ryanchopps's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Windows Services

  I have created a windows service using the timer control to upload data to a database. This works fine on my development server but when installed on a user system with .Net Framework installed it nevers triggers the timer elapsed event. Can anyone help me out with this Thanks, Paula I got it, I needed to install a .Net ODBC Driver on the users system. Sorry to bother. Thanks, Paula ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How do I animate a property of an ImageBrush ?

  Hi, How can I animate the Opacity property of an ImageBrush in a StackPanel background For example, if the background is a SolidColorBrush, then when the event triggers, this works: <StackPanel.Background> <SolidColorBrush>Red</SolidColorBrush> </StackPanel.Background> <StackPanel.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="StackPanel.MouseEnter"> <EventTrigger.Actions> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> <ColorAnimation Duration="0:0:1" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)" From="Red" To=&q ...Show All

• Visual Basic Log files/my.resources

  I'm using visual studio vb express beta and would like to add a log file to the resource folder.  I've added a text file called log which intellisense "sees" (my.resources.log) but it does not see its properties (ie filename which I would like to use when adding a listener).  Any instructions available   Better way to add log files Thanks. I don't fully understand what you did and what you want to do from your post. When we talk about the log file, do you mean that your application wants to write something into it, or it is simply a log file generated by another application, and y ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office User with PIA gets the message "PIA aren't installed"

  Hi, I've received the followin message: Strange. Try running the VSTO trouble shooter at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=C9FB6A54-8069-4918-A6F9-E744928DFAC3&displaylang=en It will help diagnose what might be missing...do you get any red x's ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Open from Source Control" Problem

  Hello, I have problems to open a solution for Source Control using the menu item "Open from Source Control". Does this feature already work Regard Stephan Cool!  Glad it worked out.  Do you have any idea how that might have gotten messed up   Did you change your drive letters perhaps ...Show All

• SQL Server Is it possible to create a bar code in SQL reporting?

  I need to be able to create a bar code in SQL reports. Do I need to get a three party tool or do you have anything that can help.   Thanks As Inamori has stated. Everything works fine until the report is compiled into a productions server. At that point the barcode is shown as clear text. So what exactly is the fix. Was one ever found ...Show All

• Windows Forms Two questions about the new WebBrowser control

  I got two questions on using webBrowser control in .NET 2005 Beta 2. 1. How do I determine when the navigation is complete It's simple in non-frame case. But how to do it with frames 2. How do I access document object model in frames Following code leads to UnauthorizedAccessException. How can I get around this foreach ( HtmlWindow w in webBrowser1.Document.Window.Frames) {       HtmlElement e = w.WindowFrameElement; // <== Exception       ... } Thanks for your help. Sorry, I can replicate neither problem.  Can you post a repro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamic UI Right-To-Left OR Left-To-Right ??

  Hi I want to ask about the process of making my application UI Layout dynamically changed from Left-To-Right to Right-To-Left or the opposite What this Process is called and to What Extend WinForms 2.0 can help in achieving this process also have one more question :- I want any advice about how I can store all of my App. text that appear on buttons,labels, ..., and any part of my App. UI elements TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that all of this text is completely customizable by the user ! Storing this text in a database or in string resources or using XML and What is the efficient method of these When I have more than 50 Forms in t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems removing VS.net for VB Express

  Last year installed VS .net on workstation. Never found the time to do the learning curve. Was pleased to see VB Express and SQL Express as most of my projects fit the parameters of these programs. VB Express installed with no problems on IBM laptop with no prior VS or VB programs, so went to install VB Express on desktop. All warnings pertained to VB express prior beta installs and so went ahead and dl / install VB Express. First thing I noted was that no toolbox shows up, and second when setting up new project there are no templates. Took a snapshot of that but cannot paste into the forum. Tried to delete VS .net via control panel and plac ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Very Slow on Itaniam 64bit

  Hi, I am facing a very wierd problem with SQL 2005 Itaniam 64bit with 4 processor machine. A simple SQL Select Statement: Select * from table The statement takes almost 45 minutes on a table of 7 million records, while on SQL 2000 32bit 2 processor machine it takes 10 minutes. The checked the index, and rebuilt it several times and still the problem persists. I tried the database fine tuning wizard but still no effect. Tried all possible configuration regarding parallelism and i can't find a solution to this problem. Could there be a problem with the itaniam version of SQL 2005. Has anyone faced this problem before ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to Replace Columns Orders

  I have a DataGridView with columns col1,col2,col3 my objective is How to change the order of these columns at the runtime e.g: col3,col1,col2 Please if a VB Code available Thanks many more Changing the DisplayIndex property of each column should re-order the columns in the grid. Hope this helps. ...Show All

• SQL Server 100 SQL Databases

  Hello, Can someone show me the TSQL I need to write in order to create 100 SQL databases in one go. I want them to be called DB1, DB2, DB3, DB4...etc etc I know how to create one database; --------------------------------------------------- USE MASTER GO CREATE DATABASE DB1 ON PRIMARY ( NAME = DB1_dat, FILENAME = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\DB1.mdf', SIZE=4, MAXSIZE=10, FILEGROWTH=1 ) ------------------------- But I don't want to do this 100 times, Thanks in advance ICW You will have to use dynamic SQL to execute the parameterized CREATE DATABASE statement in a WHILE loop. Search in Bo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Enable first item in ListBox

  Dear all,   I can’t find any properties to enable first item in ListBox.   Anybody have found down this property please tell me. Thanks for your help. Khiem Vo. Thanks rgerbig , sorry i make a mistake. I would like to disable any items in CheckListBox. U can take a look gird in Windows Media Player when they right click on header column and choose "More...", they show form dialog, in this form have a CheckListBox and first item in CheckListBox is disable. This thing is same when u right click on header column, the first item of menu toolstrip is disable. Tha ...Show All

• SQL Server 'Find & Replace' functionality vanished in Management Studio

  Hi, Whenever I select a sub-menu option from the 'Find & Replace' menu item on the 'Edit' menu I get - nothing. Not the functionality, nor any error box. Was working perfectly earlier. Any ideas Just a thought... Find & Replace is a dockable tool window. Please scan the windows that you have docked around inside your main SSMS window, maybe it is hidden somewhere there, underneath another window or docked but not slide-out. Regards, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System When to use which requirement type

  Does anyone know of a good resource for defining the different types of requirements (scenario, functional, QOS, etc.) Hi Randy I was waiting for your blog entry on the explanation of various Requirement types. You said you will post it - have you post it already If yes, then please provide me the link. If no, then when you are planning to do that, please let us know. If you know some other references that can help me on this issue, please let me know. Thanks, Mamun ...Show All