Dundas D's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Viewing Foxpro table

  I have a view which select a foxpro table which connect with linked server. Once I show the view content, it shows an error 'OLE DB provider 'MSDASQL' for linked server 'ORS' returned data that does not match expected data length for column '[MSDASQL].cprodname'. The (maximum) expected data length is 30, while the returned data length is 60.' Any idea on it Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem Setting Control Width in FlowLayoutPanel

  I've created a custom UserControl, WidgetFlowLayoutPanel, that inherits the FlowLayoutPanel.  Its purpose is to contain one or more custom WidgetControl controls.  When a WidgetControl is added to the WidgetFlowLayoutPanel, I want to set WidgetControl.Width to the ClientSize.Width of the WidgetFlowLayoutPanel. I've tried this two different ways, neither of which works: First, I did an override of OnControlAdded , and added... ...Show All

• Visual C# SortedList<> best conversion

  Hi,  what I'm trying to do is cast SortedList<int, int[]> into SortedList<string, int[]>. I have the function of int-string conversion (eg. (int+1).ToString()), so I thought I would be able to use Array.ConvertAll<>, however I haven't managed to do that way on SortedList.  The second Idea was casting the list into SortedList<object, int[]> and manually go through the Keys collection, arr.Keys[ i ...Show All

• Visual C++ Need simple steps to port vc++6.0 to vc++2005 express

  here are the vc++6.0 codes from a graphic training book: MainFrm.h and MainFrm.cpp: // MainFrm.h : interface of the CMainFrame class // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #if !defined(AFX_MAINFRM_H__58CBEE29_854F_11D8_B394_00E04C391319__INCLUDED_) #define AFX_MAINFRM_H__58CBEE29_854F_11D8_B394_00E04C391319__INCLUDED_ #if _MSC_VER > 1000 #pragma once #endif // _MSC_VER > 1000 class C ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TargetName Does not work for me.

  I have problems getting the Targetname property in ANY setter to work (inside a datatemplate). How Do i access specific elements within a datatemplate to change/animate with a animation/property trigger Does that technique allow the use of targetnames in the storyboard    ...Show All

• Visual Basic C# style documentation in VB

  is it possible to do c# style documentation in vb ie: ///<summary> ///This is a class ///</summary> public class . . . as far as I know, you can't do it in vb as it comes out of the box. there are some third party add-ins, i believe - don't ask me where they are.Another thing you don't have in VB is on the fly refactoring. but don't worry, under the hood, they're all the same thing. . .you just have ...Show All

• SQL Server Latest RDL Specification?

  I read in someone's blog somewhere that the RDL Specification was changing for SSRS 2005 ( http://blogs.msdn.com/gsnowman/archive/2005/10/12/480328.aspx ). I went to the MS Reporting Services website and this version of the specification appears to be old ( http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/reporting/rdlspec.mspx).  ; Can someone either confirm or deny that the spec located at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/reporting ...Show All

• SQL Server IReportViewerMessages sample

  Hello, Can you give me complete sample of using your own class implemented IReportViewerMessages interface in ASP.NET Application I have problems with this task. Thanks! Samples are provided on MSDN: Winforms: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms255036.aspx Webforms: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254250.aspx -- Robert ...Show All

• Windows Forms AllowMerge in ToolStrip don't work in .NET Framework v2.0.50727

  When I used previous version .NET Framework v2.0 Betta 2 it woked fine. But today I intalled NET Framework v2.0.50727 and in MDI parent window ToolStrip from Child window don't merge! Where the problem Example: using System; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace Bug { public class MainWindow : Form { public MainWindow() { this .IsMdiContainer = true ; ToolStripButton tsb = new Too ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Databases!!!

  Hello, I have a problem trying to connect to an Access Database, the problem is that I want to make a working project without thecontrols, I only need the source code to do that. I would like to know about working with databases without using the bindingnavigator, how can i do that. I don't know, please help!!!:D Hey thaks for the reply the message error is this: "Error de sintaxis en la clausula FROM ...Show All

• Windows Forms Menu Items query

  I'm doing a simple C# program putting a 'check' mark next to a menu item, in VS2003 I would simply use    menuItem10.Checked = isBolded ....etc But on VS2005 it won't let me use the same syntax. Do I need to be using ToolStripMenuItem instead of just menuItem, because Intelisence does not seem to recognise menuItem10.Checked Also how do I differentiate between the the menuitem number menuItem10 etc Any ideas would be great! Many t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Receiving message through window

  Hi, I hope I am posting to the right forum. I want to perform some specific task when the system returns from hibernation. I found out from MSDN that I need to make use of the WM_POWERBROADCAST message that is generated. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/power/base/wm_powerbroadcast.asp It says that a window receives this message through its WindowProc function which has the following prototype: LRESULT ...Show All

• Windows Forms PreferredColumnWidth is overruling my TableStyle in code

  I have a VB.Net Windows program, which has a lookup form that appears when the user clicks on a command button. This lookup form gets populated by a dataset created in code during the Page_Load event.Here is how I create and fill the Data Adapter: strSQL = "SELECT DISTINCT ProductCode, ProductName FROM Products" strSQL = strSQL & "WHERE ProductName IS NOT NULL ORDER BY ProductName" MyDataAdapter= New SqlDataAdap ...Show All

• Visual C# SetWindowsHookEx

  Spent all day get this one working... no luck .. Im trying to hook up to another window using SetWindowsHookEx but it just doesnt want to work from c# .. It doesnt throw an error.. just doesnt hook .. i tried to hook to the c# window and it hooked up.. but I need it to hook to another window .. btw, GetLastError returns no error .. WinAPI .SetWindowsHookEx( WinAPI . HookType .WH_CALLWNDPROC, hook, Marshal .GetHINSTANCE( System.Reflection. A ...Show All

• SQL Server Consume HTTP EndPoint

  Hello, I have problems consuming webservice, I was following this page. http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen/archive/2005/06/23/65089.aspx but in the intelisense the method returns an array of objects[], So I have a problem with this line. localhost. GetEmployees sd = new localhost. GetEmployees (); sd.Credentials = System.Net. CredentialCache .DefaultCredentials; DataSet ds = ( DataSet )(sd.EmployeeList() ...Show All