Polypterus's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Command to disable buttons or other things

  Hello, me again. How do I disable buttons Or make them dissapear (Some buttons need to be disabled in my program for certain users) And can you also provide the command to enable the buttons and to make them appear. Bye and thanks in advance. hi, the button or most of controls has 2 properties you can use for this (enabled , and visible) both of them are boolean you can use Button1.Enabled = true or false Button1.visible = true or false you select true or false as you wish hope this helps ...Show All

• Windows Forms Graphics question

  Ok my problem is with Graphics class //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { Graphics g = e.Graphics; g.DrawLine(new Pen(Color.Black), new Point(30, 30), new Point(30, 100)); g.Dispose(); } you see i declare Graphics g=e.Graphics where 'e' is the PaintEventArgs and then draw a line //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e) { Graphics g = CreateGraphics(); g.DrawLine ...Show All

• .NET Development Replace a string Using Regular Expression

  HI , Since i am very new to regular expression can anyone explaing how to replace a string in an INPUT String using Regular Expression my pattern of replacing is as below the numeric characters (0-9) present in an input string must be replaced as ","prefixed and suffixed with the characters ex: if the input string is ABC1234DEF then the output string after replacement should be ABC,1234,DEF Thanks in Advance hey, I did something similar to this not so long ago. Unfortunately I've not got the code to hand and I haven't got around to typing it up for my blog, so I'll give you some pointers an ...Show All

• Visual C# Threading problems

  Hi there. This is wierd I have a code that works fine, when you abort the background thread it aborts it properly (causes the ThreadAbortException) however taking the same piece of code and modifying it slightly (not even touching the thread properties) doesnt seem to abort the thread at all! //Method 1 or something void SomeMethod() try { ... ... do stuff ... } catch (ThreadAbortException) {    this.theRunningThread = null; } private void cmdStart_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {    this.theRunningThread = new ThreadStart(SomeMethod);    this.theRunningThread.IsBackground = true;    th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions debugger in vb express 2005 runs unupdated form, no matter what changes i do and save

  the problem is very simple, the debugger in vb express 2005 runs a form that is stored somewhere but it does not run the current from. this happens randomly after a certain amount of time. no matter what i do to my form or the project, the debugger runs the same old form. I saved, resaved, started new several times, restared the comp, searched for any trace of the mystarious form and nothing. im sure its a setting somewhere but i dont know of it. if im not the first to post about this I apologies. I did my share of searching but didnt find anything. thank you for ur help Hi Limmy, Are you ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build (with TFS RC): Missing Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework?

  After running a Team Build (with some unit tests associated) I get the following: --- Project "c:\Data\Tfs.Build\Harry.Foo.Tfs\Harry.Foo.Tfs\Sources\Msdn.MathLibrary\Msdn.MathLibrary.Test\Msdn.MathLibrary.Test.csproj" is building "c:\Data\Tfs.Build\Harry.Foo.Tfs\Harry.Foo.Tfs\Sources\Msdn.MathLibrary\Msdn.MathLibrary\Msdn.MathLibrary.csproj" (GetNativeManifest target(s)): Target ResolveAssemblyReferences: Primary reference "Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a". Could not find dependent f ...Show All

• SQL Server Assembly ReportingServicesWebServer problem

  I did a fresh install of Reporting Services (Standard Edition Final). From the service manager the report service is running, but i get the following error on http://localhost/ReportServer/ Server Error in '/ReportServer' Application. Hi! I'm having the same problem, can someone help me Thank you! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploy ASP .NET app

  I am running Visual Basic .NET Standard 2003 edition. I want to deploy an ASP . NET app, but the standard edition does not have the ASP deploy wizard. Is it possible to deploy a web app to a server in Standard edition   Any response would be appreciated. Thank you Hi, This thread most likely be a ASP.NET Question :)  Anyway, the  ...Show All

• SQL Server [Ask]Getting files from pocket pc emulator to desktop pc

  hi...! I'm creating a small device application using visual studio.NET 2003. Is it possible to get a sql server ce database file (.sdf) that i created at the pocket pc emulator to my desktop pc If that's possible, then can you tell me how to do that thanx b4 Moving this thread to SQL Mobile forum where it has got better chances of being answered. -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. client/server cord system

  I was trying to think of a good way to update clients on other player positions, so I came up with this but not sure how to make it work right right now im sending packets to the server that contain x,y,z info that I get from the camera's EyeLocation, then send the x,y,z from the cameras lookAtPoint but right now the movment looks real chopy so my thought was to use the velocity and the LookAtPoint to update player cords, not sure how to do it, I started sending the x,y,z for the velocity just not sure of the right caculation to make this work and help would be great thanks There have been a colossal num ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows XP look

  What is the option to turn on so that controls on a winform show up with the Windows XP look   You know, buttons, tabpages, etc thanks, joe For .NET Framework 1.1 it is: Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.DoEvents();   (The Application.DoEvents() methods is a cautionary measure which protects againt memory leaks and unexpected exceptions - details at http://www.codeproject.com/buglist/EnableVisualStylesBug.aspx ) For .NET Framework 1.0, you must use a manifest resource file, as detailed at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xpthemin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Reports XI - OLAP

  Hi. It is possible to change the dimensions of a report OLAP in Visual Studio 2003 I am using version XI of the CR.  tks ...Show All

• SQL Server Calling a stored procedure that inserts records and generates an output parameter

  I will be calling a stored procedure in SQL Server from SSIS. The stored procedure inserts records in a table by accepting input parameters. In the process, it also generates an output parameter that it passes as part of the parameters defined inside the stored procedure. The output parameter value acts as the primary key value for the record inserted using the stored procedure. How can I call this stored procedure in SSIS This is just one of the n steps as I will be extracting the output parameter generated by this stored procedure for the succeeding steps. The Execute SQL Task sounds best suited to this scenario: http://www.sqlis ...Show All

• .NET Development WebService to WebService example

  Hello! I’m looking for an example ( c# preferred) where a client invokes a request on  a Webservice. The WebService itself now needs to invoke another Service (without Webreference! but preferrbly by dynamic Proxy) to deal the request. Have you an idea were i can find such an example of Webservice to Webservice Communication wbr WS_progger_starter Hello, Is there a substantial reason you are unable to get a proxy class of the second web service using either wsdl.exe or AWR (Add Web Reference) The reason I ask is because trying to build an application that builds a dynamic proxy is difficult. You migh ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista OTP beta tester

  i go to beta.microsoft.com/ and it says i need a guest id but how do i get one of these i other theard said use BetaReq but dat dont work can some 1 please help me " The purpose of this forum is to help software developers write applications for Windows Vista. It's not intended to be an end user forum for the Windows Vista Beta Program or a place where IT folks can find answers to administrative issues with Windows Vista. Those types of questions are best posted to the official Windows Vista Beta newsgroups." This post is off topic here. ...Show All