Brendan Egan's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms difference between PointToScreen and PointToClient

  can someone explain the difference between this two  they are method of the control class. I have a resoultion of 1024x768. I have a maximized form. The form has one panel in it if i have the mouse somewhere inside the panel, and i am intercepting&n ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to deploy the windows project with certain elements ?

  Hi, Friends i have problem in deploying the project. i need  a deployment which easily create  and if i run it and system doesn't have framework ,sqlserver and crystal report than it will  install these componenet. thanks Can you see crystal reports in "\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\ " Folder Thanks, Varun ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't SqlCommand - Help.

  Hi all, I am using VS C++ 2005 and SQL Server 2005 to build a simple application which will work with a database. I can write the code to open the database which all goes well, but as soon as I write in a 'SqlCommand' and execute it I get an error message telling me that the 'Connection' property hasn't been 'initialised'. The code I have writted is as follows: #include "stdafx.h" using namespace System; using ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Resource Editing

  When I try to edit resource file (*.rc) I get this error: "Resource Editing in not supported on the Visual C++ Express SKU". Does that mean there is no way to get the resource editor to work in VC++ Express   Grubber wrote: When I try to edit resource file (*.rc) I get this error: "Resource Editing in not supported on the Visual C++ Express SKU". Does that mean there is no way to get the resource edit ...Show All

• .NET Development debug custom assertion

  I am using wse 3.0 with VS 2005 pro. I try to debug my server side custom assertion class by put a break point in the ProcessMessage method of the class. But VS does not stop at the break point.Is there a way to put a break point in custom assertion class for WSE 3.0   Thank you  ...Show All

• Visual Basic BindingSource.Filter Not Working (At all)

  I can't seem to get the filter on my bindingsource to work this code is from the MSDN library ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/69c06922.aspx ) Its supposed to return all rows in the dataset where the companyname starts with B BindingSource.Filter = "CompanyName like 'B'" converted to my Code (im calling it from a different form) FrmMain.BS1.Filter = "AccountCode like '01'" and it doesn't r ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to create an Ad-Blocker in VB.net using AxWebbrowser

  Hello: My problem is simple: I assume that the page-load time does not really depend on the HTML-code being transferred, but on the content (especially images). Now I want to know how I can create an mshtml.HTMLDocument from an URL It should not be a problem modifying its content. My idea was to do something like this: Dim webpage as mshtml.HTMLDocument = "http://www.something.org/index.html" Dim cleanpage as mshtml.HTMLDocument = Cleanads( ...Show All

• Architecture SOA and the next achritecture?

  Hello, are there any meanings or researches what comes after SOA Regards, Jens Hibbeler Jens, I can't give you a real serious answer. I'm sure something will always come next, but what the next hot architecture topics is I can't say. The funniest thing I have heard lately is that SOA is on its way out and the Web 2.0 is the thing. I find this funny because it is like comparing apples to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Uninstalling Beta 1 or CTPs before installing beta 2

  Hong, the Program Manager for VS Express Setup, has a couple of good posts on steps to take *before* installing beta 2. Please do these steps and remember to remove the .NET Framework as the last step. Express http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao/archive/2005/04/15/408768.aspx   VS Pro, Enterprise, VSTS, etc. http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao/archive/2005/04/15/408769.aspx Have fun! -Bret BTW, the Express products can be downloaded from http://lab.ms ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how do we resize controls in the window?

  have to write custom adorners Thanks Yup, at this point you have to write your own adorners. There are no built in adorners anymore. Even the ones that were built in in earlier builds were not really functional. HTH, Drew ...Show All

• .NET Development How .net obfuscators work

  Are there any articles on this I know about ildasm, and I'm interested in how the standard PE files are built, where the certain information is stored (meta-deta, IL, etc), how an application starts up for the first time (prior and after being jitted and stored in the gac). etc, etc. Basically, everything about how .net works :) Can I read up about this anywhere, or do I have to create my own sample .net executables, and guess/reverse engineer ...Show All

• Windows Forms Why TaskVision is not base in the UIP

  Why TaskVision is not base in the UIP (User Interface Process Application Block) It seems like all the teory in http://www.microsoft.com/resources/practices/ is not followed by Microsoft developers... if that is true... ¿why should we follow it ¿who is right   ...Show All

• .NET Development Select command in dataAdapter

   Hi all, I'm building an application to get data from Access database. I need only to get one field from the database with a dynamic Where creteria I built. How can use the select command of the dataAdapter in Visual Studio to get the data. I write the dynamic select sentence in calles the Fill method of the dataAdapter, I get the exception "No parameter was found". The select sentence I built : "Select person from tblPersons ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Win32 API to get mouse click

  Hi, I'm developing a small "colour picker" app in VB.Net to get the colour at a particular pixel anywhere on the screen (ie: not in the form).   I understand I have to call the Win32 API to do this, perhaps trapping the WM_LBUTTONDOWN ...Show All

• SQL Server Guide to Setting Up the Different Data Mining Operations

  Unfortuately, the documentation doesn't seem to really provide the process to setting up the various mining operations (clusters, trees, etc.). So I am sitting there, trying to figure out what it is asking for when I try to set up a K-means cluster. Is there a better guide available The hands-on lab is actually using Beta 2 of SQL Server 2005 instead of the latest CTP.  Hope this gets updated as a lot of pe ...Show All