AalaarDB's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office SP1 & SP2

  Hi everybody, As I started with my VSTO project (September 2005), I had to install the Office SP1 so that the customization works. Well of course the SP1 should be installed on the target machine also. But now there is allready the SP2. Now my questions are. Do I realy need to deploay the SP2 And do I need to install first the SP1 and then the SP2 or can I just run the SP2 Or is it better to deploay both and install both on target machine, of course in the correct order. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well there is still one thing. How long do you need to ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview help

  I preparing an application using datagridview having datagridviewTextbox. The requirment of this application is that when the application first loads the datagrid view should not have any cell selected. the datagridview by default selects the uppermost left cell as selected. How can i have no cell selected in the beginning. I tried to set FirstDisplayedCell property for the purpose but to no avail. Use DataGridView.ClearSelection() . Hope this helps... ...Show All

• Visual C# Mathematics Functions

  I have just downloaded Visual C# Express. I find that it has no mathematics functions and many others missing such as sleep(). Can someone tell me how I get these. Many thanks. System.Math ( At MSDN library ). ...Show All

• SQL Server Mdx query

  Hello guys, Assume I have a date dimention in a cube and I want to retrive data based on the StartDate and EndDate value. In short, I want to filter all records between StartDate value and EndDate value which is given by a user. Can any body give a general syntax or mdx query to achive this goal Sincerely, Amde Hello Amde Assuming Analysis Services 2005: SELECT {[Measures].[MyMeasures]} ON 0, [MyDimension].[MyHierarchy].[MyLevel].members ON 1 FROM [MyCube] WHERE {[Time].[Date].[<StartDate>] : [Time].[Date].[<EndDate>]} ...Show All

• Visual Basic Specifying the 1.1 framework

  I have this program that I would like to use another programs SDK to access their proprietary format ( ACT! by Sage ). You can check out the SDK for yourself at here . Unfortunately, all I've got is VB2005 Express and their DLLs. But, I can only use the DLLs on the .NET 1.1 Framework, and not the .NET 2.0 Framework, else I get an AccessViolationException about it not being able to read/write protected memory. However, when I try to specify it via the <requiredRuntime> and <supportedRuntime> commands, I get it thrown back with a "Strong Name validation failed" error on my <app>.host.exe file. Therefore, my questio ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) BamlParse Exception recieved when adding event handlers to a button....

  So, I've got a pretty simple example of a dialog and I've got it narrowed down to the point where I only recieve the exception when I include the following snippet of code. this .addButton.Click += new RoutedEventHandler (addButton_Click); The method implementation is dirt simple and is listed below. public void addButton_Click( object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { MessageBox .Show( "Pressed add!" ); } The Xaml for this is here. < Button Margin = " 10,5,5,10 " Name = " addButton " > Add </ Button > Finally, the exception I'm recieving is listed below. I've ...Show All

• SQL Server Use of user defined in SELECT clause

  I'm having this query: SELECT         ss.subscription_id AS SubscriptionId,         s.id AS ScopeId,         s.[name] AS ScopeName,         s.base AS ScopeBase,         dbo.iqGetShapesByScopeAsString (s.id) AS ShapesAsString FROM         subscription_scope ss,         scope s WHERE         ss.subscription_id = @subscription_id AND         ss.scope_id = s.id ORDER BY         s.[name] The select only returns a single row bu ...Show All

• Visual C++ Automation detection

  I have an application that you can run through automation and that you can also run doing the standard double-click and it loads thing. well is there a variable or method i can query at any point during my application that will tell me whether or not the application is being run through automation or otherwise Thanks   Will   If you use the standard MFC way you have a command line with the /automatin option when started from OLE-automation The CCommandLineInfo class parses this parameter and setsthe flag m_bRunAutomated. ...Show All

• .NET Development Attach files to local mail

  Hi all, My application creates files and attach these files to local mail (ex:outlook). This mean my application call local mail and attach these files automatically. I tried to use "System.Net.Mail", but I'm not successful. Please help me to solve this solution. Thanks for your collaboration. Steven.   My idea includes following steps: - Open a new local mail. - Fill in "To" address. - Insert attachment file. (This file is exist in local system, program ) Certainly, these steps is done automatically when user click on button or label link for example. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System SQL Server collation: Latin1_General

  The installation guide states: For U.S. English, the recommended collation is Latin1_General . When I check, I see server collation as Latin1_General_CI_AI. Yet, TFS setup tells me: SQL Server collation is not set to one supported by Team Foundation Server. What gives Hi Alan, The issue is that your SQL Server is setup to be Accent Insensitive. TFS is not supported on an Accent Insensitive config. You will need to setup SQL Server to be accent sensitive. i.e. Latin1_General_CI_AS ...Show All

• Visual C# toolstripcombobox size in the toolbar

  I use c#.net 2005 beta2 and i can't resize my toolstripcombobox like office 2003. The only way i found to resize the combobox in my toolbar is to resize the font point of the combobox but after the font is too small. Help me please! Thanks in advance. Hi - Please post Windows Forms questions to the Windows Forms forums. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx ForumGroupID=2&SiteID=1 Thanks! Karen Liu Visual C# ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Synchronizing manual test and application run with code coverage

  Hello, I created a manual test and if I run it there opens the page where I can mark my comments about my previosly defined test steps. If I now start the applikation I wish to test (pressing F5) it starts the application and I can perform all test tasks, but I won't get code coverage results this way. If I go the other way, doing the application test, I get coverage results, but do not see the form of the manual test to fill in: I see the problem in that there are two test that have to be run synchronized, the same time - is there any way to do It, or is there a way to configure the manual test, that it executes the application automaticall ...Show All

• Windows Forms Microsoft’s Exception Management Application Block

  I am trying to use Microsoft’s Exception Management Application Block in one of my VB.Net programs. I need to log my errors to a log file say “ErrorLog.log”. I changed the code a little bit but I wasn’t successful. Writing to the event log works fine. Here is where I am having problems 1) I am not sure how to configure the XML application&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Repeating Objects List on a winform

  I am trying to make a list box display a list of my custom user control. My user control has 2 labels and properties to access the labels. I am able to add multiple same type controls to the list box but they are not displaying. 1. Is it possble to view custom user controls in a list box 2. if not, how can this be done in another way and is there an example that i can refer to My basic goal is to have a container that has a list of this control and some inherent properties and events. It shuold have a scroll bar for when there are too many controls to view at once. there should be selected item or selected index properties and as ...Show All

• .NET Development Framework assemblies always MSIL?

  Just out of curiosity:  Are System.Windows.Forms and other framework assemblies MSIL just like applications, so they'll be JIT:ed to 32 or 64 bit as appropriate, and only the JIT:er/CLR is really different in x64 edition of the framework Is this the same for Compact FW on mobile devices that might suffer some delay when those (relatively big -- bigger than my app) assemblies get JIT:ed Does this differ btw 1.x and 2.0 versions of the regular and compact fw The core framework binaries are initially IL (platform independent) however during installation of the .NET framework NGen is run on them to con ...Show All