mathboy314's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms datagridboolcolumn

  Hello I've got an datagrid and in it i have a column with datagridboolcolumn. It works fine but the problem is that i'm filling the grid with empty rows when it's not filled with data. The problem is that a would like to get rid  ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to write text to another form's textbox

  Let's say I have an MDI app - - - within that, I have a text editor form (named frmEdit, and the rich textbox is named txtEdit) I have several other forms which will be used to put particular text data inside that frmEdit.txtEdit.Seltext (depen ...Show All

• Visual Basic Changing a buttons font to Bold

  Hi Is there any easy way of setting a buttons font to bold during runtime Just check out for Button Font Property Button.Font = New Font(Button.Font,FontStyle.Bold) ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error when Deploying ClickOnce on Website

  Hello, When users try to download my app they are coming across an error message. I have confirmed that they have the .net 2.0 framework installed so I'm not sure what this error is referring to. unable to install or run the application. the application requires that assembly dotnet version 1.3.2232.25557 be installed in the global assembly cache (GAC) first. Check the application manifest (. ...Show All

• Windows Forms IssueVision.msi cannot find my SQL instance

  I downloaded both the VB.net and C# version of IssueVision.msi to check out, but during the initial setup process neither one can locate my running instance of SQL on my local machine. Has anyone had this type of problem If so, how do you fix it I would really like to review this application. Thank you for your help. Nice one John ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to load a picture in Crystal Reports at runtime?

  It is possible to pass a value to a formula field, but how can I pass the path to a bitmap I am using VS2005 Beta 2 --Goos van Beek Keith Thomson wrote: Hello Goos, Unfortunately, it is not possible to pass the path of an OLE Object at runtime using the version of Crystal Reports included with Visual Studio 2005. Keith - Business Objects Sounds like a sad story :( ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help!!!

  I have VB homework due in 45 minutes and i cant get past an error message that I am recieving. I am supposed to be making a calorie counter and I cant get it to do any calculations. I was getting an error message for the parsing. It said "Input string was not in a correct format." Public Class Form1 Private Sub exitbutton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles exitbutton.Click 'close the program ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can I use the same emulator in evc4 and PB42?

  Hi, Now I can use the emulator to debug the WinCE OS image with Platform Builder4.2 and the application with EVC4.0 separately.My question is that can I debug my evc application in the same emulator in whitch I build my image. If it is possible ,can you tell me what steps should I follow Hi Sihong Yes, you can use the same emulator instance for Platform Builder 4.2 and eVC 4.0 debugging. If you have the "Standard ...Show All

• Visual C++ Compiler's bug? It cleaned the parameter stack on a stdcall invoke.

  I defined a function pointer type: typedef DWORD (*WINAPI TShowDialog)(LPCE_FILE_DIALOG); and a variant with this type, then load it by LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress from a DLL, the DLL exported a stdcall function with the same prototype and the same calling convention. but when I call this function, after done, the debugger notice the ESP has changed. I'm sure the DLL is correct, and the function pointer variant and the function exporte ...Show All

• Visual C# How to make certain classes accessible to your own developers only?

  Hello, since almost 2 years my company is playing around with .NET and there is one question none of us few .NET developers could answer good enough to make us satisfied. If I develop a shared class library that contains classes that 3rd party developers should be able to use, how can I make some of the classes inaccessible to these 4rd party developers though keep them available to ourselves I know that we can use internal class SomeClass { } ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual C# Look and Feel nice in XP, ordinary in 2000, why?

  Hi, I downloaded and am running Visual C# Express on my Windows 2000 machine. At first, I was slightly taken aback by the clumsy, clunky look of some of the dialogs in the IDE itself. That is, some of the buttons were strangely large and the size of some dialogs just didn't come anywhere near the professional, smart look of say, Office 2000. For example the "Edit Rows and Columns..." dialog if you right-click on a TableLayout panel. I'm not ...Show All

• SQL Server install SQL Server Express

  when installing SQL Server Express on XP home edition it hangs wilst searching for IIS compnents I tried to install the just released (11/7) SQL Server Express 2005 on Windows XP Home with SP2.  It again stopped with message "detecting installed IIS".  The requirement says WinXP Home with SP2 is support.  What's wrong with this thing   ...Show All

• Visual C# How I can fill a DataTable with a DataGridView cell's data to insert that to SqlServer Database

  hi Gurus; How I can fill a DataTable with a DataGridView cell's data to insert that to SqlServer Database. can i set like this DataTable dt= new DataTable(); DataGridView dg; dt= dg.Table or dt=dg. please help! if my question is stupid forgive me :) in order to answer you I need to know how do you have filled your datagridview DataGridView object shows data from underlying object you need to insert data fro ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to detect CANCEL with the FolderBrowserDialog

  I need to know if the user chooses cancel when the dialog appears other than saying, if Old Selected path <> new Selected Path.       Thanks. The FolderBrowserDialog should have a method ShowDialog that returns a DialogResult.  You can use this return value to see what button was pressed. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Why can't I do this Thread t1 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(sweeper.Traverse(dir)));

  It throws a error saying it needs a method, but obvisouly it is a method. but the method needs parameter to pass. Can anyone help   Thanks a million in advance Nope,  If you are going to start a thread and pass it data,&n ...Show All