewComboBoxColumn value is not valid

  howde... I decided to move towards VS-2005 after seeing that the Datagrid has be revamped to included comboboxs, buttons, images etcs.. I noticed that the Dreaded Tablestlyes has been dropped (YAAAARR!!!!) any way after useing for about a day scratching my head..  I keep getting DataGridViewComboBoxColumn "value is not valid" dont make sense to me.. btw I am  not useing the wizard as I need to dynamically create Colums.. ok here is so ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unbound DataGridView adding many rows is very slow

  Hello, I hope this is the right place to post; if it's not, someone let know, okay I am using an unbound DataGridView, and would like to add something on the order of a 1000 rows. It works fine, but it quite a long time to add the rows.  I am not sure if I should be using sometype of method to cause the data not to be refreshed until I am done drawing. Something similiar in concept to .SuspendLayout/.ResumeLayout. Anyone have any ideas &nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form_load code runs many times

  My Form_load event handler code keeps cycling and executes about 12 times before proceeding to display the main form.  This causes a lot of problems plus wastes time.  Has anyone seen this problem Thanks, Luis I found the reason.  For some unknown reason my form_load had 12 times the handles clause repeated like: Handles MyBase .Load, Handles MyBase .Load, Handles MyBase .Load ... As soon as I removed the duplicate ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error 1073741819 (extra)

  Hello, I am using Visual Studio Professional 2005. I am programming with a few tools such as Netadvantage 2006 from Infragistics and Chart FX 2005 from Software FX. Now my program is working just fine when I use the tools from Netadvantage. But when I want to add a Chart with Chart FX. Then I can build my program with no errors. But when I run my program is runs perfect until I get to the form where the Chart is added. I get no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Variable Recreation

  Hi, a dumb question from a newbie. I have an Mdi appication in which i declare variables at the start of the class as below: Try declaring your forms without the NEW keyword. DIM Childform1 as Child Then create it in your sub-routine with Childform1 = new Child ChildForm1.MdiParent = Me ....................etc I'm not sure if this will give you the desired effect as it is a bit hard to understand what your are trying to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Index was outside the bounds of the array in Windows Work Flow

  Hello: I am using OrderingStateMachine workflow application that came as a part of Windows SDK Samples and tried to use OrderLocalServices and OrderWorkflows as a part of ASP.NET application, which I am able to do successfully. Now, when I tried to change OrderWorkflows.Workflow1.cs by adding a new state or even a new event inside existing OrderOpenState (In short any change to the workflow), It gave me Index was outside the bounds of the ...Show All

• Visual C# Event

  Hi, I use the following code to trigger an Event: public abstract class MyClass : MyBaseClass { public delegate void ClickedEvent(Object sender); public event ClickedEvent Clicked; internal override void OnMouseReleased(MouseEventArgs e, bool outside) { if (!outside) { Clicked(this); } } } Unfortunately this doesn't work. I get the following exception, when Clicked(this); is ...Show All

• .NET Development Error - How can I trace it down?

  I have an app I made in VS2005- and it uses 2.0 framework, and some sqlreader and a MSHFLEXGRID activex control. This application runs fine on a majority of computers, but on 3 so far it will not run. I put a try/catch around everything with a messagebox to display the exception and it never even gets that far. I have all the patches from windows update and the 2.0 framework installed on all machines. The box I get is "Program Name has encounter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Blurry image after e.Graphics.ScaleTransform (Zoom)

  (I have already tried e.Graphics.SmoothingMode=Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.None in several places) The program in question uses GIF images that contain certain patterns and shapes and enlarges them during the e.graphics print page event. Using print preview's zoom, it is clear that the patterns and shapes have blurry edges and look slightly lighter in color. Printing looks less than optimum because of this. Looking at the original GIF file ...Show All

• SQL Server reset toolbox doesn't delete my components

  Hi, I am in the process of developing a custom component. During that time I went through many versions of my custom component, including various DLL names and signatures, different code etc. The problem is that now I have old versions of my custom components stuck in the default settings of the toolbox. When I reset the toolbox, even if I manually deleted the old items, it appears again. I tried to delete all the DLLs I previously copi ...Show All